Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 01/22/1959
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

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JFK Assassination System

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Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10280-10098

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 105-74151-3

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

FBI

SAC, MM

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 01/22/1959

PAGES:

8

SUBJECTS :

CC, ROMARIZ, ALBERTO BLANCO, ASSOC,

REVOLUTIONARY ACT, CUBA, TRẠ

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: Consulted; 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/24/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF INS

COMMENTS: INC MEMO, REFERRED TO INS

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

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64

Office Memorandum • UNITED S

GOVERNMENT

TO

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FROM

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 1/22/59

SAC, MIAMI (105-1684

ALL INFORMATION CONTALIBL

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

EXCEPT WASTE SHOWN

OTHERWISE

SUBJECT:

CHANGED

ALBERTO BLANCO ROMARIZ aka.

Alberto Blanco;

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OSVALDO ANTONIO CASTELL Y VALDEZ, aka.,

Tony, Antonio Guzman Valdez, Valdes 9/2694

IS - CUBA

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ReBulet 12/4/58.

Declassify on: OADR//16/86

The title in instant communication is marked

(OFK)

changed in order to reflect the full and correct names

of ALBERTO BLANCO ROMARIZ and OSVALDO ANTONIO CASTELL Y

VALDEZ as those names appeared in the files of Immigration

and Naturalization Service, Miami, Florida. Title was

previously carried as "ALBERTO BLANCO; ANTONIO "GUZMAN;

IS - CUBA"

Referenced letter reflects information from a

confidential source abroad classified as secret, to the

effect that CHARLES WILLIAM HORMEL (Bureau file 105-69648;

Miami file 2-198) arrived at Grand Cayman Island, British

West Indies, on October 26, 1950, with three passengers,

and

departed leaving two of them there.

The two left behind

were ALBERTO CRESCENCIO de la CRUZ MENENDEZ OLITE (who

reportedly first gave his name as ALBERTO BLANCO),

address 1920 Michigan Avenue, Miami, Florida, and

the

other passenger is identified as OSVALDO ANTONIO CASTELI

address 1918 Southwest 3rd Avenue, Miami.

VALDE? whoftrst save his name as aNtoNIo the souralde?),

further stated. that the name of the third person in HORMEL'S

plane was said

to be ALBERTO, but nothing more about him

was known.

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HERNANDEZ VALDES: Cuban Consul

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MM 105-1684

furnished a list to the New York Office which he stated

was sent to him by the Cuban Military Intelligence

Service, which list contained individuals who, because of

their revolutionary activities in Cuba, had been forced to

seek residence in another Country & The name OSVALDO

ANTONIO CASTELL VALDES is listed as having left Cuba

for the United States June 11, 1957, on this list. The

New York Office,

on September 12, 1958, furnished the

Miami Office a list and a group of 288 photographs obtained'

from the Immigration and Naturalization Service, described

as a list of known Cuban revolutionaries operating in the.

Miami area,

and on this list appeared OSVALDO ANTONIO

CASTELL y VALDES,

Immigration and Naturalization Service

(INS) Number A11250772.

On November 3, 1958, Superintendent DAVID GODFREY,

Special Branch, The Jamaica Constabulary, Kingston, Jamaica,

British West Indies, advised SA LEON O. PRIOR that

a number

visited Jamaica frequently, and one of

them is the property of CHARLES WILLIAM HORMEL, Who was

reported as in Cayman Island accompanied by ALBERTO CRUZ

MENENDEZ, who gave his name as BLANCO, his occupation as

lawyer, and his home address as 1920. Michigan Avenue,

Miami, and ANTONIO GUZMAN VALDEZ, home address 1918

Southwest 3rd Avenue, Miami.

Their flight began in Tampa

and

ended in South Caicos where HORMEL abandoned MENENDEZ

and GUZMAN.

On November 9, 1958, Superintendent GODFREY

advised that a cache of arms and

military supplies had

been seized in Cayman Island, British West Indies, and

two Cubans guarding same had

been taken into custody,

namely, ALBERTO MENENDEZ and ANTONIO VALDES, who furnished

signed statements admitting they transported guns with

HORMEL from Miami by way of Tampa, Caicos Island, to

Cayman Island. CO(U)

The "Diario Las Americas", a Spanish Language

Newspaper published daily in Miami,

Florida, in its issue

of June 7, 1957, showed a photograph of ALBERTO BLANCO

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United States at Miami September 28, 1954. He listed his

occupation as a student, and gave his address as 1019

Southwest 24th Road, Miami; address in Cuba, 609

San Indalecio, Santos Suarez

tIon was white male, 23, 5'g, Havana,.

Cuba.

His descrip-

: 112, black hair, brown

eyes, single, parents LINO BLANCO, father, and DOLORES

ROMARIZ, mother.

The file contained a memorandum dated

February 12, 1958, reflecting information furnished by

EDUARDO HERNANDEZ,

Cuban Consul General, Miami, Florida,

stating that ALBERTO BLANCO (INS Number A8753096) and

TONY CASTELL (INS Number A11250772) were members of a

party which included FAURE CHOMON, which had gone to

Cuba to join the rebel forces of FIDEL CASTRO..

Mr. THURMAN advIsed that the file contained no

information concerning the whereabouts of BLANCO subsequent

to the notation that his presence was verified in Cuba in

February, 1958.

Mr. THURMAN made file number A11250772 for

OSVALDO ANTONIO CASTELI VALDEZ available, and it reflected

that CASTELL was born in Havana, Cuba,

February 28,

1932,

was a white male, 26 years old, married, height 5'11"

, weight

150, hair black,

eyes brown, features regular, FBI Number

701 098 C.

He was arrested

May 21, 1955,

by the Miami

Beach Police Department under number A22282, -for Larceny,

and the charge was dismissed on May 255 1955. Parents were

listed as ANTONIORCASTELL and LOUISAXVALDEZ.

His address

in Cuba was 619 Virtudes Street

Havana, and as of July 3,

1957, his Miami address was 1918 Southwest 3rd Avenue,

Miami. He entered the United States as a student on

CASTELL participated in the attack on the Presidential

Palace in Cuba in March, 1957.

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