AGENCY RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : -AGENCY FILE NUMBER : Document Information ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : . RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 NW 45773 Docid:32333812 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-90107-10395 HQ 105-117222-255 FBI WMFO HQ 10/26/1966 3 COMMANDOS L. JOHN THOMAS DUNKIN PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 08/03/1998 INDEFINITE LHM 145 Page i Date: 4/29/201
UNY “3D STATES DEPARTMENT OF JPSTICE 1 7 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGA‘®-ON COAADET In Reply, Please Refer to | ‘Washington, D. C. 20535 File No. OCT 2 6 1966 o _ °F comanposu INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA “anep REGISTRATION ACT - CUBA ALLIS ON CONTR, NE HEREIN 1S UNSLASSIFE * __NRUTRALITY MATTERS ine 5-453 . . . OTHER 4 . On October 6, 1966, 3802 Abingdon | _Street, set, Arlington, V3 Vir ESLDASe furnished the following infor- — ir Deore Stee a man QC XQ ‘ Aa a working cul ead OK ESL oned — prganizati dministrative and ofgeni ational capacity. . e organization has recently learned that_AntonioyCuesta Del Walle, former Head of Comandos L, who was apprehended in Cuba “around the end of May, 1966, by the Government! of' Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, was severely injured in the explosion: 5 /A. of a "PT boat" just off the coast.of Cuba. Cuesta, according™” ~~ to sources’ inside Cuba, is still in very bad shape and is confined to a Naval iospital in or near Havana. According to Cy these..sources have reported that Cuesta refuses ‘his Cuban captors in Spanish, ,qnd- speaks. only. English. It is not known if this is an act of defiance on his part or an indication that his injuries have impaired his mental faculties. CANN jrelated that Cuesta and five other members of Comandos L were engaged in performing some type . of mission inside Cuba. They approached the Cuban coast off Havana and held a position very near the Hotel Comodoro at the foot of Calle 84, Havana, Cuba. Four men departed the boat, landed on the beach and proceeded to a wooded, un- developed area ocjacent to the Hotel Comodoro;:; § which Sy Pom eeaEe wos aie Mert @ ER. / ae rt Lay cn CONFIDENTIAL oy jon, past?) ~3 Re : i. “COMES 2 tSS J LOR TI EE NW 45773 Docid:32333812 Page 2 ne ee
/ COMANDOS L located between the beach and Avenida 5. Cuesta and another Cuban remained on the boat. Two men remained in the wooded area for some unknown purpose and the other two left the wooded area near the intersection of Avenida 5 and Calle 84 on a mission within the city of Havana, U ; - Incidental,to the above, Castro had placed Havana | on the alert. Two apprentice fishermen, 15 or 16 years old, I). had been accepted into, the Cuban militia that day and a short time before the landing of the above four Cubans they had been issued their weapons. The two boys were walking on Calle 84 in a direction that carried them away from the beach. As they approached the intersection of Calle 84 and Avenida 5 ~ they observed the two members of Comandos L leave the wooded _ area and challenged them. The members of Comandos L withdrew into the woods and the boys very excitedly commenced firing their weapons into the air. This disturbance brought many Cuban soldiers into the area and the four Cubans in the wooded area were killed in the ensuing engagement. gy Y \ The,boat with Cuesta and the other Cuban was located and attacked by Cuban patrol craft and airplanes. This attack resulted in the explosion which injured Cuesta. U L EA Ne-ZLOTHER 4 continued that since Cuesta’S Capture ~ Ra FontWsaumel has taken over the leadership of Comandos _L. Inasmuch as Cuesta was in possession of plans for addi- tional opdrations against the Cuban Government, all such [4,,§ 1A); plans have been changed. Comandos L still plans, under Font, | to operate strictly within the laws of the United jstates and operate from a base outside the United States. It intends to take no action which would create international problems for the United States. All efforts will be . directed at establishing a clandestine operation from within. ub No action is planned until after the November elections ~ouba. = . CONELDENELAL NW 45773 Docid:32333812 Page 3