Cryptonym: AMWEE-1
104-10143-10048: DRAFT DOCUMENT: COMMENTS ON BOOK V, SSC FINAL REPORT,
6/4/61: Another agent message dated 4 June 1961 asked about a man who had identified himself as Moratori, who claimed to work with US intelligence and to be in touch with one Martin Elena and others (not identifiable), who 'have plans for an invasion within 30 days, after the death of Fidel'. A reply, dated 6 June, stated that the information was not true and that Moratori was not known and should not be trusted. Insofar as CIA records show, there was an Italian diplomat of that name in Cuba at that time. Little is known about him.) The orginator of the agent message cannot be identified from present records."
10/6/62 memo: AMWEE-1 on Sept. visit to Miami reported that on 11 September Cuban Army trucks delivered large trunks to house across the street from him (Nr. 116 Calle 18 Miramar, Havana) at that time occupied by a Chilean technician. From other activities in front of house, AMWEE-1 concluded that house was being used as an LP (listening post) target probably for the house of Cuban Supreme Court Chief Luis M. Buch who lived across the corner from AMWEE-1."
104-10098-10064: DISPATCH:TRACES - BOHUMIL JIRKAL, OFFICIAL AT CZECH EMBASSY, MEXICO CITY
Bohumil Jirkal: 201-735943...LIFIRE reported that Bohumil Jirkal arrived in Mexico on 13 September (1963) to replace Zbynek Samonil as chauffeur at the Czech Embassy in Mexico City.
1994.08.10.16:47:16:500028: Reel 46, Folder F - MEXI DISPATCHES
"...Bohumil Jirkal who, according to REDACTED, has replaced Zbynek Samonil as chauffeur at the Czech Embassy in Mexico City. It is requested that any additional biographic information which becomes available on Subject be forwarded to Headquarters. Also, we are interested in obtaining Subject's home address in Mexico including, if possible, a photo of Jirkal."
(2022) Fabian Escalante: 634 Ways to Kill Fidel
Early 60s: Pages 127-128: ..."'There's only one detail left to work out,' Martinez said. 'How are we going to bring the capsules from Miami?' 'I reckon Vergara could bring them,' Polita interjected. (5: Alejandro Vergara Mauri was the information attaché at the Spanish embassy in Havana from July 1960 to January 1964. Also acting as a CIA agent, he was complicit in a plot to kill Fidel Castro by bringing poison pills to Cuba). 'He's a person we can trust, a diplomat at the Spanish Embassy working under Caldevilla's orders, and can travel without risk to Miami, collect them and hand them over to me in the embassy. As you know, I'm often there and my visit wouldn't be seen as suspicious.' So, Norberto Martinez's second and most important mission was arranged. A few days later the spy communicated with his headquarters and a CIA vessel picked him up in the same area in Pinar del Rio and took him back to the lair..." - - - Page 132: ...(note: Testimony of Mario Morales Mesa, Havana, September 1993) "By that period the group was already using various means of communication with Miami, including a RR44 radio receiver and encoded letters. They also had access to the diplomatic bags of the embassies of Spain and Italy, as diplomats and CIA agents Alejandro Vergara and Jaime Caldevilla worked in the former, and Massimo Muratori in the latter..."
104-10400-10125: DISPATCH: OPERATIONAL PROGRESS REPORT AMLEO-3
9/19/63 cable from COS, JMWAVE to Chief, SAS: "...word was sent to AMWEE-1 via OWVL on 11 September requesting he determine whether or not Identity A would be willing to act as intermediary to receive the AMLEO-3 family and AMLEO-2 into asylum at a specific time and date at the Mexican consulate...if the AMWEE-1 reply is favorable, then he will be told to arrange the meeting at the Mexican consulate between the AMLEOs and Identity A so that they may be taken into asylum with the Mexicans...if the AMWEE-1 report is a negative one, then consideration will be given to having the AMLEOs take asylum in the Uruguayan embassy in Havana. The test case utilIzing AMCANOE-3...is to be attempted on or about 21 August 1963, and if this attempt at asylum is successful then arrangements will be made to have the AMLEOs enter the Uruguayan embassy in the same manner."
