DISPATCH ON OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES
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To: DEPUTY CHIEF, WH/SA
Document date: 08/24/1964
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A. UFGW-2601, 16 October 1963

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Forwarded as a separate attachment is a review of Subject

case which sets forth the extra curricular activities of Subject,

which appear to be incompatible with his position as an ODYOKE

employee.

bear watching

There does, however.

local QKFLOWAGE to assist exile groups and for personal financial

If he is a paid stringer for the New York Times,

information indicates, and,

to both the Times and

if he has been providing information

to JURE based on his access to QKFLOWAGE

materials and contacts, then it would appear that an early

inquiry into his activities by QKFLOWAGE Headquarters is in-

dicated:

As pointed out in the attachment, both the local

QKFLOWAGE and ODACID representatives have

expressed certain

reservations and misgivings concerning Subject's activities to

the COS, JMWAVE. Under such circumstances,

Headquarters may wish

to bring certain portions of the attachment to the attention of

QKFLOWAGE for appropriate action.

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Separate Cover Attachment to UFGA-17410

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PRO, SER.

SUBJECT: Jorge VOLSKY aka Jerzy Stakistaw AJBUSZYC akal Chico

•1. Introduction

orge YOLSKY is a Cuban citizen of Polish origin, now a permanent

J.s: resident, who is currently employed by the USIA office in Miami

as editor of

the USIA Weekly Report on Cuban Developments.

came to the attention. of JMWAVE because of his extra-curricular

activities which appear to be incompatible with his position as an

employee of the U.S. Government.

A conflict of interests appears to

have developed in VOLSKY's case as a result of his position in the

USIA office 1n Miami, his access to various high-level Cuban refugèes,

his close association with prominent American journalists

no his lav vene a Proach 0l he 202 on The 10402, 39

the Uk counterrevolutionary groups.

Analysis shows that he has used i

his USIA position to obtain information for a leftist political

be guilty of. duplicity in his dealings with KUBARK.

Cuban citizen of Polish origin whose background includes a two or

three year period in a Russian prison camp.

Because of this back-

ground and the nature of his present political activities, the

following compilation and analysis of the material currently avail-

able to JMWAVE concerning VOLSKY are deemed necessary

and are hereby

presented as a prerequisite to the determination of

course of action to be taken by KUBARK in this case.

2., Original JMWAVE Operational Interest in Subject

Jorge VOLSKY first became of interest to KUBARK in February

1963 when it was learned that he was the source of an anti-CASTRO

plan known as Operational Leonardo designed to split the Cuban

Regime by the recruitment of certain elements of the Rebel Army and

Militia in the GOC.

This plan had been presented to ODACID through

Tad SZULC,

editorial writer of the New York Times Washington Office,

ODACID sent it for action to KUBARK Headquarters.

The disclosure of Jorge VOLSKY as the originator of Operation

Leonardo came about when a KUBARK case officer

contacted SZULC at

his home in Washington concerning the plan.

SZULC was reluctant at

first to reveal the name of the author but did so when the case

officer pointed out that it was necessary for KUBARK to talk to the

named Jorge VOLSKY of the USIA in Miami. SZULC related a

during World War II, VOLSKY, a Pole, had been a prisoner of war in

Russia.

At Headquarters' request JMWAVE contacted Jorge VOLSKY and

made arrangements to sponsor his plan which involved Cuban infil-

tration/exfiltration ops. It was the intention of KUBARK to use

VOLSKY only as a funding channel for the operation; however, because

of the Station's bellef that the operation's team would inform

VOLSKY in detail about operational matters, a POA was requested on

A request was also made that Headquarters check on VOLSKY's

activities prior to his arrival in Cuba.

•Locally the AMOTs were

requested to provide information on Subject's activities in Cuba.

3. Polish Background Prior to Cuba

Using the information subsequently made available to the Station

by subject in his PRQ Part I,

submitted to JMWAVE March 1963 and the

headquarters trace reply (Reference A) which includes information

contained in Royal Air Force and Polish exile records in London and

information on Subject recently solicited from various JWAVE assets,

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the following is an account and analysis of Subject's life up to his

entrance into Cuba in November 1947.

In his PRQ Part I Subject lists his full name as Jorge

Stakistaw Ajbuszyc VOLSKY Kraisler, born 8 March 1921 in Warsaw,

Poland. He lists his parents as Josef A. VOLSKY Zascycki, ar

engineer, and Maria KRAISLER Madeirka, a medical doctor, both

deceased.

VOLSKY'S PRQ states that his education consists

of high school attended in Krakow from 1930 to 1938 and one year of

medical school at a University In Krakow.

(1) USIA records (information supplied by Subject) agree

with the above,

showing that he attended the St. Anna Lyceum in

Krakow from 1930 to 1938 and the Jagiellon University in Krakow from

1938 to 1939.

(2)

The Headquarters trace reply which included a London

Station check of the Royal Air Force and Polish exile World War Il

records, however, did not mention his attendance at the Jagiellon

University, stating only that Subject matriculated in 1939 in the

St. Staszic Humanistic College in Chrzanow.

1s West Krakow, 27 miles WNW of Krakow.)

C.

World War 'II Service

(1) VOLSKY claims in his PRQ that during the years 1939

to 1947 he served in the Royal dia Force Polish Group, Serial number

705740, rank:

Officer - Cadet, Private Flight Sergeant. In a

different section of the PRQ he also states that he was a prisoner

of war in Russia (1939 to 1942).

This is an obvious contradiction

within the PRQ itself that requires clarification.

The RAF and Polish exile check (Reference A) mentioned

above confirmed service in the Royal Air Force for a person with the

name of Jerzy Stanislaw AJBUSZYC (the first three names of Subject)

& March 1921, Serial number 705740 with rank:

Leading Air-

craftman Radio Telephone Operator.

This record which is obviously

that of Subject showed that on 19

June 1942, while in the USSR,

enrolled in the Polish Army Service where he served for one year

until 30 June 1943 and then enlisted in the Polish Air Force Service

under the British Operational Command on l July 1943 and served until

27 July 1947 when he was discharged at his own request and emigrated

to Ecuador.

