Agency: HSCA
Originator: HSCA
From: KESTER, JOHN G.
To: BLAKEY, G. ROBERT
Document date: 03/29/1978
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

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SUBJECTS :

ANTI-CASTRO CUBANS

CIA, METHODOLOGY

CASTRO, FIDEL

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Reat Hand carried

COMMITTEE SENSITIVI

MEMORANDUM

TO:

FILE

FROM: G. R.

BLAKEY, G. CORNWELL AND E. LOPEZ

DATE: MARCH 29, 1978

The following written materials, and none other, were

taken by the

H.S.C.A. staff to Cuba between 3/30/78 and 4/4/78:

(1.)

(2.)

(3. )

(4.)

(5.)

(б.)

(7.)

(8.)

(9.)

(10. )

(11.)

(12.)

(13.)

(14.)

A copy of the attached chronology;

Excerpts from the book Legend, by M. Epstein;

Reports No. 94-755 and 94-465 of the Senate Select

Committee;

The Warren Commission report;

The attached set of questions;

Miscellaneous rough notes (to be carried at all

times

on the persons of the staff members);

Various newspaper and magazine articles;

The attached

lists (2) of Cuban officials and

their titles;

Copies of W. C. document$ 984, and item #514 of

C.D.

87;

A copy of the materials on alleged assassination

plots previously supplied by Castro to Senator

McGovern;

A copy of H.S. C.A. Doc. #4683 (a chronology pre-

pared by the Library of Congress C.R.S.);

Photo mug book;

Copy of Castro's Speech on 11/27/63.

Previous public reports of the H.S.C.A. and

comments on the floor of the House of Representatives

by committee members.

COMANCE SENSITIVE

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José ABRAHANTES Fernández

Fidel CASTRO Ruz

Raul CASTRO Ruz

Osmani CIENFUEGOS Gorriarán

Isidoro MALMIERCA Peoli

Joaquin MENDEZ Cominches

Manuel PINEIRO Losada

Alfredo RAMIREZ Otero

Carlos Rafael RODRIGUEZ

Sergio DEL VALLE Jimenez

C

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Chief, Department of

State

Security

President, Council of

State, Council of

Ministers

Minister of Revolutionary

Armed Forces

Minister Secretary,.

Council of Ministers

Minister of Foreign

Relations

Chief, General Direc-

torate of Intelligence

Chief, Cuban Conmunist

Party America Department

Adviser to President on

US Affairs

Vice President, Council

of State,

Council of

Ministers

Minister of Interior

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Cuban Special Interests Section

Teofilo ACOSTA Rodriguez

Rafael FERNANDEZ Duany

Ramón SANCHEZ-PARODI Montoto

First Secretary,

Consul

Second Secretary,

Vice Consul

Chief

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CHRONOLOGY :

CIA/ CUBAN/ MAFIA

PLOTS TO ASSASSINATE CASTRO

ANTI-CASTRO ORGANIZATIONS

ANTI-CASTRO CUBANS AS IDENTIFIED BY CASTRO

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ANTI-CASTRO ORGANIZATIONS

Agrupacion Montecristo

Alpha 66

Commandos L-66

DRE Organization

Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional (ELN)

"11 Frente del Escambray"

Frente Interno de Unidad Revolucionaria

Frente Revolucionario Democratico (FRD)

La Cruz

Jos Penos Nuevas

"M-30-11"

Movimiento Anticomunista Revolucionario (MAR)

ovimento de Liberacion Nacional

Movimento de Recuperacion Revolucionaria (MRR)

Movimento Democratico Revolucionario

Movimento Revolucionario del Pueblo

Poder Cubano

"Rece"

Rescate

Resistencia Civica Anticomunista

Second National Front of Escambray

"30 de Noviembre"

"Triple A"

Unidad Resistencia (UNARE)

"Union de Unidades Revolucionarian (UDUR)

•Doc # 000593, report by Castro (McGovern)

"The

Investigation of the Assassination of President JEK:

Performance of the Intelligence Agencies Book V

—Hardway Chronology

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Hanscous, Rafael Diaz

Hernandez, Raul Cay

Hernandez, Carlos Vicente Sanchez

Izaguirre, Alfredo (Tito)

