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[40]1. TRANSMITTED UNDER SEPARATE COVER VIA FLEXOWRITER JS A copy
[41]OF THE WAVE MEMO TO ACSI AS PRESENTED TO ACSI ON 39 JANUARY 1965.
[43]2. THE '*CAS SOURCE’* MENTIONED THROUGHOUT THE MEMORANDUM 1S
[44]AMICE*14, THE **SUB-SOURCE'' IN PARAGRAPHS 11 THROUGH 14 AND THE
[45]'SSUB-SOURCE'® IN PARAGRAPH 24 ARE THE SAME PERSON, IOEN A OF REFS.
[47]3. LATER DEVELOPMENTS SINCE THE PASSING OF THIS MEMORANOUM
[48]ARE THAT BOTH THE WIFE OF AMTRUNK-9 AND AMICE-14 HAVE IDENTIFIED
[49]**JORGE'® AND '*TORRES'* AS THE SAME PERSON FROM A PHOTOGRAPH PRO-
[50]VIDED BY ACSI ANDO, PER PARAGRAPH 27, THAT THE WIFE OF AMTRUNK-9
[51]{WHO NOW BELIEVES HER HUSBAND TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN PRISONERY 1S
[52]EXERTING PRESSURE UPON ACS! FOR ODYOKE TO NEGOTIATE THROUGH DIPLO-
[53]MATIC CHANNELS FOR HER HUSBAND'S RELEASE. REPORTEOLY, THE WIFE OF
[54]AMTRUNK-9 HAS ASKED FOR AND RECEIVED PERMESSION FROM '*TORRES*! TO
[55]WRITE A LETTER TO THE WIFE Gf GPIDEAL PLEADING HER HUSBAND'S CASE.
[57]ANDREW K. REUTEMAN
[60]WAVE HEMO TO ACS! DATED 19 JAN 65 if / fh
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[101]SUBJECT - INFILTRATION (NTC CUBA BY
[102]MODESTC ORLANDO CACZCO BASULTO
[104]1. AF ABOUT 1800 HOURS, 29 DECEMBER 1564, MRS. JOSEFINA LOPEZ
[105]ANGULO CE ORCZCC, WIFE OF MODESTO CRLANDO ORCZCO BASULTG AKA ''BEBO?',
[106]TELEPHONED A CAS SOURCE WHO HAS BEEN FRIENOLY WITH CRCZCC FOR
[107]SEVERAL YEARS. HRS. GROZCG ASKED THE CAS SCURCE TO VISIT KER AT HER
[108]HOME THAT EVENING.
[110]2. THE CAS SOURCE ARRIVED LATER THAT EVENING. MRS. OROZCO
[111]ASKEO THE CAS SCURCi IF HE KNEW THAT HER HUSBAND HAO LEFT FGR CUBA,
[112]CAS SOURCE REPLIEO THAT HE HAD HEARD RUMORS TO THAT EFFECT. MRS.
[113]OROZCO SAID THAT SHE WAS VERY WORRIED ASGUT HER HUSBAND BECAUSE
[114]SHE HAD WOT NEARY A WORD FROM GR AGCUT Him SINCE HE Leer with 2
[115]OTHERS & DAYS PREVICUSLY, CN 21 DECEMBER 196%. OROZCO HAD PLANNED
[116]TO RETURN [i A WEEK. MRS. GROZCO ASKED CAS SOURCE TO TRY TO FIND
[117]OUT SCMETHING A8CUT CROZCO THROUGH ''HIS FREENSS IN CUBA'', CAS
[118]SOURCE SAID THAT HE WOULD TRY SINCE HER HUSBAND HAD BEEN A GOCD FRIEND
[119]/OF WIS BUT THAT HE WOULD NEED SOME CETAILS OF THE PROPGSED TRIP Tc
[120]HELP HIM EN HES INVESTIGATIONS.
[122]3. MRS. OROZCO SAITO THAT HER HUSBAND HAD GONE INTO CUBA TO
[123]RESCUE JOSE VASQUEZ NEREY AND 3 OTHERS WHO WERE HIDING IN THE: HOME
[125]OF AWOMAN NAMED GLORIA CABRERA WHO LIVEO AT NO.72 27TH STREET BETWEEN
[126]‘ONT? AND '10'', APT. 3, VEDADO, HAVANA. MRS. OROZCO SAID THAT THE
[127]ADDRESS HAD BEEN GIVEN TC CROZCO BY HORTENSIA ORIZONDO MENESES
[129]ACS? SCURCE NC. i80/. MRS. OROZCO ADDED THAT BOTH SHE AND HER
[130]HUSBAND HAD KNGWN GLORIA CABRERA IN THE STERRA MAESTRAS AND THAT
[132]SHE /MRS. CROZCO/ OID HOT TRUST HER BECAUSE **SHE HAD BEEN COMPLETELY
[133]WITH THE REGIME UNTIL GHLY A FEW KONTHS AGO**.
[135]&. HRS. GROZCO TCLO CAS SOURCE THAT HER HUSBAND HAO BEEN
[137]_VESUTED ABOUT FEVE TIMES BETWEEN MID-NOVEMBER AND MID-DECEMBER 1564
[138]BY A PUERTO RICAN WHO IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS '*JORGE''. IT WAS
[139]**JORGE'*, ACCORDING TO MAS. OROZCO, WHO TOLD HER HUSBAND CF THE
[140]PLIGHT OF JOSE VASQUEZ HEREY. DURIKG THE SECOND GR THIRD MEETING,
[141]*#JORGE’® MENTIONED THE NAME OF "*HCRTENSIA'*, LATER IDENTIFIED AS
[142]HORTENSIA ORIZONCO MENESES, AND, AGAIN ACCORDING TO MRS. CROZCC,
[143]ORIZONOO WAS FROM THAT TIME GROZCC'S CONTACT IN THE VASQUEZ AFFAIR.
