MEMO WITH ROUTING SHEET RE: FRANK ANTHONY STURGIS
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: BROWN, JERRY G. DC/SEC ANALYSIS GP
To: CHIEF, SECURITY ANALYSIS GROUP
Document date: 06/18/1976
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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AGENCY ORIGINATOR : CIA

FROM : BROWN, JERRY G. DC/SEC ANALYSIS GP

TO

: CHIEF, SECURITY ANALYSIS GROUP

TITLE

: MEMO WITH ROUTING SHEET RE: FRANK ANTHONY STURGIS

DATE

: 06/18/1976

PAGES

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SUBJECTS : STURGIS FRANK

ROUTING SHEET

FIORINI FRANK

JEK ASSASSINATION

RORKE ALEX

LORENZ MARIE

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18 June 1976

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Security Analysis Group

SUBJECT

• StUkols, Frank Anthony

AKA:

FIORINI, FranK

SF#353 459

1. As you are aware, Frank Anthony STURGiS, one of the

convicted Watergate burglars, has repeatedly and talsely claimed

affiliation with this

Agency,

Attached to instant memorandum

are copies of two articles from the New York Daily News by Paul

MESKIC, dated circa

• April 1975 and 13 June 1976, specifying.

that one Marie LORENZ was

involved with Frank STURGIS and Alex

RORKE in 1959/1960 in anti-CASTRO activities. Furthermore, the

articles again

allege that STURGIS and RORKE were acting on

behalf of this Agency.

The 13 June 1976 article further alleges

Marie LORENZ has claimed that

at the direction of STURGIS and

(and the Agency and the FBI) in 1960 she went to Cuba to

poison CASTRO.

The poison was given to her by STURGIS. In the

first

article Marie LORENZ alleges that E. Howard HUNT, known

to her as "Eduardo" was the paymaster for STURGIS and RORKE.

HUNT has publicly claimed not knowing STURGIS until at least

the late 1960's.

Alex RORKE, i identical with Alexander I. RORKE, JT:

(SF#427 955), Was

free-lance writer, photographer, and soldier

of fortune who disappeared in September 1963 while flying in

Central America. There is no evidence in this file that RORKE

was ever, affiliated with this Agency.

There is evidence that

RORKE was involved with STURGIS in anti-CASTRO activities in

the early 1960's.

3. Relative to Marie LORENZ, Initial Office of Security

traces in this

name were negative in April 1975.

Additional

research

relative to

the June 1976 article has revealed a

positive identification.

Composite

information from the attach-

ments would suggest that Marie LORENZ is of German father/

American mother birth, born circa 1940; that her father was

Heinrich LORENZ, a former German Navy Captain who in February

was the captain of a luxury liner "Berlin"; and that in

1959/1960 she was living with her brother at 344 West 84th

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ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET

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STURGIS,

Frank Anthony

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Street, New York, N. Y.

In March 7960 Marie LORENZ was in

contact in New York with Jesus YANEZ Pelletier of the CASTRO

regime.

Office of Security traces in the name of Heinrich

LORENZ revealed that he is the father of Valerie Claire

LORENZ

(SF#117 245). Information in the file, coupled with informa-

tion in the attached articles, positively identities

younger sister oi Valerie Claire LORENZ, one Ilona Marita

LORENZ, as being identical with the Marie LORENZ mentioned in

these articles.

5. Valerie Claire LORENZ (SF#117 245), born on 9 October

1936 at Bremerhaven, Germany, was the subject of a Covert

Security Clearance

request in March 1955 by the Monetary Branch

Division.

Valerie Claire LORENZ had graduated from

Roosevelt High School,

Washington, D. C., in June 1954.

..As of

March 1955 she

was employed as a secretaiy to F. P. HARMAN, Jr.

(SF#67 493) ,

vice-president of the National Bank of Washington,

14th and "G"

Streets, N. W., Washington, D. C., and as such

would have access to

sensitive financial transactions being

administered by the Monetary Branch through HARMAN.

Covert Security Clearance was granted in July 1955 and canceled

because of her resignation on 21 August 1959. There is no

subsequent activity in the file.

6.

The following biographic data relative to Ilona

Marita LORENZ (Marie LORENZ)

has been compiled from the file

of Valerie Claire LORENZ:

NAME

Ilona Marita LORENZ

aka: Ilona Marita. LAWRENCE

aka: Illma MaritaXLORENZ

aka: Martia LORENZ

DPOB

:

BROTHER

18 August 1959, Bremen, Germany

Entered the United States with mother

and siblings on 1 May 1950

Joachim (Joe) D.

LORENZ

aka:

Joachim (Joe) D.

LAWRENCE

Born 27 May 1934, Bremerhaven,

Germany

In 1955 was attending Catholic University,

Washington, D. C.,

and planned to attend

Georgetown

University and enter the

diplomatic corps.

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GRET

BROTHER :

Manfred Philip LORENZ

aka: Philip

LORENZ

aka: Manfred Philip LAWRENCE

Born on 11 August

I935 in Germany

As of 1955, studying music (piano)

in New York

City under Claudio ARRU.

