v9.1 * AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER: , ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: - , JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-90136-10013 HQ 105-70973-2 Document Information FBI HQ TITLE: °°™: DATE: “PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : HW 54462 DBocld: 32336970 07/16/1958 ’ 3 WILLIAM ALEXANDER MORGAN PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 09/26/1998 INDEFINITE MEMO, Page 1 Date: 6/8/2015 Peleased under the John Kennedy Wssassination Records ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#: NU 54462 Date: 1O-oS5-2017 Pa me
yous ¢q { STANDA, avemse 64 : . ~ Se oe a Office Memon ndum UNITED STA: BS GOVERNMENT ze “ TO : Director; FBI (105- roo7a iG iN FROM ah Legat, Havana (105-895) . ry SUBJECT: WILLIAM ALEXANDER MORGAN INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA. ReBulet July 2, 1958, and Havana letter June 20, 1958 stu) On July ‘8, 1958, Lieutenant Roberto Vila (conceal), investigating agent for the Cuban Army Military Intelligence Service, advised he had received information that the subject had worked as a bodyguard for the well-known gambling figure,-MEYER LANSKY,- prior -to joining the insurrectionary forces of the Directorio Revolucionario. Vila had a photograph containdd on a leaflet putoout by the Directorio Revolucionario, the caption of which indicated that one of the men in the photograph was the "North American, William Morgan."" Lieutenant ; Vila advised‘that he planned to contact LANSKY personally to verify 1 this allegation and obtain all available background on,the subject. Cw TT ee Renae eRe ahaaien Lieutenant Vila stated he has sent to Santa Clara Province, Cuba, to obtain subject's photograph which was reported to. have been AAWITZLER, an Americancitizen oe rees of the Directorio FIal.. Cuba _ Revolucionario and who was subsequently arrested by Cuban autiorities” and returned to the United States. The Havana office of the CIA Submitted a reported dated July 9, 1958, classified secret on the following subject, "Rebel Activities in the Sierra Escambray Area,'' which contained the following information which is believed to refer to’the subject: ee ia inc nae hiene1 activity has increased considerably in Las Villas. . \ we Province since April 1958.~ There are several rebel — yoo bands of from five to twenty men each. Another ‘group A: of twenty or thirty rebels is led by an American€ who oN bf ,,is believed to be a veteran of the Korean war and ; _ Of | Wg _ ) Magpperienced in guerrilla warfare ... Oe! 5 Ae a On 30 June 1958 Richar fWetzler,* an American,=was Cuba ‘la “oS deported from Ha Wiami~on flight 496 of the a WX 4-3 Compania Cubana de Aviacion (Cuban Aviation Company). re Wo vo Wetzler was’ “imprisoned for twenty-one days in the . ol {Ob iahatiuat, Sant clare, ‘Prior to that_ time he was,in the  & ‘ tat cy fe aes f65 7 2074 LEE ZNO i ata Ke 4 ° - f Ly eee S73 <<a | oe] | .4 —- Bureau a . , ha 1 - Havanajie 4, "9 Fa | | JJW:MEG fe | HW 54462 Docld:32336970 Page 2
» s 4% G ot f (nt re -Havana 100-45 7/16/58 Sierra Escambray vcalute with the rebels. He confessed that there are more than 250 well-armed rebels fighting in the Sierra Escambray. The /A rebels operate in groups of ten men each, using guerrilla warfare tactics. They fight by day and rest by night, when they await reports from their if, confidential agents in the nearby towns... Field Comments: 1. A fairly reliable source reported on 25 June 1958 © Va that a rebel force in the Sierra Escambray was successfully && | employing guerrilla tactics against a much larger con- oak ‘tingent of the Cuban Armed Forces, and, at the same time, winning the sympathy of the natives in that area. 2, The source of Field Comment No. 1 above also reported the presence of an American war veteran among the rebels. One William Alexander\Morgan was identified in the 8 April and 17 May 1958 issues of Diario de las Americas, Miami Spanish-language, newspaper, as a rebel leader in the area. Morgan or Wetzler may possibly be identical with the American rebel leader of this and/or the above-mentioned report... I ; The above has not been disseminated in, the Embassy inasmuch . as information submitted by Lieutenant Vila has/not yet been verified and information submitted the CIA is known to be available to all interested agencies 7): This: office is Continuing to follow this matter and the “ “ Bureau will be kept advised of pertinent information. we ote tT Two extra copies of this letter are submitted to the Bureau for forwarding to the Miami oneece (ta) 3 | . 4 _ HB: * Revere beeen 2 ty gt . dock, BEE i ge be . oa : 1 PARE bathed EE re Sa ee Ss yo . : : ( ; ¥ .. * . . - - oa ae 2 iy ~ [HW 54462 Doocld:32336970 Page 3