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Document date: 02/06/1968
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AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90135-10117

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 105-82298-173

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FROM: HQ

TO :

TITLE :

DATE: 02/06/1968

PAGES:

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SUBJECTS :

ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Cuban defector; Ariel Saavedra - Sejudo stated that during

1959 he joined an anti-Castro organization known as "Frente Nacional

Escambray" in Havana. Among the leaders of this organization was

Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo.

100-357681-210-131 encl.p.2

(3,47)

This reference is an SISS report which revealed that in

January, 1959, classes atthe University of Havana had been suspended

for months by Batista and some students had engaged In terrorist

activities against him.

The mass of the student body never engaged

in clandestine activities-against Batista, proof of this contention

was found in the small amount of students who actually did join

Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra or Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo in the SNEE.

62-88217-2884 encl.p.47

(2, 46)

On 6/13/63, Gilberto Rodriguez Fernandez (100-420590)

advised that he arrived in Cuba from the United States in early

January, 1959, and that he became associated with various members of

the SNE which was headed by Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo with whom he was

in frequent contact.

An invasion of Cuba at Trinidad in August, 1959

was planned but this invasion failed because Menoyo advised the

Cuban government of the plan.

He was also in the company of Raul

Castro in Havana and Rodriguez decided Menoyo could not be trusted.

Menoyo called Rodriguez an enemy of Cuba and Rodriguez saw him for

the last time in mid-1960. (Details of Menoyo's activities in

connection with above planned invasion of Cuba and other revolutionary

activities set out.)

.100-420590-41 p.20,29,47-53

13,47)

G-2, Alien Detention Facility, McAllen, Texas (protect

terre a member or sue a 28061 ted with cora gate 10/t /61,

Menoyo.

He attended

social and official gatherings of SNFE and made

two trips to Miami with Gutierrez.

He was requested by Gutierrez to Fla

participate in action against Trujillo and Batista followers who were

to attack Cuba. Gutierrez decided to take him to the US to join other

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revolutionist groups and Pernas planned to go to Miami and wait for

orders from Gutierrez as to his future actions.

105-98002-1 p.4

(36)

On 2/15/61, Francisco Javier Santa Cruz Pacheco (134-9765)

was being interviewed when he received a telephone call from Ampero

Prieto, widow of Plinio Prieto, an anti-Castro rebel leader killed by

Castro's forces in the Escambre Province approximately four month

before. She informed Pacheco that Eloy Gutierre Menyo and Armando

Fleites were at that time living in Miami. Pacheco stated that these

men were respectively, Comandante and Second in Command of Fidel

Castro's forces in the Escambre Province during the overthrow of

Batista in Cuba.

He stated that she informed him that they were

dedicated communists and lately were supposed to have fallen in

disfavor with Castro which caused them to leave Cuba. /Pacheco stated

that he could never trust these men and was of the opinion that they

were probably Castro's intelligence agents in the US!!:;

Add. info.

134-9765-3 p. 2-4

(76,875

NY [34687S advised that Hermes Jose Dominguez y Chavez

(105-116562) attended a meeting (no date) of an anti-Castro group

headed by Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, held in the back room of the jewelry

shop called the Joyeria Penaranda. * He was allegedly attempting to

infiltrate this organization. Informant further advised that

Dominguez spoke to a small group of people (no date) at which time he

stated that he had attended the above-mentioned meeting about

October, 1961. Informant stated that Chavez was attempting

infiltrate this group, sending information to Cuba by mail

105-116562-7 p. 2,3

(22,68)

(22,05-116562-4 p. 1

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and Eloy Gutierrez Memoyo in the SNE and had informed a number of

people that he was employed by an investigative agency of the US

coverment. ful

105- 110790-6 p. 2

(65,87)

On 11/15/62, CIA furnished a summary of background informa-

tion on Cuban personalities including Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo from

birth to November, 1962. This information related to Gutierrez's

contradictory relations with the Castro regime, his attitude toward

communism, and his travels in Florida, Texas, Cuba, Spain, Belgium and

France.

