WEIRD STORY OF 'DOUBLE AGENT' TELLS OF CIA CUBAN PROBES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100620010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 1, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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BY CA1RL?S MARTINEZ ::f z G_1'o 1X1:'1
.iMI - A bisarre tal
rtve.a.ing secret battles o
the Cold War between the
United States and Cuba tin
-folded last week in the tri^
of six men accused of plot
ting to kill. Fidel Castro.
The key testimony cam
from Juan Felai.fel Gana.
car, 24, who claimed he in
, is a silent war, except
d o u b t that Juan was a when Dr. Castro uses the
double agent. lalleged confessions of
They say It would have "agents" to embarrass the
he made contact wii > tne
CIA. in Miami through an
agent named Tito Herrera
-and that he was trained for
nine months at. a naval
base near Miami in arms
handling, explosives and
intelligence. He said he was
-a radar expert with one of
the infiltration teams he
Cuba. ;
Fel'aifel testified. he had
taken e i g h t lie detector
tests as part of CIA inter-
nal security c h e c k s. and
passed them all.
filtrated'. the operation o
the C e n t r a I Intelligent
Agency in Florida as a Cas
'tro spy.
Felaifel testified. he was
a member of the Cuban
Communist party,' an
worked for three years wit
the CIA in M i a m i as
double agent.
' 'He ? said he made mor
than 17 missions Into Cub
for the CIA and that ? th
last was on February 21
lie said he worked with
l other CIA agents in Miami
"named Joaquin ..rower, Al-
berto Fernandez Casas and
Antonio Salado,, but t h a t
his chief was an' American
lieutenant c o 10 n e t who
called himself "Smith."
1966. Felaifel added that his
Felaifel's testimony: pu work for the Castro re
Miami in the front lines 0
the Cold War, and charge
widespread CIA operation
inside Cuba that allegedl
had ? no ? links with 'Cub ?
exile political group'3;';,';:.i
~`THS_;4YiTNlisSS oSlas_me
0
cause his brother, Anis, wa
chief of intelligence for the
Revolutionary R e c o v e r
Movement (MMR), a Cuban
exile group head e.d- b
Manuel Artime.
ANIS FELAIFEL In 1959
unsuccessfully attempted to
assassinate Ernesto (Cho)
Guevara and escaped to
Miami after machinegun-
ning the wrong automobile.
Cuban exiles' ' in' Miami
-,acknowledge that Anis
worked for ? the; MRR and
''that Juan also lived hero
and was involved 4n: in-
s,telaigence, work. - .. ' . .
been Impossible for him to United States ? before the"
pass eight properly-admin- ? 1 world.
astered lie detector tests. ? Exiles say this trial may
T h e y ' believe Iuan Fe- , 'shake the conifidence of Cu-
laifel "confessed" ..under ,ban security. In court testi-
torture. They do not be- '., mony by the six captives'
.lieve.Fidel Castro would ex- the names of highly-placed
pose a double agent so well f :Cuban officials were men-
placed In a trial where his I honed.
evidence was - not needed. These Included Faure
The plotters, the' major of Chomon, minister of trans-'
whom was Rolando Cubela. porration; Jose L 1 a n u s a,
had confessed. minister.of education, and;
Juan Fe 1 a I f e I testified Arnold Rodriguez, vice min-
that his last CIA mission in ister of foreign affairs.
?F e b r u a 'r y began in Key': The trial cracked open
Largo, where he left aboardI i_,the secret.war. a little more
?a "mother ship." He said hey and threw a new.-range of
was transferred to. a small Cuban officialdom u n do r
boat two miles off the Cu-` suspicion. The effect ? can
ban coast and was captured only,' be weakening. .,
,when the infiltration party
was surprised by a Cuban
patrol.
WHATEVER the truth of?",
,his tes.timoney, it confirms
again the s e c r e t war be-.'s
,tween the United States
'-nn Cuba in which:
The CIA regularly in-
filtraltes Cuba to gather in- ,
telligence and carry out
.specific missions. '
There ? exisiit in Cuba.
small, independent under., ,
ground groups, members of
which fight' and die without
'ever ? issuing the ' exagger-,
,aced propaganda blurbs ti
common among the politi-
cally-orientea _ exile groups.
Premier Castro combats
this by sending over double
agents who try to infiltrate
U...~S.. intelligence-,..,,? ;-.:.., ,,
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