MEMO:BARTES, (CLARENS), FRANCISCO ANTONIO AKA BARTES, FRANK/ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT IN GARRISON'S INVESTIGATION.
Originator: CIA
Document date: 12/28/1967
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

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SUBJECT:

BARTES; (CLARENS), Franciaco Antonto

aka BARIsa, Trank

(See dIso HANUIG, Gerald P.)

ALIBRATION:

To data thera has boen no

Information which Involves Frank

BARTES, Cuban eodle, In GARRISON'8

Investigation. Hovever, as a few

Orleans citizen who vas proudnent

In Cuba, opposed to CASTRO, bead of

the Cuban Revolutionary Council In

New Orleans, and know to derald

HEMMING and LABORDE, be may be in-

volved later.

SOURCE:

Memorandun dated 20 November

196T Iron CI/RSeA and Enclosure 14

of Memorandur No. 5 dated Y August

1967.

28 December 1967

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RELÉASE IN FULL- Unless

RELEASE IN PART necessary to

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CIA CONNECTION:

CIA

to prote

subject, an allen, former

President of Cuban Railways, was

approved for contact use In January

1961 and May 1967, The FBI Inter-

posed no objections to these contacts:

He was to turniah Information con-

verning Cuban ralluays. Is was

granted a Proviatoas1 Operational

Approval on 4 Januixy 1961 for

contact and assessmont for use on

Project JNATE. This approval vas

cancelled •31 August 1961. On

T October 1965 Subjeot was granted 0 8

another POA. fOr UsE as a pILOt In

the Congo. He vas covertly inveatigated

with favorablo results and received

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an Operational Approval on 15 Novenber

1965 for use as a PM-P1lot 1n Africa.

He returned to the United States on

11 February 1966 and bis clearance

was cancelled 28 October 1966.

OS INDICES RESULTS:

subject 18 47 years old (born 14 september 1920 in lavana,

Cuba). He was formerly President of Consolidated Railways of Cuba

and also owned sugar and rice plantations.

Be left Cube because of

h1s opposition to CASTRO and entered the U. B. on 4 January 1961.

(As FBI report dated 14 June 1963 from New Orleans, Loulelana concerned

a v161t by BARIES to the New Orleans FBI offloe in which he offered

his services to the U. S. Government and said he would be willing to

cooperate with the U. S. Government in any acceptable plan the U. S.

• might devise to combat CASIRO's government with no thought of personal

gain or favor. On 20 December 1966 BARTES called the New Orleans DCS

office to Inform that office that his motber had arrived from Cuba

and would be willing to provide Information. He aloo stated that a

cousin, a 29 year old cuban ballerina,

Alicia Cruz BUSTILLO, not a

communist and still residing In Cuba, would be willing to belp the o

U. S. II abe were approached in the proper manner. There 15 nem

record of AlIcia CRUZ BUSTLUO In OS Indices and no Indication that

these offers were acceptable by the Agency.

see FBI 6/15/93

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Exclated tram arisaalic

declessitization

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DETAILS:

In dune 1952 Frank BARles reported to our lew orloans Des

office that lawrence Joseph Labordi, Gerald i. Hilllil, ox., and

Howard Kenneth DAVIS aalled on him and sald they wanted to train

Cuban refugees as guerrilla fighters and demolltion experts for

use 18 Cabe, BARTES reached an agreement with IAJODE uho, be sald,

was anti-CIA.

subject was bead of the lew Orleans Cuban Forolutlonary

Council. A "States-Iten" article for 21 July 1962 reparted that

Gerald P. HUMMIND, aka Jerry PATRICK, "showed up 11' Iler Orleans

apparently at the Invitation of local Cuban Perolutionary Council

Leaders and other Cubans who wanted to take direct sotion against

CASTRO. " The article related hou "PATRICK" made regular tripo 1n and

out of New Orleans and was supplied with machine guns, explosives and

other willtary supplies. HINMINO, ela PATRICI, agreed to set up a

the "STATES-ITEY" account.

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