JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM Date:06/26/94 Page:1 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORDS SERIES : REPORT AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM : TO: TITLE RICARDO MADAN RIVAS DATE : PAGES SMADAN, RICARDO RICARDO MADAN RIVAS CUBA ARMS SMUGGLER SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : X DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : box 377 | AGENCY INFORMATION SSCIA 157-10004-10111 DOCUMENT INFORMATION FBI ; ERRION, THOMAS H. 03/04/60 17 PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT U 2, 4, DONOR REST., REFERRED 06/27/94 Released under the ohn F. Hennedy ASsassination Records Collection Acero of 1992 (44 USC Filo? Nore). ase: HW 54653 Pate: 10-25-2017 HW 54653 DBocld: 3227027000 [R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED Page 1
$S¢! LOX 3 37 7- MM 105-2150 Instant investicaticn wag instituted as a result of the receipt of information fren a T-1, snother Corvarm cng araney «aich conducts inioallicence aud personnel anvestivationa, lol Tel csid that ca Auguse 4, 1959,. a fairly rolicble scurea in Cuba rcongted that RICCARDO LADAN was cne cf e8@ whO WAS an e-cnt of the Caban Covernmant operating in and cut of iitsad, Florida, - Ca May 13, 1984, the Few vork Office of the Federal Sureau of Investicsiion advised that &aeigtant United States Attorney RIG AND CHE, Southera Distriee of Naw York, adviced that i intendiad to stare preseating evidence to the Fecoral rand Jury ca Hay 13, 1954, seekins a superceding indict::ent éecain3t certain indivie duals zor consbirsey to vicluca cectica 452D, Title 22, United States Coda. Cre of éacsa noned was RICAPDO MATAN. CuSN said bAtAN, wao kad not previously appearod in the investizatica conducted in the matter, wags a ord - - ~ - a 4 s 2EBLPRe Faprcae see gieta ans oo eorTase <2 cas eres cs sad On January 25, 1955, JANES OrsUTT, Assistant Supervising Custcms Agent in idami, ocvised that investi- - _ gaticn by United States Custcng relativa to the Federal laws invoiving exporting of crma and amaunition without a@ license or conspiracy to do go as prescribed in Section 452D, Title 22 and Section 371 of Title 18, Vaited States Cede, resulted in tha conviction of RICARDO MADAN in the Federal Court in Naw York City upon. MADAN's plea of nolle contendere. MADAN was fined $2,500.00. On September 24, 1956, tm T-2, Rea laucubacy 2 Y Coyernment@orcicinie advised that a membership list of:  - hé Patriotic Clus of July 25 in Miami, which had been furnished to informant by a conficontial source which he believed to ba reliable, listed the name of RAFAEL - MADAN RIVAS, with no address given, - ort, HW 54653 DBoclId:322027000 Page ?
HW 54653 a < — ms J 3OtR aay ; we 5 cad, rad MM 105-2150 =f ee cy Te vecelya formation frea a very welicti: ALS OXTEN 5 close associate of foumer CELE: ess hear nd CARE. > PSO, that an emissary of PRIO tad xrom the Pominican Republic where theic inforrics - was in close ecatact with the PRIO group - in thea Dominican Reoublie. ‘their informant reported as follows; FARIO vis teing used » @2S a front by Generalissimo PAPAES~22U7 2LLG, asd cf the De-siniean Republic, ina olan to launch a revol lutionary acnack against the BATISTA Ccvernzent cf Cuba. TRUJILLO was being aided by srall f2cticns of Cubans led by POLICARPO-SOLER, a ye ty Cuban gangstes: waa fled Cuba fellowine the overthre:y of PRIO in 1952. POLIG!.PO went to the Dominican Republic about nine months previcusly wien he was refused re-entry to Cuba without incunity frem criminal prosecution. Reportedly POLICARPO tzgan conspiring with TRUJILLO and «as subsecuently jeined in the Peminican Republic by CANDIDO Di LA~ICRRE, former PRIO associate, RiuGAcG MADAN, alse a former PRIO associate who had been involved in gun smuggling activities in the Mizmi area during the recent past, EUFEMI@-FERNANDEZ, forser Chief of Police and PRIO associate and by JESUS-GONZALEZ, known as "TEE STRANGER", who went to the Dominican Republic several months ago after fleeing Cuba in a small fishing beat. PRIO sent an emissary who reported that the group of Cubans led by POLICARPO oneyed TRUJILLO and TRUJTLLO, considered them "his own men"' RECEH CO rhe DoclId: 3272702000 Page 3
