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A CIA Plot to Wrench the Cuban Economy
By John Armstrong
"Harvey & Lee", pp. 355-8
Unknown to the Kennedy administration, the CIA had manufactured enormous amounts of bogus Cuban currency which they planned to introduce into the Cuban economy. The excess currency would greatly inflate the cost of goods and services and hopefully lead to the
collapse of the Cuban economy and cause disenchantment with the Castro regime. In April, after President Kennedy learned of the CIA's plan, he wrote a memorandum to Attorney General Robert Kennedy which read:
"If possible, try to apprehend all Cuban and American personnel currently engaged in manufacturing bogus Cuban currency. As you know,
in its efforts to overthrow the Castro regime, the CIA has disregarded our direct orders and placed us in a politically embarrassing position. The names of all the parties involved in the conspiracy should be in the Agency's file. Also, you might consider leaking to the Cuban authorities that a massive counterfeiting scheme may be launched against them which could jeopardize the Cuban economy."
Apparently, no information about the counterfeiting scheme was leaked to the Cuban authorities and by August the Cuban economy was so destabilized by the operation, that it forced Castro to issue new currency.
The Cuban Revolutionary Council
Shortly after the CIA's defeat at the Bay of Pigs, Cuban exile leader Manuel Artime was selected as head of the exile brigade and became the point man for continued raids against Cuba. Artime was directly tied to the CIA's "Executive Action" assassination attempts against Castro and was very close to career officer E. Howard Hunt.
Artime helped set up one of the CIA-backed training camps on Lake Pontchartrain, north of New Orleans, while CRC delegate Sergio Aracha Smith shared n office with Guy Bannister in the Balter Building (403 Camp Street). Luis Rabel, Arnesto Rodriguez, Sr., Arnesto Rodriguez, Jr., Sergio Aracha Smith, Carlos Grimander, Joiquin Villodas, and Manuel Gil were all CRC members and authorized to sign checks.
Note: Sergio Aracha Smith admitted in a polygraph examination given by DA Jim Garrison's office, that he knew Clay Shaw and solicited money from him for the CRC. In 1963, Manuel Gil was employed as Production Manager for Edward Scannell Butler's Information Council of the Americas (INCA), at 620 Gravier Street. INCA was closely connected to and funded by the CIA.
Many raids sponsored by the CRC originated from the Florida Keys and were funded through dummy corporations and individuals fronting for the CIA. The FBI interviewed several people who remembered LEE Oswald had participated in some of these activities.
Spring (1961) -- Lee Oswald in Key West, Florida
Sheriff Thomspon, of Monroe County (Key West), Florida, recalled that "Lee Harvey Oswald" fueled up his boat in Key West shortly after the Bay of Pigs. Oswald didn't have the funds to pay for the fuel and telephoned someone in Dallas, Texas. Within two hours a man named
"Ruben" arrived and paid for the fuel.
William Huffman was the attendant on duty when Lee Oswald, accompanied by 4 or 5 Cubans, docked at the Sands Marine Fueling Station at Stock Island, Key West, Florida in a 43-foot Chris Craft diesel boat. Huffman recalled that Oswald did not have enough money to pay for the fuel and soon a man named "Ruben" came to the dock. Huffman said that although Ruben paid cash for the fuel, he (Huffman) asked Oswald to sign the fuel delivery ticket.
Huffman explained to the FBI, "I told him I wanted his autograph in case he should become famous at some later date." Huffman was a former FBI informant who identification code was "MM 892-C." He reported Oswald's visit to the supervisor of the FBI's Miami office, Homer A. Newman, on November 25, 1963.
Note: William Huffman, like Valentine Ashworth, Mrs. Davis, Martinez Malo,
Oscar DeLatte, James Spencer, and many others, were ignored by the FBI because their testimony placed (LEE) Oswald in Florida with
"Ruben" (a clear reference to Jack Ruby), when (Harvey) Oswald was in the Soviet Union.
The identity of "Ruben," who arrived from Key West and paid cash for the fuel, is uncertain. But Jack Rubenstein (Ruby), from Dallas, was
actively running guns from Florida to Cuba during this period. On April 27, perhaps in response to the recent sightings of Oswald in the U.S. and Cuba, the SAC (New Orleans sent a memo to FBI Director Hoover informing him that the local FBI office had reviewed files of
the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), 8th Naval District, for "Lee Harvey Oswald."
May 7 (circa) - Lee Oswald in Havana, Cuba
A few days after Harvey Oswald and Marina were married in Minsk, Dr. Enrique Lorenzo Luaces met LEE Oswald in Havana, Cuba. Dr. Luaces was formerly a professor of engineering at the University of Santiago in Santiago, Cuba. He was well acquainted with Robert "Bob" Bruce Tabor, a founding member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), and probably a CIA asset.
Robert Tabor knew and associated with various news correspondents in Cuba in 1961 including New York Times correspondent Ruby Hart Phillips who worked in Cuba for 25 years. Phillips often shared her Miami apartment with CIA operatives Frank Fiorini/Sturgis, Alex Rorke, and William Johnson. Tabor arrived in Cuba in January 1961 and accompanied Fidel Castro during the Bay of Pigs invasion as a news reporter and was wounded in the leg.
