MEMO:GARRISON AND THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
Originator: CIA
Document date: 06/01/1967
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

C1OAI

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1 June 1967

MEMORANDUM NO. 3

SUBJECT

REFERENCE

: GARRISON and the Kennedy

Assassination •

: CI/R&A Memorandum of 8 May 1967,

Subject as Above

1.':

Recently District Attorney James C. GARRISON has made

a number of spectacular charges against CIA. These charges became

more vehement after newspaper and magazine articles attacking the

GARRISON probe had been printed by The Saturday Evening Post,

Newsweek and (on 21 May 1967) the New York Times.

The following are the major accusations made by GARRISON

since 8 May 1967, the date of reference:

CIA and the FBI "cooperated in concealing facts

behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy from both

the Warren Commission and the American public. " CIA "knew

all along that the Warren Commission's report was completuly

untrue in its conclusion that Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey

Oswald acting alone." The GARRISON investigation "has turned

up mounting evidence of CIA involvement in Kennedy's death."

GARRISON asserted that CIA "duped the Commission by flooding

its members with a gush of irrelevant information to obscure the

truth." (The Washington Star, 8 May 1967.)

b.

GARRISON intended to ask "the U.S. Senate to investi-

gate" the "alleged Central Intelligence Agency 'coverup'."

GARRISON is a personal friend of Senator Russell Long of Louisiana

(Washington Post and Times Herald, 9 May 1967. )

GARRISON has told the New Orleans States-Item

that "Oswald was probably a CIA agent who worked undercover

with anti-Castro Cubans while publicly demonstrating for Castro.

The . . . CIA and the FBI were aware of Oswald's connections

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with anti-Castro organizations but withheld the information from

the Warren Commission. The CIA and the FBI presented the

Commission a fake picture of Oswald and withheld information

about Oswald because he and/or a Cuban companion were CIA

agents." (UPI of 9 May 1967.)

The New Orleans Grand Jury issued a subpoena calling

on CIA to produce its photograph of Oswald and a Cuban companion

in Mexico City. (UPI, 10 May 1967.)

e.

On 10 May Mark LANE, author of Rush to Judgment,

testified before the New Orleans Grand Jury.

Upon emerging

from the jury room he identified CIA as the "powerful domestic

force" which "... participated in the original plan which, in

fact, culminated in the death" of the President. (The New Orleans

Time-Picayune, Il May 1967.)

f.

GARRISON charged on 1l May 1967 that CIA was

paying the lawyers of some persons involved in his investigation.

He named Burton KLEIN (attorney for Alvin BEAUBOEUE) and

Steven PLOTKIN (an attorney for Gordon NOVEL) as having

received CIA money. Both denied the charge. (AP, 1l May 1967.)

(Comment; No CIA record of KLEIN or PLOTKIN.)

GARRISON claimed on 12 May 1967 that Oswald's

notebook contained an entry, PO 19106, which was an encoded

version of Jack Ruby's unlisted Dallas telephone number, WH 1-5601.

On

8 May 1967 GARRISON "said that he had begun an

investigation of the activities of the CIA and the Federal Bureau

of Investigation. " (The New York Times, ll May 1967.)

On 12 May GARRISON claimed that Ruby's unlisted

number also appeared in an address book belonging to Clay I.

SHAW.

(AP, 12 May 1967.)

On 15 May 1967 an attorney for Clay L. SHAW said

that the figure PO 19106 in Oswald's address book was a telephone

number in Russia. (The New Orleans Time-Picayune of 16 May

1967. ) (Comment: The statement is almost certainly correct,

as has been previously reported.

The prefix is believed to be in

Cyrillic, a double D, not PO. The entry is placed among others

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written in Russian by Oswald in Moscow or Minsk, very

probably the former. On 23 May 1967 the FBI confirmed to

C/CI/R&A that the page had been shown to Marina Oswald, who

could throw no new light on it. An FBI expert had made a

visual re-examination of the original. On this basis he could give

only an unofficial opinion, but it was his view that all entries

on the page had been written in the same ink and at the same time.

The FBI has not given us a written report on this subject. )

k.

