Originator: FBI
From: DREW, WILLIAM MAYO JR.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 07/15/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/15/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10280-10005

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 105-112098-321, 298, 288

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM: DREW, WILLIAM MAYO JR.

TO : DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

Document Information

DATE: 07/15/1963

PAGES:

57

SUBJECTS :

SNFE, ACA, MIL OPERATIONS, PLAN OMEGA,

PROPAGANDA ACT, CUBAN EXILES, ARMS ACT, FINANCES,

UNITY

DOCUMENT TYPE :

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1A; 1B; 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/25/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF CIA

COMMENTS: INC 2 RPT

Heleased under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case#:NW

BaGEll Date: 11-17-2022

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FEDERAL SUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

DATE

MIAMI

INVE

GATIVE PERIOD

•ILE OF CASE

MIAMI

JUL 1 5 1963

6/17-7/8/63

REPORT MADE DY

SECOND NATIONAL FRONT OF

ESCAMBRAY (SNFE)

WILLIAM MAYO DREW, Jr,

(OPERATION ALPHA 66)

CHARACTER: OF CASE

STONE

IS - CUBA

ALI INPORMATION CONTAINED

RA

- CUBA

EPREIN IS UACLASSIPIED

NEUTRALITY MATTERS

CIA HAS NO PRICTION TOROSPE NICE SHOWN

000ь

VALENTSE

- REFERENCE -

15238

lie the bordeENT. 44/94 691B

Declas

(9803R00kd 76194764).

Report of SA WILLIAM MAYO DREW,

dated 6/21/63 at Miami.

JI

-12-90

Multipled

-P=

292,369

SAN JUAN

- LEADS -

3/8/84

980324/gcl

AT SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO

organization.

Will continue to monitor bank account of subject

MIAMI

3/30/85

AT MIAMI, FLORIDA

APPROVED

COPIES MADE:

Aincy

Regust Recd.

Date lyd.

How FW:

By

12 - Bureau

-

San Juan

Will maintaln contact with logical sources and

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

105-112098-321

(105-112098)

(105-6133)

(RM)

(RM)

1

- CIA, Miams (RM'

-

INS, Miami (RM)

REG: 54

-

1

U.S. Coast Guard, Miami (RM)

17 JUL 17 1963

- U.S. Customs, Miami (RM)

(Additional copies Cover Page B)

Dissemination Record of Attached Report

Nototions

ropy to chi state, are

ONI/OSI/ACSIC

-Dy rouing slip/ for info.

Dateue

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MM 105-6243

boats are maintained to the rear of the DIAZ residence

and are presently being spot checked on a dally basis,

further efforts to interview DIAZ at this time would

i to the won

interfere with this coverage.

regarding Lead #4, inquiry in the vicinity of

the Standard 011 Station at 4420 N.W. 7th Avenue reflects

this station is operated by Cubans and that almost all business

1s with Cuban exiles. 'In an effort to obtain some coverage

on the opposite corner, has been contacted as a source in this

regara.

STAMPER 1s most cooperative, anti-Cuban, and stated

he will immediately contact the office when he observes

large amounts of gasoline being purchased from this station.

STAMPER said that on several occasions in the past he had

observed as many as six 55-gallon drums being loaded and

transported from

the station during the course of one day by

individuals whom he considered to be Cubans.. No direct

contact will be made

with the proprietor of

the Standard

Station at this time.

W Regarding the Information furnished by CIA concerning

alleged surveillance by FBI, It 1s to be noted that the only

surveillance conducted by Miami has been the spot check of

SNFE' boats.

Mention by RAMON QUESADA of the bank account of

SNE indicates that CARLOS ARBOLEYA, cashier at the Boulevard

Bank, advised SNE of our inquiry.

It Is noted ARBOLEYA 1s

a Cuban friend of VECIANA.

- INFORMANTS -

Identit

Location

105-6243-612,627, 632

105-6243-636

MM

T-? Is RAMON GUTIERREZ,

25 N.W. South River Drive

(by request)

MM T-3 1s MM 847-S

134-736 Sub A

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MM 105-6243

On June 19, 1963, MM I-1, another Government

agency which conducts personnel and intelligence

that ARNALDO DE HUERERTe presentarmen venezuela or t

chat ARNALDO SEHWERERT, -

the Cuban exile organization Movimiento Revolucionario

del Pueblo (MRP), had confided In a private conversation

VEA

during mid-May, 1963, that the alllance between the

MRP and the SNFE and Alpha 66 was engaged in raising

funds for a major operation called "Plan Omega"

SEHWERERT did not have the detalls of this plan but sala

It would be a bigger operation than a single attack on

Soviet personnel

- or installations in Cuba and that the

launching of the plan depended on the success of the

fund raising campaign.

