Agency: WC
Originator: FBI
Document date: 09/18/1964
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION

SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY

RECORD

NUMBER

179-40003-10375

RECORDS SERIES :

09:

PENA, OREST

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : CD 1539C

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR :

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SUBJECTS

PENA,

OREST

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CLASSIFICATION

RESTRICTIONS

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CURRENT STATUS

DATE OF LAST REVIEW

OPENING CRITERIA :

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COMMENTS :

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Conmission No. 1539c

TD-301 (Rer. 3-2i89)

Copy to:

Report: of:

Date:

Field Office File No.:

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Other Individuals and Organizations

SECRET

Involved or Interviewed

Pena, Orest

1 - Immigration and Naturalization Service,

New Orleans, Louisiana (REGISTERED MAIL)

SA WARREN C.. DE BRUEYS

Office:

NEW ORLEANS

September 18, 1964

NO 105-1926

Bureau File No.:

Titl :

ALL IMFORIAATPON SON TANA

MENZIRI IS UNCLASSIFIED

EXCEPT WHERE SHOWN

ODIGRWISE

Character:

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

6-6-89

Classified by /565 SOP/AH

Declassify on: OADR

AGREES

483RDDISK

Synopsis:

into the U. S! Army 1/28/49 at New York, N. Y., and

served on active duty until 1/27/50 on which date

he was honorably discharged from active duty and

transferred to U. S. Army Reserve Corps until

6/12/54 when he was honorably discharged. Subject

validated for emergency service in U. S. Merchant

Marine and issued Merchant Marine Document #

Z-1068920.

Merchant Marine records for subject for

period 2/55 through 10/57 set forth. Subject's

identification record set forth. Information

received from confidential source abroad re subject's

past travel in Europe fails to reflect any pertinent

contacts made by subject during such travel.

The person who allegedly made the allegation on which

this investigation was based, namely, that subject.

in the past planned to travel to Europe and Moscow,

advised that he has been unable to develop any

information

to change source's opinion that subject

is anti-CASTRO.

GROUP

= P.

Excluded

from automatic

downgrad

ng and

DETAILS:

declassification

A review of the military service records on file

at the Military Personnel Records Center, St. Louis,

Missouri, for ORESTES FARNICIO PENA, Serial Number 51 061 050,

indicated he was inducted into the U.S. Army on January 28,

1949 at New York, New York, and served on active duty until

January 27, 1950, at which

time he was honorably released from

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active duty as a Private at Fort Benning, Georgia,

and was

transferred to the U. S. Army Enlisted Reserve Corps where

he served in an inactive status until June 12, 1954 receiving

an honorable discharge by reason of completion

of his mili-

tary obligation.

Records failed to reflect any foreign service,

awards, 'citations, or decorations.

His character and

efficiency ratings ranged from unknown to excellent and

there is no record of courts-martial or absence without

official leave.

At. Washington, D. C.

The following information was obtained from a

review of Merchant Marine personnel file pertaining to

OREST PENA obtained from Miss LUCILE R. SCHILDER, Super-

visor,. Merchant Vessel Personnel Records and Welfare Branch:

On August 3, 1954, at Port of New York, New York

City, Orestes Farnicio Pena, 223 West 195th Street, New York

City, executed

an application for a United States Merchant

Mariner's Document.

On this application, Orestes Farnicio

Pena showed he was born August 15; 1923, at Colon, Cuba, was

holder of a Cuban passport, number 16583, issued June 23,

1949, by the Department

was in possession of United States

Immigration, Havana, Cuba, also

Immigration

and Naturali-

zation alien registration card, number A-6434157.

He requested

a Merchant Mariner's Document endorsed for duty as an Ordinary

Seaman, Wiper and Messman.

He was validated for emergency

service and on November 2, 1954, was issued United States

Merchant Mariner's Document, number Z-1068920. He was

described as a white male, five feet eight inches tall,

weight 140 pounds, black hair, brown eyes and wearing

mustache.

His Social Security Number was shown as being

number 068-24-0156.

His next of kin was identified as his

wife, Paula Pena, at 223 West 105th Street, New York City.

On May 19, 1955, Pena was issued Merchant Mariner's

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Document Z-1068920 in the name Orest Pena. The file reflected

he requested his name

1126151 Southern

to be changed to conform with his name

Naturalization, number

Court

; Southern District of New York, New York City. His

nEW

Merchant Mariner's Document also showed him to be endorsed

for

service as Ordinary Seaman, Wiper and Messman.

On January 7, 1957, Pena's Merchant Mariner's

Document was reissued at Mobile, Alabama, to show him as

an able seaman-any-waters-twelve months.

At that time he

showed his permanent residence as 515 West 107th Street,

New York City, and next of kin was identified as his

daughter, Margaret Pena, at the same address.

On April 24, 1961, he was issued a Replacement

Document, at which time his local address was shown as 117

Decatur

Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.

