DATE: 11-14-2017 COMMENTS : is v9.1 }Docld: 32337171 Page 1 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : ‘CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : _JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-90136-10214 HQ CR 97-4351-36 Document Information FBI NY HQ 12/07/1960 4 MIGUEL ANTONIO SANCHEZ RAMOS WILLIAM ALEXANDER MORGAN PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 09/26/1998 INDEFINITE AT Date: “Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote}. 6/8/2015
Re eased under - theJohn F. Kennedy ; DATE: 1j- -14-3047-> . LR “go. esination Records Co FBI | Transmit the following in Via ATRTED . _ : aut t APO ob. L a _. HEREIN 1S UNCLASSIFIED TO: © DIRECTOR, FBI (97-4352) DATE ) oe FROM: SAC, NEW YORK (97-1857) = Ll Al. SUBJECT: MIGUEL ANTONTO sav CHEZ RANG aka: a sll Boe of ae IS. - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; . ao _ Ne ___ | RA = DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ry DAN ne a | 7 _ ee oe ReNYairtels 12/5/60, reflecting ‘res of fo interview of SANCHEZ on 12/3/60 . ; ww ye - SANCHEZ was interviewed during the 1 morning of 12/5/60, fy SAS EDWARD J, DEVINS, STEVE D, EVANS, anc HF? rNRIGH VON /ECKARDT at Room 1224, Prince George Hotel, 14 Eavt sien Street, NYC, which room has been obtained for the purpose. of conducting the continuing int exview of SANCHEZ. - Ln - i ne eT | ES RM) ; FOREIGN POLITICAL MATTERS ~ CUBA) FOREIGN POLITICAL MATTERS ~ DOMINICAN 4 /> 1 = 109-12-210 (A ~ 109-12-211 ra S. Bureau "lan 2 Ja Bsa~ 2 sO . | REP'BLIC) 5 (2 - — 105-S3709) (DONCNICAN INTELLIGENCE AGENTS IN THE us) ae | 1- Miami (INFO) | ¢RM) ~y ; ~ | OGPTES CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO : 2% | OO Pf moe | “M9 py 1/457- 3 | oe | ayers 2 35/- Ze !- | by routing Xe —_ DEC 8 50 er a ; X] info | acti we ver moe . ; . as Gs Wick ; id Ls wn ~& 9-60 2 samsaninavsavt ae f : . OF | 3h Be - G20EC 19 160 ~ Zz voorasagaaza Page , of 1993 (44 USC 2107 Hote).
[ Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 usc “9107 ‘Hotey. DATE: 14-14-2017" , a NY 97-1857, Under no circumstances should the subject's identity be disclosed, He can be characterized as a “person with whom insufficient contact has been had to determine the reliability of his information, but who servic to have contacts ain the Dominican Md itary Intelligence service, . oe SANCHEZ dictated the. folowing information to steno, JANE A, KOEHLER: "T flew via Central America back to the Dominican ‘Republic by. KIM plane to Curacao, Pan American © to Haiti, and Pan American to Ciudad Trujillo, In Curacao I met the Dominican Consul, Mr. POLANCO, and the _ Vice Consul, Me. VICIOSO. This occurred in August, 1959, ‘Two er three days later, Mr, VICIOSO took off. with all oO the confidential Consulate documents, Consul .PCLANCO CO gave me a large envelope'to. take to the Foreign Relations Department, These documents were classified 'ConPidential!, 'Secret', 'Top Secret', etc, It. was about a week after |. I returned to the Dominican Republic that T heard that Mr. VICIOSO had deserted and took off with the documents. In Curacao I met Mr, CANCIOBELLO, ‘former BATISTA naval - officer who was assigned to/the Inter-American Defense oS ae Junta, On my return, BELLO and myself occupied adjacent ui ( | - seats In the plane and he told me he was going to wait fee BAH ' .. for a visa to go to the United States from the Dominican ' Republic. He was coming from Guatemala, I believe he {8 in Miami now. When I arrived in the Dominican Republic I-went to see ABBES, the Chief of the SIM. When TI entered his office, there was a:lot of activity there. -GACEL was putting red tacks on a Cuban map. I inquired as to what he was doing, He told me 'we are invading _ Cuba. Trinidad is ours already. Morgan and Menoyo are with us.! fe ce A eee a etme Re \ organ is a former American paratrooper who . went to Cua a to fight with Castro. forces against Batista. His first 1 dame is Medan. He was a-Major in the Cuban eee “ | J. $4 Docld: 32337171 Page 3
