PERSONS ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH ENTRY INTO DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE HEADQUARTERS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00573351
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: October 23, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2023
• Case Number: F-2021-00923
• Publication Date: June 19, 1972

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director/Comptroller
VIA Acting Deputy Director for Plans
SUBJECT Persons Arrested in Connection with ET.try
into Democratic National Committee -
/Headquarters
1. . This memorandum is for the information of the
Executive'Director/Cpmptrollet.
: 2.. .Attached are pertinent traces on three individuals
arrested in connection with the entry into. the.Democratic
National Convention headquarters. The first individual,
Mr. Frank Anthony'Sturgis,� has never, had a contractual
relationship with the Agency. The second person, Mr: Bernard
L.' Barker, worked with the Agency from mid-1959 and was .
terminated as an agent 'on .31. July 1966. Mr. Eugenio Rolando
Martinez Careaga is currently under a' $100 monthly retainer
fee as an informant for the Miami Station. �
3: We are in possession of the three 201 files and
continue to study them for additional details: We have
called for pertinent .operational files from
Attachments
Theodore G. Shackley
Chief .
Western Hemisphere Division
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Frank Anthony Sturgis:-
Mr. Sturgis was born 9 December 1924 in Norfolk, Virginia.
- He has the following alieses: Frank Fiorini, Fred Frank
Fiorini, Fred Attile, Frank Campbell, Frank Attila, :,n.d-3
Frank 2.onel1i. He was honorably discharzed from the Following
services: . U.S. Narine Crops in which he served from 1942-45,
usNa from 1947 to 1943, U.S. Army 1948 to 1949: According to
an FTII report he was arrested in Cuba by Cuban .authorities
in�July 1953 as courier from the U.S. for Cuban rcb-cis.
Iii 1059 he was Captain in the Cuban Army and a government
inspector of gambling at the Tropicana Night Club in Havana.Her
became disillusioned with Castro and returned to .the U.S.
fr2 was forded a special hearing by the INS Miami in February
1960 ra7arding possible .deportation on the basis that he
voInntarily exnatriated himself through service in the �
.Cuban Al-tted Forces subsequent to January 1959.. It was
restored 14 months later. In May 195! he was involved with
.a group ;of Cubans � who were to narticipate in an
invasion of Cuba. It December 1960 an FBI informant who.
lived with Sturgis at that time said Sturgis claimed he
was working with and being sponsored by the Agency for some
future military action against the Government of Cuba:
His photo was on the cover of the Washington Poat Patatle�
section in 1961 as a soldier of fortune. i!e described his.
Caribbean experiencPs to Jack Anderson of Parade. In 191
Sturgis headed an organization called the International
Anticointunist Brigade which he claimed had 5,000 men. -4e
has been involved with Gerald Patrick Femming who is head of
the Intercontinental Penetration Forces, another anti-Castro
groun. He flew in an anti-Castro leEflet dropping mission over
Camnguev, Cuba in October 1961. S10,000 for. the leaflets
reportedly came From julio Lobo who has been an Agency
contact. .fr. Sturgis has never been recruited by the Agency,
but has been associated with Mr. Eugenio Rolando MARTINEZ
Careaga,,an Agency contract agent, since the. early .1960's.
In 1968 he resided in NW Miami and was employed as a used
car salesman by G.M. Used Cars, Miami. An FBI report
dated 4 Ari1 1969 said that Sturgis a weal known American
mercenary and soldier of fortune had participated in Cuban
re:-5olutionary activities for the past ten years, on 1 November
1968 admitted he recruited twelve American adventurers and
r,iercenaries for military activities against Cuba.
In September -63 they net in '.exico and set up a military
traininq; camp. Later they boarded a boat and about two
days later ran aground near r'eli.z.e, Ti.ritish Honduras.
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After beincz arrested in British flonduras they were deported
back to t'tle U.S.
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Bernard L. Barker
Bernard L. Barker is a former Captain in the USAF
in World War II and has been actively cooperating with the Agency
dnce 1959 in Havana and Miami. He was a regular contact of
the FBI in Cuba when turned over to the CIA in mid-1959.
He was used as source of political information in Cuba,
evacuated from Cuba in early 1960 and arrived in the Miami
area in January 1960. He was hired by Station JMWAVE in
April 1960. He was widely known among Cuban exiles as being
affiliated with CIA. He was used by Station JMWAVE-to report
on Cuban exile activities with emphais concerning iMpending
exile raids against.Cuba. He was trained in surveillance
techniques and used to make casing reports., At one time
he lost his U.S. citizenship as a result of accepting a
position with the Cfliqn Police Department. His U.S. citizenship
has beenirestored. He was terminated as.. a IMWAVE contact
agent on!31 July 1966 to accept employlluit by the Rauland
Corporation, a subsidiary of the Zenith Radio Corp. in
Chicago.
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MEMORANDUM
Eugenio Rolando MARTINEZ Careaga:
Mr. Martinez is a 49 year old naturalized U.S. citizen
of Cuban birth. Educated at the University of Havana, he has
a BS degree and two years' additional work-in the School of
Medicine. Previously married to a Cuban from whom he is
divorced, his current wife is U.S. born. From recruitment by
Station JMWAVE in January 1961 to 1969 he was involved in
maritime operations and served aboard
vessels as gunner, mate and captain. Upon termination
1969 of the maritime project to which he was assigned
he was retained as an Fl collection asset because of his
excellent contacts in the exile community. Met by his WH/Miami
case officer regularly, the last meeting was on 6 June 1972.
The case officer has been unable to contact him since 14 June.
In addition to reporting on activities of exile r.oulos he
is also involved in investigative work.
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Mr. Martinez is a real estate partner
ot Mr. Bernard L. Barker, also implicated in the plot.
A preliminary damage assessment from Station WH/Miami
indicates that Mr. Martinez, if he decided to talk, could
reveal that he is receiving $100 a month from Miami Station
to report on the .activities of Alpha 66 and other exile
groups in the Miami area, and that he received $8,100 per
year previously on a full time basis.
*persons presently involved in
True name and physical description of the current COS, Miami,
and the alias and physical description of the previous and
current case officers. Aliases of a host of former case officers
dating back to the early 1960'5 in connection with his
maritime activities. In-depth knowledge of Agency maritime
"True names of
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operations in the past to include extensive names of
ersonnel and most of the installations
over the last eig years.
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