DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED BY ROLANDO MASFERRER ROJAS, CUBAN SENATOR, IN COMPLETING PLANS FOR PROPOSED INVASION OF HAITI

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06768909
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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2021
• Case Number: F-2021-00685
• Publication Date: February 28, 1966

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/ DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED BY ROLANDO MASFERRER\
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hr+ITIAN AND CUBAN EMIGRES, IS HAVING DIFFICULTY RECRUITING MEN TO
'PARTICIPATE. ACCORDING TO EARLIER INFORMATION, MASFEF4RER IS
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SAID THAT HE WAS HAVING DIFFICULTY GETTING HAITIANS TO PARTICIPATE
IN HIS PLOT TO INVADE HAITI. HE SAID THAT THE ONLY HAITIAN WORKING
WITH HIM IS I:IENRI V1XAMAR.
VIXAMAR HAS BEEN
DESCRIBED EARLIER AS A FORMER HAITIAN AND A FUNCTIONARY OF THE
REPUBLIC OF CHAD). MASFERRER ADDED THAT HE WAS STILL ATTEMPTING TO
FIND HAITIAN EMIGRES WHO WOULD BE WILLING TO TAKE PART.
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5. ON 16 FEBRUARY 1966 IN MIAMI MASFERRER MET WITH THE
FOLLOWING "STAFF OFFICERS" OF THE PROPOSED INVASION EFFORT:
A. GENERAL STAFF: ANTONIO ROJAS MASFERRER, LUIS SIERRA 1
LOPEZ, AND JUAN HERNANDEZ. HERNANDEZ, WHO RESIDES AT 569 SW TENT":1
STREET, APARTMENT Bs MIAMI, HAS BEEN APPOINTED RECRUITMENT CHIEF.
B. CHIEF OF OPERATIONS:
PRESENT AT THE MEETING. .COMMENT:
MASFERRER HAD ATTOTATED �:NAPOLEM.VILOBOA
OF OPERATIONS.
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SECEN HAS TOLD FRIENDS AND CONTACTS .1N THE.
HAITIAN AND CUBAN EMIGRE COMMUNITIES IN MIAMI THAT HE IS NOT '
INVOLVED IN MASFERRER'S PLOTTING AND THAT HE WILL NOT SUPPORT IT
IN ANY WAY.)
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C. 'BATTALION COMMANDER: NAPOLEON VILABOA LL'ERENA.
D. COMPANY COMMANDERS: OTONIEL PENA ENTENZA, WHO RESIDES
'T 1516 SW THIRD STREET, MIAMI; ERIC ARIAS ARIAS; AND ATON CONSTANZO
PALAU.
6. AT THE MEETING ON 16 FEBRUARY ANTONIO RoJAS SAID THAT
WEAPONS AS FOLLOWS HAD BEEN ACQUIRED FOR THE INVASION ATTEMPT AND
THAT THEY WERE IN FIRST-CLASS CONDITION:
TWENTY OR MORE 30-CALIBER MACHINE GUNS
TEN 50-CALIBER MACHINE GUNS
FOUR 81-MM MORTARS .
EIGHT 60-MM MORTARS
FIVE BAZOOKAS
AN UNSPECIFIED NUMBER OF AR-15, M-1, AND m-14 RIFLES
ONE THOUSAND HAND GRpADES �
HAND GUNS AND SUFFICIENT AMMUNITION.
7. ON 21 'FEBRUARY AT ANOTHER MEETING OF ESSENTIALLY THE SAME
GROUP, MASFERRER TOLD THOSE PRESENT THAT HE WAS DISGUSTED SINCE HE
HAD EXPECTED TO HAVE DEFINITE NEWS THAT DAY. INSTEAD, HE HAD
RECEIVED A MESSAGE FROM THE HAITIAN WHO WAS DIRECTING THE AFrAIR
ORDERING A'CHANGE OF PLANS. MASFERRER SAID THAT THE HAITIAN (WHOM
HE DID NOT IDENTIFY) HAD (A) GONE TO NASSAU; (B) SAID THAT THE
OPERATION COULD BE CARRIED OUT WITH 125 MEN INSTEAD OF 300; Awb
(C) ORDERED ALL WEAPONS IN MIAMI AND NEW YORK i:.--',Y41g4i1E1) TO THE
BAHAMAS. (---7COMMENT: MASFERRER UNDOUBTEDLY WAS REFERRING TO
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8. MASFERRER SAID THAT HE HAD SENT A LETTER TO THE HAITIAN IN
NASSAJ CLARIFYING SOME MATTERS AND REMINDING HIM OF THEIR PREVIOUS
AGREEMENT. IF BY 22 FEBRUARY MASFERRER HAD NOT RECEIVED AN
ANSWER TO HIS LETTER HE WOULD SEND LUIS SIERRA LOPEZ TO NASSAU TO MEET
WITH THE HAITIAN AND "LAY THE CARDS ON THE TABLE". MASFERRER ADDED THAT
IN THE MEANTIME ATTEMPTS TO RECRUIT 300 TO 400 MEN MUST BE
CONTINUED, AND IN CASE THE HAITIAN EFFORT FAILED THEN THESE MEN
COULD BE USED "IN SOME OTHER WAY". MASFERRER SAID THAT HE HOPED TO
HAVE DEFINITE NEWS TO ANNOUNCE AT ANOTHER MEETING TO BE HELD ON THE
EVENING OF 23 FEBRUARY.. COMMENT: A CHECK WITH
U.S. GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES IN MIAMI ON 25 FEBRUARY FAILED TO. SHOW
ANY RECORD OF RECENT TRAVEL TO NASSAU BY SIERRA)..
9. AT THE MEETING ON 21 FEBRUARY MASFERRER ASKED HOMERO LEON
FERNANDEZ WHETHER THE LATTER WAS READY TO FURNISH 1910 MEN FOR THE
INVASION OF HAITI, AS HE HAD PROMISED EARLIER. LEON ANSWERED THAT
HE WAS. COMMENT: LEON, A CUBAN EMIGRE, IS A LEADER OF THE
FUERZAS ARMAbAS CONSTITUCIONALES DE CUBA EN EL EXILIG (FACCE,
CCNSTITuTIONAL ARMED FORCES OF CUBA IN EXILE). FOR EARLIER
INFORMATION ON HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH MASFERRER,
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OF STATE, FBI, CUSTOMS, BORDER PATROL, l&NS, AND USCG
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