Leon, Jaun Isreal Cazinas

Lopez, Manuel Barrena

Lopez, DI. Bernardo Milanes

Loria, Oscar Sibila

Maheu, Robert

Marin, Huberto Sori

Mederos, Jose Pijals

Mendoza, Adolfo

Millan, Manuel Lorenzo Ruig

Marales, Acelo Llerena

Moreno,

Samuel Carballo

Moreno, Ricardo Olmado

Mosquero, Jesus Placedo Rodriguez

Navarrete, Nemesio Rodriguez

Nunez, Jesus Campanioni Singa y Santos de la Coridad Perez

Ortega, Eufemio J. Fernandez

Pena, Huberto Gomez

Perdoma, Onorio Torres

Perez, Nemesco Cubillas

Perez, Luis Beltran Arencibia

Pitaluga, Julio de los Nievas Ruiz

Ramas, Armando Cubria

Ray, Manuel

Ranzola, Rolando Galdos

Robrena

(The Magician)

Rodriguez, Antonio J. Fernandez

Rodriguez, Jose A. Lopez

Romirez,

Alberto Blanco

Ronzola, Rolando Galãos

Rubio, Jorge Garcia (Tony)

Rosselli, John

Sague, Mario Tauler

Sanchez, Orlando Martiniano y Sandaleo

Schenweias, Captair Carl E.

Secades, Rolando Cubila

Sierra, Albert and Ramon Grau

Silva, Juan Jose Morales

Suarez, Elilcer Rodriguez

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Tepidina, Carlos

Ternejo,

Rouel Fernandez

Trafficante, Santos

Transancos, Luis Enrique

de Ure, Pierre Owen Diaz

Valcarel, Roberto Cascuyela

Valdes,

Enrique Rodriguez (Mugado)

Valdes, Orlando Ulacia

Valle, Antonio Cuesta

Varona, Gaspar Dominiquez Trueba

Verona, Tony

Vilahu, Enrigue Abreu (Henry)

Viran, Angel Miguel Arencibia

Winter, Bernardo Iglesia

Ybarrechi, Bernardo Paradlea

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1.

Feb. 16, 1959

2. March 5, 1960

3.

March 7, 1960

4.

1960

5.

Mid 1960

6. Mid 1960

March 21, 1960

8. April 8, 1960

9.

May 27, 1960

10. June 16, 1960

11.

9 / 60

CHRONOLOGY - CIA/CUBAN/MAFIA

PLOTS TO ASSASSINATE FIDEL CASTRO

Fidel Castro is sworn in as Premier (replacing

Jose Miro Cardona)

Primier Castro, at the mass funeral of 27 dock

workers killed yesterday, implied that the

United States was involved in the "sabotage" of

the munitions ship which exploded in Havanna

Harbor. The U.S. issued a "vigorous protest

against the Premier's accusation.

Secretary of State Herter told Cuba's Charge

d'affaires that Castro's implication that the

U.S. was involved in the munitions ship explo-

sion was

'baseless, erroneous, and misleading."

Dulles approvés

"thorough consideration be

given to the elimination of Fidel Castro."

Sabotage and terrorism by Tauler Sague.

Tauler Sague, "La Cruz", a counterrevolutionary

group and Curia Ramps infiltrate through Pienta

Hicarcas zone in Mantanzas Province for plot.

against Castro. CIA provides ammunition:

A US-based private plane is shot down over Cuban

territory by Cuban Government troops. The

American pilot and co-pilot are captured.

US Secretary of State Herter declares (at a news

conference: "

...there is one very disturbing

development that is taking place in Cuba, and

that is that anti-communism is now being made

synonymous with anti-revolution, and that those

who express concern about Communist influence are

now being accused of being anti-revolution, and

anti-Castro..."

US State Department announces that. the US

economic aid program to Cuba will be terminated

on Dec. 1, 1960. US military aid will be termin-

ated in June.

Cuban Government orders two attaches of the US

Embassy in Havanna to leave the country within

24 hours. They are accused of "conspiring with

coanter revolutionaries."

Richard Bissell, CIA Deputy Director of Plans,

(DDP), directs Sheffield Edwards, CIA Director

of the Office of Security, to devise a plan to

kill Castro.

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12.

9/14/60

13.

Oct. 9, 1960

14.

10/18/60

•15. Nov. 27, 1960

16. Dec. 31, 1960

17.

18.

Jan.

22, 1961

Jan 30, 1961

19.

20.

21.

early 1961

March 1961

Feb. 11, 1961

22.

Feb. 26, 1961

March 22, 1961

The Cia Support Chief meets Rosselli, Mahue,

Giancana and Trafficante at the Plaza Hotel

in New York to begin plans to set up the

assassination of Fidel Castro.

Cuban Government announces that is has crushed

an anti-Castro revolt in South Central Cuba,

and accuses the United States of supplying

the rebels with arms and ammunition.

A J. Edgar Hoover memo reports that Sam

Giancana has been telling friends about a plot

to kill Castro.

