“14-00000 -Pedl CONFIDENTIAL f.ken Filled Jw CONFIDENTIAL CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 6 Intelligence Information Cable COUNTRY TDCS DATE OF MQ SUSECT RACE & DATE ACO. RSF - 20:76 SOUC HELD IDORT NO. AO APTIAISAL 1. (FIELD COMMENT: THE ACTIVITIES OF ROLANDO MAS”
“14-0000Q SECRET VIA: I-1 FROM: J/EMIG TRANS: 1*57 FEB .e !270 AGENT: E-10 (please, protect) SUBJECT: . Activities of Rolando MASFERRER Rojas. SOURCES Rolando MASFERRER Rojas. izr A. OTA-1901, 29 January 1970 B. CTA-1743, 19 Noverker 1969 C. OTA-1695, 5 November 1969 ”
“14-00000 6s FBI DOCUMENTS: e DATE: 25 SEPTEMBER 19694 : ' . / x, ■ P C CLASSIFICATION: . NONE GIVEN, el -,a • • .. ‘7 SUBJECT: ROLANDO ARCADO MASFERRER, ROJAS EBI FILE NO: 22-156 (MIAMI)- 2 is DArs: 15 O TOBER.1968 3 L. tes CNASSIFICATION: NONE CIVEN "T- .SUBJECT: UNKN”
“265 ICE CONTROLS 10 CONFIDENTIAL ■5 :29176 TOCS P1GZ 2 AND PISTOLS BECA JACAHE AS AFRAID FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (F31) IN NEW YORK WOULD FIND AND CONFISCATE THEM: 3. ANTONIO ROJAS ALSO SAID THAT ROLANCO MASFERRER HAD ORIGINALLLY PLANNED TO HAVE HIM (ANTONIC RCUAS)”
“104-10104-10094 1 6 LOC61-00-10 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 19921/ 24 February 1937 MTMCRARDOL SUBJECT: Estimate of Damage Which Could Accrue to CIA Miami Through Prosecution of the Rolando Masferrer Haitian Invasion Gr”
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“14-00000 weseevidue XV9 3007 EUTIONS **% : IN 531141 TOAR WARNING NOTICE SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED PAGE 2 OF 2 PAGES SECRET relaseiftration) (Elssrm gprtrots) VISITING PANAMA CITY. MASFERRER IS A RESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, in PANAMA C”
“8 July 1966 MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: The Activities of Rolando MASFERRER Rojas 1. Reference is made to a memorandum from this office. Subject: Plot to Overthrow Haitian Government, dated July 6, 1966, concerning a visit to a farm in the Atlanta, Georgia area by an informant who ”
“SECRET VIA: 1-1 FROM: 3/EAIG TRANS: 1-57 OTA1996 AGENT: E-10 (please, protect) 68s a SUBJECT: Activities of Rolando MASFERRER Rojas SOURCES; 1. Rolando MASFERRER Rojas 2. E-10 (personal knowledge) REPs A. Foxtrot #1235, 19 February 1970 3. OTA-1966, 17 February 1970 C.”
