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Cryptonym: STATESIDE

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Definition:
An operation that contacted Cuban nationals for use in intelligence operations directed against the Castro government.
Status:
Documented
Sources:

104-10172-10106: GUITART, COMPIZANO AUGUSTIN.

6/18/63 memo from CIA to FBI stating their intent to contact Agustin Guitart, born in Cuba in 1910. Operation Stateside #30.

124-90137-10292: No Title

8/30/63 memo where the CIA contacted the FBI requesting assistance with Operation Stateside, described in the memo as an operation that contacted Cuban nationals for use in intelligence operations directed against the Castro government. The subject of this memo was Abelardo Roberto Andres Guzman Chaple.

124-90137-10343: No Title

11/22/63 memo with handwritten marginalia stating "Operation Stateside", referring to subject Edgar Carl Heine Bohmer, reported to be on the British black list and allegedly involved in Nazi activities in Havana. Dealer in chemical and pharmaceutical products in Cuba. Requested received on 11/15/63, and response sent to CI/LIA Jane Roman. See 124-90137-10344: Original request posted on 11/12/63 as #113.

104-10217-10429: NOTIFICATION TO THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION OF CIA'S INT

In Feb. 1965 Homer Echevarria was the subject of an operation known as Operation Stateside #381, where CIA informed FBI of its intention to contact him.

104-10217-10427: PROVISIONAL OPERATIONAL APPROVAL

The CIA's CI/OA Edward P. Brown then decided to seek provisional operational approval to use him during 2/65: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=48092#relPageId=3&tab=page This is despite 124-10225-10026, p. 4: Contact Jose Cardoso in Chicago was with the Cuban Anti-Communist Army. docId=48097&relPageId=2&search=%22operation_stateside%22 Echevarria was considered a possible suspect in JFK's assassination by the Secret Service in late 1963.

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