“Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records DATE: 11-14-2017 5/11/201 JFK Assassination System Date: Identification Form er Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-10218-10352 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: _105-72630-26 TL Document Information ORIGINATOR: . FBI FROM: SAC,NY TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: 07/15/1959 ‘PAGES: 7 SUBJECTS : [Restricted] DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C CURRENT STATUS:  Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 06/01/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE ‘COMMENTS: INC MEMO TT —— . v9.1 2 Docld: 32297076 Page 1
w DATE: 14-14-2017 Le f or i \\ ‘ > ~ ay ome f | { CA HAS NO OBJECTION WO — a" ! Cf at 3 . ov /REC- gq 105-7260 —— Db | DECLASSIFICATION BRQE,, &-°" . : i - ONG ORELEASE GF CIA INFORMATION, _ | IN THIS DOCUMENT. ym 9-($-97 | oo ; Le URY spgancwe Dates July 21, 2959 : OAng Foe Office of Security: - Oo oo Department of State 1 af CONTAINED i Frome? John Hagar Hocuers Director sOWN Subjects PEDRO LUIS DIAZ LANZ (OSHERWISE * INTERNAL SECURTIY © CUBA py acne) Ey Stes svofete. og She subject is the former Cuban Air Force Ga. tf22/98 officer who recently arrived in the United States an@ is at the present time testifying before the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Securtityo | On July 25,°1959, @ confidential source who has furnished_peltable £ formation in the past advised that onef{Bil1 Atwoodpuno may be identical with on employee of [Lovie jmagazine of the same name, Hoon rred with (Luis Ae Baralt, Consul General of Fubar N York,@ity.. Aecording to eur sources Atwood advised (Baralt@lhat the subject was hiding in Havana three days before he contacted the Americans ang as @ result of his getting out of a odfite now testifying - Al : in order to justify his trips (Atwoogywas of the apinion that,whtle there is no doubt that there ts. communist infiltration taking place in Cubas to eald | Castro a communis£ is fantastic .. >. ae een ee [Berare advised JAtwood nat the subject's half brother, Sergio Diaz Bru,” ts a distagt relgfive of his and the black sheep of the familys [3 araléippointed out that when he met Sergio Diaz Bru in Washington, Do Cos | : } and was told by him'that his brother, the sybject,, was on iW ‘pringing him into the Cuber Air Vorce, RE» [porate af DeLoach A j anazed because he knew Serg to Diaz Bru had beer want eq x id | McGuire f ae . eT ee copa ip m, " :0UCU™ Soy ' Porson i Ny . hee via we a m f i. by COU EEC ENGs i owe nL : : an, <r . * eat b W.C. Sullivan — + > a : a an Tele. Room — , « 19s re; S . Was ewe, _| Holloman “| Gandy nas ¥ EBS wy ft tom Poe 3. | esi pho. » MAIL ROOML «TELETYPE UNIT LIQ QRUE RAPT? eres 4 Docld: 32297076 Page 2? Téased under the Fon Fa Kennedy Assassination Records Colléction Act or r9sz 7 Hote)
boy. —, Meleased under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 st 2107 7 ye DATE: 11- 14-2017 ote). ‘ iC Office of Security Department of State by the police in Havana for about fifteen years BiNnce . he was involugg in ¢ $150,000 swindle concerning a shrimp deal. (SaraltPtn referring to the subject's. character pointed out thet Sergio Diaz Bru, according to newspaper '- gccounts, was sitting with the subject gt he hearings Of the aboveementioned Subcommittee. sie ; Gitwoo ae of the opinion that the situation én. Cuba will not be helped by the subject's testimony and thet the thing,,to do its to get to Castro and calm him down. (AtwoodPYurther pointed out that ineidents similar to the subject's testifying arouse Castro-and . this gives ananunition to those around him who are erytng to push him in the wrong directions In commenting = fortungtely people have | not given up in Cuba