Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 9/8/64
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/26/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10350-10050

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 2-1666-12

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

MM

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 09/08/1964

PAGES:

5

SUBJECTS :

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

ussassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Cased:WH 54464 Date:

10-10-2017

GERALD PATRICK HEMMING

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/03/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: MEMO; INC LHM

v9.1

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OPTIONAL FORM NU: 10

MAY 1962 EDITION

GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27

UNITED STATES G

501-107-02

‹MENT

Memorandum

TO

FROM

68

SUBJECT:

SECRET

DIRECTOR, FBI (2-1666)

DATE:

SEP 8 1964

SAC, MIAMI

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED!

(2-297) (P) HEREIN IS UNGLASSIFIED EXCEPJO

WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE.

FUERZAS ARMADAS- DE CUBA EN EL EXILIO. (FACE)

IS - CUBA; NEUTRALITY MATTERS

(00: Miami)

DEGLASSINED SY 5448 SID/RER

28 2-13-98

ReBuairtel to Miami, dated 7-8-64,

case

(JEK)

entitled "LEGION BARAGUA, IS - CUBA; NEUTRALITY MATTERS",

which referred to a copy of a CIA Intelligence Information

Cable, dated 6-26-64, captioned "Financial Backing

by Paulino Sierra and Persons in Chicago of Legion Baragua

Plan to Bomb

a Public Event in Cuba; Invitation of Members

of Armed Forces of Cuba in

Exile (FACE) to Visit a Milltary

Camp Donated by Americans"

S(4)

Enclosed for the Bureau are 12 copies of a LHM•

dated and captioned as above. One copy is being sent Chicago.

Copies of instant IHM are being furnished locally

to the following:

11131986

Classified

Dadassify on:

- U. 'S. Border Patrol, Miami

]

-U.

S. Customs, Miami

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=U. S. Customs, Region II

1 - INS, Miami

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

1- ONI, Miami

1 - G-2,

Ft. MePherson,

Ga.

1

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Robins AFB

RELEA

DEGLAGET ADON AND/OR

RELEASE CE GiG APFORMATION

]

-[CIA, Miami

IN THIS DOCUMENT

5FK

1

Coast Guard,

Miami

KP 1-15-98

= Office of Coordinator of Cuban Affairs,

Department of State, Miami

VREC- 42

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(Enc.

12)

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(RM)

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(4)

copies ma

14 SEP 9 1964

4120/1s sickn

for review at FBINQ

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1SDi

A/Customs

copy to

CLA/State/

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foi into

SEC.

SEPSO 186

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SCARET

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MM 2-297

MM T-2 1s MM 639-S.

contains in omatin wich as so easite u

The LHM is classified Confidential because

Miami will conduct no further investigation

pending completion of investigation by Chicago.

2.

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by

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C

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

CONFI

STIAL

CIA HAS NO CENESTION 10

DOC:

ASLEM

..:.

IN THIS JOCUMENT

KP 1-15-98

NURMATION

Miami, Florida

SEP

8 1904

Sttxel

CONTOLLES DIESEM

ALL INFORMATI

OR CONTAINED

HEREId IS UN

LASSIFIED EXCEPT

WONGRE SHONAL

SUMERWISE

RE:

FUERZAS ARMADAS DE CUBA EN EL EXILIO

(FACE)

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

NEUTRALITY MATTERS

Declassie

On June 26, 1964, MM T-1, a Federal agency which

conducts Intelligence investigations, advised that PAULINO A.

SIERRA MARTINEZ disclosed that on June 3, 1964, he told

HOMERO LEON FERNANDEZ and JOSE LUIS HERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZ

of the FUERZAS ARMADAS DE CUBA EN EL EXILIO (FACE) that he

had facilities for setting up training bases in Guatemala

and

I Haiti and that he would soon be leaving for Chicago

to talk to interested parties who would finance the

project. (XU

according to MM T-l, on May 30, 1964,

HERNANDEZ and

Also?ther nembers. of FACE were Invited by

two Americans named "PHILIP PATRICK" and

visit a military camp which, according to PATRICK and

DAVID, had been

donated by Americans.