The Polish exile representative further noted in

Reference A that in 1942 the Soviets had attempted to subvert some

of the young

Poles who were recruited at that time in the USSR for

_Polish- Army Service and that such might have been the case with

subject:

(3) (JMWAVE Analysis) It is interesting to note that

Subject's PRQ and USIA records which stated he was in the RAF

1939 to'1947 do not agree with his official RAF records which show

that he did not enroll in the RAF until 1 July 1943.

The RAF records

also show that he had enrolled one year earlier (19 June 1942) it

the Polish Army Service in the USSR and served in it for a full year

before joining the RAF.

However,

even allowing the year 1942 as his

service induction date

into the RAF, there is a discrepancy in what

he reports in his PRQ (1939) and what the RAF record shows (1942).

It is possible that he has falsely reported the date of his induction

into the RAF in his PRQ in order to cover up his activities during

that period (1939-1942).

This was a period of time when great numbers

of Polish prisoners of war were shot by the Soviets. It is pessible

aunt subles earl have been subjected to RiS recrultment attempts

it was noted that the Polish exile liaison representative,

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Jerzy VOLSKY (i.e. Jorge VOLSKY) who was born in 1917 and killed in

action in 1941 and speculated that Subject might have assumed the name

of this man!

In Reference A, Headquarters stated it had made an exhaust

analysis of the allegation that Subject might have taken the name of th

Jerzy VOLSKY killed in action but found no indication that would justif

that conclusion.

In an effort to determine why Subject's name was car-

ried on the RAF

rolls as AJBUSZYC instead of VOLSKY,

it was surmised by

Headquarters that it was "understandable" because of the length of

Subject's name.

In this regard, it was noted by Headquarters that

Subject had listed his full name in his PRQ Part I as Jorge Stakistaw

Ajbuszyc VOLSKY Kraisler.

(2): In analyzing the above interpretation by Headquarters,

JMWAVE felt that if the RAF were to shorten Subject's name on their

records for brevity's sake, they would have been more likely to omit a

second or third name rather than his family name of VOLSKY.

An investi

gation was initiated by JMWAVE in March 1964 to attempt to clear up the

existing confusion concerning Subject's identity.

AMBLEAR-1, a persona

on instructions of his case officer contacted a Mrs.

Aurora de auda maranda can close tendor the family of subjec

wife, Mercedes ROVIRA Bertran. Mrs. QUESADA@

resident of the Hotel

Terrace Park in Miami, is the wife of David *MASNATA Azcue, former

official of the Ministry of State of the /Republic of Cuba, and had the

following pertinent information to offer:.

During the Second World. War at a session of the Havana

Rotary Club it was decided to ask members of the Club who had single

daughters to act as pen pals for officers fighting with the Allied

armies in Europe. Mr. Jose ROVIRA presented the names of his three

single daughters:

Only one of these daughters maintained this corre-

spondence

(with two officers), one of whom was Subject, a pilot aviator

in the RAF.

According to Mrs. QUESADA,

Subject's father died in

the Second World War and Jorge had joined the RAF.

She stated that as

far as she could remember, VOLSKY was born in Warsaw, Poland and that

the name VOLSKY was that

of his mother or of a grandmother and that

his true name began with "A" and continued, she believed, with a "w"

and a "z"

he obtaine.

one for Ecuador and arranged to stop over in Cuba in transit.

- (d). ‚Upon VOLSKY's arrival in Cuba, Source's husband, Mr.

David MASNATA;, by virtue of his connection in

the Cuban Ministry o

'State, was able to arrange permission for VOLSKY to remain in Cuba.

Within a year of his residence in Cuba, he married Miss ROVIRA anc

because of the fact that his name was virtually unpronounceable, he

decided to adopt the name of VOLSKY legally, stating that this was the

name of his mother or of a grandmother.

Station IMWAVE analysis of Subject's background prior to his

arrival in Cuba is inconclusive.

The following points, however, are

worthy of further investigation:

(1) The fact that the name VOLSKY was overtly or semi-overtly

assumed. by Subject does not totally clear him of suspicion in this

It becomes evident that VOLSKY fabricated a name for his

which would fit his own new name.

it is sent that costs not the te mane a safects father,

three possible solutions to this puzzle emerge:

VOLSKY is the name of a grandmother as Subject claims

and Subject attributed it to his father to avoid lengthy explanations

on forms.

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(b) • Subject,

AJBUSZYC, took the name of VOLSKY from the

dead pilot for personal reasons.

(c).

Subject is a communist agent who assumed one or both

of the subject names either in an effort to erase a derogatory back-

ground

or,

more likely, to assume a new identity and attempt to con-

fuse

the issue.

Still in connection with Subject's true name,

deliberately withheld information when he made out his PRQ for

JMWAVE in March 1963.

The PRQ specifically calls for "name at birth

if different from Item 1"

(Item I being Subject's full name).

VOLSKY marked the item as not applicable.

(3). The slight discrepancy in education listed in paragraph

3 b. should be checked into.

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(4) On 8 February 1963 Headquarters reported Jorge VOLSKY as

probably identical with one Joseph SKULICZ "although this still

questionable"

(DIR 16243 dated & February 1963).

There are

Station traces on SKULICZ and further mention of this tentative

identification was never made by Headquarters.

Still to be'explained by VOLSKY are the circumstances

surrounding. his imprisonment in Russia and his joining the Polish

Army Service there

at a time when Soviet intelligence was attempting

to subvert those recruits.

4. Background in Cuba Prior to U.S.

a. Family

(1) VOLSKY reports in his PRQ that on 7 August 1948 in

Havana he married his present wife, Mercedes ROVIRA Bertran.

Immigration and Naturalization Service (I&NS) in Miami has a copy of

this marriage certificate on file which confirms the marriage date

given above apd gives the following information:

The full name of VOLSKY's wife is Mercedes

Antonia Juana/*ROVIRA Bertran, daughter of Jose ROVIRA and Mercedes

BERTRAN, natIves of Spain.