*Xu)

105-115227-425 encl.p.552

(22,66)

Information furnished by OACSI* (protect identity) revealed

that Felix Jose Diaz Rojas Hildebram, Rt. 2, Box 90, Alachua, Fla.,

former Bay of Pigs prisoner stated on December 23 and 24, 1962 that

Gutierrez Menoyo (no locality) was very likely to betray anyone and,

therefore, lacked his confidence. He also stated that politically

Gutierrez

was a leftist.

105-136669-15 p. 4

(37)

*Office of Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, US Army.

The Justice Department furnished a letter from CIA dated

1/14/63, which stated that that Agency had to operational interest (u)

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or contact with Alpha 66. CIA stated that it had no value because

of its discrediting in the Cuban exile community by the disclosure

of the secret alliance between its leader, Veciana, and Eloy

Gutierrez Menoyo, head of SNFE. Under their alliance Gutierrez

diverted Alpha 66 funds to finance SNE paramilitary operations

and

ran them as Alpha 66 activities.

The Alpha 66 combat element had no

exploitable military value because it was either identical with or

heavily penetrated by the Gutierrez action group. The dissident

element of Alpha 66, referred to as L66, was regarded by CIA as

superficial split due to the presence in 166, particularly its

combat group, of Alpha 66 operational personnel, who had been and

probably would remain Gutierrez's men (

2-00-236 encl.p.L

1, 45)

On 12/2/62, Sergio Martin Vidal (105-116790) made available

an address book in his possession which contained a list of names

Maddress laden and oln to 1174 S.4, 12th Street,

On 2/13/63, MM 639-S advised that the individuals listed in

above-mentioned address book were all well known in the Latin American

colony in Florida as being actively engaged in anti-Fidel Castro

activities.(

105-16790-12 p.21

(28)

On 2/13/63, Julio Aton Constanzo Palau, (105-117838) Miami,

advised that Alpha 66 was created, (no date)

at least intellectually,

by Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, a former leader of fidel Castro in the

Sierra Escambray .*"

105-117838-4 encl.p. 9

(25, 67)

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On 3/8/63, Dr. Enio Zayas, Newark, NJ, a Cuban refugee,

Doctor of Pharmacy,

advised that before he

to the US in

August, 1962, he was associated with his father, Dr. Constantino

Zayas, owner of Linner Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Havana, Cuba.

He stated that in early 1959, several meetings were held in Havana

for the purpose of ousting the Somoza regime in Nicaragua. Dr. Manuel

Lacayo Farfan was the leader of this group.

Zayas and his father went

to Costa Rica in June, 1960, on a business trip, however, his father

wished to meet with various

Nicaraguans living in exile in Costa Rica

for the purpose of deposing of the Somoza regime. Shortly after they

arrived they met with Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo..

At that time Gutierrez

was still Commandante of the Cuban Army and

had gone to Costa Rica

secretly by way of Mexico.

At a subsequent

meeting Dr. Lacayo

offered the position of leader of the war effort against Nicaragua

to Gutierrez, which he accepted. However something

cancellation of all these plans. It was Zayas! opinion that something

happened between Gutierrez and

tered and rade!

Fidel Castro, and Gutierrez had to

flee Cuba.

Zayas stated that he did not know of any subsequent plans

by these

principals to accomplish the overthrow of the Somoza regime

109=645-185 encl.p.2

(77,72)

Jesus Rafael Franco Canedo, PSI (protect identity) advised

that in April, 1963, a representative of Santos Trafficante, boss of

the Mafia in Florida, approached Enrique Molina (105-96551) and

another person, who were seeking arms and equipment for anti-castro

purposes.

They did not have sufficient money to pay for this

material, and Trafficante's representative promised them as much

equipment as they needed if they would kill Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo,

leader of the SNFE.

This murder was to take place outside of the US.

