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ROBATIC YOBITE AMBANG

  1. ACCORDING AMFAST-6 REPORT 25 JUNE, AMBANG-1 INFORMED PEPE GATILLO (JOSE GARCIA VALDEC) THEIR DEPARTURE DATE FOR PBRUMEN WOULD BE 1 JULY. BOAT TO BE USED IS UNNAMED RYBOVITCH RENED IN FORT LAUDERDALE AND SUPPOSED BE AT INTERNATIONAL MARINE DOCK 26 JUNE. BELIEVED BE 31-FOOTER WITH TWO CHRYSLER ENGINES EACH 280 HORSE POWER AND SPEED 35 KNOTS. AMBANG-1, GATILLO AND MECHANIC TO USE RYBOVITCH WHILE 1950 GREEN CHRIS CRAFT, OWNED BY ARMANDO ACOSTA AND NOW AT ANACAPRI PIER, 1884 NW NORTH RIVER DRIVE, MIAMI TO SERVE AS MOTHER SHIP, AND BE OCCUPIED BY ARMANDO ACOSTA, ORLANDO SCHUSS 201-281273 "BEBO" ACOSTA SUAREZ, AND BILL CHUS, AMBANG INTEL CHIEF, CHUS TO SERVE AS MECHANIC AND GO ASHORE WITH AMBANG-1.

  2. GATILLO TOLD AMFAST-6 THAT HE AND AMBANG-1 TO LEAVE AT 0500 ON 1 JULY AND TO MEET OTHER BOAT AT 0900 SAME MORNING OFF

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PBPRIME COAST WHERE CHRIS CRAFT TO SUPPLY RYBOVITCH WITH 203 GALLONS GASOLINE. THEY EXPECT ARRIVE COJIMAR ABOUT 20 HOURS AFTER DEPARTURE. ON THEIR ARRIVAL THEY TO BE MET BY RAUL PEREZ, AKA "MIRRINGA," CALLE REAL 138, COJIMAR, WHO TO TAKE THEM HABANA. PEREZ' WIFE'S NAME ROSA

  1. GATILLO BELIEVES AMBANG-1 ACTUALLY PLANS LEAVE BEFORE 1 JULY BUT HE DOES NOT WANT ANYONE KNOW EXACT DATE. HE HAS TOLD ALL THOSE GOING WITH HIM BE READY BEFORE 1 JULY.

  2. ON 24 JUNE GATILLO TOLD AMFAST-6 THAT AMBANG-1 WOULD REMAIN PBRUMEN ABOUT 15 DAYS IN ORDER COORDINATE PLAN OF ACTION WITH PEOPLE THERE AND IN ORDER TO SEE CERTAIN PEOPLE CLOSE AMTHUG-1 WHO PLOTTING WITH AMBANG-1. DATE TO RETURN TO PBRUMEN AND PICK UP AMBANG-1 TO BE SET AT TIME AMBANG-1 LANDS PBRUMEN. AMBANG-1 PLANS CALL ALL ORGANIZATION MEMBERS FOR VERY IMPORTANT MEETING AT WHICH TIME HE TO DEPART FOR PBRUMEN INSTEAD. THIS TO BE 27 OR 28 JUNE.

  3. GATILLO ALSO TOLD AMFAST-6 ON 24 JUNE THAT NICOLAS SALADO MATA LEFT 23 JUNE FOR WEST PALM BEACH BY TRUCK WITH TRAILERED BOAT WHICH BELONGS AMBANG ORGANIZATION. MOTOR OF BOAT TO BE REPAIRED IN WEST PALM BEACH AND THEN BOAT TO BE SHIPPED PUERTO RICO ABOARD FERRY. GATILLO SAID TWO MEN CLAIMING BE ODENVY AGENTS WENT TO PIER LOOKING FOR SALADO AND BOAT. THEY ANGRY TO FIND BOTH GONE. GATILLO COMMENTED THEY DID NOT LOOK LIKE ODENVY AGENTS AND HE DOUBTS THEY

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VERE. AMOT TRACES REVEAL JOSE NICOLAS SALADO MATA BORN IS MAY 25 IN ISABELA DE SAGUA, LAS VILLAS, LEFT PBRUMEN 25 SEPT 61 AND ARRIVED WAVE AREA ON OLGA ON 27 SEPT. ASSIGNED NUMBER A 12 493 733. WAS FISHERMAN AND KNOWS NORTH COAST VARADERO VERY WELL. (SEE WAVE 8375, NOT SENT SJAN, FOR ALLEGED REPORT SALADO TOOK ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO PBRUMEN.)

  1. ACCORDING AMRAZZ-1 REPORT 24 JUNE, MAX LESNICK SAID ON 23 JUNE THAT AMBANG-1 INVITED NEW YORK BY CHIEF LATIN AMERICAN SECTION TIME MAGAZINE AND THAT HE LEAVING FOR NEW YORK MORNING 24 JUNE. LESNICK SAID AMBANG-1 TOLD HIM HIS VISIT TO NEW YORK CONCERNED PUBLICITY WHICH APPEARED TIME ABOUT HIS ARREST AND TELEGRAM OF PROTEST WHICH HE HAD SENT TO TIME ABOUT FALSENESS PUBLICITY. LESNICK TOLD AMRAZZ-1 HE VERY CONFIDENT AMBANG-1 WOULD LEAVE FOR PBRUMEN WITHIN TWO WEEKS.

  2. ON 25 JUNE AMRAZZ-1 SAID ED REINGOLD OF TIME TOLD HIM ON 24 JUNE THAT AMBANG-1 HAD GONE NEW YORK THAT DAY TO MEET WITH HIS BOSS GEORGE DANIELS AND THAT HE WOULD PROBABLY BE BACK WAVE AREA 25 JUNE. REINGOLD DISCLAIMED INTENTION MAKING FUN AMBANG-1 IN HIS ARTICLE. HE SAID HE HAD NOT MENTIONED ANYTHING TO EFFECT THAT AMTHUG-1 MUST BE LAUGHING AT HIM AND THAT THIS HAD BEEN PUT IN BY NEW YORK RE-WRITE MAN WHO DOES NOT LIKE AMBANG-1.

  3. ACCORDING AMTAUP-2, IN DD-988 OF 24 JUNE, WHO TALKED WITH AMBANG-1 ON 23 JUNE, AMBANG-1 SAID HE GOING ZRMETAL 24 JUNE. AMOT

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AGENT ACCIDENTALLY OBSERVED AMBANG-1 LEAVE HOUSE AT NW 38TH ST AND 19TH AVE AT 9:45 24 JUNE AND PROCEED TO JACKSON BYRONS WHERE HE WAS MORNING 24 JUNE. (WAVE COMMENT: AMBANG- HAY HAVE BEEN ATTEMPTING LEAK MISLEADING INFO TO PRECLUDE DISCOVERY HIS ACTUAL WHEREABOUTS.)

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