"LUNCHEON HELD 12 NOVEMBER TO DISCUSS [DELETION] RELATIONSHIP WITH CIA AND THE TORRIENTE GROUP".
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 12/14/1971
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 53294 Date:

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"LUNCHEON HELD 12 NOVEMBER TO DISCUSS [DELETION]

RELATIONSHIP WITH CIA AND THE TORRIENTE GROUP" .

12/14/1971

SUBJECTS

TORRIENTE GROUP

DOCUMENT TYPE

CLASSIFICATION

PAPER

SECRET

RESTRICTIONS

1B

CURRENT STATUS

: RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC - RELEASED WITH DELETIONS

DATE

OF LAST REVIEW

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COMMENTS

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PER REF THERE FOLLOWS MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD:

"IO A LUNCHEON WAS HELD 123D-1515 HOURS, 12 NOVEMBER

1971, AT COS' HOME FOR THE PRINCIPAL PURPOSE OF DISCUSSING

AMCHALK/I'S RELATIONSHIP WITH JKLANCE AND THE TORRIENTE GROUP.

COS ALSO TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THIS MEETING TO BRIEF SEPARATELY

IDENTITY A, CONCERNING COS' NEW COVER SITUATION. THOSE ATTENDING

THE LUNCHEON WERE: IDENTITY A, IDENTITY B, IDENtItY C AND

IDENTITY D REPRESENTING LNERGO/MIAMI AND COS, DOOS AND LEWIS.

J. SHOQUIST REPRESENTING JKLANCE/ MIAMI.

2. COS BRIEFLY REVIEWED FOR LNERGO/MIAMI

REPRESENTATIVES THE BACKGROUND OF THE AMCHALK/1 CASE. THIS

REVIEW INCLUDED:

Ao

BACKGROUND OF THE AMCHALK/1 CASE CAS IT

CONCERNS LNERGO/MIAMI) FROM THE POINI AT WHICH THE

STATION LEARNED THAT CUIS HAD TARGETIED JOSE CALIXTO

SANT I A GO VALDES

AGAINST AMCHALK/1 IN AN ASSASSINATION

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B.

BRIEF MENTION OF AMCHALK/I•S ROLE IN THE AMQUAKE/1

ROLL-UP, THE FACT THAT JKLANCE IS STILL PAYING HIM A

MONTHLY SALARY IN APPRECIATION FOR THẦT WORK, AND THAT

HE IS BEING PAID FOR PAST WORK, NOT PRESENT;

STATEMENT THAT JKLANCE/MIAMI Is NOT SUPPORTING

IN ANY WAY THE TORRIENTE GROUP OR AMCHALK/ IPS INVOLVEMENT

WITH THAT GROUP. COS EXPLAINED THAT WE HAD AN

ÖFFICER IN CONTACT WITH AMCHALK/1, THAT AMCHALK/I

AT TIME VOLUNTEERS INFORMATION ON THE ACTIVITIES OF

THE TORRIENTE GROUP, BUT THAT UKLANCE/MIAMI DOES NOT

SUPPORT, DIRECT, OR ENCOURAGE THIS GROUP;

D. BACKGROUND OF THE MOTHER VESSEL BEING USED BY

THE TORRIENTE GROUP AND COS PERSONAL INVOLVEMENT WITH

THAT VESSEL FOLLOWING THE MANUEL ARTIME PHASE OF ANTI-

CASTRO OPERATIONS INVOLVING JKLANCE.

3. DURING THE ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION FOLLOWING COS°

REVIEW, LNERGO/ IDEN A SAID THAT HIS-OFFICE HAD RECEIVED

SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS FROM LNERGO/WASHINGTON TO INVESTIGATE

THE TORRIENTE GROUP TO DETERMINE IF THAT GROUP WAS GUILTY OF

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VIOLATING U.S. NEUTRALITY LAWS. A BRIEF DISCUSSION FOLLOWED

WHICH NOTED THE LNGOLD WARNING IN MAY 1970 TO CUBAN EXILES

IN MIAMI THAT THE U.S. COULD NO LONGER TOLERATE VIOLATIONS

OF ITS NEUTRALITY LAWS; THE GENERAL BELIEF OF CUBAN EXILES

THAT CONSPIRING TO VIOLATE SUCH LAWS WAS NOT A PROSECUTABLE

OFFENSE: THE FACI THAI BOTH TORRIENTE AND AMCHALK/1 WERE

CATEGORICALLY DISABUSED OF THIS MISCONCEPTION WHEN THEY WERE

INTERVIEWED FOLLOWING THE 12 OCTOBER 1971 RAID ON BOCA DE SAMA.

(NOTE: THE INTERVIEWS REFERRED TO TOOK PLACE ON 5 NOVEMBER

19710) IDEN A ALSO MENTIONED THAT THE LNERGO IS RECEIVING

NUMEROUS REPORTS THAT MEMBERS OF THE TORRIENTE GROUP SAY

THEY ARE WORKING FO JKLANCE. IDEN A NOTED THAT THESE REPORIS

COULD END UP AS EVIDENCE IN COURT (WITH CONSEQUENT PUBLICITY)

AND ASKED COS HOW HE (COS) WOULD LIKE LNERGO/MIAMI TO HANDLE

SUCH REPORTS FROM THIS END. IDEN A SAID THAT HE COULD USE THE

TERMINOLOGY "AN LNLUTE AGENCY" OR SOMETHING SIMILAR IN PLACE

OF JKLANCE, IF COS DESIRED. COS SUGGESTED THAT HE USE "AN

INLUTE AGENCY" IN SUCH REPORIS RATHER THAN JKLANCE SINCE

THERE WAS NO POINT IN GRATUITOUSLY INVITING UNWATED PUBLICITY®

4. THERE WAS MUTUAL AGREEMENT AMONG PARTICIPANIS THAT

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THE MEETING WAS HELPFUL IN PREVENTING MISUNDERSTANDINGS DUE

TO: THE: SOMEWHAT COMPLEX NATURE OF JKLANCENS COMMITMENT TO

AMCHALK/! PERSONALLY AS DISTINCT FROM HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH

THE TORRIENTE GROUP. COS MADE CLEAR THE DISTINCTION AND THE

FACT THAT JKLANCE/MIAMI FELT THAT LEGAL ACTION TAKEN BY

LNERGO/MIAMI AGAINST THE TORRIENTE GROUP WAS NOT THIS

STATION S- BUSINESS.

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