The Merchant Marine jacket reflected the following

service record for Pena:

Date

of

Shipment

Place

Name of

Vessel

Date

Discharged

Place

Rating

2/8/55

6/3/55

Columbia

4/27/55

Heights

Gulf Service 6/21/55

6/22/55

1/5/56

New York

City

New York

City

Lake

Charles,

Louisiana

New York

City

Gulf

Service

Gụ 1f

Service

12/9/55

7/3/56

Tacoma,

Washington

Lake

Charles,

Louisiana

New York

City

New York

City

Wiper

Ordinary

Seaman

Ordinary

Seaman

Ordinary

Seaman

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Date of

Shipment

9/21/56

12/8/56

12/21/56

1/7/57

1/26/57

3/1/57

3/25/57

6/30/57

7/11/57

7/27/57

Place

Name of

Vessel

New Orleans,

Sue Lykes

Louisiana

New Orleans,

Yaque

• Louisiana

New York

City

Yaque

Mobile,

Yaque

Alabama

New Orleans,

Yaque

Louisiana

New Orleans, Yaque

Louisiana

New Orleans,

Drake

Louisiana

Victory

Houston,

Texas

Jean

Lykes

Houston,

Texas

Gibbes

Lykes

Houston,

Texas

Gibbes

Lykes

10/25/57

Ostrica,

Louisiana

Gulf

Flight

Date Dis-

charged

12/3/56

12/20/56

1/7/57

1/23/57

2/28/57

3/15/57

6/7/57

7/10/57

7/26/57

8/20/57

Place

Rating

New Orleans,

Louisiana

Ordinary

Seaman

New York

City

Mobile,

Alabama

Ordinary

Seaman

Ordinary

Seaman

Mobile,

Ordinary

Alabama

Seaman

New Orleans

Ordinary

Louisiana

Seaman

Baltimore,

Ordinary

Maryland

Seaman

New Orleans Able

Louisiana

Bodied

Galveston,

Able

Texas

Bodied

Seaman

Houston,

Texas

Able

Bodied

Seaman

New Orleans Able

Louisiana

Bodied

Seaman

Philadel-

Ordinary

phia,

Seaman

Pennsylvania

10/31/57

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Note:

Voyages beginning on June 3, 1955,

June 22, 1955, January 5, 1956, and

October

25, 1957, were coastwise;

all other voyages were to foreign ports:

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Set out below is the Identification Record pertain-

ing to OREST PENA :

CONTRIBUTOR OF

NAME &

FINGERPRINTS

NUMBER

ARRESTED

OR REC'D

CHARGE

DISPOSITION

Army

USINS-AR

USCG

USCG

Oreste Farnicio

Pena

#US '51 061 050

1-28-49

NY NY

Orestes F. Pena

#6434157

FP

1-18-53

Orestes Farnicio

Pena

#Z

FP

8-3-54

Orest Pena

#Z-1068920

FP

5-18-55

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On July 9, 1964, NO I-1, a confidential source

abroad, revealed that

subject resided at the Grand Hotel,

2 rue Scribe,

Paris 9, from May 6-12, 1964.: Source advised

that since that date

he has no longer been present in the

Paris, France area.

Source added that subject is unknown

to the

records of the various services of the Prefecture of

Police in Paris.

During his brief stay in Paris he did not

come to the attention of the French authorities. (S)

On July 20, 1964, NO T-2, a confidential source

abroad, revealed that subject arrived in Madrid, Spain, on

May 12, 1964 at Barajas Airport (Madrid).: He took up

residence at the Hotel Plaza,

Madrid, where he remained until

May 22, at which time he departed from the hotel.

destination was unknown but it was believed that he had left

Spain at that time. Source advised that subject did not come

to security notice during his stay in Spain.

Spanish records

reflected that he was the bearer of U. S. passport #92577

issued to him in Washington, D. C. on June 25, 1963. He

arrived in Spain under the auspices' of the American Express

(S)

Company Travel Agency. (S)

a confidential

source abodel stant all the same tattion

supplied by confidential source NO T-2.

Instant source

added, however, that Spanish records reflected that subject

was born August 15, 1923 in the United States and that

his permanent place of residence was listed by him as New

Orleans, Louisiana. S

Confidential informant No 1-4, a contidential

source abroad, advised

as

follows on August 7, 19641 U)

ORESTES PENA, born August 15, 1923, in Cuba

passport number

Commodoro.

D- 092577, issued at

Washington, D. C.,

1963. While in Rome, PENA lodged at the Hotel

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PENA departed Rome at 1:20 PM on May 27,

1964, on Alitalia flight number AZ-222 enroute to

Frankfurt, Germany, from where he was to continue

on Air France flight number 370, to Berlin, Germany.

While at his hotel in Rome, he is not

known to have had contact of any sort and gave the

impression that he was merely traveling as a

tourist.

At New Orleans, Louisiana

On September 10, 1964, GUILLERMO FIALLO, 2003

Laurel Street, an

employee of A-Z Paper Company, 630 South

Front Street, New Orleans, advised as follows:

FIALLO, it is to be noted, is the source of

the original allegation on which this investigation was

based, namely, that subject had some time ago planned to

travel to Europe and Moscow. FIALLO advised on Septem-

ber 10, 1964, that since he was last interviewed by an

Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on July 6,

1964 he has endeavored to determine subject's sympathies

regarding FIDEL CASTRO. Source advised that he has had

close contact with the subject in the past and has seen him

several times since July 6, 1964, however, he did state that

he has not had too close a contact with the subject during

the last 30 days.

FIALLO stated that he has endeavored

in his contacts with the subject and with other persons who

are known to the subject to ascertain whether the subject

could possibly be pro-CASTRO or perform any activity on

behalf of CASTRO.

FIALLO stated that after all of his efforts

he still retains

his original firm belief that the subject

is definitely anti-CASTRO and added that he has learned nothing

that would cause him to believe that subject was anything

but anti-CASTRO.

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

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In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

New Orleans, Louisiana

September 18, 1964

Title

Character:

Reference:

OREST PENA

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

Report of SA WARREN C

DE BRUEYS dated September 18,

1964, at New Orleans

All sources (except any listed below) whose

identities are concealed in referenced communication have

furnished reliable information in the past.

This document contains neither recommendations not 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.

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