operation40 cia
DESCRIPTION
...TRANSCRIPT
Mr. John Greenewald
Reference: F-2014-00107
Dear Mr. Greenewald:
Central Intelligence Agency
• Washington. D.C. 20505
12 February 2014
This is a final response to your 22 October 2013 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, received in the office of the Information and Privacy Coordinator on 22 October 2013, for all records on a CIA program known as "Operation 40." We have assigned your request the reference number above. Please use this number when corresponding so that we may identify it easily.
We conducted of search of our previously released database and located the enclosed two documents, totaling six pages, which we believe to be responsive to your request. Please be advised that these documents were released as part of another release program.
For any other information regarding the subject of your request, in accordance with section 3.6(a) of Executive Order 13526, the CIA can neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of records responsive to your request. The fact of the existence or nonexistence of requested records is currently and properly classified and is intelligence sources and methods information that is protected from disclosure by section 6 of the CIA Act of 1949, as amended, and section 102A(i)(l) of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended. Therefore, your request is denied pursuant to FOIA exemptions (b)(l) and (b)(3). I have enclosed an explanation of these exemptions for your reference and retention. As the CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator, I am the CIA official responsible for this determination. You have the right to appeal this response to the Agency Release Panel, in my care, within 45 days from the date of this letter. Please include the basis of your appeal.
Enclosures
Sincerely,
/(~~ Michele Meeks
Information and Privacy Coordinator
:; _ ,. C0048 1 60 4 ·:· ·· ·,:>J:· .. .. ;··::~\~/~~:-~:(.-. .-.·· · .. ·.:··::~TH~? :· ~::-::·~S:·:::: ..... :·.:· :=.:· -·-; . . !·;:··:.···.·.· -: : :.:~:\· : .. :·.-: .:S~:,\~ .. -. ~ . : · ·:·· ...
/ . ·c-:.
.r·
' ··· .. ... . :.. ·: . ......_ ;.
s~ l CJ/P .(.~~7}!./ ·.;:·.:,,.. L __ ..... ____ , I :' ~-.
I 'l:x"r."':: ·;·~ "-"'G~ItY \ . .
bJ-liP3_t _ _L. :}?: .
19 May 1961
MEMORANDUM FOR:
VIA
SUBJECT
Director of ~ntral Intelligence
Deputy Directpr (Plans) ct.:Y, 2 3 M
~anuel RAY Interviev of 1~ M:y 1961
i 1. This memorandum is for the Director 1 s
I 2. On 18 May 1961, Manu~ RAY, the exile
Revolucionario del Pueblo (MRP, Peoples' intervieved in the offices of ~he Joint Chi Buildingi' RAY, hereinafter r~ferred- to as~
er of the Movimiento onary Movement) vas
extremely soft voice, and at ~imes it to this, he spoke in a rambling manner, identify subjects about vhich ihe vas about "the radio" vhen he meant"to s Subject's presentation ~as ditfi is. the intent of this memorandum and -ideas, of the Subject's i~t~~~
f Staff in the Pentagon Subject, spoke in an
t · to hear him. Added sometimes did not fully
As an example - he spoke Svan." In summary, the
follo~ and to understand, and it the gist, or the main thoughts
3. The main bulk of the ! ·'ect 1 s presentation referred to the past, and he presented his interpre n of the errors ~hich had been committed. by the Central Intelligence _ cy, resulting in the abortive inva~ion in the Bay of Cochinos. Mainl .. hese errors ~ere in the lack of monetary, operational, military and .. tical support to his organization. He . spelled these out in cons· able detail by starting first with the lack of proper political moti · hoh inside Cuba, and thus the lack of incentive by the Cuban people to ~ ;e i~ revolt. He said that the Cuban people did not lmov the ult ·. .· pol;itical goal of the invasion forces. He said that his ovn people, memD,ers of the MRP; ~ere afraid that if the invasion ~as successful they, , ~auld be executed by the invading forces or the succeeding governme This,! he emphasized, limited any support ~hich · could have been gi · ~; to the !invading forces. Much later in his presentation the Subject came · , to thi~ point saying that he and his people had learned about 110peration orty" as a .11mopping-'up11 operation, ~hich ~as to have eliminated his P,'overs in Cuba. He said "Operation Forty" vas composed of followers o ·former president Fulgencio BATISTA ~ho ~ere to follow
. l '
· .. · .. · .·:.-:
:<· ;.·_::·
•: ... ·.
