James Richards Posted July 11, 2005 Share Posted July 11, 2005 James, who is he with? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The other two men are Cuban police officers. I don't know their names. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Gratz Posted July 11, 2005 Share Posted July 11, 2005 His captors! A happy trio! I think James made his point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Deitche Posted November 27, 2005 Share Posted November 27, 2005 James, who is he with? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The other two men are Cuban police officers. I don't know their names. James James- that's an exceptional picture- where did you find that? Also, to further beat the dead horse- Santo Trafficante Jr. is his real name, not Santos. He used Louis Santos, Joe Fernandez (an FBI agent who surveilled him), Mr. JOe, B. Hill, and a host of other aliases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Gratz Posted November 27, 2005 Share Posted November 27, 2005 Scott, we once had a huge debate here whether his actual name was Santo or Santos! (Santo of course.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Richards Posted November 27, 2005 Share Posted November 27, 2005 James- that's an exceptional picture- where did you find that? (Scott Deitche) Hi Scott, I have several contacts for photos and the like, all wish to remain anonymous. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Hemming Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 James, who is he with? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The other two men are Cuban police officers. I don't know their names. James --------------------------------- James: The Cuban to the left of Santo is a fellow "inmate", and is wearing the same "Batistiano" Khaki uniform as Santo. We in the Rebel Army were prohibited from wearing "anything" Khaki colored. Even the late ("Dissident") Jesus Yanez Peletier got into a bit of a hassle during early 1959. And this was for his wearing a "Batistiano" khaki "Garrison Cap" -- what we in the Marines called a "Piss-Cutter". Fidel's lackeys were annoyed that he was photographed alongside "El Jefe Maximo" wearing the "Enemy's uniform hat". [Yanez Peletier (R.I.P.) worked for the Mossad, and he was the guy who initially arranged for Fidel to "get-a-little" from Marita Lorenz; whose father [the merchant ship Captain] was also a Mossad agent.] The black Cuban to Santo's right, is a Cuban Health Service Inspector, and was permitted to wear that service's uniform at the Triscornia Quarantine Station, located at: Casa Blanca, Regla, East Habana. [Triscornia is carried in history as Cuba's "Ellis Island". From 1898 to 1904, it was a U.S. Army post called "Camp Triscornia". During the 1920s & 1930s, it was remodeled as an "Art Museum" -- and that is why the statuary remained present while Trafficante was there. Mostly unknown to the World is that: When the merchant vessel "St. Louis" arrived in Havana harbor, loaded to the "gun'els" with Jewish emmigrants fleeing Hitler; all were held at Triscornia. Those Jews who could "cough-up" $1,000 (or the equivalent) were permitted to remain in Cuba. The majority had no such wealth!! The U.S. Jewish Agency folks refused to help them with their bribes. There are some who say that: This was "intentional", as their later slaughter would raise the consciousness of the World -- and benefit millions, rather than a couple thousand, Jews, Gypsies, and some Spanish Socialists fleeing Franco !!] Santo had a deep and wide cell to himself, and it was comfortably furnished. The cell to the left was designed for 4-6 inmates -- but was crammed with about 17 to 20 on a regular basis. Included in that cell were: Leslie Bradley, Hudson, Loran Hall,et al.!! Morgan never saw the inside of Triscornia, or El Principe Prison [where John Martino spent the "ENTIRETY" of his incarceration]!! The commanding officer at Triscornia [when I passed through there with one of my "Squads"], was Capitan Enrique Molina Rivera -- the same DGI agent who "disappeared?" with Rorke & Sullivan off of Cozumel Island, Quintana Roo, Mexico -- during September, 1963. After his arrest in Cmdte. Pedro Miret's office [@ the I.N.R.A. Bldg.] during October, 1960; Cmdte. Wm. Alexander Morgan was sent to, and remained on Gallery #14 inside La Cabana Fortress. He was executed at 4:00 AM on March 11th, 1961, and alongside Cmdte. Jesus Carreras (S.F.N.E.). Chairs, GPH _____________________________________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Richards Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 James, who is he with? