424-10101-10003) AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: _ 124-10101-10003 RECORD SERIES: HQ “AGENCY FILE NUMBER: °44-24016-1ST NR 2156 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: WANNALL, W.R. TO: SULLIVAN, W.C. TITLE: DATE: 04/11/1967 PAGES: 2 SUBJECT: EVANS, JOHN, ATTENBOROUGH, TORBOUR, ALLEGED PLOT TO OVERTHROW GOVERNMENT OF JAMAICA PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT DOCUMENT TYPE: * ORIGINAL Secret | NEW CLASSIFICATION: — CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: — 09/24/1997 UPDATE DATE: 01/23/2001 _. STATUS Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (1)(B) COMMENTS: HY 50953 Doctd: 32153465 Page i
©. ONAL FORM NO. 10 5010-106 a UNITED ' STATES coy \NMENT 2 Lhe f a - . : . i: cédber Memorandum — | cal Felt Gale TO °: Me. W. C. Sullivda . “DATE: April 11, 1967 posen ; i - Mr. C. D. DeLoach | fovei fae 9 Pa’ * . 7 totter —_ FROM : WW. OR Wannall ng ae, : — v. C. sult Hcinee . Ys ° ee ~ Mr. We. C., Sullivan folnes ——— om / i= Mr. R. Ey Dons : 70 ed 1 - Mr. W. BeEC TORN SuBjECP: JOHN EVANS, also known as l- Mr. A. LIOREOASIC-TOW DER lai" Torbour-Attenborough © PF RELEASE CF CANE RRAAATION a =e (iNTERNAL SECURITY =< Sanarca | gy HN THIS RE Si SECRET, cxceyy /2\% ee ThiS 0G FE: ! & 8]: : Subject, now in Jamaica and possibly mentally ; SIS | deranged, claims to be planning revolution to overthrow he! Vm ) government of Jamaica with assistance of unidentified ; co on C -} United States "syndicate" and help from Communist Cuba. sf me NL Jin £4 "We are initiating investigation into his activities while f \oune 8S 4 the was in the United States, 1953-1966, for benefit of oe) 2G | samaican police, For information UA S| Seem . ' = gee entral Intelligence AgeYicy (CIA) has been as Arp advised by Evans, @ Negro Jamaican national, was picked up ea in small boat between Jamaica and Cuba, lest and out of fuel 'and food, in September, 1966. He claimed to be in the process of attempting to rendezvous with unidentified Cubans 3h with whom he planned to travel to Cuba to collect funds to be used in the overthrow of the Jamaican Government. Such funds were to be used to send organized groups of Jamaicans | to Cuba for training for this purpose, Evans claimed to be working with a "syndicate" in the United States which is , ;to finance a communist revolution in Jamaica. He ciaimed ty ithis is the sack-huby to kill which in the United States , SN | inad caused Jack Ruby to kill Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin m2) of President “Kennedy. Evans further claimed to be enlisting. AL aid of Jamaican criminal element to organize an extortion racket to shake down some 100 off-track betting shops in Jamaica, proceeds from which were to be u of an neyourion GB) . Evans claims to be a film director, abeanebEsED So the United States where he lived from 1953 tolIPReR 1 apygzican police found evidence he had lived in New York City undér 4°R 14 1967 7 an alias and entered Jamaica in September, 1966, _ using false .. ae documentation, He maintained he had engaged in civil rights. man activities while in the United States. His German-born wife “ oe and child reportedly lived in Binghamton, New York, until —. January, 1967, when they joined him in Jamaica. Investigation to date by Jamaican authorities has failed to substantiate | ‘ ; any of Evans' claims and hig true idegtity is still in doubt, AHS:rwf / ee . (7) we Ee cinesilication £{NUED ~ OVER “84 APR 241967 | ified oN Nd A, i) g ALL IfFORMATIO “ORIGINAL FILED IN /#@S7 =< cats HY 50953 DBoctd:327153465 Page 2?
HY 50957 / ; yx aa | 7 Memorandum to Mr. W. C. Sulliven Re - JOEN EVANS SECRET) information furnished concerning Evans indicates ne may well be mentally unba Laticed: Despite this, his Claimed connection with a United States "syndicate" which caused Ruby to kiil Oswaid and his alleged major involve- ment in a plan to overthrow the Jamaican Government with Cuban and "syndicate" assistance along with his indicated i3-year residence in the United States dictate that we conduct investigation in, effort to determine his activities while in this country, [cra intends to pass to pertinent results of our [ ns (>) oo Swen Bureau files contain no information identifiable ith Evans. By separate letter, New York and Albany being inst ructed to initiate investigation. Other offices covering v ns¢ Claimed United States residences instructed to review [heir files and police and credit records Pertinent resuits appropriately cleared for passage to ill be furnished to CIA (For relay to 3 m1 coos ACTION: None. For information. / a . a ee ; ; ff pe ww A C oA YP ift 7 G BDoctlda: 327153465 Page 3