Cryptonym: AMBANG-3
104-10271-10266: CABLE: ON 19 AUG AMCALL-1 REVEALED FOLL DETAILS RE ANTI-CASTRO
On 8/19/60, AMCALL-1 revealed makeup of new group Accion Democratica Revolucionaria (ADR): "A. National Directorate: Humberto Perez, Sammy Diaz, Amalio Fiallo, Hector Ravelo, Antonio Fernandez Nueva and AMCALL-1. B. National Coordinator: AMCALL-1 and others hope to persuade Manolo Ray assume this position. Action arms: Roberto Jiminez, FEU pres at Univ of Las Villas who claims to have 1000 men ready to take the hills and fight at proper time. Sammy Diaz and Sergio Gutierrez at Univ of Havana. Mary Habach at Univ of Villanueva. D. Sabotage team: Palomares FNU, former assistance to Odon de la Campa when latter was with Civic Resistance Movement. Carlos Matos who has twenty men in Agrupacion Catolico Universitar who now spotting targets. 2. AMCALL-1 provided Biniaris with letter to AMWAIL in which he argues with FRD concept of sending able bodied men out of Cuba for invasion preparations without first having established a solid internal resistance organization here...The ADR was going to meet with David Salvador...(but they) rejected Salvador..(ODACID/State Dept) crazy and shortsighted (if working with him)...Station of opinion AMCALL-1 and ADR should be given serious consideration in total JMARC program. Have requested he provide radio operator candidate to be trained by AMPHODARCH-11...(Chief of Station) comment: HAVA reported AMCALL-1 developing clandestine action arm of AMCALL." Also see 104-10271-10144, ADR file, 9/16/60, handwritten memo describing above and a little more - Amalio Fiallo - AMWAIL...Elena Mederos (mother of AMCOAX-1), Jorge Beruff, (Octavio?) Barroso and Chibas described as "Ray men"...Jose Duarte linked to AMPAN; Diaz Masvidal linked to AMULAR... 104-10192-10238: 9/7/60, AMCALL-1, trying to have ADR admitted into AMCIGAR/FRD, stating that ADR will change its name to MRP, changed at insistence of Manolo Ray: "Substance this message hand carried MASH (Havana CIA station) by station courier Nelson L. Raynock (Henry Hecksher)."
104-10243-10116: CABLE: IDENS: 1 IGNACIO MENDOZA Y DE LA TORRE
12/9/60, Havana to Director: "IDENS: Ignacio Mendoza y de la Torre; Jose Antonio Duarte Oropesa; Rogelio Cisneros." See http://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=20191&relPageId=2
104-10243-10117: CABLE: IDENS DESIGNATED AMBANG-2, 3 AND 4 RESPECTIVELY
12/9/60, Havana to Director: "IDENS designated AMBANG-2, 3 AND 4 respectively."
Joan Mellen, Farewell to Justice, p. 280
1967: Loran Hall identified "Garrison's thick-necked Cuban" as "Jose Duarte, who, in fact, was a long-time and current asset of JMWAVE".
