UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION - Copyto: 1 - Immigration and Naturalization Service, - Hammond, Indiana (Registered Mail) Report of: GEORGE T. RIORDAN, SA . , Office: INDIANAPOLIS Date: 1 / 3 / 64 File Number: TP 105-3434 Bureau File Now: 105-124793 , REyire LIT may Title: , REV SEER a TASK FORCE DAY ON tu AL RONALD HAROLD DAY 7 [Ba RELE.. - Y rE a wa | Choate: INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA O RELEASE PART 3 833 ) Cl TOTAL DENiaL 38 88 . ,a = 2 Synopsis: i . . “83 2 - AUSA, NDI, Hammond, Indiana, on 12/5/63 authorized 39.48 pe . prosecution of RONALD HAROLD DAY for violation of — 2eo8 7 Title 18, Section 2312, USC--interstate transportation eteag — of a stolen motor vehicle. DAY, on 12/6/63, waived SEES we preliminary hearing before USC, NDI, Hammond, and is 3438. = incarcerated Lake County Jail, Crown Point, Indiana, $83 = in lieu of $2,500 bond. DAY claims to have been born ~ RES 3/31/39, Rosiclare,; Illinois. ‘Maintains*he is a 8e3 "pro-CASTRO" and “pro-Cuban" ‘sympathizer. Praised & CASTRO Regime ‘in Cuba and criticized United States policies. Maintains he has traveled to Cuba and Mexico andvhas been in close association with CASTRO . followers and sympathizers. . DAY vilified late President JOHN FAKKENNEDY claiming KENNEDY should have been shot befor€é inauguration because of his subsequent Cuban policies and "bayonet-point integration of South." RCH & File chil! E OF ox, U | RESEARCH & fle . : Wrewigene: “su This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of ony kind. It is the property of the FBI, and is a loan to your agency; it and/or its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. NW 55536 Docld: 32263730 Page i
IP 105-3434, 3 DAY again spoke of his travels to Mexico and Cuba, boasting that he had been in Cuba during the United States Naval blockade. He remarked of going to Cuba under an assumed name , utilizing a false passport and simulated identification documents. His purpose in going to Cuba was "to visit bars and secure a female companion." He bragged of being able to obtain a false passport and other simulated identification documents such as birth and marriage certificates. ' He specifically asserted, "Anyone can get false passports or documents within 40 miles of Chicago for $125." He refused to supply the location of this place or furnish any other details. DAY told of being in Mexico in November, 1963. He stated that on November 22, 1963--the date of the assassination of - . President JOHN F. KE Y--he was in Dallas, Texas, en route’ through that city with three Mexicans he had picked up in South Texas. He became aware of: the assassination while in Dallas, Texas. He: claimed he did t have any information concerning the assassination or LEE HAR SWALD. “However, reflecting on the assassination, © he recalled ing in Juarez, Mexico, on or about November 7-8, 1963, and heard: some Mexicans say that. an American boy had been attempting to go to Cuba and on two occasions had gone to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico. He presumed this American boy might have been OSWALD. . ; . i . DAY, in remarking of the assassination of President KENNEDY, asserted, "Kennedy should have been shot even before he. was inaugurated." DAY commenced to vilify President KENNEDY for ~ his policies concerning Cuba, the institution’ of the Naval blockade of Cuba, and for "his bayonetpoint integration measures in the: South." DAY stated, "There is more freedom in Canada and Mexico than in the United States." . . The Immigration and Naturalization Service, Hammond, Indiana, advised Chief of Police WILLIAM J. McGINN, Hobart, Indiana, ‘Police Department, furnished torn pieces of paper ripped by DAY 5 | MW 55536 Docld: 32283790 Page 2