Trafficante wanted

Gutierrez Menoyo killed because prior to April, 1963,

he allegedly obtained $250,000 worth of arms and equipment from

rallicante and had not paid for it. Molina refused to get involve

105-96551-20 p.2

(6,50)

On 4/12/63, Cayetano Fabio Alfonso D'Veer, (105-99906)

Miami, Fla., stated

that he was acquainted with various members

Alpha 66, Including Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo. Til

105509906-9 p. 3

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NY 4116-S advised that in the fall 1963 Eloy Guiterrez

Menoyo had

been In NYC and while there had made a telephone call

to an unknown party..

whom he had arranged to meet at a restaurant -

named "El Recreo."

Informant stated that it was his opinion that

this restaurant was somewhere in the Bronx area, although he knew

nothing concerning its ownershlp or lt& exact locatIon. #(U)

Add. info.

105-92404-19 p.1,2,4

(5,49)

CIA (protect identity) reported that Orlando Puente Perez,

Secretary to former Cuban President Carlos Prio Socarras,

that while on a trip to the west Coast in mid-October, 1963, he had

talked with Luis Somoza, former Nicaraguan President,

who was planning

to make a trip to Japan.

Somoza asked Puente to tell Prio that he

could count on Somoza's full support and as soon as he returned from

Japan,

a mobilization of men in Nicaragua would begin for attacks

against Cuba.

According to the present schedule, such attacks would

begin in early December,

1963.

Prio had delegated to Puente the

responsibility of completing the details of the plan with Eloy

Gutierrez: Menoyo, leader of the SNFE, and others, all.

to participate in Prio's plan by contributing men. ' (

105-123560-6 p.1

(23,68)

Father John I. Gallery, 11005 South Homan, Chicago,

advised on 10/29/63 that he had learned that Eloy Gutierrey Menoyo,

leader of the

"Alpha 66" anti-Castro group, had asserted that

although Paulino Alberto Sierra Martinez (105-121010) claimed to

have received the signed endorsement of a number of anti-Castro

groups in the Miami area, in reality only a few had actually signed

on his behalf and that none of these were important groups.

105/121010-31 encl.p.8

(32,76)

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treatment under the guidance of Governor Munoz Marin of PR, and the

US State Department.

He charged.

that Ray and Gutierrez were well

known in the anti-Castro movement, of having a past history of being

communists.

Vidal further stated that the CIA was responsible for the

raid conducted by Commandos L in March, 1963. In this raid a

Commandos L attack boat sank the Russian ship Baku off the north

shore of cuba.

The CIA then used this raid as an excuse to stop

all further attacks against Cuba by anti-communist Cubans in the US.

103-97873-18 enc2. p.4

Office of Army Intelligence, Fort Sam Houston, Texas

(protect identity) advised on 12/27/63, that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo

reportedly was a former Major in the Castro Rebel Army, who currently

lived in the US, address unknown, was still a follower and advocate

of the Castro regime, and it was

possible that he had been sent to

the US to spy for Castro.

105-117233-19 encl.p.63

73,071

On 1/7/64, MM 492-S advised that Nicholas T. Nonnenmacher,

Administrative Assistant to Donald C. Bruce, Representative from

Indiana, inquired if informant had any knowledge of "Operation

Judas.

He explained that "Operation Judas" was a plan for the

assassination of Fidel Castro and the taking over of the

Government by new leadership with Hubert Matos as head.

government would also include Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo as Chief of the

Army. Informant Indicated that the plan would not be successful

and

was probably impossible. Gutierrez Menoyo had been a traitor

too many times and too many

people had been killed involving plans

connected with him. (A)C)

Above informant

further stated that Nonnenmacher asked

him what he thought of Manuel Ray, Armando Fleites, Max Lesnik and

Gutierrez Menoyo, to which

he replied that they were all "pinks"

and could not be

trusted.

