JFK Assassination System Date: Identification Form 0 > 2 3990 II I I Agency Information 5/7/2015 Peleased under the John Kennedy Assassination Records AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: _ 124-90076-10004 Ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#:NWU 54460 Date: AGENCY FILENUMBER: CR 62-107261-644 HO-oO3-2017 eee Document Information RECORD SERIES.: HQ FBI ORIGINATOR : ° FROM: MM TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 11/07/1964 PAGES: 3 SUBJECTS : MARCOS DIAZ LANZ MINUTEMEN DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 07/06/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : TT eee v9.1 . 2 HW 54460 Docld:323264389 Page 1
Callahan . PM Re ee oe x» Conrad Trotter GRAN ADIO xxTELETYPE j0'"— CONS in Deda ee sa les 08 AM EST URGENT 117-6 PJR wojeHod Shohitie d te DIRECTOR nase fs X80 : (FROM MIAMI 060200 B-AaA\wATy 4 MINUTEMEN, INFO CONCERNING = IS. InTERCIAL SEOURITY rea e | REBUTEL NOVEMBER h, 196. ON NOvENBER 2, 5 AND 6, MM 635=S, WHO HAS BEEN Lone FORCE MAJOR PEDRO LUIS DIAZ LANZ, BOTH EXILED IN U.Se, 1O- * al aD VISED AS FOLLOWS:. “EERE VENEZUECAN EMPLOYEE OF fe RANSA AIRLINE WHO. RESIDES MIAMI, REQUESTED INFORMANT TO PUT fis HIM LM TOUCH WITH SOME ARMS DEALER WHO COULD SUPPLY SOME ; Cy SUPPORTERS, OF FORMER VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT PEREZ IMENT» / ON OGKOBER'29, INFORMANT INTRODUCED CABRERA TOMAR “Ni fYY wide? ANZ, SHO TOLD CABRERA Hee R RTE WAS GARCIA. DIAZ rs Pa riees Ce % fp OF "ee 635-8 CLAIMED TO CABRERA HE COULD SUPPLY WEAPONS. U \ ye CABRERA EXPRESSED INTEREST IN MAKING PURCHASE. DURING THIS (. Se |MEET,, DIAZ*ALSO EXPRESSED THE OPINION TO CABRERA THAT IF Aleph” =‘) "LBU™ BECAME PRESIDENT, U.S. WOULD GO COMMUNIST. DIAZ ALSO Nn m4 ; aw REMARKED THERE EXISTED SOME SECRET ORGANIZATION SUCH ASx- Rai = "MINUTEMEN" WHICH WOULD FIGHT TO THE END. THAT ITS MEMBERS UN “ h HAD BEEN RECEIVING TRAINING, AND THAT IN HIS OPINION THERE wheN <a SHOULD BE A MILITARY CORPS. DIAZ MENTIONED SOME PLAGE, NOT Sve % R IN FLORIDA WHERE THE MINUTEMEN ARE REPORTEDLY ORGANIZED. ‘ay a KR otDIAZ DID NOT STATE, HOWEWER,. THAT HE. dS: MEMBER OF MINOT EME N v 23 +N N .| # Se . s FS egpNOR THAT HE HAD SOLD ARMS TO THEM. DIAZ DID NOT STATE THAT ®. % THE MINUTEMEN PLAN AN ARMED INSURRECTION AGAINST U. Se GOVERN= a ye HENS PAE CUMS ORO trashson 2) an . Sap di . a — 7 sy s ¥ ‘eal _ §& NOV 19 1964 “pe B er A (2 Biase ay BELMONT FOR THE DiRECTOR | : fo ; oy Q Meee IU ay “OL EC P ‘if the intelligence contained in the above me ssagq is ¥o be dissem (3 f paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau’s cryptographic systemsé Lea L HW 54460 Docld:323264389 Page 2?
