[1] A few days prior to the Cuban Revolution he joined Fidel Castro's group in the Sierra Maestra.
Sturgis flew a CIA plane over Havana, dropping thousands of pamphlets urging the Cuban people to overthrow the Castro regime on October 21, 1959, as part of Artime's operations.
About December 1959, Manuel Artime left Cuba with a hundred thousand pesos when nothing happened.
[citation needed] On June 5, 1960, The Movement for the Recovery of the Revolution or (MRR) was created by Manuel Artime, Tony Varona, Aureliano Arango, José Miró Cardona and Quintero.
Artime, Quintero and Félix Rodríguez moved to Nicaragua creating an army of 300 men and obtained weapons, supplies and boats to invade Cuba.