SISTER : Valerie Claire LORENZ

(supra)

FATHER:

Heinrich Frede

1ch LORENZ

Born & April 1898, Badmunster Al Stein,

Germany•

Married Alice June LORENZ on

31 August 1932 (or 8 August 1931) at

Bremerhaven, Germany; divorced in

February, 1946, Alice receiving the

children. Employment:

1955:

Captain of the "M. S. Berlin"

North American Lloyd Lines, where

re-employed in 1948.

1950: Cargo master of the "Hermoid"

or "Hermod"

U. S. Navigation

Company, Whitehall Building, New

York City.

1945: U. S. Army Exchange, Bremerhaven,

Germany.

October 1945: Released from British

POW camp.

He had been captured

during World War II when his ship

sank while acting as a German Navy

officer.

Prior WWII: Captain of the "s. S.

Bremen" and "S. S. Europa!'

MOTHER

NOTE:

The file contains information that

an individual of the same name was

connected with German intelligence

during WWII.

Alice June

aka:

June Alice.

XOREN KLORENZ

aka: Alice LAWRENCE (pen name)

aka: June PAGET (professional film and

stage nane)

nee:

Alice June

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Born 15. October 1905, Wilmington,

Delaware

Alice June LOFLAND left the United States

in July 1931 for Germany and married

Heinrich Frederich LORENZ shortly

there-

after.

She remained in Germany until her

entry into the United States with her

children on 1 May 1950, proceeding

to

Florida. Residences:

1952-1955: 1418 Monroe Street, Washington,

D. C.

1952: 1459 Monroe Street, Washington, D. C.

1951: 1502 Monroe Street, Washington, D. C.

1950: 313 6th Street, East, Bradenton, Florida

Employment:

October 1953 to at least April 1955:

Office of the Chief of Engineers,

Gravelly Point, Washington, D. C.

Previous: to numerous to mention,

covers to 1945 in Germany, mostly

U. S. Government related.

MATERNAL

AUNT

Lucy I.. MC CONCHIE

aka:

Lucille MC CONCHIE

aka: Lucy HAINES

nee: Lucy LOFLAND

Born 22 August 1886, Wilmington, Delaware.

Spouse: Major (U.S. Army) Thomas L.

MC CONCHIE,

at the Pentagon, lashinston, ne employed

clerk and

typist, Office of the

Chief of

Staff

Organization

S. Army National Guard Bureau

and Training Branch; residins

at

3023 14th Street, N. W., Washington,

D. C., Apartment 613 or 716.

MATERNAL

AUNT

: Elizabeth CONARROE

nee:

Elizabeth LOFLAND

aka:

Mrs. Elvin H. CONARROE

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• As of mid 1950's living at Mountain

Lakes, New Jersey.

As of 1950-1952:

husband employed by Metropolitan Life

Insurance, New York, and residing at

1529 1st Avenue West, Bradenton, Florida.

MATERNAL

UNCLE

William Joseph LOFLAND

Born 21 March 1904, Wilmington, Delaware

MATERNAL

UNCLE

Paul Osborn LOFLAND

As of 1943 at 18310 Ferguson Street,

Detroit, Michigan:

NOTE: During the 1955 background inves-

tigation of Valerie Claire LORENZ, an

informant advised that the LORENZ

tamily was somehow related to general

Haydon BOATNER.

Major General Haydon

Lemaire BOATNER, retired, is, the

father of Helene Lemarie BOATNER

(SF#253 375). telene Lemarie BOATNER

is a current staff employee, GS-16,

Office of the Comptroller, DCI. This

file has been reviewed in depth and

nothing was found to show a relation-

ship between the BOATNER and LORENZ,

families.

7.

Variations of all of the names of Ilona Marita

LORENZ and her family have been checked against Office of

Security indices

with no additional results with the exception

to a reference to the file captioned "Cuban Intelligence

Activities" (SF#350 643). An FBI New York Office report

th8 43) a

in

this file dated 10 February 1960

captioned "Cuban Intelligence

Activities in the United States" reflects, in substance, that

Ilona Marita LORENZ,

344 West 87th Street,

New York City, on

22 December 1959 advised SA O'Brien, FBI,

that Jesus Yanes

PELLETIER, Cuban Revolutionary Army

and Military Aide to the

Prime Minister (CASTRO), had arrived in New York City

on 18 December 1959. LORENZ reported that she went out with

him on the night of 19 December to the La Baracca Restaurant.

She believed that PELLETIER was in New York collecting intelli

gence information for the CASTRO government.

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8. Relative to LORENZ's claim in the attached

. article

that she and Alex RORKE (in conjunction with the assassination

attempt against CASTRO) visited FBI offices in New York and

had a

"conference with the two agents. who had-questioned hei

previously and a CIA official"

LORENZ was interviewed by SA O'Brien on

it is interesting to note that

22 December 1959.

The

tile of Alexander 1. RORKE, JT.,

reflects that he was inter-

viewed on 30 December 1959 by SA Francis J. O Brien, FBI, New

York.

9. The above is for your information.

deputy chien

Brown

Security Analysis

Group

Atts

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SECHET

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