Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SA
To: HQ
Document date: 3/10/61
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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"Released under the John F. Rennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

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Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90135-10280

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 105-82298-113

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SA

TO:

HQ

TITLE :

DATE:

03/10/1961

PAGES:

30

SUBJECTS :

ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Secret

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act

DATE: 11-14-2017

of 1992 (11 USC 2107 Note)

SECRET

ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO

Minty in care

Of ARTURO G

Poste Restante Central

Llogos Belcium. He stated

when he was &bout ready to

Madrid,

Spain,

sent a telogran to the above mentioned

address

addressed it to

ARTORO G. MATA. He stated he

did not

Know recall the contents of this telegram,

but that

certain that he

did not state

that he was

Leaving

Spain with instructions for MATA.

On arriving in Brussels,

Belgium, GUTIERREZ attempted to locate both MATA and MULEY

through the

Cuban Embassy located in Brussels, but was un-

successius as no one there appeared to know either of these

individuals.

He said he then sent MATA a second telegram

to the same address

in Leges,

Belgium,

but received no

response.

The

Cuban Ambassador to Belgiun

then personally

drove hin to lieges, Belgium, and the

two of then managed

to locate MATA through inquiry in a bar in the Spanish

colony in Lieges.

GUTIERREZ stated that after he met

MA TA,

the

latter

introduced him to ADDERRAMAN MULEY, and

be admitted that

the threes them discussed Spain and its

present problems, and that MATA and MuLEY both informed

that they were setively engaged

in fighting against

FRANCISCO FRANCO.

GUTIErREZ stated

that both ADDERRAMAN

MULY And ARTURO G. MATA were members of the Directorio

Revel cion 0 Ibertco de liberacion

(DRIL) and that he

believed ADDURRANAN MULEY was one o1 the directors of spa.N

GUTIERRE? said he had no prior knowledge of

MATA ,

and did not know if he had ever been in

or whether me had an

SA T-2, & Confidential Source Abroad,, advised on

that ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO was reported

to be a leader of she organization known as Did sad that

he reportedly was sent to Belgium for the purpose of organiz-

the liege Branch of this organization, and that he had

come to

Belgium to find out as much as possible about pril

and its real value as a movement capable of overthrowing

the FRANCO government in Spain.

SA T-L further advised

that GUIIERREZ MENOYO arrived in Belgiun by air fron Madrid

on July 21, 1960, and that since he had entered Belgium

clandestinely, and since his presence was considered to be

dangerous for the public welfare, GUTIERREZ MENOYO was

the object of an explusion order issued on August 10, 1960.(S)

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of'1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

SECRET

ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO

SA T-2 advised that GUTIERREZ MENCYO had been arrested on

August 6, 1960,

and that after the issuance of the explusion

order,

he was released on

August I1, 1960, and left Belgium

by air for paris, France, on August 12, 1960.

SA T-2 further

advised that an inciviana namea GONZALL ARTURON

OT ARTURO GONZALEZ MATA LLIEDO,

Spanish national, also

MATAL LUEDO, SPRIN

associated with DriL, wes arrested on the same day as

GUT TERREZ

MENOYO, and was expelled from Belgium on August 18,

(g)

1960.

DIRECTOR REVOLICHAEBERIEDE

SPACION

Continuing the interview, GUrIERREZ MENOYO stated

that

he remained in Lieges, Belgium, for about

visiting with individuals who

the days n

that

city,

Lived in the Spanish colony

when he was suddenly arrested, placed in jail,

and threatened with

& return to Spain.

He said he is certain

that

the FRANCo government in Spain put pressure on the Span-

ish

Embassy in Brussels, Belgium,

to have Belgium police

arrest hin and place him in jail.

He said that after about

three

days the

government of Cuba

lodged an informad com

plaint with Belgium, and arrangements were then made to

expel him fron the country. GUTIErrEZ said he signed the

explusion order,

but did so under protest, claiming that

the arrest had been illegal and that his incarceration was

therefore without grounds.

GUTIErRE? stated that he flew

from Brussels, Belgium,

to paris, France, and remined in Paris about 15 days, during

which time he lived at the home of & man named Alvarez, whom

he described as an emplovee of the Cuban Embassy in Paris.

He stated

that when his vacation in Paris was nearly completed, he tRiNce

attempted to arrange for a return to cuba by way of the United

states, but could not do so,

and finally obtained airlines S

tickets for a return flight by way of Lisbon, Portugal,

Santa

Maria in the Azores, and from there to

Cuba.

He said he

spent

six days in Santa Maria, the Azores, waiting for the

Madrid-Havana plane.

authorities

while there, he stated

that Portuguese

examined him very closely, which

was undoubtedly

performed at

the instigation of the FRANCO government in

Spain.

GUTIERREL,

in conmenting on his European trip,

stated that the trip had no intelligence nor espionage

aspects

or significance and that he had made the trip (ku)

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