INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION CABLE RE: SUBJ - IDENTIFICATION OF SOME INDIVIDUALS AND VESSELS WHICH MAY HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THE EARLY MORNING 14 NOVEMBER EMIGRE RAID ON HAVANA CITY
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Document date: 11/16/1965
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DISTR 16 NOVEMBER: 1965

DATE OF

INFO

14 NOVEMBER 1965

• SUBiECT

IDENTIFICATION OF SOME INDIVIDUALS AND VESSELS WHICH MAY

HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THE EARLY MORNING 14 NOVEMBER EMIGRE

RAID ON HAVANA CITY M

PLACE &

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APPRAISAL SEE PARAS 2, 5, 8 AND 11 BELCH.

•l. (FIELD COMMENT: DURING THE MORNING OF 14 NOVEMBER. 1965, FIDEL

CASTRO RUZ MADE A RADIO ADDRESS IN WHICH HE ACCUSED AGENCIES OF THE

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT WITH CARRYING OUT A RAID EARLIER THAT

MORNING AGAINST SEVERAL TARGETS IN THE ARÇA OF MIRAMAR, HAVANA CITY.:

INCLUDING THE RESIDENCE OF OSVALSO DORTICOS TORRADO. ON 14 NOVEMBER

THE 11:88 P.M. NEWS BROADCAST CN CHANNEL ? IN MIAMI MENTIONED A

STATEMENT BY JORGE MAS CANOSA, SFCKESMAN FOR RECE, IN WHICH MAS

ADMITTED RECE PARTICIPATICN IN THE RAID. THE MIAMI HERALD OF 15

NOVEMBER CONTAINED AN ITEM INDICATING THAT MAS HAD STATED THE RAID

L Tie i of a fee end or coe at Watch Say main the meaning as be Feroe

prohibited by law.

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2. SOURCE FOR PARAS 3 AND 4: A CUBAN EXILE WITH GOOD ACCESS TO

ACTIVITIES OF EMIGRE ACTIVISTS GROUPS. HIS REPORTING ON RAIDER

ACTIVITIES HAS BEEN GENERALLY RELIABLE SINCE 1962.

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3: DURING THE EVENING OF 14 NOVEMBER 1965 ANTONIO GUEST DEL

VALLE, MILITARY LEADER OF COMANDOS L, VISITED AÑ INDIVIDUAL WHO MAD

PREVIOUSLY GIVEN HIM FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND STATED THAT COMANDOS L

HẠD BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR CARRYING OUT THE RAID ON THE RESIDENCE OF

OSVALDO DORTICOS

:. TORRADA IN THE MIRAMAR SECTION OF HAVANA CITY

DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF 14 NOVEMBER, (FIELD COMMENT: THERE

HAVE BEEN PREVIOUS REPORTS FROM THIS SAME SOURCE, AS WELL AS OTHERS,

THAT COMANDOS L WAS PLANNING A RAID AGAINST A TARGET IN CUBA.: CONANDOS

L WAS GOING TO UTILIZE THE "ANGELINA" AS A MOTHER VESSEL, ACCORDING

TO CUESTA THE PURPOSE OF THIS RAID WAS TO DISRUPT THE MOVEMENT OF

REFUGEES FROM CUBA TO THE UNITED STATES THROUGH CAMARIOCA, MATANZAS

PROVINCE, AS THIS, TO HIM, WAS AN INDICATION THAT THE UNITED STATES

WAS MOVING TOWARD A POLICY OF COEXISTANCE WITH FIDEL CASTRO.)

4. AS OF 16 NOVEMBER IT HAD BEEN DETERMINED THAT THE "ANGELINA"

•WAS NOT INVOLVED IN THE 14 NOVEMBER RAID, BUT THAT POSSIBLY THREE.

VESSELS HAD PARTICIPATED IN THIS RAID. ONE OF THESE VESSELS INHICH

WAS BACK IN THE MIAMI AREA ON 16 NOVEMBER WAS THE "BAKU" A 23 TO 25-

FOÖT LONG VESSEL POWERED BY TWIN CRYSLER V-8 ENGINES WITH POWER IN

EXCFSS OF. 2$$ HORSEPOWER.

