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124-90135-10074 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F_ KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
JFK Assassination System Date: 6/2/2015
[dentification Form
Agency Information
AGENCY : FBI
RECORD NUMER 124-90135-10074
RECORD SERIES HQ
AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 105-82298-164
Document Inforation
ORIGINATOR FBI
FROM: HQ
TO
TITLE :
DATE : 01/18/1963
PAGES : 28
SUBJECTS
ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO
DOCUMENT TYPE PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
CLASSIFICATION Secret
RESTRICTIONS IB; 1C; 4
CURRENT STATUS Redact
DATE OF LASTREVEW 01/19/1999
OPENING CRITERIA INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF CIA
COMMENTS SUMMARY
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(SECKET
CORRELATION SUMMARY
Main File No : 105-82298 Date : January 18 , 1963
Subject : Eloy
GutierrezOienoyo
Date Searched : 10/26/62
Kiko Pernas *" nI:: Kpsrat[on COXTAINED
One Gutierrezs*
ABSm 3SSVZ[E
One Martinezs**
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identical references found as
Summery
(loy , Atierrez Menoyo ~Eloy Gutierrez Menoyay
Eloy Suiteereez' One Menkyo
Eloy Eloy Me?oyo
Eloy Gut errez_ Gutierrez Meloyo*
JEloy aatierez
Eloy Guitierrez lenoyoi
9 Zloy Gutierres * Guterrez N epoy 0
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Martinez Mendez) Eloy Monoya Tazaro
0 Martipez-Mendez' Ea Gutierrez Mqnoya
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Jsloy Gutientez Tenoy v 'Eloy Gutierrez
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THIS SUMARY HAS BEEN PREPA RED FOR USE AT THE SEAT OF
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M 105-5948
organization rather than through file on GUTIERREZ ` MENOYO 88-
an individual Accordingly, Miami file 105-2102 (Bufile
105-82298 ) 1s being closed at this time and all leads regarding
the II-Front or CUTIERREZ MENOYO will be handled in 105-5948
For this reason a report was prepared at this time instead of
the letterhead memorandum as requested in referenced Bureau
letter
INFORMANTS
Identity Location
M T-l is M 639-S 134-238 Sub A-479 and
134-238 Sub 4-478
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Hector Peter Ordetx, 1802 Lamar St, Tampa _
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Fla furnished
on 1/26/62 a quantity of miscellaneous papers
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S Ome of
Which
bore the
name 0f
Roberto
De Los Rios 100-431672)" and appeared to be
corres pondence between him and members 0f his family in Cuba _ One 0f
these papers was a carbon copy of a typewritten letter in Spanish to
"Dear Father" dated 4/1/59 at . Tampa _ with no signature . The writer
said that Nelson had written him as_
king
for declarations of the
committee in regard to Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo and his insidious
declarations No further information
3895881672-27 P.16,17
Correlator' s Note: It was noted that Roberto De . Los Rios had a brother
named Nelson.
Rolando Arcadi0 Masferrer_ Ro jas: (100-344127) advised on
4/29/59 that he had heard that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo and William
forer
ieaders
in Sierra del Escambray , Second Front, were
'di3iamisciean,
with the situation in Cuba
1007344127-18
(30
CIA Information Report dated 5/19/59 revealed that
Temistocles Fuentes Rivera
105-62455)
s tated that when Ernes t0 "Che"
Guevara arrived in Las Villas Province Cuba during the revolution,
he was in the zone 0f
the Segundo Frente Nacionai
del Es cambray which
was headed by Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo Gutierrez and an ared troop met
Guevara with drawn g uns
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accus ed him of being a communist and demanded
that he and his men leave their area of operations QG)
385583455-10
MM-635-S employed by the Cuban Air Force, advis ed that
on 5/20/59 Major Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, Ma jor Pernas and Ma jor
Armando
Fleitas
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al1 leaders 0f the Second Front of
the
Es
came to cons ult with Ma jor Marcos Diaz Lanz chief 0f the
Revoiayionary
Air Force in Cuba . Gutierrez told Marcos
Diaz
that they had 400 men
who were unemployed and whom_they would like to put to work in order to
keep them out of trouble
K@)
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On 3/18/59 Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, at a press conference, s tated
that his;
"rganization"
S
upported the Castro Government "as long as it
lives up to the principles for which we fought" and that if it should
deviate" "we will" take whatever steps circus
tances
dictate" He further
s tated that his group was 1007 anti-communist.
