a FE eres coy" NMENT 3 We an ne ) ~ Memoranaum ON Niro. ot | . DIRECTOR, FBI (62- 107264) . DATE: Nov 17 7 1984 oh ae ahsgn Sane peste cede ee Stamey see Se "sac, 1 MIAMI (205-4921) (P) ae Troe “MINUTE? EN" oo . on peers low’ Viede YY fo. 0 She's INFORMATION CONCERNING _ (PD. bers — gf ne SN | CINTERNAL SECURITY) | tf i . . JOS = Lo tdg Cav b lant} fi S cn “ReButel 11/4/64 and Miami ‘tel to: Bureau 11/7/64. aN: ~ \ Enclosed are 13 copies of a ‘letterhead memorandum ok oe SRW dated and captioned as above. An extra copy is. being pro- a | Vy vi. vided ‘to, the Bureau for Secret Service, Washington, D. C. i SY WX Copies are being disseminated locally to CIA, U. S. Secret ne sis Service, ONI, G-2, OSI, Office of Cuban Affairs, tate ~.. a8 - SR r ‘Department, and INS. _ , a cuastgey BY ssi focu{ a c vw 2 MMT 1 is[cra, Miami.) ac Ma T- 2 is MM 535-58. a oe a Boe - For the information of the Bureau and Oki: 2s0oma N City, 1 ‘the following is su omitted. RIGINAL ; - On November 2, 5 and 6, ig64, »M 635-8, whi@ys as been a long-time friend of both MARCOS and PEDRO "DIA LANZ, brothers, both, exiled in the United States, reporte that pF RAIN} LORENZO} CABREI RA, @ Venezuelan. ‘employee. of..Ransa Air- ines, who resides ‘in Miamifihad requested Mi $35-S to place nim in touch with some arms dealer who could supply scme ‘supporters of former Venezuelan President PEREZ JIMENZA with 4 lweapons.. Consequently, on October 29, 1964, MM 635-S intro~ % 4 ™.. jduced CABRERA to MARCOS DIAZ LANZ, who had previously ais- “ pclosed to MM 635-S that ie could 1 Supply weapons from outside(y) Bee ‘penel. G/ KB Os SURE £01 i- yfOS- 7 A 72630 ft. Bureau (Enc- 13 Fal 3 OT RECORDED .2 - Oklahoma City (Enc-2)(RM) — p mf n ~ Miami (1 - 105-4921) - . ReCBROV ari96d a Yo a . . Eg Lied enaenrvetenntte maaiar mien ge erento, me | or - 134-1050, EFRAIN CABRERA) . 10 “4 oo (1-- 134- 211-Sub A, MM 635-58) ° CHL bj o era : | Vo (1 = 105-1598, MARCOS and PEDRO DIAZ nase) DECU thane TION. | \ 4 (Ck = 66- 2586) ob), BEL EASE 2E ¢ y/ JNEORMA - AGED: S11 a yOyAeesT 3 Ae s 5 neve fz eee Ens seen iN is 6 a a0 4 ee 5 y, 5S +3 \ee | 7, ta of ser Buy U. s. Sige Bonds Regular on soy ayyoll Se Plan - a ae COCONAT 2 feet Ee er CBS ton Oy (fos taal fap ZEFR AV ray A 4 SERS oe CAE Seb aA oo. bet | HW 54460 Docld:323062766 Page 2?