642282-270 p. 23(8144)

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On 1/24/64, CIA (no locality) advised that Manolo Ray, who

allegedly was connected with "Operation Judas," was closely associated

With an important a dreams verme leader to allegedia would

play an important part in the new government. (

64-21981-273

(2,48)

CIA, Miami, advised that on 1/29/64, Rudolfo de la Rosa

Castro (105-130073) visited the offices of SNFE, Alpha 66 and MRP

and had an interview with Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo with the objective

of joining the fight against communism.

u)

105=130073-3 encl.p.15

(24,68)

In connection with the investigation of Lee Harvey Oswald,

(105-82555) the President's Commission requested information

pertaining to three anti-Castro organizations one of which was

Alpha 66 - SNFE. Information regarding the SNFE activities of Eloy

Gutierrez Menoyo was set out in the references listed below covering

the period 11/10/57 to March, 1964, in Miami, Key West, Houston,

Gutierrez attended

and i spoke Call:

at meetings where appeals for funds were made. Eloy Gutierrez,

reportedly was scheduled to lead a revolutionary invasion of Cuba

in March, 1964.

The leaders of SNFE expressed regret over the

assassination of President Kennedy who was considered by them to

have been afriend of Latin Americans.

REFERENCE

SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER

105-82555-4263 encl.p. 1,2

-4266 enc1.p. 1,2,4,5

-4269 encl.p.5

-4289 p.1; encl.p.1-3

-4300 enci.p.4

-4301 encl.p.2,3

(448

4, 48)

(4 48)

(4,48)

The Department of the Army, Washington, DC, (protect identity)

furnished copies of personal letters written by Raymond F. Friesecke

to It. Col. John Connelly, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-4, Fort Benning, Ga.

(continued)

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These letters were furnished because their content indicated that

Friesecke might be associating with militant, anti-Castro elements

in the US and might have unauthorized access to classified US

Government

"Dear John, Information.

A letter dated 3/28/64, with the salutation

stated in part as follows: "

preparation the combined forces of Alpha

66 After two years of

- II Frente - MRP

under the command öf Maj. Elroy Gutierrez Menoyo are about to go

into action.

The code name is 'Plan Omega'...

The stupid CIA has

scheduled a

second invasion of Cuba to take place (you guessed 1t)

at election time this year...."

(Letters. set out verbatim.)

105-0-11764 encl.p.5

(35, 73)

CIA revealed that according to Dr. Francisco Leon Fosser,

close friend of former Cuban President Carlos Prio Socarras

(109-430), Prio's secretary, Dr. Orlando Puente Perez, said (no date)

that he was in charge of the funds which Prio was giving to certain

Cuban exile figures in Miami. Sometime before the fifth day of

each month, Prio had been giving $1,000 to Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo,

leader of SNFE.

Beginning in April, 1964, Prio planned to give

$1,000 a month

to the Comandos i and the same amount to Alpha 66

a subsidy for these groups to help carry. out their activities

against Cuba or shipping to Cuba.

109-430-2469

(25,69)

CIA, Miami, advised that Ramon Luis Gonzalez Rodriguez,

husband of Olga Georgina Goicochea Salas (105-129981) entered

Miami from Havana, Cuba, on 1/14/61. His wife remained in Cuba

because of her participation in counter-revolutionary activities.

Olga was arrested on 2/6/61 by the Cuban Intelligence Service and

charged with assisting in the escape from Cuba of Eloy Gutierrez

Menoyo and David Salvador, both of whom were, as of 4/23/64, anti-

Olga was released from prison in January, 1963 and after

intelligence training,

entered Miami on 1/12/64.