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 19927 (44 USC 2107 Hote}. DATE: 11- 14ac20tF> NY 97-1857 - "Menoyo- is a Spaniard, I've heard he is a Communist from way back, Hewas.a Major on the Escambray Front. Now he is a Major in the Cuban red army. "YT told ABBES the reasons for my returning to the Dominican Republic without killing ALMOINA. He told me ~ . it was all right and that DIAZ FERNANDEZ sent him a Ere o ABBES said I was lucky to escape. ABBES said ‘now I need 7 - you right away for another job, Morgan is calling for - dnstructors to help train farmers against Castro, We have a C 46 plane leaving tonight. Do you wantto go?', Then “I told him 'sir. I don!t trust Morgan or Menoyo, I would. 4 rather wait a few days.' That plane was captured in an Cuba that same night and two or three of the mer were. - killed and the rest are imprisoned in Cuba, | This - occurred ‘in August, 1959. The same night I was at ABBES office I heard Morgan calling JOHNNY on a short wave récio. | MORGAN asked him for heavy equipment. ABBES thought that . MORGAN was with him against CASTRO, but MORGAN wes just putting on an act and CASTRO knew all the details of the - plot .to invade Cuba. MORGAN received close to $75,000 from ABBES and from AUGUSTOAFERNANDO, Dominican. Consul ELA. in Miami. They met MORGANfat a Miami Beach hotel. Pp. RK, This occurred around May o June ; 1959 and the money OS ant was paid to. him then. a to "at, this time in May of 1959,- JOHNNY went to > Lami. , make contact with MORGAN. He- was accompanied by. MANUEL (OLIVARI AM LLEN as-a bodyguard, and they had a good time in-™™™ 4 a calypsy “ATEAt club very close to downtown Miami. The VELAZCOs person who arranged MORGAN's meeting was Father] a Spanish priest, Father VELAZCO is a paid aggnt of SIM, . not an informer. Father VELAZCO had been in Yuba to ‘ “arrange this meeting. When I returned from Mg xico, I gave a small 25 pistol with- gold grips to JOHNNY as a gift. I had some other gifts for BOLRGAREG SOLER, POLICARPO was known in the Dominican s . of} . . . . . . L Se ee na Docld: 32337171 Page 4
Paes oe edd - = . . Released. under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hotey. ‘DATE: | 1)-14¢2017— . Q t a ‘ . ” NY 97-1857 7 ' Republic as- 'JoaquinRodriguez '. and 'General Rodriguez and he had a Cuban passport under that name. A few ‘o this (about May),POLICARPO went to Miami with ® ##PEDRAZA and they met ROLANDO MASFERRER, former y» Cuban Sena#or and the head of a private army called the (ye Tigers! a bunch of killers, They.went in a Dominican © | ok warship disguised as Dominican naval officers, Jt was ' . ‘either a frigate or a destroyer, On the return trip, . | ‘FERIA, also known as 'El Indio! with some other men dressed in Dominican naval uniforms was brought to the Dominican Republic, I told JOHNNY I was going to see SOLER and he told me not to go there often to see SOLER. Right away I knew something was cooking against SOLER. This was around August. 14 or 15, 1959. I asked for permission | _ to go there and JOHNNY told me to go and give Stiak the ~ ; gifts and take off, Then I went to my home, got my car, | ee _and went to see SOLER. When I arrived at his hsme I saw a’ : | '~ new car there, which belonged to SOLER. It was a black _ Cadillac, late model. It did not have any license plates. Tt confirmed my suspicions that SOLER was out of favor , because he had . Palace license plates for four years, When I entered SOLER's house, he came to me with a submachine ' .gun in his’ hand looking very nervous, He asked me if T was with him or against him, I gave him the right answer. and said 'T am with Trujillo', Then we went tc his room and he told me that. he had a fight with JOUNNY Ps because he knew that MORGAN was against TRUJILLO and not with - TRUJILLO, He said that JOHNNY was a fool and a queer and that he = told JOHNNY that he, JOHNNY, was a homosexual. SOLER's a wife was very nervous and ‘then she told me 'Sanchez, ’ you have to stick with us because if something happens to my husband, the same thing will happen to you.’ TI gave. - SOLER the present I-had, some pistol holstegs and cartridge _ .. belts, and right away I went to see JACOBQMTRUJILLO, half pk, brother of El Benefactor, I asked JACOB what was going en with SOLER while I was in Mexico. J COBO told me months prior, General JOSE = - 5 Docld: 32337171 Page 5