Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DIRECTOR, FBI
To: YEAGLEY, J. WALTER
Document date: 5/7/68
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Date:

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Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10294-10216

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

105-165503-45, 46

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: DIRECTOR, FBI

TO :. YEAGLEY, J. WALTER

TITLE:

DATE:

05/07/1968

PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS :

FS, ASSOC, ACA, MEXICO, SHIP, EXPLOSIVES

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: Consulted; 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/16/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF DOJ

COMMENTS : REFERRAL TO DOJ, INC MEMO

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UNITED' STATES

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Memoran sim

MENT OF JUSTICE

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TO

: Director

DATE:

Federal Bureau of Investigation

June 7, 1968.

SUBJECT:

J. Walter Yeagley

Assistant Attorney General

Internal security Division

FRANK ANGELO FIORINI, AND OTHERS

REPORTED PLANS TO BLOW UP CUBAN SHIP

IN MEXICAN PORT, POSSIBLY VERACRUZ

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

NEUTRALITY MATTERS - CUBA

This refers

to your memorandum of May 7, 1968, requesting

to be advised as to whether there have been any development

in this matter.

In a

• letter dated December 4, 1967, a copy of which wa

furnished to your Bureau, we requested the Director of

Munitions Control, Department of State, to make appropriate

inquiries

to determine whether Mexican authorities would

conduct a

chemical analysis of certain explosives in their

possession and make the results available to us. We also

requested that a determination be made as to the availability!

of Mexican witnesses for the purpose of prosecution.

letter dated December 18, 1967;

the Director of Munitions

Control advised that appropriate action was being initiated

pursuant to our request.

On June 6, 1968 Mr. Stanley Phillips, Office of

Munitions Control, advised that on April 10, 1968 the State

Department learned from the United States Embassy in Mexico

City that the appropriate requests had been made to Mexican

authorities. Mr. Phillips stated that the State Department

has received no information regarding this matter since

April l0th, but he said that he would initiate an inquiry

.as to its present status.

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FRANK ANGELO FIORINI,

AND OTHERS

REPORTED PLANS TO BLOW UP CUBAN SHIP

IN MEXICAN PORT, POSSIBLY VERACRUZ

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

NEUTRALITY MATTERS - CUBA

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Reference is made to your connunication dated

December 4, 1967, with enclosure.

The enclosure was a

copy of a letter which you sent to the Director, Office

of Munitions Control, Department of State, requesting

that certain inquiries regarding the captioned matter

be made through appropriate diplomatic channels.

Reference is also made to a letter dated December 18,

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1967, from the Office of Munitions Control to Mr. John

Davitt, Chief, Criminal Section, Internal Security

Divisios, a copy of which was made available to thi

It is requacted that this Bureau be advised

to whether there have been lEwleY longertras rolle matter.

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NOTE:

Subjects in this case were intolved in unsuccessful anti-

castro plot to blow up ship in Mexico, *Based on information well

developed, Mexican authorities located explosives which had been

buried in

Mexico by some of those involved prior to their return

to the U.S

Investigation was

conducted at specific request of the

Which indicated there were possible violations of Title 18

Section 956 (Conspiracy to Injure Property of a Foreign Government)

and Title 22, Section 1934 (Unlicensed Exportation of Munitions)

The enclosure

to the referenced Department letter asks that an

inquiry be made through appropriate diplomatic channels to deter-

mine whether Mexican authorities could conduct a chemical analys

of the explosives and whether they could make available witness

who could testify in this case.

The 12/18/67 letter indicat

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being made.

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