MM 105-4921 “of the Miami area. When MM Gr 5-8 introduced CABRERA to. -DIAZ LANZ, the latter told CABRERA that his name was - GARCIA, ((rne CIA source knew DIAZ LANZ as PEDRO GARCIA. on CIA, in Its memorandum of 11/4/64, stated that CIA had is been able to identify GARCIA as MARCOS JOSE DIAZ LANZ, dG a DIAZ, in the presence of MM 635-S, told CABRERA - sane he could supply weapons and CABRERA expressed interest in i ey wu fe gen a Sizeable purchase, indicating that he wanted to... eg * furnish them to some political followers of former eg Venezuelan President PEREZ JIMENEZ, who is now in prison: oe ‘in Venezuela. Informant said that during this meeting, . DIAZ expressed the opinion that if "LBJ" became President, i. the United States would go communist and he remarked that ‘there existed some secret organizations, such as the i. "Minutemen," who would fight to the end and that in his . 7 . Opinion, there could be a military coup. DIAZ mentioned — : - some place, not in Florida, where the "Minutemen" are _ Teportedly organized, At no time, however, Sid DIAZ state © _ that. he is a member of the "Minutemen" or that he had sold ..,-arms to them. Also, DIAZ did not say that the "Minutemen" ~< \:. one plan an armed insurrection against the United States aovern= ©. ment, He claimed, however, that his brother, PEDO, had , . Some connections with groups of this sort but did not ", Specifically mention the "Minutemen." Also, he did sot Claim. the existence of any "Minutemen" military Cami Florida. Gl oe MM T- Las of “the opinion that[Draz probabiy had . subsequent meetings with CABRERA but. informant does not know what, if anything, transpired during these nectings ]h€ - Miami telephonically inquire oncerning background infor- -~. -mation on MM 635-S, under ‘his true name, and reques‘t< > Gdentity of rag sine who had been arrested with the mid-1950's Since it was known that MARCOS Dis “had been arrested with informant during that pe GE Re . was furnished with the name of MARCOS DTAZ LANZ nds back- ground information on informant, without disclosing hi i celationship with this office. It therefore appeay thet 3 gtA's source is undoubtedly EFRAIN LORENZO CABRERALKvho 4 7 Known to. this office but not regarded as being comoletely » reliable. He has been contacted concerning FALN : civities ‘ in Venezuela. He is a former chauffeur and bodygus:d to PEREZ -SEMENEZ ” when the Jatter was exiled in Miami. ay i { \ | | 7H eed u) oa On November 3, 1964 Dir. JOE VIDAL, CIA iiaison, ..\. re ne | \ HW 54460 Docld:323062766 Page 3
MM 049212) oe On Nove Siu? 1964, Miami conta ted{iaay OIS tA) eS “OTA, Covert, Miami oxrger to interview|[CIA source rs t racer “to Bureau instruc ions. (DUBOIS felt that interview of their ., Source by the FBI at this time would compromise that source “ yelative to another facet of importante to CIA, Miami. . He “. indicated. that this addi tionas Sana rélated to an arms . transaction involving Venezuela his office did not insist. Ba . upon interviewing [their sourcehLin view of the vulnerable — ‘position of MM 635-S, it bein edifthat only three indi- , viduals were present during