: .. · · . ..
:.:·· · ..
.·.
.;-
. ;
,,. - ' gr:ml'f . -~~:-~~_..:___- .. --.:£~ =---·---- . , ~~fitftT
- _..-:... -...... -. ..= z ·z rt¥ ¥6'·".:: )~::..=:.,.... .-.;....--.. -~-..;.a~--: : · .. ~ · - ·~__.;, .... _~..:,;_.::. --:~.:.-_-;:..;._.:._ ----...:r.=...-:.~.- .. _,e ~.:..... -..:~.:_ ;:.~..;.. -:.·.:.:,;:.. .- -L . ,:..:! ...... .:·:.:;~ :., . .,;:~
~ . . C00481604 k . :. . /,_ ': ''t:; ;'~~~;)~0::?:. •;::.: .' . . .. · .... ·. ···•·· ..•.. ):/;;: ) . ' '
('/ / '
v · - 2-
/ r'.·
··~-~
r ··.
behind the invading troops and "purge" the captured said that the operation vas planned by SANJENIS and GUTIERREZ, one of the members vas C.ALVINOS (fnu) , . a "war criminal" who vas in the invasion.
4. The Subject said that his operations ver~ not Central Intelligence Agency, and talked at some length to obtain air drops for his partisans in the Sierra Es during September 1960. Accor~ng to the Subject, not requested vas delivered. He ~as critical of the lack that while he was still in Ha:bana he met vi th an offi ~assy, by inference a representative of the Central and that he vas promsed full' a:nd unconditional logi vhen _he arrived in Miami, Flo~ida, he found that full nor unconditional. He said that support vas acceptance of the "Frente", and he told about to his partisans, again in the Sierra -~scambr of the "Frente," a condition which he found
!
5. Other ; complaints by the Subject co ned the lack of financial support,/ and he said that thei only method , hich he could support his organization was by obtainingj money insi ba, selling the Cuban pesos on the black market, and sendO.ng the U · States dollars to Miami. He listed his grievance against ~die Sv aying his organization Vf!.S not represented in the programming, and a g that later Radio Swan fell into complete disrepute through itF use o es .and contradictions.
6. The Subject talked cbnsi ly about the large number of "Batistianos" who were in the training cam.p:s, ~s futile efforts to rid the . camps of these undesirable elements. He - tified Jose "Pepe11 PEREZ San Ramon, the commander of the Brigade, andJ • o PEREZ San Ramon, a Brigade officer, as "Batistianos," but on ques i . . -ing admitted that they were not charged 'With any crimes. He explain ·· at, "They liked BATISTA." One point he did not clarify was why his ... ·ernal organization could use ex-members of the Constitutional A:nrcy an _ -t at the same time they were not sui table if they were in exile.
7. The Subject .s hat it was his representatives, members of the MRP, who were responsi ·far successful sabotage in Cuba, and said that · they destroyed El Enc , the Haba:na department store, and the Habana aqueduct.
8. be done :j.nside each one doing
.. ...
period ~hich remained the Subject spoke of. vhat can He favored the support of individual organizations,
action ·vork inside Cuba. He said that in the
p rt{:i
-~
SEGJ.fT Itt- ·;?S~-- --t;,;,-1'1* .-.. _ ttt;' - &ert·v·-,~, -~ _ _.z(>rr .;ere#ei t""i ~rt sr-:f~ ttt"r FT ~'-~-._;.,;-~Si'"· +=-H·:& -r · -·, rffi~&w~-=¥5:-M·;S. -- -- --~
~
r C00481604 ...... ·: ··' .· .,·.:-.'>:>:<: .. /· ':'::.:.~·:::·:,:- _·:, ·_.: .. ,_·::_:_·:.;:. ·. -:.· .': . .. ··· ·· . . . . · SEGR~' ... ·. ·. ·. _; .. ~:·:' ·:: .. :~: ~ ~ .
-!
,;
~ :.
