Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DWYER, ROBERT JAMES
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 12/18/1959
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote) .

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JFK Assassination System

Date:

4/27/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10300-10069

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 97-3726-27

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

DWYER, ROBERT JAMES

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 12/18/1959

'PAGES:

15

SUBJECTS:

NRO, ASSOC, TRA, PLAN, COUNTERFEIT MONEY

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

_05/04/1998

• OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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Reprit i m

FD-262 (- 12-55)

Reporting Ostico

MIAMI

FEDERAL .. EAU OF INVESTIOAUR

Office of Origia

MIAMI

Intostigativo Pariod

10/7 - 11/23/59

Al

TITLE OF CASE

Dato

DEC 1 § 1959

Hoport made by

ROBERT JAMES DWYER

CHARACTER OF CASE

Typod By:

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MANUEL CALIXTO ROJAS DIAZ

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DATE

12-12-8

INTERNAL

SECURITY - CUBA

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Synopals:

REFERENCE:

TIAN TO

Report of SA ROBERT JAMES DWYER,

, Miami, 10/6/59.

Bureau letter to Department 10/19/59.

Bureau airtel to Miami 11/23/59.

Miami airtels

to Bureau 11/25/59 and 11/29/59.

DECHISSIFIED BY

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2. Will maintain contact with Immigration and

Naturalization Service, U. S. Customs and U. S. Border

Patrol regarding activities of subject.

3. Will recontact LYNN BAIR for further coverage

of subject.

4. Will report all details of subject's flight

to Aruba, Dutch West Indies, and any administrative

action taken against him by Immigration and Naturalization

Service, Miami.

INFORMANTS

IDENTITY

LOCATION OF ORIGINAL INFORMATION

* ' MM I-I 1S LESTER BRUCE THRON, 134-373-Sub A-3,7

MM T-2 is General MANUEL

BENITEZ, 60 Palermo, Coral

Gables, Florida

(By request)

Instant report, pages 1,6,7

MM T-3 is DI. ALCIDES DE LOS

REYES, 1674 Southwest 8th

Street, Miami, Florida

(By request)

Instant report, pages 1,7,9

(E)

MM T-4 is CHARLES WILLIAM •

HORMEL, PCI

MM T-5 is GEORGE RICHARDSON

FRANKLIN, 1762 S. W. 14th

Terrace, Miami

(By request)

134-92

Instant report, pages 2,10,11?

Мм T-6

Instant report, pages 2,12.

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Copy tos

Report of

Dotes

Flle Numben

Titler

1 - INS, Miami (RM)

1 - U. S. Customs, Miami (RM)

1 - U. S. Border Patrol, Tampa, Fla. (RM)

SA ROBERT JAMES DWYER

Office MIAMI

DEC 1 8 1959

105-1791

BUREAU FILE 97-3726

MANUEL, CALIXTO ROJAS DIAZ

Character

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HERN IS UNSLASCIRED 211,32

DATE /29/85

... BY SPEBTATa

Synopstai

Subject reported to appear person in charge of Cuban

Department of Logistics in Miami in early 1959.

U.S. Border Patrol reported subject, on 9/23/59, left

Nassau, BWI, with passenger and arrived in Miami alone.

On 9/24/59, subject offered a person $25.00 to return

a rented airplane which he reportedly used to smuggle

Jalien into U. S. On 9/25/59, subject reportedly

flew guns from Ft. Pierce, Fla., to Cuba.

MM T-2'

also reported subject flew guns to Cuba

on week-end

of 9/26/59.

MM T-3, in September, 1959, advised

subject has been

flying guns to Cuba. MM T-1,

in October, 1959, advised subject was flying for formei

¡Cuban Senator ROLANDO MASFERRER and was interested in

going to Dominican Republic.

MM I-3, in October, 1959,,

said some anti-CASTRO leaders considered subject

unreliable and dishonest, and that FREDESVINDO BOSQUE,

representative of General PEDRAZA, was checking on

subject.

