Cryptonym: GYROSE
104-10110-10739: INDICES SEARCH REQUEST ON WILLARD ANDREWS
This CIA search request form contains a handwritten note identifying GYROSE as "the Routing Indicator for the Task Force WH/Cuba." WH probably refers to for Western Hemisphere, but it could also be a pun of sorts referring to William Harvey - who was the "W" in Task Force W, referred to as TFW.
104-10226-10125: OPERATIONAL LEADS/UNIDAD REVOLUCIONARIO
"Operational GYROSE", 1962 memo from JMWAVE chief Ted Shackley to Task Force W chief Bill Harvey re following leads about the anti-Castro group UR.
Bill Simpich, State Secret: http://www.maryferrell.org/pages/State_Secret_Chapter4.html
The head of Transcontinental S.A. - known for bringing black market vehicles from the US into Cuba - was Dallas import-export agent Ramon Cortez, also known as Ramon Cortes and Raymond Cortez.During 1962, Cortez worked alongside Dimas Figueredo (AMSUPER-1). Figueredo was looking for Castro’s spies as a member of the GYROSE Debriefing Unit, while the two men ran a shoe factory together. An interview with Tony Sforza indicates that he also worked with a debriefing unit – Sforza’s unit was a counterintelligence unit within the AMOTS. It’s possible that Sforza worked with a different debriefing unit than Figueredo, but it seems more likely that Task Force W would want to have its best people in the same debriefing unit. The head of the debriefing unit was Carlos Fernandez (AMSAIL-1), who conducted the impersonation of a Cuban embassy official discussed in the previous chapter. Cortez would physically assist Cuban exiles while Figueredo was debriefing them. After Havana figured out that Cortez had “beat the Castro government out of more than $80,000”, Figueredo hired a bodyguard for Cortez.
202-10001-10211: PHASE II OPERATION MONGOOSE
"Due to local conditions and problems, the (REDACTED - probably GYROSE) Debriefing Center will continue to be more limited in size and selective in choice of refugees than Opa-Locka. This is predominantly an NSA problem but CIA will continue to assist as practicable."
104-10164-10172: Dispatch: GYROSE PM Hunger Strike Rally
3/13/62: Dispatch from Chief of Station, JMWAVE to Chief, TFW: 2500 attended hunger strike rally in Bayfront Park Miami. Speakers were Victor Paneque, journalist Jose Alfredo Lopez, Oswaldo Soto (May 20 Group), radio commentator Arturo Artelejo, Carlos Quesada (November 30 Group), radio commentator Luis Conte Aguero, Laureano Batista. Called for reconstruction of CRC and for JFK to provide weapons for war.
5/14/62 dispatch from Ted Shackley, Chief of JMWAVE to William Harvey, Chief of Task Force W. One of the dozens of Operational/GYROSE/KUCAGE dispatches in 1962 between these two officers. Reports on meetings at home of Dr. Alberto Gandero with other exile leaders not members of the CRC. Gandero was the former Public Relations head of the Bank of Havana; has a TV show on Channel 10, worked on US radio networks during WW II. Purpose of meetings was to build unity among exiles and to support President Ydigoras of Guatemala. One participant blamed ODYOKE (the White House) for the present disunity and the predicament of Ydigoras.
104-10110-10636: CABLE: BIO INFORMATION FROM PASSPORT APPLICATION
5/16/62 memo from Sara Prosser, WH/3/Mexico: Memo on Richard Cain has Cain identifying himself as having "worked with GYROSE. This or the fact that Subj with OSS during WW II cannot be substantiated". Margainalia states that "GYROSE is a routing indicator for Task Force W."
104-10171-10094: CABLE RE AMBANG-1 PROJECTS
Aug 3, 1962 - A. Rodriguez memo to San Juan: "(What) GYROSE wants is high level mobile-recruitment defection complex with capability immediate action (around the world)."
104-10166-10333: DISPATCH: OPERATIONAL/GYROSE/KUCAGE RADIO AMERICAN
4/28/63 dispatch from JMWAVE chief Ted Shackley to TFW chief Bill Harvey. Last post to TFW available on MFF. Harvey left Headquarters in June 1963 to become station chief in Rome, Italy. Last GYROSE post available. Request for contacts of William Wibalda and Neil Singleterry, as well as list of employees at Radio American.