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104-10308-10021 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (08/24/1965)

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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MEMPRANDUM FOR: Acting Deputy Chief, WID for Cuba

SUBJECT

REFERENCE

: Attempted Assassination of CASTRO June 1965.
:  SMA41978?, 11 Augus t 1965

'+:ing to M1drid Ln 10 August,  0ANTU/ 50
rho has been in Havana for years, reported
at Mario SALA RRIA Aguinr, former Commandante in the Cuban
National Police 1944-47 and chief of Police Intelligence
(SIIE) 1945-47, and 27 unidentified persons were arrested for
congiring to kill Fidel CASTRO late in June or early July 1965.
According to QUANTUM-51 who talked with members of his family,
SALABARRIA hac sworn t iavenge the death of Eufemio FERNANDEZ
Ortega, former National Police Captain. As the lender of this
conspiracy, SALABARRIA worked closely with Dr. Dernardo MILANES
L     ' W athe assS     n iloplans and nllegedl ~bg
none a         ns rom the n ed sr         MILANES, according to
-; s informa ion, was arrested before the plotters were
ready to ca y out their plans. SALABARRIA then advanced the
Cate set for the assassination. The conspiracy was discovered
cnd he was arrested. When his auife le, rned that SALABARRIA vas
to be condemucc to dcenth, she went to Fidel to plead for her
husband's life. Fidel, who at one time had been their friend,
denied knowledge of SALABARRIA's case but assured her that his
life would be spared. According tolQUANTUM-51) SLABARRIA's
wife knows nothing further of her husband's fate?
2. News of SALABARRIA's role in an abortive assassination
:attempt and of his arrest is significant confirmation of current
reports regarding the exposure of a plot to kill CASTRO in
Havana in June-July 1965. The Agency has knotn of Mario
SALABARRIA's conspiratorinl activities rnd -personal dedication
to his role as Fidel's murderer since the summer of 1963. At
that time SALABARRIA vas seeking 'weapons and funds for his
mission. Through his confidant, AMTURVY-4 a barkeep on the
havana waterfront and a long time friend o, QUANTUM-51 Lhe
F;ought contact with AMTURVY-1, then a minor OC offic Tal.
SALABARRIA had known AMTURVY-1's brother, AMCONCERT-1, for
twenty years and he assumed that AMTURVY-1 tas in touch r'ith the
Agency through AMCONCERT-1 in Miami. Accordingly at their first
.eeting in the summer of 196? in AMTURVY-4's bar, SALAJARRIA
toLId AMTURVY-1 that he was a member of a group which was plotting
CASTRO's death. He asked AMTURVY-1 to help him obtain money and
weapons for this conspiracy. He emphasized, in particular, that
he needed money to purchase vehicles which were essential if the
roup were to succeed in their mission. In return for whatever

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