Originator: HSCA
From: BLAKEY, G. ROBERT
To: SIEMER, DEANNE C.
Document date: 1978-01-19 00:00:00
Document type: LETTER

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

10/1/201

AGENCY: HSCA

RECORD NUMBER:

180-10073-10036

RECORD SERIES: NUMBERED FILES

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 004704

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: HSCA

FROM: BLAKEY, G. ROBERT

TO :

SIEMER, DEANNE C.

TITLE:

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

01/19/1978

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66O00 Date: 11-04-2021

HSCA, ADMINISTRATION

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

DOCUMENT TYPE: LETTER

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: Open in Full

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/15/1993

OPENING CRITERIA:

COMMENTS:

Box #:98.

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LOUIS STOKES, ONIO, CHAIRMAN

RICHARESON PREYER, N.C.

SAMUEL L. DEVINE, OHIO

WALTER E, FAUNTROY, D.C.

STEWART B, MC KINNEY, CONN.

YVONNE BRATHWAITE BURKE, CALIF.

CHARLES THONE, NEBR.

CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN.

HAROLD S. SAWYER, MICH.

HAROLD E, FORO, TENN.

FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND.

ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA.

(202) 225-4624

Select Committee on Assassinations

U.S. House of Representatibes

3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2.

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

JAN 1 9 1378

004704

Ms. Deanne C. Siemer

General Counsel

Department of Defense

Washington, D.C. 20301

Dear Ms. Siemer:

In connection with its investigation into

the circumstances surrounding the death of President

John F. Kennedy, the Select Committee on Assassinations

requests that by January 30 the Department of Defense

supply us with all the information and records it may

have on the following individuals:

1.

Manuel Artime

Cuban national who headed political action

for Bay of Pigs invasion; with Brigate 2506

Leader of MRR.

Died: November 17, 1977

2. Luis Balbuena

Cuban national; entered U. S. at Miami

in 1961 from Guantanamo.

Member of commandos and exile group.

3.

Sam Benton

Miami, Florida

Arrested July 1963, La Combe, Louisiana

Indicted in Florida 1971

Associate of Mike McLaney

4. Edward Browder, Jr.

DOB: June 22, 1917 at Amarillo, Texas

FBI No. 4 840 823

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Ms. Deanne C. Siemer

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5.: Dino Cellini

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

12.

FBI No. 219 8122

David Ferrie

DOB: March 28, 1918

Social Security No. 282-18-8219

E. Howard Hunt

Former CIA agent; convicted 1972.

Michael McLaney, aka McClainey

DOB: Approx. 1915

Owner of Nacional Casino, Havanna, Cuba

during late 1950's.

Indicted 1971 Southern District of New York

John Martino

DOB: August 3, 1911

Atlantic City,

New Jersey

DOD: August 3, 1975

Miami Beach, Florida

Captain William Morgan

American "soldier-of-fortune" jailed in

Cuba

in early 1960 and killed in prison

for allegedly anti-Castro activities.

William Robert Plumlee

Associate of John Martino

Sergio Arcacha Smith

Leader of New Orleans branch of Cuban

Revolutionary Council through 1962

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Ms. Deanne C. Siemer

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13.

Manuel Antonio DeVarona

Miami official of Cuban Revolutionary Council

Miami address in 1962:

826 Madrid Street

Coral Gables, Florida

14.

Eduardo Whitehouse

Cuban National, former head of Bastista's

Air Force

15.

James Braden, Eugene Hale Brading

Present address:

3224 Peachtree Road

Atlanta, Georgia

Convicted: 1951

Parole: 1959

16..

Antonio Carlos Veciana Blanch

Head of Alpha-66

DOB :

October, 1935

Havana, Cuba

Member of Peoples Revolutionary Movement,

an anti-Castro group 1960-1961

To expedite access to the Agency's records, the

Committee would appreciate it if priority were given to

preparing information covering the period 1958 - 1963.

Please notify us when documents pertaining to that period

have been completed.

If you have any questions concerning this request,

please call Jackie Hess at the Committee offices.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Sincerely,

s. Nobut Blobey

G. Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel and Director

GRB : JSC

CC:

Mr. G. M. Andricos

Asst. (DSAA-ISA)

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