Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 6/1/72
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/12/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10287-10053

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 105-86025-43

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FROM:

TO :

TITLE :

FBI

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 06/01/1972

PAGES:

34

SUBJECTS :

LCA, ASSOC, COMMUNIST ACT, CUBAN EXILE, ACA, BKG,

ANTI-COMMUNIST MEETING

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C; 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/01/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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Claser

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OR (JER)

CORRELATION SUMMARY

Main File No:

105-86025

subjecti luis resto conte aguero

Da ves

6/i/92

Date Searched: 6/1/71

All logical variations of subject's name and allases were searched

and identical references were found as set out on page.

This is a summary of information obtained from a review or

all "see references to the subject in Bureau files under the names

and aliases listed on page ?. All references under these names

containing data identical with the subject have been included except

any indicated at the end of this summary under the heading RERERENGES

NOT, INCLUDED IN THIS SUMMARY References indicated in the block as

SI contain the same information as the foregoing serial, although

the information may have been received from a different source.

TILS SUMMARY HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR USE AT THE SEAT OF

GOVERNVENT AND IS NOT SUITABLE FOR DISSEMINATION. IT IS DESIGNED TO

FURNISH A SYNOPSIS OF THE INFORNATION SET OUT IN EACH REFERENCE AND

IN MANY CASES HE ORIGINAL SERIAL WILL CONTAIN THE KINFORMATTON IN

MORE DETAIL.

Analyst

Supervisory: Clenk

Approved

M. Elizabeth Hendrix

virginia A. Adolt

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TOM

MEH: mK DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR,

MEN RELEASE G STURMATION ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

IN THIS DOCUMEN MKH 26-48 HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED EXCEPT

SLO/ESA 329 WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE

5040

Lawrence N. Brady

9990

CLASSINED BY SUb& SLA mk

DECLASSIFY ON: 25X10

(FR)

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MAgHero

ante,

Luis

One

Luis Ernesto Conte

Conte,

One

Conte, Lewis

Conte, Louis

conte, Luis

conte, luis ernesto

Conti,

Luis

Agero,

Luis Conte

Aguera

Edis Conte

Aguere,

Louis Conte

Aguere,

Luis Conte

ABuero,

One '

•Aguero, Lewis Conte

rAguero,

Louls Conte

• Aguero Luis

(Aguerra Luis Conti

Luis Conte

CAguro,

Turis Conte

Lewis Conte

*Arguero, Luis Conte

15

+= .

*****

ABBREVIATIONS

Ada. info..

CACF

•Additional information appearing in

this reference which pertains to

Luis Ernesto Conte Aguero can be

found in the main file or elsewhere in

this summary.

This information may

have been received from a different

source.

••Christian Anti-Communist Front

*****

Radio commentator Luis Conte Aguero defended Guatemala in his

broadcast on 6/21/54, and accused the US or the United Fruit Company

of the invasion of that country.

(CI HAV-2) (4)

04 1201-1845 ep.5

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Orlando Eleno Piedra Negueruela (105-75483) who headed the

Cuban Bureau of Investigations under Batista, made available records

which contained general background, arrest, descriptive data,

photographs on approximately 2,000

and

Cubans who were considered

security

risks by the Batista government.

Included in the records dated 4/15/55,

was the following information regarding luis Ernesto Conte Aguero: (U)

Sex: Male

Child of: Luciano and Isidra

Civil Status: married

Profession or Occupation: journalist-PH.D.

Height: 5'11"

Weight: 200 lbs.

Eyes: black

Other Identifying Marks: race :mixed

Address: Estrada Palma 15%g" street,

Santiago-or 505

Vedado, Havana

Observations: Orthodox Party member, subversive

activities, bitter enemy of Batista

Government; 4/54, arrested and

sentenced to Isle of Pines for 6

months - for

contempt.

105-75483-40 ep.736

(20,53

(Photo.)

According to Sas and Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (109-539),

Luis Conte Aguero spoke at an event at the Flagler Theater, Miami, on

Man 155, This evert was Identified as the "Club al de dullo de

(JUly 26 Club Of Miami): (U)

CS MM-492-S furnished a number of photographs taken of

individuals on

the speakers' rostrum during the 11/20/55 event. Aguero

was identified as one of these individuals. (u)

109-539-40 p.0,11,14

The following references pertain to information which appeared

in a hearing

before SISS on 3/30/62.