On 10/17/59, subject telephonically contacted

Miami Office and said his life had been threatened, and

that he wanted protection. On 10/20/59, subject again

contacted Miami Office and said he intended to object

to U. S. Department of State request that he register

as agent of foréign principal.. MM I-4'advised that

subject is an associate of ORLANDO PIEDRA, former head

of Cuban Military Intelligence. In June, 1959, PIEDRA

asked MM I-4l to join subject in smuggling aliens into

U. S:

and to point out various air strips in southern

This document contains nelther recommendations nor conelusions of any kind. Il ls the property of the FBl, and is a loca to your agency,

Il and /or its contente are not to be distributad outde your agency.

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Florida to subject.

IMM T-5, on 11/4/59, 891d he went to

Nassau with subject a few weeks previously in Cessna

airplane.

In Nassau subject net with RAMIRO RANGEL,

Cuban counterfeiter, and "MIKE" ARRUTIA, former Dominican

Consul in Nassau.

They discussed plan to counterfeit Cuban

pesos, U. S. notes and British pounds. Prior to this

ROJAS met with NORMAN ROTHMAN, Miami Beach hoodlum, concern-

ing making counterfeit money. By letter dated 10/15/59,

the U.S. Department of Justice advised that subject was

required to register under Foreign Agents Registration

Act.

On 11/21/59, U. S. Border Patrol advised they

received information that subject rented airplane and

flew it to Dominican Republic.

In Dominican Republic

subject loaded plane with anti-BEIANCOURT pamphlets to

drop over Venezuela.

Subject converted this plane in

Dominican Republic, attempted to fly to Venezuela, became

lost,

landed in Aruba, Dutch West Indies, and was arrested.

MM I-6jadvised that an article appeared in a Spanish

newspaper stating that subject had been fined $200.00 by

authorities in Aruba.

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DETAILS:

On September 24, 1959, LYNN BAIR, Green Mansions

Motel, Miami Springs, Florida, advised he was an employed

pilot and knew the subject. "BAIR explained that he came

to know the subject while working as a flight instructor,

and that he taught the subject how to fly.

BAIR advised that ROJAS was at his apartment

that morning and wanted BAIR to return a rented plane

to DuPont Air Interests, Miami International Airport,

Miami. The plane had been returned by BOB OVERLY, and

was flown by ROJAS, who, when he returned, hit a rock

and damaged the plane.

ROJAS offered BAIR $25.00 to

return the plane to DuPont Air Interests, to which BAIR

refused. BAIR said the plane was a Cessna 172, and had

been used by ROJAS for two days. ROJAS left this plane at

Regina Aviation Company, Miami International Alrport. ROJAS

had only four or five hours logged on the airplane's tachometer,

had used it two days and had brought an alien into the

United States. in this airplane.

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BARRINAT said that during the early part of

1959, MANUEL ROJAS informed him that the Cuban Government

had formed a Department of Logistics. under the command

of Captain GASPAR GONZALEZ LANUZA. BARRINAT was told by ROJAS

that the Department of Logistics would have persons in the Guba

United States who would try to obtain information about

arms shipments to Cuba, and that this information would be

turned over to the United States and Cuban authorities so

that they would be able to seize these arms.

BARRINAT said that ROJAS appeared to be the person

in charge of the Department of Logistics' activities in

Miami, and was the person who handled correspondence with

Captain GONZALEZ LANUZA in Cuba. BARRINAT said that the

only other person known to him to be connected with the

Department of Logistics was FRANK PEREZ PEREZ, a Cuban

National residing in Miami.

Ila Quba

MM. T-1, on September 25, 1959, advised that on

September 24, 1959, early in the morning, MANUEL ROJAS

returned from a flight to Nassau in a Piper Apache airplane

and landed at Tamiami Airport, Miami.

MM Tol said that on September 24, 1959, ROJAS

and EVELIO ALPIZAR took a twin-engine Beechcraft airplane

from St: Lucie County Airport, Fort Pierce, Florida, and

flew over the B and L Farms near Homestead, Florida, did

not land, and returned to Tamiaml Airport where the

plane was left during the night.