(b) VOLSKY is listed as Jorge Ajbuszyc VOLSKY, son of

Jose and Maria, natives of Poland.

(c) From 1937 to 1938 Mercedes was listed as a

student

in Santiago de Cuba and from 1938 to 1961 as a housewife in Havana:

(2) The fact that Mercedes ROVIRA says she was a housewife

in Havana from 1938 to 1961 does not coincide with the story told

above to the effect that during the war years she was the single

daughter of Jose ROVIRA in Santiago de Cuba, engaged to Jorge VOLSKY.

It is possible that she mistakenly put the year 1938 instead of

1948 on

her record.

However, that leaves ten years of her life

unaccounted for in the Immigration records.

b.

Business

Jorge VOLSKY reported in his PRQ that he directed and

owned his own business in Cuba from November 1947 to May 1961 when

he left for the United States.

This business, whichhe described as

i publicity office was named Dekora Studio S.A., P. Gomez 283, Habana

and was subsequently confiscated by the CASTRO Government.

also told AMLAME-l that in addition to his publicity business in Cuba,

he had rendered services to the Information Service of the United

States Embassy in Habana. The following reports on VOLSKY's business

were obtained:

(a) AMOT-119 described VOLSKY's business, DEKORA, as a

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publicity business which engaged mainly in the production and

decoration.of floats for carnivals.

He stated that the ROVIRA family

helped him financially to set up

this business.

Mrs. QUESADA reported that the ROVIRA family was

very wealthy as they were the proprietors in Cuba of the CASTILLO RUM

and CINEMA REX enterprises, among others,

and that Mr. ROVIRA put

VOLSKY to work in a decorating firm which he owned.

formerly in the advertising

billboard business in Cuba, reports

(c) Aureliano #BRETON, that when Studio Dekora was

nationalized VOLSKY was working on a large

advertising plan for

Central America ordered by the Coca Cola bottling plant in Cuba.

•c.. Contacts' and Travel

(1). VOLSKY traveled frequently while in Cuba and amassed an

extremely large number

of influential contacts. He was a member.of

the Havana Biltmore Yacht and Country Club and

predominately

mingled with the upper class professional industrialists

particularly cultivated the friendship of American journalists.

(2) •According to his PRQ, VOLSKY traveled to Europe in 1957

on a pleasure trip at his own expense and also had traveled to the

United States many times during the years he lived in Cuba. He also

Ilsted frequent travel to Jamaica.

d. Politics

During. the period before his business was nationalized,

VOLSKY is described as a socialist, who had publicly said that the

future of the world is socialistic. He was avidly pro-CASTRO and

had often denounced the United States for putting up with the BATISTA

Government in Cuba which was riddled with graft, (AMOT-119 Report

AA-774/1?, September 1962) •

According to Tad SZULC, see Paragraph 5 below,

VOLSKY

became disenchanted with the Regime when his business was intervened

and he spent the latter part of 1959 and most of 1960 actively

supporting anti-CASTRO activities.

SZULC amplified this remark by

stating he knew of instances of VOLSKY's transporting explosives and

hand and shoulder weapons in his private car.

(3) VOLSKY was arrested and imprisoned in La Cabana prison

around 2l April 1961 during the Invasion

roundup, an event he has

made much of ever since and has used to establish counterrevolutionary

bona fides.

AMBLEAK-1, who was imprisoned during the same period,

stated,that VOLSKY was held for a short time, a matter of weeks, and

probably had been included in this roundup because he was a known

MRP. member,

foreigner,

or member of the middle class.

According to

Tad SZULC, VOLSKY was able to leave Cuba shortly thereafter as he had

a valid U.S. visa in his passport. VOLSKY arrived in Miami on

22 May 1961.

5. JMWAVE Knowledge of VOLSKY Relationship with Tad SZULC

a. On 17 September 1962 AMOT-119 presented a report to KUBARK

which contained information to the effect that VOLSKY had influence

This influence was derived from

A close relationship exists between

SZULC in Washington and VOLSKY In Miami and they are in touch

periodically by both telephone and personal visits. VOLSKY is a

source of information for SZULC and evidently influences his thinking

as is manifested by the transfer of VOLSKY's political philosophy

into the principal thesis of a book on Cuba written by SZULC:

that Cuba should not be attacked by the United States and that the

Cuban problem can be solved internally. This book entitled, The

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Cuban Invasion -- The Chronicle of a Disaster,

is particularly criti

Giron, But deal ta detase with many other aspects of us .

not limiting itselt to a discussion of its failure at Pla

As mentioned in paragraph 2.a.

Tad SZULC presented to ODACI

an operational plan

based on VOLSKY's ideas which was subsequently

turned over to. KUBARK.

SZULC was contacted by KUBARK on 6 February

1963 concerning this plan and gave the following information concern

the background of his relationship with VOLSKY, whom he reported as

author.

VOLSKY has been a friend of his for the past three year

and he (SZULC) considers him one of the most informed exiles on Cuba

of his. important information

SZULC reported that VOLSKY, by virtue of his advertisin

business, had traveled extensively throughout the provinces of Cuba

and had made many friends before said business was intervened.

been able to keep these internal contacts and passes on information

obtained from them to SZULC.

Among the most important of his contac

is AMSTRUT-2; a lifelong friend of VOLSKY's sister-in-law (unidentif:

what SZULC considers vital information by means of thi:

Friendship to VOLSKY.

In August 1962 SZULC had arranged an interview in Washington

for. YOLSKY with Richard N. GOODWIN, advisor to former President RUNNI

In late October 1962 AMBLEAK-1 had reported that VOLSKY calle

upon him to assist him in rounding up recently arrived refugees who

had. seen Soviet missiles and troops in Cuba.

It was VOLSKY's purpose

to have AMBLrAK-1 serve as interpreter for interviews of the refugees

by correspondent Tad SZULC.

Tad SZUIC reported that he had a standing invitation extended

Vice Presi

Since November 1961, to contact directly President kennec His opinion

meetings concerning it

so quickly.

