Originator: FBI
From: DIRECTOR, FBI
To: AG
Document date: 06/07/1965
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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124-10214-10253

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

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124-10214-10253

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CR 105-131629-32

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: DIRECTOR, FBI

TO :

AG

TITLE:

DATE: 06/07/1965

PAGES:

5

SUBJECTS :

CC, PLOT, ASSA, CASTRO, FIDEL, CUBAN LEADERS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1A

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 09/16/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA

COMMENTS :

INC MEMO

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DECDASSIPTED BY 6855

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Mr. Belmont

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DeLoach

Mr. Sullivan

- Mr. Wannall

June 4, 1965

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PLANS TO ASSASSINATE CUBAN LEADERS

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DeLoach -

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Callahan -

Conrad

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On, June 2, 1965, Victos Domindador Espinosa

hernandez,

Cuban refugee, was intervloved at the New Yorki

City Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Espinosa advised as followss

C9, Nd So 2

spending twenty 31x

On May 29, 1965, he returned to New Yorl City after

days in Paris, France, there he was in

contact with individuals involved in a plot to assassinate

ISIMATHLO

Pidel Castro and other Cuban Government leaders. the main

Figure in this plot is Rolando Cubela, a close friend of

Espinosa and an intimate friend and current neighbor of

NMOHS ANANA LAZONE

Pídel Castro. Cubela is identical with former Major Rolando

L. Cubela y Secades, who has resigned from the arded forces

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of Cuba and ie now practicing medicine in Havana. Alberto

CANIVERDO NOI LUKHOSNI ON

blanco, an employee of the Cuban Foreign Ministry,!

and Major

Juan Almeida Bosque fare the other leading ligures in thield

plot.

REVERSE

(4) STE

OR

He conferred in Paris for about ten days with

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SINICATION

Alberto Blanco] who was then on an Inspection tour or cuban(s

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embassies and Consulates abroad. He learned that the Bout

is directed toward the assassination of fidel Castro, his

brother faul Castro, Ernesto "Che" Cuevara, & Cabinet member

in the present Cuban Government, and Ramiro Valdes, the Chief

of the Cuban Intelligence Service:: The ase.

saination of these

OBJECTION

AND/OR

FORMATION.

MENT

individuals is to take place in publie, possibly on July 26,

1965, when all the Cuban leaders would be together at the

NO

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annual july 26th celebration in lavana. After the assassinst pa,

those involved in the plot hope to seize the radio station

HIS

and call for American help. Cubela and others associated

with him in this plot desire to know whether or not the

United States would help if the plot was sucmssful andelf

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SEE NOTE PAGE TWO

1 - 105-77667 (Cubela)

1 - 105-82793

(Almeida) Excluded from

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declamicheation

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(SECRET

PLAUS TO ASSASSINATE CUBAN LEADERS

the United States would be ready to give this assistance at

a moment's notice as the plotters may be able to hold the

Government for only a day or two.

He was in Spain for about twenty hours during his

recent trap and in that country he contacted other Cuban

exilestand learned that a man named Williamson, who is in

charge of the Central Intelligence Agency Office in Madrid.

is aware of this plot to a certain degree The Cuban exiles

do not trust Williamson and allege he has

(by a Cuban girl nicknamed "Tota"! who was sent from Havana

to Spain for the specific purpose of getting in contact with

Williamson. (54)(S)

He requested to be put in contact with a representative

of the Central Intelligence Agency whe was thoroughly familiar

with the Cuban situation and knowledgeable concerning the

individuals involved in the plot 3100

NOTE:

Above information contained in New York teletype

dated 6/2/65, captioned, "Victor Domindador Espinosa Hernandez,

Neutrality Matters; Internal Security = Cuba."

Bureau files indicate Espinosa in 1963 was involved

in a plan to bomb Cuba. Our investigation of this plat, which

was not a Central Intelligence Agency operation, resulted in

seizure of over a ton of dynamite and other material to be

used in making bombs.

Bureau files indicate Cubela has been previously

contacted in Europe by Central Intelligence Agency possibly

(u)

with a view towards taking some action against Cuban leaders

1/52

(Almeida Bosquemay be identical with person serving dU)

asy First Deputy Minister of the Cuban

Revolutionary Armed Forces. X(5)

Original of this memorandum being sent to Attorney

General, (copy to Deputy Attorney General) by cover letter.

Xerox copy being furnished to White House and Director, Central."

NOTE CONTINUED PAGE THREE

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