Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: BAUMGARDNER, F. J.
To: BELMONT, A. H.
Document date: 05/14/1952
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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DATE: 05/14/1952

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A Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO

'FROM

SUBJECT:

Mr. A. H.Belmont

DATE: May 14, 1952

Mr. F.

J. Baumg aren

CARLOS

FOREIGN POLITICAL MATTER - CUBA

PRIO SOCARROA,

ET

AL.

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

Clegg_

NEUTRALITY MATTERS •

DECLASSIRICATION AND/OR,

RELEASE OF CIA INFORIVATION

IN THIS DOCUMENT. 6MB 9-30-9

PURPOSE:

5L0/KSR 10-10-97.

To advise of the aromation italy the

Tele, hoom

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wandy_

Legal Attache an Havana an the

office concerning plans

For a endotion by Batistars political enemies and furnish

DETAILS:

By letter of May 6, 1952, the Legal Attache at Havana

advised that Lieutenant Colonel Manuel galde Carrillo, Chief of

Aides to the Chief or Start of the Cuban Army, contacted the

er the Instructions of President Batista.

To A earlie conta we to more of President Better

report prepared by an agent identified only as M-l, setting forth

proposed plans of

& YOUP OF

President Batista's enemies to over-

theow him.

- Carrillo did not Identiry Agent M-1 to the Legal

Attache®

According to M-1, elements of the former Prio government®

are conspiring to plan a counter revolution to overthrow the

this year.

appear as

one of the co-conspirators.

M-I stated he first heard of the proposed revolution

shortly after March 10, 1952, when he was approached by a former

Captain in the Cuban Navy during the Prio regime.

This former

Captain advised M-l that plans were being formulated to take.

some action against the Batista government.

Subsequently,

March 18, 1952, M-I was invited

to a meeting of six or eight of

the co-conspirators. M-l was advised that the forces planning

the counter revolution were known as the Junta Revolucionaria

Constitutional.

At this March To 1952 meeting, two alternate

plans of revolution were iscussed. The I

first plan called for

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an assassination attempt. against Batista and a simultaneous

movement against Naval headquarters in downtown Havana.

At the

same time another small group would attempt to take

Police Headquarters:

over ratione

-The second ratternative plan does not

call for the assassination attempt a8ainst Batista but rather an

uprising would begin with an aerial hombins of Camp Columbia,

rorrowed by the bombing of all bridges cornectine the citif

Havana with the suburk Of Marianao.

The purpose of blowing up

the bridges would be to

• prevent Batiste tanks ron entering

At this March 18 meeting Livio Grave De Peralta,

Luis Fernandez and. Agent Mil were selected to go to Miami

to conter with former President Carlos Prio Socarros and former

Minister of Education Aureliano Sanchez Arango.

"The trio did

go to Miami on March 19, 1952, and former President Prio

participated in discussions with them and thereafter the three

individuals returned to Havana and contacted Dr. Raul Roa of

the University of Havana.

Some time later, date not furnished,

Agent M-1 and two other individuals returned to lani ana were

placed in touch with one scalco Peter, wh

Whose mailing address

was given as Pala Box 3995,

Miam 1,25

Florida. According to

M-1, Peter is apparently

in charge of securing arms for the

revolutionaries

and he exhibited to Mel and his party ho

Thompson macaine

grenades.

"In addition,

at boats which he told

them he had purchased and which were

being fefitted

at ort bergares Florida.

a. M-1 reportedly

concluded with the statement that he and his companions had

returned to Havana but the date of their return was not set out.

Lieutenant Colonel Carrillo also advised the Legal*

Attache on May 5, 1952, that Sanchez Arango, above mentioned,

together with Raul Rodriguez Santos,

a former Cuban National

Police Captain, and an aide of Arango's, whose name was not

mentioned, had

left Miami for Nassau in a plane piloted by one

Murphy.

Carrillo stated that Murphy is believed identical with

Edward William Murphy, who in the past has been involved In

The date of this flight from

Murphy allegedly returned to Miami in his plane on May 1, Or.

May 2, 1952.

According to the Legal Attache's source,

Murphy

is expected to return to cuba in the near future.

Lieutenant

Colonel Carrillo said the Cuban Army is very desirous of being

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STANDARD FORM NO. 61

Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

• Mr. A. H.Belmon

DATE: May 14, 1952

FROM : Mr. F. J. Baumgar

SUBJECT:

Noon,

CARLOS

PRIO SOCARROS, ET AL.

