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  1. Extracted from Mario Enriguez's paper on Izquierdo. Néstor Antonio Izquierdo was born in the humble cast Pogolotti, in the city of Marianao, province of Havana. His parents, Camilo Izquierdo and Joséfina Díaz, instilled in the child his good teachings. The father was a master builder and from a very young age Tony worked with him. PHe soon learned to read construction plans and despite his young age, his father often left him in charge of some works. For some time he studied at the electromechanical school of the Colegio de Belén, where he was a member of Catholic youth. He was a close friend of Manuel Artime and with him he was part of the Comandos Rurales at the beginning of the Cuban revolution. Later, following Artime, he joined the Revolutionary Recovery Movement and fought the nascent dictatorship, from which he soon suffered persecution to the point of having to hide in the province of Oriente. He returned to Havana and from there he went into exile: Mexico first, then Miami. In 1960 he entered the Guatemalan camps where the Brigade was trained, whose goal was the liberation of Cuba, its great desire and the reason for their struggles. We are not going to make a detailed account of the activities of Tony Izquierdo. Suffice it to say that he was well known by all the groups that fought against communism, that almost everyone called him to lend his invaluable services, those who could always count on his collaboration. P To give a brief and clear picture of who was Néstor Antonio Izquierdo we will tell some anecdotes kept with love in the memory of those who were his companions. In these stories we will omit names to keep anonymity that we have been asked. Néstor Izquierdo's first mission was prior to the invasion of the Bay of Pigs. Together with several companions, he parachuted into the foothills of the Sierra Maestra, in the eastern province of Cuba. The group, once settled on land, managed to bring together a good number of peasants who were prepared to wait for the invasion. Upon learning of the failure of the effort, Izquierdo dispersed the group and crossed the Guantanamo base from where he returned to the United States. . During these events he met an American officer from the base of Caimanera, who was baptized with the nickname of Don Quixote (Hal Feeney). This friendship would last until the day of his death. During a commando mission to Cuba and while they were moving away from the coast once the operation was over, the absence of a man was noticed in the boat. In similar cases, the safety of the operation and of the men who have survived is more important than the life of one man. But Izquierdo broke the rule: he took the helm of the boat and returned to the ground where he began to shout for the straggler. . At last they caught up with him, they put him on board, and everyone was able to go to sea again, without any upset. Key, in the keys of Florida, we were waiting to leave in an operation to Cuba. . For us to go unnoticed, old Rip told us to try to look like tourists and to that end he gave Nestor some water skis to practice the sport by the Bay. After spending some time skiing, when returning to the beach, a companion tells him: "I congratulate you, Tony, you did not fall once." Izquierdo turned to his friend and calmly replied "I could not fall, I can not swim". Two Cubans had been detained in the city of Mexico accused of attacking an agent of Cuba's communist regime. You could not expect a fair trial. Left aware of the problem, he went to Mexico and rented a house next to the prison where the two Cubans were. D He immediately began digging a tunnel to propitiate the escape, but he had discovered and had to flee to Miami. Later he returns to Mexico but they have already separated the two Cubans detained. Izquierdo enters the prison where one of them was, disguised as a policeman, and takes the prisoner out. In the street they separate and later Izquierdo is arrested when he tried to cross the border with the United States posing as Puerto Rican. When Izquierdo was arrested, all his friends mobilized. One of them communicated with the American officer friend. Don Quixote (Feeney), who moved to where Nestor was and made the necessary arrangements and lent the corresponding bail to achieve their freedom, putting their own house as a guarantee.
  2. I'd love to see these photos enhanced. Just some comments. I find it interesting that the CIA buried Izquierdo in Nicaragua for a few years. Here is one of their top commandos, highly trained, experienced, paratrooper left guarding what was left of Artime's weapons cache after AMWORLD shutdown. It's also a bit unusual for two middle-aged white guys, in suits, to be walking with a person of color in 1963 unless they knew each other. The earlier photos show just the two middle-aged guys together. It would be interesting to see just when and where the "Izquierdo" guy joined up with them.
  3. Greg, I remember James's comments about his contact with Feeney. Feeney went ballistic. And yes, I'm aware of Mr. Richards' past. 🙂 James was also a great martial artist and instructor. Some of his students went on to acting careers! Feeney and Izquierdo.
