ELIAS HORTA, 1ST LT., CUBAN ARMY; ANTI-CASTRO

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06841273
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2020
• Case Number: F-2020-00655
• Publication Date: November 10, 1960

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r �N.1 ie.:�, - : Source is a 23 year old ex-Marine who spent the peried 'from February 1959 .
�il �,'',,. 1-. . through July 1960 serving in the 'Cuban AArmy and the gab= Air Force. He
.4= ...,... .... � obtained his' discharge from the Cuban Air Force in Jung.1960 and returned
; :�.�: 4 1 ...to the US via I.:�,sico. City on 30 Aug 60. According to seurce, he had been. .
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''�� ''-aining Corps at a US university, even though he had not finished his high .. �
'School education.. He reportedly did not accept this offer because he was ' ...
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1 th SUBJECT' ..,... Eliao Hort% 1st Lt" Cuban AritiZr;
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGCY
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This matersol contains informotion �fleeting the National Defense of he United States within the meaning of the Espionogo Lows, Title
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i, . .I..became acauailited with 1st Lt. Elias Herta during my tour of duty With'
������� the Paratroop�Reginent�of the Cuban Army�(Fgbruary - December 1959). He'.--
had received paratroop .training at Fort Banning, �Georgia while serving , ��� ,r. I..?.!
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'in the Cuban Arm2!under the Batista regime. Be later was imprisoned by --. �
the Batista regime for .involvement in the 4:-Apr.56 conspiracy. - � . - . ,
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..-It. Boric% Wan 0.elected by Mhj. Enrico Borbonet Gomez, Chief of the Paratroop
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Regiment,' in. garglary 1959 to serve as an instructor and batallion � . ' .,:' ,L �
I ' - ��,....., ... � ' 'commander in 'are unit. He transferred to the Barracoa base near Havana
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11!.,:!."-....,. ....,t-",1 'disbanded in January 1960. Lt. Forta instructed troops at Barracoa until
i!, '� .7...2 . , y't ..� � . he became involved in a'.conspiracy some time around July 1960, and .he is . . P.:.
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