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[16]siaect OPERATIONAL/TYPIC/AMFAUNA
[18](' _AMFAUNA-26 Progress Report for October, November and December 1963
[20]ACTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES
[22]Action Required: For Your Information
[24]Reference: UFGA-11700, dated 14 October 1963
[26]Operational Developments:
[28]. 1, Seven SW messages were received from AMFAUNA-26 during the
[29]period, and two were sent to her. Two SW messages written by AMFAUNA-2'
[30]“no, 34 and no. 36, have not been received and it is. not known what has
[31]happened to them, It. has been observed that mail to and from Cienfuego:
[32]_is very slow and uricertain; SW message no. 10 sent to AMFAUNA-26 on 6
[33]November did not reach her ‘until 22 December,
[35]2. +A continuing effort was made during the period to activate
[36]‘AMFAUNA~26's OWVL and medium speed radio systems. OWVL transmissions
[38], were begun on 16 October with message no, 1 warning AMFAUNA~26 of the
[39]arrest of AMFAUNA-14 the week before {see AMFAUNA-1 Progress Report for
[40]October, November and December 1963) and the fact that AMCUTLER-2 was
[41]under surveillance, AMFAUNA-26 was unable to receive this message. In,
[42]her SW-message no. 35 of 25 October, she reported that her radio set is |
[43]calibrated in meters instead of kilocycles and she had been unable to
[44]find the correct. frequency. JMWAVE then sent AMFAUNA~26 instructions
[45]for" converting kilocycles to meters, and began transmitting dummy
[46]mesSages, giving AMFAUNA-26 a simple code for reporting by commercial
[47]telegram whether she was receiving them, and whether and with what books
[48]she was able to decipher.
[50]3. Two sets of deciphering materials had been sent to AMFAUNA-26.
[51]One package was buried by AMGLEN-9 in: Pinar del Rio Province (see WAVE-.
[52]5887 of 16 October 1963), and AMFAUNA-26 was informed of its location
[53]in OWVL message no. 1 of 16 October and SW message no. 10 of 6 November.
[54]A previous set of number groups had been sent to her by SW early in
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[102]i October, -It now appears that AMFAUNA-26 never rege either of these
[104]‘sets of groups.” As of, 22 November when AMFAUNA-26's gg cit “Olga arrived
[106]"in Mextco (see paragraph §&), AMFAUNA-26 already had in her possessfon *¢ +
[108]the letter containing the groups written in SW, but either had tridd and
[109]failed to develop it, or had hesitated to try to do so, not knowing in
[110]‘what strength to use the reagent and erroneously thinking that this was
[111]a critical factor. As mentioned previously, AMFAUNA-26 did not receive
[112]SW message no. 10 until 22 December; on the. following day she sent an
[113]open telegram to the son of AMFAUNA-32 in Miami, confirming her willing-
[114]ness to travel to Pinar del Rio and recover the material. It is not
[115]known whether she actually did so,
[117]4, It had been planned, once AMFAUNA-26 wa; ving OWVL and
[119]her ability to recever caches confirmed, to haves AMWEE-1l\cache AMFAUNA~1'r
[120]radio. and to inform AMFAUNA-26 of its location by OWVL. ~ Events did not
[121]‘permit. this.
[123]5, AMFLORA-1 sent.a telegram to his ‘JMWAVE area accommodation
[124]address on 16 November 1963, reporting that his wife,: the sister of.