[144]ALTHGUGH ‘'JORGE'? 01D NOT AT ANY TIME REPRESENT HIMSELF AS CIA,
[145]MRS. OROZCO ASSUMED THAT HE WAS SENT BY CHA. THIS ASSUMPTION SHE
[146]PASSED GN TO CAS SOURCE. '*JORGE'' NEVER HDENTIFIED THE CRGANIZA-
[147]TICN WHICH HE REPRESENTED BUT HE DID TELL MRS. CROZCO THAT HE WAS
[148]WOT FROM CIA, **JORGE'* DID, HOWEVER, CONTINUE TO REPRESENT HIMSELF
[149]AS HAVING OFFICIAL BACKING FROM THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. \
[150]‘HJGRGE** WAS DLSCRIBED AS 5* 6** TO 8", MEDIUM BUILD, DARK BROWN |
[151]SLICKED-BACK HAIR WITH NO PART, DARK BROWN EYES, CLIVE COMPLEXION,
[152]ABOUT 33 YEARS OLD, AND SPEAKING NEAR-PERFECT SPANISH.
[154]S. THE CAS SOURCE REMARKED THAT A TRIP OF THIS NATURE REQUIRED
[155]A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF MONEY AND SUPPLIES. WHO HAD HELPED OROZCO
[156]TO GET THE BCAT, TO EQUIP IT AND FUEL IT AND TO PROVIDE THE OTHER
[157]NECESSITIES? MRS. ORGZCO REPLIED THAT THE FINDING, EQUIPPING AND
[158]READYING OF THE BOAT HAD BEEN HER HUSBAND'S RESPONSIBILITY BUT THAT
[159]GRIZONCO HAD PROVIOLO THE FUNOS. 7/45 WILL BE SEEN BELOW, THIS
[160]ALLEGATICN THAT ORIZGNOO WAS THE PAYMASTER FOR OROZCG'S TRIP 41S
[161]SUPPORTED BY A SIMILAR STATEMENT BY ANOTHER CAS SUB-SOURCE TO WHOM
[162]OROZCO TALKED QUITE FREELY ABOUT A WELK BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE/.
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[174]6. CAS SOURCE ASKED MRS. ORCZCO INTO WHICH AREA O10 HER
[175]HUSBAND INTEND TO INFILTRATE CUBA. MRS. CROZCG SAID THAT HE
[176]PLANNED TO GO INTO NCRTHEASTERN MATANZAS PROVINCE TO THE MARTI AREA
[177]WHERE HE HAD SEVERAL CCNTACTS WHO HAD HELPED HIM IN THE PAST. CAS
[178]SOURCE PRESSED FOR OTHER OETAILS OF THe ACTUAL SITE OF INFILTRATION
[179]BUT MRS, CROZCO PRCTESTED IGNORANCE OF FURTHER DETAILS. SHE SAID
[180]THAT SIE8 PUSEARD HAD WITH PEA An ST EXDEPTS! MAME SIMATEQ*? SHO
[181]KNEW THE ARCA COMPLETELY. /‘'MATEC'' WAS LATER JOUNTEFIED AS
[182]ALBERTO GONZALEZ ORTIZ. CAS FILES INDICATE THAT GONZALEZ HAS MADE
[183]A NUMBER CF CLANDESTINE TRIPS TG CUBA WHILE CCNTRACTING TO BRING
[184]QUT RELATIVES OF EXILES FOR MONEY. HIS REPUTATICN IS UNSAVCRY
[185]BASED UPON THE GENERALLY-ACCEPTEO FACT THAT HE HAS ACCEPTED LARGE
[186]SUMS OF. MONEY TO BRING FAMILIES CUT AND HAS FREQUENTLY FAILED TO
[187]HAKE GOCO.HIS PROMISES. IT 1S ALSO A CCMMCNLY-ACCEPTED FACT AHCNG
[188]THE EXILE FISHERMEN THAT GONZALEZ WILL NEVER UNOERTAKE SUCH A TRIP
[189]UNLESS HE HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY PAID OR 1S COMPLETELY CERTAIN THAT THE
[190]MONEY WILL Be MADE AVAILABLE UPGN HIS RETURN/.
[192]7. MRS. CROZCO SAID THAT SHE DID NCT KNCW THE NAME OF HER
[193]HUSBAND'S INTENDED PRIMARY CCNTACT IN. THE MARTI AREA. SHE MENTIONED
[194]GNE "*CANDIDG'' DJAZ, A FISHERMAN, AND ONE PEDRO BARBI, THE CWHER
[195]OF THE BATE MARINO RESTAURANT 2H CARDENAS, OROZCG HAD TCLS HIS WIFE
[196]THAT HE INTENDED TO SEE THESE PERSGHS TO HELP HIM WITH ‘RANSPCRTATION
[197]TG HAVANA AND TO PROVICE HIM WITH FUNDS /MRS, GROZCO CONTENDS--AND
[198]iT tS A SORE POINT WHTH HER-=-THAT OROZCO LEFT WITH ORLY A FEW
[199]COUNTERFEIT PESOS/, CNCE IN HAVANA, GROZCO PLANNED TO GO FIRST TO
[200]THE HOME OF MARIO GIL GONZALEZ sHIS PATRONYMIC HAS ALSO BEEN SPELLED
[201]*PHILL''/, FROM THERE, OROZCO PLANNED TC GO DIRECTLY TO THE
[202]ADDRESS OF THE CABRERA WOMAN WHICH HE HAD RECEIVED FROM OREZONDO,
[203]PICK UP VASQUEZ AND GROUP AND LEAVE.
