Pseudonym: AGUILAR, MANUEL
11/28/60: FBI interview with Col. Ramon Barquin, who defected in August 1960 from his post as military purchasing agent for the Castro government. Barquin reported that Julio Duarte, former president of the Tribunales de Cuentas, is residing in the Miami area...Duarte is the political planner of the MRP and is engaging in drawing the constitution for a new Cuban government after the ousting of the present government of Fidel Castro. Duarte works closely with Jose Miro Cardona/AMDIP-1.
7/25/61, comments of MRP member Julian BASTARRICA Arrieta, a Franciscan priest who had recently defected from Cuba en route to Spain: Julio Duarte was the cousin of Jose Antonio Duarte y Oropesa, a former Rebel Army major. Julio Duarte took over Reinol Gonzalez/AMCALL-1 task as of that time to organize a people's army inside Cuba and provide them with clandestine training.
Late 1963: "On September 24, 1963, MM T-1 (name still withheld as of 2017 - but revealed in other documents as Jesus Franco Canedo), a former Cuban Revolutionary Army officer who is acquainted with personalities and organizations in the anti-Castro field in Miami, advised that Manuel Aguilar had lost his job at the jewelry store where he was employed, and spends most of his time working on his boat...(Aguilar was held up for money by Steve Wilson in a failed arms deal - after the police were called the money was returned.)..."On October 25, 1963, MM T-1 advised an American by the name of Lorenzo Hall was back in town wearing a long beard. He said he had been in Dallas, Texas, and had some kind of trouble with the police there. Hall disappeared from the area; presumably, he was going to Georgia." A month later, an Oldsmobile filled with weapons was seized by Customs. "The driver of the 1955 Oldsmobile was identified as L. E. Hall, 142 SW 21st Avenue, Miami, Florida, who was also the registered owner of the Oldsmobile...on November 5, 1963, MM T-1 advised that Manuel Aguilar was going to employ lawyers to reclaim the 'Pitusa I' (the boat that was seized, in the name of Ed Collins' girlfriend)...The trip which the Customs agents stopped on October 30, 1963 was a spur-of-the-moment arrangement between Aguilar and Hall. Hall was to agree to take some un-named individuals to Cuba with him. The trip was actually Hall's expedition, and he only rented or borrowed the boat 'Pitusa I'."
11/9/63 memo re case 105-121863 to Director, FBI from Miami re FRAC, and scrawled on the front page is Loran Eugene Hall: "MM T-1 is PSI (under development) Jesus Franco Canedo...it is noted that US Customs, which has been actively investigating this matter, has been kept advised of the plans, personalities, activities and locations of the boats of FRAC by the Miami office." page 3: Manuel Aguilar, 829 SW 9th St., Miami, is the head of FRAC. He, in association with the following American adventurers, has planned to make a trip to Cuba for the purpose of gathering propaganda material for the John Birch Society to obtain money to sustain military-style raids on Cuba: Edward Collins, 220 SW 8th Avenue, Miami; Tom Duncan, a photographer, and Dennis Herbert, a homosexual who speaks Spanish fluently and has the nickname of 'The Professor'.
1993.08.11.14:08:32:620006: CUBAN COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY HANDBOOK
1964: Manuel Aguilar aka Julio Duarte was one of the leaders of the FRAC, which was one of the eight organizations within the FULN led by Felipe Vidal Santiago/AMQUIP-1 until Vidal was captured and killed by Castro's forces in May 1964. Also see page 304, Manuel Aguilar Alvarez is revealed as the full alias. Aguilar/Duarte claimed to have founded the MRP as early as March 1959.
104-10518-10322: ARMY DOCUMENT: FRENTE REVOLUCIONARIO ANTI-COMMUNISTA EN CUBA (U)
1970 memo from Col. Irwin Gay, LTC, MI to CIA: Manuel Aguilar's date and place of birth: 6/3/29, Marianao, Cuba, and that Jose Pujol has SS number 261-66-0168 and was born on 7/1/41 in Panama. Roy Emory Hargraves was born on 2/14/40 in St. Louis, Missouri. As of 6/19/70 he resided at 9515 SW 95th Avenue, Miami, Florida, phone 226-4646. During the 1962-1964 period Hemming was working for a private patrol agency in Rosemead, California, the man in charge was FNU Moses. Hargraves said that he met Aguilar through Felipe Vidal Santiago. Manuel Aguilar was also known as "Minola". Aguilar had worked for Raul Castro's right-hand man, a seven foot Afro-Cuban known as Hector Aldama.