BELIEF EXPRESSED BY MANILA WATERFRONT LABOR-LEADER THAT JOHN MONTGOMERY ORDERED GISPERT MURDER

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007600320008-9
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 24, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1, Colonel Jules Carvel*, form-r labor superinten .ent of the lgK.rlo Brothers
Stevedorinp- Comparty, has expressed the belief that Francis Morris Gispert
was ordered killed by John Vontgomzery, President of the Manila Ship Watch
mo pas Union.**
Car"). is convinced that there may be other killings in the Manila water-
P ont area in the near futr a as a rosult of the present labor unrest. He
ex,nressed the ,Opinion that the Delgado brothers my be the next waterfront
labor leaders who are scheduled to be killed.
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Comment. Jules Carvel, a former US Army Colonel who formerly
25X1 A was in charge of labor for the Delgado Prothers. Stevedoring 'Company
is paw employed by the rival. Luzon Stevedoring Coma . 25X1 X
25X1 X that Carvel stated that lie left the Delgado. firm as a resu
a a ~' ,renae of 'opinion on policy. Carvel rer?tar Ledly did not
indicate chat the dif "erences wer:'e, and he exr, ?essed no bitterness
toward the Delgados.
25X1 A Cox ent. Carvel may hate: given in to the pressure to leave the
Delgados that reportodly was exerted on hi.rn by officials of the Luzon
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Stevedoring Compa .
Come ent. Francis P", Gispert, General Manager of the Associated
Steamship Lines, was murdered on I M rch 1951 while entering his Manila
offices It was believed that the killing was the result of a dispute
with the Manila Ship Watchmen's Union and its President, John Montgomery.
The -orosocution in the Manila trial of A;ontgoxnery. reportedly has asked
that he osy the death penalty for ordering Gispert's n rder,,
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