Conte Aguero's association during April, 1959, in NYC, with Viola June

Cobb (97-4057) and Fidel Castro, Prime Minister of Cuba, regarding a

prologue Aguero wrote to a Castro speech which Cobb published. Several

durang pime minister of

This information concerned Luis

months later Aguero's prologue was deleted from the publication because

Aguero was in disgrace. (u)

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Ralph Gutierriz, Assistant Program Director, WHOM, NYC, made

available information which revealed that the July 26th Movement of

New York (97-3243) was scheduled to have a "taped program"

been made in cuba, over Radio Station WHOM, NIC, on 8713/60 which had

orogram was in answer to an address that would be made over

pro-Gastro not 0e

that radio

station on 8/12/60, by former "pro-Castro" officer Luis Conte Aguera. U

17-3243-365 p.56

128

350

105-95145-2p.2

The 8/15/60 issue of "El Diario de Nueva York"

• a spanish

language newspaper published in NYC, contained an article which stated

that a number of anti-Castro organizations conducted a demonstration

at the UN building on 8/13/60.

The demonstration was led by Dr. Luis

Conte Aguero, president of the CACF. U

-4314-4 p.1

Rüdolph Fernandez, Atlanta,

Georgia, businessman, advised that

Luis Conte Aguero, leading Cuban exile, was planning to organize an

opposition meeting to the Frente Revolucionario Democratico (105-87912)

on 8/13/60, in NYC. u

205-87912-19 DoL;eD. #

The 8/15/60 edition of the "Hudson Dispatch"

, published at

Jnion City, New Jersey, contained an article captioned "Overthrow of

Fidel's Cuban Rule Pledged"

This article revealed that Luis Conte

Aguero spoke at the newly formed Latin American Anti-Communist

Organization (LAACO) (105-91459) meeting on 8/14/60, at Kelly's Tavern,

Union City. u

The 8/16/60, edition of "El Diario de Nueva York"

, a Spanish

language newspaper published at NYC, contained an article entitled

"Cuban Anti-Communist Multitude Hears Orators in Union City"

This

article indicated that Aguero participated in a meeting held at Kelly Halla

in Union City, on Sunday. u

On 8/17/60, Ysidro Alvarez,

PSI, advised that a LAACO meeting

was held on 8/14/60, at Kelly's Bar

in Union City. Luis Conte Aguero

spoke at this meeting. u

Ada. info.

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785-91459-1 902,8,9,10,12, 22,13

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on 10/12/60, Victor Manuel Paneque Y Batista advised that he came

to the Us in september, 1960, on behalf of the Movimiento Insurrecional

De Recuperacion Revolucionaria (MIRR) (97-4474).

He said approximately

three or four weeks previously he was at the Pentagon, WDC,

and spoke

to two individuals in the Navy Department to whom he presented a plan

for aiding anti-Castro forces in Cuba.

services

On this trip he utilized the

of Dr. Conte Aguero as an interpreter. u

It appeared that the Dr. Conte Aguero referred to by Paneque

was undoubtedly identical to Dr. Luis Ernesto Conte Aguero, who

claimed to be one of

the leaders of an anti-Castro organization known

as the CACE. U

On 11/19/60, Alex Rorke, NBC Correspondent, 30 Rockefeller

Plaza, NYC, advised that he had heard a rumor to the effect that

Paneque was suspected of being a Castro agent.

He discounted this

rumor, explaining that Paneque had taken a trip (dates not given)

to WDC and New York with Aguero, but had later split with Aguero after

Aguero had attempted to deceive

Paneque, whereupon Aguero started a

rumor that Paneque was a Castro agent, as a means of retaliation

against him. u

On 12/19/60, Orlando Bosch Avila, M.D., 4138 Southwest 18th

Terrace, Miami, reported substantially the same

information concerning

the above. U

97

4474-

p.7,10,16

53)

on 12/15/60, Alfredo Alex Hernandez Mere, 408 Monastery

Place, Union City, New Jersey, advised that his father, Jose Felix

Hernandez Garcia of Union City, was a member of and worked with an

anti-communist organization known as the Frente Anti-Comunista

Cristiano,

which was under the leadership of Luis Conte Aguero.

