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[10]104-10110-10525
[12]SUBJECT: BATISTA, Laureano
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[19]Ae BAAR.
[20]SORE CT C
[22]13 December 1967
[24]‘Richard
[26](See also DAVIS, Rudolph
[28]ALLEGATION: > "GIA CONNECTION:
[30]Rudolph Richard DAVIS, Cuban - 7 - “Laureano BATISTA, Secretary
[32]exile questioned ty GARRISON's staff of Military Affairs, Executive
[34]in connection with a training ¢ Committee, Movimiento Democratica
[35]for Cubans at Lacombe, Louisiana ® Cristiano (MDC), Miami, was
[36]told the FBI in May 1964 that Laurearo granted a Provisional Operational
[37]BATISTA, sent him 19 men from Miami in Approval on 30 December 1959
[39]response to a request.from DAVIS in ; and an Operational fpproval on
[40]1963. The men stayed at a home near - 20 February 1960 for use as a
[42]Lacombe, Louisiana... _ PP Agent, Havana, Cuba.
[44]SOURCE:
[45]Memorandum No. 5, Enclosures 3 al
[47]and 7. RETURN To CIA
[49]Backgroung U
[50]: Se On}
[51]° Not Reproduce Y
[53]OS INDICES RESULTS:
[55]diy goubdecty @ 32 year old Cuban exile, was froma wealthy Cuban. -
[56]family and in Cuba he was a banker. He was granted a POA in December
[57]1959 and an OA in February 1960 for use 48 a PP agent in Havana, Cuba.
[59]A copy of a letter in Subject's file datea 20 November 1963
[60]signed by Subject as Secretary for Military Affairs, Executive Committee,
[61]Movimiento Democrata Cristiano is addressed to Major General Bela K.
[62]KTRALY, President, Hungarian Freedom Fighters Federation, Inc., and
[63]offered the services of the MDC in arranging meetings and discussions
[64]with other anti-CASTRO organizations and the Hungarian Freedom Fighters.
[65]The Hungarian Freedom Fighters were (Agency sponsored and Covert Action e¥
[66]Starfijwas interested in information‘on the MDC before granting approval
[67]for contact between the two organizations. ;
[69]DETAILS:
[71]During an interview with the FBI in October 1963 in New York
[72]Rudolph Richard DAVIS advised that in January 1961 he was in New York
[73]where he served as coordinator between the MDC and the New York Police
[74]Department. DAVIS also said that some nineteen men had been sent from .
[76]gs cae t
[77]@PARE HP | Eetets treo ctesofe
[79]ee LW iilde d _a4
[81]*  . ‘Miami to New Orleans by Laureano BATISTA in response to a request
[82]by. DAVIS for men to work in a lumber business with which he was
[83]connected. in Guatemala. The men stayed at a home near Lacombe,
[84]louisiana. When the FBI seized dynamite and other explosives
[86]nearby, the men became disgruntled and were unwilling to proceed to
[87]Guatemala. So the lumber company paid their fare back to Miami.
[89]Some of the names of these men were as follows: Victor
[90]PANEQUE, Leodorino INTERIAN, Fernando FERNANDEZ, and fnu FORNES.