“•OPERATIONAL CAPACITY SINCE THE BAY or PIGS. MAS HAS BEEN ACTIVE IN ‘THE CUBBAN REPRESENTATION IN EXILE <RECE> GROUP. IN JANUARY 1966 HE. WAS THE SUBJECT OF A DEPARTEMENT OF JUSTICE INQUIRY REGARDING CER- ;-TAIN INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN A HIT-AND-RUN RAID CONDUCTED IN THE- : H”
“OIFCIO PRUCESMS SCTioe TD DISPATCH SECRET MARKED FRRCEmS Chief, Western Hemisphere Division XX no mbeRNS 2-25220 MAD car OCAUFEa can Juoce KEZBG RUI Chief of Station, WH/Miami muchOFLS SUL ECT OPERATIONAL/AMOT Libertad Attacks on CIA and Collaborators ACICA REQUIRED -”
“ii: i;’ eei• 1 :870 5TAF7. % --43 ‘1 ar__ 666 * 3: ,004445 61a7a9 #a3E 38 !\697535 0212416516 APA To Cana 20641 1 gr PryeARations FOR AlTACkS ASIS” EMILES END "Ast TAIS PLANKING Hit bgA.N TungE MONTHS PRIOR 70 Yug ASSASSINATION OF j0f: De LA 1-31901..,/,-<t‘ s U«”
“that there is no alternative but to await a spontaneous change of events in Cuba and a possible overthrow or assassination of Castro by the military.' C. KASSELJattended a meeting of about 15 persons on 16 August presided over by Rolando MASFERRER, Director a of the weekly ”
“14-00000 PAS FERRER ol mdo 1 07” ”...1 •Guyla GRAAAL 19 sePrzo F B I arrest Masforrier 13F tMIAMI: Rolando Mlas-I. ferrer feared “52-year one-time > tiger” ofoldpre-Castro Cuba, was arrested by FBI agents here Thursday night 1. in bis home in the little ; Havana ”
“14-00000 SECRE 1 - ar t : DF FILE VP NF ‘s ! r! -4 3: 6 o T 8594450 E1A769 PAGE cz ” - ix 897535 TOR:2216512 APS 76 CARA 29641 OF PREPARATIONS FOR ATTACKS AGAINST EXILES AND THAT THIS PLANNING WAS EGJN Take: MONTHS PRIOR TO THE ASSASSINATION 07 Jose DE LA *-335-21”
“FD-36 (Rev. 12-13-56) FBI Date: 10/27/59 Transmit the following in CIA HAS NO— OBJECTION TO (Type in plain text or code) ION AND/OR, Via AIRTEL -AIRMAIL DECLASSIFICANUAB FORMATION (Priority or Method of Mailings e 0 - Neu FOR ---- 0901 MATIORCORTAINED TP I 3m18”
“the amount. PINEIRO answered by telling me to do so. "During my trip to Mexico (March 1964) I spoke with Rogelio RODRIGUEZ Lopez regarding this shipment and he told me that there was no need of my sending the explosives to Mexico as this type of explosive was available in t”
“13-00000 3 - TOP SECRET IMA ■ SC-01755-77A VOLUME II (Box I) Memo from FBI to CIA dated 12 Aug 1963 Memo attached text of intercepted message; although in code, deciphered, it said the following: "Antonio ROJAS told me the following. CIA is still recruiting people but th”
“CERT atuAL: XAHZ-27949 OGC 67-1772 15 September 1967 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, WH Division / ATTENTION: Mr. Walter Cini SUBJECT: O Masferrer Trial, Miami, Florida 1. I called Mr. Philip Morris, attorney in the Department of Justice responsible for the Masferrer case, and a”
“OUTGOING MESSAGE lines SIGmAL woeeuse O-,7 &D the*9 OP mnoss % • •00 ,com’ •ea pane 00F 0 :non □ 00 0a 0 0 2 SE CRE Tall 4 14 FA 76 wessnos neioure wo cavda" • s 10 • .. martrows enove cove ij sen STAFF ■ DIRECTOR -t ii Th 0 woes DISSEM BY: CONF: INFO: FILE 810”
“J. NERO PSI LESLIE ANDREWS 1/13/70 6/10/70 JOSEPH C. BALL MM 1109-SK 1/19/70 ROBERT G. STRONG Cuban, It is noted FAUSTO DANIEL VILLAR is mentioned in this LHM as having knowledge of attempts by HART, ORLANDO GARCIA, and LUIS POSADA to obtain firearms in the Miami area for use of ”
“owers were arrested in January 1967 in Marathon, Florida, while preparing for the invasion of Haiti. NW 65924 Docld:32358277 Page 2 SEGRET E2 IMPDET CL BY 007472 1 : : Masferrer claimed that his Haiti invasion plot was approved by the U. S. Government (varying between the CIA and”
“MM 149-425 SECIET RE: JULIO ATON CON STANZO PALAU Date of Births May 22, 1936 Place of Birth: Cuba INS #: A12 844 786 ROBERTO DOMEQ RODRIGUEZ aka “Domec® INS #: A12 854 781 NESTOR RODDA MEOQUI aka Ernesto Rodda Date of Birth:June 10, 1938 Residence:3450 SW 10th Stree”
