Cryptonym: AMICE
1993.08.05.10:41:34:710005: HSCA MATERIAL REVIEWED AT HEADQUARTERS -- CUBAN COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY H
The Cuban Counterrevolutionary Handbook describes FORDC as "composed of exiled anti-Communist labor unions. FORDC was a member of the Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC) (and the FRD)...FORDC maintains a New York delegation...2500 members in Miami...1500 elsewhere in the US...estimates the total (of Cuban members) at 500 to 600." Leading personalities in early 1965 included Cesar Lancis Bravo, president; Luis Penelas Gonzalez, secretary general; Mario Fontela Alfonso, treasurer; Mario Massip Masiques, press and propaganda secretary; Jose Antonio Hernandez Oyalvide, organization secretary.
104-10315-10013: MEMO: IG OFFICER INTERVIEW WITH ROSS CROZIER, PW SECTION, MIAMI BASE, 25 MAY 1961
5/25/61 interview by Inspector General with Ross Crozier: "Crozier, a contract agent, said that all five members of the PW section speak Spanish fluently and between them have 45 years of area knowledge. He has a Costa Rican wife. The other members are Kent and Patton. He arrived (in Miami base) in September 1960. He was in Cuba from 1954 to 1958 and in 1958 spent one month with the Castro forces in the Sierra Maestra mountains. He was traveling with the newspaper contingent under the cover of a representative of Public Surveys Institute in Dallas, Texas which he said was conducting a survey for the American 1959 investment policy in Cuba...He has spent the bulk of his time on two groups, one of students, known as DRE, and a labor group known as FORD.
104-10233-10199: ORGANIZATION AND CONTROL OF A WAVE UNILATERAL ASSET
2/28/62 memorandum for the record by Harold R. Noemayr/Ross Crozier: "On 27 February 1962, this case officer held a long meeting with AMICE-1/Pascasio Linera and AMPANIC-1/Jorge Eduardo Mallo concerning the organization and control of the WAVE unilateral asset, FORD. The meeting was prompted by an offer by AMICE-1 to remedy FORD political problems through reorganization on a representative and non-partisan basis. To appreciate the problems and weaknesses in the WAVE labor effort, certain factors must be recorded: 'a. FORD was created by WAVE, not by a spontaneous or determined effort by Cuban labor exiles to form an organization; b. FORD was founded in exile - not in the Cuban underground - which tends to make it more synthetic than other groups; c. FORD admittedly does not possess the best of Cuban experience and leadership, and if anything, has some rather dubious and controversial characters in their midst; d. FORD's existence has been jeopardized and haunted since the beginning by the presence and intrigues of the more competent but less democratic CTC in Exile, or the Eusebio Mujal labor movement... At this meeting, AMICE-1 described FORD as no longer under WAVE control and broken up in chaotic dissension; that there were only three so-called 'Independents' on the 'Executive Committee' which WAVE could count on for response to guidance and control (AMICE-1, AMICE-3, and AMOT-20/Orestes Puig Rios)...It is important to point out at this time that the MONTECRISTI group, which leads the controlling bloc, is the subject of a WAVE investigation which thus far has revealed that the MONTECRISTI movement is penetrated, if not controlled, by the ANARCO-SINDCIALISTAS, an international organization which in turn is penetrated by various Castro front organizations. (Although the ANARCO-SINDICALISTAS overtly and publicly profess to be anti-Castro.)"
6/1/62 dispatch from Chief of Station, JMAVE to Chief, Task Force W, slugline Operational/GYROSE KUCAGE: "Forwarded under separate cover is a latter from (Gerry Hemming) to Jose Figueres, former President of Costa Rica, describing his para-military activities in (the US)...It should be pointed out that FORDC as a CIA-sponsored entity is a well known 'secret' and that (Hemming) should 'inadvertently' trust his 'confidential' letter to one of their secretaries certainly appears as though he were seeking a channel to (CIA).
