RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 HW 54653 Docld: 322744362 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information HSCA 180-10070-10420 NUMBERED FILES 006940 Document Information FBI 03/24/1976 5 CUBA RAMIREZ, ANTULIO FBI REPORT ‘ Unclassified Consulted Withhold 07/16/1993 133-1. Box 133. Page 1 Date: 9/23/201 Released under the John Kennedy Wss5assination Records Ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#:NWU 54653 Date: n1O-23-2017
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eee a nna cence cnc en binge erm camen te eit Roatan ia adi amine ora wa ovmn goon om m8 - . ’ , t ay forriomaL ony éO. wh flo, . . ‘eu : * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ue - 006940 Memorandum DIRECTOR, FBI (6442454) DATE: 3/24/76 . . . Tes ~ eo eran Mee ee , SAC, MIAMI (105-3993) (c) Oy ” Sn ANTULIO RAMIREZ ORTIZ ‘Nt : x 00: MIAMI \ . po Enclosed for the Bureau are 5 copies of an - > SS 7 LEM dated ard captioned as above concerning the captioned ~ - subject. Extra copies of the LEM are enclosed for disseminaticn to other files at the Bureau concerning RAMIREZ. Copies of LHM enclosed for Dallas, Newark, New York, ~m San Juan. \\ In interview with RAMIREZ, he advised that Ajpe recalled two other Puerto Ricans in Cuba who hllegedly had received some special training in Cuba J\\in the subject of kidnapping. They are LUIS RUIZ COL Wivho, RAMIREZ stated, escaped from the U.S. Army while et fan Viet Nam in about 1959, and then fled to Cuba. Hi $,;/fparents both then arrived in Cuba from Puerto Rico t - =infbe with him. The cther is LUIS FRESE, alse alleged 2 MHyjto be a fugitive from rto Rico.\_) , ed that this infcrmatio is bt he hes -no redesrwitat the -so- . Burgau (Bnes. °8) AND FIELD OFFS a ew 64-42454) aDTISTDE Plies: ‘Evalee 1 ~ 164-761) (FRESE) SLIP (S) C2 | f - $2-155160} OLON)  paze3 7 1 - 105- 237875 CUBAN nee ) (ei + one IN THE U. s.)] C ~ +) RAMIREZ emphf Ie * bets 6 (o-f UNRE COPY AND COPY oF ENCL LEB IN / 64)- 1 - Dallas 264-70} Encs. (Info. ) i 1 Newask (ine. Info. )t cane inrbL tons ACTIVITIES IN THE 1 - New York (105- no pe cor) (ay | fel 53 3 - San Juan (Encs. 3 p36 4-7 ie 42° | (1 - t2ts95)" (Gotan) - cs ‘1 - 76-523 (FRESE fe ~ (GiBa INTELLIGEACE suvinies IN THE U. sym 31 27% - Miami 1 - 105-2983} RAMTREZ) —— 1 - 105-1998) (CUBAN INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES IN THE | (= 164-208)  ( i ne --VIW/pwn ey (14) PSL HARIIIG2 Pade an ne De Mae Deda ah _D nw end Contnae _Plon “yu \
me Cr OP “ MM 105-3993 called training in kidnapping consisted of and has no idea whatsoever that these two individuals are returning ae to the U.S., however, he also stated that in his opinion, both these men would cooperate with the U.S. authorities should they be returned to the U.S. a . This opinion, regarding their willingness t cooperate with the U.S. authorities, is based Ce strictly on his own sad and allegedly umeppy experience ~ as a hijacker in Cuba. RAMIREZ alleges that he was not well treated in Cuba after arriving in Cuba as a hijackers , It is also pointed out that RAMIREZ volunteered = this information prior to receiving the 20 year sentence from Judge MEHRTENS at Miami. RAMIREZ —_ did quite a bit of publicizing about how good it is to be here in the U.S. again and how terrible things are in Cuba. He might have volunteered the information about FRESE and COLON to establish-a favorable relationship with the FBI.) ’ Miami file 164-208 describes a LUIS ANTONIO FRESE _ as a white male, born 9/16/29 at San Juan Puerto Rico, who was confined on 5/20/67 after conviction for violation of Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 2312. He was serving =... se. his sentence at a Federal Correctional Institute (FCI), Seagoville, Texas when he escaped 3/25/69. He is the subject of Bufile 164-761, captioned"LUIS ANTONIO FRESE; HIJACKING OF DELTA AIRLINES FLIGHT 821, DALLAS oO TO SAN DIEGO, 3/15/69, CRIME ABOARD AIRCRAFT - PIRACY, . ~ KIDNAPPING; ESCAPED FEDERAL PRISONER (00: DALLAS)"; | Dallas file 164-70, Miami file 65-3035. LUIS ENRIQUE RUIZ COLON is the subject of Os Bureau file 42-155160 and San Juan file 42-593. He is... described as the only son of Puerto Rican parents, born 12/31/39 at Utuado, Puerto Rico, not known to be associated with the independence movement. He volunteered to be : inducted into the U.S. Army in 1960 and was inducted © in August of 1960. He deserted while in training in South Carolina. He later travelled to Cuba and his mother and father sold their properties to travel to ee Cuba to be with him. They were known to be residing in Havana, Cuba as of May, 1962. (Above re COLON from ne er ee eee os as os ~ eee eee Hw'-54653--Doctar322¢4362—Paye-3——-°--- - F  - ~— ———-GONFIDFYTIAL