On 17 May 1967 GARRISON said, "We are particularly

interested in clarifying now why there is also coded in Lee

Oswald's address book the local phone number of the Central

Intelligence Agency. We have had evidence for some time that

in Dallas, Texas, Jack Ruby was working for the CIA at the same

time Lee Oswald was working for the CIA here. This means that

the CIA well knew that these two men knew each other. We also

have evidence that Lee Oswald was not the only man in Dealy

Plaza who was an employee: of the CIA and now we have found the

phone number of the CIA in the front of Lee Oswald's address

book.

Since it is obvious that it is no longer possible to get truth

in any form from officials of the CIA agency (sic) in Washington,

no matter how highly placed, we are looking forward to talking to

this businessman from Irving, Texas, about some of these

coincidences.". (The New Orleans States-Item of 17 May 1963.)

1.

• On 22 May 1967 the Moscow Domestic Service and

TASS gave publicity to GARRISON's charges against CIA. The

Havana Domestic Service published on the same day a longer (two

page) account which included the following: "Five Cuban counter~

revolutionaries, acting on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency,

assassinated President John F. Kennedy on 23 November 1963,

New Orleans District Attorney James Garrison said last night."

m.

21 May 1967 by GARRISON, who told the WWL-TV audience that

Oswald did not even touch a gun on the day of the assassination,

that the five Cuban assassins were angered by President Kennedy's

handling of the Bay of Pigs, and that CIA, which he labeled as

more powerful than the Gestapo in Nazi Germany, was withholding

its information from his office. (The Washington Post, 22 May

1967.)

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n.

In the same TV speech GARRISON claimed that

CIA knew the names of the Cubans involved and that CIA had

said of Oswald, "As for the kid, well, that's just one of those

things." (Washington Daily News, 22 May 1967.)

A TASS item, in English, 29 May 1967, ran as follows:

"..: GARRISON said today over ABC that President Kennedy

was killed not by Oswald but by a group of conspirators made up,

in particular, of former employees of the U.S. Central Intelligence

Agency. Oswald himself was not a CIA agent, but was obviously

an intelligence employee of the U.S. Government." "The CIA

concealed from the Warren Commission, 'from the American

people, and from the world the fact that its former employees were

involved in the assassination.

•, Garrison said. The attorney

repeated his call for a congressional investigation of the CIA. "

The AC/WH/COG has replied to the CI/R&A memorandum of

26 April 1967 by providing information about a number of Cuban individuals

and groups. (The WH/COG memorandum and its attachments are included

herewith as Enclosure #1 and copies to the ADDP, the Office of the

General Counsel and the Office of Security).

No significant additional information has been developed on

any of the following persons listed in reference. (The members in

parentheses are those of enclosures to reference.)

a..

Dean Adams ANDREWS, JI. (1)

b. Guy BANISTER (3)

c. Leslie Norman BRADLEY (4)

d. - Vernon BUNDY (7)

e.

David William FERRIE (9)

Manuel GARCIA Gonzalez (1l)

g.

James C. GARRISON (12)

h.

Pascual GONGORA (13)

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i.

Nerin Emrullah GUN (14)

j.

William GURVICH (15)

k.

S. M. KAUFFROTH (16)

1.

David F. LEWIS (17)

m. Layton Patrick MARTENS (18)

n. Mrs. Lillie McMAINES (19)

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p.

Perry RUSSO (22)

SCHLUMBERGER Corporation (24)

9.

Clay L. SHAW (25)

I.

Edward Stewart SUGGS (26)

5.. Additional information has been obtained on the following.

(Numbers again refer to enclosures to reference.)

a..

Sergio ARCACHA Smith. (2)

See Enclosure l tu this

report.. The files of WH/COG contain no information linking

ARCACHA to CIA.

Edward S. BUTLER. (5) See Enclosure 1. There

has been no CIA-BUTLER tie except the innocuous contact report

•in Enclosure 1.

Carlos Jose BRINGUIER. (6) There is no record of

a direct association with the Agency. But see Enclosure 1 in

respect to the Student Revolutionary Directorate (DRE), the New

Orleans branch of which was once headed by BRINGUIER.. The

DRE was conceived, created, and funded by CIA.

Julian BUZNEDO Castellanos.

See Enclosure l.

