Cryptonym: AMSERF-1
Joe Piccolo was Bartes' case officer as of 1/30/61. Other identifiers include 201-289885 and C-87424.
104-10164-10061: CANCELLATION OF OPERATIONAL CLEARANCES
Links the C-number to the 201 number (201-289885) and the name or crypt of the individual - here, it's AMSERF-1. Identifies the C-number as an "operational clearance". Thirty individuals are on this list, including Isidro Borja Simo. 104-10242-10067 is another version of this document.
104-10428-10002: LIST OF NAMES AND 201 NUMBERS
aka Bardes or Bartez/ Lists the same 201-289885 file number assigned to AMSERF-1 in an earlier reference.
104-10110-10039: PERSONAL INFORMATION ON FRANCISCO BARTES
Three page biography on State Department form. Includes supplemental page on background as pilot. Also discusses his work with Consolidated Bank.
104-10189-10021: GARRISON INVESTIGATION OF KENNEDY ASSASSINATION: FRANCISCO ANTONIO BARTES
Re 1953-1964: Memo from DC/CI/R&A Donovan E. Pratt: Francisco Bartes is identified as 201-289885: Born on 9/14/20 in Havana, Bartes was president or vice-president of Consolidated Railways of Cuba throughout the 1950s and into 1960, a wealthy man. On 1/4/61, he entered the US from Miami. 1/30/64 he received a POA to be used in JMATE, which was cancelled 8/30/61. "Bartes was the head of the CRC in New Orleans but that on or about 4 June 1964 he had received from the Miami headquarters a notification that the CRC was being dissolved. Bartes advised the New Orleans office of the FBI that the New Orleans delegate of the MDC was Jose Manuel Cusco, who was not very active, and that the Miami chief was Jose Ignacio Rasco. (Comment: There is no record of CUSCO in the RI/Main Index.) A PRQ II on Bartes shows that he was an FBI informant (dates not given) and that his contact was with Special Agent Warren C. deBrueys."
104-10164-10057: FRANCISCO BARTES, PRES OF CUBAN RAILROAD
Memo sent by WH/4/PM to Havana, 7/14/60.
104-10164-10337: PROVISIONAL OPERATIONAL APPROVAL
Memo from CI/Operational Approval and Support Division to C/WH/4/Cuba, attn. Joseph Piccolo, 1/30/61. The Subject is AMSERF-1.
104-10164-10051: FYI AND POSSIBLE USE POA GRANTED AM( )
Owner of two sugar centrals and a large experimental rice farm. Director of Consolidated Railroad Company, Cuba. Originator of document is Joseph Piccolo of WH/4/Ops/Support, dated 1/31/61.
104-10110-10043: GARRISON INVESTIGATION OF KENNEDY ASSASSINATION: FRANCISCO BARTES
A CI/R&A memo states: "On 25 June 1962 Lawrence LaBorde (AMDENIM-4), Gerald Patrick Hemming, Jr. and Howard Davis paid a visit to a Cuban in New Orleans, Frank Bartes, and reached an agreement to train anti-Castro Cubans as guerilla fighters and demolition experts. In June 1964, Bartes was the CRC chief in New Orleans and notified that the CRC was being dismantled. "Bartes advised the New Orleans office of the FBI that the New Orleans delegate of the MDC was Jose Manuel Cusco, who was not very active, and that the Miami chief was Jose Ignacio Rasco (AMPALM-5)." Bartes was also an FBI informant, and his contact in New Orleans was Warren de Brueys. Also see 124-10220-10322, p. 3.
1993.07.14.16:04:26:710270: PROPOSAL MADE TO NEW ORLEANS CUBAN REFUGEE GROUP MILITARY TRAINING OF
6/25/62, Bartes was contacted by Larry Laborde/AMDENIM-4, Jerry Hemming and Howard Davis - they wanted to start a training camp outside New Orleans. See 1994.04.22.16:06:28:970005, Reel 53, Folder E, pp. 58-59 for another version of this document with different marginalia. Also see 64: The memo signed by these three men, using their "war names", and their leader Luis del Nocal Vega. 104-10138-10148: See the arrest of Hemming, Larry Laborde, Roy Hargraves, Edmund Colby and nine others for their training camp at No Name Key in Dec. 1962. 104-10171-10372: Asst. AG Yardley considering prosecution, names Colby as the leader.
9/28/62 FBI memo discusses a meeting at the Berlitz offices with Frank Bartes, DRE representative Carlos Bringuier, and Arnesto Rodriguez, Jr. among others. Rodriguez was head of the Berlitz School of Languages in New Orleans. They were meeting with Major Charles Delerno of the Louisiana National Guard, and the purpose of the meeting was to "instruct Cubans in the methods of opposing the Castro government in Cuba". This group met with Delerno on several occasions during the month of September for this purpose.
180-10145-10158: 180-10145-10158
6/23/63 FBI report (from notes of HSCA staffer Jonathen Blackmer): "Bartes alleges Rudolph Richard Davis - Lee Harvey Oswald & Minutemen - (Davis) met Lee Harvey Oswald twice, once handing out handbills and once went to his house...(Victor) Paneque in charge of camp, Carlo DeArmas - nearby farm. Shaw in May 9, 1961 program chairman who introduces Charles Cabell from New Orleans Foreign Policy Association."
HSCA Report, Volume X Current Section: V. Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC): New Orleans Chapter
Bartes attended the court hearing of Oswald and Bringuier in August 1963. "(Bartes) spoke to an FBI agent that day, warning that Oswald was potentially a dangerous man. Bartes declined to identify the agent to the committee, saying only that he had frequent contact with him during this period of time." Given his statement below, this contact was undoubtedly Warren de Brueys.