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OCUBANB$RATOR ANTONIOASSURED DE LA FE THAT IF CANTAVE WEREASSUMED POWER IN HAITI, THE CUBAN EXILES WOULD
AT THE IRASE OF OPERATIONS OM ORIENTE PROVINCE IN CUBA.
3. MAS'ERRER SAID THAT IF THEY WERE ABLE TOASE ON HAITI, THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO DE ST RO Y^ DOM INI CAN PPRESIDENTVINO WITHOUT MUCH DIFFICULTY. IN THIS PLAN THEY
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WOULD BE AIDED BY THE TRUJ1LLISTAS, ESPECIALLY THE SONS OF
TRUJILLO, WHO WERE DISPOSED TO PROVIDING MONEY FOR SUCH AN ENDEAVOR. Oj^LBA WAS ALSO INVOLVED IN THE PLAN.
ADDED THAT HELOSE FRIEND SITUATEDDOMINICAN REPUBLIC WHO WAS WEAKENING BOSCH'S
THROUGH THE PRESS AND RADIO. MASfERRER THEN CONFIDED THAT THE MAN WAS RAfAElJ4oN ;L.OMINICAN,,.
NEWSPAPERMAN WHO USED TO WRITE FOR TlEMPO IN HICH MASFERRER OWNED UNTIL 1 9 WHEN IT WJS BURNED DOWN BY THE PEOPLE AT THE TIME OF BATISTA'S FALL. ACCORDING TO MASFERRER, BON ILLA IS INTELLIGENT AND HAS HIS FULL CONFIDENCE.
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lj. MASFERRER SAID THAT THERE WERE CONSPIRATORS WITHIN THE MILITARY AND CONSERVATIVE CLASSES WHO WOULD JOIN HIM, AND THAT WITH HAITI AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC IN THEIR POSSESSION, THj| COULD TOPPLE CaSTRO. ONLY UNOCR THIS TYPELAN WOULD
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aires assist THEM. also, they would then be osition
to deal with the united states. ie they could not accomplish their aims, they would BE lost because the bat 1STianos have not been included in any plan directed by the united states regarding cuba.
5. masferrer asked de la FE to join him and to TRY to RECRUIT AS many membcrs6 brigade as HE could. he also ASKED DE LA FE to assist him in obtaining arms ano money enough TO rents which were needed to transport to HAITI the men he had in miami, the planes would cost0 EACH. masferrer SAiD HE already had one plane, but IT WAS NOT enough since HE had SO many men ready to leave. " 6. MAEFERRER EXPLAINED THAT HEreat moral obligation toward hi; MEN, SINCE THEY HAD LEFT their jobs in new jersey, new york AND other places, and were distributed around miami, including the senate hotel which is ownedenaldo^arc ia the man responsible for this particular groupertain tarafa (fnu) who servesink between masferrer AND garcia.
7. one of the meeting places usedasferrer's men is a
restaurant or bar called "lan sw 8th street between
h aven.ts in miami, which is owned by carlo
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SAID HIS MEN BELIEVE THEY WILL BE GOINGCAMPS IN NICARAGUA, BUT THIS ISRETEXT TOAMERICAN AUTHORITIES. MASFERRER SPOKE ILL OF THE PLANS
WHICH THE US GOVERNMENT HAD WITH THE EXILE LEADERS, CONCERNING
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TO MASFERRER, THE FIRST OBJECTIVE IS TOTHE ISLE OF PINES AND FREE THE THOUSANDS OF MASFERRER FEELS THAT BECAUSE THESE PRISONERS AREHAVE BEEN TRAINED IN MILITARY TACTICS THEY WILLCOM3ATANTS. (SOURCE COMMENT: DE LA FE THINKSWAS TRYING TO IMPRESS HIM WHEN HE DISCUSSED THE PINES BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT DE LA FE'SR.SCNER THERE.)
LA FE BELIEVES THAT MASFERRER THINKS HE HASAND MEN AT HIS DISPOSAL AND THAT MASFERRER THOUGHT"CAPTURE" DE LA FE EASILY. DE LA FE BELIEVESA MOST DANGEROUS MAN, WITHOUT ANY SCRUPLES, AND THAT HE
IS GOING TO SEND THESE MEN TO THE'R DEATH. DE LA FE DID NOT ACCEPT MASFERRER'S OFFER.
COMMENT: AIRLY RELIABLE REPORTER OFMATTERS SPOKE WITH MASFERRER EARLY IN THE WEEK OFAND SAID THAT MASFERRER TOLD HIM HE WAS IN MIAMI PRIOR
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TO EMBARKING FOR HAITI TO JO IN FORCES WITH GENERAL CANTAVE. ALTHOUGH US AUTHORITIES HAD BARRED MASFERRER FROM THE MIAMI AREA, HE IMPLIED IN HIS CONVERSATIONS THAT HE THEN HAD AUTHORITY, OR WOULD HAVE IT, TO BE IN MIAMI. ACCORDING TO MASFERRER, HIS MEN WERE WELL ARMED AND WELL DISPOSED TOUERRILLA WAR: IN THE HAITIAN MOUNTAINS. HE SAID THAT CANTAVE'S INVASIONAILURE, BUT IT WAS HIS UNDERSTANDING THAT CANTAVE HAD SiNCE HANDLED HIS GROUP QUITE WELLILITARY POINT OF VIEW AMD HASOOD MILITARY AND GEOGRAPHIC POSITION. MASFERRER SAID HIS HELP MIGHT BE DECISIVE IN OVETHROWING THE REGIME OF FRANCO IS DUVAL IER. IF SO, THE CUBAN EXILES WOULDBLE TO USE HAITIASE OF OPERATIONS AGAINSTSFERRER SAID HE FIRST HOUSED HIS MENOTEL IN MIAMI AND THENTHEMMALL FARM IN THE MIAMI AREA. HE SAID HE. RECEiVED THE MONEY FOR THIS EXPEDITION FROM SOURCES IN THE UNITED STATES, THAT HE ALREADYHIP AND EXPECTS TO LEAVE FOR HAITI AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.)
IELD DISSEM: ClNCLANT, CINCSO, COMNAVKEYWEST, MIAMI REPS OF STATE, USCG, BORDER PATROL, IANS, FBI AND CUSTOMS.
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