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The other two men are Cuban police officers. I don't know their names. James --------------------------------- James: The Cuban to the left of Santo is a fellow "inmate", and is wearing the same "Batistiano" Khaki uniform as Santo. We in the Rebel Army were prohibited from wearing "anything" Khaki colored. Even the late ("Dissident") Jesus Yanez Peletier got into a bit of a hassle during early 1959. And this was for his wearing a "Batistiano" khaki "Garrison Cap" -- what we in the Marines called a "Piss-Cutter". Fidel's lackeys were annoyed that he was photographed alongside "El Jefe Maximo" wearing the "Enemy's uniform hat". [Yanez Peletier (R.I.P.) worked for the Mossad, and he was the guy who initially arranged for Fidel to "get-a-little" from Marita Lorenz; whose father [the merchant ship Captain] was also a Mossad agent.] The black Cuban to Santo's right, is a Cuban Health Service Inspector, and was permitted to wear that service's uniform at the Triscornia Quarantine Station, located at: Casa Blanca, Regla, East Habana. [Triscornia is carried in history as Cuba's "Ellis Island". From 1898 to 1904, it was a U.S. Army post called "Camp Triscornia". During the 1920s & 1930s, it was remodeled as an "Art Museum" -- and that is why the statuary remained present while Trafficante was there. Mostly unknown to the World is that: When the merchant vessel "St. Louis" arrived in Havana harbor, loaded to the "gun'els" with Jewish emmigrants fleeing Hitler; all were held at Triscornia. Those Jews who could "cough-up" $1,000 (or the equivalent) were permitted to remain in Cuba. The majority had no such wealth!! The U.S. Jewish Agency folks refused to help them with their bribes. There are some who say that: This was "intentional", as their later slaughter would raise the consciousness of the World -- and benefit millions, rather than a couple thousand, Jews, Gypsies, and some Spanish Socialists fleeing Franco !!] Santo had a deep and wide cell to himself, and it was comfortably furnished. The cell to the left was designed for 4-6 inmates -- but was crammed with about 17 to 20 on a regular basis. Included in that cell were: Leslie Bradley, Hudson, Loran Hall,et al.!! Morgan never saw the inside of Triscornia, or El Principe Prison [where John Martino spent the "ENTIRETY" of his incarceration]!! The commanding officer at Triscornia [when I passed through there with one of my "Squads"], was Capitan Enrique Molina Rivera -- the same DGI agent who "disappeared?" with Rorke & Sullivan off of Cozumel Island, Quintana Roo, Mexico -- during September, 1963. After his arrest in Cmdte. Pedro Miret's office [@ the I.N.R.A. Bldg.] during October, 1960; Cmdte. Wm. Alexander Morgan was sent to, and remained on Gallery #14 inside La Cabana Fortress. He was executed at 4:00 AM on March 11th, 1961, and alongside Cmdte. Jesus Carreras (S.F.N.E.). Chairs, GPH _____________________________________ Good on you, Gerry. Thanks. I was going by what was written on the back of the photograph. The Leslie Bradley you mentioned, is that the pilot who was connected to Chester Lacayo? James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Hemming Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 James, who is he with? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The other two men are Cuban police officers. I don't know their names. James --------------------------------- James: The Cuban to the left of Santo is a fellow "inmate", and is wearing the same "Batistiano" Khaki uniform as Santo. We in the Rebel Army were prohibited from wearing "anything" Khaki colored. Even the late ("Dissident") Jesus Yanez Peletier got into a bit of a hassle during early 1959. And this was for his wearing a "Batistiano" khaki "Garrison Cap" -- what we in the Marines called a "Piss-Cutter". Fidel's lackeys were annoyed that he was photographed alongside "El Jefe