Segundo Frente Nacional de Escambray SFNE
Second National Front of the Escambray
[REF: Cuban Counter Revolutionary Handbook 10 October 1962 by the CIA.
FBI HQ file number 109-584-3387; NARA RIF Number 124-10279-10032]
[NOTE: The copies were very hard to transcribe because of
poor photo reproduction. At points where the words were unreadable,
three dots
(...) were inserted to indicate a missing word or words. Words in
brackets are not contained in the original. FURTHER NOTE: Please
consider the date,
10 Oct. 1962, when evaluating the organizations.]
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COUNTER REVOLUTIONARY HANDBOOK
PART II: SECONDARY ORGANIZATIONS
I. IDENTIFYING DATA
Common Title: S. F. N. E.
Title: Segundo Frente Nacional de Escambray
Second National Front of the Escambray
Political: A guerrilla type leftist, military organization
supporting to be anti-Castro; operating in Cuba with leadership in U.
S., in exile. Formerly recognized as one of the main forces
fighting in opposition to Batista. Leader, Commander, Eloy
GUTIERREZ Menoyo, controversial figure, accused of being pro-communist;
has communist background; radically left with marked tendency to cover
this through issuance of moderate phrases. Supports the CRC, with
lip service hot part of it. Its received financial support from
CRC.
Leading Personalities: In U. S. Eloy GUTIERREZ Menoyo, leader;
Dr. Luis Duany, appointed Pres. Of proposed exile "The Unity" in
Washington D. D. June 1962, which included second-echelon
representatives of Manolo RAY Aureliano SANCHEZ Arango, and ELC); Maj.
Armando FLEITES Diaz, Sec Gen: Emilio CABALLERO Castillo; Theodoro
IZQUIERDO Marquez; Eusebio OJEDA Diaz; Mercedes GUTIERREZ Menoyo; Angel
RUIZ de Zarate; Domingo ORTEGA Acosta. In Cuba: Capt. Raul
FERNANDEZ Artiles; Oneida SANTOS; Nazario SANJEN [SARGEN]; Capt.
Evarardo SALAS, one of orig. founders.
II. HISTORY
Date and Place of Origin: Present SFNE in fall 1959, Cuba. Original SFNE, 1957, Cuba.
Principal Activities to Date: Claim to have several bands of
guerrillas fighting in Escambray. Engaged in sabotage; burning
cane fields, tobacco warehouses, government buildings; providing
supplies and medicines to guerrillas (most of the guerrillas have now
been eliminated by crackdown of Castro forces). Fall of 1961,
Elio GUTIERREZ Menoyo raised some $10,000 through sale of bonds in New
York and New Jersey for purchase of equipment. SFNE office in
exile attacked 30 July 1962 by former S. I. M. members, along with 30
November Movement and MRRC offices. Representative participated
in counterrevolutionary meetings to form a proposed "The Unity" in
Washington, July 1962.
III. CURRENT STATUS
Selling bonds to purchase arms in U. S. continues. Current
information connects SFNE with ALPHA 66 group; Elio GUTIERREZ Menoyo
generally believed to be A-66 Military Coordinator; SFNE members
participated in attacks by A-66; munitions used belonged to SFNE
leader. Also reported: SFNE and A-66 have joined forces but this
is being kept secret and only leaders aware of same. Inside Cuba,
SFNE disorganized and can do nothing. Claim to have couriers
going in and out of Cuba weekly; taking foodstuffs (ration form) and
munitions; supposedly cache it and bring information out to exile;
trying to make up 20,000 rations, contained in small plastic envelopes,
5" x 8"; claim to have made 4,000; objective not to store in Miami but
send to Cuba immediately.
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