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•SOURCE FOR PARAS 6 AND 7: A FROMINENT EMIGRE ACTIVIST WHO WAS

FORNERLY A HAVANA YACHTSMAN. HE IS A PROMINENT FIGURE CN EMIGRE

ACTIVISTS AFFAIRS. SOURCE'S REPORTING ON LOCAL CUSAN EMIGRE AFFAIRS

HAS BEEN GENERALLY RELIABLE. THIS INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED FROM

A CLOSE FRIEND OF LONG STANDING. WHO: IS ALSO A MEMBER OF COMANDOS. L.

6. THE "ANGELINA" WAS DEFINITELY NOT INVOLVED IN THE 14 NOVEMBER

RAID ON HAVANI..

THE RAID WAS CARRIED OUT BY TWO VESSELS NICH DEPARTED :

FROM THE MIAMI AREA AT AN UNDETERMINED DATE, AND WHICH HAD RETUPNED

TO THE MIAMI AREA AS OF 16 NOVEMBER. ONE OF THE VESSELS WAS A 22

FOOTER POWERED SY TWIN ZID HORSEPOWER CRYSLER ENGINES, AND HAD

ABOARD HER CUESTA AS ONE OF HER CREW. THE OTHER: VESSEL BELONGED TO

RECE•: THE WEAFONS CARRIED BY THE STRIKE BOATS INCLUDED 20-MM

CANVEN AND 58 CALIBERE MACHINECUNS ALL OFF INNISH MANUFACTURE, ANO

SOME FAL RIFLES.

7° THE PRIMARY PLAN FOR THIS RAID CRIGINATED SOMETIME IN AUGUST.

1965 AND PROVIDED THAT ONE VESSEL WOULD ATTACK THE 18TH PRECINCT

FOLICE STATION AND THE HOTEL NACIONAL IN HAVANA AND THE SECOND BOAT

WOLLO ATTACK THE RESIDENCE OF OSVALDO DORTICOS TORRADO. (SOURCE

CONTIENT: THERE WERE ASPAPENTLY SOME CHANGES IN THIS PRIMARY PLAN,

HENCÜER THE REASONS FOR THIS CHANGE ARE NOT KNOWN.)

8. SOURCE OF PARAS. 9 AND ID: A CUSHN REFUGEE WHO IS ASSOCIATED

WITH ACTIVISTS IN THE MIAMI AREA. SOURCE IS REGARDED AS RELIABLE

AND PREVIOUS REPORTING FROM HIM HAS PROVED TO DÉ ACCURATE.

9. MURING THE MORNING, OF 15 NOVEMBER A MEMBER OF COMANDOS L:

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STATED THAT. COMANDOS L HAD ATTACKED THE COAST.OF CUST USING A PLAN

WHICH HAD ORIGINALLY BEEN PREPARED IN MAY 1965. (FIELO COMMENT: CF.

TDCSDB 315/81665-65, 15 MAY 1965) UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS

ORIGINAL ATTACK PLAN COMANDOS L WAS TO USE ONE SEABIRO MODEL

VESSEL WHICH WAS TO BE THE STRIKE BOAT ARMED WITH A 300. CALISER LIGHT

MACHINE GUN AND ONE EIGHT-SHOT 2B-NM CANNON. THE STRIKE JONT. WAS

TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY A MOTHER VESSEL WHICH WAS BERTHED AT POMPANO

SEACH, FLORIDA.