[205]8. MRS. OROZCO SAID THAT HER HUSBAND TOLD HER THAT NE WOULO
[206]SENO A TELEGRAM TO HER AS SOON AS HE REACHED HAVANA SAFELY, SHORTLY
[207]BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE, HE WOULD SEND ANOTHER CABLE IN PRE-ARRANGED
[208]CODE TO §NOICATE THAT HE WAS ON HIS WAY GUT. MRS, OROZCO WAS THEN
[209]TO CALL: ORIZCNOG WHO WAS TO ARRANGE AN AIR SEARCH FOR THE BOAT.
[211]/AS LATER TOLO BY MRS. CROZCO, ENCLUSICN OF THE WORD '"BIEN'* /GOOD,
[212]iN A CABLE INDICATED THAT OROZCO WAS SAFE IN HAVANA. INCLUSION OF
[213]THE WORD '*SALIO'' /LEFT OR OEPARTED/ WOULD INDICATE THAT HE WAS
[215]ON HIS WAY OUT.
[217]9. MRS. OROZCO SAID THAT ORIZONDO HAD CALLEO HAVANA CN 30
[218]DECEMBER 1964, PRESUMABLY TO THE CABRERA WCMAN'S HOME. VASQUEZ
[219]HIMSELF HAD AHSWEREO THE PHONE AND STATED THAT THERE WAS NO NEWS
[220]FROM OROZCO OR FROM ANYONE ELSE. VASQUEZ AND THE GROUP WERE STILL
[221]WAITING FOR CONTACT.
[223]40. CAS SOURCE ASKED MRS. OROZCO HOW MUCH MONEY OROZCO HAD
[224]LEFT BEHIND FOR HER SUPPORT. SHE REPLIED THAT HER HUSBAND HAD LEFT
[225]$50.00 BUT THAT HE HAD TOLO HER TO RE-CONTACT ORIZCNDO IF SHE
[227]SHOULD NEED MORE.
[229]ti. A CAS SUB-SCURCE REPORTED THAT OROZCO HAD COME TO HIS
[231]HOME ON 32 DECEMBER ANO HAD TOLD HIM THAT HE PLANNED TO GO TO CUBA
[232]+ TO RESCUE VASQUEZ. OROZCO SHOWED SUB-SOURCE A RECEIPT FOR 41.00
[233]FOR REPAIR TC AN OUTBOARD MOTOR. ORGZCC SAID THAT THE BCAT WAS NOT
[234]FAST BUT QUITE SEAWORTHY. OROZCO SAID THAT ORIZONDO HAD PAID THE
[235]BILL FOR THE MOTOR REPAIRS AND HAD PROVIDED THE OTHER NECESSARY
[236]FUNDS. ORCZCO NAMED ORIZCNOO AS A PERSON WHOM HE /CROZCO/. HAD
[237]BROUGHT OUT GF CUBA AND WHO HAD KORKED $N CUBA UNDGR ONE DAVTO
[238]CABEZAS, AS REPORTED BY SUB-SCURCE, GROZCO TOLD HIM THAT GRIZONDO
[239]HAD TOLD HIM CF VASQUEZ" DANGER AND ASKED FOR HIS HELP IN RESCUING
[240]HIM. GCROZCO TOLD SUB-SOURCE THAT HE HAD REPLIED THAT HE-WCULD OO
[241]ANYTHING TO HELP HIS FRIEND VASQUEZ BUT THAT HE WANTED TO KNOW WHO
[242]THE PEGPLE WERE BEHIND HER /OREZCNOC/. GRIZCNDG HAD REPLIED THAT
[243]SHE WAS GOING TO PUT HiM IN TCUCH WITH A PERSCN WHC SPOKE FLUENT
[244]SPANISH BUT WAS NOT. CUBAN. THES WAS ''JORGE'' AND FRGM WHAT SUB-
[245]SOURCE IS ABLE TO RECONSTRUCT CROZCO MET ''JORGE'' IN A BAR ON
[246]FLAGLER STREET CN THURSCAY MORNING, 10 DECEMBER 166%. ,HERE THE
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[268]MRS. ORCZCO TOLD CAS SCURCE/.
[270]$2. OROZCO TOLO SUB-SGURCE THAT GRIZONDO HAD ScT UP THE MEET-
[271]ING FOR WESNESDAY MORNING, 3 OECEMBiR, WITH THE TWO PERSONS WHC
[272]WOULD ACCOMPANY HIM CN THE TRIP. CPROZCG MET THEM CN FLAGLER STREET
[273]AT A SPECIFEC CCRNER WHICH CRCZCO DIO NOT MENTION TG SUB-SCURCE,
[275]13. OROZCC SAIO THAT HE HAD ASKED FOR A RECEIVED $490.00 FOR
[276]EACH MEMBER CF THE CREW s47f $3 UNCLEAR WHETHER CROZCO ACTUALLY RE-
[277]CENVED THES SUM CF MONEY FOR HIMSELF AS WELL, PLUS A PRCHIESE TO
[278]TAKE CARE OF ALL CF THEIR FAMILIES FF THEY DID NOT RETURK.