10/26/62: Cable from JMWAVE to Director: Slugline GYROSE KUWOLF: "AMICE-1 and AMOT-20 reported 25 Oct that on face (of) rumors that full scale invasion within 72 hours Consejo leaders busily conferring with individuals being considered to staff new Cuban government. This causing consternation among those not chosen or consulted. AMICE-1 and AMOT-20 feel they being passed over in labor slots because AMDIP-1 held long confidential discussions with Angel Cofino and Marcos Hirigoyen 24 Oct."
3/5/63, JMWAVE to Director: AMOT-20/Orestes Puig Rios reported that a maverick group was breaking from FORDC and was promised support by George Meany and AFL-CIO reps. This would disrupt the KUWOLF purpose for forming FORDC. Author suggests to tell this to their "cleared contacts" within AFL-CIO.
104-10231-10204: MFR: MISSION TO RIO AND POLITICAL INTERFERENCE
03/27/63: Memo for the Record by C/PW, Subject: AMICE Mission to Rio and Political Interference: "On 26 April (error, should be March) AMOT-20 was instructed to assign two AMICERS to go to Rio soonest and report to the ORIT representative there...He suggested Antonio Collada and Pedro Aponte both because of their high qualifications and because they had valid passports and renewable visas...the Cofino group of AMICE...had been working with the labor representatives of the AMBUD groups to wrest control of AMICE from the Secretary General." (Marginalia reveals the Secretary General as AMICE-1)...In spite of AMOT-20's assurances that the Rio mission was not political (of the two, Collada was on the Cofino side and Aponte was of the loyalists), Cofino and his group told Collada that he should not go to Rio unless assurances were received through AMBUD-1's man "Juanito" that the mission was OK. AMOT-20's promise of a truce in the AMICE feuding until these two returned (in about five days) was also of no avail. AMOT-20 resorted to threats of reprisal for Collada's putting exile politics above an opportunity to fight Commies in Brazil, and Collada relented, went home to pack..."
104-10228-10360: CABLE: FROM PEDRO LEVYA AND RENALDO PICO ON 10 APRIL 1963
04/12/63: Cable from JMWAVE to Director: The source of the data was "AMOT-20 from Pedro Leyva and Reinaldo Pico on 10 April 1963. The original version of this report received the night of 10 April mentioned that Rivero and his group would go on TV early on the morning of 11 April..."The subject under discussion was "movement within Brigade 2506 to request flag from President John F. Kennedy". This was the flag that the group had bestowed on JFK in the Orange Bowl four months earlier - doubtlessly they were mad by his decision to order the Cuban exiles to stop launching raids from American soil at the end of March, 1963.
104-10227-10397: SUPDAT: AMOT-20 FROM J.A. HERNANDEZ, VICE DELEGATE OF FORDC TO THE CRC
04/24/63: Cable from JMWAVE to Director: Cable from the "residue to the Cuban Council" was to be issued in the aftermath of AMBUD-1's departure from the CRC. AMOT-20 was described as an "officer with fiduciary responsibilities in an anti-Castro organization in exile". He obtained his information from Jose Antonio Hernandez, the vice delegate of FORDC.
104-10215-10316: CABLE: IN CONNECTION WAVE KUDESK PROGRAM AIMED AT SPOTTING REFUGEES
09/19/63: Cable from JMWAVE to Director: "AMOT-20 who knew (Herminio Diaz Garcia)...reported...: (Diaz) former member Union Insurrectional Revolucionaria, an alleged gangster org (in) Havana in 50s of which Fidel Castro also member." Diaz was a member of the KUDESK(CI)-JMWAVE program to spot refugees that could be used for counterintelligence purposes known as AMLEPTON. Diaz reportedly part of group that assassinated 2nd Chief Cuban Secret Police "Cucu" Hernandez Vega in Cuban Embassy in Mexico in 1948. Diaz escaped Mexico with assistance from Diego Rivera, "Mexi muralist and Commie". Diaz evaluated as "fond of gambling and capable committing any crime for money." Ameijeiras leader of group that will work with anyone not a Batistiano. Group includes Rolando Cubela, Juan Almeida, Samuel Rodiles Planes, Raul Diaz Arguelles.