BUZNEDO has 201-289995. JMWAVE. requested a Provisional

Operational Approval on 6 January 1961 for his use as a PM

maritime trainee.

The POA was granted on 16 January 1961 but

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cancelled on 4 April 1962. There is no record of involvement

with the Agency other than his participation in the Bay of Pigs

operation.

Alberto FOWLER. (10) See Enclosure l. There is no

record of association with CIA other than his participation at the

Bay. of Pigs.

f.

Gordon Duane NOVEL. (20) A separate memorandum

on NOVEL has been prepared and forwarded to recipients of this

report. Despite his claims and those of one of his lawyers, there

is no record to substantiate any direct association with ClA. His

ties to Walter SHERIDAN suggest a possibility that NBC is coaching

NOVEL to get maximum publicity before picturing him on a TV

program intended to destroy GARRISON's act.

Carlos QUIROGA. (21) See Enclosure l. There is no

indication that he was ever employed by the Agency.

h.

Emilio SANTANA Galindo. (23) See Enclosure 1.

He was employed by CIA from December 1960 to 15 October 1963.

The recent developments concerning Alvin BEAUBOUEF merit

summarizing. Burton KLEIN, BEAUBOUEF's attorney, said on iJ

May 1967 that he had turned over to authorities in Jefferson Parish a

tape recording of an attempt by investigators working for GARRISON

to bribe BEAUBOUEF to give false testimony. BEAUBOUEF, a 21-ycar-

old and unemployed, was. allegedly offered a job with an airline if he

would cooperate.

The offer was reportedly made by two policemen

representing GARRISON. One of them, Lynn LOISEL, repeated and

elaborated the offer of a bribe in the presence of KLEIN, who tape

recorded the discussion without LOISEL's knowledge.

$3,000 and an airline job. KLEIN, who no longer represents BEAU-

BOUEF, took the tape to Washington and tried to sell it to Walter SHERIDAN,'

the NBC news reporter, for $5, 000.

He rejected an offer of $500. Learn-

ing of the tape, GARRISON's men called again on BEAUBOUEF, threatened

that he would be shot if he got in the way. (They had previously threatened

to make public some photographs linking BEAUBOUEF to the homosexual

David FERRIE.) They took him to the court house and frightened him

into signing a statement that he had not considered the offer of a bribe.

(Newsweek, 15 May 1967. )

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Information about another New Orleans resident, Laurence J.

LABORDE, who may be involved in the case, appears in Enclosure #2

to this memorandum.

The list of persons who are or may be involved in the

GARRISON probe and who are also known to have been associated with

CIA now stands as follows:

a.

Carlos BRINGUIER. No evidence of Agency employ-

ment or clandestine association but has visited the New Orleans

office of Domestic Contact Service.

b.:

Laurence J. LABORDE. See Enclosure #2.

c.

• Emilio SANTANA, See Enclosure #1.

Clay L. SHAW. See Enclosure #21 to the first

CI/R&A report, 26 April 1967, subject as above.

Enclosures:

1. WH/COG Memo & atts., described para. 3 above

2. Memo, subject: Lawrence J. LABORDE

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Emilio SANTANA (paragraph 7 C o1 reference memorandum)

DPOB :

7 Sept 1935, Cardenas,

(also reported 7 Sept 1956 and

Matanzasy Sept 1937

Subject is probably identifiable with Emilio SANTANA

who was recruited by JMWAVE in December 1960 as a

guide for an infiltration team.

SANTANA was paid a monthly

salary under provisions of his MOC until he vas terninated

on 15 October 1963 when the ratline developed by the tea

became inoperable due to occupation of the target area by

Soviet technicians.

Another compelling reason for SANTANA's

termination stemmed from his untruthful reporting concerning

certain aspects of the team operations:

2.

In an attempt to establish positive identification,

JMWAVE obtained a report Iron the Dade County (Miami)

Sheriff's office that an Emilio SANTANA (no matronymic)

born 6 July 1936 in Cuba, was declared a lugitive from

Louisiana on a federal warrant 22 December 1965, FBI Sheet

132287F,

based on two counts of burglery in Louisiana.

He was

arrested and booked by the Dade County Sheriif's

office on 2 February 1966 and was presumably sent back to

Louisiana..

