CUBAN INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
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Document date: 06/25/1969
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LATTEU STATIS DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BINAU OF INVESTIGATION

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June 25, 196.

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PEDRO LUIS PINERO AIRIN

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

priro Luis linero Airin is a third secretary of the

()N JUNC

14r, source, a Cuban exile residing in

Miami, Florida, furnistod

the following antormation:

Around the beginning of January, 1969, he received

a comuniontion from a close relative in Cuba asking source

10 telephone bor

urgently.

Source then telephonedhis relative

In Cuba who told hin she was sending source a letter through

i man hared "harcoling" who would be traveling to the United

itatos in i few days; that this letter had some information

at imporiance: to both of

them.

Two or three weeks later, around the beginning of

fabruary, 1969

, source received a

telephone call from a man

Identilying himself

"Marcolino", saying he had just arrived

t'rom Cuba and was then at the Freedom House in Miami.

Source

asked "Marcelino"

In wait there so he could meet him and to

pick up the lotter trom his relative in Cuba.

"Marcelino"

replied thar this was not possible because he was leaving for

New York at that nonent, but would contact the source as soon

as be arrived in Now York.

The followins day source received another telephone

coll in Minni. from

"Marcelino" who now told source that he was

the trindom Towes in hiamt because his departure to New

York lad born postponed. Again "Marcelino" stated he could

not mont anurer as he was then leaving

for New York, but told

Source Mol

In worry about his relative's letter. because he would

soon bu recontacting the source.

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Source added that since the above contacts by

"Marcelino", several persons arriving from Cuba on the Freedom

Flights have contacted him to tell him that his relative in

Cuba urged him not to leave Miami and not to travel by plane,

as he was being watched by the Cuban Intelligence Service (CIS):

and they knew all his movements.

These persons also mentioned

tha! sourco's selntive in Cuba i8 forced by CIS to contact

him, and she urged him not to pay any attention to "Marcellno"

because le is a member of the CIS.

Source continued that he received another telephone

call in Miami from "Marcelino" on April 1, 1969. At that

asked source

time "Marcelino" stated he was in New Yor,' Marcelino" stated

to meet him In New York on April 6, 1969.

he would send source the plane fare to New York:

On April 2, 1969, source received a telephone call

in Miami from an unidentified caller who had a different voice

from that of "Marcelino". This caller told source that he should.

come to an agreement with "Marcelino" and cooperate with him.

That same day source received a second call from this unidentified

person who told source that they knew all about him, his address

and his famlly, and to impress upon source how serious this

matter really was, they were going to give him a "bad scare".

That same evening,

a car followed him for several blocks at

which time two shots were fired towards his car, in an apparent

effort to scare him.

note too eatin that on Apple o

Source continued that on April 5, 1969, he received

another telenhone call in miami from "marcelino"

who asked

source if ho had received

the travel fare to New York.

Source

replled

In the negative, so "Marcelino" told him he would send

him the far:.

'Marcelino" told source to meet him in New York

on Sunday, April 13, 1969. Source did not go to New York to

meet "Marcelino".

Source continued that on Aprtl 18 or April 30, 1988,

he recelved another cable from

his relative in Cuba who agked

to telephone her immediatoly. He telephoned this relative

who told source that "Marcelino" was very angry because source

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had not kept the appointment, and she urged him to meet

"Marcelinn".

Source stated that on May 24, 1969,

he received two

United States Postal Money Orders

totaling $140.00.

were sent by. "Marcelino "Gutterrez Guzman"• UNM

Put ina

On, May

SoL co cotta another 4a37 from

"Marcelino" asking him if he had received the money orders,

he was

lo such

a meeting.

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On June 23, 1969, source advised that he met "Marcelino"

In New York on June 22, 1969. He picked out a photograph of

Pedro Luis Pinero Airin as the person who met him and introduced

himself as "Marcelino". When source first saw "Marcelino" at

the meeting site he was accompanied by a person whom source

Identified from a photograph as Miguel M. Santana Fraiz.

As of June 1, 1969, Santana Fraiz 1s listed as an

attache with the CMUN, who resides at 6 East 67th Street, New

York City.

Source stated Santana Fraiz was not. introduced to, him,

but was actually standing at a distance from Pinero Airin,

apparently acting as a lookout.

In the above meeting Pinero Airin Introduced himgelf

to snurce by landing him a letter from source's relative in

Cuba

and ilso ly giving source some photographsof two members

of his famtly in Cuba.

