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Chief of Station, JuNAVE. aAR

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GYROSE drerational

Progress Report - 13 Aurust 1962

RETION RIQUERTO DEFLATITS

REF: UFGA-4425 dated 19 June 1962

SUMMARY:

the deriod since res progress repor

MDENIY-l has been primarilv enraged in keerine his fences mendec

with the various exile groups in the area in anticipation of mov-

ing intes position in the AMSUD-l orcanization in which he will

le responsible for coordinating the selection of paramilitary

_candidates. from these groups.

In additión to this he has prepared

a nunier of reports providing backeround information,and on cur-

rent activities in the local

PRUNEN conmunity and mounting

Openition Antonico I, an effort to establish contact with PBRUMEN

fishermen thru his own fisherman contacts. Details follow:

OPERATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS

In response to a Station request subject provided an

estimate of the current situation in PBRUMEN.

This report

stressed the points that the farmers and the

fishermen in PBRUMEN

are the most willing and capable of providing support to resis-

tance activities as a result of their having suffered the most at

the hands of the current administration after being largely

responsible for its obtaining

He also provided à general

strategic plan of Oriente Province in which he defined the main

in which guerrilla elements can survive and how they can be

reached fron coastal resupply points. His ability to do this is

based upon his being a native of the area and one who has been

primarily interested in its geography due to his former large.

agriculture holdings there.

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He has had one meeting with AMBUD-1 for the purpose of

maintaining contact.

His main question to AYBUD-I was with

regard

to the latter's ability to actually control the people on his staff.

He was disappointed by the reply which though positive could not be

supported with an example of where AMBUD-l had actually brought

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about the dismissal of anvone nho had proved to be ineffective.

MCENIM-l is a pood friend of AMBUn-l as a result of his father's

long standine relationship with hin, but at this point has very

little respect for him as a result of, as he says, AYBUD-l's

failure to actually make his orranization into an

effective body

and to enrare in

activities which actually detract from the success

of the current PBRUMEN repine. It remains that he is willing te

allu dicempt tu create unity anona the

allitary sections of the enher groups at such time as KUHARK Rives.

him the go ahead.

Following his belief that the most incortant job at hand

is the develodnent and maintenance of maritime reception points

alony, the north coast of PBRUMEN, AMDENIM-l has devoted considerable

time to readying assets anong his exiled fisherman friends to make

contact with their former fisherman associates still based in

PBRUMEN.

The foundation for this activity is quite: tenuous as a

of a variety of factors which make it difficult to arrange

sea rendezvouses in the absence of radio contact. - Several tries

have been made to the Anguila Key area for this purpose, the last

of which was supported by KUBARk and was.

called Operation Antonico

I: This attempt

was unsuccessfut due to the failure of the inside

contact to appear.

It developed that the woman and child who were

to be exfiltrated

on this operation appeareu in the JMyAVE area

two days later, havins obtained permission to leave PBRUMEN by air.

They carried the message that someone had stolen the port chief's

personal boat as a result of which the inside contact was unable

to depart on

schedule due to the implementation of temporary re-

strictions until the theft had been investigated. She said the

next rendezvous was scheduled for 12 August, however imminent bad

weather forestalled any chance of making this rendezvous. The

effort to establish contact continues on

the basis that, once a

system can be set up, it wilt be comparatively easy to es-

tablish further rendezvouses and thus develop ratlines into the

north coast.

Coincidentally with the above AMDENIM-l is continuing

his afforts to come up with radio operator candidates and

to obtain

candidates for infiltration.

Based upon past experience

effort is being made more selective in that the need for more self

sufficient personnel is greater than ever..

The increasing diffi-

culty of covering people inside makes it necessary to reduce the

size of the infiltration parties and to have people who can with-

stand the rigorg of existing on minimum supplies until they can

establish themselves with natives who are willinz to provide thei

with a base of operations.

Most of the people who are willing to

infiltrate at this point are of the type who want immediate action

and are unwilling to take the time to establish a clandestine base

from which they can methodically develop the assets in place who

are essential to the growth and refinement of a resistance base.

He has a number of people on tap who are qualified as candidates:

for snall guerrilla

teams, but who are not capable of maintaining

themselves clandestinely until the time for guerrilla action

• 6. FUNDS EXPENDED:

$200. was riven to geriberto SARDINAS Campo as

a intended that SARDiAs wind be an investigator o

laintenance until hi

operational leads. and an'assistant to AMDENIM-I in

the handling of his fishermen and operational candidates.

b. $300, was given to ANDE!!IM-1 for passage to the

widow of AMGLAD-1.

He is the channel

for this paynent

until such time as HOs arrives at a settlement figure

and this obligation can be disposed of.

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c. $325. was given to MYDENI!!-l in support of Operation

Antonico I, which operation is described under para-

praph 4.

INTELLIGINCE PRODUCTION:

AlIDE:14ol has provided a number

of memoranda on develodments within the various exile erouds in the

JMAVE area, none of which qualify as intellinoose inferation but

all of which contribute to the Station's better understandins of

to local politics,

Specifically, he has provided info on

political beliefs and background

of most of

the PBRUMEN exiled labor

leaders and the activities of the Bequer prous.

He has also been

helpful in clarifving the picture as to the novements within the

UR at this time while the Station is tryins to determine how best

to orranize this group in order to be able to take over its more

•worthwhile features without becoming unduly connitted to giving

it special prominence in the exile community.

He is being counted.

on to help bring the UR into the AMBUD-l organization as a means

of creating the appearance of greater unity among the exile

comnunity..

COMMENTS AND FLANS: While no spectacular achievements are

resulting from AMDENIM-l's efforts at this

ecoming more and more susceptible to KUBARK control and

point he 1s steadily.

professional In his efforts. M recent example is the critique he

Rave his fishermen for not realizing more information out of the

refugees they met at Anguila Key while waiting for their inside

They had failed to adequately debrief two young men, who

had succeeded in surviving in PBRUMEN for over two months on their

on the basis that they were too young to be knowledgeable.

ownit turned out the two refugees had used the cover of sponge

salesmen and had been able to travel from Havana to Santiago

Cuba without being stopped once.

On learning

was reminded of a good cover he has heard

of this, AMDENIM-1

about, namely fighting

cock fanciers, which activity seems to be on the

result of the greater amount of spare time available to the people.

The sport is actually becoming a year around proposition rather

than being restricted to the winter months as in the past.. It is

planned to have AMDENIM-1 continue his present pursuits on the.-

basis that he is free to move as the Station desires and san have

an overall constructive effect on the AMBUD-I organization at the

Wind drove candidates for due hiration as they become available!

and can be. accepted by the Station.

Operation Antonico Ill is

scheduled for 27 August using a Magnolia (boat) to establish

contact with fishermen living

on a key in the Caibarien area.

There is a possibility that he will journey to Jamaica to make

contact with an old associate who is

now a prominent member of the

PBRUMEN government as a means of eliciting information on current

regime policy and plans.

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