Paulino Sierra Martinez person
also: Sierra, controversial Cuban exile, Paulino Sierra, Sierra Martinez
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Claims (11)
Paulino Sierra Martinez financed_via
Homer Escobar documented
“Weapons purchase was being financed by Sierra with mob money. After the president's assassination, the Secret Service planned to pursue an investigation into X Rivera's threat in the Sierra arms deal. But the agency's probe was shut down ag…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 45:28
Paulino Sierra Martinez member_of
Junta of Government of Cuba in Exile documented
“Paulino Sierra Martinez faded from the front lines of the anti-Castro campaign. Accused by Union Tank Car's legal counsel of wasting the Junta's funds, he was eventually replaced as head of the organization. But according to relatives of Si…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 45:56
Paulino Sierra Martinez member_of
Fulgencio Batista documented
“or the Metropolitan Club. He was the son of a Cuban police sergeant. Sierra had worked his way up in the Havana Society, landing a job for the dictator Batista in his foreign ministry. But some of his intimates suggested that Sierra's gover…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 39:21
Allen Dulles met_with
Paulino Sierra Martinez book_quoted
“He met with controversial Cuban exile named Paulino Sierra Martinez, a former henchman in the deposed close circle of Cuban dictator Batista. Sierra, whose anti-Castro activities were underwritten by the mafia and U.S. corporations with a s…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 47:50
Paulino Sierra Martinez funded
Junta of Government of Cuba in Exile documented
“Sierra attracted enough support from within the anti-Castro network to form a coalition he ambitiously titled the Junta of Government of Cuba in Exile. He crisscrossed the country drumming up support for this new organization and went on a …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 42:24
Paulino Sierra Martinez financed_via
Union Tank Car Company documented
“Sierra attracted enough support from within the anti-Castro network to form a coalition he ambitiously titled the Junta of Government of Cuba in Exile. He crisscrossed the country drumming up support for this new organization and went on a …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 42:24
Allen Dulles funded
Paulino Sierra Martinez book_quoted
“He met with controversial Cuban exile named Paulino Sierra Martinez, a former henchman in the deposed close circle of Cuban dictator Batista. Sierra, whose anti-Castro activities were underwritten by the mafia and U.S. corporations with a s…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 47:50
Paulino Sierra Martinez financed_via
United Fruit Company guest_asserted
“On other occasions, he did drop names. Interestingly enough, they were names like United Fruit. Again, U.S. Steel, DuPont. U.S. Steel is very interesting given what we covered yesterday about U.S. Steel stabbing Kennedy in the back and then…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 41:18
Paulino Sierra Martinez financed_via
U.S. Steel guest_asserted
“On other occasions, he did drop names. Interestingly enough, they were names like United Fruit. Again, U.S. Steel, DuPont. U.S. Steel is very interesting given what we covered yesterday about U.S. Steel stabbing Kennedy in the back and then…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 41:18
Paulino Sierra Martinez financed_via
DuPont guest_asserted
“On other occasions, he did drop names. Interestingly enough, they were names like United Fruit. Again, U.S. Steel, DuPont. U.S. Steel is very interesting given what we covered yesterday about U.S. Steel stabbing Kennedy in the back and then…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 41:18
Paulino Sierra Martinez financed_via
Standard Oil guest_asserted
“On other occasions, he did drop names. Interestingly enough, they were names like United Fruit. Again, U.S. Steel, DuPont. U.S. Steel is very interesting given what we covered yesterday about U.S. Steel stabbing Kennedy in the back and then…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 41:18
Mentions (24)
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He met with controversial Cuban exile named Paulino Sierra Martinez, a former henchman in the deposed close circle of Cuban dictator Batista. Sierra, whose anti-Castro activities were underwritten by the mafia and U.S. corporations with a s…
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later fell under Secret Service suspicion in a conspiracy against JFK. The topic of Sierra's meeting with Dulles in April of 1963 remains a mystery. By October of 63, Dulles felt confident enough to speak out against JFK's foreign policy in…
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was a militant anti-Castro exile by the name of Paulino Sierra Martinez, whose background and affiliations were so murky that even the CIA labeled him a mystery man in a memo dated November 20th. According to an internal CIA document, Sierr…
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He got a seat on the General Motors board among other companies. What I find interesting about this is if you guys, I don't know if I even mentioned it, but those stay-behind units of U.S. military in Germany talk about Checkpoint Charlie a…
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or the Metropolitan Club. He was the son of a Cuban police sergeant. Sierra had worked his way up in the Havana Society, landing a job for the dictator Batista in his foreign ministry. But some of his intimates suggested that Sierra's gover…