Maximo" wearing the "Enemy's uniform hat". [Yanez Peletier (R.I.P.) worked for the Mossad, and he was the guy who initially arranged for Fidel to "get-a-little" from Marita Lorenz; whose father [the merchant ship Captain] was also a Mossad agent.] The black Cuban to Santo's right, is a Cuban Health Service Inspector, and was permitted to wear that service's uniform at the Triscornia Quarantine Station, located at: Casa Blanca, Regla, East Habana. [Triscornia is carried in history as Cuba's "Ellis Island". From 1898 to 1904, it was a U.S. Army post called "Camp Triscornia". During the 1920s & 1930s, it was remodeled as an "Art Museum" -- and that is why the statuary remained present while Trafficante was there. Mostly unknown to the World is that: When the merchant vessel "St. Louis" arrived in Havana harbor, loaded to the "gun'els" with Jewish emmigrants fleeing Hitler; all were held at Triscornia. Those Jews who could "cough-up" $1,000 (or the equivalent) were permitted to remain in Cuba. The majority had no such wealth!! The U.S. Jewish Agency folks refused to help them with their bribes. There are some who say that: This was "intentional", as their later slaughter would raise the consciousness of the World -- and benefit millions, rather than a couple thousand, Jews, Gypsies, and some Spanish Socialists fleeing Franco !!] Santo had a deep and wide cell to himself, and it was comfortably furnished. The cell to the left was designed for 4-6 inmates -- but was crammed with about 17 to 20 on a regular basis. Included in that cell were: Leslie Bradley, Hudson, Loran Hall,et al.!! Morgan never saw the inside of Triscornia, or El Principe Prison [where John Martino spent the "ENTIRETY" of his incarceration]!! The commanding officer at Triscornia [when I passed through there with one of my "Squads"], was Capitan Enrique Molina Rivera -- the same DGI agent who "disappeared?" with Rorke & Sullivan off of Cozumel Island, Quintana Roo, Mexico -- during September, 1963. After his arrest in Cmdte. Pedro Miret's office [@ the I.N.R.A. Bldg.] during October, 1960; Cmdte. Wm. Alexander Morgan was sent to, and remained on Gallery #14 inside La Cabana Fortress. He was executed at 4:00 AM on March 11th, 1961, and alongside Cmdte. Jesus Carreras (S.F.N.E.). Chairs, GPH _____________________________________ Good on you, Gerry. Thanks. I was going by what was written on the back of the photograph. The Leslie Bradley you mentioned, is that the pilot who was connected to Chester Lacayo? James ----------------------------------- James: Chester Lacayo y Lacayo (apparently some inbreeding in this family?!) was the "self-styled-and-great" anti-Somoza warrior? whoshowed up in Cuba just after the phony "Invasion of Panama" during February, 1959. Lacayo y Lacayo was an agent provocateur -- dispatched from Washington, D.C. by the the overly clever ["gimpy/crippled/broke-dick"] acting-Secretary of State Christian Herter (J. Foster Dulles had croaked). Herter's "first-team" had rounded up some wannabe rebels ["Rebeldes Falsos"] and some ex-M-26-7 war bond purveyors [non-combatant psuedo/underground phonies] and together with the ex-Prez of Panama Arias (and his wife Dame Margot Fontaine) boarded John Wayne's yacht "The Wild Goose". Using the ex-YMS [Mine-Sweeper] vessel as a mother ship; they landed near Bocas del Toro, Panama. Once the Panama National Guard contingent on this island threw down on them, up went their sweaty hands and loud screams of "I Surrender Dear" were echoing down the beach !! Most were deported back to Cuba, and thereafter enjoyed the hospitality of El Principe Prison for a few years. John Martino taunted them unmercifully for months. The next "Herter Scheme" ['El Mastermind"] was cranked up with Manuel Somarriba, and Chester Lacayo. Lacayo made the big mistake of running around Havana with a security escort [Jeeps & Station Wagons] breaking all speed limits whilst poking their guns out of the vehicle windows and menacing all pedestrians encountered along their treks. Ultimately, Lacayo was granted an "audience" with Che, and this little bald-headed twit pissed him off ab initio !! Che ordered his guys to disarm all of that asshole's "security detail", and then queried the little turd as to who the hell did he think he was ??!! Somebody