424-10302-10228 AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-10302-10228 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER:  2-1499-17 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: LEG, MX TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: 01/26/1959 PAGES: 4 SUBJECTS : FS, BKG, RES, ASSOC, TRA, ARREST, SMUGGLING, WEAPONS, PRO-CASTRO DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: Confidential ; RESTRICTIONS: 1A CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 05/22/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA COMMENTS : ~ ‘sreememneneenenean teeter ee CeCe CeCe ESSA ee eee ee ee er re ree Fansesnsesnasnsussnsnseetesenteseesteeeewreerewreerewrwerewreers v9.1 HW 50953 Docld: 3233102764 Page i JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information Date: 4/3/2015
| | | « City in the automobile and is report i Contiasnevar | Cuban, PEDRO LUIS DIAZ LANZ had requested permission to be interviewed with an attorney present and that this request had been granted, trl ne votre cls representative in Mexico City ,/furnish Owing information which he said had been“forwarded tq CIA headquarters with respect to the activities and afsociates of FRANK FI RINT 3 - | RANIPAMORINI, PEDRO LUISRDI AZAD DE Lion MBALS had arrived in Mexito City NZ and RICARDO _ on 10/27/38," after naving traveled from the Miami, Florida, area by automobile and having encountered difficulty wi i Immigration authorities upon entering Mexico. ia(@) | ey not. know their Mexican port of entry but state a ' had been in Monterrey; therefore, he concluded ‘that they had; crossed the border at Brownsville or’ Laredo, and that they must have entered Mexico 10/24,25 or 16/26/68: Follow- ing 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 Mexigo City by air enroute to San Francisco, California, ed. Meanwhile, on 11/4/58, FIORINI departed from Mexico uy met DIAZ LANZ M4. and DE LA LORIE at Yuna, Arizona, AN . On 11/8/58, they are reported to h en at the, ah | Highway House Motel at Phoenix, Arizona, | US'S “peti eved Ce that from Phoenix they proceeded to King ; na, where <¢ U.S. Government surplus and which was purchased and registered in FIORINI's name, even though it is presumed | they made the purchase of a C-46 airplane’ which had been | that the funds were provided by the two Cubans. From Phoenix, Arizona, the group flew the airplane - | to Veracruz a apulco, Mexico, before proceeding to | | | t 1 Apatzingan. Ker pressed the belief that some member of the C Oup May have advised Mexican military authorities regarding 4 truckload of arms and the airplane. He added tha the best of his knowledge, after being detained fo eturned to “them. tA Me PRas os ~ , AN 7 ? t A Pa een en ay ae! \ oD ox Nee - ee . noe . ce HY 50953 DBoctd: 3231027684 Page 2? veral days. bjects and . | the airplane were released; however — "yas not. P(e) certain as to whether or not the arms-were cette tae enna . mermee guna ngniaet «aes eRe eee ~
, oN, ~ wo a . a 7 : Ee a : Confident {al (07 ' Ci that from 10/27/58 until 11/4/58, | FIORINI Stered at the Bel Sol Apartments in Mexico City and gave his U. S. address as being 422 Glen Ridge 5. qnoad, Key Biscayne, Florida, He also was registered at the Hotel Statler in Mexico City and gave his U.S. address eas bein 10 N.E. Eigth Street, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, \\ ated that ecent newspaper article in the Mexico ernoon paper, "Ultimas Noticias" had published a photograph of FRANK FIORINI standing on some of the graves Bs of BATISTA followers who had been executed by the triumphant | FIDEL CASTRO RUZ revolutionaries, Ku ated that CIA sources had advised that who spoke only broken Spanish and with what appeared to be an Italian accent. fou Inquiry at the Office of the Federal Attorney ; General, Mexico, D. F., developed information to the effect that all investigation in this case was conducted by the osecutive and judicial authorities at Morelia, Michoacan, [ia view of the fact that investigative informants of this orifice have considerable difficuity in checking official records in the State of Michoacan, any effort to take this action has been delayed until it is possible for this investigation to be conducted by personnel of this office or an investigative informant who has adequate credentials for that purpose. | pea) From the foregoing data concerning FIORINI, it appears that he is probably identical with subject FRANK ANTHONY STURGIS. It also appears possible, in view of FIORINI's reported presence in Cuba, the question of his identity may already have been fully clarified, LEAD Ye AT MEXTCO, D. F. AND MORELIA, MICHOACAN | MEXICO CITY Will explore the possibilities of obtaining the | results of interviews of FIORINI by Mexican authorities and ; any information which can be obtained concerning the outcome | of the arrest of FIORINI and the group of Cubans. HY 50953 DBoctd: 3231027684 Page 3 FIORINI o be a "New York Italian gangster type"