VOLSkY and szuLc maintained a nutually protitable

relationship, VoLskY by providing SZULc with up-to-date information

obtained through his USIA position and through his contacts in the ex

community,

VOLSKY's ideas.

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AS SZULC

could exert his influence and indirectly pressure KU

into adopting an operation.

so could he apply pressure through his me

o run certain details pertaining to it.

The following example shows

the position KUBARK was maneuvered into by these influences.

the principals of the subject operation, AMICE-27, whom KUBARK wished

to remove from said operation because of his indiscretion and inabili

to accept control, but who was an informant on all aspects of the ope

ation for VOLSKY and SZULC, had to be handled with kid gloves and

offered a juicy alternative position in an eflort to appease him as 11

was felt that he would take his case to SZULC.

The time picked by KUl

to disengage. AMICE-27 was one when SZULC was

on an extended Latin Amer

trip.

AMICE-27 refused the substitute position, delivered an ultimati

which was not accepted by KUBARK, and, as expected, nichest authority

was reported by a

teammate to be threatening to take his case to the

• through the VOLSKY/SZULC channel.. It was JMWAVE's feeling that AMICE-

understood power and politics to the extent that once he became aware

that SZULC would not be available for immediate consultation, he would

be willing to reopen his discussions concerning an alternative positio

This he did subsequently.

The next step

for himself with KUBAR» this situation was to attempt to assuage VOLSK

taken by JMWAVE to ease

who was cold and uncommunicative at first, obviously upset over the

dismissal of AMICE-27 and,

at the same time, temporarily cut off from

his powerful Washington channel. However, this treatment released the

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pressure,

diverted a case which might otherwise have been presented

SZULC, and obviated a situation which might otherwise have been diffi-

cult and embarrassing for KUBARK.

VOLSKY and SZULC were in very frequent contact with each other

during the MWAVE sponsorship of the VOLSKY plan

This fact was

ascertained through VOLSKY'S comments to a JWAVE case officer in

which he often referred to recent activities of SZULC and through the

reactions. of SZULC and VOLSKY when any decisions concerning the opera-

tion made by Headquarters or JMWAVE were relayed to one member of this

partnership without the knowledge of the other.

Decisions concerning

the operation handed out by Headquarters and JMWAVE had to be given

simultaneously to SZULC and VOLSKY in order to avoid misunderstandings

which would arise when one would immediately inform the other of same.

It is mere speculation to guess whether there is more to this

relationship than that mentioned in paragraph 6.e. above.

interesting to note, however, that on 6 January

1964 in a conversation

between AMICE-14 and a JMWAVE case officer concerning language abilities.

AMICE-14 remarked that YOLSKY and SZULC always speak together 1n Polish•

when asked if they conversed in Polish so that no

one would be able to

understand them, AMICE-14 replied that he thought it was just to practic:

the language:

This fact does not agree with VOLSKY's earlier statement

te cOS. IMlAyE that he preferred not to speak in Polish because he had

not used the language for a long time.

It seems strange that VOLSKY

would refuse to speak his native tongue with COS unless he were afraid

that his

accent or pronunciation would disclose some element of his

background which he did not wish so disclosed.

JMWAVE, had luncheon

of USIA.

luncheon, in a discussion of VOLSKY, MANLEY stated that he was aware

that VOLSKY was the unofficial stringer for SZuC of the Times and

that his superior in Washington had recently brought this relationship

to his attention, asking MANLEY to discourage it.

The reason for this

was that several

newspaper personnel in the Washington area had com-

plained to USIA about the preferential treatment afforded SZULC by his

relationship with VOLSKY.

The most recent information indicating that the SZULC/VOLSKY

relationship continues is a letter written on 23 February by Theodore

DRAPER, well known author and political analyst, to Miss Phyllis FREEMAN

of the Frederick A. Praeger Publishing Company,

(Reference B). In this

letter DRAPER recommends that VOLSKY be chosen as the author of a book

to be written on Cuba and set up an appointment for him to meet FREEMAN

while he was in New York.

Reference B also includes a memorandum in

which FREEMAN, reported that VOLSKY was highly recommended for this 'job

by both Theodore, DRAPER and Tad SZULC who rely on him for much of their

day. to day information on Cuba.

She stated that VOLSKY "is now a

"stringer' for the Washington bureau of The Times, which is evidently

a special SZULC-engineered dea]"

AMCARBON-1 reported on 24 May 1964

that VOLSKY receives $100 a week for his work as a stringer.

In regard

to VOLSKY's forthcoming book, he has mentioned to AMBLEAK-1

expects to have it published in September 1964 under

the title of Cuba

• Note: In reference B, Phyllis FREEMAN has indicated that™

VOISKY claims that he was educated in England and that he had gone to

Cuba in 1945, a decidedly different version of his background.)

. 6. VOLSKY's Knowledge of the Cuban Exile Community

a. VOLSKY Refugee Status and Personal Life in Miami

(1) In a recent conversation with AMLAME-1 VOLSKY stated that

he had become an American citizen.

(2) A check of Immigration and Naturalization Service records

in Miami shows that VOLSKY is not a citizen of the United States as he

claims

but became a permanent resident on 5 February 1963, and that

VOLSKY's wife, Mercedes ROVIRA, had petitioned for this status for him.

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AMBLEAK-1 reported that VOLSKY lives with his in-laws,

his wife

and child in Coral Gables.

He is inordinately fond of his

child, a boy now twelve years of age, to the point of obsession.

(4)

AMBLEAK-1 also reported in July 1963 that VOLSKY had

In Havana,

JWAVE asset,

4 Wilfredo BRITO Cartaya 201-283372. Martha BRITO now lives in Miami

ind continues her intimate relationship with VOLSKY although she is

also married with children.

Neither she nor VOLSKY is aware that

AMBLEAK-1 knows of their liaison.

