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[2]Titoa-10308-10029 | 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 |
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[6]MEMURANDUM FOR THE RECORD
[8]- SUBJECT: AMCANOE
[10]Job # 65-535/28
[11]File # 19-6-91
[12]Date@ included:
[16]. Vblumes: 11
[17]1. Description:
[19]This project concerns U.S. contacts for a resistance
[20]group in Cuba. Support of the Unidad de Liberacion Nacional
[21](ULN) and their plans and efforts to overthrow CASTRO.
[22]Principle players are:
[24]AMCANOE-1 (201-0283570) Eduardo GARCIA: Molina
[26]AMCANOE-2 (201-0726572) (Enrique ‘A ‘Alfredo .GARGIA | Molina)
[28]AMCANOE-3 (201-0727185) Antonio Jose ‘RAMIREZ Mendez,
[30]captured and. executed in Jan 64;
[32]AMCANOE-4 {(201-0729621){ Armando “SOSA Rodriguez
[34]aucanoz-s| (2010727186) Marcelino PEREZ Diez
[36]! 4
[37]AMCANOE-6; (201-0729610) { Orlando OROPESA Perez
[38]5
[40]AMCANOE-7 (201-0729080) Benjamin ACOSTA Valdes, captures
[41]tried and killed by firing squad —
[42]15 Sept 63.
[44]AMCANOE-9 (201- ) Juan AMESTOY Dominguez, killed
[45]‘| 29 Sept 63 in a gun battle.
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[52]Pn ane penultimate
[56]°2. Review of these files turned up the following documents:
[57]TDCSDB-3/654-571, dated 9 May 63: Concerns efforts of
[58]Cuban lawyer Paulino A SIERRA of Chicago to unify exiles and
[59]an offer by Chicago businessmen to support the overthrow of CASTRO.
[60]Memo for the Record dated 3 March 1964: a friend of
[61]AMCANOE-1 who is a businessman and ship owner’, with interests
[62]in a slot machine business (placing them in gambling houses) ,
[63]placed him in contact with elements of the underwrold, through’
[64]a former St. Louis police officer. Through the police officer
[65]there was reportedly a tie-in with the Cosa Nostra. The latter
[66]reportedly offered to assassim te CASTRO at a price of
[67]$150,000 dollars. co
[68]UFGA-15233, dated 15 April 1964: Report on a Byron
[69]CAMERON who said that he represented an unidentified | ‘group of
[70]persons who had made contact with two Cuban gangsters who were
[71]willing to kill Fidel CASTRO. CAMERON reportedly was associated
[72]with a Mr. S.W. TYLER (no identifiable traces) of Caribbean
[73]Producer, Inc., Miami Springs, Fla., and Herbert F. JENNE (no
[74]traces) with the firm F.A. Johnson, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
[75]UFGA-15954, dated 11 May"1964: CAMERON mentioned
[76]contact with unidentified group willing to assassinate selected
[77]Cuban leaders: Fidel CASTRO, Raul CASTRO and Che GUEVARA.
[78]CAMERON made fairly clear that the MAFIA was involved,
[80]Jane Zerance
[81]Researcher