Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 11/4/61
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:

4/15/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10281-10169

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : CR 113-7-210-681

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM: SAC, MM

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 11/04/1961

PAGES:

16

SUBJECTS:

CC, CUBA, ARMED FORCES, MILITARY AND NAVAL

MATTERS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C; 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/28/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INC LHM

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Date:

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Enclosed herewith are 9 copies of a letterhead

memorandum, dated and captioned as above, at Miami, Fla.

MM T-1 is former HAV-35

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Investigator closely associated with the police there-

He is not a military man and makes no attempt to

enumerate the weapons, or give technical descriptions of them;

however, it is felt that his descriptions of the various

branches of the Armed Forces;'their training, indoctrination,

functions, and morale, afförd an interesting

and probably

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Released under the John F. Kernedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Notey.

DATE: 11-14-2017

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

105-2878

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

32844S

Chssieur:

Miam, Florida

November 4, 1961

Re: MILITARY AND NAVAL MATTERS - CUBA

CONTENTIAL

SECRE

Classifted by

SOUBJAGCL

Declassify

QADR /15/86

AND INOORMATION CONTAINED

LORDIOTS INECASSITIED

EXCEPT DARNS OSONN

OSLONISE

The following information was reported by iM I-1 on

OCtOber 30

furnished reliable information in the past? He arrived very

recently from Havana, Cuba. (7)(

THE CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY NAVY

MM T-1 stated this branch of the armed forces of Cuba

has never enjoyed the full confidence of FIDEL CASTRO. Source

pointed out that many of his officers began to defect in 1959,

and in the early Spring of 1960, a series of defections began to

occur amongst his Naval officers who represented Cuba as Naval

Attaches or Assistant Naval Attaches in foreign countries.

Notable amongst these were the Naval Attaches of Cuba assigned

to Venezuela, Mexico and the United States.

MM I-l further recalled that many of the officers and

men of the Revolutionary Navy had defected within Cuba and in some

cases complete Naval units, including both men and officers,

had defected and fled to the United States. (i

The principal work performed by the Revolutionary

Navy at this time is that of extending a thin and ineffective

patrol surveillance off of the North coast of Cuba, with the

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