JFK Assassination System ’ Date: 4/29/201 Identification Form Agency Information ; Released under the John Kennedy WKssassination Records AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-90107-10081 oOllection Act of 1992 (44 U5¢ 2107 Note). = . ase#:NW 56629 Date: AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 105-117222-91 132018 eee i Document Information _ RECORD SERIES: HQ ORIGINATOR: U.S. COAST GUARD - FROM: USCG .'. TO: TITLE: . DATE: 03/29/1963 PAGES: 2 SUBJECTS : JOHN THOMAS DUNKIN [Restricted] DOCUMENT TYPE: - PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Confidential RESTRICTIONS: — Consulted CURRENT STATUS: = Withhold DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 08/03/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF USCG COMMENTS : MEMO, REFERRED TO USCG v9.1 HW 56629 DoclId: 32333496 Page 1
on “pastcgidecei ie bho PEDRO C Lat ete ee. - -. report concerns this raid ‘<) eontained in reference (a). " TREASURY DEPARTMENT cee _ UNITED. STATES COAST GUARD - re m ADDRESS REPLY TO: _ . COMMANDER : Fea COAST GUARD DISTRICT ; : \ 5) an a ee ae _~ . > Serial 05498. 180 S.E. THIRD AVE. | "MIAMI 32, FLA. - Or an Commander, Seventh Coast Guard District. AL menu Commandant (OIN) . ae Fis BY Raia, 27. March 1 19633 ; information ‘concerning - Ref: - (a) COMDP (OIN) tr A8-2 of 16 Jan 1963 (b) CCGD7 OPORDER 18-62, Annex A On 27 March 1963 a raid was reportedly carried out by Cuban exiles: : ; ainst a Russian vessel in the port of Caibarien, Cuba. This letter .= and is submitted pursuant to instructions - Enclosures (@) and (2) are news. coverage | ainst Seventh coast Guard District “Intelligence files and revealed that through the collection program . prescribed in reference (b), one vessel, the ALISAN, could be suspected | at being involved based upon the following coincidences: “News reports were checked ag - News = Port was Caibarien, approximately, 65 miles from SW I Cay “Sal Banke . _ : Keypat sources = The ALISAN was sighted at an “unnamed cay at 23-4N 29 “Law on 23, 24 and probably 25 March. ee — “be News = Rubber liferaft used to move explosives: to Russian vessel; Keypat Photos = Rubber liferaft streamed astern of ALISAN. ‘ c. News - American Photographers were aboard. | Keypat Photos = ALISAN. had at least one photographer aboard. 7 de Fragmentary notes in. our files indicated the ALISAN was engaged “in covert activities in the Florida Straits area in the past. ‘ 6» The boats with the ALISAN in the enclosed photos are not the te “ usually used by a F/V in innocent fishing. 36 On 28 March. 1963 s/A Peter J. Nero (FBI No. 3685) and S/A James J. O8Connor (FBI No. 4337) after properly identifying themselves indicated that the Miami Office, FBI had received an urgent priority request from~ the Attorney General to obtain any and all information possible concerning © _ this incident. - Copies of. the KeyPat Photos (enclosure 3 to this roport) “nel @ 5 301-0008-63 a DOWNGRADED AT 12 YEAR 456829 _ INTERVALS; NOT AUTOMATICALLY ~ _ DECLASSIFIED. ‘BOD-OIR 5200. 10. 6 - Docld: 323334968 Page 2?
-CCGD7 ‘(o-8) ltr Ser. 05198 of 29 Mar 1963 were furnished them and the coincidences noted by this office (see para-.f graph 2 above) were brought to their attention. The above named special ©: agents requested, and were furnished, the names of the aircrewmen and pilots of the KeyPat flights for 23, 2 and 25 March. They indicated that '4t may be necessary, if the ALISAN was in fact involved, to have. the air- . crews testify as to the “ALISAN's position when sighted by their patrol. | 7 he “Enclosure (:) is a chartlet. depicting sightings reported by KeyPat .. Collection Program prescribed in reference (o) for the Period 20 through 26 March 1963. — > eA, . 5. In addition . to ngintaining liaison with ‘FBI in: their investigation ‘of the raid incident as discussed. above, copies of photos ‘(enclosure 3)’ were cpassed locally to CIA Miami, G. D. CLIZBE By direction - nel: (1) Miami News Clipping dated 3/27/63 ~~.“ " (2) Miami Herald News Clipping dated. GS) ‘Copies of KeyPat Photos - ‘3 “ (4) Chartlet depicting sightings réported Keytat Collection. ‘Program: «DOWNGRADED AT 12 YEAR. i “INTERVALS; NOT AUTOMATICALLY wy _ DECLASSIFIED. DOD DIR: 9200. 10. con elas | & 30. os 63 } \ \ - nw 56829 DoclId: 32333496 Page 3