GERALDO GUIDO, CAPT., CUBAN ARMY; ANTI-CASTRO

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06841275
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2020
• Case Number: F-2020-00655
• Publication Date: November 10, 1960

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%��1��. .. .' I; " I worked with Captain Gerald� Guido during my tour oil *dlity with the
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i ... ,: ,...� ; .f '.'.Guido served as�Iihe physical culture instructor for the Paratroop Regiment... .. ��
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... ,� If .1. ��.i in the "Waffen-W"-until 19115.
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s!gif'.-..;�.'2'.'. Captain Guido tog me in various conversations that he had been involved �
,;�.: ,1' ...�:;�� ...in numeroue oarki,truiillo expeditions and that he also had joined the 1954
' ~ ':, "P �.. "Pablo Real" expedition to Nicaragua. Captain Guido joined the Castro ' �
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forces in 1957,..2. He was jailed by the Castro ream in May 1960 by Cuban
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It was. rumored just prior to my departure i"om Cuba (21 Aug 60) that -CaptaiA :
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...,1SOLIRCE ;. ,. 'US national; formv non-commissioned officer in the US Marine Corps. '' .�
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1 � '.--: �!' , ; -'-'� ' Source is a 23 year old ex-Marine who spent the period from February 1959 :.
�''� �-;� ''�� through July 1.96p. serving in the Cuban Army and the Cuban Air Force. Be.
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:t..�':: to the DS via Mexico City on 30 Aug 60. According to source, he had been
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.��ii.:. t -' Training Corps at a US university, even though he had not finished his �
. � ., .1.: high school education. Be reportedly did not accept this' offer because .
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':�,���:..*.;"�: :::�..'� t� his decision to leave the Marine Corps and a short time later to enlist � .: .
' , i��� . ��.�.; in the Cuban Army. He appears to be a keen observer.�';While source's plans '
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