DATE: . PAGES: DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : ‘DATE OF LAST REVIEW : COMMENTS : v9.1 HW 54463 DBocld:323276623 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: SUBJECTS : OPENING CRITERIA : JFK Assassination System Date: Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-90055-10215 HQ CR 97-3158-1 Document Information FBI Peleased under the John MM Kennedy HQ WSsassination Records Ollection Act of 1992 [44 U5S¢ 2107 Note). ase#: Nl 54463 Date: nWO-12-2017 04/08/1954 25 ANTONIO DE VARONA EMILIO LAUREANO OCHOA OCHOA PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 06/08/1998 INDEFINITE . RPT 20 Page 1 4/29/201
HW 54463 Eleven copies of this report are being desig- nated for the Bureau inasmuch as it is felt the Bureau may desire to designate. copies of this report to various Intelligence Agencies. 7 Copies of this report are being designated for New York for information purposes in view of the relationship between OCHOA and CARLOS PRIO. Copies of this report are’not being designated for the U.S. Customs at Miami at the present. time in view ~ of PENA's previous employment as U.S. Customs Agent. It has been ascertained he is well known to U.S. Customs, Miami, and it is felt that such distribution might possibly jeopardize the security of the principal in- formant, JAMES De MAR, in this case.It has been dé~ © termined that PENA visits the local office of U.S. Customs once or twice a week ,on an average. The information furnished directly by PENA to SAC POWERS and SA DAVIS, as set forth in this report, was submitted when PENA called at the Miami Office to furnish information concerning a report he had received from SILVIO PIZZARELLO de HELMSBURG of Mexico City, rela- tive to alleged Soviet espionage in the American Embassy, Mexico City. This information was furnished to the Bureau by Miami letters dated 11/18 and 12/8/53, in the case entitled "SILVIO PIZZARELLO de HELMSBURG +, INFORMATION CONCERNING - FOREIGN POLITICAL maTTER". OX(a) With further regard to SALVADOR PENA, files of the Miami Office reflect that as of May 9, 1944, he was cancelled as a Confidential National Defense Informant MF-39 of this office, at which tinie he was with the U.S. Treasury Department, Room 208, Horton Building, Havana, Cuba. The file disclosed that he was not a paid informant and was believed to’ be reliable... The file. did not dis- close that he had been actively furnishing information. (wae) Another file disclosed that in 1941, PENA, . So while serving as U.S. Treasury representative, Havana, reported information concerning radio operator of the aQ SS AMERICA who had been in contact with two cooks on a (¥) : (u Docld: 323276623 Page 2?
ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE German ship, On February 13, 1941, while serving as a Special Employee, U.S. Customs Service, Treasury Department, he wrote a letter to this office furnishing. information con- cerning some stolen securities. (W/m) Information has been informally received by Agent DAVIS from several members of the U.S. Customs Service, Miami, that PENA, now retired from U.S. Customs Service, had performed some excellent work cor U. Customs in New York City, Cuba and elsewhere, put ‘that his present activities with Cuban exiles in “ttami are frowned upon by U.S,.Customs, although, to date, they have apparently received no evidence that he has been violating any laws over which they have jurisdiction. , IDENTITY OF TNFORMANTS va IDENTITY DATE OF ACTIVITY — AGENT TO FILE NO. » OF &/OR DESCRIPTION DATE WHOM WHERE 2OURCR OR INFO RECEIVED =FURNTSHED LOCATED T-1,JAMES  3/2,5,8,16,18, 3/2/54 GEORGE B. Instant De MAR , L701 22, 2b/b1, DAVIS — Case NW 87. 36. employed by Mult i.graph Service Agency, Miami T-2, CS MM. , 3/18/54 Ho at 1922S | T. ~ MM. njgeo 1/26/5h Hl i" T- “4, IC. McKee 3/18/54 i 4 Bank, Miamd , Fla. T-5,MARIO REYNOLDS 8/53 — 6/27/53 DAVIS & 2-165- MARTINEZ, partner MM. JETT 968 of Continental Communications of Pla. T~ ‘M04-510- SH 1/8/54 GEORGE E. Instant * € ) . DAVIS case 1, ces ce . 1/12/54 8 " on ao I ; ~ . ee HW 54463 Docld:323276623 Page 3