404-10072-10324) - PMO ing Oy Re Te ptm nen oo a1 Dey sd ar Director Federal Bureau of Investigation MEMORANDUM FOR ATTENTION : Dogestic Intelligence Division | FROU : Deputy Director for Plans LN . | SUBJECT .! VLADIMIR SECEN | MILE RAVLIC REGISTRATION = INTERNAL SECURITY MATTER ~ 1. Reforonce is cade to on inquiry to this Agency from your Bureau concerning Subjects, your Bureau'a File Ko. 1088100088, und this Agency's teletype No. 19754 dated 26 July 1068, Subject: “VLADIMIR SECEN = INTERNAL SECURITY DOSIHICAN REPUBLIC." 2. For your back round information only, VLADINIA SECEN was Gfiopara tions lantereme td thie agency 1963 to 1966 a9 an occng ional source of Vorna’ jon on ~ Caribbeon matters. SECEN‘'s claim to your Bureau that i he was invoived in a plan to overthros the Governzent of Haiti and was being paid by this Agency in furtherarcte of this plan io coapletely fnlcoe. Hevever, BECEN did informa this Agency on two occasions that he wae allegedly involved im puch o plan. A resgune of thase ropor ta follows. a (e) wt 3. On 9 rebrudey Ives, Gila tafor cada ropresen- tative from thia Agency in Miaal thag he had been offered a post as. itary oadvAgor to an expedition being forned by Rolondo GASFERRER Rojas, forssr Cyeban Serater, to depose President DUVALIER of Haiti. >SECRM oald he refused the post, but loter said that HAS pER had rocarked publicly on sevoernl occasions that SCCEN had accepted his proposition. According to SECEH, thie waa a tactic HMASYERRER used to enhance the prentige of hig movenent, oq o @ 4. On @ Harch 1066, SECEN told a representative of | this Agency in Niand that he had been contacted on 22 Feb- ruuary 1966 by one Hile RAVLIC from Madrid who, according to SECEN, wou en route to Haiti to porform a siasion for President DUVALIER., According to SECEH, RAVLIC stopped in Biani to see him. In their meeting, RAVLIC told SECEN that he had been contucted in mideFebruary in Madrid by a Domine igan nutionsl residing in Haiti who was allegedly a confidant 63 COPY to ° po oe of og ; re ew nee T ~ \ . . ; / 2 ifs: . 9Od/
14-00000;° + , a . . ; @ : C >. - ; 7 . - . . fb, aS Ay. I Cyr, Tin mae TO 6 CAR oak me 8” RS. Cm eae be oA ees 818 A, + ar SR iOS RET TC Ret te LOGIE IIS IE OT, «Q= of President DUVALIER, The Doainican told RAVLIC that : DUVALIER wanted to see hia regarding VLADIBIR SECEN, ao iadividual whom DUVALIER suspected of plotting to overe- throw the Governsent of Haiti. DUVALIER wanted RAVLIC to influence BECEN to stop his Haitian plotting and, if SECEN agreed, DUVALIER waa willing to offer BECEN a good job in the Haitian Governsent. SECEN reportedly told RAVLIC that he waa not engaged in any plot to overthrow Preaident DUVALIER and did not plan to become involved. RAVLIC then told SECEN that he wag goiag to Haiti to report the resulte of bis mission to President DUVALIER; hovever, when SECEN warned RAVLIC that such a trip wawid be too dangerous, RAVLIC took his advice and returned to Spain. rs 6. The files of this Agency reflect that Mile RAVLIC, aleo known as Uile RAVLIK de BOGSTICH TEPCEVICH, Hille ‘ERAWIT, and Major MILLER, was born 16 June 1819 in Croatia, Yugoslavia,and is a naturalized citizen of tae Doainican Republic. He studied agriculture in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, and graduated ag an agronomist. During World War II, he wea a eonber of the Croatian Army. In 1967, he joined the Doainican Army aa a Major and became a Lt. Colonel under Preaidont TRUJILLO. In April 1967, a reliable source reported that RAVLIC, who traveled on a Dominican Republic passport, was apparently involved in an import-oxport buai- neas, but also carried cut political and information- gathering miosions. At that tice RAVLIC waa reported to have been in Madrid for tha past month, but had made sev- eral tripa to France. Squrce also said that RAVLYC con- tinged to maintein contact with the TRUJILLOs. The saat recent information in this Agency's filos reflectoa that in Septecber 1067, RAVLIC wae reportedly in Paris waiting for Mre, Juan PERON, At thot tice, RAVLIC told a reliable source thet he was in business with Juan PERGH. 6. Although this Agency has no current oparational ~ interoot in SECEN, we would appreciate rqceipt of any ine . - forcation which your Bureau aay obtain on hig activities in the Caribbesn area, particularly io the Dominican Repub- lic and Haiti or relating to the Cubans. 7. The above information is boing made available to your Buronu with the understanding that it will receive sno further dissemination without prior approval from this office ond will not he uoed in any interviews which your Bureau might have with SECEN, C&C 1-9 16/033540-70 WU. te ‘
14-000Q0, > ‘ ‘ nen . -3- « DD/P/WH/7/Haiti/R. Lehman; pp 27 November 1970 Distribution: Based on: JUWAVE 9407 (CIN 65542) Orig & 1 - Addressee 2 March 1966 1 » Cl/Liaigon 1 - CI/RRA JMVAVE 9024 (IN 61062) t 1 © WH/FI 9 February 1966 1 - WH/7/HT Chrono 1 «= WH/7/DR Book Diapatch 4681 = WH/Sec 19 November 1964 é » 201-391123 1 = 201-292088 <UFGA 28529, 28 Sept 1967 ; kan (IN 67249) bruary 1966 — JMWAVE 0321 (IN 69009) 19 February 1966 UFGA 26392, 17 Nov 1966 | | Project: None, & - _ 7 KTP \ ec ey , “fh . vty Ya Lapeer SECRET ' OU 8 Ore Moret LaSScn bli od NO FOR PiOdet