Approximately 3 weeks after the Bay of Pigs Robert Tabor, dressed in a khaki uniform and armed with a .38 pistol, entered Sloppy Joe's Bar in Havana on crutches. Accompanying Tabor was a young man, dressed in khaki trousers and a blue denim shirt, who was carrying a portfolio. The two men approached Dr. Luaces and Tabor introduced his friend to Dr. Luaces as Lieutenant Harvey Oswald, an arms expert. Dr. Luaces was unsure if the young man's name was "Oswalt" or "Oswald" and asked him to spell his last name. Oswald told Dr. Luaces his name ended with a "D."
Tabor asked Oswald to open his briefcase and show Dr. Luaces the contents. In the briefcase were a series of folded charts, one of which Oswald took out and unfolded. The chart Oswald showed to Dr. Luaces was a cut-away training aid for the M-1 rifle. Dr. Luaces asked Oswald why he had not yet been picked up by the Cuban authorities, to which Oswald replied "because he had not yet been found." Luaces felt so uncomfortable with Tabor and Oswald and their discussions about rifles, that he left the bar. He never saw Oswald again, but occasionally saw Tabor in Havana during the following months.
Dr. Luaces left Cuba in July 1961 and moved to the Republic of Panama. On December 3, 1963, following the assassination of President
Kennedy, he was interviewed by Army Intelligence. Their report stated, "Dr. Luaces definitely identified the individual to him by Tabor as the "Lee Harvey Oswald' whose picture recently appeared in the local press as the accused assassin of President Kennedy."
Note: Tony Varona told the HSCA about discussions between himself and Carlos Bringuier concerning Oswald's visits to Mexico and Cuba. Verona said, "He (Oswald) had traveled to Mexico and from Mexico went to Cuba and came back to Mexico." When asked if Oswald's trip to Cuba was in 1961, Varona said, "I don't have the date, but it must have been during that period." LEE Harvey Oswald traveling to Cuba at any time contradicts the Warren Report, which says that Oswald was never in Cuba and was in Russia during all of 1961. The reason that neither Dr. Luaces nor Robert Tabor were questioned by any government agency (Warren Commission, HSCA, etc.) about (Lee) Oswald's presence in Havana in 1961, is because it conflicted with (Harvey) Oswald's presence in Russia. Tabor, when questioned by the FBI, denied the meeting took place and denied meeting Oswald.
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A CIA Plot to Wrench the Cuban Economy
By John Armstrong
"Harvey & Lee", pp. 355-8
Unknown to the Kennedy administration, the CIA had manufactured enormous amounts of bogus Cuban currency which they planned to introduce into the Cuban economy. The excess currency would greatly inflate the cost of goods and services and hopefully lead to the
collapse of the Cuban economy and cause disenchantment with the Castro regime. In April, after President Kennedy learned of the CIA's plan, he wrote a memorandum to Attorney General Robert Kennedy which read:
"If possible, try to apprehend all Cuban and American personnel currently engaged in manufacturing bogus Cuban currency. As you know,
in its efforts to overthrow the Castro regime, the CIA has disregarded our direct orders and placed us in a politically embarrassing position. The names of all the parties involved in the conspiracy should be in the Agency's file. Also, you might consider leaking to the Cuban authorities that a massive counterfeiting scheme may be launched against them which could jeopardize the Cuban economy."
Apparently, no information about the counterfeiting scheme was leaked to the Cuban authorities and by August the Cuban economy was so destabilized by the operation, that it forced Castro to issue new currency.
The Cuban Revolutionary Council
Shortly after the CIA's defeat at the Bay of Pigs, Cuban exile leader Manuel Artime was selected as head of the exile brigade and became the point man for continued raids against Cuba. Artime was directly tied to the CIA's "Executive Action" assassination attempts against Castro and was very close to career officer E. Howard Hunt.
Artime helped set up one of the CIA-backed training camps on Lake Pontchartrain, north of New Orleans, while CRC delegate Sergio Aracha Smith shared n office with Guy Bannister in the Balter Building (403 Camp Street). Luis Rabel, Arnesto Rodriguez, Sr., Arnesto Rodriguez, Jr., Sergio Aracha Smith, Carlos Grimander, Joiquin Villodas, and Manuel Gil were all CRC members and authorized to sign checks.
Note: Sergio Aracha Smith admitted in a polygraph examination given by DA Jim Garrison's office, that he knew Clay Shaw and solicited money from him for the CRC. In 1963, Manuel Gil was employed as Production Manager for Edward Scannell Butler's Information Council of the Americas (INCA), at 620 Gravier Street. INCA was closely connected to and funded by the CIA.
Many raids sponsored by the CRC originated from the Florida Keys and were funded through dummy corporations and individuals fronting for the CIA. The FBI interviewed several people who remembered LEE Oswald had participated in some of these activities.