May 14-June 8, 1968: states that "Jose Duarte, interviewed June 8, 1968, in connection with the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, identified himself as the leader of UNARE (Unidad Nacional Revolucionaria), an anti-Castro Cuban group organized by himself...he and about 12 of his followers went to a meeting...on May 14, 1968, announcements of which indicated that there would be a lecturer who had recently returned from a tour of Cuba with a group of students. At the meeting, Duarte, having demanded equal opportunity to present his own views on Cuba, became involved in a scuffle with a young man, who he later recognized from a newspaper photograph as Sirhan Bishara Sirhan...Duarte was reportedly currently As staying with one Jose M. Estevez, former leader of the anti-Castro JURE." Ray's assistant at JURE was Jeronimo Esteves. (See entry for AMBANG-1). The above is from 3/7/69, FBI letterhead memo, under heading "Jose Antonio Duarte-Oropesa". Here is one memo (among others) about this encounter: http://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=99850&relPageId=305&search=%22jose_duarte%22 This CIA memo claims that this was not Jose Antonio Duarte, but Jose Zacarias TALLET Duarte: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=103889&relPageId=23&search=%22jose_antonio%20duarte%22
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/NEW%20YORK%20TIMES%20ARTICLE%20RE%5B16506070%5D.pdf
Miami, Fla., June 13, 1968 - New York Daily News: "An exiled Cuban army officer said today that Sirhan Sirhan, the accused assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, told him before Kennedy's death, "What we need in the 'United States is another Fidel Castro." The exile, Jose Duarte, said he argued with Sirhan and scuffled with him. Duarte told a news conference the incident occurred about three weeks ago in a house at Hollywood, Calif. said he recognized Sirhan as the man he scuffled with when Sirhan's picture appeared in newspapers after Kennedy's death. He reported the incident to Hollywood authorities and identified a police photo of Sirhan. He added that the man he fought with told him he was an Arab: "He said what we (Cuban exiles) are doing is just what the Israelites are doing and that we are getting the same help from the CIA that Israel is getting," Duarte stated. The scuffling began, Duarte said, "when he accused me of being an agent of the CIA." Duarte said: "he made some derogatory remarks about Cuba and about me and we came to grips. Somebody separated us. He left." The exile, who sald he has been living in Los Angeles, said pictures of Castro and of the slain Communist guerrilla leader Che Guevara and slogans critical of the Vietnam War ard the Johnson Administration were posted on the walls of the house where he met Sirhan. Duarte said he and about 15 Cuban companions attended the meeting after seeing leaflets advertising an exhibition of photographic slides taken in Cuba. He said he objected to some of the descriptions given to the slides and demanded to be heard. He said he was given permission but was interrupted and the scuffling ensued."
104-10120-10133: PROJECT RESISTANCE
10/22/68, attachment to memo by LAPD officer William Curtin: "The Students for a Democratic Society Centre...was bombed at 3 am this date. When (Roy Hargraves) returned to his residence, he was arrested on the outstanding traffic warrants ...Hargraves was interviewed and admitted the bombing...10/24/68, memo by LAPD officer William Curtin: "(Roy Hargraves) was reinterviewed and gave the following information. He is close to Jose Antonio Duarte (ex-Major in F. Castro's army). Major Duarte is trying to get close to the CUBAN POWER group but is not trusted by them because of his ex-ties to Castro. (Hargraves) denied any connections with CUBAN POWER except through Duarte. He said that he got the explosives through Duarte and that Duarte was also supposed to give him some CUBAN POWER stickers for him to leave at the site of the SDS bombing but that he never received the stickers so went ahead with the bombing. Duarte knew he was going to do the bombing and indicated that this type action could get him into the CUBAN POWER group. (Hargraves) admitted that he and Duarte went to a 'Black Militant' house or office in Compton some time back and broke out windows. Duarte had a smoke grenade but 'got shook' and could not get the pin pulled and they ran..."
104-10225-10067: REVOLUTIONARY GUERILLA TRAINING IN MEXICO
10/29/68, a confidential source advised: "(The source learned from) Gerry Hemming that Roy Hargraves, another American adventurer presently living in Los Angeles, California, was formerly active in Cuban revolutionary matters in Miami. As of October 29, 1968, Hargraves was in jail in Los Angeles charged with dynamiting right wing organizations and also the headquarters of the Black Panthers in the Los Angeles area. Hemming reportedly learned from Hargraves that he works for Jose Antonio Duarte Cropeza, a Cuban exile living in Los Angeles who is associated with black militant organizations and extreme right wing groups. Duarte apparently wants racial warfare between these two groups and is promoting unrest...The source described Hemming and Hargraves as extremists, activists, mercenaries, opportunists, and immoral...Hemming, while in a position to furnish information, frequently alters, distorts, and changes the information to suit his fancy."