Originator: FBI
From: SAC, NO
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 03/17/1964
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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TITLE :

SAC, NO

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 03/17/1964

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SUBJECTS :

CC, ALLEGED CUBAN PLAN, ASSA, PRESIDENT, PANAMA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1A

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 03/18/1997

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FOUNIAIND

SIFIED

BRASAD

DECLASSIFICATION AUTHORITY DERIVED FROM.=

FBI AUTOMATIC DECLASSIEICATICN GUIDE

DATE 06-12-2023

BY: E54X93K42

17

ISTICE

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

UP -ED STATES DEPARTMENT OF

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

New Orleans, Louisiana

March 17, -1964

ALLEGEDA

UBAN PLAN TO.

ASSASSINA

PRESIDENT OF

-PANAMA.

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR,

RELFASS OF CIA INFORMATION

IN THIS LOGUMENT. GMB 54

AS SANMZED

At 4:55 PM,

March 17, 1964, Orlando Piedra,

formerly connected with Federal Police in cuba and

presently residing New Orleans,

Louisiana, advised

that about one week ago he received information from

a source in Cuba whom-he considers reliable that Castro

is not satisfied with the way. things are going in Panama

and for that reason

plans to have the President of Panama

assassinated to create additional uprisings in that

country.

Piedra advised that he furnished the above

information by letter to Colonel Bolivar Ballarino,

Chief of the National Guard of Panama-whom he has khown

for years.

Piedra declines to identify the source and

has no additional information to report.

This document contains neither recommendations

nor conclusions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

It is the property of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not.

to be distributed outside your agency.

UT. JoJo KeLLy,

Kelly, state Department, and Aro James Murraye

Central Intelligence Agency on March 17, 1964, by

A. J. Decker of this Bureau.

This will also confirm data

furnished orally to Colonel Graham E. Schmid, Department

of the Army; Major Williom Boyd, Department of the

Air Force; and Ur. Don Gornan,

Department of the Navy,

on March 19, 1964, by G. A. Day of this Bureau.

ROBERTO EXCHIARI

(U)

PRESIDENT OF PANAMA

ALL INEORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED *311,376

DATE 3/5/86

BY SPARTA GAL

SP& Mac/Me 4-14-94 (JFK)

117194

Gossmied es

Declassify on• DADA JAK

SECRET

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