IS. ACCORDING TO THE MEMBER OF COMANDOS L THE STRIKE BOAT ON 14

NOVEMBER APPROACHED TO WITHIN GAS YARDS OF THE SHORE AND FIRED BOTH A

50 CALIBER MACHINE GUN AND 2D MM RECOILESS RIFLE. THE MENSER EXPLAINED

THAT IT WAS NECESSARY TO REMAIN AT THIS DISTANCE FROM SHORE BECAUSE

OF A CUBAN 5$ CALIBER MACHING GUN EMPLAGEMENT ON SHORE CF WHICH THE

RAIDING PARTY HAD PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE. BECAUSE OF THE LONG RANGE

INVOLVED THE FIRE FROM THE RAIDING VESSEL WAS NOT AS EFFECTIVE AS IT

MIGHT: HAVE BEEN. ONE OF THE MEN WHO MIGHT HAVE BEEN CIN THE STRIKE

VESSEL WAS POSSIBLY ORLANDO TARRAZOLA RODRIGUEZ, A CONNIES L MEMBER

WiO WAS STILL NOT. AT HOME DURING THE MORNING OF 15 NOVENSER.

11: SOURCE FOR PARA 12: A MEMBER OF A GROUP OF CUBIN EMIGRES

TRAINED IN THE TECHNIQUES OF INFORMATION COLLECTION. THIS GROUP

HAS FROVIDED USEFUL REPORTS SINCE 1961.

12. ON 14 NOVEMBER JORGE MAS CANOSA, CNE OF THE LEADERS OF THE

REPRESENTACION CUSANO EN EL EXILIO. (RECE, CUBAN REPRESENTATION IN

-FYILE STATED AT THE RECE OFFICES, 1784 WEST FLAGLER STREET, MIAMI,

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THAT THIS ATTACK WHICH WAS CARRICO OUT SY RECE AND MENDERS CE OTHER

ZIlGRE GROUPS WAS TIMED SO AS TO HAVE ITS FÜLLEST EFFECT CN THOSE

ÄTIENDING THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES MEETING IN RIO DE

JANEIRO, BRAZIL, SY SHOWING THOSE ATTENDING THE MEETING AS WELL AS

ALL THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA, THAT RECE INTENDS TO MAINTAIN, A MILITANT

ATTITUDE TOWARD THE CASTRO REGIME, AND IS STRONGLY OPFOSCO TO THE

APPARENT MOVE TO COEXISTENCE BETWEEN, THE UNITER STATES AND THE CASTRO

REGIME AS EXEMPLIFIED. SY THE RECENT NEGOTIATIONS GIVEN RISE TO THE

REFUGEE EXCEUS THROUGH CAMARIOCA

13. FIELO COMMENT: OTHER THAN THE STATEMENT EY MAS: THERE IS

NO INFORMATICN WHICH INDICATES FARTICIPATION SY THE FRANK PAIS

: MOVEMENT IN THE 14 NOVEMBER RAID: ON HAVANA. HOWEVER ANOTHER

GOUCENWENT AGENCY WHICH HAS LAW ENFORCEMENT DUTIES REPORTED THAT

ONE Or THE VESSELS INVOLVED IN THE RAID MAY RAVE BLEN THE "ICHE!

FLEMIDA REGISTRATION FL 5509E, WHICH AS OF 20 JUNE 1965 VAS REGISTERED

10 ALDERIC SANCHEZ, 185 NW I8 COURT, MIAMI. THIS VESSEL IS A 23-7C0T

INE ARU-CUTSOARD SEABIRD VESSEL WHICH WAS FURCHASED IN JIRSE.

• ACCOEDING IC AVAILABLE RECOROS IN 19E3 ALDERTO SANCHEZ LES' IDENTSFIEO

AS A MEMOCR CE THE FOREION RELATIONS CONTICE OF THE 30 NOVEMSER

F3CI%, É PROUT ORGANIZED IN MONOR OF FRANK PALS. DURINA THE GOURSE

OF VARIOUS SUHUGS ONE OF THE SPLINTER GROUPS OF THE 38 NCISES

ADLERIT DEVELOPED INTO THE FRANG PAIS MOVEMENT. THE PRESENT

SPECIFIC STATUS OF THE FRiNK PAIS MOVEMENT VIS A VIS THE 38 NOVEMBER

CHI. HAS NOT SEEN DETERINED.

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