124-10226-10290 JFK Assassination System . Date: 4/3/2015 _ Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-10226-10290 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER:  2-1499-139 . Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: DIRECTOR, FBI ' TO: TITLE: DATE: 05/13/1968 PAGES: 43 SUBJECTS : FS, CORRELATION SUMMARY, AKA, SEE REFERENCES, ASSOC, MRR, MIRR, ANTI-CASTRO ORGANIZATIONS DOCUMENT TYPE: . PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT: CLASSIFICATION: — Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C;4 CURRENT STATUS: = Redact _ DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 10/14/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF CIA COMMENTS : v9.1 HW 50953 DBocld: 32300010 Page i
| RW ve 2 . . . ‘ ye aan * co omnt > et . | 5 - - \ : . . ! R i : ye - a rd Z as . Newt * ° : p iat a ° The synopsis of Miamti"report dated 8/5/58, captioned “July 26 Revolutionary Movement, Miami“ (97-3244) set out Frank Anthony Fiorini as one of the leading members of the action group within that — Movement. Details of the report failed to substantiate this information in that the name of Frank Anthony Fiorini was not mentioned in the information therein pertaining to these members; however, information was included indicating that Frank Anthony Fachetti was a member of this July 26 Action Group. On 4/28/58, MM 639-S advised that Gabriel Navarette of _ 2160 S.W. 4th Street, Miami, was engaged in the purchase and transporta- tion of guns for the July 26 Action Group and that an erican named Frank (lmu) was living with Navarette at that address WOR On 4/29/58, MM 639-S advised that Frank Fachetti, about 23 or 24 years of age, 6' tall, black hair, dark complexion, Italian extraction, and from the NYC area, was residing at 2160 S.W. 4th Street. MM 639-S advised that Fachetti reportedly fought in Cuba with the rebels in the Sierra Maestra mountains against the government forces of Cuba and that he now was working with Sergio Sanjenis in the Miami, area purchasing arms for a possible future smuggling operation (UK. On 4/30/58, Wallace Shanley, US Customs, Miami, advised he had obtained information that Frank Anthony Fachetti, white male, 6'tall, between 25 and 28 years of age, black wavy hair, 180-190 pounds, was residing at 2160 S.W. 4th Street and had been seen driving with Navarette in a 1950 Plymouth, 1958 Florida license # 1-115646. According to records of the Dade County Auto Tag Agency, this license was listed to Richard M. Kedziora, 35 N.w. 58th Street, Miami. 97 -3244-~-2 7 p.1,1b,1¢,19,22,24,25,27, (escs65 ~ 31,32 Correlator's Note: Foregoing information on Frank (lnu) and Frank Anthony Fachetti is being included as possibly pertaining to Frank Anthony Fiorini, subject of this summary; however, information is insufficient to positively establish this fact. This reference sets out background data on Frank Fiorini, aka Frank Sturgis. from files of the Norfolk, Vir inia Police Department, seat y SHIEK TASK FORCE ial - ov WLU: 47 dak severe pen nme a ~ gay cect Took 50953 Daoctd: 32300010 Page 3
— CIA report relating to the reaction of Cuban exiles in Riga following the successful overthrow of Fulgencio Batista on 50 - 1/1/59, under FIELD COMMENTS reported information obtained Costa Rican immigration. lists.- This included information(C » &@ Special flight, airline unspecified, took ae) and one US citizen, Frank Angelo Fiorini, to Santiago de Cuba. ’ 4 oy - oN ona . 10s 80-1666 p.2 Andrew Szentgyorgyi (protect identity), who had just returned from about six weeks in Havana, Cuba, on a special assignment for "Life" magazine, advised a New York Office Agent on 2/19/59 that while in Havana he ran across several Americans, one of whom was Frank Fiorini, Captain in the Rebel Air Force, who intended to stay in Cuba. 109-581-12 encl.p.9 (1647 On 3/23/59, Michael R. Moreno, a Miami photographer, furnished information relating to the arrest and questioning of Moreno, Robert Daut and Richard Jaffe by the Department of Logistics 1109-590) in, Cuba, on or about 3/5/59. Moreno and Daut, a Miami pilot, who were enroute to British Honduras on business, were met in Havana by Jaffe, a business acquaintance, and these three proceeded to the Cuban Air Force Base at ° Camp Columbia to obtain clearance to proceed to British Honduras. It was here they were held by military police and while guns were pointed. at the three men, Frank Fiorini happened along and told Moreno and his companions not to worry as he would get them off. Moreno said they never saw Fiorini again. Add. info. ; ' “  109-590-8 p.20,33 | . CA a : . é On 4/20/59, at Police Headquarters, Habana, Cuba, Lawrence Eugene Hall (105-78016), a US citizen, advised that he arrived in Habana on 3/19/59. He then met Captain Frank Fiorini, an American with the Revolutionary Air Force. Hall said his purpose in coming to Cuba was to join the Revolutionary Forces and that after explaining his purpose he was introduced by Fiorini to a Lieutenant Duany and to. a Cuban lady known only as “Lucy. ! any identified himself as a member of the "13th of March Movement". aft ; ' 05-78016-6 encl.p.2 (114° oe | 2-(LFF- 127 HY 40953 Daoctd: 32300010 Page 4