On 4/20/59
J
Gutierrez left Havana to visit Miami at the
invitation of Miami '$ Mayor, (source not clear)
Paul Bethel, Press Officer, U.S . Embassy
9
Havana , Cuba
(protect identity)=
9
advised that Tony Beacon was appointed Gutierrez '$
press secretary on the above mentioned trip and Beacon was by Nick
Bartone, an American who was attempting to sell C-74's (Globemaster I)
to Cuba
I1 The Havana Pos t M1 dated 5/27/59 carried an article to the
effect that the Second National Front of
the Escambray (105-78831)
had
issued a s tatement which endorsed the Agrarian Reform Program 0f the
Cuban Government _ The statement was signed by Gutierrez, National
Chief, and Armando Fleitas
)
Secretary General of the organization _
Add. info_ according to PSI Hugo Gonzalez La jonchere
(protect identity) '(9)
385328831-1 P.1,2
A Foreign Service Dispatch from the Department of State,
dated 5/28/59 revealed that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo_ had told the Embassy
in
Cuba that the Segunao
Frente Nacional del Escambray 105-78831) was
strongly anti-communist and would take action if necessary should the
Government come under communist control or domination U)
State als0 advised that: a source who had spent a month with
the Segundo Frente under the command 0f advised that the group
was
non-Political and definitely not communis t felt that
Fidel Castro had a number of communists among his advisors and he 'believed
one 0f thes e was "Che" Guevara Guevara had been joined by S ome of the
members 0f the Segundo Frente, with Gutierrez' s: approval, but Guevara ' S
followers had not been allowed t0 take ars with the Segundo Frente
P.2,,3,4. TIs b 4 1 {85678231-:
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Dept 6p
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Second National Front of the Es cambray _ 3-(9-98
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Francisco Rodriguez Couceiro, 6424 S.W. 38th St_ Miami Fla .
advised that the Crudade of Revolutionaries Against C
ommunismlaCRAc)
had-
Planned
an invasion_] of the Is le of Pines Cuba In June
}
19,59 Eloy
Gutierrez Menoyo and William Alexander Morgan Commnanders in Ithe Cuban
Army , were in contact with the Movimento
Revoiucionario
Democrata in
Havana , and this was known to the CRAC in Miami Rodriguez.had advis ed
the group in Cuba and. the anti-Castro movement in the Dominican Republic,
not to trust either Morgan or Gutierrez becaus e he considered them both
to be Loyal to Castro, and their cooperation with the group was for the
purpos e of entrapment
Add_ info. according to Rodriguez .
{85381502-7
A teletype from San Juan , dated' 6/5/59 _ concerning
Nicaraguan revolutionary activities set out the following "Second
Front Escambray Forces under C
ommandant Ely Gutierrez Menjoya
requested immediate dissolution from Government Message conjectures
that this may mean 2 breakaway from policies of July 26 and could mean
participation in other revolutions FF Not further clarified _ 7x)
{88512-222-so3k47)
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MM 685-Sw advised on 6/26/59 that Paul Hughes an
American pilot, flew for Commander Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo during the
Cuban Revolution Hughes was S uS pected of taking that were
s tored at Miami International Airport and which
'gelongedt
to the
Cuban Government Hughes had c ome to Miami from Cuba on a miission
for Gutierrez_
On 7/2/59 Sergio Diaz Brull former advis or to the former
Chief of the Cuban
Air Force,
advised that Gutierrez was sympathetic
with the anti-Fidel Cas tro Movement and was waiting in the mountains
0f Cuba with approximately 2 000 men for instructions when to attack
the forces of the Cuban
Revoiutionary
Governinent
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Department of the advised that in an interview with
Florencio Pernas Lorenzp
hios-ggoo8y
on 2/14/61 Pernas advised that
fro January to 1959
)
all he did was
attend
social and official
gatherings in Cuba ng this period he made a to Miami, Fla _
with Comandante Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo _ In about July 1959
9
he was
reques ted by Gutierrez to participate in an action against
and Batista followers who were to attack Cuba From
'12726_33439118
Pernas
made a to Tampa, Fla . , accompat ied by Gutierrez to collec t for
needy children 0f the Es cam bray . (Yu) T6s.17r. "'4s seclsslkgza $64
le7. DTD 4-16-98 sulkse,50k$
Pernas entered the U.S. with Gutierrez* and' planned to 90 togek)
Miami and wait for orders f Gutierrez as to his future actions
Add _ info _ according to.Fernando Prio Hernandez , 1330
Southwes t 12th Ave;. Miami, Francisco Prio Socarras 2200" Southwest
2nd Ave
Miami, Antonio Prio Socarras
9
1001 Southwes t 22nd St., Coral
Gables , ` Fla., and duplicate informant
38548002-11
p.4-6,8-10
SI ii5-98002-2
P.2,3
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SI' Y05-98002-9 P.3,4, 6-8
(8541) Add info _
#Entered U.S_ January , 1961
CIA advised that 2 meeting composed 0f anti-Franc0 elements
and communis ts took place on 2/4/61, at the camp of the Spanish
Liberation Army (Ejercito de Liberacion de Espana-ELE) on the Isle 0f
Pines near Havana Abderraman Muley More and his aide, Manuel
leaders of DRIL (Iberian Revolutionary Directorate of Liberation)
Loerezho
had taken charge of ELE since the departure in late January 1961, of
Eloy Gutierrez were threatened With_expulsion from
Cuba
for
resis comm unist
4ni58 %ffocts
to take over ELE _ (u)
109-587747
13747v
Miguel Antonio Sanchez Ramos who was interviewed in Room 615,
Roger Williams Hotel, 28 Eas t 3lst St_ NYC not further identified)
(Protect 1de737733, and who had furnished reliable information in the past,
advised on that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, who Was involved in
the "double cross" 0f the Dominican Republic S to overthron
Fidel Castro in August, 1959 had a
price 0f
O65.
