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SUBJECT OPERATIONAL/TYPIC/ AMFAUNA

AMFAUNA-26 Progress Report for October, November and December 1963

ACTION REQUIRED. REFERENCES

Action Required: For Your Information

Reference: UFGA-11700, dated 14 October 1963

Operational Developments:

1.

Seven SW messages were received from AMFAUNA-26 during the

period, and two were

sent to her.

Two SW messages written by AMFAUNA-2'

по. 34

and no. 36, have not been received and it is not known what has

happened to them.

It. has been observed that mail to and from Cienfuego:

is very slow and uncertain; SW message no. 10 sent to AMFAUNA-26 on 6

November did not reach her until 22 December.

continuing effort was made during the period to activate

AMFAUNA-26's OWVL, and medium speed radio systems.

OWVL transmissions

were begun on 16 October with message no. I warning AMFAUNA-26 of the

arrest of AMFAUNA-14 the week before (see AMFAUNA-1 Progress Report for

October, November and December 1963) and the fact that AMCUTLER-2 was

AMFAUNA-26 was unable to receive this message.

her SW message no.

calibrated in meters instead of kilocycles and she had been unable to

find the correct frequency:

JMWAVE then sent AMFAUNA-26 instructions

for converting kilocycles to meters, and began transmitting dummy

messages, giving AMFAUNA-26 a simple code for reporting by commercial

telegram whether she was receiving them, and whether and with what books

she was able to decipher.

Two sets of deciphering materials had been sent to AMFAUNA-26.

One package was buried by AMGLEN-9 in Pinar del Rio Province (see WAVE-

of 16 October 1963),

and AMFAUNA-26 was informed of its location

in OWVL message no. 1 of

16 October and SW message no. 10 of 6 November.

A previous set of number groups had been sent to her by SW early in

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October, It now appears that AMFAUNA-26 never revel

either of these

sets of groups.

As of 22 November when AMFAUNA-26's sister!-Olga arrived

in Mexico (see paragraph 5), AMFAUNA-26 already had in her possessfon :

the letter containing the groups written in Sw, but either had tried and

failed to develop it, or had hesitated to try to do so, not knowing in

what strength to use the reagent and erroneously thinking that this was

a critical factor.

As mentioned previously, AMFAUNA-26 did not receive

SW message no.

10 until 22 December; on the following day she sent an

open telegram to the son of AMFAUNA-32 in Miami, confirming her willing-

ness to travel to Pinar del Rio and recover the

material.

It is not

known whether she actually did so.

It had been planned, once AMFAUNA-26 was receiving OWVL and

her ability to recover caches

confirmed, to have AMWEE-1) cache AMFAUNA-1'€

radio and to inform AMFAUNA-26 of its location by OWL.

Events did not

permit this.

AMFLORA-1 sent. a telegram to his JMWAVE area accommodation

on 16 November 1963, reporting that his wife, the sister of

AMFAUNA-26, was due to arrive in Mexico City on 20 November.

City Station was so informed on 18 November (see WAVE-7762), but by the

time confirmation arrived (MEXI-7031'of 23 November)

the lady had

already departed for Caracas.

The oral messages which she brought from

AMFAUNA-26 therefore did not

reach JMWAVE until 20 December when HVCA-

10780 was received.

This dispatch transmitted a typewritten note from

AMFLORA-l's wife containing the following information:

AMFAUNA-26 had run out of developer pills.

(In retrospect:

this does not seem

be true, because AMFAUNA-26 was evidently able to

•develop SW message no. 10 which she received on 22 December (see paragrayl:

What AMFAUNA-26 had probably been trying to convey was that she

was running very

short of pills.

AMFAUNA-1-does not

remember how many

he gave her, but the most probable number appears to be twelve.)

b. AMFAUNA-26 had been unable to develop the SW message

containing her cipher groups, because she had not been told how to mix

her reagent.

' AMCUTLER-2 was very worried by the fact that AMFAUNA-14

had been telephoning her frequently, and was afraid that AMFAUNA-14 was

betraying her to the DSE.

d.

AMFAUNA-26 was uneasy about being left in Cuba without a

responsible leader to report to.

