Cryptonym: AMIVY-2
A cable on October 29, 1960, CITE HAVA 6732, stated that on the previous day "AMJUTE-1 (Arnesto Napoleon Rodriguez y Gonzalez) requested station assistance to obtain visa for Roberto Rodriguez Hevia and family. AMJUTE-1 said that Hevia has been member of Estado Mayor as consultant architect and very active in anti-Castro movement. Hevia told AMJUTE-1 that he had been asked go Miami by Rafael de J. Gonzalez who sent message through ex capt Enrique Dominquez Perez. Hevia claims he has been in contact HAVA with representatives from Frente Democratico and cooperative with Antonio Varona, Martin Elena, Tomas Cabanas." The cable requested that MASH establish the credibility of Hevia, and the Havana station would attempt a visa procurement if the subject was useful to MASH.
A cable on November 1, 1960, REF HAVA 6732, stated that ""AMHAWK does not know Hevia but will check among AMRASP (FRD - Democratic Revolutionary Front) staff." Chief of Station commented that the "station will assist visa procurement if (Hevia) useful MASH."
In terms of Roberto Rodriguez Hevia, in an interview in 2011, his son, Raul Hevia, described his father as "an anti-Castro intelligence agent", who had provided information to CIA. Raul Hevia stated that his father had managed to evade an airport blacklist to defect to the U.S. Therefore, it is probable that AMIVY-2 was Roberto Rodriguez Hevia.
104-10168-10316: CABLE: ON 28 OCT AMJUTE-1 REQUESTED STATION ASSISTANCE TO OBTAIN
10/29/60: Cable from Havana to Director: CITE HAVA 6732: NO NITE ACTION: MASH: JMNET: "1. On 28 Oct AMJUTE-1 (Arnesto Napoleon Rodriguez y Gonzalez) requested station assistance to obtain visa for Roberto Rodriguez Hevia and family. AMJUTE-1 said that Hevia has been member of Estado Mayor as consultant architect and very active in anti-Castro movement. 2. Hevia told AMJUTE-1 that he had been asked go Miami by Rafael de J. Gonzalez who sent message through ex capt Enrique Dominquez Perez. Hevia claims he has been in contact HAVA with representatives from Frente Democratico and cooperative with Antonio Varona, Martin Elena, Tomas Cabanas. Hevia now in hiding and anxious leave Cuba since he told his job of organizing completed. 3. Request MASH (Forward operating base - CIA, Miami. Original name for JMWAVE) query above individuals and determine bona fides Hevia soonest. Station will attempt visa procurement if SUBJ useful MASH."
104-10167-10315 CABLE: AMHAWK DOES NOT KNOW HEVIA BUT WILL CHECK
11/01/60: Cable from MASH to Director: JMNET: NO NIACT: REF HAVA 6732 (IN 35065)*: "AMHAWK (Tony Varona) does not know Hevia but will check among AMRASP (FRD - Democratic Revolutionary Front) staff. C/S Comment: *Station will assist visa procurement if (Hevia) useful MASH (Forward operating base - CIA, Miami. Original name for JMWAVE)."
104-10240-10130: CABLE: AMIVY-2 DEPARTED HAVA 30 NOV BY CUBANA FLIGHT FOR MIAMI
12/01/60: Cable from Havana to Director (Handwritten note: "Trouchard (note: William M. Kent) action to PM. Tharpe who is"): JMNET: "1. AMIVY-2 departed HAVA 30 Nov by Cubana flight for Miami allegedly on vacation. AMIVY-2 defecting and does not plan return HAVA. AMIVY-3 scheduled end vacation in U.S. 1 Dec not returning HAVA. AMIVY-2 said that approx 15 to 20 more Cubana pilots will defect in next 2 or 3 weeks. 2. AMIVY-2 has direct contact with AMBIDDY-1 (Manuel Artime Buesa) and AMHAWK-1 (Tony Varona) in Miami. MASH (Forward operating base - CIA, Miami. Original name for JMWAVE) base can contact A-2 through Gail F. Colesworthy (P) whom AMIVY-2 plans to call on arrival. 3. Luis Hevia, Cubana pilot, sending family to Miami 2 Dec and plans defect soon as possible. Accord A-2 mass defection based on decision A-2, A-3 and Hevia to defect. A-2 does not plan make known his defection publicly for short time."