Castro (in a speech at a student rally at Havanna

University) makes a bitter attack against the

Roman Catholic clergy in Cuba,

accusing them of

being "counterrevolutionaries."

Foreign Minister Raul Roa flies to New York and

calls for an immediate meeting of the UN Security

Council, to take action on a Cuban charge that the

is ready to "carry out, within a few hours, direct

military aggression against Cuba."

President Kennedy succeeds President Eisenhower.

Kennedy declares lin his State of the Union

Message): "In Latin America, Communist agents

seeking to exploit that region's peaceful revol-

ution of hope have established a base on Cuba, only

90 miles from our shores. Our objection with Cuba i

not over the people's drive for a better life. Our

objection is to their domination by foreign and

domestic tyrannies."

The CIA Technical Support Division devises a deadly

poison for use in a plot.

Kennedy objects to assassination plot.

Castro denounces US aid for "Cuban Counterrevolu-

tionary exiles." He says that "if the US believes

it has the right to promote a counter-revolution

in Cuba, Cuba believes it has the right to promote

a revolution in Latin America." He accuses the

US of parachuting large quantities of arms and food

to

anti-Castro

rebels in the Escambray mountains.

Government sources in Havanna declare that the

rebel movement in the Escambray mountains has been

crushed.

Anti-Castro Cuban exile groups in the US announce

formation of a "Revolutionary Council" headed by

DI. Jose Miro Cardona, who was the first Premier

of the Castro regime in Cuba. The Council issues a

statement calling on Cubans "to overthrow the

Communist tyranny."

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•24.

March 1961

25. April 5, 1961

26.:

April 8, 1961

27.

28.

29.

C

April 1961

April 15-17, '61

May 3, 1961

30 :

May 5, 1961

31. May 22, 1961

32.

June 1961

33.

July 1961

34.

July 26, 1961

Counter revolutionary groups, trained, armed

and infiltrated through Havanna with instructions

to kill Castro. Huberto Sori Marrin coordinates

activities.

Foreign Minister Raul Roa (in a press conference

interview in New York) denounces the State

Department's pamphlet on Cuba as a

"formanization

of the undeclared war which the US is making on

against us." He also accuses the US of arming and

training in Florida and Guatemala a "so-called

liberation army of 4,000 to 5,000 counter-

revolutionaries, mercenaries and adventurers."

DI. Jose Miro Cardona, head of the Cuban Revolution

ary Council, issuses a statement (in New York)

calling all

Cubans to arms to overthrow the regime

of Fidel Castro. He declares that the revolt must

come from within the country.

Rosselli passes the poison pills to a Cuban in

Miami.

Bay of Pigs invasion fails.

Twenty-two rebels including Captain Manuel Artime,

a leader of the April 17 invasion attempt, were

captured by the Cuban Government troops. The

Government announced that this brought the number

of captured rebels to 1122.

An anti-castro Cuban volunteer declared that the

CIA had held him and 16 others prisoner and in-

communicado for eleven weeks before and during

last month's abortive invasion.

Hoover remo to Atth. Gen. Robert Kennedy noting

that the CIA had used Giancana in "clandestine

efforts against Castro."

Frente Revolutionario Democratia participates in a

plot against Castro. Plot consists of Jeeps with

bazookas to be placed in a garage at an intersectio

in Havanna and a truck with grenades to be placed

in a sports complex. Castro and other leaders would

be ambushed as they drove by. Guillermo Cauler.

Ferrer and Higinio Menendez

are arrestes and impli-

cate the CIA.

Through infiltration of Emilio Caro. (Brand), Adolfo

Mendoza (Raul) ana Jorge garcia Rubio (Tony), the

United Resistance group plots against Castro during

the 26th of July celebration in Oriente Province.

During a speech made at the celebrations of the

eighth

anniversary of the 26th of July movement,

Castro announces that all Cuban political parties

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35.

July 26, 1961

36.

July 1961

37.

Sept. 1961

38.

Sept. 7, 1961

Oct. 4, 1961

40.

Nov. 16, 1961

41.

NOv. 29, 1961

42.

Nov. 1961

43. December 1961

44. January 4, 1962

45.

46.

47.

February 19, 1962

4/62

4/62

are eventually to be merged into the United

Party of the SOcialist Revolution. The Celebrations

are attended by Soviet astronaut Major yuri Gagari

Same group as above plans another plot during a

rally at revolution Square. Supplies provided by

the

CIA.

"Movimiento 30 de Novembre", Movimiento Revolution-

ario del Pueblo, and Frente Revolutionario Demo-

cratico participate in a plot to be carried out

near the home of Celiz Manduley in Valedo. CIA

provides instructions through Tony Verona, Ray.