the first conference between “MARCOS DIAZ, CABRERA and Miami informant. (ir. DUBOIS .agreed -- When the suggestion was made that interview of MARCOS DIAZ =... | -, by the FBI based upon the newspaper article mentioned in the® ; source RAY) memorandum would not Jeopardize CIA = co one a ena Sageny memetateye pen cee jesse : source. it ne This memorandum is classified "Secret" beca “<eontains information which was so classified by}CIA.. <j Fe ey eres | -LEAD- EN “7° OKLAHOMA CITY ee err e . AT TULSA, OKLAHOMA -DIAZ LANZ, . 2 time iecturer> us viedge he may - preparations of bil Will locate and interview PEDRO LUIS = 5437 North Johnstown Avenue, who is now a 2 .. for the Christian Crusade, concerning any kx _.°. possess relative to the "Minutemen" and any i FB | \- that organization for an.armed insurrection in the event of 0. oly 3 ~: President JOHNSON's election; also, concerning the exi Stence ed “2+ Of any military training camps or: organizations of ths. an “group in ‘Florida or elsewhere. (y) oe ay - . ; - It is to be noted that: “PEDRO LUIS DIAZ LANZ has .:-been the subject of investigation by the Miami Office since “2 1959 relative to his anti-CASTRO revolutionary activities. '” He has also cooperated with this office on many occasions . and is personally known to SA GEORGE E, DAVIS, JR., who “interviewed his brother, MARCOS, in this matter. Miami ‘informant has reported in the past that PEDRO DIAZ has — attended some meetings of the John Birch Society. in ne (i) HW 54460 Docld:323062766 Page 4
oe cia HAS NO we Care a! DECO Regett ce Sullivan tS Tau fark Trotter (CAIRGRAM 0 CABLEGRA AA cKTELETYPE nm on i208 Au) EST URGENT 1-7-6), PUR T@ DIRECTOR FROM MIAME 060200 cLass\ryeD ~ DECLA sINUTEWEN, INFO congeanin& SiS tse. sor oN ‘NOVEMBER 2, 5 AND 6, MM. 635-8, WHO HAS TIME FRIEND OF MARCOS DIAZ La FORMES BUTEL NOVEMBER hy 1961. 4, NOR.JHAT HE HAD SOLO ARMS i THEM. THE Bil UTEMEN PLAN AN ARMED. INSURREC wed Lt FB had OLATHE THAT HTS-BROTHERTF FORCE MAJOR PEDRO LUIS 9,210 4) ; VISED AS routers: TT TR RANSA AIRLINE WHO . HIM TM TOUCH WITH SUPPORTERS OF FORMER EL ON OGTOBER 23, NEORMANT. NTR i CABRERA HIS NAM ~ AIMED TO CABRE ERA ESSED INTEREST | IMEETs, DIAZ ALSO EXPRESSED LSU" BECAME PRESIDENT, U.S. V REMARKED THERE EXISTED SOME SE i 1 NUT EMENT ae WOULD FIGHT TO THE END. THAT [HAD SEEN RECEIVING TRAINING, AND THAT {N HIS OP | SHOULD BE A MILITARY CORPS, DIAZ MENTIONED Some FIN FLORIDA WHERE THE NINUTENEN ARE REPORTEDLY CID NOT STATE, HOWEVER, THAT HE 1S MEMBER OF MINUTEMEN a nian GOVERI. ee 7 | pe NOT Sar teroRDED a oor Nov, 20 1964 x i mf | Sy, Booms ° a i . SY ‘yf the intelligence contained in ‘the above message is to.be disseminated cutside! hoe \ paraphrased in order. to pr rotect the Bureau’ s cryptographic systems. HW 54460 Docld:323062766 Page 5