AMBLEAK-1 had learned of this rela

tionship in the following manner: While VOLSKY was still in Cuba he

occasionally asked A-1 to try to get letters out for him by diplomati

pouch to Miami and after A-l arrived in the United States Martha BRI

frequently asked him to send letters and packages in for her.

dissatisfied with the size of a box in which his cousin was sending a

sweater to a woman in Cuba, A-l opened said box and found in the fold

torrid love letter from his cousin to VOLSKY.

on one occasion BRITO brought up the topic of VOLSKY in a

onversation with A-1 and warned him to be cautious in his dealings

VOLSKY®

When A-l attempted to get his cousin to explain her warning,

she refused, stating that she felt AMBLEAK-1 should avoid developing

too close a relationship with him. A-1 felt that (Martha) was merely tr

Smoke-screen her relationship with vOLSKY.

(5)

At a meeting between VOLSKY and a JMWAVE case officer on

25 September 1963, VOLSKY remarked on the pressures and frustrations ,

life today and suggested that the best way to work off tensions was tr

follow his lead which was to have frequent extramarital relations wit:

girl friends.

The case officer felt that although this remark may ha

been meant to be facetious, he was inclined to believe the opposite al

made it a matter of record for any possible future KUDESK investigatir

of Subject.

b. USIA Employment

(1) . When YOLSKY arrived in the United States, he visited his

friend and former contact in the U. S. Imbassy in Havana: Paul EBFTHEI

who at that time was in charge of the Miami Office of the USIA.

was sold on VOLSKY's presentation of himself as a counterrevolutionary

recently out of prison and an expert on the communist problem and inte

national affairs.

BETHEL, contracted him to edit a VOA program which

was entitled "The Truth Behind the News". . JMWAVE traces on BETHEL ShC

the following information:

developed.'

BETHEL was employed by JMWAVE for three months,

through December 1961, as a writer-analyst for a detailed analysis of

the overt Cuban press.

This employment took place shortly after BETHE

had left his job in USIA in a huff as he refused to accept a transfer

Washington where he was to work on a matter related to the Peace Corps

His KUBARK employment was on a trial basis only and was terminated aft

an assessment by Headquarters in which it was determined that BETHEL'S

reports contained nothing which was not already available through regu

established sources and therefore his high salary, $1,000.00 per month

was not justified:

When BETHEL reSigned his USIA post and began to work for

KUBARK.,

William G.F*WAGLEY took over his position of Chief of the Miam

Office.

WAGLEY made VOLSKY responsible for the weekly summary report

made to Washington USIA analyzing the Cuban.

situation.

(3))

It is believed that VOLSKY has a clearance only as a Purcl

Order Yendor for the USIA which does not clear him for any classified

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• information,

nor. is his status that of an officer of the U. S. Goveri

yet he sat

in on

USIA meetings and had access

to classified material

WAGLEY and VOLSKY had a close relationship in their work and WAGLEY

openly reported VOLSKY as his right hand man to the Director of the

Voice of America (VOA), Henry LOOMIS.

• WAGLEY was transferred to the Washington Office in Augus

1962 at which time Conrad**MANLEY became Chiet.

VOLSKY continued in

duties and in addition prepared an additional copy of his weekly rep

for WAGLEY which was sent directly to Washington

date of this report, MANDLY remains in charge of the UsIA office and

VOLSKY is still employed in the same status.

• (5) According to Tad SZULC, Major Manuel PINEIRO Losada aka

PINEIRO, telephoned him

Miami during the October crisis Ostober 19622 and stated,

that "Fidel CASTRO was angry as he felt the Russians had sold the Cuk

down the river".

(6) On 3 May 1963 Manolo/*de la TORRE, radio announcer an

voice of America newspaperman, reported that the employees of VOA col

sider VOLSKY as an individual

with whom one must be careful as he is

suspected of being a communist.

(7) GabriélY-QUINTERO, operator of the USIA radio equipment

in Miami, reported to AMTAUP-2 in August 1963 that on various occasio

he has surprised Jorge VOLSKY listening in on USIA telephone conversa

both incoming and outgoing.

QUINTERO states that he doesn't know wha

reason motivates VOLSKY to do this.

\"1:0(8) AMTAUP-2 reported that on 13 September 1963 he was in th

Miami arrived there.

constantly informed about ODACID affairs.

VOLSKY'S use Of USIA for JURE Purposes - The following incide

related here in chronological order, are reported to substantiate JMW

claims that VOLSKY has used his USIA position for JURE political obje

and in fact might be the power which directly or indirectly determine

these objectives.

(General)

Among VOLSKY's Cuban contacts is Raul *CHIBAS

ivas. 201-248160,

a member of the executive committee of JURE,

liste

as Manolo RAY's right-hand man.

This contact originated.through

close friendship of VOLSKY's wife with the divorced wife

of CHIBAS 'an

as a result, VOLSKY became closely connected with Manolo's group.

cording to JMWAVE traces, CHIBAS, the former director of the Havana

Military Academy and renortedly an early idol of fidel CASTRO, defect

in 1960,

He gave a three hour interview to Tad SZULC in Havana who

reported him completely disillusioned with the Cuban Regime.

CHIBAS had a definite record of Communist Party participation and was

suspected by ODENVY of being a CASTRO plant in the Unitea States

(DBA 56037) •

(2) JURE Infiltration of KUBARK

(a)

When

VOLSKY was first in contact with JMWAVE concerni

the details of his operation, March 1963, he made a particular point ‹

mentioning that he personally was convinced that none of the operatior

team participants was presently controlled by any political group.

the same time, he was aware that AMICE-27 was closely connected with i

and was reporting to him (VOLSKY).

Also at that time he himself was

frequently being visited in his USIA office by Rogelio CISNEROS Diaz,

member of the executive board of JUre.

(b) AMTAUP-2 reported on 30 April 1963 that CISNEROS, at

a meeting held in his home, said that Manolo RAY Rivero, National Chie

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of JURE, had issued orders to infiltrate a trusted JURE member into

KUBARK in order to learn the details of any plans with regard to Cub

and if possible to use the contacts of Jorge VOLSKY for this since h

knew more than ten agents of KUBARK operating in the Miami area who

had been coming to him to gather reports emanating from Cuba.