Source stated the letter is definitely

in the hindwriting of

his relative and states in part. "the

only problen is that before we can leave Cuba they want to

exchange: Idcas with you,

that is why I must write this letter

as a means of identification for the person who 1s to intervlew

you, is this case an agent of the government with the flctitlous

name Marcelino."......

"so that you may have the freedom of

expressing youself and in deciding what you think is necessary

I 'ust make the following clear to you: I. Our exit is held

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back until thu interview is made.

2.

We are In our house

waiting for the solutionyou give this. Mother and I appreciate

Your understanding."

Imodiately after reading the above letter, Pinero

Airin told source that his name is really not "Marcelino",

that he works for the Cuban Mission to the United Nations.

le did not tell source his true name.

Special Agentsof the Federal Bureau of Investigation

observed

the above meeting, and identified Pedro Luis Pinero

Nirto as the person who conversed with the source, and identifled

Miguel M. Santana Fraiz as the person conducting a counter sur-

velliance of this

meeting.

Source stated that during the above meeting with pinero

Airin he noticed Santana Fraiz observing them. He asked PiNero

Atrin who this person was, and he replied that this was one

ail' his men who had a USI machine gun in the case he was carrying;

that they were taking no chances, as they did not know rhether

source would come armed and attempt to harm them.

Pinero Airin told source that the Cuban Revolution

needs honest and hard-working persons like himself to help

them,

and then proceeded to tell source about source's back-

ground, including his anti-Castro activities in Cuba: in 1959.;

He told

scuree that many persons who worked for the CIA against

Cuba and who are now imprisoned in Cuba now realize what

good thing the Cuban Revolution is. As an example, Pinero

Airin ventioned "Gallego" and Aalbel Garcia whe are now in a U

Cuban prison.

Pinero Airin then talked. at length about the pro-.

ilems in the United States such as expensive education and

medical care, and also about the narcotic problem in the

United States. He stated that in Cuba they did not have these

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problems as education aud medical careme free.

Pinoro Airin then mentioned that President. Nixon

vacations in

the Miami area, and the President'g

good friend

"Bohe Rebuzo" is a good friend of Edgardo Butary and his son.

Butari and it's son are good friends of Manuel lartime. L

Manuel Artime is the head of the Movimiento Recuperaction

Revolucionario, an inactive anti-Castro organization formerly

with headquarters in Miami.

Pinero Airin stated that if the Unfted States Goverament

ever conducts any large scale activities against Cuba that Manuel

Artime will probably be one of the leaders.

Pinero Airin added.

that he knoys of i mecting Edgardo Butari had with a United States

Army captain Oliva, first name possibly Enello, who was a leader

of Brigado 2.06 during the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in 1961.

linero Airly stated he is interested in the activities of Butari,

as he is fairly close to President Nixon.

Pinero Airin continued that Nino Diaz has a boat

named "Venus;", and this boat is now in Puerto Rico.

He stated

Ding has been

collecting money in the Miami area for anti-Castro l

activitles. He also stated that Manuel Villalana 15 working

for the CIA in Colombia along with Jorge De La Osa and Manuel

Garcia, also known

as Bichinchi. He stated that a man named

Rodriguez and a Vilavoa (phonetic) were working for CIA in Bolivia

and were involved in the capture and death of Che Guevara.

Pinero Airin asked source if he knew Comandante Mendez

of the anti-Castro Cuban exile group in Miami known as Alfa 66.

Pinero Airin nentioned that Mendez and a man named Pacheco are

bragging about plans to infiltrate Cuba.

Pinero firin then told source that the CIA has some

operation involving Cuba at Homestead Air Force Base and he

wants to find out what this operation is about.

He stated he

is aiso interested in some CIA operation involving Cubans in

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the Florida Keys, somewhere around Islamorada.

Pinero Airin added that a group known as the Ejercito

Libertador, which ls a small group of Cubans formed by some

members of

Brigade 2506, are trying to obtain boats to go to

Cuba.

he stated this group will fall, as did a group from RECI

(Representacion Cubana En El Exil10) (Cuban Representation 1r

Exile) which was not even able to get as far as the mangroves

In Cuba a couple of weeks ago, all members being captured.

RECE 1s in anti-Castro organization.

Source stated that Pinero Alrin advised he would

telephone source in one or two weeks in Miami, to urange for

another meeting.

This documents containg neither recommendations nor

conclusions of the FBI.

It is the property of the FBI and 1s

loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be dig-

tributed outside your

agency.

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