REV PLANNING AGAINST CASTRO REGIME
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: HAVANA
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 07/30/1959
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF MAJOR WILLIAM ALEXANDER MORGAN OF THE

SECOND NATIONAL, FRONT OF THE ESCAMBRAY (SFNE, SEGUNDO FRENTE NAGION-

AL DEL ESCAMBRAY), MANY OFFICERS OF THE LATTER ORGANIZATION HAVE

JOINED THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE GOVT OF FIDEL CASTRO RUZ AND ARE

USING AS HQS AN INTERVENED HOUSE WHICH THE CUBAN GOVT HAS ASSIGNED

MORGAN. THESE OFFICERS ARE COLLABORATING WITH FORMER MILITARY

OFFICERS WHO WERE DISCHARGED AFTER CASTRO ASSUMED POWER. ELOY

GUTIERREZ MENOYO, HEAD OF THE SFNE, KNOWS OF THE CONSPIRACY BUT

HAS NOT YET GIVEN IT HIS OPEN SUPPORT.

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2. AT A 3Ó JULY MEETING AT MORGAN'S HOUSE, SENE OFFICERS DISCUSS

ED A STRATEGIC PLAN TO CUT CUBA IN MALF BY GAINING CONTROL OF

LAS VILLAS PROVINCE. REINALDO BLANCO, FORMER ARMY CAPTAIN AND

A LEADER OF A GROUP OF FORMER MILITARY OFFICERS WHO ARE CONSPIR

ING AGAINST CASTRO, ATTENDED THE MEETING. MORGAN HIMSELF WAS

NOT THERE. (FIELD COMMENT: SFNE BATTLE EXPERIENCE DURING THIS

FIGHT AGAINST BATISTA WAS ALMOST ENTIRELY IN LAS VILLAS PROVINCE

THUS ITS OFFICERS KNOW THE PROVINCE WELL AND COULD PROBABLY RENEW

MANY SIMPATHETIC CONTACTS MADE WHILE FIGHTING THE LAST REGIME),

3. FIELO DISSEM: STATE ARMY NAVY AIR FBI.

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