He

also stated that he had no reason to believe that Frank Fiorini's

(2-1499) group was connected in any way. with Aguero's anti-Castro

movement. k

MM 639-S advised that Fiorini, Alex Rorke, free-lance writer

and photographer, and Ilona Martita Lorenz, daughter of an American woman,

Alice Lorenz, who resided in NYC, were to meet on 1/8/61, and attempt a

unity meeting of anti-Castro Cubans. This meeting was sponsored by u

Aguero.

1499-70 p.3,4,14

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Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, 120 S.W. T1st Avenue, Miami, advised

that in approximately November or December, 1962, he was contacted

y halael Inclan (105-102128), who had come to Miami from WDC. He

stated that he had previously

met Inclan sometime prior to the Cuban

invasion of April, 1961, when he, Diaz, was introduced to Inclan at

WDC, by Luis Conte Aguero. U

05-102128-26 p.?

(1Q.4

on 5/13/61 and 5/14/01, Doctora Carmelina Bonalonte, ISI,

urnished information pertaining to a caravan composed of Cubar

mothers, which was sponsored by the Revolutionary Junta of National

Liberation (105-99236), an anti-castro organization; that proceeded

"rom Miami to Palm Beach, Florida, on 5/14/61, for an audience-press

conference with Pierre Salinger, White House Press Secretary, and higr

officials of the US Armed Forces. The chief interpreter for

delegation of Cuban women was Luis Conte Aguero. u

105,99236-1 ep. 2,4

LBy letter dated 5/24/61, CIA advised that Luis Conte Aguero

had indicated a desire to join the Cuban Armed Forces Association in

Exile) (97-4599) •

-4599-1 p.1

on 11/29/61, INS furnished a report dated 11/16/61, which

contained background

data concerning the formation of a special committeel

of anti-Castro leaders to help screen security risks among Cuban

refugees.

At INS's request, 25 anti-Castro leaders, including Dr. Luis

Aguero, met with Miami INS officials on 11/6/61, to discuss cases of

16 permanently detained Cubans. U

105-93163-428 ep.1

on 11/29/61, Arthur McDonnell, Director and Secretary of

Radio Free Cuba, Incorporated (RFC) (105-100626), 407 Broadway, NYC,

aavIsed that Dr. Luis Conte Aguero was the President of RFC,

subsidiary of Frente Anti-Comunista, Incorporated (FAC), 1818 & Street,

DVS

REVIEWED BY SEWJFK TASK FORCE

ON

9/4/97 caL

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This reference pertains to Luis Conte Aguero's alleged

involvement in a flot to Assassinate Premier Fidel Castro, October

Holidays, 1905 (105-142517)• Aguero, 4305 B.W. 2nd Street, Miami,

was apparently not involved in

this

alleged plan. During an interview

on 8/16/65, concerning this alleged plot, Aguero advised that he was

in contact with several high officials of the US Government during

June and August, 1965. 4

105-142517-15 D01,2;ep-1-3,5

(A3,

The following references pertain to the investigations and/or

hearings of the SISS.

Information regarding Luis Conte Aguero's

associations,

contacts, ana activities as a television and radio

commentator from 1946 to October, 1905, in Florida and Cuba, was set

out in testimonies of individuals and exhibits. (u)

REFERENCE

SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER

62-88217-2721 ep.618

-2884 ep.51-53

-2951 ep.131

MM 974-S advised that Vicente Rodriguez,

treasurer of the

Frente Nacional Revolucionario Cubano (105-129080) Executive Committee,

was an assistant to Luis Conte Aguero.

airtel, 7/22/66) (u)

(No further details.) (Miami

105-129080-11 ep.5

(5)

On 8/10/66,IM 1115 Stadvised that. Domingo Cardoso and Gilberto

seco, both affiliated with the Movimiento Revolucionario Del Pueblc

(MRP) (105-92704), an anti-Castro organization, said on 8/0/06, that

they had been in contact with Luis Conte Aguero. They said that Aguero

had promised that if Cardoso and Seco could bring about a satisfactory

reorganization and redevelopment of the MRP, he would be willing to offer

considerable financial assistance as well as a good contact with the US

government.