Auriliano Arango and Admiral Burke and agents from

Guantanamo. Ammunition provided by the CIA.

Same group as above led by Juan Jose Silva makes

attempt on the life of Dr. Carlos Rodriguez. Weapon

provided by the CIA.

A spokesman for the Democratic Revolutionary Front,

a Cuban exile group, announced that the Front will

shortly merge

with the Revolutionary Council. The

new group will be called the Cuban Revolutionary

Council and will be headed by Miro Cardona with

Antonio De Varona as second in command.

MRR and Il Frente del Escambray plan to sabotage

coinciding with the return of Cuban President

Osvaldo Torrado from Runta del esta. Bazookas

and

ammunition was to be fired at the former president'

palace from a nearby apartment with withdrawal

covered by launching grenades at the public.

President Kennedy gives speech mentioning oppositic

to assassination.

John McCone succeeds Allan Dulles as Director, CIA

Operation Mongoose conceived.

FBI meets with Lansdale re; Mongoose

Government announces the execution of an anti-Casti

guerilla leader, Margarito Lanza, convicted of

killing 3 militiamen. -"It was the first executio!

to be announced in 1962..."

Helms succeeds Bissell as Deputy Director, Plans,

CIA.

Harvy initiates contact with Rosselli.

Harvey, Support Chief, and Rosselli meet in New

York to set up assassination squad.

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4/18/62

49.

50.

4/21/62

4/62

51.

52.

53.

5/62

May 7, 1962

May 10, 1962

55.

6/21/62

56.

C.

8/62

Aug. 24, 1962

58.

9/7&11/62

59.

60.

9/7/62

9/11/62

61.

Oct. 10, 1962

62.

Oct. 12, 1962

The technical Services Division delivers the

poison pills to the Support Chief.

Harvey passess the pills to Rosselli in Miami.

Meeting held to plan uprising and receive equip-

ment from Guantanamo. Jorge Luis Calvo outlines

'Plan Z', a scheme to kill. Foreign Minister Raul

RO

and then the leaders that would attend his burial.

Authors of the plan included Cay Hernandez, Gay

Gispert and Julio Hernandez Rojo. Weapons provided

by the CIA.

The poison Pills are passed to Cubans for transport

Houston and Edwards brief R. Kennedy on pre-Bay Of

Pigs underworld assassination plot.

R. Kennedy tells Hoover that the CIA has used

underworld figures in the effort to assassinate

Castro.

Rosselli tells Harvey that a 6 man team has been

dispatched to Cuba.

Bomb shelling of Rosita Gamero Hotel.

Several building s in Havanna are damaged by shell

fire from 2 small power boats sent from Miami by

the Student revolutionary Directory, and exile

group of the former University of Havanna students.

The US State Department states that the US govern-.

ment was not involved in the raid and had no prior

knowledge of it.

Harvey and Rosselli confer in Miani re; Status of

plots.

Rosselli tells Harvey that the pills are stil in

Cuba,

The Havanna radio reports that a 'pirate vessel'

entered a harbor in north central Cuba and fired

more than 60 shots into a British freighter and

a Cuban ship. An exile organization in Miami

known as Alpha 66 acknowledges responsibility for

the attack.

A Cuban exile group--Alpha66--announced that its

members made a successful raid Monday on the

Cuban port city of Isabela de Sague. The exiles

said that a commando group of 15 to 25 men had:

killed about 20 defenders, including Russians.

Britain has discussed with the US a threat by a

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63. 10/28/62

64.

65.

11/62

1963

66.

67.

Early 1963

2/11/63

68.

3/13/63

69.

3/18/63

70. 3/26/63

71. April

1963

72.

: 4/7/63

73.

May-Sept. '63

74.

Mid 1963

75.

June 1963

76.

77.

6/63

6/63

Cuban exile group, ALpha 66, to attack all

merchant ships carrying supplies to Cuba. A

carefully worded statement by a foreign office

spokesman avoided saying any complaint had been made

Washington indicated it was not yet ready to act

against the exiles.

Cuban Missile Crisis.

Operation Mongoose ends.

Consolidation of groups RCA, ELN, MRR by Nino

Diaz. Objective is to create impression of strong

resistance to Castro. Instructions through

Guantanamo.

William Harvey tells underworld figures the CIA is

no longer interested in assassinating Castro.

Letter furnished by undisclosed source received

from Alpha 66 requesting help in the form of a

sulpher pill.

Plot devised to shoot a mortar in the direction of

the tribune from a house nearby the University of

Havanna. Samuel Caballo Moreno arrested. Weapons

supplied by the CIA.

