Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 08/27/1976
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10290-10054

RECORD_SERIES: HO

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 105-286284-8

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SAC. MM

TO: DIRECTOR. FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 08/27/1976

PAGES: 13

SUBJECT:

OBA, FUG, ASSOC, FINANCES, ACA, CONSPR, BOMBING, TERRORIST ACT,

INTV, FERNANDEZ, ORLANDO, DESCR

DOCUMENT_ TYPE:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

ORIGINAL

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

Secret

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

05/26/1998

UPDATE DATE:

STATUS

Redact

COMMENTS:

RESTRICTIONS:

Consultation

JFK Act 6 (4)

REFERRED TO INS, PO, INC LHM, MEMO

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DATE: 11-14-2017

COTIONAL FORM NO. 10

1973 EDITION

SSA FEMR LEI CFRI 101-11:

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TAL

TO

CONF

SECRET

FROM !M) F

SUBJECT:

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: AUG 2 7 1976

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

SAC, MIAMI (105-22619) (P)

DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION

IN THIS DOCUMENT. JM

ORLANDO LAZARO FERNANDEZ VAZQUEZ, aka

Dr. Orlando Fernandez

6-18-47

IS - CUBA

(OU: INARSTIGATION INITIATED 12/11/74)

MIAMI )

mm

Re Bureau routing slip to Miami dated July 21, 1976.

Enclosed for the Bureau are 7 copies of an LHM

dated and captioned as above.

One copy each of this IHM is being furnished

locally to the Immigration and Naturalization Service,

Miami, and the State Department, Miami, Florida.

Sources noted in enclosed IHM are identified

as follows:

MM I-1 iS MM 1337-S (#)(M)

First confidential source abroad is ORLANDO

GARCIA VASQUEZ, Minister - Counsellor, Foreign Ministry,

Caracas, Venezuela.S

MM I-2 IS MM 3240-S (*) (M)

Classiled by,

MM I-3 is MM 3945-PSI M) Declassify on: /OADR

ISS;

4084

I DNG; REL; AME-CD,

9/15/26

CLA

state; CIA

FEASON: 1.5

PEOLASSIFY ON: X.

4555;

God.

EX 103-

EFUS

ENCLOSURE

- Bureau (Enc. 7) (RM)

Miami

JBM: bjw

PROPRIAT& AGENCIES

(3)

REC-89

105-266784-8

AND

ADVISED

1Z AUG 31 1976

5010-9101

7-56-

6-5.610

SECRETE

Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan

DOGGASS. 0

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MM 105-22619

SECRET

Second confidential source abroad is RAFAEL

RIVAS VASQUEZ, Operations Officer, Directorate of Intelligence

and Prevention Services; Caracas, Venezuela. (S))

LEADS

MIAMI

At Miami, Florida

Will continue efforts to determine Dr. FERNANDEZ'

sympathies and activities in relation to his association

with Dr. ORLANDO BOSCH, Cuban intelligence activities and

the internal security of the United States.

CONNE

SECRETI

2.

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (11 USC 2107 Hote) .

DATE: 11-14-2017

In Reply, P455 R22619

File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Miami, Florida

AUG 2 7 1976

SECRETI

RE:

10/22/47 3/18/98 nede

9D DY: 5668-540 pic

ORLANDO LAZARO FERNANDEZ VAZQUEZ.

Also Known As

DI. Orlando Fernandez

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

(FULL INVESTIGATION INITIATED

DECEMBER 11, 1974)

*(U)

Investigation is based upon information fromal s

confidential source abroad that a Dr. ORLANDO FERNANDEZ,

believed to be a Miami, Florida, doctor, had traveled to

the leader of a Cuban exile terrorist group

currently a fugitive from the United States.

Investigation to Date

Son December 4, 1974,

confidential source abroad

thatyas of November

1974, DE. ORLANDO BOSCH

AVILA, commonly known as Dr. BOSCH, was in Curacao,

- VenezuelA,

Nether lAnd,

Classified is eke/zel

Declassify

OADR 20183

326

Sources whose identities are

concealed herein have furnished

reliable information in the

past except where otherwise noted.

ISPSMAR

3/22/54 54к)

This document contains neither recommendations

nor conclusions of the FBI.

It is the property of the FBI

and is loaned to your agency.

It and its contents are not

to be distributed

outside your agency.

105-284284-8

ENCLOSURE

SECRET

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DATE: 11-14-2017

RE: ORLANDO LAZARO FERNANDEZ. VAZQUEZ

SECRET

Nethèrlands Antilles, following his and an associate's

release by the Venezuela authorities.

A Dr. ORLANDO FERNANDEZ

arrived in Venezuela with $1,800.00 for BOSCH following

BOSCH's arrest there.

It was

believed that FERNANDEZ waS

employed at a Miani hospital.

On March 31, 1975, Ill I-1 advised that he was

approached by dr.

ORLANDO

FERNANDEZ, who had recently

returned from Chile where Dr. FERNANDEZ, had visited a

DE. ORLANDO BOSCH a fugitive fron the United States. (B)M)

Dr. FERNANDEZ had stated that Dr. BOSCH wanted

Dr. FERNANDEZ to coordinate all of De. BOSCH'S pUbliCitY

in the United States. (*(M)

(S

Un May <s

1975, L second confuential source

abroadladvised that on November 20, 1974, Dr. ORLANDO BOSCH

appeared in Caracas,

Venezuela, and he was accompanied by

three Cuban nationals who were

residing in Miami, Florida.

One of these individuals was a Dr. ORLANDO FERNANDEZ, a

medical doctor practicing in the Miami, Florida, area,

who acted as Dr. BOSCH's spokesman. Dr. FERNANDEZ LeIt

Caracas for Bogota with Dr. BOSCH on December 2, 19/io

FERNANDEZ' home telephone number in Miami is 446

9038,

DI.

and his business telephone number is 642-2711.

