Pseudonym: Guillermo
1961: Gordon was the base intelligence officer at Guantanamo. At a briefing in a certain office within ONI, "he was told that there was a Cuban national who lived on our base on Guantanamo and was employed by the Navy who was willing and able to assassinate Castro. His name was Alonzo Gonzales. One of the officers who told him this was a Lieutenant James Carr...sometime in July 1961, Gordon discovered that dynamite had been brought into the base surreptitiously. He suspected Gonzales and immediately telephoned the base commander to suggest that Gonzales be arrested. According to Gordon, less than one (redacted) hour after his telephone call with the base commander, he himself was arrested by the Shore Patrol and placed in the psychiatric ward of the base hospital...(held until) October 1961...(In 1969) Gordon wrote the new Secretary of the Navy requesting an appointment to inform him of the whole Gonzales episode. Shortly after writing this letter, Gordon was confined to the Bethesda Naval Hospital for an alleged psychiatric problem. After release from this hospital Gordon retired from the Navy in 1969 (with the rank of Lieutenant Commander)."
Deadly Secrets, Warren Hinckle and William Turner (Thunder's Mouth, 1992), pp. 113-115.
Re Summer 1961: Tad Szulc wrote, "I cannot say to what extent (JFK) knew...about a scheme elaborated by Military Intelligence officers soon after the Bay of Pigs...to kill Castro and his brother Raul...using Cuban marksmen who were to be infiltrated into Cuba from (the base at Guantanamo)" The authors write: "...the CIA collaborated closely with its naval hosts, on this assassination plot ONI appears to have been in the driver's seat. The officer in charge was a Navy lieutenant commander, and one of the assassins had long been under ONI control. His name was Luis Balbuena, a thickset man called El Gordo ('the Fat One')...a second marksman was Alonzo Gonzales, about whom little is known other than that he was an Episcopalian priest who had designs on being bishop of Cuba once Castro was deposed...Balbuena aditted to a US Senate investigator that he had worked with Gonzales out of Guantanamo in 1961 and confirmed that the ambitious priest was proficient with firearms...(in Aug 1961, at the hemispheric nations' conference in Uruguay, Che Cuevara) said the plot was for the killing to be followed by a mortar shelling of the base, giving the impression that enraged Cubans were taking revenge for Raul's death at the hands of counterrevolutionaries. The shelling would give the United States a 'clear-cut case' of Cuban aggression and provide a pretext for armed intervention - the old Guantanamo shell game." (This was also known as Operation Patty.)
104-10263-10078: VICTOR ESPINOSA HERNANDEZ
Dossier on Victor Espinosa Hernandez/AMHINT-24 states, "Knows Alonso well but are not in too good terms."
179-10003-10016: INTERDEPARTMENTAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE OF CUBAN AFFAIRS
April-June 1963: "Ref A reported granting of leave to Alonso Gonzales, Cuban naval base employee. Gonzales returned from leave on 23 April...(to be continued) Also see 6/12/63: page 4: "Reference (a) outlined a plan by a group of Cuban private citizens in Miami to raise one and one half million dollars to be used for opening a new front in Cuba. Attachment (1) is a copy of a letter from one of this Miami group to Alonzo Gonzalez, the Naval base contact, outlining the plan further."