•(c) On about 30 March 1963 JURE.created an Intelligence

Group within its organization whose function was te infiltrate JURE

members into the various organizations which operate in Miami, as

well as into agencies of the U, S, Government,

JOSe *AGUIAR Fernand

201-736869,

was given the job of Chief of this Intelligence Corps.

During a meeting between VOLSKY and a JMWAVE case officer on 18 July

when asked if he had spotted any operational leads whir

118tY SEe to SUARE, responded with the name Jose AGULAR:

let slip that he was a member of JURE. The case officer felt that

VOLSKY had made an error when he mentioned this matter and immediate:

realized it as the case officer had to ask several times before VOLSI

would repeat the name.

Later an AMOT source learned from Antonio

ARJAS GOnzale

Has helping AGUAR to no the lob,

(a)V JOSe TROIGE,

owner of the Camaguey Restaurant in Mi.

LnIormed AMTAUP-2 on f-August 1963 that he had been designated Chie

Intelligence by the National Direction Abroad of JUrE.

When asked by

A-2 what was his most important source of information, he replied Jor

VOLSKY who works for USIA in Miami.

(e) AMICE-27 (VOLSKY informant) on 16 September 1963 at

a meeting with a JMWAVE case officer, reported the names of three

individuals whom he felt he could recruit for KUBARK.

names was that of Raul CHIBAS whom A-27 tried inconspicuously to slip

in, making it a point to mention the other names first.

felt that this was another VOLSKY inspired attempt to infiltrate a JU

man into KUBARK.

HELES

JURE Propaganda Program (VOLSKY,

by virtue of his positi

in the USIA is not allowed to belong to a political organization.

ever, he is a member of the executive board of JURE and in charge of

orienting all JURE propaganda in the U. S. and in Latin America.

job is held clandestinely by VOLSKY because of his USIA restrictions.

AMTAUP-2 reported on 30 April 1963 that CISNEROS sta

at. a JURE meeting that JURE planned to introduce into Cuba thousands

leaflets whose sole purpose was to discredit the American Government.

These leaflets were to include such matters as RAY's Manifesto agains

the U. S. Government and KUBARK.

(b)

On 6 June 1963 RAY arrived in Miami from Puerto 11c

nd went directly to the home of CISNEROS where he called a meeting

which he erdered that no further attacks be made on the U. S. Governm

as he was to talk to Robert KENNEDY in Washington the next day.

called VOLSKY and reported these plans and asked him to submit a repo

to him, the nature of which was unknown to source, AMTAUP-2.

RAY als

asked VOLSKY to give him information regarding the new propaganda plai

of the USIA..

(c) On 27 June 1963 RAY returned to Miami from Washingto

and went directly to JURE offices where he held a meeting saying he h

gained more from his Washington contacts in the last month than he ha

in the two previous years.

He later called VOLSKY and held a conversa

with him that lasted over a half hour.

On 18 July 1963 VOLSKY met with a JMWAVE case officer

and stated that

AMICE-27 had informed him that KUBARK felt that he

(VOLSKY) was an informant for Manolo RAY.

VOLSKY explained to the cas

officer that he only saw Manolo RAY in his line of duty

as a represent

tive of USIA in the same manner that he makes contact with many of the

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exile leaders.

VOLSKY also stated that it was his understanding that

RAY and KUBARK had patched up their differences of past years.

JMWA VE

VOLSKY was aware of RAY's feeling toward KUBARK expressed in

the following conversation held between RAY and CISNEROS. RAY said

"KUBARK agents are more dangerous than the KINNEDY Administration as

the Administration will end but KUBARK agents always stayed and their

memory is longer than that of elephants, they never forget or forgive.

(e).: On 25 July 1963 AMTAUP-2 reported a conversation be-

tween CISNEROS and VOLSKY in which they discussed a propaganda campaign

against Batistianos to be. launched soon thereafter.

(f)

AMOT-119 learned on 1 November 1963 from Max *LESNICK

Menendez, editor of REPLICA newspaper, that JURE pays for REPLICA'S

printing and that LESNICK immediately gives a copy to Jorge VOLSKY as

soon as it is published. (JMWAVE traces on LESNICK, 201-209258, show

that like VOLSKY, he is a Cuban citizen of Polish

origin.

He has a

background that includes association with communist elements and at-

tendance at PSB and Ortodoxo leadership meetings.

The purpose of the

newspaper, REPLICA,

is to counter pro-BATISTA propaganda in the Cuban

exile community.) LESNICK told AMTAUP-2 that the Americans are degen-

erate because they give. money to homosexuals such as AMCORE-2 and

refuse to help him (LESNICK) and that he would take his case to Harvey

SUMM, Department Of State Representative in Miami

taped in Miami and

broadcast daily from the Dominican Republic.

Mr. SUMM stated that both

he and USIA thought that LESNICK had a worthwhile radio program and

asked COS if he could insure that LESNICK receive the necessary funds

to stay on the air.

Cos Informed Mr. SUMM that JMWAVE had access to :

number or radio outlets and if he or USIA had a propaganda theme o

basic message they wanted delivered to the Cuban people, KUBARK would

be glad to accommodate them if this material were in keeping with the

broad policy concepts under which JMWAVE was currently operating.

SUMM stated he was not interested in themes or programs, he was merely

interested in finding a sponsor for LESNICK and became irritated when

wAVE would not comply with his wishes.

He indicated that he intended

to check further on the matter to determine why KUBARK would not fund

LESNICK.

(h) On 4 February 1964 the newspaper PATRIA ran an attack

(meaning LESNICK) received guidance from BOSQUE each week and then 'took

pains to make it appear that Mr. MANLEY rather than BOSQUE had received

REPLICA.struck back at PATRIA in an article which appeared 15

February 1964 saying that they did not receive instructions from USIA

• although they did solicit material against CASTRO and communism there.

