Pseudonym: PACO
10/6/59 memo written by Vince Nasca on behalf of FBI Director to CIA Director: An FBI source learned that "Elmer Gaston...has allegedly been recruited into a secret Cuban organization known as PACO. Gaston reportedly indicated that PACO is headed by a woman...According to Gaston PACO will endeavor to convince the public that there is an agreement between Senator James Eastland and Trujillo of the Dominican Republic to attempt to start a civil war in Cuba...Eastland promised protection to two Americans if they would engineer the assassination of Fidel and Raul Castro."
5/19/62 letter to Marta Rosse from Paco and Miriam in Cuba, thanking her for what they received (see p. 59 for actual document). Regarding the ARD, the Accion Revolucionaria Democratica.
12/15/64: Memorandum Summarizing the Background and Activities of Jose Carbonell Marrero, July 1-September 30, 1964: Cites his major aliases such as Jose Carbonell, Mario Garcia, Miguel Sanchez, Pepe and H. Diaz. He resided in Miami with his wife Dolores and his son Mels Carbonell, age 19. He established another residence in NYC in May with Olga Maria Figuerora Angel, Prudencio Duenas, and Duenas' common law wife Hilda Madan. Dolores flew out to join him in August. Carbonell wrote Rolo/Chafir Homero Saker Zenni in May on "reporting on the counterrevolutionaries in Miami". Page 6: "On many occasions, I asked PACO to permit (Irma Suarez) to leave Cuba...you know what the arrival of Irma in Miami would mean to me, after sending her the letter written in lemon juice and worded very skillfully by PACO."
104-10211-10397: DISPATCH: INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM A DEFECTOR FROM A GUATEMALAN GUERELLA GROUP
Uncertain date: Francisco Amado was described as "in charge of arms procurement and delivery from Mexico for the (Guatemalan) guerrillas. (Amado is believed to be) in contact with the Cuban Embassy in Mexico." Amado is 201-108887.
104-10527-10150: CABLE: GUATEMALA GUERRILLA OPS
11/19/63 MEXI 6969 from Mexico City to Director: "On 11/16/63 LICOOKY-1/June Cobb (with LINLUCK-1) visited Major Alfonso Prera Sierra (who lives with wife and four small daughters) at latter's house...Prera employed by Francisco (Paco) Amado at Maquinas Coloso (Paco's wife is owner). Alfonso said Paco still involved Guat guerrilla ops and receives money from Cubans to pass to Guats. Alfonso, who angry with Paco and extremely disillusioned, says Paco pocketing part of the money intended for guerrilla ops. Paco's wife says Paco now in (US) but Alfonso thinks he either in Guat or Cuba. Claims Paco made recent trips to Guat, and on one occasion 1600? dollars sent by Cubans for members jailed with Humberto Pineda, Paco gave them only few dollars each and gave rest to Yon Sosa guerrilla group..."
104-10332-10014: ARRB-CIA ISSUES: JOHN SCELSO
1963-1964: From Philip Agee's CIA Diary, p. 532: "Another important operation directed against the Cubans is a sophisticated provocation that won the CIA Intelligence Medal for Stan Archenhold, the case officer who conceived it. The operation consisted of a series of letters sent to the Cuban intelligence service in their Mexico City embassy from a person purported to be a CIA officer trying to help them. The letters purport to be from Joaquin Ordoqui, a respected, old-guard leader of the Cuban Communist Party and a high-ranking military leader, as a CIA agent. The letters are based on information from Carlos Manuel Pellecer, the Guatemalan exile and penetration agent, who was closely associated with Ordoqui and Marcos Rodriguez when all three lived in Mexico City during the late 1950s. The letters continue to be sent to Cuban intelligence although Ordoqui was arrested in 1964, and the desired controversy in the Cuban revolutionary leadership followed."
John Newman, Oswald and the CIA p. 387
"The CIA saw to it that false papers had been planted on Proenza, documents that made the Vice Minister of Defense (note: Soviet-aligned Joaquin Ordoqui) look like a CIA agent who had betrayed the Soviet missile buildup in Cuba to the Americans. Actually, this official was a highly placed and extreme pro-Moscow Communist - and was probably the KGB's chief agent in the Cuban government. The CIA hoped that Moscow would jump to the vice minister's defense and that a collision would result between Moscow and Havana. The Proenza deception was associated with the Agency's AMTRUNK and AMROD anti-Cuban operations, part of a general CIA strategy to 'split the Castro regime' and sour relations between Moscow and Havana. Proenza, the vice minister, the vice minister's wife, and a subordinate of the vice minister were all arrested, tried for treason, and jailed for various terms. They were all innocent."