[125]AMFAUNA-26, was due to arrive in Mexico City on 20 November, Mexico
[126]‘City Station was so informed on 18 November (see WAVE-7762),. but by the
[127]time confirmation arrived (MEXI-7031 of 23 November) ‘the lady had
[129]‘already departed for Caracas. The oral messages which she brought from
[131]AMFAUNA~26 therefore did not reach JMWAVE until 20 December when HVCA-
[132]10780 was recéived, ' This dispatch transmitted a typewritten note from
[133]AMFLORA-1's wife containing the. following information:
[135]a. AMFAUNA-26 had run out of developer pills. (In retrospect,
[136]this does not. seem to be true, because AMFAUNA-26 was evidently able to
[137].develop SW message no. 10 which she received on 22 December (see paragray ql:
[138]3).- What AMFAUNA-26 had probably been trying to convey was that she
[139]was running very short of pills, AMFAUNA-1-does not remember how many
[140]he gave her, but the most probable number appears to be twelve. )
[142]-b, AMFAUNA-26 had been unable to develop the SW message
[143]containing her cipher groups, because she had not been told how to mix
[144]her reagent.
[146]-¢,° AMCUTLER-2 was very worried by the fact that AMFAUNA-14
[147]had been telephoning her frequently, and was afraid that AMFAUNA-14 was
[148]betraying her to the DSE.
[150]d. AMFAUNA-26 was uneasy about being left in Cuba without a
[151]responsible leader to report to,
[153]e. AMFAUNA-26's cover was wearing very thin, due to indis-
[155]-eretions »by- AMFAUNA-31,
[157]6. In her: SW message no. 29, which was received at JMWAVE on 21
[158]October, - AMFAUNA-26 reported that AMFAUNA-38 had been arrested on 7
[159]September and taken to Santa Clara. At 0200 hours on the following
[160]morning, fourteen policemen came to AMFAUNA-26's house and searched it
[161]on the pretext of looking for a burglar. However, the only part of the
[162]house which they searched was the part.inhabited By PUPAUNA26-
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[165]af 7. %In her SW message no. 30, AMFAUNA-26/Yeported “the full names’
[166]éf two individuals who had approached her sub igents AMFAUNA-29 and
[167]FAUNA-31, claiming i “a doing underground york against CASTRO. These
[168]persons are one Amable ANCHEZ Borroto and #ne Raul €¥SIMON Delgado.
[169]While neither JMWAVE nor Headquarters (DIR-78835 of 30 October 1963)
[170]had any traces on these persons, JMWAVE has a carded reference to a
[171]sensitive source document which carries the full name of Amable SANCHEZ
[172]Borroto and the implication that he enjoys the confidence of the Cuban
[173]aSyp ng the card, and
[174]10 _AMFAUNA-26 was
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[183]4 8. On 12 October 1963, AMFAUNA-26 was in Bi ayy wher she saw
[184]- AMCUTLER-2,: About 23 or 24 October she was again in Hawana‘and again
[185]i saw AMCUTLER-2. On both occasions the problems posed by the arrest ‘of te
[186]AMFAUNA-14 were the prime topic of discussion, i ,
[188]UFGA- 13428
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[192], 9, In outgoing SW message no, 9 of 30 September, AMFAUNA-26 had
[194]been asked to investigate a Cuban naval officer named Carlos *LOPEZ
[195]Avalos with. a view to forming an opinion as.to his political attitude,
[196]She reported. in SW message no. 37 of 3 November that all reports on
[197]this individual were derogatory except for one given by AMLAME-5., This
[198]report reacheq/AMFAUNA- 26 via AMFAUNA-31 who got it from a man identified
[200]| only as Ramon ®PEREZ who said that AMLAME-5 had told him that he had a
[202]! contact. to the. Swiss Embassy, and that LOPEZ was already connected with
[204]i people outside of Cuba and had recently performed a erqat service for —
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[208]the counterrevolution, Rr eonbe, See Mee nce cow Ze 74777
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[212]. 10, When the arres Ao ayer are} pS to THNAVEY eg
[214]AMFAUNA-1 Progress Report for October, November and December 1963)>~the-—-
[216]son of AMFAUNA-32 was asked to phone his mother in Cienfuegos’ and instruc
[218]her to tell AMFAUNA-26 to-go into hiding. On 3 January the son reported
