AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI “RECORD NUMBER:  124-10200-10382 RECORD SERIES: HO AGENCY FILE NUMBER:  105-165503-23 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: SAC. MM TO: DIRECTOR. FBI TITLE: DATE: 05/19/1967 PAGES: 39 SUBJECT: FS, ASSOC, CONSPR, BOMB, CUBAN SHIP, MX PORT, INTV, THOMPSON, . RONALD, FILM DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL | Secret NEW CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: 03/16/1998 UPDATE_DATE: STATUS Redact . RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: INC MEMO, LHM Docld: 322789106 Page 1
"Released under the John F. -Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Ai - os, vente font ia’ | gd neh ‘Me. J. Walter Yeagley . June 2, 1967 _ sg _ Assistant: ‘Attorney General ak wy "SECRET: - Mr, Wannall f ‘ a ~ Director, FBI ~ Mr. Nasca_ ox . Sg /O5- 165563 13 : 7 we FRANK ANGELO FIORINI, and others tS . REPORTED PLANS TO BLOW UP CUBAN SHIP BD ee IN MEXICAN PORT, POSSIBLY VERACRUZ , Ne AFL INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA See F TRALISY MATTERS - CUBA nici sssirtan sy . ane ALE TNFORMATIO! _ phe ve ee ae ERRETN 15 UNCHASSIFIED EXCEPE ns een WHERE SOM OTHERETSES Reference is made to our previous. ‘communi@ations - oe in the: captioned matter, particularly to your communication dated May 4, 1967, which. requested certain additional, infor- mation and to our communication dated May 19, 1967, @which transmitted a number of photographs depicting the recovery of buried explosives by Mexican buthoritios=} NE) Attached for your information is a memorandum dated May 19, 1967, at Miami, Florida. For your additional information, Ronald Edward Thompson, who is mentioned in the attachment, was paid the sum of $150 on April 21, 1967, when, in the course of inter- view, it was determined that his information corroborated the original report concerning the alleged plans of several unknown individuals to blow up a Cuban ship in a Mexican port. It is requested that this Bureau ‘be expeditiously / advised as. to whether the facts in this matter constitute a violation of the neutrality Statutes or any other statutes , within the jurisdiction of this Bureau. oo 38 105-165503 ff Enclosure: _ 1 - Miami Ges. 12890) | , 1 —- Mexico City oe A 1 - Foreign Liaison “Dalit MMalceDi gat? [p> (is JUN2 al coMM- EBL “Gandy Docld: 322789106 Page 2?
‘DATE: 11- 14-2017 © a ConfRdéenttal MM 105-12890 oe THOMPSON paid $39.75 of his bill in cash, the remaining $150.00 being charged to his Texaco Credit Card, which amount of $150.00 was the maximum amount permitted to be charged on the card. On May 2, 1967, Mr. GEHL GARRETT, officer at the ge, Commercial Bank of "Miami. 9301 NW 7th Avenue, Miami, , confidentially advised that FRANK and JANET STURGIS have had a special checking account #4-04-649-8 since May 28, 1962, - at which time their address was 2515 NW 122nd Street. The record indicated STURGIS was employed by the Hampton Roads Salvage Company. Checks against the account which were to a be mailed out with the next monthly statement on May 15, 1967, were reviewed and no check was located which appeared pat ihe to this case. The checking account balance as of May 2, /1: was $133.05. STURGIS had no savings account at the Var: Biter a The confidential source who furnished the po ey on which investigation was predicated, as cited on Pa gesAll Soce ia of the LHM, is PCI EARL HAUK, Miami, who stated he wou Ud not ! testify to the information furnished. : Fo eeenaeitaneminaianiehiana aniaeme omeaunbiansdiianibeiatar ratte ccacaisineccstaeesciinmimia initia a Tae 4 The confidential source abroad referred toon eo Page 34 of the LHM is Legat, Mexico, which advised Miami ' that Mexican authorities who had found the explosives in this case heard telephone call from Legat to Miami relative to bombing of the Cuban Embassy, Mexico City, May 3, 1967. AG) i The roll of 8 millimeter colored movie film received ; by Miami from the Bureau per Bureau airtel dated May 9, 1967, FIORINI, ROCHE and THOMPSON evidently taken in Mexco and other scenes in Mexico, none of which appear to be of evidentiary, lf nature. Accordingly, the matter of this film obtained by the Buffalo Office, which had placed a stop on such film submitted by subject FIORINI, aka., Sturgis, is not set out in the LHM- in order to assure protection to the. company contacted by | the Buffalo Office. Bureau is requested to furnish LHM to the Department (and thereafter advise Miami of any further investigation desired or prosecutive action contemplated. Docld: 322789106 Page 3 was reviewed at Miami and found to contain pictures of subjects |