ALLEGATION BY A SENIOR CUBAN DIPLOMAT CONCERNING THE ROLE OF CUBAN EXILES IN THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY.
Originator: CIA
From: RAYMOND A WARREN, CHIEF LATIN AMER
To: OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Document date: 11/11/1977
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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11 HOY 1977

MENORANIUT JOR: Office of the legislative Cariel. i

VIA:

SA/ADIO

FROM:

Raymond A.

Harren

Chief. Latin America Division

SUR.JECT:

Allegation by i Senior Cuban Diplomat

Concerning

the

Role of Cuban

ixiles

in

the Assassination of President Kennedy

REFERENCE:

LA/C0/258-77 Dated 3 November 1977

1.

Reference is made in the referent memerandum which

sportedl a statement made by a senior Cuban diplomat abroad

alleging that "Cuban

exiles such as DIA? Lan ¡Inu! (sic)

and others had been involved in the assassination of

Fresident John F. Kennedy."

ke have received nothing

further to date to supplerent this information.

DDO

records indicate that Pedro DIA. Lan,

and

his brother Marcos DIAZ Lanz. formerly Chief and Deputy

Chief, respectively, of the Cuban Revolutionary Air lurce.

entered the U.S. from Cuba as exiles in mid-19=9.

Since

that time both DIAZ Lan: brothers

reportedly hare been

closely associated with,

and insclved in numerous activities

with, Frank STURGIS (aka

FIORINI)

of watergate fame.

A1 -

though the individual allegedly involved in the assassina-

tion of Fresident Kennedy could he either of the DiAZ Lanzi

brothers, it is noted

that the name. Pedro DIAZ lanz had

been cited in

recent newspaper itens in this connection.

de refer specifically to the New lord Daily News article

of 20 September 1977 entitled *Er Spr Says Slic Urore to

Dallas with Oswald & Kennedy 'Assassin Squad'," & copy

of which is attached.

The Agency assisted in the evacua-

•tion of Marcos fron Cuba to Miani, and l'edro entered the

U.S. on his own.

although both here debriefed hs

the

Agency, there is no indication that they verc ever con-

sidered agency assets.

signed

Bernond do. Fartes

Raymond A.: Harren

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SUBJECT: Allegation by a Senior Cuban Diplomat

Concerning

the Role. of Cuban Exiles

in

the Assassination of President Kennedy

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