Rodolfo Frometa Caballero

Born in 1945 in Cuba.

His personal record, dedicated to crime and terrorism against Cuba, doesn't differ from that of other terrorists. Add to this a few other attributes, deceit, ambition, treachery and cowardliness.

Frometa left the country illegally in 1968 when he was 23 years old. He jumped the fence that borders the illegally occupied territory of the Guantanamo Naval Base. Some years earlier, terrorist Jose Basulto Leon had done the same, remaining at the Base for only one day, after which he was transferred to the United States on board a military airplane together with other Cubans there.

He spent four days in the city of Miami and then went to New York, where six months later, still in 1969, he was recruited by a leader of the terrorist organization Alpha-66 in a restaurant on 180 Street. That same day he signed an agreement committing himself to participate in military training with Alpha-66 and to infiltrate Cuba.

By mid 1969 he moved to Miami to the "Los Indios" training camp in the Everglades to the south of Miami. During 45 days he was trained in armaments, explosives and irregular warfare at the Alpha-66 camp. During this background on Frometa, it’s opportune to point out some important data on the nature of the terrorist organization Alpha-66.

Alpha-66 was created in 1962. From its inception Alpha 66 classified as an "autonomous operation of the CIA,” known, since its inception, for its terrorist acts against Cuba.

Among its various criminal activities, which have been openly denounced several times, are the 1960s murder of 2 fishermen and a coastguard officer; pirate attacks on Cuban vessels and coastal economic facilities including a May 19, 1963 machine gun shooting at a boarding school in Tarara, to the east of Havana. The perpetrators of these acts were never prosecuted in the USA, despite having openly claimed responsibility for such criminal acts.

Assassination plots against president Fidel Castro; pirate attacks on fishing boats and the three attacks in recent years against the Cayo Coco Guitart Hotel.

Between 1992 and 1993 there were repeated bomb threats against Cuban diplomatic missions in Mexico, U.S., Ecuador, Brazil, Canada and Puerto Rico.

Alpha-66 set six counter-revolution armed terrorist groups, usually made up by the dregs of society, people who have been pushed to carry out suicidal acts of propaganda, while the main leaders hide in a farm in the outskirts of Miami spending the money collected in fund raisers living it up. During Elian Gonzalez’ kidnapping in the U.S., Nazario Sargen, head of Alpha-66 from 1968 onwards and some of his followers participated in counter-revolutionary demonstrationss in front of the Cuban diplomatic headquarters in Washington and in front of the Cuban mission in New York playing an active role in the surveillance of the house in "Little Havana" where Elian was kept.

On February 17, 2001 the counterrevolutionary Elizardo San Pedro Marin was arrested in Cuba for carrying out threats against the Mexican ambassador in Cuba and against some press agencies following instructions of Alpha-66 and its so-called representative in Canada, Antonio Tang Baez.

Some consider that Alpha-66 is also related to organized crime, given the criminal nature of its main leader including Nazario Sargen, and their links to drug trafficking. One of its members openly admitted on Channel 51 in Miami to having participated in operations of this sort saying that in February 1995 members of the organization had been on the Andros Islands to smuggle drugs into Florida.

These are but a few examples of the crimes in which this organization has been involved. Alpha-66 remains a very dangerous organization which counts on the support of the terrorist Mafia in Miami and on the complicity of the US authorities.

Frometa, who was not very active in the 1970s, became one of Alpha 66 main leaders in New Jersey at the beginning of 1980. In New Jersey, as well as in Miami, the terrorist Mafia has always counted on the support of criminal groups in propaganda campaigns, in public fund raising efforts and in the control of new recruits, also providing "bodyguard" services to Nazario Sargen, when he traveled from Miami to pay them a visit.

During this period Frometa was "promoted" to the rank of "major" by Nazario Sargen and Silverio Rodriguez, the same old criminals that today make their living as leaders of the organization.

On October 10, 1981 Frometa went to Miami, where he maintained contacts with Nazario Sargen. The next day he is sent to Cuba by Alpha-66, under the pretext of visiting his relatives in Guantanamo. He was arrested by the Cuban Security corps October 23 under charges of subversive activities.

One of the missions entrusted to him by Sargen was to recruit members for Alpha-66 among counter-revolutionaries and to carry out terrorist actions. He succeed in recruiting a total of five, some of them relatives of his, whom, by the way, he himself reported as soon as he was arrested.

These unwary people, misled by propaganda broadcasted by hostile radio stations in South Florida and by Frometa’s promises to send them money, declared that Frometa had been planning attempts to poison livestock and to sabotage sugar cane production, fruit production and the public transportation system as well as gathering political information.

Days later, and as a result of Frometa’s statements, Orestes Rafael Gonzalez Fernandez was also arrested on December 1981 on his arrival from Miami. Also known as "El Guajiro,” Orestes Rafael was another member of Alpha-66 who lived in Miami, and with whom Frometa had had close contacts inside the organization in New Jersey. He left Cuba in 1968 after having collaborated with uprisings in the Escambray mountain range.

During the trial against terrorist Frometa Caballero, he voluntarily disclosed information on the main leaders of the organization and on Alpha-66 terrorist plans against Cuba at the time. At the end of the legal proceeding Frometa was sentenced to 20 years in jail.