on his head,
there by Trujillo of the
Dominican Repubiic
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On 2/23/61, Cirita Lopez Cejas
9
res idence, Miami, Fla and a
messenger for Manuel" Ray and the underground, advised that
'Manuei
Ray
had helped Gutierrez Menoyo and the group who came with to escape
from Cuba on 1/27/61 _ Lopez s tated that she assisted in the arrange-
ments for the defection and had hidden 5 or 6 of the revolutionaries in
her home in Havana She advis ed that Ray that Gutierrez
pulled ancons iderable amount of s upport and
1dec'9izeng
as a former leader
of the Escambray _ He was cons idered a "campaigner' and knew the
Sierra Escambray Mountains extremely well_
{3177-210-252 Bncl.p.n,%xluy
The 2/1/61, issue 0f the "Miami Herald" carried an article
entitled "Economic Crises Won t Topple Castro-Prio" in which Carlos
Prio Socarras (109-430) stated his views on Cuba and Castro _ Prio als 0
expressed concern that Eloy Gutierrez the rebel commandante who
had sought asylum in Miami, was still being
beeng %etaheed
by U.S_ authorities
Guiterrez was an anti-communist , according to Prio.
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CIA Information Report, dated 2/10/61, revealed that a s ource
who belonged to a group which assisted defectors to escape from Cuba ,
had been trying to get Huberto Sori Marin (105-93839 ) out 0f Cuba:
The s ource visited Miami to determine whether the means of escape from
Cuba had been C omproised by Gutierrez Menoyo and his coinpanions He
als 0 wanted to determine if Sori would be interned as was Gutierrez,
and how Gutierrez had learned' about this escape route and how' he was
able to high jack the boats
785,/5839-2
CIA furnished on
3/6/61
a memorandun captioned m1 DRIL Plans
For Action In the Iberian
Peninsuia"
which s tated that the Iberian
Revolutionary Directorate of
Liberation (DRIL ) planned to infiltrate a
group from Portugal into the Sierra Morena mountain DRpge - According to
the s ecretary of DRIL leader Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo had 2
clandestine printingshop in Madrid _ Field C
'omment _
:
According to a
2/14/61 report from @n official Spanish s ervice, Gutierrez's secretaryl)
in Havana _ said that DRIL leader Abderraman Muley More had commented
that his plan had been to charter a boat to be used for clandestine
landing in Spain or Portugal
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On 6/30/61, Ralph Huguet , former officer in the Cuban Rebel
Air Force advis ed that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo and Max Edgardo Lesnick
Menendez 105-64869 ) resided with him at the Blue Bay Motel Normandy
Is Miami Beach, Fla Gutierrez desired to come to the
Miami
Office
for an interview_ Huguet advis ed that to his. knowledge neither
Lesnick nor Gutierrez were involved in any- any way
connected with the current Cuban government _
2177809
105,64869-11
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SI j05764869-12 P.1-3
(45368 Add _ info
MM 639-S advised that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, a
recently
defected military commander of the Cuban Revolutionary Army= and
clos ass ociated with the Frente Revolucionario Democratico,
a
leading anti-Castro,organization, planned to attend as an obs erver,
military demons trations with maneuvers that were to be held at an
abandoned airport at Davie Fla on 7/1/61 . Thes e demonstrations
held by
the Revolutionary Junta
of National Liberation (2-1683) _
@'Su)
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MM 639-S advised on 1/2/61, that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, did
not attend the demons tration held on" 7/2/61, at Davie Fla . ,
by the Revolutionary Junta 0f National Liberation
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SI' 2/-1693-31 P.11
(2,3 5w (Add_ info according to
Gerald Patrick Hemming , 1936 Southwes t
3rd St Miami, Fla )
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Miami report dated 10/4/61, revealed that M-639-S advis ed
that Eloy' Gutierrez Menoyo 's father and brother were both known
communists in Cuba and Eloy himself fought -on the side" of the communists
in Spain in the 1930's Eloy was further accused Of being responsible for