| GSCLBOX # 377- - MM 105-2150 MM T-4 said thet on December 27, 1956, it was reported that cSalcrez was working with RICAZAO MADAN, and _they were resnensible for shipping a lerge quantity of aug inte Cabs Ly use o£ tha Air Express Service, that ca Anril 27, 1957, a report W2s te: 2ad MADAN had been sentenced to daath icccmt3 of the "prro cause", whe accured then of Ret bsving dis¢ributed sil ef «k azaunition for. tha attack ca the Presidential Palace in Havana on tuwarch 13, esid that this repert of April 27, 1957, REZ Lad accused MADAN of being the indleated that s4y - & only one revpousible for the failure of the attack on the Pslace, On April 6, 1959, MM T-5 advised that RICARDO _ MADAN, who lives on Lenap2 Street in Miami Springs, “ Florida, has en office at the Esgie Shipping Company, 3212 Northwest North River Drive, hiami, reportedly was appointed as an investigator by SERGIO-SANJENIS, the then Head of the Cuban investigative agency known as DIER (Department of Investigations of the Revolutionary Army). IM T-6 said that ethers who were’ appointed were ALBERTO“LOPEZ>4.0PEZ, TCNY-FARINAS, JOEMPAULA;. and CARLOS_MARTINEZ. | pap ti gs PCL A ay bag, x sche Wh blot ted ® HW 54653 DoclId: 322027000 Page 4
Hi 54653 21 that ke would describe MADAN as 3 £nd textiles in 1957, in 1957 the largest cache of T3néeral pericd by the Cuban BA cwa, at least he was Lis béiug in Cuba. IM Te2 stated that MADAN ncw gets marble from Cuba and Hiirxico, 3 that UM T-2 kas heard that LADAN has purchssed machinery for esking teme,s floorine from Italy, end thse ke Séill--cwes money for such machinery, On Pebrusry 18,1960, the files of the Inmipraticn and hacuralizstian Service reflect that MADAN'’s number is AL9*178-023, heir records reflect that hie PSESport nuvber wee 02937, issued by the Republic o£ Cuba on March 1Z, 1953, end thet it had an expiretion date of March 11, 1958, His date and place of birth were listed as Ravana, Cuba, Dacerber 25, 1912, and his address, &t that time, was 4th Avenue Letveen 43th ard 50th Streets, Miramar, Efvana, and hig United States address was 1225 Southwest 22nd Terrace. His places of residence were listed as fro birth to 1953, Eavana, Cuba, and from 1953 to 1955, the time of the filing of the application for temporary stay in the United States, ag in Mi: o£ the time, MBEsy of Jessies BL USO ILSYS. | ase... pigsipan Jevll tla ‘Renan, age cere ee Se 280. INVES) 29, 1954, reflect that there was no record which would reflect on the character or the morality of MADAN as of these dates . A check of the Micmi Police Department record cf January 11, 1955, showed no record of MADAN, according to information contained in the above mentioned Immicration and Naturalization DocId:3227027000 Page 5
. SSCI BOA i 377+ - UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT oF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer to .. aes Miomi, Plorids FEBOTE Of Special Agent as £3 Thenags H. kexion, at Beye stad and captioned. sis? 23 above, S.qQ2 a =o 38 SCseze R273 = 252 aay » Ba = RF was , S=s3 eS23 MM T-3 13 a forzer Cuban officicl who hag furnished si* sone relissia inforagtion in the Pees £22 12 acguainsed ss with the subject Ba ° FV mm ga ~@ . g~3 M™M T-4 hes bean contested insufficiently to establish =~-8 his reliability, but is BSiusinted with the subject, R33 TFs MM T-6, contact with wicm kas been insufficient a o§ to establish relisbility, is 2 forner Cuban dlitician with = 5° ~, . v ? . Pp = +3 wide écquzintance among Cubsam elexant in Mizmi and is gs écquainted with gub eet, BS) RFR . Soa = os ess MM T-7 hag furnished reliable information in the S23 past. ° a ™/ 3 . S35 Z3s MM T-8 has furnizhed scone relieble information in 23% the past and has @ considersbls munber of écquaintanceg amore 33 $ Cuban element in the Miami arse, RECE bed Poe ~ 2% - tte a MM T-9 has furnished ralisble information: ‘fn the past, __PROPERTY OF FRI © 11; Temorandum ig toaned to you by the FBI, and neither it ner its contants are to be distributed outside the Sgency co which loaned, \ HW 54653 DoclId:322027000 Page 6