[280]th. OROZCO CALLED SUB-SOURCE BY TCLEPHONE LATE Of THE UVENING
[281]OF §& DECEMBER TC TELL HIM THAT HE WAS "ON HIS WAY TO THE KEYS!"
[282]OROZCO TOLD SUS-SOURCE THAT THE ARRANGEMENTS FCR THE MCNEY AND THE
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[285]$5. AT A SECOND MEETING BETWEEN MRS. ORCZCO AND CAS SCURCE ON
[286]8 JANUARY, MRS. OROZCC TOLD CAS SCURCE THAT SHE HAD COME INTO THE
[287]POSSESSIGN GF SCHE INFORMATION FROM AN UNNAMED FISHERMAN WHO HAD
[288]RECENTLY COME OUT OF CUBA. THIS INFORMATION INDICATED THAT 3CVERAL
[289]ARRESTS HAD BEEN MADE JN THE SAME AREA IN WHICH HER HUSBANO INTENDED
[290]TO INFILTRATE. MRS. CROZCO SAID THAT SHE HAD ALSO HEARD A RADIO
[291]BROAOCAST THE DAY BEFORE, 7 JANUARY, STATING THAT & IRF ILTRATCRS
[292]HAD BEEN PICKEO UP IN THE CAROENAS/MATANZAS AREA OF MATANZAS PROVINCE.
[293]MRS. OROZCO HAD CALLED CREZONDO AND INSISTED UPON SEEING ''JUCRGE!
[294]TG GIVE THIS INFORMATION TO HIM PERSONALLY.
[296]16. '"'JCRGE'' AND ORIZCNDO ARRSVED AT HER HOME ABCUT 20C0
[297]HGURS, 7 JANUARY. MRS. ORCZCO SAiD THAT SHE TCLOD ‘* JORGE! THE
[298]ENFORMATION ABOUT ARRESTS IN THE AREA ANO MENTIONED A PERSON RAMED
[299]**PEOROS®, BRS. CROZCO SAIO THAT '*JCRGE'' HAD PRICKED UP HIS EARS
[300]AT THE MENTION OF THE NAME ''PEDRO''. ‘"'JORGE'' ASKED MRS. CROZCO
[301]THE LAST NAME OF ''PEDRO'', MRS, CRCZCG REPLIED THAT SHE DID ROT
[302]KNOW. ‘' JORGE’! ASKED WHAT BUSINESS THIS '*PFDRO'* WAS IM. MRS.
[303]OROZCO SAD THAT SHE THGUGHT THAT '*PcDRO** CWNED A RESTAURANT IN
[304]CARDENAS, MATANZAS PROVINCE. ACCORDING TO MRS. ORCZCO, '*JORSE®®
[305]THEN IDENTIFIED "*PEDRO'' AS PEDRO BARBI s/CR BALBI/ FEBLES AND
[306]SAID THAT BARBI DID NOT ''WCRK WITH THE AMZRICANS**® OR WITH AKY
[307]ORGANIZATION BUT THAT HE HAD HELPED MANY PEOPLE. MRS, GROZCO SAIO
[308]THAT. THIS PHECE OF NEWS WORRIED HER GREATLY BECAUSE HER HUSBAND
[310]‘HAD TOLD -HER HE INTENDED TO CONTACT THIS PERSCNH. ACCORDING TC MRS.
[311]OROZCO, ORIZONDO THEN BROKE INTO THE CONVERSATION TO DECLARE THAT
[312]‘SWE * / PRESUMABLY MEANING SHE AND ''JORGE''; HAD CONE ALL THE
[313]PLANNING FOR OROZCC'S TRIP AND THAT CRGZCO WAS NOT SUPPOSED To
[314]CCNTACT BARBI ACCORDING TO THIS PLAN. MRS. GROZCO REPCRTEO THAT
[315]'*JORGE** OFO NOT COMMENT ABOUT ORIZCKDO'S USE CF THE TERM ' were,
[317]17. THE LICENSE NUMBER OF THE AUTOMCBILE IN WHICH ** sORGET®
[318]AND GRIZCNDG ARRIVES WAS NOTED AS A NEW YORK PLATE, BU-5523. THE
[319]CAR WAS DESCRISED AS A LARGE FIAT. THIS LICENSE NUMBER WAS TRACEO
[320]AND IT WAS REPORTED BY THE NEW YORK MOTCR VEHICLE AUTHCRITIES THAT
[321]§T WAS REGISTERED TO ONE LEWIS BURNS, 75 EAST PARADE AVENUE,
[323]BUFFALO, NEW YORK. THE ONLY OTHER INFORMATION AVASLABLE FROM THE
[324]MOTOR VEHICLE RECGRDS INDICATED THAT BURNS WAS BCRN 13-10-98, THAT
[325]HE WAS RETIRED AND THAT THE AUTOMCBILE REGISTERED UNDER THIS NUMBER
[326]HAD BEEN A 1950 BUICK, MRS. GROZCO SAID SHE THCUGHT THAT THIS WAS
[327]THE SAME CAR **JCRGE'' HAD USED ON PREVIGUS VISITS.
