Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SJ
To: HQ
Document date: 09/23/1958
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

6/8/2015

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10332-10037

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 62-57527-13

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

SJ

TO:

HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 09/23/1958

PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

SANTIAGO ALVAREZ RODRIGUEZ

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/22/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA

COMMENTS :

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FEDERAL BUREABOF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

SAN JUAN

TITLE OF CASE

PEDRO DELGADO

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

BUREAU

SECRET

DATE

9/23/58

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

9/10,12/58

REPORT MADE BY

FRANK M. SMALLNOOD, JR.

CHARACTER OF CASE

TYPED BY

- jew

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION

SYNOPSIS:

IN THIS DOGLENT EXCEPT FOR BRACKETS

INTERNAL SECURITY - MEXICO

KP: 5-18-98

An Informant has advisod that an official Dominican source

has related that the subject, proprietor of the Hotel

Victoria, Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, Mexico, is

"working

with the Communists and specializing in the sale of

contraband arms."

The informant further advised that

another source, whose reliability could not be judged,

stated a PEDRO DELGADO was among a group of Communists

employed by the Compania Nacional de Electricidad,

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57-16-98

TED BY

CLASSI

DECL/SSIFY ON: 25X

(JFK)

Durango, Durango, Mexico

SOn 9/10/58, J. ALEJANDRO

LABORDE, JR., Represencavive for a New York firm, who

resides in Puerto Rico and travels to Cuba, advised that

in March of this year, Di. SANTIAGO ALVAREZ RODRIGUEZ,

Vice President of the Senate of Cuba and his secretary,

SYLVIA CHACON, told him

that the subject was using his

hotel as a front for selling contraband arms. Miss

CHACON stated that she met the subject during a recent

National Football Federation, Mexico City, who told her

that the subject had proposed that he be an intermediary

In the sale of arms to the country of Salvadoro

RUC

APPROVED

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

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SJ 105-3293

SECRET

DETAILS:

This case is predicated upon information

furnished by I-I, who advised on May 23, 1958 that lan

official Dominican source had related that the subject, (S

who is the propriétor of the Hotel Victoria, Chihuanua,

Chihuahua, Mexico, is "working with the Communists and

specializing in the sale of contraband arms"

according

to the Dominican source, J. ALEJANDRO LABORDE, JR.,S

Regional Representativu of Pan American Eutetic Welding

Alloys, Inc., Flushing,

New York, could furnish more

information on the subject

I-I further advised that their filcs revealed

that in mid October, 1957,

source In Chihuahua, of

unknown reliability, who had

I known the subject for several

years, said that the subject was the husband of VICTORIA

* FERNANDEZ DENDELGADO.

The subject's wife was a native of

the State of Chihauhua and the owner of the Hotel Victoria.

According to this souree,

the subject was born in

approximately 1900 in Clifton, Arizona.

He was on the

Los angeles, California police force and became a material

witness in a case involving large scale police corruption.

The source stated the subject was "paid off" to go

to Mexico so that he would not testify in court about

T-1 stated

that two other sources in Chihauhua

reported

that the subject is a ne'er-do-well and was

dealing with leaders of the Partido Accion Nacional

Party), (PAN), a right-wing Catholic

T-I further advised that according to still

another source whose reliability cannot be judged,

one

PEDRO DELGADO WaS

among & group of Communists

employed by the Compania Nacional de Electricidad (National

Company of Electricity) in Durango, Durango, Mexico.

was employed, according to the source, as an installations

Inspector, and his address

was PorTras 206%, Durango]($JU)

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SECRET

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