424-10302-10227 _ JFK Assassination System Date: 4/3/2015 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10302-10227 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: = 2-1499-1ST NR 16 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: LEG, MX TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: \ DATE: 01/30/1959 PAGES: 4 SUBJECTS : FS, AKA, ASSOC, ARREST, WEAPONS, PRO-CASTRO, TRA, BUSS DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : Confidential Oo RESTRICTIONS: 1A; 1B > CURRENT STATUS: — Redact , DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 06/16/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA COMMENTS : pp ppp ‘vO. ; , 1 BY 50953 Doctd:323102783 Page 1
Qe can . ” “ s, “ BJECTION TO.” DEC VTISN ANDIOR, , RELE CIA INFORMATION APPRO: j AEA TERS _ of TC pie yg ENT. EXCEPT V1 . Baneh onfidentfak = = apviszD PAG : e 4 ‘ tage at 9 , SUTP ( * | Dates January 30 5. 969 _ Date Tos Director; FBI (973596) From Legat ; Maxico (105-1180) oeepee [Se j7eulne-2 | CHANGED: = __ REASON TAN As RICAHDO DE LA LORIE BALS. FO, A No | LIEN ASB AUG LS ~ CUBA ae DATE YF Bee NN a ebaameiienbeh \ Litas oan eS bobo ah bye DEGLSSSIFICATIO " ReBulets to Miami dated 11/20/58 and 12/5/58 in captioned matter; also Mexico letter,-to the Bureau dated 1/26/89 in case entitled "FRANK ANTHONY STURGIS, ake - RA." hy pe ‘The title of this case has been marked “changed” b te reflect the addition of the maternal syrname of the - subjects xeflegted in the files of the(CIA station in 5 7 8 . I Ce) | i . the [CIA station/advises thatfthe subject is Fey undoubtedly.idéntical with the RICARDO “LORIE m AQned on N Page 24 of the report of SA|ROBERT JAMES pirvEn fea 8/5/58 Kw at Miami goncerning the_ duly 26 Revolut, mn : nary Movement in Miami. fhe[CIA stati on}: 8S advised thatpe®ptioned subject was one Sf the principdl leaders of the July 26 action group and occupied a position. deseribed as "Chief of the Wer Depart- ment" for the rebels, (ine GIA station ‘ther advised that the subject has returhed to Cuba. Helet of 12/5/58 requested details concerning the arrests of Cuban rebels described in the CTA report dated 11/28/58, captioned "Information on Cuban Rebel Aircraft Headed-for Venezuela." Available details concerning these arrests were set forth in my letter of 1/26/59 ease, This information is as follows: P RENO. ga CLASE ~ | Piss 5 ~ Bureau : . 42 ~ we, | 1 =. Mexico City nt eo | Q—-~ SF? — ; os 7 GPM; mas Pere 28 So NOT RECORDED - 9-39-97 | (6) Cas - 1944-287) WEFER LY 058 eho | "| SK BIA] Ger By SG OE SLE we #245 326 Stycean einen , pormoiry Uy 2OA fF oat aaa ulales | : d; nS Se Be Py (2% ad..in WS ro Cia QQIGIWAL FILER. in the STURGIS Re Up | a (ie) conrraent Tall yy “ — 7 QYY Wess ; HY 50953 DBoctd: 323102783 Page 2?
