CABLE: GROWERY HAD A MEETING WITH AMLASH
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: WH/C 8
Document date: 04/13/1965
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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LO GROVERY HAD A MEETING WITH AHLASH 3 NIGKT 9 APRIL WHICH SET

UP BY SUSPORT. AT MEETING ALAS: 3 LOANED GROVERY & POSITIVE

HINIATURE PRINTS NOTED PARA 20 REF A SNOT SICROFILMD UNICH PHOTO-

GRAPHED AND RETURNED 15 APRIL.

2. IN SUMARY AMLASH 3 SAID HE AID ALAS! 2 HAVE BEEN ON ASPIDEY!

AJORLE PAYROLL AT S258 A MONTH EACH SINCE LAST OCTOBER MEETING IN ÷401

WITH ALWORLD REPS AND STILL RECEIVINE SALAPY. HE SAID IN ADDITICK

HELPING AMBIDDY GET TOGETAGE WITH AILASH I TO COORDINATE EFFORT

AGAINST CASTRO ME JAS ALSO TO SO AUWORLD TRAINING CAYPS SANTO DONISS

AND LATIN AMERICA AND REPORT TO ANGIDDY MY CASTRO PENETRATIONS. /

30 AMLASH 3 SAID HAD HO CONTACT WITH CUBAN G-2 SINCE ARRIVAL MADRIC

SEPTEMBER 64 UNTIL LUIS MANUEL CANTILLO ARRIVED HERE ASSIGNED AS

SECOND SECRETARY OF CUSAN EMSASSY IN NOVEMBER 64. AHLASH 3 SAID

HE KNEW CANTILLO IN CUBA AND THAT HE IS G-2.

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HIS ARRIVAL, CANTILLO CONTACTED AMLASH 3 AND OFFERED HIS MONEY

(WHICH HE SAYS HE REFUSED, BUT SAID HE HAD NO MISSION FUR HIM IN

SPAIN OTHER THA:: KEEPING AN EYE ON EXILES. WHEN AMLASH 3 TOLD

CANTILLO AYOUT HIS ASSIGWIENT FOR AMBIDDY 1, LEAVING OUT HIS REPORTINE

FOLE ON CASIRO'S PENETRATIONS (SO HE SAYS) CANTILLO SHOWED INTEREST.

4. IN JAUARY ES WHEN AMLASH 1 WAS IN MADRID, AHLASH 1, ALASH 3,

GUMOPS 1, CANTILLO AND AN UNIDENTIFIED CUBAN ARMY MAJOR HAD DINNER

TOGETHER ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF MADRID. AILASH 3 CLAINS THIS MAJOR,

WHO USED THE NAME "JESUS" WHILE HERE, WAS A FORMER MENBER OF THE 26

JULY MOVEMENT I: NOY. C. BEFORE BATISTA WAS OVERTHROWN, AND KNOWN

• THERE AS "HARRY". AMLASH 3 DESCRIBED HIS AS 5°6", DARK, APPROXIMATELY

148 POUNDS, WITH MUSTACHE. ACCORDINGEY AMLASH 3, THIS MANOR ARRIVED

NADRID VIA PRAGUE AND PARI, AND RETURNED PARI FROM MADRID. THE

MAJOR ACTIVATED AMLASH 3 FOR 3-2 ASSIGNMENT IN SANTA DOMINGO TO

REPORT ON AMUORLD ACTIVITIES. HE GAVE KIM S MINATURE PHOTOS CONTAININE

COMBO AND OTHER INSTRUCTIONS WHICH WERE CONCEALED BETWEEN THE

COVERS OF A SMALL LEATHER DIARY PRINTED IN MEXICO, AND S520 IN

U.S. $23 BILLS. AHLASH 3 SAYS CANTILLO VAS PRESENT DURING THIS

MEETING AND HE TURNED $598 OVER TO CANTILLO TO KEEP UNTIL HE LEFT ON

HIS MISSION• ANLASH 3 ALSO CLAIMS MAJOR SAVE HIM CONTACT INSTRUCTIONS

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IN CASE HE WET N.Y.C. IF IN

#O IS TO WAIT IN LA BARACA

RESTAURANT IN N.Y.C. EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT BEIWSEN 9-11 P.Y.