[219]completion of the call and said that his mother had told him that
[221]_ AMFAUNA-26 had: been arrested on 29 December and taken to the Santa Clara
[223]‘| prison, _
[225].' 11. The reason for AMFAUNA~26's arrest ‘remains obscure, or rather
[227]: there are so many acceptable explanations that the problem is to select
[229]i the right one, She could have been implicated by AMFAUSA-38, as would |
[231]‘ seem to be suggested by the fact that her house was searched immediately
[233]following AMFAUNA-38's arrest; if so, however, it is hard to explain
[235]‘| why AMFAUNA-26 herself was not arrested until three and one-half months
[236]later. She could -have been denounced by AMCUTLER-2 who was herself
[237]arrested two or three days before AMFAUNA-26's arrest; this seems unlikel
[238]in view of the fact that AMCUTLER-2 and AMFAUNA-26 are friends, that when
[239]AMCUTLER-2 reaches the point where she is ready to implicate other
[240]members of the AMFAUNA net she could be expected to begin with people
[241]who are not her friends, and that at least one such person (AMFAUNA-25) |
[242]was known to be at liberty as recently as 4 January 1968, as were two of
[243]the cutouts between AMFAUNA-26 and AMCUTLER-2 (AMFAUNA-32 and AMFAUNA-33);
[244]AMCUTLER-2 is believed to have been under surveillance by the DSE, at
[245]least sporadically, between 12 and 24 October (see AMFAENA-1 Progress
[246]Report for October, November, and December 1963), and AMFAUNA-26 could {
[248]I
[250]have been observed and identified when she visited AMCUYLER-2 during
[252]this period and. marked for subsequent arrest and interrogation in
[253]connection with AMCUTLER-2's activities. AMFAUNA-26 could have made an
[254]attempt between 22 and 29 December to recover the cached cipher groups
[256]' (see paragraph 3), and either been detected in the act or arrested while .
[257]4 trying to contact AMCUTLER-2 on the same trip; in this case, however,
[259]4 it would seem that the DSE would not have transported her all the way
[260]back to Santa Clara ‘but would have kept her in Havana for concurrent
[261]interrogation with AMCUTLER-2, The open telegram sent to the son of
[262]AMFAUNA-32 on 23 December was rather indiscreet and could have caused
[263]difficulties for the sender, but some of these difficulties ought in this
[264]case to have brushed off on AMFAUNA~32 herself
[266]A and as of 3 January 1964.
[267]she. was still at yer ty pee UR ace PING Tat a hite |
[269]He 12, Inforpdtion received fy6m(HULAKE-l)on 8 January 1964 indicates —
[270]Wy
[272]’ ¥i/that a general/roundup began Cienfuegos on 26 December, possibly in
[273]; connection wjth a suspected flot against the life of Fidel CASTRO, and ;
[274]a) 34 that at leagt seventeen pefsons had been taken. One of these persons
[275]| appears to/be AM = “To the best of JMWAVE's knowledge, neither
[276]| AMFAUNA-26 nor’ AMLAME-5 had been involved in any plot against the life
[277]of Fidel CASTRO, but both could have been high on a general suspect list.
[278]The only known factor common to both AMLAME-5 and AMFAUNA-26 is the ;
[279]Ramon *PEREZ mentioned in paragraph 9. AMLAME-5 evidently was extra-
[280]ordinarily indiscreet when he talked with this man. AMFAUNA-31 has also -
[281]spoken with him, and according to the oral message brought out by
[282]AMFAUNA~26's sister (see paragraph 5-e) AMFAUNA-31 has been habitually
[283]“indiscreet.. Ramon PEREZ was thus in a position to denounce both AMLAME-5
[284]_and AMFAUNA-26. If so, AMEAUNA-31 also ought to have been implicated,
[285]and it is perhaps significain in this connection that, of all of
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[307]“a | AMFAUNA-26 's sub-agents, AMFAUNA-31 is the only oahu eveq jto be in
[308]wd hiding as of 9 January; (see WAVE-9940 of 4 January). : o,
[310]‘13, ‘There has been no. previous mention of Ramon PEREZ in the t
[311]AMFAUNA operational reporting, and JMWAVE has no identifiable traces on
[312]im. AMFAUNA-1 was asked about him on 6 January, and produced t. eye
[313]followi formation which he had obtained from Antonio Remigio, +ESTRADA
[314]| Diaz (oun dstobes: 1939, Cienfuegos fysfhow residing atj425 S.W. 5th.