Consequently

HERNANDEZ accompanied by PATRICK, DAVID and several

unidentified members of FACE went to an airfield where

there was a 40-passenger aircraft which would transport

them to the encampment:

According to HERNANDEZ,

they

waited for about one hour and when the pilot failed to

arrive,

they left for the encampment by car,

, arriving

there about

an hour and twenty minutes later.

The

encampment was described by FERNANDEZ as being an abandoned

airfield.

Upon arrival there, they öbserved some Americans

with movis caneras riming brasmine procedures. When (SU

CONFIRENTIAL / CONTROLLED DISSEM

Group

Excluded from automatic

downgrading and

declassifiçation

DECLASSIFIED SY 5668 SePALSE

04. 2-13-98 (JFK)

ENCLOSURE - 1

SEXRET

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SEXIET

RE: FUERZAS ARMADAS DE CUBA EN

CONFIDELAL. CONTROLLED DISSEM

EL EXILIO! (FACE)

HERNANDEZ asked one of the Americans why the film was being

made, the American said that the film was

nationwide television program.

ALLIN.O

no ester on a

On August 25, 1964,

MM T-2,

who Is acquainted

with many cuban exiles engaged in action-type operations

against FIDEL CASTRO, advised that PAULINO A STERRAyMARTINEZ,

a Cuban exile living in Chicago, Illinoie, Is a discredite™

promoter, who has visited Miami on several occasions to

organize

big financial interests In Chicago.

action against castro, always claiming to represent sul

MM T-2 said that PHILIP PATRICK Jand DAVID are

undoubtedly identical

tO HOWARD

commonly known/ as "DAVEY", both being

ILH

American adventurers with military backgrounds who have

afforded training to many Cuban exiles in the Miami area.

IDAVIS

MM T-2 advised that

in about May 1964 GERALD

PATRICK HEMMING went

with colonel HOMERo LEOw FErNandeZ

and several other Cubans to an abandoned U. S.

Air Force

base near Clewiston:

Florida.

According to MM T-2, a

parachute Jump school or club is operated there by private

Interests with which neither HEMMING nor DAVIS have any

connection. Upon arrival at this abandoned air base,

HEMMING pointed out to Colonel LEON and his companions

a 40-passenger DU-3 plane which he pretended he was

going to use and had access to However, this plane

actually belonged to CHARLES BUSH, who operates an

aviation concern at Broward/International

Airport.

HEMMING. then conducted his Cuban companions

to the parachute Jump

school or club which operates out

of an abandoned barracks at the field. While there, some

2.

CONFIDENTIAI

CONTROLLED DISSEM

SELVET

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SEET

CONF

DENTIA CONTROLLED DISSEM

RE: FUERZAS ARMADAS DE CUBA EN EL EXILIO (FACÉ)

representative of the NBC was taking pictures of some

parachute jumpers representing themselves supposedly

as Cuban exiles in training.

However, these jumpers

were actually American sports jumpers.

According to MM T-2, Colonel LEON took some guns

along with his party hoping to have photographs taken of

him and his companions in training but due to restrictions

of the Sheriff's Office, which covered that field, no weapons

were removed from automobiles occupied by LEON and his

companions.

MM T-2 said that PAULINO SIERRA has no training

bases located anywhere although he 1s always talking of

grandiose plans to set up camps through his alleged

connections with Important officials in Latin America.

It is to be noted that previous investigation has reflected

that FACE 1s a small anti-CASTRO organization headquartered

In Miami.

PROPERTY OF FBI - This memorandum contains neither

recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It Is the

property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and

its contents are

not

to be distributed outside your agency.

3.*

CONFIDENTIAI

CONTROLLED DISSEM

SECRYT

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