At: the time of his arrest SANTANA gave his

address as 851 SW 1th Street, Miami, which is the same

address shown on an old imnigration

ta'm when he was

living in Miami.

Headquarters files indicate SANTANA is

separated from his wife who apparently still resides at

the old Miami address.

Since SANTANA's date of birth varies

on various documents

in his 201 file,

the variation in birth

date on his arrest sheet is not conclusive.

did give his former address to the arresting officers

indicates he is Emilio SANTANA Galindo.

A 1962 inmigration

form includes a photograph which could

be obtained from

JMVAVE for identification purposes if this becomes necessaty.

Although JAWAVE has had no contact with SANTANA

since his termination,

is a note

in Station files

dated 23 June 1964 that SANTANA used the Agency as his

employer

an auto credit application.

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WH/COG 67-194

MEMORANDUM FOR:

SUBJECT

REFERENCE

ADDP

C/CI/R & A (Mi'. Rocca)

Garrison and The Kennedy Assassination

CI/R & A Memorandum Dated 26 April 1967

In response to reference memorandum, WH/Cuban Operations

Group has endeavored to provide all available information on

individuals and organizations requested in paragraphs 5,

7 of reference.

Attachment 1 contains background information.

and biographic data on individuals obtained from WH/COG and

JMWAVE files.

Attachment 2 summarizes the background informa-

tion and Agency association with the organizations listed in

paragraph 5 of reference.

2. WH/COG will continue to review all material that may

contain information pertinent to this subject and will forward

such information to CIR & A on a priority basis.

Earl J. Williamson

AC/WH/COG

Attachment 1

Bio data on individuals

Attachment 2

Background summary. of FRD, DRE, INCA

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Attachment 1

Sergio Vicente ARCACHA Smith (Enclosure 2 of reference menorandum)

DPOB: 22 January 1923, Cuba

Traces on ARCACHA do not reflect the date he first

arrived in the U.S. However, he became the FlENTE REVOLU-

CIONARIO DEMOCRATICO (FRD) delegate in New Orleans prior

to the Bay of Pigs invasion and continued in that position

until the FRD ceased to function.

The FRD was the predecessor

of the CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL, and was organized and

supported by the Agency.

The organization was used as a

front foi recruitment of Brigade 2506 for the invasion.

During this period ARCACHA reported to the FRD headquarters

in Miami through a post office box in Coral Gables,

• reportedly maintained extensive relations with the

Orleans. FBI and

Immigration offices.

Two of his regular

FBi contacts were a Mr. De Bruce and the deceased Guy

Banister.

2.

ARCACHA was also one of the piomoteis of the

FRIENDS OF DEMOCRATIC CUBA,

INC (FDC) which was incorporated.

in New Orleans on 6 January

This organization was

ostensibly. created by several New Orleans business and

political figures, including the deceased former

FBI agent,

Guy Banister

to collect money to aid Cubans in their

fight against Connunism.

incorporation, these donations would also be used to support

the FRD and the funds were to be channeled through ARCACHA,

less a percentage to be retained by the FDC.

gation conducted by a reliable Miami Station asset concluded

thai the FDC vas organized strictly for the personal gain

of the promoters with the approval and collaboration of

ARCACHA.

The investigation produced no evidence that any

individual donations were ever solicited or received and

recomnended that the funds of the Stevedores Union and the

books of the New Orleans Exporters Company be investigated

for evidence of personal gain and possible evidence of

of New Orleans Stevedores

officials of the FDC.

Approximately one month after the

FDC was created,

strong criticism from

some prominent Cubans

put the organization out of business.

3.

Information in an immigration card reflects that

ARCACHA travelled to Caracas,

• Venezuela at an unspecified

date. His address in Venezuela was HOTEL TIUNA, Caracas,

and his US address was listed as 4523 Duplesses Street,

New Orleans.

Passport No. 00433.

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4.

Bilground information on the rdC and ARcAch's

connoction with the organization was forwarded to the

FBI

in CSCI-3/764, 414, dated 30 March 1961.