The article further berated PATRIA for revealing the names of the

director' of the USIA office (MANLEY) and the Cuban employee who still

has relatives in Cuba (BOSQUE):

(1) On 8 January 1964 Esteban *LAMELAS Maura, a newspaperma

in USIA, reported to AMTAUP-2 that VOLSKY urgently requested that LAMELA

take a poll among the arriving Cuban refugees to determine what they

think of JURE so that he, in turn, could report the results to Manolc

RAY in order to determine whether JURE's propaganda policy should be

LAMELAS said that his USIA contract forbade him from becoming

involved in such a poll; he informed A-2 that this was not the first

•time VOLSKY had used USIA for JURE propaganda.

(j) On 27 January 1964 AMTAUP-2 reported that JURE had

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(k) • On 5 February 1964 a report was made on the Bay of

• Pigs Invasion by NBC television program which had geen shown the nig

It was noted in this report that Antonio *de la CARRERA

Betancourt,

one of the producers of the program, had come to Miami i

VOLSKY to draw up the list.

Although de la CARRERA posed as a non-

political NBC assistant, he is a member of the JURE in New York City

20 February 1964 at a luncheon attended by Mr.

Conrad MANLEY and COS,.

JMWAVE, the latter asked MANLEY if he knew

VOLSKY maintained particularly close contact with JURE and the UR.

MANLEY indicated that he was not aware of this, but that he would

to monitor this matter more closely in the future,

and, if he develo!

any information of interest on this matter, he would forward it to

JMWAVE on an expeditious basis. At a l April 1964 meeting. Harvey

SUMM told COS that he agreed that VOLSKY was probably SZULC's penetra

tion of USIA and that he was concerned by the security implications.

(m). AMBLEAK-1 reported he was invited by John BARFIELD ‹

the local State Department office to attend a formal meeting with eig

Argentine Deputies visiting Miami.

This meeting took place on 28 Mar

1964 at the Montecarlo Hotel in Miami from 9:30 to 11:30 AM.

attended and noted the presence of several JURE members.

opened with general questioning, and it immediately became apparent

that the JURE representatives wanted to monopolize the meeting.

question was asked concerning the failure of the inside Cubans to suf

port the Invasion, CISNEROS grabbed the floor and filibustered for

almost an hour before he could be interrupted by BARFIELD to announc€

breakfast. A-1 stated that the lengthy intervention by CISNEROS was

embarrassing to the other Cubans but they refrained from interrupting

in order to show solidarity in front of the visitors. A-l stated tha

the presence of AMICE-27 and two USIA members led him to believe that

USIA was responsible for the guest list and that therefore Jorge VOLS

picked the "so called Cuban leaders that attended the meeting".

(4) JURE Operations

•(a) On 13 July 1963 CISNEROS approached Esteban LAMELAS

Maura and requested information from and concerning Cuba in order to

facilitate the infiltration of JURE members into Cuba.

When LAMELAS

refused to give

that type of information, CISNEROS said he would see

VOLSKY and get it from him.

(b) On 8 January 1964 AMTAUP-2 reported that VOLSKY call

Jose AGUIAR Fernandez to his USIA offices to interview two refugees wi

were interested in receiving training and returning to Cuba to fight

CASTRO:

AGUIAR Fernandez told A-2 that VOLSKY spotted refugees for

leads and submitted reports on them to JUrE.

He added that VOLSKY

diverts refugees from contacting or reporting any information to KUBA)

by iniorming them that KUBARK is the enemy of the Cubans who want to

Fight CASTRO.

d. VOLSKY's Relationship with the UR

(1) AMBLEAK-], member of the UR and an old friend of VOLSKY,

reported the following brief resume of their acquaintance.

VOLSKY at a party in Santiago de Cuba shortly after VOLSKY married (15

and for reasons A-l no longer remembers, VOLSKY sought him out sociall

In Miami A-1 maintained a casual relationship with VOLSKY during the

period January to

October 1962.

VOLSKY then sought him out to aid Tac

SZULC by interpreting for him.

During the first half of 1963, VOLSKY

to drop in at A-l's home to talk to him about Cuban exile activi

Apparently these contacts had no clandestine overtones and A-1 in his

position as UR liaison officer found nothing remarkable about his visi

In late April 1963 A-1 began working with various members of the UR

including AMICE-27, Mario SEIGLIE Montoro, and Eduardo SOTOLONGO Medin

on the drafting of

a paper on the solution to the liberation of Cuba.

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•A-l's purpose in drafting this paper was to raise morale among UR act

types and at the same time prepare a war plan which might be used

KUBARK approval for increased clandestine activity within the UR.

showed this plan to his JMWAVE case officer, who disliked it as he fe

it would whip up UR enthusiasm for the development of an active clan-

destine arm within the UR and that this was not desired.

On the nigt

of 1 May 1963 A-l gathered with AMICE-27 and others at his home to wc

on the draft again. A-27 took the draft home with him, stating that

just wished to polish it up a little.

The following morning A-27 cal

A-1 and said that he had had a lucky idea and had passed the paper to

VOLSKY who was an experienced writer of policy papers and who liked t

paper very much.

VOLSKY told A-27 that he would get in touch with

AMBLEAK-1 directly to discuss the paper.

After about a week of phone

calls from VOLSKY, A-l agreed to see him and subsequently met him and

received his original paper back.

A-1 then began to be plagued by

visits from VOLSKY at the UR offices plus phone calls in which VOLSKY

entreated A-1 to take

the paper to Harvey SUMM.

On 18 July 1963 at a meeting between VOLSKY and a JMWAVE

case officer, VOLSKY stated he had recently undertaken to assist the

in the propaganda field..

He said that the UR was starting a new dail

radio program over a New York radio station, lasting twenty minutes a

day, and, that:it will be. specifically tailored to attempt to increas

to resist within Cuba and particularly attempt to reach the

higher military echelons.

VOLSKY said he had originally written all

the VOA broadcasts for over a year after he came to Miami and that he

therefore could greatly assist the UR'with their new program.

whether the UR had anybody to write the program or whether he would

actually write it himself, VOLSKY said that the UR has one good man b

that he himself expected to have a major hand in editing the program.