The following

investigation was conducted at

Miami in an effort to identify Dr. ORLANDO FERNANDEZ:

Miami telephone number 642-2711 is listed to

Calle 8 Medical Clinic, 2185 S. W. 8th Street, Miami,

Florida. A neighborhood inquiry indicated that this clinic

moved and went out of business

several years ago and Dr.

FERNANDEZ was not known in this neighborhood.

Telephone number 446-9038 was a non-published

telephone number.

The following inquiries failed to produce any

infornation identifiable with Dr. ORLANDO FERNANDEZ:

Review of records of Cuban Refugee Center (CRC)

Review of 1970-71 list of foreign medical graduates

maintained at CRC, Miami.

: 2.

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CONFIENTI

LAL

RE: ORLANDO LAZARO FERNANDEZ VAZQUEZ

SECRET:

On December 22, 1975, Immigration and Naturization

Service (INS), Miami, Florida,

records reflected that

ORLANDO FERNANDEZ, date of birth December 17, 193!

cuba, arrived in the United States on January 8, 1962,

on an 0-1 Immigrant Visa, file number A12366014.

Fon Reconder 23, 1075m ma adviseet inquir

in the Cuban community had failed to develop any informatior

concerning Dr. ORLANDO FERNANDEZ.

On January 8, 1976, records of INS, Miami,

Florida,

reflected the following information on file under file

number A12366014 relating to ORLANDO LAZARO FERNANDEZ

VAZQUEZ:

FERNANDEZ applied for an Immigrant Visa to the

United States at the United States Embassy in Madrid, Spain,

Tampa, Florida, and an ô-l visa was issued to him and he

subsequently arrived in the United States from Spain at

New York City on January 8, 1962.

On December 16, 1962, at Newark, New Jersey,

FERNANDEZ filed a Declaration of Intention to become

United States citizen.

On December 21, 1967, he

petitioned for naturalization and was subsequently

naturalized as a United States citizen on April 12, 1968,

at Miami, Florida, Certificate Number 9149320 in the

name ORLANDO FERNANDEZ.

Subsequently, on September 7, 1968, he directed

a letter to INS,

Miami, applying for INS record information

regarding his birth, parents, and citizenship status. which

information ne needea in a certified letter in order to

be aumitted as a student at Madrid University.

He reanested

this information be sent to the Minister of Education at

Madrid, spain,

and indicated an

address in care of JOSH

M.XFERNANDEZ (his father'), APTO Numbes 3218, Medr102.

Spain.

There was no questionable information in this file

regarding FERNANDEZ or his activities and no data subsequent

to September, 1968

Background and descriptive data in this file

was as follows:

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CONFIDENTEAL

RE:

ORLANDO LAZARO FERNANDEZ VAZQUEZ

SECRET:

Sex:

Male

Race:

White

Date of Birth:

December 17, 1937

Place of Birth:

Havana, Cuba

Height:

5'9" - 5'10"

Weight:

130-140 pounds

Hair:

Brown

Eyes:

Brown

Complexion:

Medium

Marital Status:

Single

Occupation:

Immediate family:

Father:

Aptu Number 3318

Education:

Characteristics:

Social Security

Account Number:

Employments:

GONZALEZ, date of birth

February 11, 1900, in Spain

Mother:

BALBINAKVAZQUEZXVAZOUEZ,

date of birth March 23,

1911, in Spain

1959-1961, National College

of Male Nurses, Havana, Cuba;

1964-1967, National College

in Exile of Male Nurses,

Miami;

1968, University of Madrid, Spain

Speaks English and Spanish

071-36-7093

January-March, 1962, employee

Murray Feiss Shop,

New

York;

Jersey Street, Elizabeth,

Registered Nurse, Cedars of

Lebanon Hospital, Miami;

November, 1964 - October, 1957,

Registered Nurse, Pan American

Hospital, Miami, Florida

5.

SECRETI

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DATE:, 11-14-2017

RE:

ORLANDO LAZARO FERNANDEZ VAZQUEZ

Selective Service

Number:

Residences:

SECRET

28-43-37-314 (Local Board 43)

Havana, Cuba

11-01 var 921, Maniac spain;

January 1952 - March, 1962,

16-22-21 Avenue, Apartment

2A,

cong Island, New York City

(ASTORIA - Care of ARMANDOXPORTO,)

March, 1962, 330 East 139th

March,

655 East Jersey Street, Elizabeth,

New Jersey;

September,

1954 - October, 1968,

1771 - 1773 S. i. 5th Street,

Miami, Florida

On March 5, 1976, a review of Dr. ORLANDO FERNANDEZ'

passport file at lashington, D. C., reflected the following:

Passport Number D 1913210

Issued August 15, 1973

Issued at Miami, Florida

DaS

Restrictions:

REVIEWED BY EWJFK TASK PURCE

"This passport is valid for five

ON 10/8/97 mp/dal

years travel to all countries except

O RELEASE IN FULL

Cuba, North Korea, and North

Vietnam.

Effective September

RELEASE IN PART

19, 1975, Cambodia and South

Vietnam were added to the restricted

I TOTAL DENIAL

countries"

Date of Birth December 17, 1937

Place of Birth Havana, Cuba

Naturalized April 12,

1968 at Miami, Florida

Certificate of Naturalization Number 9149920

Residence 1773 S. W. 5th Street, Miami, Florida

Travel Plans:

Approximate departure date

September 1973; means of transportation, air;

intended stay abroad, one month; proposed itinery,

Spain and Portugal; purpose of trip, pleasure.

Parents JOSE MI. FERNANDEZ, date of birth February

11, 1900 at Spain

6.

SECRET!

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