Pseudonym: Fredericks, Burton

104-10220-10422: MEMORANDUM: REPORT OF CONTACT WITH ALBERTO ROQUE

10/04/60: Memorandum for the record from Withheld, Agency Officer: Page 2: ..."7. Two specific items which the MDC wanted to undertake are worth noting. The first is the attempted brief prayer, which was prepared by the MDC and which they propose to be inscribed on the back of a small card carrying the image of La Virgen del Cobre, this is to be distributed among Cuban exiles in the U.S. When I asked Roque why they weren't primarily considering distribution in Cuba, he said they were not sure they had the capability for doing this. The prayer itself has been shown to several people on the Staff here and their immediate reaction, which agrees with mine, is that this is an excellent idea. The prayer is brief, low-pitched, precisely directal, and could have enormous appeal. The only problem is to get it out of the Burton Fredericks channel and back into FRD channels to get this going. This will be worked out with the Propaganda Section..."

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01/11/61: Memorandum for the record from B. E. Reichhardt (probably Ken M. Crosby), C/WH/4/FI: Subject: Telephone Call from Sergio Rojas: "1. Rojas called 10 January for Burton Fredericks to say that he had some information which he had been trying to get to Bender (Gerard Droller) but could get no response at Bender's New York telephone. 2. Rojas wanted to report that a newsman friend of his, Howard Handleman of U.S. News and World Report, is currently in Miami interviewing prominent Cuban exiles. He has already talked with Emilio Menendez, Justo Carrillo; will talk with Miro Cardona soon; and has been trying to reach Manolo Ray. Ray so far has refused to see him and has been dealing with an unnamed (Rojas did not know who it was) middle man. The particular point of interest that Rojas wanted us to know is that this Ray middle man told Handleman that very, very soon there would be some very important action on the Isle of Pines which would involve the release of prisoners in the prison there who would then join in a move against Havana. The inference being that this would be an MRP-engineered operation. 3. I thought it was interesting that in closing Rojas asked Burton Fredericks to have Bender call him. When Fredericks passed this off with a comment that he was not in contact with Bender, it made no impression on Rojas who simply repeated that I have Bender telephone him in Miami at Canal 1-3884."