[329]3B. MRS. OROZCO SHOWED CAS SCURCE A NOTE WHICH MRS. OROZCO
[330]IDENTIFIED AS HAVING BEEN WRITTEN BY GRIZONDO TO HER HUSBAND
[331]“SSEE ATTACHMENT A/S. THE NCTE WHICH WAS NOT DATEO STATED THAT THE
[332]-ACCOMPANYING 5500.00 WAS FOR OROZCO TO USE TC BEGIN PREPARATICNS
[333]FOR HIS TRIP. ANGTHER $200.06 WAS FCRIHCCMING BUT SHE ADVISED
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[349]OROZCG NOT TO TELL THES TO *'LOS MUCHACHOS’', PRESUMABLY OROZCO'S
[350]CREW MiMBERS. THE NOTE MENTICHLO A PERSGN ANMEO '*4LNC'!' AND ALSO
[351]P'JCRGE**. MRS. CROZCO SAID SHE DID NOT THINK ORIZCHOO REALIZED
[352]THAT SHE JMS. ONCZCOs WAS STILL IN POSSL5Si0% CF THIS NOTE.
[354]19. MRS. OROZCO REPORTED THAT GRIZCNDG HAD RETURNED To HER
[355]HCUSE THE MCRHSHG AFTCR HER VISIT WITH *'JGRGE'!. HRS. GROZCO SAID
[356]THAT GRIZONDC HAD BEEN VERY WATCHFUL AND THAT IT SEEMLO TC RRS,
[357]OROZCC THAT THE PUAPOSE GF CRIZCHDO'S TRIP WAS TO ATTEMPT TO WHITL-
[358]WASH ''JURGE** OF ANY CGNHECCICN WITH ORCZCO'S TREP, / THIS
[359]bNFORMATICN WAS VOLUNTEERED FREELY TO CAS SGURCE AS aN O8SERVATION
[360]OF MRS. OROZCOs/. URIZCNDO TOLD MRS. OROZCO THAT ''JORGE** HAD
[361]ONLY COME BLOWG WITH Hee THE paruyons CVLiGhG SLSAUSE HE WAS IKTEREST-
[362]ED $N WHAT HAD HAPPENCLO TO OROZCO AND THAT HE §*JORGE'! HAO HAD
[363]NOTHING WHATEVER TO 0G WITH ORCZCO'S TRIP. MAS, OROZCO REMINOED
[364]ORIZONOC THAT IT HAD BLEIN '*JORGE*® WHO HAD’ ORIGINALLY CCHE To SEE
[365]OROZCO TO TELL HIM ABOUT VASQUEZ'S PLIGHT AND THAT **JCRGE'! Hap
[366]VISITED OROZCO SEVERAL TIMES THEREAFTER, HEW WAS IT POSSIBLE THAT
[367]'8JORSE'* HAD NOTHING TC OG WITH CROZCC'S TRIP, ASKED MRS. GROZICO,
[368]CRIZCROO PROTESTED THAT **yCRGE «8 WAS ONLY INVOLVED IN TRYING To
[370]GET INFCRMATION ABOUT VASQUEZ.
[372]20. MRS. CROZCO REMARKED SCMETHING TO THE EFFECT THAT SHE
[373]DID NOT KNOW IF ORIZONDO CONSIDERED HER A COMPLETE FOOL SUT SHE
[374]/URS . OROZCC/ KNEW THAT SUCH A TRIP REQUIRED A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT
[375]OF MONEY, AT LEAST 310G0.00, AND THAT SHE WAS CERTAIN THAT ORIZONDO
[376]CiD NOT HAVE THAT KIND CF MONEY OF HER CWH. ORIZONDG REPORTEDLY
[377]REPLIEO THAT SHE HAD RAISED THE MONTY FROM FRIENDS. MRS. ORCZCO
[378]PERSISTED AND STATEO THAT SHE WAS COMPLETELY SURE IN HER OWN MIND
[379]THAT tT HAD BEEN ** THIS GENTLEMAN JORGE’' WHO HAD SUPPLIED THE
[380]HONEY. ORIZONOO DID NOT ANSWER, /SEE PARA 26 BELGW IN WHICH MRS.
[381]: OROZCO CLAIMED TO HAVE CVERHEARD A CONVERSATION BETWEEN '' JORGES?
[382]. AND GROZCO IN WHICH ''JSGRGE** STATED HE COULO NCT SUPPORT OROZCO’S
[383]TRIP DIRECTLY BUT COULD SUPPLY FUNDS; .
[385]21. HRS. OROZCO TOLD GRIZONDO THAT SHE WAS STILL UNCERTAIN OF
[386]**JORGE'S'' CREDENTIALS. MRS. GROZCO TCLD GRIZGNOO THAT HER
[387]HUSBAND HAD HAD GREAT TRUST IN ORIZGNDC ANO SHE /MRS. OROZCC/
[388]REALIZED THAT ANYTHING OR#ZONDO WAS INVOLVED IN WAS TO HER HUSBAND'S
[389]BEST ADVANTAGE BUT AT THE SAME TIME SHE COULD NOT BRING HERSELF TO
[390]FEEL THE SAME CONFIDENCE IN '* yoRGET! AS SHE FELT 1N ORIZONDO.
[391]GRIZONGO TOLD MRS. CROZCO THAT ''s0RGES? WAS NCT CUSAN BUT PUERTO
[392]RICAN, AN AMERICAN CITIZEN WHO WORKED FOR THE '*PENTAGGN!* ,
[394]OREZONOO SAID THAT SHE HERSELF Was NOT ACTIVELY WCRKING FOR THE
[395]*'PENTAGON'! ANY LONGER BUT THAT THERE ARE TIMES WHEN HER FORMER
[396]EMPLOYERS NEEO HELP AT WHICH TIMES THEY CALL UPON HER /OREZCNDOs .