fAtwoo a eteed [Baral®sthnat the United States snbassadeor in Cuba was very . geod and thatthe Central Intelligence Agency had advised him that it. is still trying, te dg:.something sensible: In addition, according to [Atwood Marloes franqui', who may ve identical. with. the editor of the July 26 Movement. newspaper "Revolution" and who oncé worked for the “ho Communist Party publication "Hoy," can ‘be very helpful { The foregoing is furnished for your information and should , not be disseminated outside your agencye “7 » Direstor Central | Intelligence. Agency | Se, —_ a attentions ‘Deputy Director, ‘Plans . Z = Innigration. ana Naturalization Service ‘d « assistent Chief of. Staff for Intelligence Department of the army attentions Chief, Security Division a oo 7 Tos Director of Naval Intelligence Pi - office of Special Investigation eR ~ Air. Poree. . 4 ; . _ oe - 2e —_— Docld: 32297076 Page 3
cased tinder the=dohn FF. Kennedy Assassination Recor s Co DATE: 11214-2017 a ; a i . ‘ y . . —_ Office of Security Department of State NOTE: Classified “onftienttiar” since ite disclosure may indicate our investiigattionsxey fa foreign representative tof the United States; (Baralty Ki oF 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote}. Docld: 32297076 Page 4
PREFedsed under “theJohn Fo Kennedy ‘Assassination Records” Collection Act of DATE; 11-14-2017" Lo . ag gt wv ‘ ° By & FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 49 G U. S, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE - GE COMMUNICATIONS SECTION & va fo 4 JUL LE 1968 seetre | CWHIES ow CONTALNED DECLASSIFICAZION-AVD) eG —y ee a SSIFTED PELEASE GIA INFURTA PR Wt pe eee pra ems IN THIS DOCUMENT. Ti Fe ORGEN 7 15-59 4-28 PM JLW FROM SAC N Ww Op YORK. poesia @ Tea) Metter} PEDRO LUIS “DIAZ LANZ, FPM = CUBA. aan MA ce RSTO REIN SSRN SE FOUR NINE FOUR DASH S ASTERISK, ON JULY ONE FIVE INST Ty | ARRANGE A oe ENGAGEMENT. BARALT] ADVISED THAT HE WAS HAV ING LUNCH WITH2BOB TABOR HAs A NEWSPAPER MANe + Grvoon TATED THAT HE- KNEW “fe SOME BXTENT “UN@BOTE. ethene ASKED IF HE HAD FOUND OUT anys ting” ABOUT 17.70 WHICH [Eruoof7 ANSWERED "YES, THIS IS QUITE A THING, HAS A LOT BEHIND IT. IN A WAY HE Is: SINGING FOR HIS SUPPER. HE WAS HIDING IN HAVANA FOR THREE DAYS AND CONTACTED THE AMERICANS, -I THINK | THE FBI GOT HIM OUT INA BOAT, AND AS A RESULT I THINK HE IS KIND OF \SINGING FOR HIS SUPPER. I THINK THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THERE 1s pO] END PAGE ONE | Yt he fist — REC- 89 5 i ee ea LA LASSIFIE ED ‘BY “StEeS ; Docld: 32297076 Page 5 Hote}.
BRETeased under - ‘the ‘John FY Kennedy’ Hegaseination Récords Coaliection Act of 1997 (4 DATE; 11- 14- 2017" veh . a : roN PAGE TWO [oomenss INFILTRATION TAKING PLACE, BUT TO MAKE THESE CHARGES OF CASTRO BEING A COMMUNIST AND ALL THAT IS JUST FANTASTIC. AND, WHAT HE | — IS DOING IS HE IS JUST JUSTIFYING HIS TRIP. AND THERE WAS A LOT OF | SHENANIGANS IN THE AIR FORCE. HE, HIMSELF, WAS CONSIDERABLY INVOLVED IN NEP OEISH. THE AIR FORCE WAS SITTING DUCKS FOR ANY ATTACK, ". (EaraLt} HEN ASKED " DO YOU REMEMBER THE STORY I WAS TELLING YoU ABOUT HIS HALF~BROTHER WHO IS A DISTANT RELATIVE OF MINEse.s HE IS THE BLACK SHEEP OF THE FAMILY, AND IS CALLED SERGIO DIAZ BRU /PH/, AND I MET HIM IN WASHINGTON AND HE HAD TOLD ME THAT HIS BROTHER, DIAZ LANZ WAS 5 BRINGING HIM INTO THE AIR FORCE, IN AN IMPORTANT POSITION THERE. | WHEN I HEARD THAT, I SAID. MY GOD, THE AIR FORCE IS GOING TO POT, BECAUSE THIS GUY, SERGIO DIAZ, COULD NOT EVEN GO TO HAVANA AS HE WAS WANTED BY THE POLICE FOR ABOUT FIFTEEN YEARSe. NOT FOR POLITICAL REASONS, BUT BECAUSE HE HAD CHISELED ABOUT ONE FIVE ZERO THOUSAND DOLLARS IN A SHRIMP DEAL INVOLVING SOME INVESTORS I KNOW. ASIDE FRon fg END PAGE ONE | a Docld: 32297076 Page 6