Attack on Soviet vessel off north coast of Cuba

by ALpha 66 assisted by the 2nd National Fronte

of Escambray.

Attack on soviet vessel by Commandos-L-66

Special group discusses the contigency of Castro's

death.

RCA devises a plot at Latin American Stadium. 16

men to participate armed with pistols and fragment-

ation grenades. Arrested were: Enrique Rodriguez

Valdea (Mulgado) , Ricardo Lopez Cabrera, Onorio

Torres Perdoma, Jorgi Carlos Espinosa Escorles..

Lee Harvey Oswald moves to New Orleans; becomes

involved with the FPCC. He contacts anti-Castro

Cubans as well.

Series of meetings among major leaders of the

anti-Castro movement.

Special group decides to step up covert operations

against Cuba.

FBI learns of termination of plots.

CIA renews contract with AMLASH

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• 78:

6/63

79.

July 24, 1963

80.

7/26/63

81. Late July. '63

82.

8/16/63

C• August

84.

9/7/63

85.

9/9/63

86.

9/12/63

87.

9/28/63

88.

10/6/63

Rosselli and Harvey meet. Harvey says that this

is a going away dinner since he won't be seeing

his old friend, Rosselli anymore as he is being

transferred overseas.

Ten Cuoan exiles arrive in New Orleans from Miami

and join the "training camp" north of New Orleans.

This training campis directed by the sane indivi-

who were previously involved in procuring dynamite.

"A", a lifelong friend of AMLASH, had helped

procure the dynamite..

RCA plans to assassinate the Minister of Foreign

Arms Raul Castro at Revolution Square during 26th

of July celebration. Leader, Ibrahim Machin

Hernandez.

Carlos Bringuir is requested to assist exiles at

the 'training camp' in returning to Miami.

R. Helms asks for report on article run in the

Chicago Sun Times claining CIA had dealings with

Sam Giancana. McCone testified that Helms gave

him a memo on CIA operations involving Giancana

and orally informed him that it involved

assassination on August 16.

According to an FBI report, a Latin American

military officer attends a Cuban exile group

meeting and talks of assassination.

CIA case officers, after their first meeting with

AMLASH prior to the October 1962 missile crisis

cable headquarters that Amlash is interested in

attempting an

'inside job' against Castro and is

awaiting a US plan of action.

In a news article published by the Times-

Picayune, Castro denounces what he calls 'recent

US prompted raids on Cuban territory."

Cuban Coordinating Committee meets to conduct a

broad review of the US government's Cuban contin-

gency plans. They agree that there is a strong

likelihood that Castro will retaliate in some way

against the rash of covert activity in Cuba, howev

an attack on US officials within the US is conside

unlikely.

Counterrevolutionaries prepare plot to dynamite

sewage pipes which pass under presidential tribune

Another group is formed through the relationship

with CIA agent Pierre Owen de Ure.

FbI Headquarters learns of Oswald's contacts in

Mexico City.

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89.

90:

10/10/63

10/29/63

91.

:92.

11/1/63

November 63

93.

11/17/63

94.

11/18/63

95.

11/19/63

11/20/63

97.

98.

11/22/63

11/22/63

99. 11/23/63

100.

11/23/63

101.

11/24/63

The FBI is told by an informant that the CIA

is meeting withAMLASH.

Desmond Fitzgerald, a senior CIA officer, meets

AMLASH. Fitzgerald tells Amlash that a coup would

receive US support. Fitzgerald is introduced to

AMLASH as a personal representative of Attorney

General Kennedy •

Diem is assassinated following a coup.

Case officer is told by Fitzgerald that AMLASH may

be told that the rifles, telescopic lens and ex-

plosives will be provided.

According to FBI reports, the Cuban-American

is at the home of a member of the Tampa FPCC. He

is there awaiting a

telephone call from Cuba which

is to give him the 'go-ahead' order to leave the

US.

President Kennedy makes a public appearance in

Tampa and delivers a speech on Cuba policy in

Miami.

Castro contacts Daniels and spends six hours

talking to him about US-Cuban relations.

CIA officer telephones AMLASH and tells him there

will be a meeting on November 22. AMLASH is told

that it was the meeting that he requested.

Kennedy is assassinated.

CIA case officer tells AMLASH that he will be pro-

vided with rifles and telescopic sights. Offers

the poison pen device.

CIA Headguarters cables the AMLASH case officer

and orders him to break contact with AMLASH be-

cause of the President's assassination and to re-

turn

to headquarters.