06/06/63: FBI memo from SAC, Miami to Director: Subject: Ada Garcia Dorticos Azcarreta; IS - CUBA; RA - CUBA. Rene Azcarreta; IS - CUBA; RA - CUBA. (OO:MM): ..."The activities of both Ada Azcarreta and her husband, Rene Azcarreta Falcon were followed closely throughout 1960 and 1961, and a close surveillance of the activities of Ada and Rene Azcarreta were conducted in October, 1960. The picture of Ada Azcarreta and several counterrevolutionaries appeared in the local Spanish language newspaper 'Avance', published in exile in Miami, Florida, on February 10, 1961. Pictures also appeared of Captain Humberto Armada, last interventor of 'Q' Airlines, who defected and remained in Miami, December 24, 1960..."
https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2011/07/14/communism-socialism-and-freedom-is-america-turning-into-cuba/#.Yqo7OSfMJdi
07/14/2011: Article by Joyce Kuzmanic in St. George News: Headlined: Communism, Socialism and Freedom: Is America Turning into Cuba? "ST. GEORGE – It was early 1960 when Florinda Hevia marched into the school classroom that her children were attending in her homeland of Cuba and announced to the teacher, 'I am taking my children to a country where they can elect their own leaders and pick their own religion.' Fifty years later, Florinda Hevia is living in St. George, near her son, Raul Hevia, and his family, all residents of Utah’s Dixie for seven and a half years. The saga of this family is something many born and raised in America may struggle to appreciate if for no other reason than lack of experience. Yet it informs perspectives that are worthy of consideration: What is it like to live under communist rule, as the Hevia family experienced in Cuba? What if one lives in a region that is not communist or socialist by definition, but is largely so in the practical reality, as the Hevia family experienced in Puerto Rico? And are there parallels in American trends today that ought give us pause – raising the question: If it happened there, can it and might it be happening here? In the early ’60s, as Fidel Castro’s invasion of Cuba was in play, Hevia said, his father had been blacklisted, was to be arrested and perhaps executed. 'He was what they considered a counter-revolutionary agent in Cuba and he put three conspiracies together to kill Castro, he was an anti-Castro intelligence agent,' Hevia said. 'He provided information to the CIA and to the Cuban/military forces in government at the time, but he wasn't a military man. He was doing this before Castro took power, then he put the conspiracies together after Castro took power. He had gone to jail twice by then, my mom was sure that she would never see him again.'" (CONTINUED BELOW)
https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2011/07/14/communism-socialism-and-freedom-is-america-turning-into-cuba/#.Yqo7OSfMJdi
"Thus, the family decided they had to try to leave Cuba while it was still possible to do so and seek political asylum in the United States. Hevia’s father, Roberto, using his full name of Roberto Rodriguez Hevia – a combination of paternal and maternal last names as is common in Latin American countries and in Spain – was able to pass through Cuba’s airport checkpoint undetected as blacklisted since he had commonly been using only the name Roberto R. Hevia for professional purposes. Raul Hevia said his father’s ability to pass through the airport blacklist checks was a miracle. Raul Hevia’s mother followed a week later without complication, and she and Roberto Hevia were able to receive political asylum in the U.S. and receive work permits. They remained in Miami, Florida, for a short time where Roberto Hevia found work within one week. 'My dad was an entrepreneur, he was an architect, believed in hard work, never took one cent from the government except for that first month when he came to the United States – he probably got some food and some basic necessities – and he started working immediately,' Raul Hevia said. The United States was the only country that did that for Cubans (provide permanent residency and work permit), Raul Hevia said. 'That was that, my family was free.' From Miami, Florida, the Hevia family moved to Puerto Rico where Raul Hevia was raised and lived all his life until the age of 36 when he met a girl from southeast Idaho. The two married three months later. They lived in Puerto Rico for 10 months and then moved to the Salt Lake Valley where they lived for six and a half years before moving to St. George. It’s been 7½ years and Raul Hevia said he has no plans of leaving..."