Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 19927 (44 USC 2107 Hote). 11-14-7017 DATE: JFK Assassination System Date: 6/8/2015 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-90019-10347 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER:  97-4623-13 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: HQ TO: AG TITLE : DATE: 04/29/1963 PAGES: 2 ; SUBJECTS : BACKGROUND TO ALLEGED AERIEL STRIKE OVER HABANA DURING THE N ALEXANDER RORKE DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : — Secret RESTRICTIONS:  1C CURRENT STATUS:  Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 05/15/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : LHM er v9.1 Docld: 32323705 Page 1
Re eased under the John F. Kenne Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 7 ATE: 11-14-2017 ae 1 Belmon , ‘o Psy 1 Evans e 1 Sullivan fae CONTATNED j 1 Wannall RORY TION CONTATE ALL INYORYe t*P a ‘ 1 Nasca RR: ALEXANDER I. RORKS, JR. On April 26, 1963, an informant who has furnished reliable information im the past advised that a letter of protest had been seat frem Raul Rea, Cuban Minister of Foreign — Rolations, to Miroslav Ruzek, Czechoslovakian Ambassadors fer THe £2 ey tho United States, for delivery to the Department of ‘State, g¢ . |. .: fhe text of this protest is as fellows: (@ ) u) Cosy WHERE SHOW Rey fhe Ministry of External Affairs sends its greetings 2 L to the Honorable Embasey of the Secialist Republic of LPN aah os | Crocheslovakia and requests it to present to the State Department 2 | of the Uaited States ef America in its capacity as the repiesentative - of the interests of Cuba in said country, the following note; dn © April 25, at approximately mine o'cleck p.m., 2 twin-engine. plang 2 Bg proceeding from a northern direction flew over the *Nico Lopez’ Ey ae * efinery and dropped a one-hundred pound boab and several re containers with inflamgable material ef the Napalm type, which «& ‘did oot explede. Immediately after dropping its deathly cargo Se the plane disappeared in the direction it had cone from. O¥ “Ss $6 -O¥GI \ "On the 26th, United States Cable Agencies released the 4 news that a United States citizen, Alexander Rorke, had declared| &G. to newspapermen in Washington that he rode ia the twineengine pipne JS which bombed the refinery and that another of the Americans who faa & participated in the attack was a student at the Massachusetts “8.4 && Institute ef Technology. (f \( u) oo » 368 > S | _ Sebo ase NS CN "Phe absolute impunity that this plane was able to leayds =@ QNSsand then return te United States territory and the sudsequent ~S Cre, NESS dcclaration made im the very capital of the United States of an | Q SX“America by one of its crew members, plus the fact so far no actien’ SO “\" is known to have been taken by the authorities of that country, : prove that the North American Goverament cannot escape re sponsibility ° “os for these acts which would have caused civilian casualtiestad the SA objective been accomplished. (& Me) | & ak | "fhe circumstances and the manner ia which this aggression Ae aq was carried out demonstrate that the decisions announced publiely by the United States of America apparently made toprevent provicatory activities against Cuba on the part of the counterrevoiutionary Toon _ Sirates, are disregarded im & manner that cannot be excused, It Li" ae, therefore, yery obvious that pf.tha Government of the United States Calehos VEN ~ $-6-97 _ SECRET| a AB) Conrad —__€4 9) CLASSIFIED BY 2667-262. | See VA tu f~ Gale seep LALO OT FENG te ; \deefassification “= us ON { Rosen - E: Original furnish t At terney Ge mara -2ad-Opie a “ed 4} iatven —Beputy Attorney General and J. “Walter Yeagley. ifi \s iniec Secret" since he data therein originated with’s sic Room —which proviges| coverage of Cuban: diplomati ; Gandy _, MAIL roomlL__] TELETYPE unit L_] ENC OSUE if 3 wert oR) pe 7 ENC O Po Fh 2D ia # - eed ’ Docld: 32323705 Page 2?