He referred to Alpha-66 links with other terrorist organizations in Miami and even with CIA officers. He declared to have attended a meeting summoned by the terrorist organization "Junta Patriotica,” at the beginning of 1981 in the "Broadway Sandwich" restaurant at Broadway and 47 Streets, New Jersey, with the participation, among others, of some ringleaders of terrorist groups like Andres Nazario Sargen. According to Frometa, terrorist Guillermo Novo Sampol was at the meeting and thanked the generous contribution they had made to pay his $250,000 dollars bail when he had been arrested after the murder of the former Chilean foreign minister, Orlando Letelier. Novo Sampol said they would continue fighting against the Cuban communist government. Frometa also said that the U.S. citizen "Robinson,” known as "The Cat,” had been identified by one of the participants as a CIA agent and had met with Nazario inside Humberto Gonzalez's car.

As to the true political objectives of Alpha-66, according to Frometa’s declarations, ringleader Nazario Sargen was only interested in involving other people so as to "do politics and live off it."

He also said that the Sunday before he left for Cuba, Nazario had told him that the newly recruited people sent their personal data to the United States with an attachment of their sabotage acts inside the island, for the organization to make propaganda use of it.

As to the systematic gathering of funds for the organization, Frometa said that on one occasion, the ringleader Silverio Rodriguez called him to ask for $4,000 dollars to buy weapons, particularly M-16 rifles and machine guns that the organization was going to get from a guy in New Jersey and which were to be sent to Miami.

They even made a caravan of cars with money boxes to collect money, but everything was nothing but a "con" to collect money for Nazario Sargen because the weapons were never bought.

When Frometa left prison at the beginning of the 1990s, he returned to the United States and soon after reinitiated his activities with Alpha-66.

In 1994 Frometa was arrested by the U.S. authorities when he was getting ready for smuggling weapons to the island, but was latter released.

That same year he decided to quit Alpha-66, alleging "that Nazario only talked and did nothing.” He created a new terrorist organization called “F4 commandos.”

He was again arrested by the FBI when, among other arms, he tried to buy four "Stinger” anti-aircraft rocket launchers. He was prosecuted and sentenced to 41 months in prison, but released under parole soon after. He has never given up organizing terrorist plans against Cuba within the organization F4 Commandos, U.S. authorities leave him alone.

It is worth mentioning that the F4 Commandos remain one of the most aggressive terrorist organizations inside the mafia of Miami.

Among its main leaders, apart from Frometa, are Ramon Leocadio Bonachea,Jose Ros and Ihosvani Suris, the latter in prison in Cuba since April 2001 when he was arrested trying to illegally enter the country in Villa Clara. Ramon Leocadio Bonachea is an old terrorist and a former member of Alpha-66 and of the so-called “Partido del Pueblo" lead by Nelsy Ignacio Castro Matos, someone closely linked to criminal acts, pirate attacks and assassination plots against President Fidel Castro for many years. He also has very close links with criminal Luis Posada Carriles and some other of the terrorists arrested in Panama for trying to murder president Fidel Castro who was participating at the 2000 Ibero-American Summit being held in that country.

F4 commandos has increased its membership since Frometa began recruiting members among young Cuban “rafters” arriving in the US after 1994.

The so-called infiltration “team" of the F4 Commandos was made up in 2001 by the following terrorists:

David Ricardos de Jesus (Major David), military head of this terrorist organization.

Rafael Torres Mena (head of one of the commandos) is a notorious terrorist. A former member of the “Comandos de Liberación Unidos” he participated in subversive actions against Cuba in 1996 with "Liberty II". In 1998 he was involved in attack plans against Cuban leaders and was trained in a military camp of this organization in the U.S.

Other members of F4 Commandos group enjoying total freedom of action in the city of Miami is Miguel Rodriguez Heredia, aka "Major Heredia" who used to live in the Dominican Republic, and is very skillful in firearms and driving speedboats.

Rodolfo Miro, in charge of communications; Felipe Martinez, Jorge Diaz Lamas, Carlos Vazquez, Cecilio Rodriguez, Roberto Palenzuela, Rodolfo Viamontes and Vladimir Morris Urquiza.

The later was arrested by Cuban authorities in 1999 and sentenced for planning to transport people out of Cuba to the U.S. by boat in exchange for large sums of money.

The attacks against Cuba by this terrorist organization are carried out with the complete tolerance of U.S. authorities. Frometa, who calls himself "Commander-in-chief of the F4 Commandos,” lied in a Miami Court in March 2000, when he cynically denied having been involved in violent actions inside Cuba. By simply going to the organizations website one can see material announcing that the organization had set on fire two vehicles in our country on December 28 last year that belonged to the "underground cells of F4 Commandos." They even showed "pictures" of those vehicles. All this is a harsh lie so as to be able to hold fund raising campaigns in Miami. It is not a coincidence that on page 2 of the aforementioned website there was an advertisement for donations that reads as follows:

For you to receive any of these vouchers for the value of 5, 10, 20, 50 or 100 dollars please address or call the offices of F4 Commandos, telephone (305) 652-7790. Signed: Comandos F-4 1414 W Flagler Miami, FLA, 33135.