Cryptonym: YOACRE
Page has numerous references to YOACRE. Compare to the following reference (104-10052-10424), where all these references are redacted and replaced with the handwritten word "CUBA".
104-10052-10424: STATUS REPORT ON OPERATION: EXFILTRATE SOVIETS FROM CUBA
Compare this page to previous reference - Cuba is substituted for YOACRE. The CIA analyst reviewing the documents did not want to admit that YOACRE was the naval base - instead, the analyst made the misleading admission that YOACRE is part of Cuba.
1994.04.12.15:51:14:380005: Reel 26, Folder H - EJERCITO LIBERTADOR DE CUBA
Harvey says that Perez's most significant lie was when he said that he was exfiltrated from Guantanamo on September 1. Compare to following reference (104-10171-10352), where Perez says that he was exfiltrated from YOACRE on Sept. 1.
104-10171-10352: CABLE: ON 28 SEPT STATION DEBRIEFED AMDENIM/11 JUST RETURNED
9/29/62 cable from JMWAVE to Director: "On 28 Sept station debriefed AMDENIM-11 just returned from Cuba where he worked YOACRE for Nat Harrison Construction Company...A-11 claims he held meet...two kilometers outside YOACRE."
104-10269-10291 INFORMATION ON EDUARDO PEREZ-
9/29/62 memo from CNO to Naval Base Gitmo asks if Eduardo Perez works at Nat Harrison and if there is a "Captain Jefferie" phonetic stationed at the naval base. By turning to the previous page, the reader sees the 9/29/62 response memo from Naval Base Gitmo to CNO: Eduardo Perez-Gonzalez (AMDENIM-11) of Santiago is former employee of Nat Harrison...approached Captain William Gentry, repeat Gentry, not Jeffries, present Marine Corps security and intelligence officer, and indicated desire to exfiltrate to Cuba...Base hoped to obtain reports of missile and troop build-up. (Plan) was to swim into Cuba from US side." Next page
104-10179-10356: DISPATCH: SUBJECT - INTERVIEWS WITH AMBANG/1 AND AMBIDDY/1 IN PUERTO RICO
3/23/64 dispatch from Chief of Station, JMWAVE to Chief, Special Affairs Staff: "During the last week of January Source (AMING-2/Doctor Enrique Huertas Pozo) at a private meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico that he would like to enlist (Huertas') assistance as an advisor on medical affairs and as a propaganda worker...AMBANG-1/Manuel Ray replied that he...would be able to place combat forces in (Cuba) during March 1964, said combat forces having an ability to hold their own for weeks on the island...he had training installations on the Florida mainland and had training and logistical bases or a base in Venezuela...he still had significant White House contacts despite the death of John F. Kennedy. He added that he was in contact with top people at the (State Department) and held regular meetings with a very high ranking officer of (CIA). He stated that he also had been introduced by the (CIA officer) to the Chief of Operations at YOACRE and was in regular communication with the (Navy) officer...Source then asked if he was to understand that AMBANG-1 had the approval of the (US) for operations into Cuba. AMBANG-1 reportedly replied, 'I have been given the green light.'...Around Feb. 1 (Huertas) met in San Juan with AMBIDDY-1/Manuel Artime for a private talk...(Artime) stated that he had been selected by (US) as that (Cuban) having the necessary leadership and experience for the overthrow of (Fidel Castro)...(US) knew that in (Artime) it had a leader resolved to maintain order and centrist Democratic government in (Cuba) following the liberation...Source assumes that (Ray and Artime) had not met, but hoped to meet for talks."