AMFAUNA-26's cover was wearing very thin, due to indis-

cretions ,by-AMFAUNA-31.

In her. SW message no. 29,

October, AMFAUNA-26 reported that AMFAUNA-38 had been arrested

which was received at IMWAVE Of 21

September and taken to Santa Clara.

At 0200 hours on the following

morning,

Lourteen policemen came to AMFAUNA-26's house and searched

on the pretext of looking for a burglar.

However, the only part of the

house which they searched was the part Inhabited

bY AMTAUNA-20.

In her SW message no. 30, AMFAUNA-26 reported

"the full names'

of two individuals who had approached her sub-agents AMFAUNA-29 and

While neither JMWAVE nor Headquarters (DIR-78835 of 30 October 1963)

had any traces on these persons,

JMWAVE has a carded reference to a

sensitive source document which

carries the full name of Amable SANCHEZ

Borroto and the implication that he enjoys the confidence of the Cuban

Government.

Unfortunately,

an error was madevin cyping the card, and

the document is unrecoverable.

In SW message no. 10, AMFAUNA-26 was

told to be careful with the person mis cald der Butte

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Identific key.

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•On 12 October 1963, AMFAUNA-26 was in Hivaj

AMCUTLER-2: About 23 or 24 October she was again in tavana land again

saw AMCUTLER-2.

On both occasions the problems posed by the arrest'of

AMFAUNA-14 were the prime topic of discussion.

been asked to investigate one manal me cer man carlos tape

Avalos with a view to forming an opinion as to his political attitude.

She reported in SW message no. 37 of 3 November that all reports on

this individual were derogatory except for one given by AMLAME-5. This

report reached AMFAUNA-26 via AMFAUNA-31 who got it from a man identified

only as Ramon *PEREZ who said that AMLAME-5 had told him that he had a

the Swiss Embassy, and that LOPEZ was already connected with

eople outside of cuba and had recently periormed a great service jo

the counterrevolution.

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When the arrest AMcurtEnt became Known to JuVAv (see

AMFAUNA-1 Progress Report for October, November and Decenber 1963) the

Son of AMFAUNA-32 was asked to phone his mother in Cienfuegos and instruc

her to tell AMFAUNA-26 to go into hiding.

On 3 January the son reported

completion of the call and said that his mother had told him that

AMFAUNA-26 had been arrested on 29 December and taken to the Santa Clara

The reason for AMFAUNA-26's arrest renains obscure, or rather

there are so many acceptable explanations that the problem is to select

the right one.

She could have been implicated by AMFAUNA-38, as would

seem to be suggested by the fact that her house was searched immediately

following AMFAUNA-38's arrest; 1f so, however, it is hard to explain

why AMFAUNA-26 herself was not arrested until

three and one-half months

She could have been denounced by AMCUTLER-2 who was herself

arrested two or three days before AMFAUNA-26's arrest; this seems unlikel

in view of the fact that AMCUTLER-2 and AMFAUNA-26 are friends, that when

AMCUTLER-2 reaches the point where she is ready to implicate other

members of the AMFAUNA net she could be expected to begin with people

who are not her friends, and that at least one such person (AMFAUNA-25)

was known to be at liberty as recently as 4 January 1964,

the cutouts between AMFAUNA-26 and AMCUTLER-2 (AMPAUNA-32 and AMFAUNA-33);

AMCUTLER-2 is believed to have been under surveillance by the DSE, at

least sporadically,

between 12 and 24 October (see AMFAUNA-1 Progress

report for october, November, and December 1963), and AuFAUNA-26 could

have been observed

and identified when she visited AMCUTLER-2 during

this period and marked for subsequent arrest and interrogation in

connection with AMCUTLER-2's activities.

AMFAUNA-26 could have made an

attempt between 22 and 29 December to recover the cached cipher groups

(see paragraph 3), and either been detected in the act or arrested while

trying to contact AMCUTLER-2 on the same trip; in this case, however,

it would seem that the DSE would not have transported her all the way

to Santa Clara 'but would have kept her in Harana for concurrent

interrogation with AMCUTLER-2.

The open telegram sent to the son of

AMFAUNA-32 on 23 December was rather indiscreet and could have caused

difficulties for the sender,

but some of these difficulties ought in this

case to have brushed off on AMFAUNA-32 herself, and as of 3 January 1964

She was still at liberty.