[315]St., Apt. 10; Mi Lami.s van) a former collaborator of the AMFAUNA net in.
[316]Cienfuegos, Ramon on SERRA is-an employee of the Consolidado de Transporte,
[317]lives.on Calle Arguelies in Cienfuegos between Prado and Gacel, and has
[318]a*son, name unknown, who drives a taxi. + ima dtgced Word may Rewer
[320].: Cs Lt  2C1— A Cc
[321]: 14,- On 5 and 6 January 1964, warning méssagés Were Sent to AMFAUNAS
[322]29, 30, 31 and 33 by Antonio Remigio ESTRADA Diaz and by AMFAUNA-1
[324](see WAVE-0045 of 7 January 1964),
[326]Production: .
[327]“45, The following reports were made:
[329]-UFG-3918 Loading of a. “Ship at La Isabela with trailers Carrying 40-
[330]ot , foot Long Covered Objects
[332]UFG-3941 Relocation of Radar Installations & Other Activities at the
[333]; . Cienfuegos Surface-to-Air Missile Site, Las Villas Province
[335]‘ UFG-3947 | Installation of an unusual Light at Cifuentes SAM Missile
[336]oo Assembly Base, Las Villas Province; Dress, Habits, & Expected
[337]Departure of Soviets at Cifuentes
[339]UFG-3948 - Increase in the Number of Tanks & Soviet Personnel at the
[340]Sagua la Grande SAM Missile Site; Relocation of a Sagua la
[341]_ Grande Soviet Headquarters
[343]UFG-3974 Departure of Soviets from the Remedios Area; Movement of
[344]Trucks, Guns, & Soviet Personne] in Las Villas Province
[346]UFG-3998 - Military Defense Measures at Cayo Loco, Las. Villas Province
[348]UFG-—4088 Arrival of Unexplained Vehicles at Las Auras, Cienfuegos &
[349]Dismantling of that Base.
[351]UFG-4141 Cuban Military Occupation of Former Soviet Camps Near Yaguajar
[352]. & at Fincas La Puntilla, La Bajada, & Rojas
[354]UFG-4180* ‘Removal of Some Equipment & Personnel from the Soviet Base
[355]- a . at ‘Itabo, Las Villas Province
[357]UFG-4266 Field Comment Only
[359]: UFG-4272 * Alleged Transfer of all Cuban Militiamen to the Central Army.
[360]| New Defense Measures Along ‘the Southern Coast of Las Villas
[361]; Province
[365]Expenses:
[367]: 16. ‘Three separate remittances each of $270.00 or a total of
[369]: $810.00 were sent to AMFAUNA-26 during this period. By previous agree-
[370]| ment one quarter of the money was to be given to AMFAUNA~32 and three-
[372]quarters was to be retained by AMFAUNA-26. The first two remittances
[374]were sent to AMFAUNA-32 by her son, and each was acknowledged by telegra
[375]The third remittance, at the telegraphed request of AMFAUNA-26, was sent
[376]to AMFLORA-1 in Caracas. Evidently his wife came to some arrangement
[378]with AMF AUNA-26 before she left (Cuba.
[380]"Future Plans:
[382]; 17. Communication will be maintained with AMFAUNA-33, first by
[383]j elephone and later if poss ible by clandestine means, for the purpose of
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[396]jlearning the status and whereabouts of affected nephed of the AMFAUNA-
[397]26 group. AS soon as the situation has erystallizéas e@ whereabouts
[398]of burned agents learnéd, and secure communications established, an,
[399]attempt will be made to. exfiltrate endangered personnel, 7
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