AGENCY INFORMATION -* AGENCY: — FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10290-10055 RECORD SERIES: HO - AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 105-286881-1 ORIGINATOR: FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECT: DOCUMENT _ TYPE: ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW_DATE: STATUS COMMENTS: Docld: 32306415 Page 1 DOCUMENT INFORMATION FBI SAC. MM DIRECTOR. FBI 06/16/1975 7 OBA, ASSOC, ACA, CONSPR, BOMBING, FINANCES, TRA, ADMIN INSTR PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified CLASSIFICATION: 05/26/1 998 UPDATE DATE: Redact RESTRICTIONS : Consultation JFK Act 6 (4) REFERRED TO INS, INC MEMO, LHM
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CReleated under the John F. Kennedy Assassination - To “(af TC FI0T Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 Mee os SHARET RE: WALDO IGNACIO DE CASTROVERDE Are e ey wned by JOSE“ALEMAN on or about November 21, 1974. ROLANDO MENDOZA and WALDO CASTROVERDE called upon ORLAND GARCIA, JR. at this filling station located at Northwest’ 27th Avenue and 83rd Street, Miami, and told him that’ they would be deeply indebted to him and very appreciative if he could influence his father to arrange to have BOSCH not return to the United States from Venezuela. ORLANDOXGARCTA, JR., son of ORLAND ARCIA \ VASQUEZ, of Venezuéla, was employed at the filling station Fla 0 —_! Miami investigation reflected that WALDO I. DE CASTROVERDE was also a Bay of Pigs prisoner and arrived in the United States on May 20, 1961, among a group of ten Cuban prisoners to negotiate for the release of other Cuban prisoners in return for supplying Cuba with bulldozers and other heavy equipment. — MARVIS DUNCANSON, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), Miami, on April 10, 1975, made available INS File A13312725, under the name of WALDO DE CASTROVERDE GIOL, which reveazed the following information: CASTROVERDE was born on January 15, 1941, at. Mariano, Cuba, In 1957, he had the status of a hon=:. immigrant student at North Miami weer oe High School, having arrived on September 12, 1957, from Cuba, destined to his brother, ARMANDO WALDO D ASTROVERDE, at 1090 Northeast 146th Street, North Mia CASTROVERDE was a Bay of P. Pies prisone er and last arrived in the United States ‘on December 24, 1962. Ip, é \ A file showed that from 1960 to 1961, he was a & 5 member of the Brigade 2506. In 1963, he became a member f the Veterans of Brigade 2506. Certificate Number ba 9526944 revealed that WALDO IGNACIO DE CASTROVERDE became \ . a United States citizen on April 8, 1971. His Petition og ea Number eee” for becoming a citizen, CSANCHRT he has two X ‘His chi! | y) ‘| Docld: 32306415 Page 3
(Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassinatio : ct o DATE: 11-14-2017 : ey ‘ . - Poy i 8 Ape fos be LO RE: WALDO IGNACIO DE CASTROVERDE ’ ’ , Naturalization were CAR CALLAVA, Cost 80th Avenue, Miami, Florida a UISJCASTR , 3/729 Southwest 29th Street, Miami ,—&lorida. an . . - Jf . Witnesses at RLOpyEAL of his application for LO mF From June 1970 to November, 1970, he resided at 270 Northwest 62nd Avenue, Miami. From February 1966 to June, 1970, he resided at 2624 Marathon Street, Los Angeles, - California. He also resided at 9720 Southwest 37th Terrace, and currently resides at 8701 Southwest 12th Street, Apartment 23. . From 1965 to 1970, he was employed by the General Motors Parts Division, at 8000 Ban Nuys Avenue, Los Angeles, California. From September 1970, to November, 1970, he was employed as a teacher at the Loyola School, 10375 Coral Way, Miami. On November 21, 1970, MM T-2 advised that WALDO IGNACIO DE CASTROVERDE was a good friend of ORLANDO,BOSCH, and he is collecting money on behalf of BOSCH. AY On December 5, 1974, Investigator RAUL DI ; . Organized Crime Bureau, DCPSD, stated that ROLANDO MENDOZA and WAJMO IGNACIO DE CASTROVERDE are close associates of y . ; [Pe SIELASACUERVO, who is a close associate of_LOSE_ANTONTO be ACOLMEN RES, Recently COLMENARES went to MIGUEIXREYES, 7 , Te) as oye ILO of the Municipio de Artemisa, at 22nd Avenue and Northwest 5th Street, and demanded money in return for some AC bonds that he was peddling. When REYES told COLMENARES that he had no money, COLMENARES replied that he was the one who had bombed the offices of the Municipios En Exilio some weeks ago, as well as the Latin Chamber of Commerce, and he threatened REYES. However, according to DIAZ, some people notified SILAS CUERVO, who immediately contacted COLMENARES, and told him to lay off with REYES, explaining that REYES had connections with the FLNC and that AC did not want to start a feud with FLNC, - SEQRET Docld: 32306415 Page 4
ATE : [ Releas ; ft LS C 11-14-2017 seh Ss TA = Operator-mixer by Ag oy ‘RE: WALDO IGNACIO DE CASTROVERDE 0 Ae per Behnke eldo rs INS, File A1331770, reviewed in Lovk, shows that ROLANDO FLOREXMENDOZAADELGADO, born November. 24 LO , <in Cuba, first arrived in the "United States at Key West, ebruary 27, 1960. In 1961, he resumed training and was in the Bay of Pigs Invasion and served two years in Cuba as a prisoner. He resided at 201 Northwest 49th Avenue, and on July 4, 1974, became a naturalized citizen of the United States. The yitnesses on nis ‘petition for naturalization y/ were RUBENMQUESADA, and LLey WALDO I. DE CASTROVERDE, 8701 Southwest 12th Street, Miami . This file refrected that in 1964, he belonged to the MRR (Méveme to,Revolucionario Recuperacion. ) His wife is CARLOTTAXSOLARZANO, As of May, 1974, he was. employed as an the Lehigh Portiand Cement Company, Miami. In 1971 - 1972, he had worked as an Assistant Manager at the private club Terrezi, in Mangua, Nicaragua. Prior to that, he held several jobs including one at Maul Industries, Miamd.. He was described as being 5 feet, 11 inches, brown eyes, black hair, FRI) mber 905 062 F. _ According “to ‘the information furnished by MM T-3, én August 28, 1974, WALDO IGNACIO DE CASTROVERDE is a possible member of the FNLC. This source stated that CASTROVERDE was recently attempting to raise funds for the purpose of fending someone to Spain to bomb the Cuban Embassy. A MM T-1 advised on January 25, 1975, that a “VICTOR CASTROVERDE and another man had recently travelled to Mexico City where they planned to have explosives planted at three targets in Mexico City. One of the targets was going to be a hotel or boardinghouse where some pro-ALLENDE Chilean exiles were residing. The second target was the . Cuban Embassy in Mexico City and the third target was the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. ¢ uv) On January 28, 1975, MMT stated that BEBO ACOSTA and PEREZ DORESTE had mentioned that WALDO DE CASTROVERDE and another person had returned from Mexico ‘City where they did place a bomb at the house where the pro-ALLENDE Chilean exiles were Staying. This bomb did ._ not go off, and it was apparently located and diffused wv) (u) sack T - Rv dO a9 2 Docld: 32306415 Page 5