Pseudonym: Dainold, Chester D.
157-10014-10061: INTERVIEW AND MEETING SUMMARY WITH WILLIAM SULLIVAN, 21 APR 1976
Circa 1962-1965: FitzGerald was part of the Special Affairs Section Division, a paramilitary wing focused on covert action - Wikipedia describes the Special Affairs Section Division as also known as the Special Operations Group. In 2016 it was renamed as the Special Affairs Center. "Special affairs" is also known as "covert action". May not be the same as Fitzgerald's SAS (Special Affairs Staff), which replaced Bill Harvey's Task Force W as Langley's coordinators of the Forward Action Base in Miami known as JMWAVE. See summary of deposition of William Sullivan.
3/31/63 memo from W. R. Wannall to FBI supervisor William Sullivan: "Fitzgerald of CIA strongly advocated prosecution of 'undesirables', and specifically named Gutierrez Menoyo who has been involved in raids in the past. Colonel Rolfe immediately spoke us and said that this individual is a registered Army source." In this vein, it should be added that on 6/27/63 Vincent Nasca of the FBI mentioned Gutierrez Menoyo as an Army source who had burned Santos Trafficante on unpaid arms and equipment and recommended that Gutierrez Menoyo be tipped off that Trafficante was trying to murder him.
Brian Latell, Castro's Secrets, p. 194
"Great minds think alike...present plan is for DAINOLD (FitzGerald's pseudonym) to meet with AMLASH 29 October."
104-10215-10364: MEMORANDUM: AMLASH/1
11/13/63 memo, SAS/EOB Nestor Sanchez to Director: "Dainold using alias James Clark was introduced to AMLASH/1 as an emissary from the policy level of the United States government. Dainold informed AMLASH/1 that the United States is prepared to render all necessary assistance to any anti-communist Cuban group which succeeds in neutralizing the present Cuban leadership and assumes sufficient control to invite the United States to render the assistance it is prepared to give."
104-10077-10409: DIRECTOR CABLE RE MEDICAL EXAMINATION RESULTS
12/12/63, Cable from Director to JMWAVE (Orig: H.D. Hecksher, Unit: SAS/SO/HH): Slugline RYBAT TYPIC YOBITE AMWORLD: "1. AMBIDDY-1 due for physical examination. Blood pressure reading indicates need examination. He promised Archer (DAINOLD) would take physical..."
104-10103-10351: MFR RE POSSIBILITY AMLEO-3 UNDER CONTROL OF CUBAN SECURITY SERVICES
2/10/64, Memorandum for the Record by C/SAS/MOB/FI Paul Maggio, "AMLEO-3 defected on 6 December 1962...In July 63 on a visit to Washington, DC, to obtain a French visa, AMLEO-3 requested and DAINOLD met with him to discuss his case, AMLEO-3 being particularly concerned with the fate of his family during the time. The upshot of the meeting was that DAINOLD told AMLEO-3 that we would go all out and try to get his wife, children and sister into asylum (Mexican Embassy in Cuba)...The most glaring factor in this endeavor was whether AMLEO-3's family actually wanted asylum - or were the Cubans playing a game with us using AMLEO-3's wife as a pigeon."
In May 1963, the CIA’s Office of National Estimates evaluated what would happen if Castro was killed, and concluded that the gains could be heightened if a conflict broke out between the Cuban nationalists and the Moscow-line Communists shortly after his assassination. FitzGerald got a note from the psychological warfare chief a few days later who had now prepared his own “long-awaited memo on Castro death contingency” aligned with this draft memo. Routing slip dated 5/13/63 from “SB”, psychological warfare chief Seymour Bolten, 104-10307-10019, p. 2 of 14. The Joint Chiefs also weighed in on the general subject on 5/10/63: 198-10004-10201. This memo appears to have been from Sherman Kent to McGeorge Bundy.