FOREIGN POLITICAL MATTER - CUBA CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

NEUTRALITY MATTERS

DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATIONK

IN THIS DOCUMENT. 6mB 9-30-9

PURPOSE:

540/KSR 10-10-97

(JFK

•Tele. RoDn"

To advise of the information recoivea by the

Logar attache at Havana and the Miami Office concerning plans

for & revolution by Batista's political enemies and furnish

recommendations.

DETAILS:

will

mitte

By letter of May 6, 1952, the Legal Attache at Havana

advised that

Lieutenant Colonel Manuel ugalde Carrillo, Chief of

Aldos to the chief or start of the Cuban Army, contacted the

Legal Attache's office under the Instructions of President Batista.

The purpose of Carrillo's contact was to make available a written

report prepared bI an agent identified only as M-1 setting forth

proposed plans of a group of President Batista's enemies to ever-

thron him.

Carrillo did not Identify Agent M-1 to the Legal

Attache.

According to M-1, elements of the former Prio goverrment

are conspiring to plan a counter revolution to overthrow the

Batista government around the end of May or the first of June of

this year.

From the substance of the report Agent M-1 Is made to

appear as one of the co-conspirators.

M-1 stated he first heard of the proposed revolution

shortly after March 10, 1952, when he was approached by a former

Captain in the Cuban Navy during the Prio regime.

This former

Captain advised M-l that plans were being formulated to take

some action against the Batista goverment. Subsequently, on

March 18, 1952, M-I was invited

to a meeting of six or eight of

the co-conspirators.

M-1 was advised that the forces planning

the counter revolution

were known as the Junta Revolucionaria

Constitutional.

At this March 18, 1952 meeting, two alternate

plans of revolution were

dIscussed The first plan called for

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The Miami Office by letter dated May 8, 1952,

reported that John Ia Pilcher, Assistant Chief, U. S. Border

Patrol, Miami, advised on May 2, 1952, that Faward William Murphy,

a pilot, departed from International Airport, Miami, at

4:00 P.M., May 1, 1952, in a plane and that his passengers,

Aureliano Sanchez Arango and Raul Rodriguez Santos, Piloher atated

that he had learned that Murphy and the two companions were then

en route from Nassau to Caicos Island, which is located about 250

miles east of the Island of Cuba and about 400 miles north of the

Dominican Republic.

Pilcher stated that Arango and Santos came

into the United States on March 17, 1952, along with Prio, from

Mexico, and that he had heara rumors of a nonspecific type to

the effect that Prio and some of his associates are planning a

revolution to overthrow Batista.

Pilcher, on May 5, 1952, advised the Miami Office that

Ithe flight plan filed on behalf of Murphy indicated his plane.

arrived in Nassau at 5:00 P.M. on May 1, 1952 from Miami.

Pilcher

reported that the Nassau Civil Aeronautics Authorities observed

the activities of the plane and reported it did not leave until

12:59 P.M., May. 2, 1952, at which time Murphy and his two

passengers departed for Caicos Island, British West Indies. They

announced to Civil Aeronautics Authorities that they would return

May 3, 1952. According to Pilcher, this plane, piloted by Murphy,

landed at 4:15 P.M., May 2, 1952, at Santiago de Cuba, without.

It then went to Camaguey, Cuba; on the following

morning and took off from Camaguey at about

11:33 A.M., May 3, 1952,

and arrived at Miami International Airport at 2:00 P.M. on the

same day, without passengers.

This plane was met at international

Airport, upon arrival, by Pilcher, who interviewed Murphy concerning

his passengers, but Murphy refused to answer any questions:

The Miami Office by teletype of May 12, 1952, has

advised that the Immigration and Naturalization Service manifest

on Pan American Airways flight 406 March 19, 1952 reflects that

Jose Luis Francisco Fernandez Espinosa, age 28, a Cuban national,

Livio Hermogenes Peralta Recojo, age 42, a Cuban national, ano

Ricardo Florencio Suarez Rodriguez, age 25, a Cuban national,

travelled as a party from Havana, Cuba, to Miami, Florida, and

were all destined to the Leamington Hotel, Miami.

These apparently

are the individuals whom M-1 reported went to Miami on March 19,

1952, to confer with former President Prio and from the airline

manifest it appears that M-l, referred to above, is Suarez Rodriguez.

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