7. ww 105-3993 Ce UO San Juan (65-434) letter to the Bureau (65-68517), page 9, - dated 4/16/64, captioned "UNSUB; aka MACIAS; ESP — CUBA." This letter set out the identity of subjects of ee security interest to the San Juan Office, in the past, in... ° trying to identify unknown subjects MACIAS and BLANCO. ve pole - Miami file 42-9241 refers to COLON but has co... been destroyed.\_)— .. ren The LUIS RUIZ COLON and LUIS FRESE referred | to by ANTULIO RAMIREZ are very probably identical with ee LUIS ANTONIO FRESE and LUIS ENRIQUE RUIZ COLON referred mos to above. \ ). - eg Sot seagrass tm . X\ ANTULIO RAMIREZ had no indication that an either FRESE or COLON are going to return to the U.S. a (or Puerto Rico) but did state that the policy of the Government of Cuba toward U.S. citizen hijackers held i in Cuba, was, as of November of 1975, to allow them to. . (. ... return to the U.S. A Oo ee _ ; ? HW.54653 DocId:32244362 Page 6 - - ee Py ~ : (eel wee eas att Chee
le em en ame ne ine het amt ee end mega a anne erate enn rte natn tee nm tn etn tant ed ee Be Tame UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE © os 0 2 * FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION po Se Gemma Sun nar , Please Refer to mos Fee 105-5993 Miami, Florida — 7 - oo fae | . RE: ANTULIO RAMIREZ ORTIZ INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA = —as—=<‘“CstiéiCts Information concerning the captioned individual,hereafter referred to as RAMIREZ, was an previously submitted in a report, captioned "ANTULIO oe RAMIREZ ORTIZ, also known as - FUGITIVE, INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA, INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF STOLEN © AIRCRAFT - KIDNAPPING; CRIME ON THE HIGH SEAS - ASSAULT", at Miami, dated December 4, 1975. 1 _ On March 4, 1976, RAMIREZ was sentenced to -_ 20 years in federal prison by U.S. District Court ‘Judge WILLIAM MEHRTENS. . RAMIREZ was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico on November 20, 1926, and served in the Korean War. He hijacked a National Airlines airplane on a Miami- __.... . Key West flight, May 1, 1961, the first airplane hijacking —_ in the U.S. oo a In an article he wrote for the Spanish language ... 1g] magazine, "Replica", published in Miami, RAMIREZ Se J £'QQ states that he was interviewed at length by Cuban G-2 a eeN (Intelligence) Agents on his arrival in Havana, after ssid (tw ?'“) hijacking the airplane. He had numerous oda jobs in “0 : Havana, until he visited the Swiss Embassy in Havana, _.... Cuba during the October crisis in 1962, when he decided that he should side with the U.S. in case of a confrontation between the U.S. and Russia. The G-2 photographed . everybody that visited the Swiss Embassy, he said, and. was later arrested on a charge of espionage, in Santiago, © Cuba, on September 26, 1963. Thirty-six days later, he was freed, temporarily and re-arrested May 24, 1965,  ... after having visited the Swiss Embassy several times... RAMIREZ was then sentenced to a term of three years in ==> Principe Prison, where there were over 11,000 prisoners\\ ‘de Gasstiogby Cee Patt transis, Caegary fa golve: APPROPRIATE AGENCIES \ _ a Create” LTD FIELD OFFICES un : “epUISSD BY RQUTING = | “DATE Spiga ; GON ae woes outasennce eae Boe gee Yay S4= |S
“ . > oe : - - . o™, a8 . = : a RE: ANTULIO RAMIREZ ORTIZ | ggamenide Eight months later, RAMIREZ was trensferred to La Cabana. Later on, he was transferred to a farm in Guira de Melena. While at La Cabana, he stated, between 1965 and 1968, over 100 people were shot, usually at 9:00 PM each day. \ . Do On August 22, 1972, he tried to escape from - Cuba via a raft, but was found at sea by a crew aboard ~ oo trt the fishing boet "Los Facos", taken back to Cuba and Boe tt sent back to jail for another three years. \ a On August 22, 1975, after serving his sentence, he was set free, taken to the Hotel Nueva Isla where dozens of plane hijackers who wanted to leave Cuba were housed. He was put on board a plane on November 11, 1975 bound for Jamaica, and given $150 for some clothing. The policy then, he said, was to let the hijackers leae cuba. \) While free on bond, prior to sentencing, in ce Miami, RAMIREZ worked at Murray's Restaurant, Coral  ¢ Gables, Florida. His wife, ALTAGRACIA, resides at 12415 . =~ Venice Boulevard, Apartment 6, Los Angeles, California, ©. 90066.) ne pe On January 3, 1976, RAMIREZ advised a Special 2... 7. Agent of the FBI that he was always regarded with suspicion | in Cuba since his arprval there He was alwayS ne suspected of being riminal Infelligence Agency or oo FBI "plant" (who Wotidevertuer-ly begin furnishing . information to the U<S.) { Therefore, he had no _. a opportunity to learn about Cuban Intelligence matters —_ a ar — CONFIDENTIAL, HW 54653 Docld:32244362 Page @