HE WILL BE APPROACHED THERE BY SOVEONS HE RECOGWIZES IN THE MANE

OF "EDUARDO".

5. AMLASH 3 ALSO CLAIMS HE RECEIVED 3 DECEPTION REPORTS FRO:

AYBIDDY WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO PASS ON TO G-2 THROUGH CANTILLO TO

ESTABLISH BONA FIDES OF ABIDDY COITACT, WHICH HE SAYS HE DID.

5. HE SAID ME VAS PREPARED SO SANTO DOMINGO ON MISTION, THAT

MIS LOYALITY IS WITH AMLASH I AND THAT HE DID NOT PLAN TO REPORT ANY

INFO TO CUBAN G-2 WHICH WAS NOT AUTHORIZED BY AMLASH I THROUSH AMBIDDY.

HOWEVER, LATE FEBRUARY HE RECEIVED WORD THAT HIS REQUEST FOR VISA

TO ENTER SANTO DOMINGO MAD BEN REFUSED. HE SAID HE WAS TOLD DURING

PHONE CALL TO MIAMI THAT VISA WAS REFUSED ON ORDERS OF XUBARK AND ALSO

TOLD LOCALLY BY HERNAN HENRIQUES LORA (201-303508>. WHEN HE TOLD

CANTILLO ABOUT VISA REFUSAL AND UHY, CANTILLO SAID HE WOULD INVESTIGATE.

SINCE THEN CANTILLO HAS BEEN TRYING TO CONVINCE HIM RETUR: CUBA.

7. ABLASH 3 SAID HE WAS ALSO UNDER PRESSURE FROM QUOTA OFFICER

(IN QUOTA 46'S OLD SECTIONS TO COOPERATE IN THE COVERAGE OF CANTILLO

AND OTHER CUBA: EMBASSY OFFICERS. HE FEARS HE WILL BE ORDERED TO

LEAVE SPAIN IF HE CONTINUES TO REFUSE• ME MAS TOLO CANTILLO HE

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"MAY HAVE TROUB'F WITH THE SPANIARDS" AND CANTILLO SAID TO LET HIM

KID! IMMEDIATELY AND HE WOULD ARRANGE FOR ALASH 3°S TRAVEL 1O PARI-

PRAZUE- HABANA.

BO AMLASH 3 SAYS THAT AS FAR AS HE IS CONCERNED HE CAN RETURN TO

HABANA, AND IF NOT GIVEN A JOB THERE WITH SECURITY HE WOULD SEEK

AILASH I'S ASSISTANCE.

9. AMLASH 3 MADE NO PITCH FOR FINANCIAL OR VISA ASSISTANCE AT

EETING AND NO COMITIMENTS MADE TO HIM. QUHOPS I'S NAME CANE JP

SEVERAL TIMES BUT NO NEW SIGNIFICANT INFO DEVELOPED. ACCORDING

AMLASH 3 QUHOPS I PLANS RETURN CUBA SOON AND HAS NO INTEREST

TALKING TO PBPRIMERS.

10. UNDOUBTEDLY AMLASH 3 WILL TRY REACH US AGAIN THROUGH @USPORT

BUT IN ANY EVENT PLAN FOLLOW UP THIS CONTACT WITHIN REASONABLE PERIOD

TIME TO EXPLORE POSSIBLE AMLASH 3 UTILIZATION AGAINST CANTILLO AND

OTHER EMBASSY PERSONNEL AS WELL AS POSSIBILITY HIS RETUR:! CUBA•

11, POUCNING PRINTS OF MINIATURE PHOTOS AND TRANSLATIONS.

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