Legat informs FBI Headquarters that the US Ambas-

sador to Mexico is concerned that Cubans were be-

hind Oswald's assassination of Kennedy. The Am-

bassador requests both the CIA and FBI do every-

thing possible to refute or confirm this Cuban

connection.

Cablegram is sent from Mexico to CIA Headquarters

stating that the US Ambassador to Mexico stating

that the Soviets are too sophisticated to parti-

cipate in a direct assassination of Kennedy, but

the Cubans would have been stupid enough to have

participated with Oswald.

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102.

11/24/63

03.

11/26/63

103. 11/27/63

104.

11/28/63

105.

11/30/63

1.6.

12/1/63

107. 12/2/63

108. 12/3/63

109. 12/4/63

110.12/8/63

61.12/9/63

Alleged phone conversation in Mexico City

between Jose Antonio Carbaga and Di. Emilio

Nunez Potuindo stating that, "the Castro Plan

is being carried out. Bobby is next. Soon

Atomic bombs will rain and they won't know

from where."

McCone again meets with President Johnson. The

President tells him the FBI has the responsibility

for the investigation of the President's death

and diresct him to make CIA resources avaïlable

to assist the FBI's investigation.

One CIA station cables information received from

the specifiel sources that AMLASH has been indiscree

in his conversations.

CIA headquarters warns the Station Chief in

Mexico that the Ambassador was pushing the case too

hard and his proposals could lead to a 'flap'

with the Cubans.

Director McCone meets with President Johnson

at 11:00 a.m. and they discuss the CUba question.

"D" is mentioned.

CIA Headquarters

cables Mexico Station indicating

that it has received information from a sensitive

source that

: a Cubana Airlines flight to Havanna

had been delayed in Mexico City from 6:00 pm

until 11:00 pm on the day of the assassination.

It was awaiting an unidentified passanger who

arrived in a twin-engine aircraft and failed to

go through customs. The passanger rode in the

cockpit on the flight to Havanna.

McCone's calendar reveals he attended a meeting

at the CIA with the subject being Cuba.

CIA Headquarters receives information from Mexico

that the Cuban-American left the US on Nov. 23

and flew from Mexico City to Havanna on Nov. 27.

FBI memo from Sullivan to Belmont indicates

there is no evidence that Oswald's assassination

of Kennedy was inspired or directed by pro-

Castro) organizations or by any foreign country.

CIA headquarters cables it s MIami Station orderin!

a halt to an operation to supply weapons to AMLASH,

pending a high-level policy review.

A memo to Director McCone discusses US operations

against Cuba, but does not mention the AMLASH

operation or

nay other specific operation.

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1.. 12/10/64

113. Late Dec.

114. 1964

115.

116.

117.

1/64

1/24/64

3/64

118.

3/26/64

119.

Mid 1964

120.

July 1964

121. July 1964

122.

LAte 1964

123.

Early 1965

124.

1965

Director McCone meets with CIA staff and the

subject of the meeting is Cuba.

CIA decides to have the Counterintelligence

Division continue the investigation.

Plot against Castro at 11 St. Vedado.

Undisclosed assassination plot discovered by the

FBI.

FBI Liason is told by a CIA agent that there are

no active plots against Castro.

Paln to assassinate Castro by Mario Salabaria

Agular. CIA financed plot which involved installing

a 30 or 50 caliber gun in a vehicle which would

wait for Castro to pass by.

Rankin requests that the FBI furnish the

Commission with information on certain pro-Castro

and

anti-Castro organizations.

Plot devised, directed by the CIA involving

throwing grenades against the Prime Minister at the

Latin American Stadium.

FBI learns that a Cuban official (not AMLASH)

was plotting with the CIA to assassinate. Castro.

FBI learns some details of the CIA's AMLASH

operation from one of the FBI's informants.

AMLASH becomes more insistant that the assassinatic

of Cuban leadership is a necessity. He is told that

the US government cannot become involved in the

'first step'. He is put in contact with B-l and the

CIA throught B-1 is kept informed of the plotting-

Counterrevolutionaries devise plot directed by CIA

against the Prime Minister in Santiago de las

Vegas. Plot aborted and new plot devised--

committed by armed men with grenades at Latin

American Stadium. Another group would open fire

against the people.

Arrest of Rolando Cubela Secades. Cubela was re-

cruited by Manuel Artime. Plot involved an officia

from the Cuban Embassy in Madrid consisting of

boats, weapons and men for Cuban invasion within

72 hours to support the assassination of Castro.

Weapons received from Jose Luis Gonzalez

Gallarett

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125.

May 1965

126.

Mid 1965

127.

June 23 1965

128.