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Fleeing Castro's Cuban, Sierra settled first in Miami, but after passing his U.S. bar exams, he went to work in the legal department at the Union Tank Car Company in Chicago. It was a railroad freight company that had been built by the Rock…
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in the confusing and conflict-ridden Cuban exile movement. In May of 63, following his Washington meeting with Dulles and Clay, Sierra, who was virtually unknown in anti-Castro circles, convened a meeting of Cuban exile leaders at the Royal…
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But the anti-Castro movement was in disarray following Kennedy's withdrawal of support, and Sierra arrived in Miami with a proposal and the promise of big money. Sierra told the group that he represented an alliance of major U.S. corporatio…
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On other occasions, he did drop names. Interestingly enough, they were names like United Fruit. Again, U.S. Steel, DuPont. U.S. Steel is very interesting given what we covered yesterday about U.S. Steel stabbing Kennedy in the back and then…
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million in 1960s if they could fracture the anti-Castro movement, if the fractured anti-Castro movement could reassemble itself and mount an invasion of the island. He explained that such an operation would not have Washington's official ap…
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Sierra attracted enough support from within the anti-Castro network to form a coalition he ambitiously titled the Junta of Government of Cuba in Exile. He crisscrossed the country drumming up support for this new organization and went on a …
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Although in an article in the Miami News indicated that at least some of his money was coming from organized crime lords who were intent on winning back their Havana gambling casinos and prostitution networks, which before Cuba had been a h…
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investigation after concluding there was nothing to see there. The Chicago office of the Secret Service, however, suspected the Sierra was a sinister figure. By November of 1963, Chicago, like Miami, New Orleans, and Dallas, had become a ne…
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The plot, which involved a sniper team composed of disgruntled ex-Marine, who, oh, that's weird, who worked in the building. What? And at least two Cuban marksmen bore a disturbing resemblance to the Dallas plot. The Secret Service could no…
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JFK's assassination, a serious threat against the president, was made by an outspoken anti-Kennedy Cuban exile leader, Homer Escobar, while negotiating an illegal arms purchase. Escobar reportedly said that he had plenty of money and would …
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Weapons purchase was being financed by Sierra with mob money. After the president's assassination, the Secret Service planned to pursue an investigation into X Rivera's threat in the Sierra arms deal. But the agency's probe was shut down ag…
▶ 45:56
Paulino Sierra Martinez faded from the front lines of the anti-Castro campaign. Accused by Union Tank Car's legal counsel of wasting the Junta's funds, he was eventually replaced as head of the organization. But according to relatives of Si…
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men whom one of his children described as a bandito. Sierra, who frequently packed his own gun, even when taking his young granddaughter to the zoo, continued to travel widely well into the 1970s, including to Chile, where he briefly reloca…
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of Salvador Allende in 1973. Although Sierra never discussed his hidden life with his son, Paul Sierra became convinced that his father was involved in U.S. intelligence. Quote, I think that personally, father's patriotism and hatred for co…
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Paulino Sierra Martinez, the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which reopened the JFK case in 1970s, again raised the questions, who was he? The sprawling congressional investigation ultimately concluded that Kennedy was the victim …
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including three sketchy characters that show up with Lee Harvey Oswald at the Dallas home of Sylvia Odio, the daughter of a prominent anti-Castro activist in September of 1963. But in the end, lacking the time and resources to fully pursue …
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that the relevance to the assassination of Sierra's activities remain undetermined on purpose. At least the House Select Committee on Assassinations tried to shed light on Sierra in another kabuki dance. The first official inquest into Pres…
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and their connections to the CIA or organized crime. No kidding, because no one wants to investigate the CIA for real. Despite the Secret Service's suspicion about Sierra, his name appears nowhere, nowhere in the Warren Report's 26 volumes.…
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It remains one of those enduring mysteries of the JFK case. Why did Dulles meet with Paulino Sierra Martinez in April of 1963? What brought together the former CIA director and an obscure mafia connected anti Castro conspirator with a penan…