PLANS OF ROLANDO MASFERRER ROJAS, FORMER CUBAN SENATOR, FOR ACTION AGAINST HAIT

Created: 9/22/1966

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1. (SUMMARY: ROLANDO MASFERRER ROJAS. FORMER CUBAN SENATOR

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WHO HAS FOR MAST MONTHS BEEN DESCRIBING PLANS FOR ACTION AGAINST PRESIDENT FRANCOIS DUVALIER OF HAITI, CLAIMSMALL FORCE WILL LEAVE MIAMI BY BOAT FOR THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ONR6 TO SETASE THTRE. OTHER MEN KILL FOLLOW LATER. HE CLAIMS THAT HE HAS THE SUPPORT OF THE DOMINICAN GOVERNMENT

ROLANDO MASFERRER ROJAS SAID THAT HE HAD BEEN MOVING ARMS AND EQUIPMENT TO BOATS WHICH WERE TO TRANSPORT MEN FROM MIAMIENDEZVOUS ON THE HIGH SEASARGER BOAT WHICH WOULD TAKE THE MEN AND ARMS TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.

4. MASFERRER CAVE THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNT OF DEVELOPMENTS

IN HIS PLANS:

THE BASE HAS BEEN SETWILL LEAVE MIAMI FOR THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. THE REST

WILL LEAVE LATER.

ACTION AGAINST DUVALIER MUST BE ACCOMPLISHED

A. TEN MEN WILL LEAVE MIAMI BY BOAT ONREPTEMBER EN ROUTE TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TO ESTABLISH A -BASE THERE. THE DOMINICAN GOVERNMENT IS SUPPORTING MASFERRER'S

PLANS AND HE IS AWAITING ONLY A

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IK OCTOBER. IT WILL LAST ABOUTOURS. CUBA WILL BE INVADED IN DECEMBER, TO COINCIDE WITH PLANS ? OF THE REBEL ARMY FOR

AN UPRISING IN CUBA.

SPECULATED THAT HIS GROUP'S ATTACK ON" HAITI

MIGHT PROVOKE FIDEL CASTRO TO INVADE HAITI AND FORCE THE UNITED STATES TO INTERVENE AGAINST CASTRO.

ALSO CLAIMED THAT HE HAD REACHED AN AGREEMENT

ROUP, THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BATTALION, WOULD JOIN

i MASFERRER'S NAME WOULD THUS DE KEPT OUT OF THE ACTIVITY. HE FELT THAT HIS PLAN WOULD BENEFIT FROM THIS.

7. MASFERRER HAS BOUGHTOHN ALBERT, D, ABOUTEET LONG AND PAINTED BLUE. ON THE MORNING OFEPTEMBER THE BOAT WAS9 NV 9TH COURT, MIAMI.

FROM ROLANDO MASFERRER TO FILM FOR THE COLUMBIA BROADCASTINGFILM CONCERNING THE ACTIVITIES OF THE MASFERRER CROUP WITHAN ALLEGED INVASION OF HAITI, TO BE MOUNTED FROM THE

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