Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HQ
To: MM
Document date: 12/20/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

6/8/2015

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90019-10294

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 97-4623-168

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 53130 Date:

05-31-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO:

TITLE :

FBI

MM

HQ

DATE: 12/20/1963

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

ALEXANDER IR WIN RORKE, JR.

ALEXANDER RORKE

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/13/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

MEMO

v9.1

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

UNITED STATES GO

INMENT

Memorandum

CONN

CAN AL

TO

DIRECTOR, FBI (97-4623)

DATE:

12/20/63

SAC, MIAMI (2-346) (P)

ALL INRORMAZION CONTAINED

•ASSIFIED

BRE "

CIA HAS NO OB RESTON TO AT - ANDER ERNEY RORKS, JR.

ARE SHOWN

OTHERWISE

DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR,

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION

IN THE DUCENT: IM deBuTed to Mtani dated 11/14/63.

Declassify gri: PADER (STAK)

With reference to FAA letter dated 11/4/63,

concerning

report that RORKE and SULLIVAN crashed in Cuba during Hurricane

Flora, this information originated with CIA, Miami, who previously

advised the Miami Office that this information was received from

(DRO))

Cuba, was completely unverified

CLASSIFIED DECISIONS FINALIZED

evaluating it.

BY DEFARIMENT REVYEW COMMITTEE

Shape

бий месите реї

and that CIA had no way of

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8123mc/

sange dan

The Bureau will note that RORKE and SULLIVAN left

Florida on 9/24/63 and Hurricane Flora did not hit Cuba until

0487

10/4/63, some 11 days later.

Sources and informants advised they have different

ideas what might have happened to RORKE and SULLIVAN. All sources

and informants believe RORKE and SULLIVAN are dead and did not

go to Cuba.

They feel that if RORKE would have been captured

in Cuba the CASTRO Governmeht would have used the incident for

DATE:

propaganda.

MM: 639-S] FRANK TORINI, LAUREANO BATISTA FALLA,

FELIPE, VIDAL SANTIAGO and GERALD PATRICK HEMMING, all active

in Cuban revolutionary activities, and friends and acquaintances

I RORKE, advise they have no doubt that nukke is dead

ECLASSIFIED BY 5668 SID /ISR

Bureau (RM)

2

Miami

RJD: bam

(4)

1. 10 - 21-97 (3FK)

REC 3397-4622-168

8123 2/8

Classified By

11s

14 DEC 2S: 1963

5 7 DEC 3 1 1963

appears 86, 0481

_copies made.

DJC, ma

for review at FBIHQ by,

2M7 CONSE MAN PHen

S.P. Hemmy

NAININ SUC

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