.. r :
f 4 '.;- - J-
~ underground it vas necessary to vork vith others solely on the known bona fides, and that if MRP members had to vork 'With other unknown to them, it would increase the chanpe for compromise. He questioned as to "'bether or not it would be preferable to have coordinating group, representing all groups, to direct the e.nsvered that he did not think that it vas neceGsary, espe
time. ·He said that there vas so much to do that each group inside components to go ahead and sabotage and destroy could, and the efforts would not be vasted.
he at this tell its
as they
cc: DDGI DDP
,J . f
/
..
s~'fiEl
.w. d.~.~;s J. C. 'FJ..NG/~
Chief ern Hemisphere Division .
'
..
~-· ~ rii'i'ffi :..,; - ·-:~~ :: :--b ::~;;.:~.,:.- -afak.fi. ~4¥7fi~r · --J·r&:<;..if:z -;.;· :;;;.;M-±~_)..;;. --~- .~:'-..gr.,. -~s- ·~i- ...• · ••.• c . -. ::..· .. __:,..... .. -~-- ,..,. - ----~
C00413922
\~
t;J.':~
to
TK>;,i,
I. j I i
. 1...-I.A.)YI ltV Me . ::>.• •. ,: '··
') . . ' . .. \ .; • , --· - =·c:-,.~.-, -:.- -----l ·------~' · ... _•..15 .:.,.~ 6. · ~-~t I ....----- ---· . ..:..~-~. -,;f' ---;;; ; ·,
"3 . • ·~~---~. . . t U' ! • ______ ~ .. .!. 'C.!:~
• ~~ .... -;c
AC'l10ti I ~J: ~ !.. I 5 1:~
~~ 1./ AA ~ 5 (t.'C5JZ (,; ; 1
l/ C?'l <~ j
""'~ 1 .•;=-, COP, J..-:AA'/A, \t~ ~~ B£ll S/C ______.-; 1 RO... 'r IIi!: ~ -.,
...
' .. 3''' . ' . J . _--ill -~c:..- c!f 'CAVE· 673:i
\ J:O:Z ii' , '\ .. FLF . BELL 0':175 /_ (0 ... .1' lf 9 3?). .
I
lo /.I'IBLI:>·! CC:"!?LA li>TS ?GAINS! At!C:T•2 COM! AS SURPR:st TO \
VAll£ IN VI£\' AMOT-2 RECORD Cf l.O'YALTY TO A~f::t:C' .: I AND SLVEr.t.l.
DEClARATIOt;S BY Mli\Ui:>•l Of HIS CQI:f)IH;~;ct: Iti A:o!OT-2o
2. WHILE Pt:RSO:JAL V.1lJilCA7i(;!:. Of . 'li{IS :'!Pi: IS OUT Ci
Cil..;F.i\Ct£i'i iOii AH5Uii•l it 15 C011PLETEL Y I:~ CHAF...:tCH:R fC~ AltO I P•l
~h~ IS VlTHOUT OOtaT ~CTUAl CULPRIT 8£HIND THESE STORIES. ~AVE
AVAR£ MDIP•l HAS BEtti Pt.A~TING TH!.:SE S!'JRIES fOR £'.0!\£ TJAi:
· ..
·;: Y
. . ::.~ - .
l!;liATT£1?T TO UNOE.RIU~! PREST IG£ Al".OT·2· HIS ATT£.'!PTS tlNSUCCESSFU'-.
~~~ 4NSi£AD HE HAS SUCCEEDrD IN BUlLOlNG AHOT-~'S STAT~£ AMONG . ·::
DtlU:S eim.;; Dt\MitGING HIS OVN COriS10£RASt.Y. lT IS IOiOVI TO VAV£ .:': · •·'t··. .
THAT AS LAST R£~RT A'HHP·l AND AKJAG . PRESSURED At\BUD•J TO KAK.£ . ~ . ·:~.·-..
lSSU[ Of THIS AT KIGtu:5T LEVEL. t · ·-
3. AI10T·2 IS IIOST DlSCfiiET AND VAllE HAS NEVER RECEIVED l~f'O, ·~k ·:::~ i"1 . .
EXCEPT THAT .£11ANATINa fROK A."iDlP•l AND AIIJAO, Tlh'f Al\01.·2 BRAGS 'i:*:· · . . .-:~>,. . "'
;-ABOUT~ x·~BARK s7iPPoR·T. VAVE B.ELtrv~s . ·nu-s ·;;;o;i · o~ -P-ARtadr. --- --~,:~·:· · : . MDIP··l AND AM JAG TO ~SCERfA .IN EXlc:t~·T PRF.S!:UT kU~ARK 1Nv~V£K£ti.T .. :'f.. '
.. . - ·. :
.. .; t l .J ~ ~' 'I :j
j ..... ... 'l
. -.~ --l
:j . .....
