Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HQ
To: AG
Document date: 04/29/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

6/8/2015

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90019-10347

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 97-4623-13

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

HQ

TO:

AG

TITLE :

DATE: 04/29/1963

PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS :

BACKGROUND TO ALLEGED AERIEL STRIKE OVER

HABANA DURING THE N

ALEXANDER RORKE

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: IC

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/15/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: LHM

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination

Records Collection Act of 1992 (41 Usc 2107 Note).

DATE: 11-14-2017

ALL INPORMATION CONtAINED

HERBIN

IOLASSIFIED

RE SHOWN

WE:

1 Belmont

1

Evans

1

Sullivan

Wannall

1 Nasca

ALEXANDER I. RORKE, JR.

•SECRET

April 29, 1963

Clossi

Declassify

Sun: da

on April 20g

1963, an inforant who has furnished

reliablo information

past advised that a lotter

protest had been sont fren Raul Roa, Cuban Minister of Foreign

Belations, to Miroslav Ruzels, Czechoslovakian Ambassador DonuT%

the United States, for delivery to the Department

The tost of this

protest is as

follows:

)(U)

TY WHERE SHOWN

ME ERWISE

The Ministry of External

• Affairs sends its

greetings

to the Honorablo Embassy of the Soialist

Republic of

Crochoslovakia and requests it to present to

the State Departnent

1786305-6

of the intereste of Cuba in said country, the following note:

proceeding from a northern direction flew over the "Nico Lopez"

refinery and dropped a one hundred pound bonk and several

containers with inflammable matorial of the lapalm typo, which

did not explode.

Immediately after dropping its dearnty cargo

the plane disappeared in the direction at had cone srom.

the 25th, United States Cable Agencies released

news that a United States citizen, Alexander Horke,

to newspapemen in Washington that he rode in the twin engine pin

which bombed the refinery and that another of the Americans who

participated in the attack was a student at the Massachusetto

ART

LASSIFIED D

MYSIONSFINA

Instituto of tochnology & (U

"The absolute impunity that

this plane was able to leav.

then roturn to United States territory and the subsequent

doclaration made in the very capital of the United States of

America by one of its crew menbers, plus the fact so far no action

is known to have boon taken by the

authorities of that country

prove that the North American Coveront cannot escape responsibility.

for those acts which would have

caused

civilian casualtieshad the

objective

14650L)

Been accomplished. (

"The circunstances

manner in which this aggression

carried out demonotrate

the decisions announced publicly

by the United States of America apparently made to prevent provocatory

activities againet Cuba

on the part of the counterrevolutionary

Tolson

Belmont

pirates, are disregarded in a manner that cannot be excused.

Mohi

theretore, vory obvious that

if the Government of

United

States

Casper

Callahan -

Conrad

(10) CLASSIFIED BY 5668 StOKSE

from automatie."

DeLoach _

Evans

Gale

DECLASSIFY ON: 25X_t

downgrading and

и)

Rosen

NOTE:

original furnished to Atto

declassification

They demer the

ples to

intliven -

Taval -

Deputy Attorney General and J. Walter Yeagley.

Trotter

"Secret" since the data

therein originated with

Holmes -

Tele. Room which provides coverage

sengitive

, source

Gandy

MAIL ROOM TELETYPE UNIT

of Cuban diplomatic traffic. (R)

ENCLOSURE

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