INABILITY OF THE MDC TO EFFECT A RAID ON THE DISTILLERY AT SANTA CRUZ DEL NORTE, HAVANA PROVINCE.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: JMWAVE
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 07/28/1965
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ABILLTY OF THE MOC TO EFFEGIA BALL ON THE DISTILLER

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APPRAISALI A MENEER OF A GROUPS OF CUBAN EMIGRES TRAINED IN THE ELEMENTS OF INFORMATION

COLLECTION. THIS GROUP HAS PROVIDED USEFUL REPORTS SINCE MID- 1961. THIS

ATTARI AND THEIR SUBSEQUENT FAILURE BY A MEMBER OF THE RAIDING PARTY..

1.

FIELO CONMENT: THE SAME SOURCE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED THAT SOME

MEMBERS C- THE MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRATA CRISTIANO TMOC, CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC

MOVEMENT) WERE PLANNING A SEA-BORNE RAID ON THE DISTILLERY AT SANTA

CRUZ DEL NEPTE, HAVANA PROVINCE, WHICH WAS TO TAKE FLACE AT 2388

HOURS LOCAL ON EITHER 27 OR 28 JULY 1965. TWO SCATS WERE INVOLVED

IN THE PLANES RAID; THE "GERNARDO 11" WAS TO ACT AS THE MCTHER

VESSEL FOR THE "VICKY!" WHICH WOULD TAKE THE RANCING PARTY OF FOUR

INDIVICLALS CLOSE TO THE TARGET.

2. THE "VICKY I" HAD RETURNED TO AN UNIDENTIFIED LOCATION ON KEY

BISCAYNE, MIAMI, AS OF ABOUT ZEDO HOURS ON 27 JULY 1965. THE

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BE TRANSPORTED BY TRAILER TO THE HOME OF ANGEL HERNANDEZ ROJO,

"BERNADO " ALSO HAO RETURNED TO THE FLORIDA PEASY, AND WAS TO MARR

$ 1120 SVIS STREET, MIAMI FUSSELO COMMENT: HERNANDEZ WAS PREVIOUSLY PE

IDENTIFIED AS THE CHIEF OF THE RAIDING PARTY.) A THIRD VESSEL,

"PUNCHINCHIA," WHICH ALSO WAS INVOLVED IN THE OPERATION WAS

SCHEDULED. TO RETURN AT ABOUT 2408 HOURS ON 27. JULY TO HER BERTH

ON THE MIAMI RIVER IN THE VICINITY OF 350 NW NORTH. RIVER DRIVE.

3.

THE PLANNED RAID DID NOT SUCCEED BECAUSE THE VESSELS IN

THE RAIDING FLOTILLA WERE APPARENTLY INTERCEPTED BY A VESSEL

BELIEVED TO BE A UNITED STATES NAVAL VESSEL, AND MEMBERS OF THE

RAIDING PARTY WERE TOLD TO DUMP THEIR WEAPONS OVERBOARD. (FIELD

COMMENT: THE SAME SOURCE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED THAT THE RAIDING PARTY

HAD ONE: 57 MM RECOILLESS RIFLE, TWO FAL RAFLES AND ONE 30 CALIBER

MACHINE GUN. AS OF $938 HOURS ON 28 JULY, NO INFORMATION HAD BEEN

DEVELOPED TO SUPPORT THE ALLEGATION THAT A UNITED STATES NAVAL VESSEL

INTERCEPTED THE RAIDING FLOTILLA.)

4. FIELD DISSEM:: CINCLANT, CINCSO, COMKWESTFOR, MIAMI REPS OF

STATE, USCG, BORDER PATROL, I&NS, FBI AND CUSTOMS. (ALSO SENT.

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