[397]MRS. OCRCZCO SAID THAT HER HUSBAND HAD TOLD HER THAT BOTH ORIZONDO
[398]AND "‘'JORGE** WORKED FOR THE *'PENTAGCN'*, ;
[400]22. ORIZGNDO TOLD MRS. OROZCO THAT SHE WOULD PROVIDE TO MRS.
[401]OROZCO ANY MONEY THAT SHE NEEDED To SUPPORT THE FAMILY. ON 4 CR 5
[402]JANUARY, CRIZONDO HAD GIVEN MRS. GROZCO $100.00 TO PAY HER RENT
[403]/FGR WHICH SUM MRS. ORCZCO OID NOT SIGN A RECENPT/. ORIZONDO ALSO
[404]H TOLO MRS. OROZCO THAT ' "JORGE! WOULD BE QUT GF TOWH FOR AN UN-
[406]SPECIFIED PERIOD,
[408]23. OROZCNDO PAID MRS. OROZCO ANOTHER VISIT ON 14 JANUARY,
[409]; ACCORDING TC HRS. CROZCC, ORIZCNDO NOW CLAIMED THAT NEITHER SHE
[410]‘ NOR _*'JORGE’' HAD HAD ANYTHING TO DC WITH OROZCO'S TRIP, THAT IN
[411]; FACT THEY HAD BOTH TRIED TO TALK HIM GUT CF MAKING THE TRIP,
[413]24. NOTHER SUB-SCURCE PAID A SOCIAL VISIT TO MRS, CROZCO ON
[414]THE EVENING CF 11 JANUARY. MRS. CROZCO SHCWEO THIS SUB-SOURCE THE
[415]SAME NOTE WHICH INDICATEO THAT CREZCNOG HAD GIVEN CRC2CO 4500.00
[416]FOR THE INITIAL PREPARATICNS FOR HIS TRIP. MRS. ORCZCO TOLD THIS
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[436]SUB-SOURCE THAT BOTH GRIZCHNCO AND ''JCRGE** WORK FOR THE PENTAGON
[437]AND ALSO MENTEICNED ORIZGNCO'S VISITS ON & AND 11 JANUARY IN WHICH
[438]CREIZGNOO ATTCMPTED TG DISCLAIM ANY PART FCR HERSZLF GR ''JGRGE'* IN
[439]OROZCTC'S TRIP. 3. GROZCO TOLD THIS SUB-SCURCE THAT 3iit WAS GCING ©
[440]TO PUT PRESSURE UPON THESE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PENTAGGN
[442]/GRIZONDO AND **JORGE''; TO LETHER GET HER HUSBAND OUT OF CUBA GR
[444]FAILING THAT Te BUY HIM OUT.
[446]25. ‘'#JORGE** PAID AN UNANNOUNCED VISIT TO MRS. GROZCO ON 13
[447]JANUARY. DURING THIS VISIT, HE CONFIDED TG MRS. CRCOZCG THAT HIS
[448]HAME WAS NOT ''JCRGE*® SUT *'TGRRES'*. **TORRES'! SAID THAT HIS
[449]ORGANIZATION HAD NOT BEiN INTERESTED §N VASQUEZ BUT 8H TWO AGENTS
[450]/HE USED THE TERM 'SAGENTES''/ WHO WERE IN HIDING IN THE SAME HOUSE
[451]WITH VASQUEZ. AT WHICH POINT MRS. CROZCO ASKED ''TGRRES** HGW HE
[452]HAPPENED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS IF HIS CLAIM WERE TRUE THAT HE HAD
[453]NOTHING TO OG WITH HE® wucBANOPS TRIP, FFTORAEC#« Mane Me Rept y,
[455]ACCORDING TO MRS, OROZCC,
[457]26. MRS. CROZCC THEN CCMMENTED THAT SHE KNEW FROM PERSONAL
[458]EXPERIENCE HOW OMFFECULT IT WAS TO RAISE EVEN A FEW HUNORED OCLLARS
[459]IN THE EXILE COMMUNITY. SHE SAID THAT SHE KNEW CRIZCNDO DID NOT HAVE
[460]THE $1060.00 GR MORE WHICH HAD BEEN SPENT FOR HER HUSBAND'S TRIP.
[461]THIS LED HER TO THE CONCLUSION, MRS. GROZCG SAID, THAT ''TORRES!?
[462]AND HIS ORGANIZATION HAD SUPPLIED THE FUNDS. AGAIN THERE WAS NO
[463]REPLY FROH ''TCORRES'', ;CH 11 JANUARY 1964, MRS. GROZCO TOLO SAME
[464]CAS SCURCE MENTICNED IN INITIAL PARAGRAPHS THAT SHE HAD CVERHEARD A
[465]CONVERSATION BETWEEN HER HUSBAND ANO ''TCORRES'' A WEEK OR TWO BEFORE
[466]GROZCO'S DEPARTURE §$N WHICH **TORRES'! TOLD ORGZCO THAT HE COULD
[467]NOT SUPPORT HIS TRIP '*DIRECTLY'* BUT COULD PROVIOE MONEY WHICH
[468]‘OROZCO COULD USE TO MAKE HIS OWN PREPARATIONS/.