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at least seventeen persons had been taken.

One of these persons

appears to/ be AMlANe-S To the best of JWAVE's knowledge, neither

AMFAUNA-26 nor AMLAME-5 had been involved in any plot against the life

of Fidel CASTRO, but both could have been high on a general suspect list.

The only known factor common to both AMLAME-5 and AMFAUNA-26 is the

Ramon *PEREZ mentioned in paragraph 9. AMLAMB-5 evidently was extra-

ordinarily indiscreet when he talked with this man.

ANFAUNA-31 has also

spoken with him, and according to the oral message brought out by

AMFAUNA-26's sister (see paragraph 5-e) AMFAUNA-31 has been habitually

indiscreet.:

and AMFAUNA-26.

Ramon PEREZ was thus in a position to denounce both AMLAME-5,

AMFAUNA-31 also ought to have been implicated,

and it is perhaps significatn in this connection that, of all of

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AMFAUNA-26 's

sub-agents

AMFAUNA-31 is the only

ohe

niding as of 3 January' (see WAVE-9940 of 4 January)

Dekieved to be in

13. There has been no previous mention of Ramon PEREZ in the

AMFAUNA operational reporting,

him.

and JMWAVE has no identifiable traces of.

AMFAUNA-1 was asked about him on 6 January, and produced the

FollowinEnformation which he had obtained

Diaz (borff October 1939, Cienfuegos Janow residing at1425 S.W.

Antonio Remigio, *ESTRADA

5th

St.. Apt. 10; Miami atiqia former collaborator of the AMFAUNA net in

Cienfuegos.

Ramon PEREZ is an employee of the Consolidado de Transporte,

lives on Calle Arguelles in Cienfuegos between Prado.

and Gacel, and has

a'son, name unknown, who drives a taxi. Re:autyset entifigena

Rames

14. - On 5 and 6 January 1964, warning messages

29, 30,

31 and 33 by Antonio Remigio ESTRADA Diaz and by AMFAUNA-1

(see WAVE-0045 of 7 January 1964):

Production:

15. The following reports were made:

UFG-3918

Loading of a Ship at La Isabela with trailers Carrying 40-

foot Long Covered Objects

UFG-3941

Relocation of Radar Installations & Other Activities at the

Cienfuegos Surface-to-Air Missile Site, Las Villas Province

UFG- 3947

Installation of an unusual Light at Cifuentes SAM Missile

Assembly Base, Las

• Villas Province; Dress, Habits, & Expected

Departure of Soviets at Cifuentes

UFG-3948

Increase in the Number of Tanks & Soviet Personnel at the

Sagua la Grande SAM Missile Site; Relocation of a Sagua la

Grande Soviet Headquarters

UFG-3974

Departure of Soviets from the Remedios Area; Movement of

Trucks, Guns, & Soviet Personnel in Las Villas Province

UFG-3998

Military Defense Measures at Cayo Loco, Las Villas Province

UFG-4088

Arrival of Unexplained Vehicles at Las Auras, Cienfuegos &

Dismantling of that Base

UFG-4141

Cuban Military Occupation of Former Soviet Camps Near Yaguaja:

& at Fincas La Puntilla, La Bajada, & Rojas

UFG-4180 *

•Removal of Some Equipment & Personnel from the Soviet Base

at Itabo, Las Villas Province

UFG-4266

UFG-4272

Field Comment Only

Alleged Transfer of all Cuban Militiamen to the Central Army.

Defense Measures Along the Southern Coast of Las Villas

Province

Expenses:

16. Three separate remittances each of $270.00 or a total of

$810.00 were sent to AMFAUNA-26 during this period.

By previous agree-

nent one quarter of the money was to be given to AMFAUNA-32 and three-

quarters was to be retained by AMFAUNA-26.

The first two remittances

were sent to AMFAUNA-32 by her son, and each was acknowledged by telegram.

The third remittance, at the telegraphed request of AMFAUNA-26, was sent

to AMFLORA-1 in Caracas. Evidently his wife came to some arrangement

with AMFAUNA-26 before she left Cuba.

17. Communication

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