“owers were arrested in January 1967 in Marathon, Florida, while preparing for the invasion of Haiti. SEGRET E2 IMPDET CL BY 007472 ! : Masferrer claimed that his Haiti invasion plot was approved by the U. S. Government (varying between the CIA and the FBI as the approving agency)”
“14-00000 onr 0 set GNAC CENfSNVDS:.»• Teo a' a - - Pg., too I a ‘d‘\ 0 1* 1 190 1, 4. -2 - 4*0 0 42 144-571- 1. Pane 1 cP PAO* SECRET meesose narus mo-darea trs ViltMt sseengce snitinen 9413002 STAFF CONF: LA10 INFO: E/AN, FILE C/OPS LAN/ID, OPS/”
“n Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case#:NW 65924 Date: 10-26-2021 ITEM IS RESTRICTED 104-10133-10239 CIA HISTORICAL-REVIEW PROGRAM APPROVED FOR RELEAS529993 CHIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM Masferrer claimed that his Haiti invasion plot was approved by the U. S. Government (varying”
“My MM 149-425 JGP/mev SECRET 1 Re: RICARDO MORALES NAVARETTE; MANUEL PENAMZ 0(2) FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ TAMAYO; information from MM 1119-S on January 30, 1968 (4/(21) SA JAMES J. O’CONNOR developed the following MANUEL PENABAZ has been in Miami for the past couple of w”
“14-00000 04 7. In January 1962, Arturo MUGARRA and Roberto SANCHEZ were preparing to depart from Cuba. When AMJAVA/4 and AMBRONC/5 arrived in Havana they changed their minds. (C/O Comment: A woman named Emilia- del MAS was living with MUGARRA.” This girl later came to the ”
“NGHLNG ACTION TO DISPATCH SECRET MAINE) FOR NCEIG . Chief, Western Hemisphere Division 1 X ND NCECNG REQUPED INFO. Dill D’ALRED DESK CAN ACGE MXIM FROM SUBJECT Chief of Station, WH/Miami L.- mF 0 Exile Activity ACTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES 1. AMOT report OTA-1901, fr”
“Vizcaya restaurant in Miami although he could have been a partner had he made a $500 investment when the enterprise began. The owners are Oscar VILA, Aramis PINON, and the cook, named Tomas (lnu). VILA and PINON were with Subject in the Bay of Pigs invasion and both are old ”
“13-00000 - 20 - which consisted of elimination of high GOC personalities. MILANES had not mentioned the plan to .the case officer. (MILANES was recruited by CIA in Madrid in December 1963. At the time of recruitment he was involved with a group planning to kill CASTRO, a ”
“0 MI 149-425 SECRET FERRER said he knew the bombs planted recently at the package shipment stores were placed by ATON CON STANZO PALAU and a Cuban Negro known only as “DOMEC." He stated DOMECW is possibly identical with ROBERTO DOMEQ RODRIGUEZ, INS Number A12 854 781. DOM”
“( MM 97-300 SECRET The interviews appearing in this report with- MARCOS PEREZ JIMENEZ, Dr. CARLOS SISO, and the subject, appear on SF 64s . and FD 302s in original form in Miami case file 7-475, captioned: "UNSUBS; MARCOS PEREZ JIMENEZ - VICTIM; KIDNAPPING - CONSPIRACY (B”
“14-00000 "I ith 1 FBI DOCUMENTS: DATE: 1 OCTOBER 1959 SUBJECT: CARIBBEAN POLITICAL. ACTIVITIES - CUBA CLASSIFICATION: NONE- FILE #: NONE GIVEN DATE: 1 JUNE 1959 SUBJECT: RUBEN OSCAR MIRO CUARDIA CLASSIFICATION: SECHET FILE #: MIAMI 97-261 BUREAU 105-75663”
“13-00000 - 6 - JMARC Program 19-120-15/2 MASH 1470 (IN 38669) 6 Nov 1960. Cable to CIA Headquarters and Havana stating that RECAREY, (fnu), cousin of a Guat trainee, arrived MASH from Havana on 5 November to check bonafides of Eduardo OJEDA Camaraza. OJEDA had made cont”
“5 SECRET MM 149-425 By memorandum dated February 13, 1968, CIA, Miami, furnished the following additional information regarding JORGE GONZALEZ %‘ (ST u) On February 9, 1968, a contact of CIA advised that he had a conversation on the evening of February 7, 1968, with JOR”
