JFK Assassination System Date: 4/3/2015 Identification Form Agency Information Peleased winder the John AGENCY: FBI Kennedy 4 RECORD NUMBER: | 124-10302-10247 Sssassination Records ollection Act of 1992 . . (44 USC 2107 Note). ERIES: | RECORD S S HQ ase#: NU 54462 Date: AGENCY FILENUMBER: 2-1499-29 pO ee Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: SAC,MM TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: } DATE: 06/17/1959 PAGES: 4 SUBJECTS : FS, ANTI-COMMUNIST, BKG, MIL, CITIZENSHIP, ASSOC, SMUGGLING; WEAOPNS DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENTSTATUS:  Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 06/17/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS: INC MEMO v9.1 HW 54462 DBocld: 32310303 Page 1
| a =e. STANDARD FORM NO. 64 7 > a a —- g | Office Memorandum « ‘onrren s TO | | ——_ | port + sac, MuaMt SUBJECT: > lai ED BY ep py GB mt LASS] Af 7- ROLES a MO 2 Ae AAG . ae <—- Bureau (RM) ") Ms bg Ree 3 WAW:dlp oer Ea 7 JUN 20 1089 «,. (4) een aprotic ES psp’ . SCL Pt brGep®, AG erty Gh ¥ i MD “Se \geal>* 2’ DIRECTOR, FBI (2-1499) (2-192) FRANK ANTHONY STURGIS, Aka.,. Frank Fiorini IS--=—-GUBA; RA ~ dan ReBulet to MM, captioned as above, dated 6/5/59, instructing MM to furnish information re activities of subject and recommendation for approach to him. On April 7, 1959, MM 635-S advised SA GEORGE E. DAVIS, JR., that FIORINI is a Captain in the Cuban Air Force, and that RAUL-CASTRO, Chief of the Department of Defense of Cuba, was believed to be investigating FIORINI for anti-Communist sympathies. (134-211 Sub A-139.) On May 6, 1959, PSI ROBERT A. WILLIAMS (protect) stated that FRANK FIORINI is an American who works for the Cuban Air Force in Miami. (134-354 Sub A.) A) On May 12, 1959, MM 635-S advised SA DAVIS that FRANK FIORINI had, until recently, been serving as liaison man by the FAR (Cuban Air Force) and U. §. Embassy in Havana, Cuba. The Embassy notified-him, however, that he might lose his United States citizenship and that he had to decide between the United States and Cuba. FIORINI thereupon decided to remain in Miami in order to retain his United States citizenship. for FAR but not for FAR intelligence. These investigations relate to individuals suspected of smuggling guns into Cuba; smuggling people out of Cuba, and related matters. MM 635-S said FIORINI is living at the Ankara Motel, Miami Beach, Florida. (134-211 sub a-168.) llc) HW 54462 DoclId: 327310303 Page 2? DATE: June 17, 1959 { q. YATES GOVERNMENT ee mm em nee oe 0) He is now conducting investigations / r 4
© > On May 26, 1959, MM 635-S advised SA DAVIS that FRANK FIORINI wants to become a public relations man as a "cover" for his “yr as an investigator. (134-211 sub A-146.), By letter dated October 22, 1958, from J. .WALTER YEAGLEY, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Internal Security Division, Department of Justice, to the Director, FBI, and captioned, "FRANK ANTHONY STURGIS; RA", it was concluded that from information contained in the report of SA ROBERT JAMES DWYER dated September 23, 1958, at Miami, same caption, that "The subject had acted within the United States as an agent of a foreign principal so as to require his registration under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 as amended. Accordingly, this Division is soliciting the.subject's registration under the Act and you willbe advised as to the outcome of our efforts in this regard." On April 13, 1959, Mrs. RUTH BRADY, Registration Section, Internal Security Division, United States Department of Justice, advised SA DONALD HOTEING that her records failed to reflect that subject is registered as a foreign agent of a foreign principal. On June 9, 1959, J. A. TURNER and EMIT PHILLIPS, Investigators, Immigration and Naturalization Service, . Miami, Florida, advised SA WILLIAM A. WIGHTMAN that that office had no current information regarding or interest in the subject. : On June 9, 1959, WALLACE SHANLEY,. Investigator, United States Customs Service, Miami, advised SA WIGHTMAN that his office had no pending investigation regarding subject and was: in:possession of no information mt previously . disseminated to the Miami Office. HW 54462 DoclId: 327310303 Page 3