LAFO MEMO DTD 19 NOV 1968 WITH REPORT ON HARGRAVES, ROY EMORY FROM CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE
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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
00508012
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RIFPUB
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U
Document Page Count:
2
Document Creation Date:
June 6, 2025
Document Release Date:
June 12, 2025
Publication Date:
December 13, 1968
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104-10137-10273) APPROVED FOR RELEASE1.03 cijIIISTOMW�. APPROVED FOR it'f..1 USE 1993 Clil if21' " PRoCktifft 13 ]).c-. .r' 1968 EAT.10EAVES� Roy Tory LAFO Memo dtd 19 Nov. 1968 wjAh Report on Subject fro.:. a Confidentiel Source OF, reco?..ds aro negative on Subject except for a newspaper cliplg dat:I. 5 December 1962 in the file of Gerald Patrick HEKMIE:G The r,_:portd the arrest of a band of anti-Castro guerrillas at No Nene Yey, Flwid by Pederal.officers for violation of U. S. neutrality laws. .:he lead of the group was Gerald Patrick HEMMING and Subject, Roy E. 1.7ARES,. 22, was listed as 0.member of the band of Cuban invaders. Copy of ellpeing att!Ached. Garald Patrick HEMMING is a figure in GARRISON's investigation. Be is an exariie,L;oldier-of-fortune, who was the leader of the anti-Castro groun celled the Intercontinental Penetration Force (INTERPEN). His group had no Agenrcy conneetion but, he is known to other Cuban organizations. I:2=G was app_.oved for an ad hoc contact clearance on 6 March 1961 and was the source or 15 contact, reports on Cuba. A list of these reports was furnished the Fill: in A.;su,kt 196L DI,MMING is also known as "Jerry PATRICK". Reference rcTort states that Subject is close to Jose Antonio =RTE. Oo:le Z..carias TAM,02 Duarte was of interest in June 1968 because of news- p::per publicity in connection with the case of Sirhan Bishera SIBEZ, accused assassin of Robert KENNEDY. DUARTE said he had argued and scr.:ffled with SIREAN on 21 May 1968 at a meeting of the Students for a Demseretic Soleiv held at the home of Robert and Raquel LEANLE, Colombians, now residing in Hollywood, California. SIREAN accused DUARTE of being a CIA agent. DUARTE was granted a POA in November 1962 for assessment and contact for possible use .with Task Force W. This clearance was cancelled in July 1963. DUARTE, a Cuban poet and writer, had been a special advisor to Raul ROA and a writer for EL MUNDO, Cuban newspaper. Cuban Power is an auxiliary action group of the Movimiento Insurreecional de Recuperacion Revolucionarin (MIRR), an anti-Castro organization of Cuban- exiles headartered in Miami, Florida under the leadership of Orlando Bech AVILA. AVILA uses the pseudonym "Ernesto". On 15 November 1968 he was convicted on five charges of violating the neutrality laws of the U. S. at Yinini, Florida. Cann Power has been responsible for a number of bomb:.ngs� and has bean under continuing investigation by the FBI. OS records were negative on Pam B;a1SBY, James V. PARSE', Robert BARE-'2.7, HITTIir/TON and Theo3.ore GLOUM. � Rt:!gardin Lloyd PULLEN, a report on I:.ort aAn from. A Confidentia-.1 of tLc O LAFO advised in July l95.3 thai:. PULLEN is a local an ufnniation called "Staff" whicll is a front name for the Minute war; describol ar.; a clo:;c associE,.te of Gerald Patrick HEMING. r(..,.T�xPo3. to in re!l7trik p2=, c?. � �