[470]27. MRS. OROZCO SAID THAT SHE HAD HAD TWO SPECIFIC PROPOSALS
[471]TO BRING UP TO ‘'TORRES''. ONE, THAT IF WORO WERE RECEGVED FROM HER
[472]HUSBANO THAT HE WAS STILL HIOING.OUT, '*TORRES* '* ORGANIZATION
[473]SEND A.BOAT IN TO HELP HIM EXFILTRATE. THE OTHER WAS THAT IF IT
[474]BECAME CONFERMED THAT HER HUSBAND WAS A PRESONER, ''TORRES? #¢
[475]ORGANIZATION NEGOTIATE FOR HIS RELEASE THROUGH DIPLGMATIC CHANNELS,
[476]AS PART OF THIS LAST PRCPCSAL, MRS. CROZCG SUGGESTED THAT SHE BE
[477]PROVIDED WITH SUFFICIENT MONEY TG TRAVEL TC MEXICO TO TAKE UP HER
[478]HUSBAND'S CASE PERSONALLY WITH THE PRESTOENT OF MEXICO. '**TORRES*!
[479]SASD THAT HE HAD TO TAKE THE MATTER UP WITH HIS ORGANIZATION.
[480]*STCRRES'' RE-EMPHASIZED THAT HE PERSONALLY HAD HAD HCTHING TO DO
[481]WITH HER HUSBANDS TRIP. HE WAS STILL ATTEMPTING TO USE ALL THE
[482]RESOURCES AT HIS COMMAND TO FIND OUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO OROZCO
[483]AND WHILE HE WAS VERY SCRRY ABOUT HER HUSBANO'S MISFORTUNE, HE
[484]STATED THAT iT HAO BEEN CROZCO'S OWN DECISIGN TO GO ON THIS TRIP.
[486]28. UPON LEAVING, MRS. ORGZCC TOOK NOTE OF THE LICENSE
[487]NUMBER ON **TORRES' ** BLACK VOLKSWAGEN. SHE ASSUMED BUT COULO NOT
[488]BE CERTAIN THAT IT WAS A FLORIDA LICEHSE PLATE, NC.6801304 OR 680
[489]1354, ACCORDING TO A CAS! INVESTIGATICN, THE PREFIX *'68p!!
[490]REPRESENTS A PLATE BLOCKED AT THE TALLAHASSEE LEVEL FGR THE COVERT
[491]USE OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
[493]29. ORIZONDO VISITED MRS. ORGZCO LATER THAT SAME EVENING OF
[494]13 JANUARY. SHE SEEMED SURPRISED TO LEARN THAT '"JORGE'* HAD
[495]VISITED MRS. OROZCO EARLIER THAT DAY. ORIZONOO ATTEMPTED TO CON-
[496]VINCE MRS. OROZCO THAT THE ''JORGE'' HENTICNEO 'N A NOTE SHE HAD LEFT
[497]FGR ORCZCO WAS CNE JORGE MAYO /CR MALLO/ CAROCSO, A FRIEND OF
[498]OROZCO'S EN THE REBEL-ARMY-IN-EXILE GRGANIZATICN **EJERCITO
[499]LIBERTADOR'* TO WHICH ANOTHER CLOSE FRIEND OF CROZCC'S, JOSE LOPEZ
[500]LEGON AKA ‘'PEPE EL TORO'!' BELGNGS. MRS. GRGZCO REMARKED TC
[501]OR!IZONDO THAT SHE DID NCT KNCW HOW STUPID GRIZONDO CCGNSIDERED HER TO
[502]BE BUT THAT SHE WAS COMPLETELY CERTAIN THAT THE *'JORGE**® MENTEGNED
[503]ON THE NOTE WAS THE SAME ""JORGE*® WHO HAD VISITED HER-AND HER
[504]HUSBAND. MRS. OROZCO ALSO TOLD ORIZCNOG THAT ''JORGE'* HAD TCLD
[505]HER THAT HIS NAME WAS **TORRES**, ORIZONDO CONFIRMED THAT THIS
[506]WAS HIS NAME. :
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[515]«_ EM ATTEMPTING TC RE-CONSTRUCT HOW MUCH HONEY WAS SPENT TO
[516]PREPARE THE BOAT AND EQUIPMENT FCR GROZCO'S TRIP, IT APPEARS LIKELY
[517]THAT GROZCO WAS EXAGGERATING WHEN HE SAID THAT HE HAD ASKED FCR
[518]AND RECEIVED 5490.09 FCR £ACH MEMBER OF THE CREW. MRS. GROZCO HAS
[519]STATED THAT OROZCO HAD GIVEN THEM EACH $20C .00 AND SHE THOUGHT BUT -
[520]WAS NOT COMPLETELY CERTAIN THAT HE HAD LATER GIVEN EACH CF THEM AN
[521]ADDS TIONAL UNSPECIFIED SUM, STARTING WITH THE FIGURE GF $700.00
[522]WHICH 55. HLNTEICHEO 4N THE ATTACHED NOTE FRCM CRIZONDG, IT APPEARS
[523]SAFE TO SAY THAT MOST IF NCT ALL GF THAT aUM WOULD HAVE BEEN PAID
[524]OUT FOR FUEL /4T LEAST 50 GALLONS SINCE (T HAD BEEN A 50-GALLCN TANK
[525]WHICH HAD EXPLODED AND HAD TO BE REPLACEDs, FCCO FOR ONE WEEK, THE
[526]ITEMS /KNIVES, PGNCHOS, CANTEENS, FATIGUE UNTFORMS, AMMUNITICN, ETC./
[527]WHICH MRS. OROZCO CLAIMS GROZCO BCUGHT IN AN ARMY/NAVY STCRE PLUS
[528]OTHER MISCELLANEOUS BOAT 1TEM3, 400 TO THIS $700.00, THE $290.00
[529]APIECE FOR THE TWO FISHERMEN WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN MORE/, THE
[531]200 FCR THE REPA
[532]PEOLACE THE SS Gatic $3. OROZCO
[533]. IVE ONE AT THAT/ AMCUNTS TO
[534]APPROXIMATELY 1341.00. MRS. CROZCO SAID THAT SHORTLY BEFORE HER
[535]HUSBANO'S OEPARTURE, ONLY $125.00 REMAINED OF THE INITIAL SUH.