Spring (1961) -- Lee Oswald in Key West, Florida
Sheriff Thomspon, of Monroe County (Key West), Florida, recalled that "Lee Harvey Oswald" fueled up his boat in Key West shortly after the Bay of Pigs. Oswald didn't have the funds to pay for the fuel and telephoned someone in Dallas, Texas. Within two hours a man named
"Ruben" arrived and paid for the fuel.
William Huffman was the attendant on duty when Lee Oswald, accompanied by 4 or 5 Cubans, docked at the Sands Marine Fueling Station at Stock Island, Key West, Florida in a 43-foot Chris Craft diesel boat. Huffman recalled that Oswald did not have enough money to pay for the fuel and soon a man named "Ruben" came to the dock. Huffman said that although Ruben paid cash for the fuel, he (Huffman) asked Oswald to sign the fuel delivery ticket.
Huffman explained to the FBI, "I told him I wanted his autograph in case he should become famous at some later date." Huffman was a former FBI informant who identification code was "MM 892-C." He reported Oswald's visit to the supervisor of the FBI's Miami office, Homer A. Newman, on November 25, 1963.
Note: William Huffman, like Valentine Ashworth, Mrs. Davis, Martinez Malo,
Oscar DeLatte, James Spencer, and many others, were ignored by the FBI because their testimony placed (LEE) Oswald in Florida with
"Ruben" (a clear reference to Jack Ruby), when (Harvey) Oswald was in the Soviet Union.
The identity of "Ruben," who arrived from Key West and paid cash for the fuel, is uncertain. But Jack Rubenstein (Ruby), from Dallas, was
actively running guns from Florida to Cuba during this period. On April 27, perhaps in response to the recent sightings of Oswald in the U.S. and Cuba, the SAC (New Orleans sent a memo to FBI Director Hoover informing him that the local FBI office had reviewed files of
the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), 8th Naval District, for "Lee Harvey Oswald."
May 7 (circa) - Lee Oswald in Havana, Cuba
A few days after Harvey Oswald and Marina were married in Minsk, Dr. Enrique Lorenzo Luaces met LEE Oswald in Havana, Cuba. Dr. Luaces was formerly a professor of engineering at the University of Santiago in Santiago, Cuba. He was well acquainted with Robert "Bob" Bruce Tabor, a founding member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), and probably a CIA asset.
Robert Tabor knew and associated with various news correspondents in Cuba in 1961 including New York Times correspondent Ruby Hart Phillips who worked in Cuba for 25 years. Phillips often shared her Miami apartment with CIA operatives Frank Fiorini/Sturgis, Alex Rorke, and William Johnson. Tabor arrived in Cuba in January 1961 and accompanied Fidel Castro during the Bay of Pigs invasion as a news reporter and was wounded in the leg.
Approximately 3 weeks after the Bay of Pigs Robert Tabor, dressed in a khaki uniform and armed with a .38 pistol, entered Sloppy Joe's Bar in Havana on crutches. Accompanying Tabor was a young man, dressed in khaki trousers and a blue denim shirt, who was carrying a portfolio. The two men approached Dr. Luaces and Tabor introduced his friend to Dr. Luaces as Lieutenant Harvey Oswald, an arms expert. Dr. Luaces was unsure if the young man's name was "Oswalt" or "Oswald" and asked him to spell his last name. Oswald told Dr. Luaces his name ended with a "D."
Tabor asked Oswald to open his briefcase and show Dr. Luaces the contents. In the briefcase were a series of folded charts, one of which Oswald took out and unfolded. The chart Oswald showed to Dr. Luaces was a cut-away training aid for the M-1 rifle. Dr. Luaces asked Oswald why he had not yet been picked up by the Cuban authorities, to which Oswald replied "because he had not yet been found." Luaces felt so uncomfortable with Tabor and Oswald and their discussions about rifles, that he left the bar. He never saw Oswald again, but occasionally saw Tabor in Havana during the following months.
Dr. Luaces left Cuba in July 1961 and moved to the Republic of Panama. On December 3, 1963, following the assassination of President
Kennedy, he was interviewed by Army Intelligence. Their report stated, "Dr. Luaces definitely identified the individual to him by Tabor as the "Lee Harvey Oswald' whose picture recently appeared in the local press as the accused assassin of President Kennedy."
Note: Tony Varona told the HSCA about discussions between himself and Carlos Bringuier concerning Oswald's visits to Mexico and Cuba. Verona said, "He (Oswald) had traveled to Mexico and from Mexico went to Cuba and came back to Mexico." When asked if Oswald's trip to Cuba was in 1961, Varona said, "I don't have the date, but it must have been during that period." LEE Harvey Oswald traveling to Cuba at any time contradicts the Warren Report, which says that Oswald was never in Cuba and was in Russia during all of 1961. The reason that neither Dr. Luaces nor Robert Tabor were questioned by any government agency (Warren Commission, HSCA, etc.) about (Lee) Oswald's presence in Havana in 1961, is because it conflicted with (Harvey) Oswald's presence in Russia. Tabor, when questioned by the FBI, denied the meeting took place and denied meeting Oswald.