In connection with the reorganization of MRP, a meeting was

held on 8/7/66, during which a committee of three, including Cardoso,

Seco, and Lino

ferez, formerly affiliated with MRP, was named to

maintain contact with Aguero.

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The Ejercito Rebelde En Exilio (ERE) (105-125545), headed by

Raul Diaz Torres and Jesus Gomez Calzadilla, called for a unity

demonstration at Miami on 10/10/66, among

several Cuban exile military

organizations,

incluaing the ErE.

exile organization

• "Sentinels of Liberty"

Luis conte Aguero, who heads the

, at Miami, was cooperating

with the ERe in bringing Latin American figures to Miami to speak on

the above occasion.

Aguero reportedly had contact date and place not

given, with (ENU) Califono (ph), who was

assistant to Defense

secretary Robert McNamara. (MM 1119-s) (U

105-125545-11 D.1

The following references pertain to the associations, contacts,

and Anti-Fidel Castro Activities (109-584) of Luis Conte Aguero from

July, 1960 to February, 1967, in Florida, New York, WDC, Brazil, and

Cuba.

Aguero was leader of

disbanded in October, 1902; a member of Revolutionary Council (RC);

the organ that coordinated

the most important Cuban organizations.in

exile; and head of Sentinels of Liberty, an anti-Castro organization.

He was also affiliated with the Movimiento Recuperacion Revolucionario.

He attended, participated in and/or was scheduled to attend and/or

in meetings, demonstrations and affairs.

Aguero also made

arrangements for a demonstration which he was sponsoring in commemoration

of the Cuban War of Independence. Aguero wanted tolunite all exile

organizations to fight against the tyranny imposed by Fidel Castro,

Prime Minister of Cuba, and favored the assassination of Castro. The

a Cuban counterrevolutionary organization composed

of several small groups and dissident splinter elements, was formed

under the leadership of Aguero.

he wrote a book entitled "Cuba, The

JAs, and the International Peace Force". LIt was alleged that CIA put

aguero into the *Consejo and then took him out.!

RC: had the backing of

to travel to several Latin American countries.

In February 1967, he

was scheduled to go to Argentina, where he woudd lobby to get thei Cuban

question on the Organization of American States' meeting agenda,

scheduled for April, 1967, in Uruguay.

REFERENCE

SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER

109-584-1349 p.2

-1532 ep.2

-1539 p.1;ep.1

-1560

ep. 1

-2056 p.1,2;ep.5

-2340 p.10

* Consejo Revolucionario de Cuba

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REFERENCE

109-584-2353 p.1

-2359 ep. 2,3

-2586

ep.1,2

-2622

ep.5,6,17,18,19,27,32

-2693

ep.1,2,4

-2960

p.2

-2980

p.2

-3004

ep. 1,2

-3047 p.4

-3097 p.1,7

-3310 ep.2

-3332 p.4

-3537 p.1

-4290 p.3

-4313 p.1,5

-4338 ep. 1

-4453 ep.7,8

-4503 ep.2

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on 3/15/67, Tania Ondina Menendez Y Morino, employee at Miami

International Airport, Miami, Florida,

advised that prior (date not

gIven) to leaving cuba, during the latter part of 1965, she was contacted

by Gustavo Andujar who

nonet it was neated

was engaged in anti-castro activities.

Andujar

requested her to contact Luis Conte Aguero, a radio commentator in the

Miami area who was broadcasting clandestinely to a group that Andujar

was associated with, which was headed by (FNU) Santos, who was serving

a jail term because of his anti-Government activities. Menendez did not

know whether or not Santos was the true name or a cover name for this

individual. She contacted (date and place not given) Aguero as requested

by Anaujar, and Aguero stated that he was not interested in re-establishing

radio contact with the Santos group. It was the opinion of Aguero that

the only solution to the Cuban problem was an invasion in force into

Cuba.