[537]THE BALANCE GF 5 ENT FOR MOTEL ROCMS IN THE KEYS AND FOR
[538]OTHER LAST-MINUTE PURCHASES. THE ONLY ITEMS FURNISHED To OROZCO,
[539]ACCOROING TO HES WIFE, WERE AN Mel RIFLE AND AN M-l CARBINE WHICH
[540]GRIZONDO HAD GIVEN HIM /HRS. OROZCO THOUGHT THAT THEY HAD HAD TO
[541]BUY THE AMMUNITICN FOR THESE WEAPCNS/, AND A PESTOL OF UNIDENTIFIED
[542]MAKE BY LAUREANO BATISTA FALLA OF THE MOC /CHRISTIAN DEMGCRATIC
[543]MOVEMENT/ WHO ALSO GAVE OROZCO A MEANS OF ENTREE TO THE FRENCH
[544]AMBASSADOR IN CUBA IF HE SHCULD RUN INTC UNFORESEEN OLFFICULTIES.
[545]OROZCO ALSO BOUGHT OR RECEIVED FROM SOME UNNAMED SOURCE AN UNKNOWN
[546]AMOUNT OF COUNTERFEIT PESOS,
[548]34. AS ATTACHMENT 8 TO THIS MEMORANDUM, A COPY OF ANOTHER
[549]NOTE FROM ORIZCNDO TCO OROZCO RECOMMENDING AN INCIVIOUAL BHO CCULD
[550]PROVIDE A BOAT FCR HIS INFILTRATION 1S APPENDED FOR YCUR REFERENCE.
[551]THES INDIVIDUAL 15 BELIEVED TO BE ACS# SOURCE No. 693.
[553]32. CAS WOULD APPRECIAT
[554]PARTICULARLY AS THESE CONTA ST '" JORGE!
[555]AND ORIZCNDO. yf AND '* TORRES!
[556]ARE ONE AND THE SAME, IT 1S TIGATION INTO
[557]THE LOENTITY OF THIS INDIVIDUAL IS UNNECESSARY,
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[589]1 AM LEAVING YOU $500 SO THAT YOU CAN GO TO SEE ALDO EARLY AND
[590]BEGIN THE PREPARATICNS. TONIGHT § WILL HAVE $200 MORE AND § WILL
[591]TRY TO CBTAIN THE REST. FIND OUT JF THEY CBTAINED SOME MONEY, 1
[592]DION'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THIS BUT IT WCULD BE CONVENIENT ANYWAY.
[593]week WAG HERE TONIGHT. YCU CAN COME TOHORRCW NIGHT TO ARRANGE ALL
[595]HE COTAILS.
[597]TAKE CARE OF THE TANK AS YOU THINK 1S BEST. SINCE YOU ALREADY
[598]PAID FOR IT, YOU CAN PICK IT UP AND TELL THE BOYS THAT OUE TO THE
[599]BAD WEATHER IT IS BEST TO WAIT. {N ORDER TG AVOID HAVING THE
[600]"'RUMOR'* SPREAD DOWN FLAGLER STREET, § DON'T THINK IT IS CONVENT ENT
[601]TO SAY ANYTHING ON THIS OTHER MATTER TC THE EDYS UNTIL LATER ON,
[602]THINK ABOUT IT AND SEE WHAT IS BEST ON THIS HATTER,
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[625]ne X\
[627]{ CAME TO SEE YOU BECAUSE § HAD TO SPEAK TO YOU. 1 DON'T
[628]KNCW HGW MUCH PROGRESS YCU HAD IN THE NFGCTIATIONS, BUT | WANTED
[629]TO TELL YCU THAT 1 HEARD GF A MAN, HUMBERTO VERGARA, CALLED
[630]VERGARITA. HE WAS RECCMMENDED TO ME AS A VERY SERICUS PERSCH,
[631]AND IT 4S SAID THAT HE HAS A BOAT READY TO SAIL. MAYBE YCU KXCW
[632]HIM. AS | CAWNCT SEE YOU OR DO ANYTHING DURING THE DAY, | MADE
[633]THE FOLLCWING ARRANGEMENTS TO SAVE TIME. 1 TOLD HIM TO GO 76
[634]THE FLAGLER BRIDGE, TCWARDS OCWNTCWN AND TO STOP CN THE LEFT St0E
[635]NATURALLY GOING TOWARDS DCWNTCWNs AT 1200 NOON. YOU CAN THEN
[636]APPROACH HIM AND ASK HIM IF HE £S VERGARITA, AND YCU IDENTIFY
[637]YGURSELF AS MARQUIES. HE 1S A YCUNG MAN, HAS CNE TCOTH MISSING,
[638]SF YOU THINK HE 1S GOOD, SPEAK TO HIM, FIND OUT WHAT HE HAS AND
[639]HOW MUCH HE ASKS FOR THE TRIP,
[641]0% ANY EVENT, WHEN YOU GET HOME AND YOU READ THIS NOTE, CALL
[642]ME AND LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE GOING TC SEE HIM, ALSO LET ME KNOW
[643]WHETHER YOU HAVE ARRANGED SOMETHING ELSE.