‘Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 4/29/20] ; JFK Assassination System — Date: AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : * AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : ‘RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : _DATE OF LAST REVIEW: OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 Docld: 32333722 Page 1 DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-90107-10305 HQ 105-117222-NR Document Information FBI HQ 03/29/1963 4 COMANDOS LIBRES 66 JOHN THOMAS DUNKIN PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified Consulted Redact 08/03/1998 APPROVAL OF USCG MEMO, REFERRED TO USCG 115
“ANTI-CASTRO. ACTIVITIES » oe mye ON Me DRT ee tea * % "Phe March 26, 1963, raid against the Soviet ship. -: off Cuba was conducted by five menbers of L~66 under the ~~ leadership of Antonio Cuesta del Vaile with Ramon Font Saunel: -as second in command. The raid reportedly was accomplished - “with the use of a 23-foot Fibergias boat powered by twin 210 ‘horsepower Chrysler engines capable sof a speed of 55 miles. per hour. = Reportedly, armament on ‘the boat included a 30. caliber light machine gun, a 22 millimeter antitank rifle, various detonation devices, end a homemade torpede which was powered by a seven and cne~haif horsepower outboard motors: i¢. boat was Leaded with fifty pounds ef explosives. 3 V/( 7 oSts cee! On March 27,: 1963, aU. S. Coast Guard representativ at Miami advised that on March 24, 1963, the Coast Guard had. observed the fifty foot yacht "Alisan" at an unnamed island » located between Anguila Cay and Damesk Key in the Cay Sal Group, approximately seventy miles from Caibarien, Cuba, Eight men, *:. some Cuban in appearance, were ‘bbserved on board the yacht, : "Qn Narch 27, 1963, L Rn ucia Fernandez, wife of Santiago Juan Antonio Alvarez hodrisuez, advised our Miami Office that. her husbend had departed from the United States about fifteen’ © days previously on his yacht the "Alisan" en route to Anguila Cay She said that she expected his return te the United States some~ time this week. Fernandez denied any knowledge that her husband. “was connected with the group L*66 or its leaders, 266 Coens 8 coe. A gource who has furnished reliable information in. ‘the pagt has advised that the "Alisan" has on numerous occasions: dn the ‘past engaged in military-type expeditions against the =. northera coast of Cuba, operating from the Cay. Sal’ Bank in the Bahantas op. oy RB (BY ey re ee cee ‘On March 28,°1963, our Miami Office interviewed”. Antonio Perez Quesada, who.claimed_to have piloted members- of + the L-66 group from the area to a lecation in the Bahama Islands from where. the attack on the Soviet vessel was launched, Perez, who entered the United States in January, 1961, as.a refugee from ‘Caibarfen, Cuba, and who is thoroughly familiar with ‘the coastal ‘area near Caibarien, advised that he was recently reeritited - . ‘, to pilot a boat to Cuba {fmgonio Cuesta of the Conmandos L-66, Perez said that on March 28, 1963, he piloted a 22- or 23-Toot' ‘speedboat (unnamed) powered by two Ch sler motors from North ‘Miami. Beach to a location about one mile from Cat.Cay in the Docld: 32333722 Page 2?