armed forces (navy, army) and police by Batista's allies and accomplices. Agostini's established international reputation and prestige led him to be accepted by many leading figures from other organizations, mainly from the Orthodox Party. These prominent figures and supporters included: Pelayo Cuervo Navarro and the prominent psychiatrist F. René de la Huerta in Havana, José Manuel Gutiérrez in Matanzas, the former Orthodox Party candidate for Mayor of Santa Clara Santiago Riera, as well as the Orthodox leader of Marianao, Juan Manuel Márquez. In June 1954 Juan Manuel was arrested and interrogated by Batista's forces regarding Agostini's whereabouts and activities. Once released, Juan Manuel informs Agostini. The house where Agostini was hiding is then raided, however he had time to hide inside a water tank on the roof and later jumped over several rooftops to reach the Nuestra Señora de Lourdes clinic in Vedado where the administrator, a contact of de la Huerta, assisted him. Disguised in a doctor's gown, Agostini escaped in an ambulance. Agostini then became an asylee in the Mexican Embassy and arranges to go into exile in Mexico. On 22 August, he then went to the United States, and coordinated with contacts in the US and in Mexico to attempt to join any potential expedition to Cuba, though none materialized. He returned to Miami and then Cuba at the end of December 1954 and began strengthening his insurrection network to include Authentic Party leader Menelao Mora Morales and several significant Navy contacts including Santiago Ríos and Lieutenants Dionisio San Román, Juan M. Castiñeiras, Felipe Vidal and other officers. In May 1955 he had continued to be in hiding and conducting covert activities, now waiting to hear from former President Carlos Prío and what the other exiled hierarchy of insurrectionary Authentic Party would leadership decide to do. Death On 9 June 1955, Agostini was at the home of Dr. René de la Huerta, a leading member of the influential Agrupación Católica Universitaria, in Vedado holding a secret meeting with other insurrection leaders Menelao Mora, Lomberto Díaz, and the Orthodox Party jurist Pelayo Cuervo Navarro. At approximately eight o'clock in the evening Pelayo Cuervo Navarro approached de la Huerta's home in his car and saw armed police surrounding the home, causing him to avoid the area and give them notice by phone. Inside the house, Agostini was dinning with de la Huerta and his family until he became aware