ACTIVITIES OF ROLANDO MASFERRER GROUP CONCERNING PROJECTED INVASION OF HAITI

Created: 11/18/1966

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INTC AS ARGUMENT VITK BASFERRER ABOUT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PLANS FOR THE INVASION OF HAITI. | bbj.. . . THAT MASFERRER WAS INTERFERING IN THE MILITARY PLANS FOR THE EXPEDITION. AN AREA FOS WHICH I ESPONSIBLE AND IN VHICH MASFERRER

NO EX^IENCSORCCKPETENCE. VJVJVJa_SS CCHPLAIRED THAT THERE VAS NOT SUFFICIENT ARMS AND EQUIPMENT TO CARRY

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ATTENDED THIS KEETING,NOT. MASFERRER HAS EXPECTED TO ATtENO BUT DIoAfflAl. ABOUTEOPLE ATTENDED THIS BEET INS. FOUR PERSONS SAID TO. NATIONALS. THO OFHERE ALLEGED TO BE PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR CBS-TV. OF HAITI HERE SPREAD OUT ON TABLES AND THETAKING PICTUAES OF MASFERRER 's KEN EXAMINING THE AT THIS SECOND MEETINGTHAT

HAD RESIGNED AS KILITAR) CHIEF OF THE lAVEMKft INVASION FORCE BECAUSE OF THE LACX OF EQUIPMENT

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WEAPONS AVAILABLE TO CARRY OUT THE PLAN'S OF THE GROUP.

ID THAT HE WAS AFRAID TO EM3ARK ON THEBECAUSE THE EQUIPMENT WAS INADEQUATE ANDHAT ALTHOUGH MANY

PROMISES OF EQUIPMENT AND ARMS had BEEN HADE TO HIM THERE WAS IN FACT ONLY ENOUGH EQUIPMENT FOR ABuUT EIGHTV MEN AND THAT MATERIEL WAS OLD, RUSTY AND IN BAD CONDITION. ONLYNCH ROCKET LAUNCHERS, TWO SB MM MORTARS, AND TWO SB CALIBER MACHINE GUNS WERE AVAILABLE.

8.THAT 2JB KEN HAD AGREED TO JOIN THE

HfiSFERRIS FORCE BUTHECX had REVEALED THAT ONLYEN WOULD ACTUALLY BE AVAILABLE FOt THE OPERATION.

KaID HE THOUGHT THAT ONLY ABOUT HALF OF THESE WOULD REALLY GO IF CALLED UPON TO DO SO. | |ADDED THAT oME OF THE MAJOR PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED IN RECRUITING WEN WAS THE SALARY QUESTION. PROSPECTIVE MEMBERS OF THE EXPEDITION WERE BEINGO BE PAID FIFTEEN DAYS AFTER .THE LANDING IN HAITI, HOWEVER THE MAJORITY OF THEEK3ERS WERE DEMANDING PAYKEHT OF0 BEFORE LEAVING THE MIAMIa.-l

THAT HE DID NOT KNOW THEOF THE SHIP BUT HAD RECEIVED THEHE FT. LAUDERDALE-VEST PALM BEACH HAT THERE VDULD BE TWO INVASION

j FORCES. ONE FORCE OF ABOUT TWENTY CUBAN ACTIVISTS,ERE ALREADY IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, WOULD CROSS THE

BORDER INTO HAITI <AT AN UNSPECIFIED LOCATION) WHILE THE -LARGER PART OF THE FORCE, VHICH VDULD EHSARK ON THE

JSHIP SATURDAY NIGHT, IBOULDANDI.'IG ON THE NOICH COAST OF HAITI CAT AN UNSPECIFIEDA-L

ON THE NIGHT OFOVEMBER ROLANDO KASFERRER

stated that although the expedition had been promised several airplakes to support the invasion, in fact only onewas available for air suppost.ircraft arrived in miami from central america on 17

went to

HE ASKED AN OFFICIAL

'OR VOLUNTEERS TO JOIN HIS INVASION FORCE.EFUSED, STATING THAT THERE HAD BEEN

4 FAR TOO MUCK PUBLICITY ABOUT THE PLANKED INVASION AMD THAT

! BECAUSEHIS IT VOlLD BE SUICIDE TO LAUNCH SUCH AN

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INVASION ATTEHFT. I'

an ASSOCIATE OF KASFERRER IN THEN, STATED on | OVEMBER THAT WITHIN THE PAST WEEKHADCftTH OF EQUIPKIC to THE DOKIKICAN REPUBLIC fcr USE SY KASTEKRER'S FORCES. HE GAVE HO OTHiP DETAILS.

1*. at ABOX NOCS CVSKBiR SEVEN reporters (NO FUhT.<EH DETAILS) ARRIVED in NIA HI by AIR TC COVER THEof THE HAITIAN INVASION FORCE.

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