He said that because of this he was spending a great deal of time at

Headquarters.

(JMWAVE Analysis) VOLSKY is in contact with a large segment ‹

the influential members of the exile community.

This is the conseque:

of his USIA position which affords him the opportunity to make these

tacts to solicit information for propaganda purposes.

AMING-2 report

that VOLSKY is on a first name basis with many of the leaders of coun

revolutionary groups whom he frequently phones or sees in his office.

(AMING-2 does not trust VOLSKY and thinks that he might be a foreign

agent although he has no facts upon which to base his opinion.)

main exile community contacts are members of JURE as described in pari

graph 6.c., he himself being responsible for all JURE propaganda. By

his own admission, he is now close to the top echelon of the UR, resp

sible for the direction of a UR radio propaganda program. As seen frr

the foregoing, |VOLSKY has maneuvered himself into a remarkably advan-

tageous and influential position regarding U. S. Government and Cuban

exile matters. According to VOLSKY his motivation is clear, he claim:

to be anti-communist,

says that he lost substantial investments in Cut

when he had to flee,

and that he is single-mindedly interested in over

throwing the CASTRO Government.

Although this motivation may be

VOLSKY is a shrewd individual and his motivation may be considerably

VOLSKY's knowledge of clandestine methods of operation

his kussian prison background and his ingenusty as a midc

in ODYOKE KUBARK activities make him an excellent candidate for a

penetration agent.

Although there is no evidence

linking him to a re.

porting communist residentura, the possibility exists that he is a

or stringer for the RIS,

VOLSKY's Current Knowledge of JMWAVE Operational Activity

a.

VOLSKY was in contact with JMWAVE for a period of ten months i

1963

(February through November) directly through COs,

JMWAVE; Irving

PEGGINS; and Stanley R. ZAMKA. AMICE-14 stated that AMICE-27 had

divulged the complete operational details of his infiltration ops to

YOLSKY and SZULC

It can therefore be assumed that VOLSKY has obtaine

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a good picture of KUBARK modus operandi in the field of black infilt

Because

the high-level objectives of

the AMTRUNK operation and AMI

three trips'to ZRMETAL for conferences, and the fact that only PBPRIN

Instructors were used to train A-27

he has met a greater number of

staffers than most agents.

AMICE-27 has been trained in the MWAVE

in tradecraft, secret writing, OWL, weapons, maritime reception, mai

and compass, and survival. He has never been either to ISOLATION

(ESOTROPIC

• 0/

and

b.

The following KUBARK staff employees were in contact with AMI

are therefore

considered known to VOLSKY:

Andrew K.

REUTEMAN

as

Tag Brickham

• Willard R.FINAUMAN

as AltRodemeyer

Stanley R. ZAMKA

as Dr. Manuel-Mendez

Irving N.

PEGGINS

as

Joe.

• Webster

Hobart J. VANDEBORN

Rueben A. HANNULA

as

TomMesard

Leon C. FLUTEO

as

Fred Folsom

Keith_ D. WINETT

as

OscartGuerra

as

Jim (LCFLUTTER Operator)

Paul I. NAPOLILLI

Paul (LCFLUTTER Operator)

Aubrey R. PARANT

Alton T. PIRNACK

as Randy (Training Instructor).

as Larry (Training Instructor)

Stuart V. KAPRIDNO

as Dewey (Training Instructor)

Fletcher K.

THENE

as Harry (Training Instructor)

Andrew S. PARMERS

as Angel Martin (Training

Instructor)

Thomas L. DARGUZIS

as

Dan (Training Instructor)

Paul V: MENDECINO

as Ted (Training Instructor)

Wilfred B. KNEAFSY

as

Pete (Training Instructor)

On 19 November 1963 in a meeting with COS, PEGGINS, and AMICE

the purpose of which was to offer A-27 a position in the Station's

MHAPRON Radio Program, A-27 said that he had written letters to VOLSK

and SZULC informing them that Operation Leonardo had been terminated.

A-27 was told that from the security standpoint this was advantageous

and not to say anything more about it to these individuals. Neverthe

A-27 1s still in contact with vOLsky and still informinbin of KUBAR

activities as

shown in the following AMTAUP-2 report:

On 8 March 196

Jose AGUIAR told LAMELAS that YOLSKY still meets very frequently with

Various KUBARK agents who work in the IMWAVE area,

At one of these

meetings AMICE-27 informed VOLSKY that AMTAUP-2 was possibly a KUBARK

d. Recent Contact

(1)

On 20 February 1964 CISNEROS and VOLSKY left Miami for N

York, later to go to ZRMETAL.

The two were to contact a KUBARK offic

there, a contact which VOLSKY had previously arranged.

(2) On 24 March 1964 AMBLEAK-1 stated that VOLSKY phoned him

to obtain his opinion as to whether there were to be any major Cuban

exile strikes against Cuba during May.

A-1 replied that he did not ti

so, but VOLSKY pressed him saying, "Are you absolutely sure or are yor

being very discreet?"

e. VOLSKY is in contact with the following active JMWAVE agents:

(1) AMBLEAK-1

(UR and socially)

(VOLSKY probably aware of his

KUBARK connections)

(2) AMICE-27

. (3) AMING-1

(MHAPRON Radio program)

(VOLSKY aware of KUBARK

connections)

(Exile group leader)

(VOLSKY possibly aware his

KUBARK connections)

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(4)

AMLAME- 1

(5) • E

duardo SOTOLONGO Medina

(6) (Mardo SEICLE Montoro)

(7) AMTAUP-2

(8) AMOT-119

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(Exile group leader)

Not known whether VOLSKY .

aware KUBARK connection)

(UR)

(VOLSKY probably aware ex-KUB

connection)

(UR)

(VOLSKY aware KUBARK connecti

since (SEIGLIE under AMICE-27

influence)

(JURE executive)

(VOLSKY suspects him of being

KUBARK agent)

(VOA - daily contact)

(not

known whether VOLSKY awa

probably not)

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