‘F 5 ™, of \ ane MC 105-1180 Confidént Tal \ “A news clipping from the Mexico City | daily newspaper, "Excelsior," of November 25, 1958, entitled "Action Against Cuban Rebels at Apatzingan - Judicial Aetion at Morelia Against _ the Eleven Smugglers," reported that eleven persons had been arrested at Uruapan at dawn on 11/20/58, when they were discovered endeavoring to send arms to the rebels of FIDEL CASTRO RUZ in Cubas The article listed the following as having been arrested: JOSE MARTINEZ MACHADOS ENIO LEYVA FUENTES . MANUEL CARBONELL DUQUE ORLANDO VENTURA REYES PEDRO LUIS DIAZ SAENZ ‘PRANK FIORINI 77 ! 4 MANUEL HERNANDEZ TURRO ~ GUSTAVO ARCOS DERCLES JOSE ALBERTO MENDEZ _ ISALDO B, RODRIGUEZ LOPE . ; ARMANDO FRANCO MAYNEZ, ot ROBERTO WILLARTE | "The article coneludes by stating that r a. . North American, FRANK FIORINI, the "pilot of the airplane," and the Cuban. PEDRO. LUIS. DIAZ LANZ, — had requested permission to.be. interviewed with an attorney present and that this request had . | been granteds, » CIA representative (| ¢ 5 Hed the following informaYe a" Shid had been forwarded to CIA head= “quarters with respect to the activities and associates of FRANK PIORINI: "FRANK FLORINI, PEDRO LUIS DIAZ LANZ. and — RICARDO DE LA LORIE BALS had arrived in| Oy u 7 Confident lax ~ a, in one . , > bog 7 HY 50953 DBoctd:323102783 Page 3
HY 50957 \ oN ; =! ME 105+1180 Contant Tal on 10/27/58, after having traveled from the ‘Miami, Florida area by automobile and having encountered difficulty with Mexican, Immigration authorities upon entering Mexico. [fea not know their C) Mexican ‘port of entry DUE Stated that they had bedn” vin Monterrey; therefore, he concluded that they had crossed the border at. Brownsville or Laredo, Texas, and that they mst have entered Mexico 10/24,25 or 10/26/88. Following the arrival of the trio. in Mexico City, DIAZ LANZ and DE LA LORIE proceeded by air to. Venezuela, returning about 10/31/58. Shortly thereafter they again left Mexico City by air en route to San Francisco, California. . "Meanwhile, on 11/4/58, FIORINI departed from Mexico City in the automobile and is reported to have met DZAZ LANZ and DE LA LORIE at Yuma, Arizona. U) "On 11/8/58, they are reported to have been at the Highway House Motel at Phoenix, Arizona,|[ sibel téved that from Phoenix they é) proceeded to Kingman, Arizona, where they made ¢ purchase of a C+46 airplane which had been UsS~ Government surplus and which was purchased and registered In FIORINI's name, even though it is , presumed that the funds were. provided by the two Gubans ¢ . "From Pheenix, Arizona, the group flew . the airplane to Veracruz and Acapulco, @XLCO5. before proceeding to Apatzingane: | 2 - iw [a loxprensea the belief that/C) Some menbér of “the Cuban group may have advised Mexican military authorities regarding the ated ue load of arms and the airplanes, He added that EO the best of his lmowledge, after being' detained Bocld: 3273102763 Page 4 ‘ Conf iaentTaL Pos mV * St “hy = . \ ee
1 1 HY 50957 . Bel Sol ‘Apartments in. Mexico City and gave his Ve 3 (p ox \8 for several days; all aubjiects and the airplane were released; - aot nos certain (C) ag to whether or not the arms re returned to them. %& p bok ee advised that ‘pvion 10/27/s8(C) GRINEI was registered at the until 11/4 Ue Be address ae Boing 422 Glen Ridge Rosd, Key Biscayne, Florida. He also Was. pegistered LY x at the Hotel. Statler An. Mexteo City’: ‘and gave His U. Ss address as being 510 NBs Rifth Street >. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. | Hated that. ;' a recent newspaper article In the Mexico City - afternoon paper, TLtimas: Noticias," had published / a ‘photograph. of “PRANK PIORINI standing. on sone - of the graves of BATISTA followers who had been executed by the ‘tyLumphant FIDEL | CASTRO RUZ revolutionaries." X. ~ Extra coples ef this communication are being “furnished - to the Bureau for transmittal to the Phoenix and Miami. offices and Legat s Havana, for information «: RUC. a ; Goneteent Tal cle. | , | Boctlda: 323102363 Page 5