1994.06.17.11:27:50:720005: Reel 47, Folder E - MEXI 6418 - 6532 CABLES.
10/4/63: Massimo Muratori, diplomat from the Italian Embasssy, flew from Habana to Mexico City. Also see 104-10093-10287 - on 11/3/63 Muratori flew from Mexico City to Habana.
Re 11/22/63: "In Paragraph 2 of Don Heath's memo from March 22, 1977, he stated that he levied requirements on the following assets. The official dossiers have been reviewed for information relating to requirements and responses to the assassination, with the following results. In the case of AMWEE-1, the AMWEE operational files were also checked: a. AMWEE-1 (Massimo Muratori del Palso) 201-308731: The AMWEE Operational files reflect no requirements in connection with the assassination of President Kennedy. The W/T chronos were checked from W/T #22 dated 23 Nov 1963 through W/T #99 dated 9 Oct 1964. No message numbers were missing. AMWEE-1's 201 file was also checked and there was no indication of requirements concerning the assassination."
104-10103-10088: CABLE GIVING TRANSLATIONS OF MESSAGES ON CUBANA FLIGHT DELAY IN MEXICO CITY
Re: 11/22/63 - 11/30/63 cable WAVE 8316 from JMWAVE to Director, slugline RYBAT TYPIC GEKFOR AMWEE COMMO: Following is translation (WAVE 8270): "MSG 45. AMWEE-1 to (case officer). Our condolences on death (of) President. Mauri reports on 22 Nov the Cubana aircraft delayed its departure for five hours from 1700 to 2200 waiting for an important passenger who arrived (from) Mexico City in private twin motor aircraft at 2130 hours Mexi time transferring directly from his plane to the Cubana plane without going through Customs or Immigration. Traveled in pilot's cabin. Mauri returned on same aircraft to Cuba."
104-10103-10024: 1963-1964 MIAMI STATION ACTION TO AID USG INVESTIGATION OF THE MURDER OF JFK
Memo for the record from Donald R. Heath, Jr.: "At the time of the Kennedy murder...(I was) present in the FI branch in the Miami station when my chief, Mr. Warren Frank, issued orders to all case officers (there were about 12 of us in the branch at that time) to contact our leads inside Cuba and our support agents in Miami for leads possibly linking Castro Cuba or the Cuban exile community to the murder... I recall that Mr. Anthony Sforza, AMOT case officer, told me later that he had received specific instructions from Shackley about how the AMOT service was to go about aiding in the investigation...there was communication from HQS to our station about the need to query our assets...some communication from the FBI and other agencies to our station asking for information about possible Cuban involvement in the Kennedy murder...I recall making phone calls to agents of mine in Miami and I recall sending a W/T message to my chief agent AMWEE-1 in Cuba with questions about possible Castro Cuban involvement in the murder of Kennedy...some weeks after the Kennedy murder I went to Mexico for a meeting with my chief inside Cuba agent, AMWEE-1...AMWEE-1 described to me talks he held the day subsequent to the murder with fnu Melendez Bach, a protocol officer of the Cuban Foreign Relations Ministry...the night of (11/22/63) AMWEE-1 saw Osmani Cienfuegos, a Cuban leader, drive up to the house across the street from AMWEE-1's house at about 0100 hours. He stayed at that house for several hours. The house was occupied by an American expatriate technician who built audio surveillance gear for the Cuban intelligence service...AMWEE-1 opined that Cienfuegos visited the American that night because he was one of the few American sources the Cuban government could talk to in Cuba about what was going on in the USA...I should point out that my involvement in seeking Cuba leads to the Kennedy murder was slight. Other officers would have been more involved than I."
104-10076-10148: JMWAVE CABLE - NOT POSSIBLE FOR CASE OFFICER TO GO TO MIAMI.
12/07/63, Cable from JMWAVE to Director: Slugline RYBAT TYPIC GEKFOR AMWEE COMMO: ..."2. FY AMWEE-1 arrived Mexico 6 Dec and notified us he proceeding Miami via New Orleans same day. Visa problem will be taken care of at this end. In response to Ref B AMWEE-1 signalled night 5 Dec that he successful dead dropping AMWARM W/T gear..."