in the Presidential Palace intervened on behalf of then President Manuel Urrutia -- so Che ran them all down the road. [At the time Howard K. "Davy" Davis was part of Urrutia's detail and lived up in the "Radio-Shack" on the roof of the prez palace.] A few weeks later, an enterprising reporter/photographer for a Havana daily ("La Calle") took some pictures up in D.C., and then queried some of the Cuban Embassy pogues as to what the hell was Lacayo doing running around meeting and lunching with Herter ??!! D.I.E.R. ("G-2") was alerted, and they rounded up all of the wannabe anti-Somoza" expeditionaries. The very next day, "La Calle", "El Mundo" and several other rags published the lacayo & Herter pix on their front pages; and described in great detail: How this group of agent provocateurs were planning to embarass the Castro government with yet another phony foreign expedition against Nicaragua, or some other "banana-beaner country"!! Dumb-ass Lacayo apparently didn't read the havana newspapers that day, and quickly he jumped on a Pan Am -- and arrived at Rancho Boyeros (renamed "Jose Marti' Int'l") airport. Noticing that his security caravan fleet wasn't there to greet him, he protested to the "Migra" & G-2 pogues. They asked him who the hell he was. Upon his identifying himself, the airport pogues showed him the headlines from the previous day, and asked him if this was HE ?? He said: "Si...es mi foto...soy el Jefe de la 'Fuerzas Revolucionarios Nicaraguense'..y yo 'oficialmente' urge que te llamas al la jefatura de la Policia Nacional...de immediato...para que ellos me identifican..!!" ["Yes..that is my photo...I am the Chief of the 'Nicaraguan Revolutionario Forces'...and I 'officially' urge you to call the headquarters of the Nation Police...immediately...in order that they identify me..!!"] After everybody stopped laughing and rolling on the floors, they busted his ass and hauled him to Triscornia; where he was re-united with his "expeditonary leadership" -- Loran "Skip" Hall, Bradley, Hudson, Johnny Sancti Spiritu, et al. !! The only thing that saved them from "El Paredon" [Firing Squad/Party Wall"] was that Lacayo had paid off Cmdte. Almajeiras ("The Smoker"); who was then the boss of the Nat'l Cops. Also, Herter got the Brits to intervene immediately, and very soon -- all of these assholes were deported back to whence they came. We never bothered to follow up any of Lacayo's worthless later moves. However, Somarriba was later able to lead a group of volunteers into a deadly ambush along the Honduras/Nicaragua border. Naturally, he was the ONLY reported survivor of this skirmish !! Chairs, GPH ____________________________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Richards Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 Thanks, Gerry. That pretty much sums up what I believed Lacayo's form to be. You mentioned Cmdte. Almajeiras. I take it this is Efigenio Ameijeiras? How prominent was he at Triscornia do you know? Also, do you know anything about a small group of men within the Cuban Police purportedly organized by Herminio Diaz Garcia which supposedly included Ameijeiras? I ask as Diaz Garcia was allegedly Trafficante's bodyguard during the Havana casino days and the possible connections here are curious indeed. Cheers, James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Hemming Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 Thanks, Gerry. That pretty much sums up what I believed Lacayo's form to be.You mentioned Cmdte. Almajeiras. I take it this is Efigenio Ameijeiras? How prominent was he at Triscornia do you know? Also, do you know anything about a small group of men within the Cuban Police purportedly organized by Herminio Diaz Garcia which supposedly included Ameijeiras? I ask as Diaz Garcia was allegedly Trafficante's bodyguard during the Havana casino days and the possible connections here are curious indeed. Cheers, James ---------------------------- Efigenio ("El Fumador") took some bribes from Norm Rothman, Mike McLaney, et al. and permitted the creation of the "Tourist Police Division". The first members included Santo's guy Herminio, Frank Fiorini, Johnny Mitchel Devereau, et al. -- and when Diaz Lanz & Fiorini/Sturgis defected [July 1959] -- this "Squad" was