Menendez further advised

that when Aguero wanted to contact the

Santos group he would use the name

"Gua I"

• 4

80558. 16206 ep.4,5

58)

MM 492-S advised that several anti-Castro Cubans possibly

planned to attend a Summit Meeting of Western Hemisphere_ Heads of

State, April 12-14, 1967, at Punta Del Este Uruguay (105-163325), in

to request a

•Cuban Government in Exile be recognized. Luis

conte (u)

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Aguero of the Sentinels, anti-Castro organization in Miami, was in

south America attempting to gain support for a Cuban Government In Exte(al

105-163325-28 ep.4

MM 847-S advised that on 10/25/67, DI. Antonio De Varona, formerly

a member of the Cuban Revolutionary Council which staged the

unsuccessful invasion at Playo Giron in 1961 but which had been dissolved

for several years, arrived in Miami from New York.

Varona was met by

Andres Nazario,

Secretary General of the Second National Front of

This serial indicated that Fleites was the military leader of

SNFE. (4)

105-112098-737 ep.1

on 11/9/67, Vicente Wilfredo Duarte Quinones (105-166095) advised

that the Resistencia Agramonte, an organization in Havana, Cuba, and

"Ana"

¿ a "war name" for a woman named Reina (last name unknown)

who

was the leader of an organization in Havana

(not further identified),

were awaiting the order from Dr. Conte Aguero, a radio broadcaster

from Miami. Aguero was supposed to signal through his broadcast when

the actual attack against Castro had begun, and Quinones did not know

the signal or word to be given other than that Aguero was to

the word on his broadeast which was also heard in cuba. (u)

05-166095-7 p.1;ep.5

The 1/25/68 issue of the "Miami Herald"

contained

an article

entitled 'Post Office Officials threatened"

The article revealed that

a Cuban exile group called Cuban Power (105-176790) had threatened US

postal authorities with a bomb unless they stop processing mail and

medicine packages to Cuba. Three exile figures, including Luis Conte

Aguero, who was active in

anti-Castro matters,

were warned that "they

would get what they deserve at the right time

• (No further details.) (U)

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INFORMATION, DATE AND SOURCE

was held as a move to strengthen

the Imbert group politically.

("The New York Times"

, 8/30/65) (ca)

This reference pertains to Aguero's

trip from Miami on 8/28/65, to Santo

omingo, Dominican Republic, and hi

return

to Miami on 8/31/65.

Included

were his associations, contacts, ano

participation at a demonstration ir

connection with Dominican political

crisis. (PSI Angel Yergo) (U)

The campaign for the 3/5/67 election

of a new El Salvador President and

Vice-president officially ended on

3/1/67.

A three-day respite before

election day during which election-

eering was prohibited was designed

to cool slightly the passions aroused

by the heat of the campaign.

During

this period, Aguero made a speech

which attacked

communism in Cuba.

(Department of State)

This reference concerns the 3/5/67

Presidential Election campaign in

El Salvador. In connection with

this campaign, Aguero was brought

in to talk on themes of Cuban

and

Central American patriotism.

(Department of State)

Luis Raul Betances, Dominican citizen

who was formerly Administrative.

Director of the Organization of

American States, was known to be

a.

friend of many leading Cuban exiles,

including Aguero.

Through these

champion of Cuban exile

(CIA, 12/5/67)

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28.73212-7227 p.:op. 2.

32,5

209. 13-226-312 p. 2

208 13-226-308 p. 2

7p-13-221-12798 p.2

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whether they are identical with the subject of this summary.'

REFERENCE

SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER

64-330-210-924

64-330-211-1569

-1858

64-330-213-325

64-330-228-799

(5)

(80)

The following reference on Luis Conte Aguero contains information

of an administrative nature

and has not been included.

REFERENCE

SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER

64-4461-975 p.9

18. 35)

The following references on Luis Conte Aguero and Luis

Conte were not available during the time this summary

was being prepared.

REFERENCE

SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER.

64-200-210-2450

105-176105-5

109-584-3387

(446)

See the search slip filed behind file for other references

on this subject which contain the same information (SI) that is set

out in the main file.

Although the information is the same it may have

been

received

from different sources.

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