  4. I've pulled out this pic from the RM's thread with the contribution by Robert Reeves. Speculative but if this is Rip then the guy to his right could be Tony Izquierdo. Robertson and Izquierdo were close having been on many missions and infiltrations together. Izquierdo was one of early recruits for the BOP and was close to Manuel Artime (AMBIDDY-1). Izquierdo was a CIA asset in 1963 working for Rip before moving on to the AMWORLD project under Carl Jenkins. He had previously trained under Jenkins in 1960-61. As Jenkins said "it was people I trained, people I worked with, and people I worked for." Izquierdo was identified as the Dal-Tex spotter by James Richards and Gerry Hemming. Izquierdo - https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKizquierdo.htm Rip and Izquierdo - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=12695#relPageId=9 Artime's team. Jenkins was COS at TRAV - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=21117#relPageId=2 Izquierdo and Jenkins AMWORLD - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=155433#relPageId=150&search="nestor_izquierdo" Izquierdo working for KUBARK(CIA) - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=21248#relPageId=2&search="nestor_izquierdo" From Greg Wagner's site - https://tangodown63.com/izquierdo-nestor-antonio-tony/ Wikispooks - https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Nestor_Izquierdo
  5. These are Rip Robertson's commandos in the Congo. Robertson is 4th from the left. Juan Tamayo far left. Rene Garcia holding the umbrella. Garcia was Deputy Chief Air Operations Bay of Pigs. He also flew a B-26 during the BOP and was considered one of the more reliable pilots. 3rd from left possibly Ricardo Morales. Morales stayed behind an extra week with Alberto Perez. The other guys came home early Dec 1964. Disclaimer: other than Rip, I don't believe these guys had anything to do with Dallas although they knew a few things from Robertson. http://www.historynet.com/cold-war-bay-of-pigs-invasion.htm ‘Colonel Frank,’ (Frank Egan) the American commander in Guatemala, confided: ‘We’ll protect the invasion with an umbrella,’ he said. ‘The air will belong to us. No car can travel without being bombed. We don’t need more men.’ Disaster predicted became disaster realized. Although the invasion was on, JFK was keeping his word to the Alliance for Progress that the United States would not be openly involved in it. He reneged on the CIA promise that an ‘umbrella’ of U.S. fighters would protect the landing; the Navy would perform only picket duty off the Cuban coast; and there would be no follow-up strikes against Castro’s airfields.
  6. Hey Gayle! I don't doubt that the Nix film was shown to other agencies. I also miss James' contributions here. He was/is a wealth of knowledge. He was kind enough to share a bit of that with me over the years.
  7. As noted by John Newman in Where Angels Tread Lightly, the CIA had a copy of the Zapruder film as early as 1965 where it was shown to officers of the Office of Training. I wonder what the subject of that class was and what version of the film was shown. It was also viewed in 1969 by a training instructor. Alfonso Rodriguez was the Director of Training in 1975. He had an interesting resume working for William Harvey, Desmond Fitzgerald, Ted Shackley and was the case officer for Manuel Ray, Rogelio Cisneros and was assigned to the Special Operation branch for the autonomous operations project 1963-65. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=9545#relPageId=2
  8. Thanks Jim. This link might be better. The first one worked for some and not others. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18wO1SgOetEdfe17N_hzwGU4yIe3rLtJrPQRDWePmfRQ/edit#responses
  9. Ben, I believe that John's site has been hacked. I think he's working on it.
  10. Paul, It is closed but scroll down to see the results. We'll be doing another one. Message me if you (or anyone) want to be included in the next round but were not this time around.
  11. Here are the results of a recent survey. The results were pretty interesting. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18wO1SgOetEdfe17N_hzwGU4yIe3rLtJrPQRDWePmfRQ/edit#responses You can read more about it on this website - https://jfkchokeholds.com/media/
  12. Paul, he has a lot of ground to cover! 🙂
  13. Gerry, A-Rod was also running "Operation Leonardo" aka the AMTRUNK operation. (Capt. Bradley Ayers was hired to work with AMTRUNK recruits). This was the early version to "Split the Regime" as suggested by Walt Rostow. David Morales was originally pulled into AMTRUNK but didn't like the leftist bent of this. Some reading for you! 🙂 Track Two - autonomous Operations developed by Walt Rostow https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=149443#relPageId=1 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=235780#relPageId=2 Operations to Split the Regime. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=233881#relPageId=1 AMTRUNK docs https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=43098#relPageId=1&search=davies_and morales and rodriguez AMTRUNK status https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=234832#relPageId=1
  14. Paul, I think John said it was pretty much BS. Veciana was working for Army Intel at the time.
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