a ’ . * _ Coa “g « _ \ . u . 4-3P(Rev’. O-5-64 , é ‘ A re ~TalSon “es . Belmont ioe, . g a: DeLoach Casper Callahan Conrad Evans » ree Gale Y ERG Rosen x bai Sullivan ‘ | R i Tavel Trotter RADIO x TELETYPE == — Holmes PAGE TWO MIAMI 060200 WITH GROUPS OF THIS SORT. DIAZ DID NOT MENTION ANY MINUTE-~ '.-MEN MILITARY CAMPS IN FLORIDA. INFORMANT BELIEVES THAT DIAZ HAS HAD SUBSEQUENT MEETINGS WITH CABRERA, BUT HE DOES NOT - KNOW RESULTS OF SAME. ON NOVEMBER 4, JOE VIDAL, CIA LIAISON, MIAMI, TELEPHON- ICALLY INQUIRED RE BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON MM 635-S UNDER HIS TRUE NAME AND IDENTITY OF CUBAN WITH WHOM HE WAS ARRESTED IN MID 1950'S. THIS OFFICE GAVE CIA THE NAMES OF MARCOS WHO WAS ARRESTED WITH MM 635-S IN 1950'S. IT THEREFORE APPEARS THAT CIA'S "UNTESTED SOURCE" 1S EFRAIN CABRERA, WHO 1S KNOWN TO THIS OFFICE, BUT NOT REGARDED AS COMPLETELY REL! ABLE GY(U} MIAMI RECEIVED CIA MEMO LOCALLY DATED NOVEMBER ) EN-= \ TITLED "PLANNED INSURRECTION OF MINUTEMEN IN FLORIDA AREA." ON NOVEMBER 5, MIAMI CONTACTED RAY DUBOIS, CIA MIAMI, FOR : IDENTITY CIA SOURCE IN ORDER INTERVIEW PURSUANT BUREAU IN- STRUCTIONS. DUBOIS FELT THAT INTERVIEW OF GIA SOURCE BY 4 FBI AT THIS TIME WOULD COMPROMISE THAT SOURCE RELATIVE TO ANOTHER FACET OF IMPORTANCE TO CIA. THIS OFFICE DID NOT INSIST IN VIEW OF VULNERABLE POSITION OF MM 635-8. CIA AGREED THAT INTERVIEW OF MARCOS DIAZ BY FBI BASED UPON AN ARTICLE ENTITLED "MINUTEMEN URGE SOCIETY TO GET GUNS = BIRCHERS DISOWN TO ARMS TRACT," WHICH APPEARED NOVEMBER 5 IN MIAMI HERALD, WOULD NOT JEOPARDIZE CIA SOURCE, AS PEDRO DIAZ 1S KNOWN BY, THIS OFFICE TO HAVE ASSOCIATION WITH JOHN En BiRCH socieTy.( QR UY) ON NOVEMB MARCOS LIAZ LANZ WAS INTERVIEWED AT HIS RESIDENCE UPON THIS PREDICATION, AFTER MARCOS HAD ADVISED If the intelligence contained in the above message is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau’s cryptographic systems. HW 54460 Docld:32326439 Page 3
t i * a . ., . Lae foe ~ . . a as a rp 4- eiFey’ te-sied, fs y* Teton _, _* Sf | ew” Belmont é f Mohr DeLoach Casper Callahan Conrad Evans Sullivan Tavel Trotter 4 AIRGRAM “1 CABLEGRAM, ‘RADIO 4%) TELETYPE ictom Holmes SUPRA ES Soa Fa TUL IY EAL THAT HIS BROTHER PEDRO HAS MOVED TO TULSA, OKLAHOMA WHERE HE 1S WORKING FULL TIME FOR THE CHRISTIAN CRUSADE, MARCOS ADVISED THAT NEITHER HE NOR PEDRO ARE OR EVER HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF MINUTEMEN. HE DISCLAIMED ANY PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF ANY MINUTEMEN GROUPS IN MIAMI OR ELSEWHERE IN FLORIDA OR ANY OTHER SPECIFIC PLACE. HE CLAIMED HIS KNOWLEDGE OF MINUTEMEN 1S BASED UPON NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES WHICH HAVE RELATED THAT THE MINUTEMEN ARE TRAINING WITH WEAPONS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE U.S. MARCOS ALSO SAW A TELEVISION PROGRAM LAST WEEK WHICH RELATED TO THE DOWNFALL OF AN ORGANIZATION SIMILAR TO THE MINUTEMEN. HE FELT THIS PROGRAM WAS AN ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT ANY ORGANIZATION WHICH OPPRESSES SOCIALISM. MARCOS SAID HE 1S NOT ACQUAINTED WITH ANY MINUTEMEN AND KNOWS OF NO PLANS FOR AN ARMED INSURRECTION. HE EXPRESSED HIMSELF AS FAVORING MORE AGGRESSIVE ACTION AGAINST COMMUNISM AND THE CASTRO REGIME. MARCOS ADVISED THAT HE IS NOW A SLE SMAN OF CROP DUSTING PLANES AND REPRESENTS IMCO, INC., OF AFTON, WYOMING, WHICH MANUFACTURES SAME. MIAMI SUGGESTS THAT BUREAU NOT DISSEMINATE ABOVE INFOR= MATION UNTIL RECEIPT MIAMI LHM AS MM 63585 1S IN VULNERABLE POSIT ION‘. LHM FOLLOWS. RECEIVED: 5:21AM DWM CC--MR. SULLIVAN If the intelligence contained in the above message is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau’s cryptographic systems. | HW 54460 Docld:323276469 Page 4