7 2 su 2 Bs) = — Ss PAGE TWO. MIAMI “060200 WiTH GROUPS OF THIS SORT. DIAZ DID NOT MENTI ~MEN MELITARY CAMPS [8 FLORIDA, INFORMANT ‘HAS HAD SUBSEQUENT MEETINGS WITH CABRERA, KNOW RESULTS OF SAME. . . ON ANY MINUTE} q BUT HE DOES NOT C7) sore ICALLY INQUIRED RE BA HIS TRUE NAME AND IDENTITY IN MID 4950'S, THIS OFFICE WAS ARRESTED ITH MM [That iars. MuNTESTED SOURCE" 18 Sepa 'TO THIS OFFICE NOT REGARDED AS CG MEAN) “coe ven(e1s MEMO Local DATED TITLED “FANNED INSURRECTION OF OF cusAN cave @ié 64568 1950'S Ee WAS ¥ Se GF MARCOS can 1S Le | LE Y Beh Q MINUTEMEN ON NOVEMBER 5, MIAM) wee DUBOIS, IDENTITY Gia SOURCE YRDER sTRUCTIONS. (DUBOIS FELT THAT FRY AT THiS TIME WOULD. ANOTHER FACET OF IMPORT SIST IN VIEW OF 3 i AGREED THAT INTERV LEW RCOS DIAZ BY FRE SASsO UPON AN. ARTIGLE ENTITLED "MINUTEMEN URGE SOCIETY To GET OUNS - BIRCHERS DISOWN TO ARMS TRACT - WHICH APPEARED NOVEMBER 5 - IN MIAMI HERALD, WOULD JEOPARDIZE CIA SOURCE, AS ao DIAZ 1S KNOWN BY THIS OFFICE 0 HAVE OCHATION WITH JOHN BIRCH sores SOW) N NOVEMBER 6 MARCOS LIAZ LANZ UPON THIS PREDICATION, AF INTERV! iE WwW PUR = > 7 mr — ») “yee POSITION OF x oP) m © WAS INT & TER MARCOS HAL ADVISED CKGROUND INFORMATION ON MM 635-3 UNDER BELIEVES THAT DIAZ ARRESTED | Tolson Belmont — Mokr DeLoach Evans Gale en Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trottar — Tele. Room Holmes Gendy ee ON NOVEMBER 3, (208 VIDAL, ci Liaison, staid YECEPHON- WHO vee una ‘+ If the intelligence contained in the above message is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably parawerased in order to protect the Bureau’ 8 cryptog graph: c systems. HW 54460 Docld:323082765 Page 6 Helene & 4 po UST ee. cet Sd ned wntn tgedy eae Sates eects ean
* tw 1-c (Rey: £9-5-64) - = CUAIRGRAM COCABLEGRAM ORADIO TELETYPE [es ANGLIA ST NEE TED ff the intelligence contained in the abe WEAPONS TN VARIOUS - PROGRAM WAS AN ATTEMP ANY MINUTEMEN AND KNOWS . NO PLANS FOR AN & ee MATION UNTIL RECEIPT MiAM! LHM AS MM 6% ue POSITION. oe Mohr RelLouch Casper Conrad . Evens Sullivan COTO OT cen Gale Rosen Tovel ou PREC ene Holmes Gundy ee PAGE THREE “MM AN 060200 “THAT HIS BROTHER PEDRO HAS MOVED TO TULSA, OKLAHOMA WHERE HE 1S WORKING FULL TIME FOR THE CHRISTIAN CRUSADE. MARCOS ADVISED THAT NEITHER HE NOR PEDRO ARE OR EVER HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF MINUTEMEN, HE DISCLAIMED ANY PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF ANY MINUTEMEN GROUPS IN MIAMI OR ELSEWHERE IN FLORIDA OR ANY OTHER SPECIFIC PLACE. HE CLAIMED HIS KNOWLEDGE . OF MINUTEMEN 1S BASED UPON NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES WHICH HAVE RELATED THAT THE MINUTEWEN ARE T@AINING “WITH ARTS OF THE U.S, 3 ALSO SAW A T P ao TELEVISION PROGRAM LAST WEEK WHICH RELATED 1o WHE DOWNFALL SI r OF AN ORGANIZATION i FELT THIS ANE ZATION WHICH COUALNTED WITH MEO INSURRECTION, HE EXPRESSED HIMSELF AS AVORING MORE AGGRESSive ACTION . AGAINST Col SM AND AE CASTRO REGIME. MARCOS ADVISED THAT HE 1S NOW A Si fsESMAN OF CROP DUSTING PLANES AND REPRESENTS IMCO, INC., OF AFTON, WYOMING, WHICH MANUFACTURE S SAME. MIAN! SUGGESTS THAT BUREAU NOT DISSEMINATE ABOVE INFOR-=. S5e3 VS EN VULNERABLE AR TO THE MINUTER a 7 TO DISCREDIT ANY ORG OPPRESSES SOCIALISM. “MARCOS SAID HE iS NO UnuiN riM FOLLOWS » RECEIVED: 5:21AM DWM paraphrased in order to protect the Burcau’s ¢ Lagraphic systems. HW 54460 ig to be disseminated. outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably DoclId: 3230827668 Page 7