Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HQ
Document date: 1/6/64
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/28/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90036-10064

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 97-4284-59

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Recorde

Collection Act. of 19g2

(44 USC 2107 Notel .

Case#:NW 53932 Date:

68-21-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO:

HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 01/06/1964

PAGES:

13

SUBJECTS :

ANGEL SANTOS BUSH

DR. CHARLES AUGUSTO SANTOS BUCH

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

• RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

06/10/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: SUMMARY

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CONFIDENTIAS

Andrew Szentgyorgyi (protect identity), 104 Pearsall Drive,

Mount Vernon, NY, advised that at the request of James B. O'Connell,

Editor of the Cavalier Magazine, NYC; to go to Cuba and obtain first-

hand information on the Cuban rebels,

he went to Cuba on 4/13/57.

szentgyorgyl stated that about the latter part of May, 1957 he finally

got an interview with Fidel Castro. At Santiago, he had Dr. Santos

Busch take his camera

film and tape recorder to J. Mallon, the Times

this equipment to de, care art, ma, no, ou returned to the ta

on or about 5/23/57.

Szentgyorgyi stated that Dr. Santos Busch had a son by the

name of Charlie Santos Busch, who had

just graduated from Cornell

negro seed that par ximately three work were return

to the us he receivea a call from Roberto serrano, the son of a very

important Cuban politician, to come to the above address.

There he

met an individual by the name of Lester, who said he had

just come

from Castro's camp in Cuba and that he came to NY to ask for weapons

and money to help the Cuban Revolution. Szentgyorgyi said he advised

Lester that he could not help in any way and did not contribute any

money.

109-480-533

(17,287

Andrew Szentgyorgyi, 104 Pearsall Drive, Mt. Vernon; NY

(protect identity), advised that sometime during August, 1957,

attended a meeting

in the apartment of Dr. Charles Santos Busch, 1315

York Ave., NYC, who was an intern

at the New York Hospital, which was

also attended by several Cubans.

Szentgyorgyi described one individual in attendance at this

meeting, which description corresponded with that of Robert Corenevsky

(64-40737). He said this unknown individual talked to one of the

Cubans about guns and spoke of a shipment of rifles, and that this

individual appeared to be in some sort of trouble.

Informant also reported that Lester Rodriguez, who according

to informant was one of the top officers of the July 26 Movement in

the U.S., attended this meeting and talked to several Cubans in the

bedroom of this apartment.

61-10737-94 p. 11

117)

SI 64-40737-115

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CONFIDEM

This reference set forth in detail information relative

to the activities of Alan Louis Sagner (105-93764) in the FPCC. al

Various information regarding the activities of Charles Santos Buch

in the FPCC was also set out.

Buch reported that in early, 1960

Salaare chedit being a en the can at to no deart tie

unfavorable publicity being given the Cuban situation and as a result

the FPCC was organized. Sagner sponsored an advertisement of the

FPCC, which appeared in the

"New York Times" on 4/6/60.

He stated he

was unaware any funds for the FPCC came from the Cuban

Government and

he was shocked to learn of testimony of Buch that the Cuban Government

did render financial aid to the FPCC.

Sagner said that in his mind,

the matter of Cuba's participation in the FPCC was not resolved but

on the advice of his attorney he planned to "stay clear of the FPCC."

10530375226262984,5,7,8, 12-13

On 10/15/60 Ricardo Felix Portuondo y Portuondo: (134-9619)

(protect identity) furnished the Jacksonville Office with various

information regarding a number of individuals mentioned in a previous

communication from the NY Office dated 10/4/60.

Portuondo said that Carlos Santos Busch was no doubt

identical with Carlos Santos Buch, who was a cousin of Luis Buch

Rodriguez, minister of the President of Cuba.

source said that

all of the Buch family were officials in the Castro Government and

that the last he saw of Carlos Santos Buch was in January, 1959, when

this individual was seen in the presidential palace, Havana, Cuba.

134-96,302 en61. p. 2

contained a list of individuals whom Jose Paz Novas named as Cuban

"Carlos Santos Busch (ph)."

It is believed that the Carlos Santos Buch who was seen in

Cuba in January, 1959 by Portuondo was possibly Dr. Angel Maria Santos

Buch, the father of the subject of this summary.

CONFIDENTIAL

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CONFIDENTIAL

he attended a meeting of the Movimiento Revolucionario del

CRET

barter nat eVer haa who atten in his 20% 1 5 and nho

Degaster named

were then associated with the MRP. These included Dr. Charles Santos

Buch, a medical doctor in NY who was instrumental in the formation

of the FPCC.

Degaster reported that the main theme of the meeting was

that then was the time "to do something

to over-throw the

government

of Prime Minister Fidel Castro of Cuba."

They discussed the formation

of a "Committee For a Free Cuba" and all present agreed that Americans

should be included in the committee.

105-92704-39

(4x224)

The following references in the file captioned "Fair Play

For Cuba Committee" file 97-4196, contain information pertaining to

the activities of Charles Augusto Santos Buch in this committee. Buch

was a founder and member of the FPCC from early 1959 to October, 1960.

He made contributions to this committee, attended their meetings and

received its publication "Fair Play."

nero this committer n

On 5/21/60 Buch appeared on the

television program "Between The Lines" and defended the Cuban situation.

Reference Number

Search Slip Page Number

97-436-18 B. 18162128336

12,10,115

112 p.

(2,204

129 p.

156 p.

12520,355%

158 p. 1,2

162

(6,247

170 p. 1-6

175 p.

3

181 p. B,H,I, 1,41-48

188

206 p. 1-3

252

362 p. 1,2, also see

outgoing p. 3

414 p. A,1,2,4,7,8

428 encl. p.

443 B-2-14,53

493 p. 46,47

(6,241)

(114

(27201)

(3.20}

(10%11)

(621Y

CONFIDENHAO

(3.6270, 201

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REFERENCES NOT INCLUDED IN THIS SUMMARYONE IUC. •

The following reference on One Buch located in a file

maintained in the Special File Room of the Files and Communications

Division, Records Branch, was not reviewed:

Reference Number

Search Slip Page Number

(64-330-240-10-197887

(35%

The following reference on Charles Bush located in the

Personnel Records Unit was not reviewed:

Reference Number

67-543248-21

Search Slip Page Number

(315

See the search slip filed behind file for other references

on this subject which contain the same information (SI) that is set

out in the main file. Differences in source will be noted on the search

slip.

SECREE

CONFIDENTIAL

SECRET

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