June 1965

129 .

July 1965

.30.

May 1966

131. Late Jan 1967

132.

June 1967

133.

1971

"A" cantacts I&NS with information about the

AMLASH operation. He is turned over to the FBI

for handling. The FBI informs the CIA about "A".

Commandos. I and Movimiento 30 de Novenbre plan to

infiltrate Cuba

--effort given up and they

fired from gunboats at the 'scholarship zone'

at the Riviera Hotel in the direction of the

Presidential residence.

CIA headquarters cables its stations stating that

the entire AMLASH group is insecure and further

contact with them constitutes a menace to the

CIA operations.

Maria Leopoldina Grau sent poisoness pill bottle

which is then given to Alberto Caso and then given

to Jesus Nunez to committ crime at Havanna Libre

Hotel. Plot failed and another bottle of 500 pills

is sent to Tony Verona.

CIA directed plot to take advantage of a visit

to Vita Nouvas' restaurant in Vedaco. Abreu Vilahu

would open fire against the Prime Minister and

guards across the street at the Interior Building-

Counterrevolutionaries infiltrate into Monte

Barreto Zone. Arrested: Antonio Cuesta Valle, and

Eugenio Enrique Zaldwar. Cardinas. Killed: Armando

ROmero Martinez and Sandalio Herminio Diaz Garcia-

Drew Pearson meets with Chief Justice Warren

and informs Warren that a lawyer was told by an

uriderworld contact that Castro planned the

assassination of Kennedy.

Counterrevolutionaries

infiltrate with objective

of carrying out assassination plot against the

Prime Minister. Weapons included plastic explosive

and pirate attacks.

Arrested; Feliz Asencio Cresp,

Wilfredo Martinez Diez, and Gustavio Araces

Alvareras. Plan was to conduct sabotage against

Castro and create image of popular uprising

to help counter

groups in the US get official

backing. Irained by CIA through 'Rece', 'M-30-11'.

Los Pinos Nuevos, Commandos I, and Alpha 66."

Plan to assassinate Prime Minister in Chile by

means of a gun camoflaged in a television camera.

Plan aborted. Main protagonist-Jesus Dominiquez

Benitez. (The Islander)

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SOURCES

"A Selected Chronology on Cuba and Castro", The Library of Congress,

Legislative Research Service

2. Ibid.

3.. Ibid.

4. The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy;

Performance of the Intelligence Agencies, Book V p. 99

5. Report by Fidel Castro, (McGOvern, George) HSCA DOC. #000593

6.: "Here's a List of 24 Alleged Attempts by the CIA to Kill Castro",

Miami Herald Times, Thursday, July 31, 1975

7. "A Selected Chronology on Cuba and Castro", The Library of Congress,

Legislative. Reference Service

8. Ibia.

9. Ibid.

10. Ibid.

Hardway Chronology

Assassination Report, Book V

12. Assassination Report, Book V.

13. "A Selected Chronology on Cuba abd Castro", The Library of Congress,

Legislative Reference Service

14.

Hardway Chronology

Assassination Report, Book V

15. A Selected Chronology on Cuba and Castro, Library of Congress

Legislative Reference Service

16. Ibid.

17.

18.

Assassination Report, Book V p. 99

"A Selected Chronology on Cuba and Castro", Library of Congress

Legislative Reference Service

19.

Hardway Chronology

Assassination Report, Book V. p.19

20.

IDia., p. 99

"A Selected Chronology on Cuba and Castro", The Library of COngress,

Legislative Reference Service

22.

Ibid.

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23.

Ibid

2.4.

25.

The Hardway Chronology

The Assassination Report, Book V. p. 99

"A Selected Chronology on Cuba and Castro", Library of Congress

Legislative Reference Service

26.

Ibid.

27:

Assassination Report, Book V. p.99

28.

Ibia. p. 99

29. :

"A Selected Chronology on CUba and Castro.", Library of Congress,

Legislative Reference Service

30. Ibid.

31. Assassination Report, Book V. p.99

32.

"Here's a List. of 24 Alleged Attempts by the CIA to Kill Castro",

Miami Herald Times, Thursday, July 31, 1975

33.

Ibid.

Report by Fidel Castro, (McGovern, George) HSCA. Doc. #000593

"A Selected Chronology on Cuba and Castro, " Library of Congress,

Legislative Reference Service

35. Miàmi Herald Times, Thursday, July31, 1975

Report by Fidel Castro (McGovern, George) HSCA DOC. #000593

36.

Ibid.

37.

38.

Ibia.

"A Selected Chronology on Cuba and Castro", Library of Congress.