MM Tol advised that the plane was originally

flown to Ft. Pierce by three Americans, a man named

LES THORN, a woman named VIRGINIA (last name unknown), and

another person named WILLIAM

Fila:

MM T-l advised that these three persons apparently

had nothing to do with the use of the plane, and that the

plane was to be returned to Fort Pierce, Florida, on the

evening of September 25, 1959.

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On October 9, 1959, MM T-l advised that LES THORN

had been offered, and accepted, a job as maintenance man

ana part-time pilot for Compania Dominicana de Avacion

Airlines, Dominican Republic, and

would leave for that

country to take that position.

MM. T~1 said that THORN had talked this over

with ROJAS, who stated that he, too, was interested in

obtaining such a job in the Dominican Republic.

ROJAS

advised MM I-l that on ROJAS! authorization, EVELIO

ALPIZAR paid $50.00 to THORN for past services performed.

MM T-1 said that ROJAS 18 flying for ROLANDO MASFERRER,

deal, that ROJAS 1s setting up with MASFERRER and BAIR.

MM T-l said it was undoubtedly concerning arrangements

to make some 1llegal flight out of the United States for

seen out

MASFERRER by BAIR.

MM T-3, on October 13, 1959,

advised that some

ant1-FIDEL CASTRO leaders in Miami feel that MANUEL ROJAS

and certain other individuals are unreliable and dishonest

In their dealings with the anti-CASTRO movement, and that

these individuals have been known to collect money to

carry out anti-CASTRO activities, but have been using a

portion of the collected funds for their own personal

benefit.

FREDESVINDOXBOSQUE, a representative of General JOSE

PEDRAZA, stated he was checking on ROJAS conceming his

reliability and loyalty to the anti-CASTRO movement.

MM T-3 explained that General JOSE PEDRAZA 18

a former Cuban General 1n exile in the Dominican Republic,

and considered the military leader of the anti-CASTRO

movement.

On October 17, 1959, MANUEL ROJAS telephonically

contacted the Miami Office and advised SA WILLIAM P.

KELLY that in the norning of that day he had received a

telephone call from an unidentifled male Cuban, who

threatened his life.

Then later during the morning

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he received another phone call from an unidentified female

Cuban who asked to meet him at 220 Collins Avenue, Miami

Beach.

ROJAS stated he declined this Invitation.

ROJAS

Bald that during the early evening of October 17, 1959,

he received another telephone call from the same

wOman

asked ROJAS to meet her at the Toledo Restaurant in

who

downtown Miami at about 9:00 P.M.

ROJAS stated he was very nervous about the

possibility of an attempt made on his life. He desired

the FBI to protect him.

ROJAS stated that

although he was

very much afraid he might be assassinated, he did not

wish to notify local police authorities, and he had no

Intention of meeting the unidentifled Cuban woman at the

Toledo Restaurant.

On October 20, 1959, ROJAS telephonically

contacted SA WILLIAM P.

KELLY, and stated he had received

a letter from the United States Department of Justice,

dated October 15, 1959, requesting him to register under

the provisions of the Registration Act.

ROJAS stated

that he intended to contact the Department of Justice

and object to this request that he register.

Ceba

On October 25, 1959, MM T-4 advised that ROJAS

was an associate of ORLANDO,PIEDRA, a Cuban exile residing

FlA

in Miami, who was formerly the Chief of the Cuban Military

Intelligence Service, and (first name unknown) MEDINA, brother,

former Cuban Consul

General, Miami, ANTONIO MEDINA.

MM F-4 said that in June, 1959, PIEDRA asked

MM T-4 to Join ROJAS in flying unidentified persons out of

auba into the united States and also to point out to ROJAS

the various afrfields and airatrips located in South

Florida that could be used for such an operation.

prior to thatvember 4, 1959, advisea lt

Ila.

rew weeks prior to that date ROJAS asked uM T-5 to fly to

NASSAU, which they did, together in a Cessna 172 airplane

ex-Cuban politician

former Dominican Consul in Nassau, and that these three

men discussed a plot to counterfeit Cuban pesos, United@rominan

States notes and British pounds.

Republic

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