disbanded/"De-Mob'd" abruptly. Since Almeijeiras controlled the "arrest warrants" on everybody at Triscornia, all he had to do was inform Capt. Enrique Molina Rivera to release "so-and-so" -- and they were "gone" muy rapido !! Herminio Diaz later took Loran Hall up to Tampa [May 1959] -- and they organized their own little "group" of counter-revolutionaries from within the Ybor City [Tampa] crowd of "losers". Herminio Diaz was the one who sabotaged Tony Cuesta's "Prowler" boat in Key West [1964]; but was later ordered by Santo to go on the subsequent "Raid?" [to the beach in front of the Comodoro Hotel] This is where everything turned to xxxx !! Santo promptly informed his DGI "Case Officer" [lived near MacDill Air Force Base] that Cuesta's mission was an assassination plot against Fidel and/or Raul. But the DGI 'penetrators" within JM/WAVE reported that this was a "set-up", and Tony was spared from "El Paredon". Sinking the Soviet merchantman "Baku" at Caibarrien some months prior, caused Fidel to visit with Tony at El Principe Prison often, where they chuckled at the Soviets sniveling and whining -- especially after the Missile Crisis "sell-out" by Krushchov. Within a year after the JFK hit, Tony learned that Santo was a DGI asset, and that Trafficante had been "Patsy'd" on the Dallas assassination !! By that time Tony didn't give a xxxx about anything to do with the anti-Fidel bullxxxx operations. He finally realized that: While operating aboard the CIA's "Tejana II" subchaser, operations had been even worse [and compromised] than that which he had related to Bob Brown during early 1962. [bob Brown (SOF/Mag) had published a piece (Rocky Mountain news) -- and which was later picked up by the "Denver Post". It was titled: "How The Cuban Exiles Have learned To Hate The CIA". We had a hundred copies printed up at the JBS "Economy Printers" [a Somerset "drop"] and they turned out to be better than the original. We arranged for a copy to be placed up on the "locked" bulletin board in the lobby of the new CIA/HQ at langley. That kinda pissed them off at us, but even more so at Bob Brown. They later tried to screw him out of a "Green Beret" Team in the 'nam -- but he eventually won out against the REMFs !!] Chairs, GPH ______________________________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Richards Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 Thanks, Gerry. That is of enormous assistance. Cheers, James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Cox Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 Gerry, any idea where Bradley is today? I'd sure like to find how he got with Lacayo etal. Any relationship between Bradley and Hudson (both Brits)? What happened to Hudson? Is the periodical where the Herter article appears only El Mundo? Did Revolucion have such? What is relationship of Lacayo and Efren Picardo and Nicaraguan ruse with a Trujillo operation before? See Latin American studies dot org. And, G please clarify, Martino didn't move? He's bothering people? What is Martino role? Anything on the six Americans mentioned in his book? They appeared and then vanished from the history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Richards Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 A question; possibly for Scott Deitche. This image below shows Trafficante on the left. Any ideas who the guy on the right is? James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Deitche Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 A question; possibly for Scott Deitche.This image below shows Trafficante on the left. Any ideas who the guy on the right is? James Doesn't look like any of his Tampa guys, nor Norman Rothman. Col picture. Santo looks liek he's planning something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Hemming Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 A question; possibly for Scott Deitche. This image below shows Trafficante on the left. Any ideas who the guy on the right is? James Doesn't look like any of his Tampa guys, nor Norman Rothman. Col picture. Santo looks liek he's planning something ------------------------- Might be lawyer Ragano ??!! GPH _______________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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