MEMO FOR: AMCROAK OPERATION
Originator: CIA
From: RESEARCHER
To: THE RECORD
Document date: 01/01/0000
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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(2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

SECRET

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: AMCROAK Operation

Job #

File #

19-6-97

Inclusive dated:

Volumes:

6

1.

Description:

None of the files contained an objective

explanation on the file opening sheet as to the purpose of

this operation (there was no /1 file); however, it appears

to be built around a principal agent (AMCROAK-1) who was an

FI on-island reporting source. See attached sketch on A-1.

(201-738660) 1 volume.

2. Findings:

a. MADR 9866 (IN 74333) 5 Dec 63:

AMCROAK-1 discussed an op plan with AMOT-2,

which consisted of elimination of high GOC personalities.

A-l had not mentioned the plan to the case officer. (A-1 was

recruited by CIA in Madrid Dec 63. At the time of recruitment

he was involved with a group planning to kill CASTRO, a

completely extra-CIA affiliation.)

b. MADR 9928 (IN 78595) dated 1l December 1963:

The above plan mentioned by A-l concerned the

physical elimination of CASTRO, AMLOUT-1 (:

and AMQUACK-1 (

). A-l said seven persons

were involved in the plan and that they had studied it for

eight months. The C/O told A-l that OSG did not look with

approval on such activities, but he would pass the information

on to his supervisors.7

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c. DIRECTOR 88949 dated 12 December 1963:

In discussions with AMCROAK-1 he was to be told

that a coup

• against CASTRO resulting in ouster of CASTRO and

the Communist regime was an internal affair for which only

Cubans could be responsible. That in the event of a real

coup against the CASTRO regime, the U.S. Government was prepared

to render full support, upon invitation.

d. UFGA 13793 dated 27 January 1964:

When discussing the plan with AMCROK -1, the

case officer learned that the Subject of UFGA 12025 dated

23 Oct 1963 (

) was one of the principal

planners.

When the C/o told A-l that the USG did not con done

such actions, A-l replied that in view of our lack of support

of this undertaking, he considered it not prudent to reveal

further details, but added that he actually did not know the

names of any other possible participants and had only a general

idea of the scheme which was to waylay CASTRO as he was leaving

an apartment.

e. UFGA 13794 dated 28 January 1964:

Para 1 B., In January 1963 Fidel asked AMCROAK-1

what he thought of President Kennedy and his relationship

with Fidel. A-l replied ta:t Fidel probably underestinated

Kennedy, that the latter by no means was illiterate or the

imbecile Fidel often described him to be. and in the long run

Kennedy would be Fidel's undoing. Fidel laughingly replied

that he would be the one who ruined Kennedy because within 8

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months Fidel would have Latin America burning. Fidel made an

obscene motion and said he would have Kennedy "in the air."

(Kathleen Bleving

Researcher

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