Other sources of

the above summary of information on ARCACHA are; DБF-66955,

13 January 1961; DBF-91759,

11 October 1961: DBF-92355

, 18

October 1961; CSCI-316/-3737-65; and UFGA-929, 22 Februaiy

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Carlos BRINGUER (Enclosure 6 of reference menorändum)

Carlos

BRINGUER is a brother of Juan Felipe BRINGUER

Esposito, a former member of Brigade 2506 'who was capiured

during the invasion..

The personal history statenent in

Juan BRINGUER'S 201

file states his brother Carlos, a lawyer

in Cuba, was 26 years old at the time of Juan's recruitment

in 1960.

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Edward S. BUTLER (Paragraph 7 (A) of reference nemorandum)

In January 1965 Subject's organization (INCA), SpOnSOleC

the New Orleans appearance of Juanita CASTRO shortly after

hes arrival in the us.

INCA had a particular interest in

Miss CASIRO since they distributed hundreds of tapes contail-

ing Miss CASTRO's declarations when slie was surfaced

in

Mexico.

A JIWAVE asset;,

who is Miss CASTRO's business manager,

handled the planning and arrangenents for the New Orleans

visit with iNCa officials.

The only subsequent contaci

between the JMWAVE asset

and Edward BUTLER oCcurred when

BUTLER was recently in Miami promoting the

INCA

film

On

"CASTRO-HITLER in HAVANA".

See Attachnent 2 for a sunnary

of the INCA organization.

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Alvert FOWLER (Paragraph 7(B) of reference memorandun)

DOB: 15 July 1929, New Orleans, Louisiana

Subject is Alberto Casimir FOWLER Perillait, a

member of Brigade 2506 who was captured during the invasion

and returned to the US in the December 1962 prisoner

FOWLER apparently returned to Cuba with his parents

during his early life and returned to the US to attend

schol in his late teens..

He attended the Lenox School

1949-5 Nassachusetts, 1948-49; Louisiuna State University

After his graduation from LSU he returned to Cuba,

and married Margarita Paulette Van

der' SCHUEREN,

born 13

August 1933, Brussels, Belgun.

FOWLER was president of

the North American Sugar Company, Havana, from 1951 until

he returned to the US in November 1960 and enlisted in

• Brigade 2506. At the time of his enlistment he gave Mark

FOSTER,

Cuban Refugee Center White House Representative,

and former US Ambassador William D. PAULEY, as references.

Following his release from prison FOWLER worked for the

BRAHMS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY,

father resides, and for BROOKS TRAVEL SERVICES, Y. PaI

where his

Beach, Florida,

until at least late 1964.

He apparently

1ust his US citizenship during his years

of residence in

Cuba and imnigration

records indicate he

applied for advance

parole status in November 1964 while he was still employed

in W. Pain Beach.

He apparently returned to Louisiana

sometime after that date.

FOWLER's mother lives in Coving-

ton, Louisiana, and he has a sister who is married to Fort

PIPES, Jr., member of a prominent New Orleans family.

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MEMORANDUM

SUBJECT: Lawrence J. LABORDE, 201-294688

1.

On 11 May 1967 the headquarters office of the Domestic

Contacts Service telephoned the C/CI/R&A and said that Subject had

telephoned the New Orleans office of the DCS that day. Subject said that

he was an ex-CIA employee, that he feared that D.A. Jim GARRISON

would subpoena him, that he was willing to leave the U,S. to avoid a

subpoena, and that he wanted the office to tell him what io do.

2. :: A review of Subject's file has led to the hypothesis that this

visit may have been a provocation, probably engineered by GARRISON

in an atteinpt to trap CIA into advising Subject to leave Louisiana.

Had such advice been given, GARRISON would have been able to buttress

his charge that CIA is attempting to obstruct the course of justice in

New Orleans.

3.

The Miami Station requested a provisional covert security

approval for Subject.on 14 March 1961. The request was granted on

24 March 1961. (A PCSA approves contact for spotting and assessing

only.) However, a 31 March 1961 cable from Miami requested per-

mission to increase Subject's salary to $700 a month and to pay him

bonuses.

4.

A Headquarters dispatch of 23 March 1962 warned Miami

that Subject was indiscreet, drank too much, and had an unsavoury

reputation. On 20 April 1962 Miami cancelled the request for an

approval, on the grounds that Subject was a poor security risk.

