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104-10228-10091 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (06/19/1962)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch77844 and id is 1 raw text is: 1  2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

19 June 1964
M-IEMORANDUM FOR: Drigadier General E. C. Lansdale
SUBJECT            : U. S. Army Enlistment Program for Cubans       .
1. Attached for your information is.a. summary of reporte on
recruitment for the U. S. Arny-by Cuban eAJ10 group in the Miaru
area.
2. Also of interest In this connection is the following additional
informnation:
a. Col. Wendell U. Johnson, our contact with Dr. Jose
MIRO Cardona, has been informed by MIRC's secretary. Ascension
Cadavieco 1EREZ, that twenty-one members of the Democratic
Christian Movement went to the Caribbean Admission Center on
12 June 1962 to enjist in the U. S. Army at the office of let Lt.
Fernando Ordas. They were told, according to PFREZ. that
Lt. Ortia was no longer at the Caribbean Admission Center and
that the Cuban enlittment activities were 'winding up.  PEREZ told
CoL Johnson on 1 5 June that the same group had subsequently gone
to the main U. S. Army recruiting office in the Miami area to enlist.
They reported that they were told that they could not be accented
because they did not neet the English language requirement and that.
if they had been accepted 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 Coordinator for the Cuban Revolutionary
Council. contacted a group of former Cuban pilots in the Miami area..
As a result of this contact, a representative of this group telephoned
the Cffice of the *ecretary of Defense on or about 1£ June 1964 to ask
id they were to be given military training soon and received a negative
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