. ~ .·
l R£ ALUGATlOH •oPUATIOU FO!lTY• <A~FAS!) t>ESIG~EO £LliUNAT£ ' . ~·Jt~:·'·,~:· . . , aEI l ;4t'"''
I " · ~ U~ . '·~~~ ~: ~· lD'IooucnoN EY OTh!:il T :~A.N li~ ~S'J ,I'IG OfrlCE G ,I'ROH.~ t.ft...._ . L· -. ·~· : ">~;;.;.:-..:.;~· .. ~\ ,......-~.Ar.. . ....;; . . ... . ••. . :
CtA HISTORICAl RE.VIEW .. ~~GRAM,t . REI.EASEIN RJlt ~ . .. . I
' . I ·. ~ ·: · : . ' .
.... . ··ti .. ·_:·:-. . ·:~
/
' / I
/
''\'
-\
\ ' .I 'I
l -'· r
\
C0041 39 22
;.,.:...
· ·~
;., .,\,:\ £: - -- · ·--. I .. ... ~ '
IN ~-~ (.J ---~' . :~
;..~?'.' ii OT\GA!Il ;:•\ 71 Or; , •llZ :.;T(J~Y PRf.t'CST[~CUS.
4. £NT1fii 'ATTER IS RESULT OF PI:RSOIMLITY CLASH BI:TVHN
,.:; .-:~
f · . ... ·i
. ~ : l ..
·i ,,.a: ;: j .·j l
1 1
j• I
A."::ilP•l AICO AMJAG DUO AND AMOT•2. BOTH Al'!ulP•l AND AlfJAG
AwAR£ THAT AMOT•2 HAS DAMAGING INFO R£ THEIR CONDUCT, INTRIGUES
AI>:> ATT HUO£ TOY/\RD Y.t:BAR,~ AHf- OD'COXE. P10l\!OV£R, iHEY B£L lEV£ 'f
~
A,OT·2 .HAS INFO RE A~OIP-t•s MISAPPROPRIATION OFfiCIAL AMIRON
fLl!'fiS IN PA YI No3 AfHRON OEPENOE!o!TS.
' 5. · VA\'£ CF OPINION THAT FOI{CU;G t.::c7-2 OU'i' OF WA\'t: AR!:A
. AS RESULT APIBUD·l•S R!QUtsf VO!n...D !:tT DANGrRUS PRECEDENT • TH£R£
IS NO DOUBT AMDIP•l VOULD USE !HIS, THROUGH A~SUD·l, AS M£AN9 . . . . _..., ........ CJf GETTING OTijtRS OUT r.<: AR£A VKO OPPOSE HDI OR VHOi'l HE
~SP£CTS TO BE WORKING FOR ODYOKt OR KUBARX SUCH AS AMTIY.I•l• . . I
; J ·· · . . MDIP•l HAS ~LR£AOY STARTED SIIULAR CHARACTER ASSASSINATlO.N \.: . ~ ' h.
. j f j
.J
..
f . ' • • . _, ~ ~'--. ~-- ..... ~~ '. CMPA%011 ABAINST AMT~Itl•l• I . . . \'\l-."'1.\t.'-'~~;,-~\. .-) r·· · )J · . s J _ s~ ,. \J~t-· '1. 6. VAVt •s REC.OMltENOAT ION AS POJSIBL£ SOLUl'ION THIS PROBU:K • "'\V.
l . IS FOR KQS APPROACH MBUD•l VITH SUGG£S1IC:. HI ~NO r..-,oT-2 .. : ...... .s , J ~ .
ii · i.• ~~
~~ J .,. '·
ON BRIEF .UNOFFICIAL .ftlSSION LA VITH EXPENSES PAlO BY ·AKauo.
THIS TR-IP VOULD stRV£ DUAl. PURPOSE • FIRSl IT VOULD PROVIDE - .
