Cryptonym: JMPALM
104-10076-10154: JMWAVE CABLE RE ARMS SHIPMENTS FROM WAVE TO VENEZUELA
12/7/63 cable WAVE 8643 from JMWAVE to Director, slugline DYVOUR JMPALM: "Subject (of WAVE 7164) of ops interest to station JMPALM ops as monitor of arms shipments from WAVE to Venezuela. Subject (of WAVE 7164) in contact with Ransa Airlines pilots through Bernardo Pena who (is a) Ransa flight engineer." Pena introduced the Subject to FNU Lanzon, who was attempting to purchase large amounts of arms for clandestine shipment to Venezuela..."would conceal shipment in crates labeled spare parts factory for entry into Venezuela."
104-10076-10123: JMWAVE CABLE RE HEART SEIZURE OF HAITIAN PRESIDENT FRANCOIS DUVALIER
12/7/63, Cable from JMWAVE to Director: Slugline INTEL DYVOUR JMPALM: "SUPDATA: ZRWAHOO. Richard Harvey Godfrey from Charles Hospodar, UR., U.S. citizen living PRIN and partner of Godfrey, who visiting from PRIN. Please protect Godfrey. Claude Raymond, previously Duvalier-appointed business partner of Hospodar and Godfrey, replaced by Dr. Jacque Fourcand because Raymond no longer enjoys Duvalier's confidence. Hospodar was present when Fourcand made that statement...SOURCE: U.S. citizen who operates a business in Haiti where he enjoys the friendship of many military and government leaders. Source is a former military officer, a trained reporter and his information has been accurate in the past. This information was obtained from a colleague of Dr. Jacque Fourcand."
12/9/63, WAVE 8730: JMPALM slugline. "ZRWAHOO. AMGORILLA-1 from exiled Venezuelan military officers residing WAVE who invited AMGORILLA-1 to return Cara for government post after military takeover occurs...Exiled Venezuelan military officials in Miami anticipate a coup d'état to take place in Venezuela on or before 15 December 1963. These former high-ranking officials who left Venezuela following the ousting of Venezuelan president Perez Jiminez reveal...they are in communication with military leaders...who anticipate the overthrow of newly elected president Raul Leoni." after military takeover occurs." It is noted that the new president (Leoni) won election on December 1 and that "Venezuelan exiles in Miami claim that a continuation of the Betancourt policies as promised by Leoni will ruin Venezuela."
104-10167-10190: PROGRESS REPORT FOR THE MONTHS OF NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 1963 FOR IDENTITY
1/18/64 dispatch from Chief, JMWAVE to Chief, WH. Slugline JMPALM/Operational. Subject was a contact of 201-301754 and an acquaintance of AMPAL-1 (Alec Resnick). Training sessions between AMPAL-1 and Subject occurred during Nov-Dec. 1963..."Subject has not yet been given a JMPALM cryptonym." He was providing reports on Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, and former Cuban president Carlos Prio. - - - Page 4: "IDENTITY: Pedro Valdivia. 201-301754..."
2/15/64 cable from Miami reports that three people have been arrested for theft of dynamite and illegal possession of explosives. Claiming that they stole the dynamite on behalf of Merola, a CIA agent. 'Merola is not a CIA agent but used solely as an informant of JMPALM.'" Also see 104-10177-10265, a dispatch typed on 2/5/64 that offers a chronology of the use of Joseph Merola (201-257804) and his work with KUJUMP and JMPALM case officer Robert Hunkeler.
104-10071-10202: DISPATCH: HAITIAN EXILE ACTIVITIES AT JMWAVE
8/17/64 dispatch from Chief of Station, JMWAVE to Chief, WH: Reports on past and present operations of JMPALM against Haiti and reviews factors affecting Haitian exiles in Miami and their efforts to obtain support from Cuban exile groups in Miami and New York. "JMPALM operations at the WAVE station began approximately one year ago with the recruitment of several persons who appeared to be in positions to provide operational and intelligence information concerning Haitian exile politics and the Haitian political situation." The JMPALM case officer was Robert S. Hunkeler, who signed this dispatch on behalf of Chief of Station Ted Shackley. The program began in approximately August 1963.
104-10071-10203: Field Information Report: Arrival of Haitian Exile Group in Miami
Oct 64 JMWAVE cable from Miami, with the JMPALM slugline, recording the arrival of a Haitian exile group into Miami.