Legislative Reference Service

39. Miami Herald Times, Thursday, July 31, 1975

Report by Fidel Castro (McGovern, George), FSCA DOC.

$000593

40. Assassination Report, Book V p. 99

41..

Ibid. p. 99

42.

Ibia, , P. 10

43.

Ibia. p. 99

"A Selected Chronology on Cuba and Castro, " Library of Congress,

Legislative reference Service

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45.

Assassination Report, Book V. p. 99

Hardway Chronology

Assassination Report, Book V

47.

Ibid.

48.

Ibid.

49.

Ibia.

50.

Report by Fidel Castro (McGovern, George). HSCA DOC. #000593

51.

Ibid.

52.

Assassination Report, Book V, p.99

53. Ibia. P. 99

55. Ibid.

Hardway Chronology

56. Statement of Carlos Bringuir on 1/21/64, CIA FOIA Document f488-196

57.

"A selected Chronology on Cuba and Castro", Library of Congress,

Legislative Reference Service

Hardway Chronology

Assassination Report, Book v.

59.

60 ..

Ibid.

"A Selected Chronology on Cuba and Castro" Library of Congress,

Legislative Reference Service

61.

Ibid.

62:

Ibid.

63. Assassination Report, Book V, p. 100

64. Ibid. p. 100

65. Miami Herala times, Thursday, July 31, 1975

65. Assassination Report, Book V. p. 100.

67.

Weberman Material, HSCA Document #001766 dated 7/1/77

68.

Report by Fidel Castro (McGovern, George) HSCA Doc.

#000593

69.

Ibid.

Pu. IDid, p. 100. lassassination Report, vol Vi

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72.

73.

74.

75.

76.

Ibia., p. 100

Ibia.

Ibid., Volume V

Ibia., p. 100, Book V

Ibid., p.100

Miami Herald Times, Thursday, July 31, 1975

77.

Ibid

78.

Hardway Chronology

79.

Assassination Report, Book V p. 100

80.

Report by Fidel Castro, (McGovern, George) HSCA Dov. #000593

Miami Herald Times, Thursday, July 31, 1975

81. Assassination Report, Book V, p. 100.

82. Miami Herald times, Thursday, July 31, 1975

C• Assassination Report, Book V, p. 100

84. Ibia.

85. Times Picayune, September 9, 1963

86. Assassination Report, Vol. V, p. 101

87. Report

• by Fidel Castro (McGovern, George) HSCA DOC. # 000593

88. Assassination report, Book V, p. 101

89. Ibia. p. 101

90.

Ibid., p.101

91.

Ibia., p. 101

92.

Ibia., p. 101

93.

Ibia., p. 101

94.

Ibid., p. 101

95.

Ibia., p. 101

L. Ibia., p. 101

97. Ibid., p. 101

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98.

Assassination Report, Book V, p. 19, 20, 101, 27.

100 .

Ibia., p. 102

Ibid., p. 102.

101.

102.

103.

104:

105.

Ibid., p. 102

Weberman Materials, HSCA Doc.

#001742

Assassination Report, Book V p.103

Ibia., p.103

Ibid., p. 103

106.

Ibia., p. 103

107.

Ibid., p. 103

108.

Ibia. , 103

109.

Ibid. , f. 104.

110.

I11.

112.

Ibid., p. 104.

Ibid., p. 104

Ibid., p. 104.

113..

Ibid.: p. 104.

114. Report by Fidel Castro, (McGovern, George) HSCA DOC.

#000593

115.

Weberman Materials

116.

Assassination Report, Book V P. 104.

117. Report by Fidel Castro (McGovern, George) HSCA Doc. #000593

Miami Herald Times, Thursday, July 31, 1975

118. Assassination report, Book V, p. 105.

119, Report by Castro, (McGovern, George) HSCA DOC.

#000593

120. Assassination Report, Book V, P. 35.

121.

lbid., p. 105

122.

Ibià., p. 105.

123.

Report by Fidel Castro, (McGovern, Goerge)

I24.

Ibia.

Miami Herald times, Thursday, July 31, 1975

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125.

Assassination report, Book V, p. 105.

¿. Miami Herald times, Thursday, July 31, 1975

127. Assassination Report, Book V, p. 105

128.

129.

130.

131:

132.

133.

Report by Fidel Castro, (McGovern, George) HSCA Doc. #000593

Ibia.

Ibia

Mi ami

Herald Times, Thursday, July 31, 1975

Assassination Report, Book V, p. 105.

Report by Fidel Castro (McGovern, George) HSCA DOC. #000593

Ibid.

Miami Herald Times, Thursday, July 31, 1975

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