“7 - 3 SECRET MM 149-425 The following information was obtained by SA JAMES D. HAYES: (S) On February 23, 1968, HARRY RANDALL, CIA Covert, Miami, (Protect), advised his office had received an anonymous tip as follows: RANDALL explained he did not know the origin nor ”
“MACHADO GROUPS. INFO APPEARS IN CONTACT REPORTS DATED 6 AND 8 JUNE 1967, FILED IN AMEMBER-1 FILE WHICH NO LONGER AVAILABLE IN STATION. THERE Is ANOTHER TRACE THAT ONE FRANCISCO E, NUNEZ REPORTED A CASTRO ASSASSINATION I ATTEMPT TO A STATION ASSET: UFAA-4222, 7 APR 72, 100”
“said that Cuban Power was preparing news releases which would be sent to the l©cal news media that night (February 7). According to GONZALEZ, the MIRR and ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA were preparing "an important work about Cuba” which would reaffirm the position of the MIRR so that ”
“casianid proNG ATKA 7Ca DSPAu Ltd SECRET MB!) kor aornS ig Chief of Station, WH/Miami to Bc;Mwarne 000 ONT QuAUra DESE Chief, Western Hemisphere Division CAN NOG LDTXDNG RM Chief of Station, Caracas scronu MW O Ricardo MORALES Navarrete Co. ACTION atquint citknas 1.”
“10 A6666_____ , 104-10506-10024 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 ( ( SECRET June 1977 SUBJECT: Juan FALCON Tamar 1. This name was traced because FALCON claimed support of CIA in activities against Cuba. There is no indic”
“to be forthcoming from the United States Government soon. 5. Hasferrer said that unfortunately several prominent politicians and government officials have been recommending that he not be . permitted to return to the State of Florida in spite of an earlier petition signed by”
“13-00000 ( Lt - 48 - DSE - DEPARTMENT OF STATE SECURITY A-13 - General Non-Official file - No file no. - Soft File TDCSDB 3/656,765 dated 20 September 1963 A Bogota liaison source reported that Manuel PINEIRO said that the Cubans were aware of two CIA agents among dele”
“13-00000 ere wrote emnonm. - 125 - separated from the other prisoners. AMYUM Operation 19-132-32 UFGA 8466 dated 12 April 1963 19-132-32 Transmitted intelligence debriefing reports on Operation FINA exfiltrees. Debriefing of Caridad MACIAS Rodriguez. On 26 July 1961 M”
“Ce-2. eeveryt in to DISPATCH SECRCT *• 0; 901100 Wmono Biro. Chief of Station, Caracas wtatua CARD FORST) ROM Raw Chief, Latin America Division 0 _ —Ricardo Morales Navarette ‘(201-285923) |ACTION REQUIRED • RIRIRs • WARNING NOTICE-SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES ”
“the day of the proposed Operation. The driver of the car was to be Orlando f*CRUZ, brother of Ester CRUZ. The MRR suspected Orlando CRUZ after this incident as he is a person who "likes money" and the theft was"quite a coincidence". (Orlando CRUZ is presently in Miami. He cal”
“SECRE) Pelmar18/78 .12/ @ 3 22 March 1963 Rodr ig uez Tamayo Memo. to Director, FBI, from DDP Francisco Rodr SubjAnect: untested i g uez Tamayo, aRa "El Mexi source told C/A representative on c ans Dee 1962 that FRT was responsible for the imprisonment of Roberto Perez”
“capacity in Cuba. This memorandum is classified confidential to protect the identity of GUERRAJSwho apparently is a CIA 4 source GUERRA returned to Cuba on 10/26/5947 Information concerning the alleged plot against I 5) VENTURA has been furnished to the Miami Police Departm”
“14-00000 CPnT . -2- were in a position to sabotage the electrical plant in Havana. (I did not ask, neither did he specify which plant. ) He did not promise immediate action, adding that he wanted to assure himself of the details of the planned operation and the safety-od”
“961 201-293114 DPOB 1935, Cuba # ② Cable 6. Dec 1960... To: JMGOLD] Snom: Quector 11111429 OUT 99988 FBI report from Franciico Bestard, former. G.2 agent, revealed. Rodriguez, aka El Mexicano, an 4 Colbaques working with Diaz Long group. volunteered provide Cuhon 6.2 following in”