Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 03/28/1963
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:

5/26/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10221-10052

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : CR 105-92196-59

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM: SAC, MM

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 03/28/1963

PAGES:

4

SUBJECTS :

REH, ASSOC, ACA, INTERPEN MEMBERS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Confidential

RESTRICTIONS: Consulted; 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 01/26/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF USCG

COMMENTS :

REFERRED TO USCG

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John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Aot of 1992 744 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

NAL FORM NO.

1010-104-01

KITED ST

UNMENT

Memorandum

TO

: DIRECTOR, FBI (105-118615)

PANFINIAL

SAC, MIAMI (105-7313)

(P)

NETEORIAT ON CONTANER:

HEREIN

IS INCLASSIFIED EXCEPT

WHERE

SHOWN OTHERWISE.

DATE:

March 28, 1963

1-14.95

CONA

SUBJECT:

CAPTURE OF EIGHT COUNTERREVOLUTIONARIES

BY CUBAN ARMED FORCES, FEBRUARY 21, 1963

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA;

NEUTRALITY MATTERS

Declassily on:

DADR

(JFK)

tenant.

all inges

do in fred exper

othered.

CENT

MERWISE

ReBuairtel to Miami, 3/21/63.

On March 25, 1963, MM 639=S advised that

ROY EMORY HARGRAVES returned to the United States from •

Elbow cay,

Cay Sal Bank, Bahamas®

He was accompanied

by two unidentified Cubans.

These Cubans were both member

IPENCIES

ICES

of a dissident group of the 30th of November organization.

ROug

One of the Cubans resides in an apartment house in the

neighborhood of S.

W. 6th Street and 4th Avenue, Miami,

Florida.

The residence of the other Cuban 18 unknown.&

И)

Informant advised that only GERALD PATRICK

APPROPR

AND FIELD

ADVISED

SLIP

HEMMING,

Attorney CHARLESHASHMANN, and informant,

know

of HARGRAVES"

account of the expedition, and that he returne

with two Cubans who also participated.

000

the identity of these two Cubans,

although he does know

of their assistance.

HEMMING and HARGRAVES are presently

1-2.4.2

CLASS

REASON-FCIM

REV;

DATE OF

GIT

APRI

1963

concerning this matter to the FBI.

It is noted HEMMING

the man or seeper flye in the past when interulewed by

the Miami Office.

Informant continued that the regular members of

Intercontinental Penetration Forces (INTERPEN) do not know

of HARGRAVES'

trip with the counterrevolutionaries who

were captured; his account of this military venture; or

who may have returned with him.

Bureau (RM)

• New York (info

• San Juan (info)

(EM)

CouNten 118615

105-92/96-59

2 - Miami

RJD/nebclassitied,

(6)

411 EX-1128 0561.03

1: 1953

copies made

Exempt tram/GDO, Category.

Dº2-284-28 536/9H

Date of Declassification...

or see dangrave,

S. A. Richard M. Alu

Date

JAN 26-1977

CONFIBOTHL

BoCre /262brequest

(See Buttle (C0-1)7230)

991-15029

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Cubans consider their first allegiance to Cuba and not

to the United States,

and always say that no one yet

has ever been prosecuted under the United States Neutrality

Informant stated that families and friends of the

Cuban refugees would never testify against them, and to

testify for the Government would cause people to think

chat persoa l& Pro-CASTRO, or a member of the Cuban 6-2. Tell)

A review of files of anti-CASTRO

organizations

reflects that the majority of these groups' activity is

conspiring to violate the Neutrality Act.

The majority

of these organizations have elaborate plans to attack

Cuba.

These groups are in frequent contact with Government

representatives asking for arms, equipment, and transporta-

tion to facilitate military expeditions.

These organizations

ammunition, and freely own and use

frequently violates the laws relating to the operation of boats.

United States Customs advised that there are nearly

150,000 Cubans in South Florida.

There are hundreds of miles

of coastline from which these Cubans can leave for the

Bahamas, which are only fifty miles away.

Bahamas,

miles of ocean, that the British have only three patrol boats,

and seldom ever patrol the Cay Sal Bank Islands, which are

the closest to Cuba. (C

United States Coast Guard advised they have planes,

ships, and helicopters, which are in constant patrol in the

Bahamas, photograph the boats used by Cuban exiles in the Not class fut

South Atlantic and Bahamas, but are more interested in

coast Guaso!

intelligence than enforcement of the law relating to the bire als

equipment used on these boats.

9145c/anos

ANTONIO PEREZ, Cuban fisherman in Miami,

advised

that a great number of Cuban fishermen arrive and depart

daily from Miami to and from the Cay Sal Bank, and a number

of these fishermen, such as PEREL, carry arms

and equipment

REVIEWED BY FEWJFK TASA FORCE

3.

ON 3-23-97 dat/BC

I RELEASE IN FULL

CONFIDENTIAL

CONSORICE

I RELEASE IN PART

J TOTAL DENIAL

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CONFIOEETIAL

to anti-CASIRO groups operating out of Cay Sal. PEREZ

explained that he has no difficulty entering and depart-

ing from Miami with arms, and the fishermen think. they

have United States Government sanction because they

are never stopped or prosecuted.

Inasmuch as the Cuban exiles present a unique

problem and cannot be counted on to testify as witnesses

Miami Office feels that military

expeditions could best be averted by enforcement of

existing Customs laws pertaining to entry and departure

of boats, the exportation of guns and articles of war

and the

are available for this purpose.

However, the Miami Office will have MM 639-S

attempt to identify the two Cuban companions of HARGRAVES

who returned to the United States with him, and will

continue investigation in an attempt to develop

prosecutable case against captioned individuals

conspiracy to violate the Neutrality Act.

CONFIDENTIAL

4.

COLORALS.

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