Originator: FBI
From: MD
To: HQ
Document date: 1960-07-29 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

# DOCID-32336796

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Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

1992 (44 USC 2107 Note]. Case#:NW

54578 Date: 11-24-2021

JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/2/2015

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-90135-10191

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

105-82298-54

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

MD

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 07/29/1960

PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS :

ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C; 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/25/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

MEMO

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OPTIONAL FORM NO.

UNITED STATES Gil

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Memorandum

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TO

Director, FBI

DATE:

7-29-60

FROM

Grid.

SUBJECT:

Legal Attaché, Madrid (105-432)

ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO

IS

CUBA

CL 2-206 KM CAT (STA)

Declassily on:

Attachod are nine copies of a letterhead memorandum

98

JFK)

source abroad.

This source is CAVILO PADRIDA VAZQUEZ, tormer

member of

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of the CASTRO armed forces (

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No local dissemination was made of the attached

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At the time he furnished the above information,

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§PADREDA VAZQUEZ was accompanied by one ROLANDO MERUELO, Whose i

brother, OTTO VERUELO, was a prominent spokesman for the

BATISTA

government

and who is currently serving a 30-year

, HA

prison sentence in Cuba for his activities.

ROLANDO NERUELO &

DECLAS

RELEASE OF CIA IM ORMATION 4- 3-

IN THIS DOCUMENT K_3-19-98

stated that he has been

in Spain in exile for about eight months.

He expressed the opinion that subject GUTIERREZ MENOYO might

possibly be plotting

against the CASTRO government himself.

He pointed out that it has been frequently rumored that

Colonel RAMON BARQUIN LOPEZ, with whom subject had conversations

in Madrid, is not too happy

with the CASTRO government and he

felt that the subject may have been feeling out BARQUIN LOPEZ.

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MERUELO also pointed out that following the capture

of the small group which endeavored to land at Trinidad,

Cuba,

from the Dominican Republic, nothing was heard of GUTIERREZ

MENOYO for about a month and a half, and it was only then that

he was publicly given credit with aiding WILLIAM MORGAN in

uncovering

the conspiracy against the CASTRO government.

said that at the

Ime there was cons label

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Madrid 105-432

GUTIERREZ MENOYO may have been involved himself in the

conspiracy and only belatedly aided the CASTRO government

In uncovering it alter his participation had been discovered. (K)U

A copy of this

letter together with a copy of the

letterhead memorandum and the evaluation memorandum are being

sent direct to the laris Oilice.

dditional information concerning ARTURe In MATA, to whom th

subject sent a telegram in Iiegevidual might be identical

the purpose

of determining whether this

With ARTURO GONZALEZ MATA. (A

follow this matter

here, and

the Bureau will be advised.

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