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104-10228-10091 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (6/19/1962)

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                                                          19) June 19641



                   MEMORANDUM FOR: Brigadier Ceneral E. G. Lansdale

                   SUBJECT            :  U. S. Army Enliatment Program  for Cubans


                        1. Attached for your information is.a surnmary of reports on
                  recruitment for the U. S. Army by CubAn e&le groupe in the Miand
                  area.

                        2. Also of interest In this connection is the following additional
                  Information,

                            a. Col. Wendell U. Johnson, our contact with Dr. Jose
                  MLRO  Cardona, has been informed by MIRO's secretary. Ascenaa
                  Cadavieco PEREZ,   that twenty-one meinbera of the Democratic
                  Christian M!ovement went to the CAribbean Admission Center on
                  12 June 1962 to anliet in the U. S. Army at the office of !st Lt.
                  Fernando Ordas.  They were told, according to PEREZ. that
                  Lt. Ordas was no longer at the Caribbean Admission Center and
                  that the Cuban entistment activities were winding up.  PEREZ told
                  CoL Johnaon on 1 5 June that the earne group had subsequently gone
                  to the main U. 5. Army recruiting office in the Miaud area to enlist.
                  They reported that they were told that they could not be acceneed
                  because they did not niest the English language requIrement and that.
                  if they had been accepOted for enlistment, they could be stationed out-
                  side the United States.

                           b. In collecting information concerning Cubans who might
                be eligible for United States military training, Capt. Ernesto
                DESPAIGNE Peres, Military   Coordianor  for the Cuban Revolutionary
                Counell, contacted a group of former Cuban pilots in the Mianl area.
                As a result of this contact, a represeatative of this group telephoned
                the  ffice of the secretary of Defense on or about iI June 1964 to ask
                Ud they were to be given military training soon and received a negative




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