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104-10315-10013 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (06/02/1961)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch78899 and id is 1 raw text is: '104-10315-10013 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 2 June 1961 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Interview with Ross Crozier, PW Section, Miami Base, 25 May 1961 1. Crozier, a contract agent, said that all five members of the PW section speak Spanish fluently and between them have 45 years of area knowledge. He has a Costa Rican wife. The other members are Kent and Patton. He arrived in September 1960. He was in Cuba from 1954 to 1958 and in March 1958 spent one month with the Castro forces in the Sierra Maestr)Ie Mountains. He was travelling with the newspaper contingent under the cover of a representative of Public Surveys Institute of Dallas, Texas which, he said, was conducting a survey for the American 1959 investment policy in Cuba. He then spent two years in Mexico working on CP penetration and international Communism. He left there in March 1960 owing to domestic marital difficulties. He has never had any Headquarters experience. 2. Crozier said that his chief matters were three: (a) a sixty foot cruiser called Theano or more recently Sandpiper which has been fitted out as a radio boat with a one kilowatt Collins transmitter for broadcasting propaganda on the medium and long-wave bands. It has a 25-mile radius and cruises ten to 15 miles off the Cuban coast. Its first broadcast was made 7 Octgr 1960 (this is project AMHOSE). The ship broadcasts scripts/are prepared-.at WAVE based on themes approved in Headquarters. Special matters -are edited in Headquarters. To date they have broadcast three or four times lasting an hour each time,the places being too near Havana and elsewhere on the coast. The boat has made two other trips, one of supply and one for infiltration, and six trips that have aborted as a result of bad weather. He has no way of knowing the effectiveness of these broadcasts. They have been pushed by Headquarters. The crewasK former Cuban Naval personnel. Theano is kept at Islamorada and has received no publicity. It was purchased for >28,000 by Headquarters, an it was buiLt in 1928 it is of wood and its engines needed replacement and overhaul. He does not know why this old ship was bought. It is in good condition now. 3. He has spent the bulk of his time on two groups, one of students, known as DRE, and a labor group called FORD. During the first few months of his stay in Miami he was pulled off his work frequently in order to use his Spanish In FI and training matters. The DRE at first was not built up but by January 1961 they were running propaganda teams into South America. Crozier's duties were to act as case officer to the organization in every phase. He supervised training in safehouses and then conducted

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