Subject had no later relationship with the Agency. Subject was bitter

about his CIA contacts when terminated and made reckless threats.

An FBI report of 23 May 1962 said Subject had contacted

representatives of the Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC, Agency-created.

and supported) in New Orleans, his home town; had offered his services;

and had said he was running a boat out of Key West, smuggling Cubans

and guns with the knowledge of CIA.

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A Miami report of June 1962 said that Subject was employed

1947-1949 in Mexico by the U.S. Department of Agriculture but was

fired for excessive drinking, discharging unauthorized firearms, and

non-support of dependent children.

The New Orleans States-Item of 28 July 1962 named Subject

as the source of bitterly anti-CIA remarks in a story which praises

LABORDE as a "good family man, completely reliable"', and quotes a

Cuban refugee leader as saying that CIA and FBI agents termed Subject

a man of integrity. An anti-CIA article in the Denver Post of 3 June 1962

also appears to be based on statements from LABORDE.

FBI reporting of August 1962 stated that LABORDE had duped

certain persons into buying a schooner, the Elsie Reichart, by saying

that he and a crew would operate it for Cuban operations which the

U.S. Government could not openly acknowledge but for which it would

pay handsomely.

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SEE 2:

Carlos QUIROGA (Paragraph 7(C) of reference memorandum)

Subject is possibly identifiable with. Carlos QUIROGA,

a former student at Lolisiana State University who was a

candidate for the Agency Student Recruitment Program.

This

involved recruitment of Cuban students in the US

who

would

return to Cuba as agents in place.

JMWAVE traces reflect

an individual of the same name was an electrical engineer

residing at 3134 Derby Place,

and made anti-US statements.

Carlos QUIROGA was ever

capacity.

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Julian BUZNLDO (Enclosure 8 of leference menorandum)

DPOB: 16 February 1940, Havana, Cuba

Subject is apparently identifiable with Julian BUZNEDO

Castellanos,

who arrived in the US on 10 November 1960 and

enlisted in

Brigade 2506.: He was a civilian pilot in Cuba

and served on the invasion craft BARBARA J.

BUZnEDo was

captured and released in the prisoner exchange.

(There is no

indication he was ever employed by the Agency, other than

his participation in the invasion.

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Gurdon Duane NOVEL (Enclosure 19 of roleronco memorandum)

There is no record of Subjoet in WIl/Cuban Operation

GrOuD tiles or JMVAVE filos.

JMWAVi citod the article

on NOVEL which appeared in the MIAMI HERALD on 26 April

100%, which is available in CIN& A, and is in the process

of conducting an exhaustive search for traces on the cuver

organizations NOVEL Claimed to operate for the Agoncy in

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Miguel Silva TORRES (Enclosure 23 of seference memorandun)

(also traced under Miguel SILVA Torres)

There is no record of Subject under either. name

in WH/COG

or JWAVE files.

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DIRECTORIO REVOLUCIONARIO ESTUDIANTIL (DRE)

(STUDENT REVOLUTIONARY DIRECTORATE)

conceived, created and junded by

Agency in September 1960 and terminated

in Decembei 1966.

It was an outgrowth of the activist student group in Cuba

which fought against BATISTA and later against CASTRO.

Many of the leaders came into exile around September 1960

and were subsequently trained and infiltrated into Cuba

by the Agency in late

1960 where they operated by obtain-

ing intelligence setting up action teals, etc.,

the Bay of Pigs invasion.

While the DEE was initially set

up as a psych warfare outfit, the organization was given a

large amount of paramilitary

aid in:funds and material.

After the Bay of Pigs,

the DRE engaged in independent

military actions, which declined at Agency direction and

because of a reduction in funds from late 1962 until

mination of the group.

Members were used through 1966

political action agents, for publishing propaganda which

was sent throughout the Hemisphere, attending international

scudent meetings at Agency direction, and producing radio

prograns and special

propaganda campaigns.

After the cutback in military operations, many

best DRE members relocated in other areas.

present there are delegations in nost Latin American coun-

which have maintained some contact with various

Agency stations over the years. although the DRE is no

longer very active.

