EMBASSY SOURCE BELIEVED RELIABLE REPORTED STORY TOLD HIM BY ARMY CONTACTS.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: HAVANA
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 08/17/1959
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1. EMBASSY SOURCE BELIEVED RELIGELE REPORTED STORY TOLD

MIM BY ARMY CONTACTS THAT MAIAN WAS CALLING PEORAZA ON RADIO

FROM: LAS VILLAS PROVINCE JLIKE MAD"' BEGGING FOR MILITARY ASSISTANGE.

THE ARMY CONTACTS IMPLIED MORGAN WAS TRYING LAY TRAP SOR PEORAZA.

2. SAME SOURCE TOLO EME THAT HE ADVISEO BY MIAMI CONTACT

¡HAT CAPTAIN OF YACHT WHICH CARRIED MIROGAN AND LOAD OF ARMS TO

PORT OF CASILDA NEAD. TRINIDAD, LAS: VILLAS PROVINCE, STATEO ON RETURN

TO MIAMI THAT MORGAN WAS NET BY 258 MEN VIIO HELPED UNLOAD ARMS.

3. SIVE SOURCE ALSO PERSONALLY CONVINCED THAT DOMINICAN

• CONSUL GENERAL MIAMI COULD BE EXPECTIO TO STICK TO STORY THAT

MITCAN DID NOT DOUBLE CROSS HIM IN VIEW FACT HIS OWN POSITION

EXTREMELY SHAKY FOR HAVING VOUCHED FOR MORGANS BONA FIDES AS

ANTI-CASTRO PLOTTER. SAID DOMINIC BARTOVE, MORGAN ASSOCIATE,

AND MAN WITH ITALIAN NAVE WHO CONNECTED WITH MOULIN ROUGE, MIAMI,

ARE IN SAME POSITION.

H. STATION HAS VERIFICO TELEPHONE CO-MUNICATION WITH :

•CIENFUEGOS CUT OFF BY GOVT. DIARIO DE LA MARINA 'OF 12 AUGUST

PUBLISHEO REPORT FROM CORRESPONDENT IN CIENFUEGOS THAT CAMPESINOS

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FROM VICINITY OF TRINIDAD REPORT ARMY HAS SURROUNDED GROUP OF

REVOLÚTIONARIES IN NEARBY HILLS. ALSO THAT VEHICULAR TRAFFIC

BARRED FROM STRETCH OF HIGHWAY BETWEEN CIENFUEGOS AND. TRINIDAD

ANO BETWEEN CIENFUEGOS AND CUMANAYAGUA. REPORTED THAT CONMANDANTES

ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO AND VICTOR BORDON MACHADO, ARE liE CHARGE OF

CUBAN ARMY ACTIVITIES IN THE AREA AND THAT IT RUMORED RAUL CASTRO

HAD VISITED LAS VILLAS AND INSPECTED ZONE BETWIEN CUMANAYAGUA AND

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5• NO INFO AVAILADLE TO STATION OF OPEN CONFLICT IN SANTA

CLARA AND CIENFUEGOS. PRESENT WHCREABOUTS MORGAN NOT KNOWN. HE

COULD LE IN HILLS FIGHTING CASTIÚ BUT STATION HAS NO FIRM INFO TO

THAT EFFECT NOR CAN IT SUBSTANTIATE WIDESPREAD BELIEF THAT HE

HAS BEEN CASTRO AGENT FROM THE BEGINNING.

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C/S COMMENT: * Headquarters icquested any information available regarding

# report that Major Morgan and Eloy Gutierrez Mercyo'a troops mero in open

conflict with Castro's forces in Santa Clara and Cienfuejos.

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