Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency file on Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, approved for release in 2026, collects cables, trace requests and index cards from 1965 to 1971. They follow his capture during an infiltration of Cuba from the Dominican Republic around December 1964 and his Havana television appearance, which JMWAVE judged demoralizing for exiles. Other cables cover an Army intelligence (ACSI) operation linked to him and letters he later smuggled out of Cuban prisons. The file does not discuss UFOs.
“Headquarters”3 pages
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DIR INFO WAVE CITE CARA 9835 26 Jan 65 IN 67522 ON 26 JANUARY, DR. ARMANDO FLEITES, OF SEGUNDA FRENTE DE ESCAMBRAY, URGENTLY CALLED ON POL COUSELLOR EDWARD LONG (TWO WEEKS PRIOR VIA MUTUAL FRIENDS FLEITES HAD REQUESTED ONE WEEK VISITOR VISA "ON COMPASSIONATE GROUNDS" TO VISIT FAMILY IN WAVE AREA; BOWDLER IN PERSONAL CETTER TO LONG ADVISED THAT FLEITES HAD FORFEITED RIGHT TO SPECIAL TREATMENT AND WOULD HAVE TO APPLY FOR IMMIGRATION VISA). FLEITES, WHO ACCEPTS AS PROBABLY ACCURATE PRESS STORIES RE CATURE GUTIERREZ MENOYO, NOW CLAIMS THAT IN CAPACITY AS NUMBER TWO LEADER OF FRENTE, IT URGENTLY NECESSARY HE TRAVEL TO WAVE AREA TO SPEND ONE WEEK WITH HIS GROUP. STATES HE WOULD NOT EVEN WANT TO SEE HIS FAMILY, ADDING NOW WAS TIME FOR PBPRIME TO PROVE WHETHER "FRIEND OR ENEMY" OF CUBAN FREEDOM. ON OFFHAND CHANCE KUBARK MAY HAVE OPERATIONAL EQUITIES IN FRENTE, COUNSELLOR LONG ASKS STA CHECK WITH HEADQUARTERS. TENTATIVELY ADVISED HIM KUBARK NOT INVOLVED, BUT WOULD INQUIRE IN ANY CASE. SUGGEST HQS ADVISE BOWDLER AND ASCERTAIN WHETHER IN LIGHT ABOVE NEW CIRCUMSTANCES CDACID POSITION RE FLEITES ENTRY (AS STATED IN HIS LEITER TO LONG) SECRET 201-269349
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 53 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.