Cryptonym: AMCUTLER-1
104-10226-10031: INFORMATION ON SEVEN CUBAN INTERNAL RESISTANCE GROUPS
11/04/61: CIA document: Page 13: ...."Another independent, AMCUTLER-1, he has contact with Osvaldo Ramirez in Escambray who desires support. We have given him guidelines for operations. Claims he has 8-10 men with training and have infiltrated general staff people. We are trying to bring him back to group from which he came..."
104-10070-10079: OPERATIONAL REVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF OPERATION
7/11/62 dispatch from Chief of Station, JMWAVE to Chief, TFW: "The bulk of AMFAUNA-1's communications come via (shortwave). His messages to JMWAVE are sent to accommodation addresses serviced by AMPAN-2 and AMCUTLER-1."
104-10070-10079: DISPATCH: OPERATIONAL/GYROSE-REVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF AMFAUNA OPERATION
07/23/62: Dispatch from COS, JMWAVE to Chief, Task Force W: AMFAUNA-2 is the wife of AMCUTLER-1 (brother of AMFAUNA-1), and they speak weekly. She is the sister-in-law of AMFAUNA-1 (David Capeza Coupau), and is AMFAUNA-1's cut-out to AMCOG-2, AMFAUNA-14 (the secretary of AMCOG-2/Leopoldina Grau Alsina) and AMFAUNA-15 (a relative of AMFAUNA-1 and a friend of AMCOG-2).
104-10073-10074: PROGRESS REPORT FOR NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 1962
1/9/63 dispatch from Chief of Station, JMWAVE to Chief, TFW, slugline Operational/GYROSE/AMCUTLER: "1. AMCUTLER-1's efforts during the reporting period were directed toward: (a) supporting the AMFAUNA operation; and (b) developing new KUTUBE operations...3. AMCUTLER-1 has also reported a potential courier channel to AMFAUNA-1, using: Gonzalo Abelem (note: possibly Arelem) Martin, Brazilian citizen...Residence...Miami, Fla. Occupation: Employee of Brazilian Consulate, and his brother: Manuel Abelem Martin. Brazilian citizen...Residence: Havana...Occupation: Officer of Brazilian Embassy, Havana. Once a month a pouch passes between the REDACTED Consulate in Miami and the Embassy in Havana, and AMCUTLER-1 has made use of it to send letters for posting in Havana to AMCUTLER-2. The two Abelem brothers are friends of AMCUTLER-1 and AMCUTLER-2, but AMCUTLER-1 does not believe that they would yet be willing to carry or send any obvious espionage material...7. On 25 December 1962 AMCUTLER-1 reported that he had been informed the day before by Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz that two individuals named (REDACTION) had just approached him with the offer to sell him some weapons allegedly belonging to KUBARK (CIA) which were stored on an unidentified key and valued at several thousand dollars. Lopez and Ceijas told Diaz that an armed raid on the key would have to be simulated so that suspicion would not fall on them...Diaz turned them down. JMWAVE file checks showed that the two men were indeed of interest to KUBARK, and that AMTABBY Underwater Demolition Team was possibly involved. Appropriate defensive measures were immediately taken..."
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10176-10005.pdf
Helped brother successfully organize productive AMFAUNA net.
104-10226-10245: DISPATCH: UR; MONTHLY REPORT FOR JUNE 1963
07/18/63: Dispatch from COS, JMWAVE to Chief, Special Affairs Staff (SAS): Page 2: ..."IV: Future Plans: 9. Two new case officers will be dealing with UR members on separate and compartmented operations beginning in July, one from FI Branch and one from PM. The former has established contact with Salvador Garcia Oller through AMCUTLER/1 and will attempt to channel Garcia's talents toward specific targets in Cuba. To insure against wire crossing, either in JMWAVE or in the UR, Garcia's scope will be carefully defined, the remaining area of the UR underground potential to be exploited by the PM case officer through one or more infil teams."