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    "ocrText": "2\nBED SHEET SIZE - ON A FLOAT BED IN THIS MANNER - - WITH POINTING SUPERIMPOSEO\nTO THE EFFECT THAT PEOPLE THRO9 COINS AGAINST THE FLAG WHICH ZOULD THEN FALL ONTO Tix\nBEO OF THE FLOAT TO BE COLLECTED TO AID IN FREEING CUBA.\nHE, SERGIO - UAS OF AN EXPLOSIVE TEMPERAMENT AND CARED NOT A WHI FOR ANYONE OTHER\nTHEN HIMSELF AND HIS POSSESSIONS. ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS HE AND DR. JOSE DEL MAYA) (THE\nMOST IMPORTANT FIGURE OF THE GRDUP) ALMOST DID BATTLE IN THE OFFICE.\ns NAVE HEARD NOTHING OF DR. JOSE DEL HAYA IN YOUR INVESTIGATIONS. ME WAS THE NOBLEST\nROMAN OF THEM ALL, WAS SINICE RE AND MOST PERSONABLE. HE VAS SLIGHT OF BUILD, ABOUT\nTHIRTY YEARS OF AGE, REFINED, INTELLIGENT AND THE ONLY ONE OF TNE GROUP OF PERHAPS\nTWENTY PEOPLE IN THE GROUP THAT UAS 05 VALUE. HE TOLO ME HE HAD BEEN BITH THE\nS TUDENT RE VOLT OF 1.953 IN CUBA AND VAS SE VERELY WOUNDED. HE FOUGHT DITH CASTRO\nON HIS IDE, BUT DISAGSEEO DITH HIM POLITICALLY. HE TOLD RIE HE MAS SENT TO THE\nU.S. BY CASTBO AFTER CASTRORS VICTORY, TO CARNER PUBLIC SUPPORT. HE WAS\nRECALLED\nAND INPRISONED MEN HE QUESTIONED THE post REVOLUTION PUBGES. HE ESCAPEO, CAME TO\nTME U.S. AND VAS STRIVING TO AYTAIN RECOONITION BY THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOC. AT THE\nSOUE TIVE, HE VAS TRYING TO GET COMPANIES WITH INDUSTRIES WHICH WERE NATIONALIZEO\nBY\nCASTRO TO CONTRIBUTE FUNOS FOR HIS OVERTHROW. ME WAS A MAN OF PASSION AND COMPASSION\nDEDICATED TO HIS PEOPLE. THE LAST I NEARD OF HIM, HE WAS IN OKLAHOMA CITY WORKING\nIN A HOSPITAL. IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING OF HIM, TRY TO FIND HJU. I AM SURE ME KNOUS\nAND CAN CONTRIBUTE MUCH KNOBLEDGE TO YOUR INVESTIGATION. I DON'T KNOS WHO HE REALLY\nDAS. 1 USED TO ACCOMPANY ON SOME S TRANGE MISSIONS WHICH HE VOULD NOT EXPLAIN\nAND AFTER THS CIA TIE WAS EXPOSEO AT THE BAY OF PIOS, I BEGAN TO WONDER IF ANY OF\nTRESE PEOPLE WERE REAL.\nTHE RE WAS A ROUST ABOUT UHO CALLED HINSELF \"TIGER\" JIN - A ELOATER DHO LIKEO TO DEAR\nS HIRT AND T1E WAS POTENTIALLY INTELLICENT BUT COULD NOT es TRUSTED FOR A NOMENT.\nHE DAS EVIDENTLY A MAN OF WOROLY EXPERIENCE HE KNEW PEOPLE IN NEW ORLEANS. HE\nALSO\nCONSIDERED CUSA, AS ME PUT IT, \"ONE BIG PIE OF WHICH NE WANTEO A SLICE, AND THE\nRE VOLUTION WOULD AFFORD 17\".\n(NE AND A MAN NAMED CMARLIE,NHO SUPPOSEDLY MAD WOAKED IN A JEWELRY STORE IN PHILADELPHIA\nPENN. BUT MAD OHLY SHORTLY BEFORE RETURMED FROU MONTÉVIDEO, DEVISED A PLOT WHICH\nI OVERMEARD IN THE PLAUNING (AFTER THE SE COND INVASION IDEA FADEO OUT) OF ABSCORDING\nWITH THE MEDICAL SUPPLIES WHICH HAD BEEN STOCKPILED IN THE OFFICE AND SELLING THE\nSERINGES AND MORPHINE IN THE FRENCE QUARTER FOR MONEY TO START A CHICKEN FARU IN\nPERU:\nALONG WITH A SNAGOLE TOOTHED CHARACTER WHD CLATIED TD BE OF PURE BL000\nCHEROKEE IDDIAN, KOREAN VAR VETERAB AMD TRUOK MECHANIC, AND THO VAS SUPPOSEOLY\nENGADED TO MARRY THE DAUGHTER OF A MILLIONAIRE FROM LIZA, PERU. HIS NAME VAS\nJOSEPH MOORE AND HE GAVE ME THIS ADDRESS IF EVER I WAS IN LIMA, PERU en\nAV. AREGAIZ, 2795 SAN ISIDRO, LIMA, PERU. S FOUND S STILL HAD THIS ADDRESS IN\nAN OLD WALLE T AND THIS IS JASWELL AS I CAN MAKE OUT HIS WRITING. NOTE: : ALSO JUST\nFOUND DR. JOSE DEL HAYAS ADDRESS HE GAVE BEFORE LEAVING NEU ORLEANS:\nDR. JOSE DEL MAYA, c/o GENERAL DELIVERY, NEW ORLEANS, LA. ALSO 1420, 15TH ST. NORTH.,\nST. PE TE RS BURG, FLA., AND CONCORDIA 963, MABAMA, CUBA.\nJOE MOORE VAS TALL - 6 FT. 3 INCHES, THIN AND VEIGHED 175-180 LBS. CHARLIE WAS\n5 FT. 8 INCHES, REOTUM BUBLD. BLOND, SHIRT AND TIE TYPE VITH SOME COLLE CE AND A\nGREAT CAPACITY TO DEAL WITH EXPLOSIVE LATIN NATURES. HIS CLOSEST COHORT PAS A\nMAN WHO RENINDED ME OF GENE KELLY (ACTOR) IN APPEARANCE BUT VAS NENTALLY BACKWARD.\nHE CLAINED TO HAVE JUS T ESCAPED TO THE U.S. FROM A PRISON IN VERA CRUIZ, WHERE HE\nAND SEVERAL CONFEOERAIES HAD BEEN INPRISOMED FOR BE ING CAUGAT WITH A LOAD OF GUNS"
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