She had five

fold missions in the Us, one of which was to develop information

regarding the activities and militant plans of anti-Castrou

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On 9/15/64, Irenaldo Pastor Gonzalez Giraud, (134-12232)

PSI, SNFE member, advised that he had heard nothing concerning the

whereabouts of Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, anti-Castro. leader with whom

he had close contact. #XU

136-2232-4 788(42)

38, 22)

CIA Intelligence Information Cable (protect identity)

dated 10/6/64, advised that on 10/3/64, Manuel Reboso and former

Rebel Army Captain Renaldo Nicolas Blanco Navarro, both former

members of Brigade 2506, stated that they had recently been invited

by former Rebel Army Major Rodriguez Tamayo (ENU) to. take part in

an action which was planned against Haiti. Reboso stated that he

had heard that Eloy Guiterrez Menoyo, was in agreement with Louis

-De Joie (not identified) and that

he had 200 men in the DR on

the Haitian Border apparently waiting to invade Haiti.

CIA source

commented that it was doubtful that Gutierrez Menoyo had any men

poised at the Border:

(и)

105-95677-464, p.1,2

(30,89%

SI 105-95677-382

(85)

Elmhurst,

Cuban exile Catholic Priest, had informed him that in conversation

with Donald Reid Cabral (not identified), Cabral had said that

Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, the military head of the SNFE - Alpha 66,

had a camp in the DR for awhile but had now left the DR and was

believed to be back in the Bahamas or on his way to Cuba.

2-1622-287 р.6.

(1, 48)

A report by CIA, Miami, revealed contacts between Olga

Georgina Goicoechea Salas and Chafir Homero Saker Zenni (105-129593)

in Mexico City on December 18 and 19, 1964, Saker asked her to be

careful of her husband, Ramon Luis Gonzalez Rodriguez and try to

eliçit from him information on the activities of Eloy Gutierrez

Menoyo and his organdzation. (9(4)

105-129593-11 encl.p.3

(24,689)

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REFERENCE

109-584-4179 p: 1,2,6,7,12

-4290 p.1,9

-4384 encl.p.2

-A "Washington Star"

= the hingn star 0/7/52

SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER

(27,72

7,72

1,89

(27,72)

This reference. set forth information furnished by_MM-974-S

and MM 847-S which revealed that members of the Federacion Estudiantil

Universitaria (of Cuba in Exile) (FEU). (105-123191) were scheduled

to leave Miami for the DR or an undisclosed location outside the US,,

where they would

JoIn Bloy Guiterrez Menoyo, military head of SNFE.

on 1/13/65, Gustavo Rodrigo, Secretary General Of FEU,

Miami, advised that for several months, Gregorio Del Campo, Gustavo

Mazzaro and several other FEU members had been expecting to be

asked to join Gutierrez at his location somewhere outside the US.

He stated

that he had no information indicating that these

individuals had departed

Miami.

105-123191-18 p.1-3

(33,68)

CIA Information Report dated 8/24/65, (protect identity)

revealed that reportedly, several diplomatic missions had directed

appeals to the Cuban Government on behalf of the two nephews of

former President Ramon Grau San Martin.

Cuban officials felt that

Washington was behind these appeals.

They expected this

since in

their view,

Grau's nephews were CIA agents involved in a plot to

assassinate Fidel Castro (109-539). The capture of Grau's nephews

was brought about, according to Cuban authorities, by denouncements

made by Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo lollowing his capture in the mountains

of oriente Province. lu

Headquarters Comments:

According to the "Miami News" of

2/5/65, Mrs. Leopoldina Grau Alsina de Aguero and Ramon Grau Alsina,

niece and nephew of former Cuban President Ramon Grau San Martin,

were arrested about 1/20/65.

, (и)

The Cuban Government announced the arrest of Gutierrez on

1/23/03, 1.e. arter tire arrest of the draus, lope

109-539-723 р.

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in the file captioned

The following commandos 66 Ploy Gutierrez Menoyo appeared

These references set out

information concerning. Gutierrez during the period around October,

1962 to 1/25/65.

rutierrez and Antonio Veciana, leader of Alpha 66,

had signed a pact which resulted in a split within Alpha 66.

Former members who denounced Veciana for using the services

of

Gutierrez, organized as Commandos I-66 In San Juan, PR.