Le _ — . - ‘Andrew Szeneeyoreyl (protect identity), 104 Pearsall Drive, Mount Vernon, NY, advised on 4/3/59 that he had returned recently to the US from a month's trip to Havana, Cuba. In Havana he met and ‘Spoke with Frank Fiorini who had been active With the Castro movement _ in the US in supplying arms to Castro's forces in the mountains. Szentgyorgyi stated that at the present time Fiorini was Chief of Security for the Cuban Air Force. | . ey 0-1798 encl.p.1 1 . On 6/19/59, MM 635-S advised that he and Douglas Leftbright (ph), a Canadian serving in the Cuban Air Force, had been sent to Miami several days previously by the Cuban Air Force to Sabotage a P-51 airplane which allegedly had been dropping anti-Castro leaflets over Cuba. They located the plane at Fort Lauderdale and were in the — proximity of the plane; however, they had no intention whatsoever of actually going through with this mission. On 6/20/59, James Byers (protect identity), Assistant Sales Manager, Aerodex, Miami National Airport, advised that Leftbright, along with a member of the Cuban Air Force (not further identified), had come to the office of Aerodex, Leftbright said that he and his companion had just "pulled off a deal" (not identified); that Frank Fiorini and Sergio Brule Diaz, also of the Cuban Air Force, had been sent to Miami on another mission for which they had spent a lot of money but accomplished nothing; and that they -. probably would attempt to take credit for,the deal which had been executed by Leftbright and his companion.{f 105-75511-155 p.3 (i Information concerning the late 1958 - early 1959 activities of Frank Fiorini was brought out during SISS (62-88217) hearings . involving the testimony of Ricardo Luis Lorie y Valls, Cuban citizen, in ~« Executive Session, on 7/24/59 at Miami Beach, Florida, and of Dr. Juan Orta Cordova, former private secretary of Fidel Castro, on 3/31/65, Place of hearing undisclosed for security reasons. This related to activities of Fiorini, an American, in behalf of the Castro regime, both .- in Cuba and the US, including his involvement in the smuggling of arms to Cuba and use of planes purchased with Cuban funds in Fiorini's name, two of which remained in his possession when he left Cuba at the time Pedro Diaz Lanz of the Cuban Air Force defected on or about 7/1/59. (Hearings enclosed, Part 14, entitled “Communist Threat to the United States Through the Caribbean") Op BeerT-29u7 encl.p.919, 946, 964 SEURE) \ HY 40953 Daoctd: 32300010 Page 5
On 2/5/62, Mi“639=S<aavised that Frank: Fiorini claimed that he would be the mili y leader for the organization of Carlos Prio Socarras (109~430) % Other investigation had indicated that Frank Fiorini, US citizen, was a soldier of fortune involved in Cuban revolutionary activity. Fiorini also was known as Frank Sturgis. (No sources given). | This reference stated that Prio, former President of Cuba, had a coast. a) to establish a military base on a Key off the Cuban coast. iL 109-130-2418 p.6 (a7say7 Alexander I. Rorke, Jr., 51 Chambers Street, NYC, who had - been associated with various anti-Fidel Castro activities, on 4/21/62 advised that he had learned from Frank Fiorini that on either 4/17/62 or 4/18/62, he and Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz and others associated with Diaz were stopped about 40 miles southeast of Miami, Florida and turned back to Miami by the US Coast Guard. According to Fiorini, the Coast Guard action in stopping two of the boats belonging to Diaz was prompted by orders from Washington, DC. Rorke advised on 4/25/62 that he again spoke with Fiorini who was very much disgusted because they had been stopped by the Coast Guard and said he believed Diaz set up this activity in order to discontinue all activity against the present Cuban Government. Fiorini said there were both men and plenty of weapons aboard the boats but that. the men were not detained nor were the boats or weapons confiscated by the US Government. This reference identified Diaz Lanz as former head of the Cuban Revolutionary Air Force. (oa O8646-4 encl.p.3,4 1 In connection with foregoing, this reference is a Justice Department communication advising that according to the US Border Patrol, Miami, Pedro Diaz Lanz and ten other Cuban exiles were aboard a “Q" boat proceeding out of Biscayne Bay on 4/15/62, and they were stopped and ordered to return to the Miami River by the US Coast Guard and Customs. This reference stated also that Alexander I. Rorke, Jr. advised on 4/25/62 that in conversation with Frank Fiorini, he was told by Fiorini, an associate of Diaz Lanz but who was not reported to be a inte’ DOS ‘ - REVIEWED BY BEV JFK TASK FORCE (continued) MO fits epee : ce : ; Co MELEASE IN PART 5 — | ; CI TOTAL DENIAL HY 40953 Daoctd: 32300010 Page 6