124-90076-10040 JF Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-90076-10040 RECORD SERIES: - HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: CR 105-66995-62 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI . FROM: MM TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 05/11/1967 ‘PAGES: 26 SUBJECTS : CARLOS OSCAR ECHEGOYEN LEON MARCOS DIAZ LANZ DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: = Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1A; 1B;1C;4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 07/06/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF CIA COMMENTS: — RPT . v9.1 HW 50953 Doctld: 3232368525 Page i Date: 5/7/2015
Zé te ut OFFICE OF GRIGIN Jf) 5 MIAMI WA wl z me OF CASE CHAN GED; REPORT MADE BY anal a ge oscakes AEGOYEN - EON, aka. RUSSELL P. CURTIS WCarlos Bohecovek Leon” va CHARACTER OF CASE arjod-Echegoyeh..Leon Vicente, Caflos-Le *Echegoyen, GIA HAS Pr faa © ~ ds ee 0. °Echegoyen, DECLASSIEAT ok aretiei®: s.Oscar Echegoyen, roads EASE QF CIA | 5 _Echegoyen, RT IS DOCUMERS. Carlos LEcheg Joyen, ERT Fed SW OF Carlos E.8. Leon; Carlos.-Leor Father-Sébastian, FathersSan Sebastian fhe G Title of this case marked changed to reflect additional aliases /) used by subject, as contained in his INS file, FBI Identification ' Record, and as developed in the course of investigation. REFERENCE: Bulet to Miami, 12/29/66; Washington Field letters to Miami, 3/16, 4/7/67 (Interoffice) ; oy New York 9 to Miami, 4/28/67 (Interoffice). 7 OO a Fat Load es ie aa _ CLASSIFISS evar apse! / DECK, AGS wry: 25X_] : Case has been: Pending echo 8 co Yes [7] No; Pending prosecution over six months [7] Yes (C] No ie APPROVED fi ; Pa CHANGE DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW (i coppef Mack. a ; E C0" F Bureau (105-66995) (RM) (RR: VO /05 Kg bb4 [= 4. 3 ~ Miami (105-1550) — See next page for other copies 16 MAY 15 1967 ‘COPTES DESTROYED Ah regress ta 4: NOV 141972 | Leawise |S HOW * Disseminction Record of Attached Report | Notations. 6°" fiw \s0953 Doctd: 32328525 “Page
MM 105-1550 a SEGRE: | —6CC 5, On May 1, 1967, IA (covert), Miami, advised SA JAMES D: ES that he had no addjtional (WOS HY 50957 -further investigation will be submitted on receipt of New information concerning subject in Miami. @=Z K Bulet, December 29, 1966, requested comments, ob= servations, and recommendations, as to further investigation. It is, therefore, respectfully submitted that results of investigation in New York area, as- requested in this report, will, to a great extent, determine the ‘future course of investigation. Therefore, recommendations as to. = York report. ~— ‘The question to be resolved is whether or not subject is presently a Cuban Intelligence Service (CIS) ; agent. A review of material in this report, and in reports | » previously submitted, would tend to show that subject could have functioned as such. Considering Cis targets, subject's activities in thé Miami area in 1959 and 1960, prior to the time he went. to New. York, are highly suspect.. He seems to. ‘ have been able to disrupt every attempt by. anti-CASTRO organi-~- zations to organize “or unify, For example, not only-did he denounce the Frente Revolucionario Democratico (FRD), as well as its leader, MANUEL ANTONEO VARONA, as a tool of the Communists, he also said he had withdrawn support of GARCIA KOHLY, SR., and _his Cuban Liberating Commandos, after associ- ating’ with-KOHLY in Washington, D. C. When questioned about individual units in’ the KOHLY organization, ECHEGOYEN said he had either withdrawn his support of .KOHLY, or that he, ECHEGOYEN, could furnish no additional information concerning each individual unit. This information was previously submitted (Qu A Havana informant identified subject as a DIER Cen (Legat, Havana, letter to Director, July 16, 1959) . a Bufile 65-63987- -~210), entitled, "FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE MATTERS = CUBA, “"jand stated DIER in 1959 actually was the Cuban military gneein igence organization rather than the intelligence division ad ‘ E. COVER PAGE_ Boctlda: 32327685275 Page 3 - ee
HY MM 105-1550 " | - SECRET : of the Cuban Air Force. It is possible that the Bureau and DIER in June, 1959, and subsequent period. has more information on this point concerning “Ghee CON - There could have been also attempts to plant information such as the information originally furnished - columnist, by subject to GEORGE TODT, Herald Express, in Los Angeles, California, May that. he, ECHEGOYEN, had received a code message from Cuba to the effect that the Cuban Government imported printing , equipment from East Germany via Czechoslovakia capable of” counterfeiting $50.00 and $100.00 bills in U. S,. currency. ~The above has been reported previously. ; kok INFORMANTS a Identity . ‘ / MM T-1 is Legat, Havana, : Legat letter to Director, 6/29/59 Ne captioned, "CARLOS_LEON ECHEGOYEN, Is - CUBA; NA" MM ‘Da2 is Legat, Havana Legat letter to Direetor, 7/16/59, ‘entitled, euBA (3 I LLIGENCE MATTERS ~ CUBA'}(&) ©» Hu) sw/"0-3 is GEORGE LESTER FREEMAN, | /South Florida Manager, Southern hea 0s 1 Ku fin foes Peat Telephone, Miami wm) T-4 islGIA_teletype to Director, FBI, 12/21/66,] entitled, "CARLOS OSCAR EGHEGOYEN LEON, IS - CUBA" F, COVER PAGE ECE REM é Location 10 | [ios-1747-r1g ROU) 10 u 10 te 5-1550-12 5-1550-12 9- 1550-101 Qa sfirosie jo 50957 BDoclda: 3232765275 Page 4 _po a
LF wane tte te MM 105-1550 f INFORMANTS - - - . CONFI ENTIAL. Lantern eet eo Identity . Location a - . " oo la T-6 is MM 492.8 \ 134~44A-113, =657 oo mT isan [302] 546 ; 97-138-1, pg. 2 | y / : “ ok ok _— The following informants ‘who formerly were in a position to know subject, advised they knéw of no ~ present pro- or anti~CASTRO activities on his part. MM 724-8, contacted by SA RUSSELL P, ‘CURTIS, January 31, 1967 (Miami 134- 409) MM 635-S, contacted by SAs CURTIS ‘and ara GEORGE E, DAVIS, JR., 1/11-12/67 (Miami 134- 211). r G,* COVER PAGE ine ‘ HY 50953 DBoctd: 32326525 Page 5