COOLI~G OFT PERIOD FOR ALL CONCERNED. SECOND, XUBARK VOULD
&NE:fiT FROIC AMOT-2•s TRIP AS H£ COULD StT UP INDEP£HDENT
AHT_l•CASTRQ ASSETS FOR us· ltiROUGKOUT LA.
1. Ir ARBUD•l DOES NOT ACCEPT THIS PROPoSITION BELI~VE
THERE IS Lttn..E THAT CAJi BE DON.E TO FORet A•2 TO LEAV£'VAVE
. ... . • = ~
' ! : ~~ -~ . ~ :
·-r ·.
•• '!- ~·
.:N
·-·
:·t · AREA • . IF PROPOSITION ACCEPTED VAVt FORES££5 NO PROBLtft
~~~TI.NUIHG .RUNNINO AKOTS. THIS CA~BE H•NDLEO THRU A•Ot•31. '
H . . 6. IN ANY CAS& VAVE RECOiiM£MOS .THIS "ATrtR 8~ HANDLED IN . , ~t
.-: .~;.~:.;. · . :: ·~ · . ·~ ,·-
1h .. · SUCH A VAY . AS TO AVOID GIVING MOT·2 THE: lOrA _THAT KliBARX HAS . ., .]
~;; - .LOST CONTIDlNCt IN HIM. HE AND HIS LOYAL J"OL!.OV£RS HAVE XADE I ;!.;_ - ..• ··--- · . . . . ~T . . . .... ;:·J:·: :.-: , . ... : .. · - ~ ~ ; · · . .:~ ·:· ~~OH 8Y OTKh~'05-:..Ji~rJC£ IS PR:OHI8(TtD4 . 1 . •'.' ; •. , .. -~ -~- . ...:.:....:.2.,.; ~- ::;:;;: ;. . . ~-: ~- -~--.-.:1! ... ~·~·-- ..... . ,_ ,·.; ·""·~:""- ' - . .. . ··-· ,. . .. . .. . .. . . ·-~
........ . ~C.........,t;;:;~..,. ,.,...,._Q _. lti sJ¥ . 1§4!1. . • t£¥ I 4 .¥ .... f'!"t .. ~~ . ' ; t
-, ! .J ;;:4 ·,l . ~ :.
'
,
\ /, ~
I
I
t i
! I /
1
'
._ ....
\ \
\..
!
. • ..
.. -.-~r_:.:_: _--. · .. .. ·. .. ,·.;.:
: :~ ..
·.·· .. · .. I., ..
··-= • . • . . . . . .~.:~. ....• ·
.. · . . :. ~ ... :·.~ ,· : .. . : .. ·:~. .. ~---
. .
---'';:'!. •.••
..... . ... . ~ .
. , . ·~
•.
·.
: . :' . · . .,.:',
..... u t• •• .,; ·,.
'P'!ti'Mi Z lGC£
·.,;..' I : •'
... ·:
.t ··.:.-:'
I
;I'
.· I·. • ..
•. ' .. I • .... . .
,.
. : -··
·":·-· . • • ~I • •
'\o ..... -..... -.
· . :. :.
.. ·. _._-.. ..
-
.. \ . ; ., . ., .. -• •
. .. . \ --·\:.
r I
. -~-; . l~ t·'
I! .... . . ..; I.
-.. r: . . • -~ ~· "1
.J'l . , ! .. :
L ~.; . .. \ ·, ,. .. •.
-! • I
. i
;
~
.. . I
'I _. ::·
.. . ~
~-
I
' I 'lCHlS:!O 01 J9 0100A l~ltl SII-il liJ ~-lOWII JO c.:IW !'.--'1 Nl lMOC .I.~IV
~ • ., , r .,... "' J ~~ r • • ' ... , r '; ' "': t \,' ':"" ·, P t • 0 T t n ,... T \.1. t •.. -""' ~ .•. T r ..., -r -~ • '' 0 ~--... ' -•••.-.•.J"'"·"--oi ---';?(' --.. :IC..C-• .. t -'•"·4/1. , __.._.,,
=-.. "1-*-,r~~~-=~-.-. -.. =---;:r-,· .---i· -,-.--. -:-,----------:~--:-, :; ·, , .... ..,. J.: . , ::._ ~ . i f. f ' J· i I
!. t r j:.
i.
. .
GG6[1!700:J