During the organization's 6 year

period of active existence DRE personnel were in contact

with several JMVAVE staffers and outside contract agents.

from January 1965 through Decenber 1966, contact

with DRE personnel was limited to two agents, Juan Manuel

• SALVAT', the current DRE Secretary General who is now

operating a bookstore in Miami, Florida, and Fernando

GARCIA Chacon who was relocated in El Salvador.

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THE INFORMATION COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAS: INC. (INCA)

1.

INCA is an anti-Comnunist propaganda organization

with headquarters in New Orleans, thut disseminates English

and toreign language propaganda tapes and

filns on a world-

wide basis, conducts public forums of an extremist

political nature,

etc.

The organizational impetus and funds

apparently come from wealthy New Orleans figures

including

Dr. Aiton OCHSNER,. of the OCHSNER CLINIC, and Willard E.

ROBERTSON.

In recent years funds have been supplied by the

SCHICK SATETY RAZOR COMPANY. An INCA letterhead listing all

the officers and officials has been requested from JMVAVE,

which has had some casual correspondence with the organiza-.

tion concerning Miss Juanita CASTRO.

There is no indication of any Agency relationship

INCA prior to January 1965 when INCA sponsored Miss

• CASTRO's appearance in New Orleans.

At that time an Agency'

asset who functioned as Miss CASTRO's business nanager was

involved with INCA officials in planning the New Orleans

visit where Miss CASTRO was given an award at a dinner

sponsored by INCA.

The dinner,

which was attended by civic

leaders and representatives of

all news media, took place

shortly after Miss CASTRO's defection and there was

considerable interest in her appearance.

INCA was particularly

interested since it had distributed hundreds of English

and Spanish language tapes containing her statements when

she was surfaced in Mexico.

In October 1966 INCA again

requested that Miss CASTRO

appear as a guest speaker in

major American cities in connection with

the release of

the INCA motion picture production "HITLEN IN HAVANA".

Following various reviews of the film, JMVAVE decided the

¡iln would probably become controversial and it would be

inadvisable to permit Miss CASTRO to accept the invitation.

Because of INCA's extremist political

orientation, JrVAVE

has wanted to avoid any more involvement between Miss CASTRO

and INCA and the Station asset,

in his cavacity as business

manager,

managed to prevent this.

There has been only

casual contacg between

and Edwaid BUTLER,

Executive Vice-President of INCA, since Miss CASTRO's 1965

This took place recently when BUTLER vas

in the area promoting the "HITLER IN HAVANA" film.

According to IMVAVE, INCA officials have never

indicated

in any way that they are avare of Agency control

and direction of Miss CASTRO or her business agent, and chere

is no indication that INCA officials have had any official

contact with Agency officers.

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REVOLUCIONARIO DEMOCRATICO (IRD)

(CUBAN DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONARY FRONTS)

1.

guidance and financial support in May

The IRD was created with Agency assistansisted

1960 and

of several anti-CASTRO groups.

The FRI was formed as

political action, propaganda and military unit.

Initial

actions consisted oi extensive radio and printed propaganda,

demonstrations, and trips throughout the Hemisphere to gain

support for the fight against CASTRO.

as the front organization for recruiting the members of

the Bay of Pigs invasion force and carried out a massive

program of social assistance

to Brigade 2506 members in

training camps and their families.

Although the FRD head- •

quarters were based in Miami, delegates were assigned to

other areas which included New Orleans,

Louisiana, Tampa,

Florida,

and Mexico City, to gather intelligence and

coordinate Cuban refugee

activities.

In late 1960 or early 1961 the CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY

COUNCIL (CIC)

formed to coordinate and direct FRD

activities and this group was headed by Agency and White

House sponsored Dr. Jose MIRO Cardona, assisted by Manuel

ARTINE and Di: Antonio VARONA.. Both the FRD and the CRC

continued to function until October 1961 when themld was

completely absorbed by the CRC in ordei to avoid the confusion

resulting irom duplication of personnel, activities and

funding.

The CRC also had direct access

to President

Kennedy and top White House aides.

Because of the magnitude

of the ilD and CRC operations and the Agency participation

in the activities and funding of the groups, a large number

Of JMVAVE and Headquarters were directly involved with both

FED and CRC personnel.

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