Gutierrez

was captured on 1/25/65 by government forces in Cuba.

He subsequently

appeared on television in Cuba and publicly revealed that different

Cuban exile organizations had used the DR às a base of operations

against Cuba.

REFERENCE

105-117222-4 encl.p.1

-5 encl. p. 1, 2,5,9

-8 encl.p.1

-9 encl. p.8,9

-18 p.3

-64

p.4,6

- 66

p.12

:-68 p.4

-71 p. 14,42,53,76

-192 encl.p.1

-194

SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER

(22,67

2,6T

22.67

25,671

31,09

23,07

23,67

23,67

23,67

331,25, 07

On 1/26/65, W 1196-S* advised that the Cuban Mission to

the UN had been furnished the text of a note from Raul Roa, Cuban

Minister of Foreign Relations, with the request that the note be

delivered tothe Secretary General of the UN.

Informant furnished

a translation of Roa's note (set out verbatim)no date which

stated that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba had captured. a

group of armed enemy agents formed by the counter-revolutionary

leader, Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo and others who had landed in Punta de

Caleta, near the town of Baracoa.

This note further stated that

the agents confessed their participation in various subversive

activities directed toward the overthrow of the Government of Cuba,

and set out details surrounding this venture and the capture of the

It also stated that the Government of the DR, PR and the

is were perpetrating acta of aberession against their soverelenty kapul

1109-12-210-5166 enc1.p.1,3,4,6

1(25,697

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NY 4325-S* furnished material in the possession of Jose

material one 5 11 8. Included in this

was a carbon copy, of a typewritten letter prepared in

Spanish, apparently by Gonzalez-Gonzalez although it was unsigned,

dated 1/27/65, addressed to Maribras* and Baiges. ** This letter

referred to the capture of Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo and the circumstances

surrounding his capture.

This letter also referred to the planned

invasion of Cuba and stated that the arms used for the infiltration

were

"Yankee arms."

This letter also stated that from the

declaration of Menoyo, it was known that the Artime group (not

identified) attacked the Spanish ship Aranzazu. (Letter set out.)

62, 72070-134 enc2-p. 20,12

(u)

*Juan Maribras

**Pedro Baiges Chapel

NY 3041-S. advised that on 1/27/65

during one of the visits

of Jose Antgnio Gonzalez-Gonzalez (65-71070) to Prensa Latina (PL),

Francisco Portela, head of PL in New York, gave Gonzalez-Gonzalez a

communique Issued by the Cuban Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed

Forces, which was concerned with the capture of the Cuban counter-

nin the catte teach had been received at pi

from Havana, Cuba, by teletype.

This reference indicated that

PL was a Cuban news agency

with headquarters in Havana, Cuba. (lU)

65-71070-135 p.6

(3,46)

an article captioned

by Carlos

Martinez of the Latin American staff.

This article revealed that

a pro-Castro spy network linking Miami,. Santo Domingo and PR

contributed to the recent capture in Cuba of exile leader Eloy

rutierrez Menoyo and three of his lieutenants, according to reports

from Cuba. Menoyo and his men had

gone into hiding last May

announcing that they were to launch the final phase of "plan Omega, "

a mysterious outline for bringing about Castro's downfall.

Hundreds

of arrests were reportedly made in Oriente as a result of Menoyo's

capture.

105-80787-895 enc1.p.1-3

44,485

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The following references on Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, one Menoyor

and Gutierrez Menoyo, located in files maintained in the Special File

Room of the Records Branch, Files and Communications Division were

reviewed and found to be identical with the subject of this summary;

however, the information contained therein has not been included:

REFERENCE

SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER

64-330-210-4099

46)

-4105

46)

64-330-210-5-4-

(21,39)

64-330-210-7-344

(2)

-2781-741-

18,481

64-330-210-5-75

(297)

64-330-210-7-421

(29)

64-330-210-5-2

-5€

-7=

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64-330-210-7-38

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