8551603743

He sald that the "milltary" wings of this

alliance; the SNFE and Alpha 66, had announced their

Intention of keeping 90% of their collected money in

military equipment and operations, and had called on the

other organizations with which they were in close contact

to do the same.

These groups included the 30th of

November, the Monteerist1, an unnamed formerly ant1-

BATISTA

organtzation, and the Anti-communist Front of

Liberation.

He sald that this allance's headquarters in

Miami had circularized all of their representatives

requesting that fund raising schemes be organized.

circular quoted the sum of $136.00 for a cannon shell

ana $2.00 per day to maintain a man at one of the alliance's

four bases. LSEHWERERI sald these bases were in the Caribbean,,

not on United

with Miami

oft, and had no telephone comunication

SEHWERERT In

stating that news of attacks on

Cuba would be released from Caracas, as opposed to Miami!

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

MIAMI

MIAMI

TITLE OF CASE

-SECOND NATIONAL FRONT OF

ESCAMBRAY (SNFE)

(OPERATION ALPHA 66)

DAJUN 2 1 1963 INVESTIGATIVE PE

6/5-15/63

REPORT MADE BY

WILLIAM MAYO DREW

CHARACTER OF CASE

NORMATION CA

OUTFIED

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IS - RA - CUBA

NEUTRALITY MATIERS

B:

•ARWISE

REFERENCE:

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Stit

REQ. REC'D.

AUG 2 8 1964

Report of SA WILLIAM MAYO DREW, 6/6/63

at Miami, Florida:

MA HAS NO OR ECTION TO

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dicapol

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BY:

(9803205 182 46194 572)

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Dealers.

3/9

APPROVED

COPIES MADE:

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At Chicago, Illinois

5 SPAROU

55211,

Will contact Northwestern National Bank of Chicago,

to locate the account of "ALPHA 66 - MRP - II FRENTE," not-

ing that a check in the amount of $1,250 was drawn on. that

account and deposited in the account of the subject organi-

zation in Miami.

This account should be checked to determine

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

12 - Bureau (105-112098) (RM)

2 - Chicago (105-14604) (RM)

2 - Newark (105-13300) (RM)

105-112098+298

1

- CIA, Miami (RM)

1

RECi

-INS, Miami (RM)

1

- U.S. Coast Guard, Miami (R™)

1 - U.S. Customs, Miami (RM)

(Additional copies next page)

B JUN 24 1963

+ 4-882-4607

DEST

Dissemination Record of Attached Report

5/81

Agency

Request Recd.

Date Fwd.

How Fwd.

By

DIA

Copy to: CIA/State/gol

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by tounng sup tur tho

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MM 105-6243

INFORMANTS

Identity

MM T-2 • Trash cover on 115 S.W.

12th Avenue

MM T-3 - SANFORD CLOSE, 11643 S.W.

Ist Street, by request

MM To4 - CARLOS J. ARBOLEYA, Cashier,

Boulevard National Bank,

5000 Biscayne Boulevard,

Miami

MM T-5 - PSI IRENALDO GONZALEZ

•E*

COVER

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Location

105-6243-580

Used to document

105-6243-583

Instant report,

page 4

Instant report,

page 7

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MM 105-6243

SECRET

which related that as of May 28, 1963, two boats, believed

to have been used in the recent raid on Tarara in the

Province of Havana, by the SNFE, were at 552 N.W. 31st

Street, Miami, Florida. One of the vessels, a V-20 with

Volvo-Penta engines, was freshly painted white. The hull

It was also related that JULIO CRUZ; one

CRUZ, first name unknown and not related to JULIO, and

the mechanic who has his shop at the location of the above

ton to he above

mentioned boats, had been identified as participants in

this raid, according

to the source of MM I-l, who was

described as a United States citizen who owns a marina,

and who obtained the information from personal observa-

stion, and from contact with an unidentified exile with

excellent contacts among, exile action groups. This source

also stated that AMAURI FRAGINAL, a former labor leader

in Cuba, was reportedly a leader and financial supporter

of the SNFE.

5-1E7C47

On June 7, 1963, MM T-2 made available informa-

tion

reflecting that AMAURY.

TRAGINALS was connected withSubject

the SNFE. S

Fla

ORganizatia

As of June 15, 1963, both of the boats mentioned

above were observed in the area to the rear of the apart-

ments located at 550 and 560 N.W. 31st Street. One of

these boats, bearing Florida registration FL 86942, has

a wooden hull badly in need of repainting. The super-

structure of this boat has just been repainted dark blue,

and the boat has a single outboard motor. Work was in

progress

the white hull, mentioned above, as of June

15, 1963

5-127(4)

Regarding JULIO CRUZ mentioned above, it is

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