INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION CABLE: SUBJECT - IMMINENT INFILTRATION ATTEMPT INTO LAS VILLAS PROVINCE BY CARLOS ZARRAGA MARTINEZ
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Document date: 1/1/65
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AURALA ALSO SAID ZARRAGA IN TOUCH GO HARVEY SL181

SINGE OCTOCER AUGUT IN-ILTRATION.

ZARRAGA ASKED SLAM PROVIDE CRYSTALS

FOR RADIOS HE PLANS TAKE INSIDE SO THAT STATE CAN ALSE RECEIVE

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1: SOURCE FOR PARAT: A PRODUCER OF ALDO PROGRAM WIN MAS

BEEN INVOLVEO IN MITI-GACTRO ACITIVITIES SINCE 1555. SOURCE NAS

BEEN A SPORADIC GUT RELIALE REPORTER.

2. ON ¿D DECENDER DUE CARLOS ZAPRACA MARTINEZ, FORNER MENSER

OF THE JUITA REVOLEGIONAE IA CUBANA FUERE, CURAN CEVULUTICNITE JINTA),

SADO THAT ME AND FIV: CHILE CURAN EXILES TATEND TO INFULTEATS INTO

CURA MCFORE 3 JANUARY IDASO TI: PATE MIS SELECTED TO COIRCIDE •

WITI FAVORAULE MOON PHASES.

CARENZA SAID HE HAS NO GOATS,

ECTH UE WHICH ARE IN A CAPRICH. DR. ADEL AIXALA PERTIERRA WAS

MENTICHEO I CONNECTICH WITH THE DEATS: 115 IS EITHER PART OVER

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OF THE GOATS OR OF THE DRY DOCK: (FIFLO CONENT: THE GAME SOURCE

REPORTED IN TOCSDS-315/$1732, DATED 19 DECEMLER 1964,. THAT ZARRAGA

WAS PLANNINE AN INFILTRATION OPERATION INTO CURA. ANOTHER SOURCE,

HOWEVER, FEPORTED THAT AIXALA AND ZARRAGA WERE PLANNICS A RAID AGAINST

CUSA SOMETINE LETVEEN 2E DECENCER 1964 AND DE JANUARY 1955. AIXALA

HAD THE ARAS, A!M:UNITION, AND THE CREW LINED UP; HIS GOAT WAS TO BE

USED IN THE OPERATION.)

3. SOURCE FOR PARAS 4-5: A LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER

•WHO IS WELL AGGLAINTED WITH MARITIME MATTERS IN FLORIDA: SOURCE

HAS SUBMITTED A LARGE NUMBER OF REPORTS BASED ON THE DEBRIEFING OF

CUBAN REFUGEES AND HAS BEEN A CONSISTENTLY RELIABLE REPORTER CN THE

PLANS AND ACTIVITIES OF ANTI-CASTRO GROUPS ENGAGING IN BOAT OPERATIONS.

4. AIXALA SAID THAT AS OF 7 DECEMBER ZAPPAGA WAS PLANNING

TO INFILTRATE INTO CUBA THROUGH REMÉDIOS, LAS VILLAS PROVINCE.

HE PLANNED TO TAKE WITH HIM VICENTE MENDEZ, PEDRO GAPCIA, HUMEEPTO

• SOLIS JURADO, JESUS HERNANDEZ, JUAN RUDRIGUEZ AND JORDE RIOPEDPE

MUNEZ. THE PURPOSE OF THE INFILTRATION WOULD BE TO START ORSANIZING

SOME OF THE CUERRILLAS IN LAS VILLAS AND ORIENTE PROVINCES. THE ONLY

WEAPONS THEY WERE GOING TO TAKE ALONG WERE THEIR PERSONA: WEAPONS,

A RIFLE AND PISTOL EACH AND THE AMUNITION FOR THESE ARIGO THEY

PLANNED TO USE AIXALA'S CATAMARAN WHICH WAS AT THE INTETNATIGNAL

MARINA, 2ES SA NORTH RIVER DRIVE, MIAMI.

5. ACCORDING TO AIXALA, SINCE MOST OF THE CUSAN EXILES FRE

VERY ANXICUS TO LIBERATE THEIR COUNTRY, THEY HAVE DECIDES THAT THE

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LEST THINE FOR, THEM TO DU IS TO RETURN TO CUEA AND START ORVIZING

THE GUERRILLAS BSCAUSE NOTHING IS EXPECTED TO ES DONE SY THE UNITED

STATES. THE MEN WHO FOUGHT AS GUERRILLAS INSIDE CUSA HAVE RESIGNED

THENSELVES TO THE FACT THAT THE LEAST THEY CAN DO NOW IS TO RETURN

TO CUBA AND DIE IN THE ATTEMAT. TO LIBERATE THEIR COUNTRY.

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