over 200 innocent being in jail in Cuba_ 'and; having participated
in the Willian Alexander-Morgan affair 'at" Trinidad Cuba, in Augus t, 1959
He was not We11- cons idered by Cuban nationals in had a bad
reputation and was not_ generally trus ted_
Tes=,
Add _ info
82l863/39 p.1,3-7,11
Roger Redondo Gonzalez , 730 W_ llth Ave "furniihed
9
Fla advis ed
on
11/13/61, that a"
captain Antonico (LNU) who the
transportation
for a group of Cuban exiles to
infiitrate Cuba
in Augus t 1961 was in
charge` of contacting the Cuban underground for Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo _ C
Rafael Huguet Del Valle Blue Bay Motel: 2070 Bay
EG"%
Beach Fla advised on 11/13/61, that Antonico
(Enu)
was a boat
cepcain fzon
Guillermo, Cuba, w 0 was a menber of the revolutionary
movement of
'GCtyerfei
and who had` contact with the underground section 0f
this movement in Cuba _ ()e)
Add. info. according to Huguet and duplicate informants
Yu)
2-1693/50 P.1-4,6
(25350
NY 2965-5* advised that on 12/22/61. Herbert Hatthews (("NY Times "
correspondent) contacted Mario Garcia Inchaus (105-99238) Cuban
Ambassador to the UN Garcia asked Matthews if there was any news 0f the
"invasion of: my country" Matthews replied that there was nothing new,
only 6i the ravings of tnat jerk' Gutierrez (probably Eloy Gutierrez
Menoyo) and Miro Cardona" (anti-Castro Cuban ` revolutionary leaders ) '4)
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Gerardo Gabriel Antonio Hernandez Perez (105-113456) residence,
Miami Fla advis ed on *8/3/62 that he and many other Cubans
had
a
opinion of Jose
Miro Cardona
President
of the Cuban Revolutionary
Council, Manue1 Ray Rivero, former member of the council; and Eloy Gutierrez
Menoyo becaus e they were- once with the Castro regime and 'tReobabi would
have S if there had been sufficient Opportunity for t0 advance
politically and financially _ Ray was cons idered the mos t anti-American
of any of the exiled leaders (4
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On 9/12/62 , Rene Dechard 1174 S. W_ 12th Miami, Flav
advised that Max Garcia
(97-4345) had
made calls to his home at
various times in the past in attempts to locate Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo
83738,45-35 p.1,2
CIA Information' Report dated 9/18/62 revealed that General
Generos0 Campos Marquetti,
President
of the
'Alliance
For the Liberty of
Cuba (105-114160) stated that the Alliance sought a unificati on 0f al1
elements except
those
of the' Castroite bloc whos e M1 hands are 8 tained
With
biood"
Campos was adamant in refus to accept anyone 0f the ilk
of Gutierrez Menoyo FNU)
Headquarters Comment : This probably refers to.Eloy Gutierrez
Menoyo, Commandant of the former anti-Batista Second Nationai Front 0f the
Es cam who took exile in the. U.S. in January, 1961.
1057114160-2 p.3,4
(94420
M 639-S ` advised tha t on 9/28/62= Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo,
Tony Cues ta and about 4 others attended 2 in Miami Fla which
was
considered a-meeting of Operation Alpha
"Je88iolo;51433556
66 Cuesta
had lived at 2753 N.W 13th St Miami and had been in contact with
Gutierrez and 2 nuber
of American soldiers
0f fortune and mercenaries
Gutierrez was last knowni to " res ide at 1126 S.W; 12th Ave_ and
it was not known if he was 2 member of Operation Alpha 66.
45159)
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REFERENCES NOT INCLUDED IN THIS SUMARY
The foll references on One GaIlego, located in files
maintained in"the
Speclait
File Room 0f the Files and Communications
Division, Records Branch, were not reviewed
REFERENCE SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER
64-330-237-1545 62
64-330-239-825
(s)
(62
The following reference on " One Gallego was not available
during the time this S ummary was being prepared
REFERENCE SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER
64-1200-1063 620Y
See the search" S lip filed behind file for other references
on this sub ject which contain the same" information (SI) that is set out
in the main file _ Differences in source and additiona1 nonpertinent
information will be noted on the search slip_
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