424-10475-10039)., ORIGINATOR: FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECT: DOCUMENT TYPE: ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: STATUS COMMENTS: HY 50953 Bocld: 321722270 AGENCY INFORMATION * AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10175-10039 RECORD SERIES: HO | AGENCY FILE NUMBER:  105-82555-5TH NR 5578 DOCUMENT INFORMATION FBI WANNALL, W. R. SULLIVAN. W. C. 04/11/1967 2 JR, POLIT ACT, US SYNDICATE PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret Bie CLASSIFICATION: 09/24/1997 UPDATE DATE: — 02/12/2001 Redact _RESTRICTIONS:/ JFK Act 6 (1B) Page i
se oe. TONAL FORM NO. 10 . SOIG— 106 +1952. EDITION Saree oa GEN. REG. NO. 27 cok - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT i % 4 ape oe ro Memorandum CEP RET | 2 | oe eh Sk ; —— TOs Mr. Wy C. SuLLivel prey peat e CEHECTION, 70 apra 11, 1967 cee .. ? eras SSIEICAT 10N AND/OR i ; ae . Sulliven BAe" RELEASE Ae if r,. C,. DBD. BeLoach Tavel ved GF CIA INFORMATION R. EL Wick Trotter — FROM : W, R, Wannali wei Ha US DOCUMENT, 1 - Mr. W. C. Sullivan fires | 2 K Xe ‘RR. E. Lenihan om © B/iof47 4 W. R. Wannall : SUBJECT; JOHN EVANS, also known as H. Solon i Torbour “Attenborough ALNTERNAL SECURITY ~ JAMA herr “3S - wl), Subject, now in Jamaica and possibly me ntally BS & BS) deranged, claims to be planning revolution to overthrow ear “ane SUS. government of damaica with assistance of unidentified ea) Besi United States syndicate" and help from Communist Cuba. ae m~ )We are initiating investigation into his activities while. f) rt ihe was in the United States, 1953-1966, for benefit of wm! Seb ijJamaican police. For information. u <a Sy GS RKccntral Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been . ‘ it advi —~) Ss) > iy advised by | that S small boat between Jamaica and Cuba, lost and out of fuel and food, in September, 1966. He claimed to be in the ‘process of attempting to rendezvous with unidentified Cubans with whom he planned to travel to Cuba to collect funds to be used in the overthrow of the Jamaican Government. Such funds were to be used to send organized groups of Jamaicans to Cuba for training for this purpose. Evans claimed to be. i working with a "syndicate" in the United States which is Lae j to finance a communist revolution in Jamaica. He claimed NN this is the same "syndicate" which in the United States QR had caused Jack Ruby to kill Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin. “Rjof President Kennedy. Evans UPCHEY ElAMed to be enlisting yp Qe aid of Jamaican criminal element to organize an extortion Nera cket to shake down some 100 off-track betting shops in AS Sana ica, proceeds from which were to be wipe a, sevolution : % mr i 4 Sy eos , _ Evans claims to be a film direct gpm | ae “. the United States where he lived from 195 as, Bina ican unde pelice found evidence he had lived in 10580 gt an alias and entered Jamaica in September, 1966, using faise documentation, He maintained he had engasSa Tn thy igs s Shes activities while in the United States, His German-born wite | and child reportedly lived in Binghamton, New York, until January, 1967, when they joined him in Jamaica. Investigation to date by Jamaican authorities has failed to substantiate any of Evans' claims and his true identity is still in doubt AHS: rw fs —-SECK \ VY s& eT CONTINUED - OVER HW 50953 DBocld: 321722770 Page ? Evans, 2 NéSro Jamaican national, was picked up at sea in ™ S er AP R 14 18 67 ORIGINAL FILED IN /OS >. ) af” Eercmepenege
HW 509453 Memorandum to Mr. W. C. Sullivan. SEC} ‘Re: JOHN EVANS a eT we 3 Pry ny é Bee ¥ 6 information furnished concerning Evans indicates he may well be mentally unbalanced. Despite this, his claimed connection with a United States "syndicate" which caused Ruby to kill OCswaid and his alleged major involve- ment in a plan to overthrow the Jamaican Government with uban and “syndicate assistance along with his indicated i3S-year residence in the United States dictate that we conduct investigation in effort to determine his activities while in this country./ CYA intends to nass to pertinent results of cur tnquarzes (>) Bureau files contain no information identifiable with Evans. By separate letter, New York and Albany being jinstructed to initiate investigation. Other offices covering iEvans’ claimed United States residences instructed to review itheir files and police and credit records. tee j}appropriateiy cleared for passage to Jamaican authorities, PAN CBE a mas: rtinent results, Dee a i iwill be furnished to CIA [for relay to Ne) ACTION: | None. For information. a nw ‘ | ? vo | a“ f > ZAC | F I Bocla: 32172220 Page 3