JFK Assassination System Date: 5/27/201 Identification Form © Agency Information AGENCY: FBI “RECORD NUMBER: _ 124-90145-10020 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: — 105-116159-17 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: NO TO: HQ TITLE: Peleased under the John , Kennedy Assassination Records Ollection Act of 1992 ; (44 USC 2107 Note). Pees. 1988 Pase#: NW 54464 Date: . nO-1i10-201i17 SUBJECTS : CELSO HERNANDEZ CELSO MACARIO HERNANDEZ DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 01/26/1999 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : RPT v9.1 i HW 54464 Docld: 32339164 “Page 1 j SS CC
wt casey, wratroe) ; aS. a ‘ Lg PUIG OT UN=“ED STATES DEPARTMENT OF \_)STICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVEST IGATION rant i): bik Copy to: 1-INS, NEW ORLEANS | ‘1-INS, MIAMI | _ Report oft |. $A. RICHARD.E.. LOGAN Office: . NEW ORLEANS Date: 2/7/64 - 3 File Number: NO 105-2070 Bufile; 105-166159 Tile: (CELSO MACARIO HERNANDEZ MACHADO . “ pais 4 wea va Ot od Characters INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA OREN 1S U ) SHED bf Synopsis: A photograph Of CELSO MACARIO. HERNANDEZ MACHADO was exhibited to FELIPE ALONSO at Miami, and to SARA ARRIZURIETA of Hialeah, Fla., both of whom positively stated that. HERNANDEZ MACHADO is not identical-with CELSO SALVADOR HERNANDEZ MEDINA ‘ERNESTO ARRIZURIETA FERNANDEZ was interviewed at New York ang “he advised although the photograph of subject HERNANDEZ MACHADO ‘was a perfect likeness of. what CELSO HERNANDEZ looked like at the time the picture was taken, he realized he could have mistaken the photograph as being that of a person [he sawing - {Opa Locka, Florida, since the photograph was taken a few years ‘ago. JULIO BRINGUIER advised that HERNANDEZ MACHADO told him he was never connected with a bus company, nor did he ever. drive a bus in Cuba or anywhere else.’ Ce wag Jie ‘DETAILS: ~ at cone A TWED Seager cre EXCEPT : ae f ‘ . BT on October 31,1963, SARA XRRIZURIETA, 129 West | mony 8th Street, Hialeah, Florida,Stated- he was formerly employed | a by. the same bus company in Havana as was CELSO SALVADOR _ 1° HERNANDEZ MEDINA. She advised she arrived in the United _ me States on January 25, 1963, and that during the entire year agen of 1962 she had been“an “emp1< I 6) oyge of the ,Allied Bugs Cooperative in Havana, Citbas-aS was CELSO SALVADO bf ‘ANDEZWEDINA.. She stated she had/seen HERNANDEZ'M DINA‘-in Havana 4p January ; 1963, just prior to her departure in for the United States. She further advised that HERNANDEZ MEDINA 15 a much younger ian than the individual in the photograph. 4 fo oral . ncn SATE Tt, . 2: 38 : i owan™ This document contains nelther recommendations nor conclusions of any, kind. It is the property of the FBI, and Is a loan to your agency, : It and/or its contents are not tojbe distributed outside your agency. 16—-74025-1 GPO aa PP : |W 54464 Docld:32339164 Page 2
NO 105-2070/mh Lh bee . On October & 1963, FELIPE: toargs 836 S.W. First Street, Miami, , étatea most emp atica ne | ‘individual in the~ otograph, who was- “CELSO-MACARIO™ HERNANDEZ MACHADO,’ was not. identical with CELSO: SALVADOR. HERNANDEZ MEDINA. . He stated-that—he had been ‘acquainted — with HERNANDEZ MEDINA since 1948 and’ had worked with hin. ‘for a number of years as a. fellow employee at the Allied - Bus Cooperative in Havana, and was certain that CELSO. SALVADOR HERNANDEZ MEDINA and CELSO MACARIO HERNANDEZ ‘MACHADO are not one and the same individual.. He also advised HERNANDEZ MEDINA is a much younger man than HERNANDEZ MACHADO, It ‘should be noted that the names ‘of the. two -- individuals are different as well as their. general back- /ground. . Another indication they are not one and the same individual is the difference: in age. 467 State Street, Brooklyn, New York.,.. Was interviewed ee at: his~place of employment as é€levator operator at 39 West 67th Street, New York City. He furnished the following information: When he first came to the U.S. in 1962, he personally saw an individual at Opa=-Locka, Elorida, in August, 1962,known to him as CELSO HERNANDEZ. - He .knew -no other name of this individual. He knew this individual to be a Communist. who had joined the Oxcthodox Parity in Cuba and that he was employed by the Allied Base Syndicate “BE” a driver in Cuba. He also knéw that this individual had a son studying in Russia. He described this individual - as being approximately 42 years of age, 5°5", 185 pounds, . black wavy hair, black mustache and constant "smoker of cigars. He has since received letters from friends of his in Cuba informing him that this person whom he saw in Opa- . Locka, Florida, in August, 1962, is presently in. Cuba and. SNe I HW 54464 Docld:32339164 Page 3 On December 18, 1963, ERNESTOYARRIZURIETA FERNANDEZ,