Originator: FBI
From: JEVONS
To: CONRAD
Document date: 10/25/1962
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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124-90139-10031

2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK Assassination System

Date:

Identification Form

4/17/201

Agency Information

AGENCY :

FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90139-10031

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 109-584-3347

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM: JEVONS

TO: CONRAD

TITLE:

DATE: 10/25/1962

PAGES: 2

SUBJECTS :

CIA LIAISON MATERIAL

UNKNOWN DEVICE FOUND ON CUBAN BEACH

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1A

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 09/28/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA

COMMENTS :

MEMO

v9.1

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CPTIONAL FORM NO. 10*

UNITED STATES GOVERS MENT

Memorandum

TO

• Mr. Conrad

goNC

:DECLASSIFICATICH AUTHORITY DERIVED EROM:?

EEL AUTONATIC DECLASSIELCATION QUIDE

DATE 06-13-2023

BY: E54X93X42

DATE: October 25, 1962

Tolson —

Belmont

Mohr

Casper -

Callahan

SECRET ..

Malone -

Rosen -

Sullivan -

Tavel —

FROM

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DACLASCFICATION AND/OR,

UNKNOWN DEVICE FOUND

ON CUBAN BEACH

KP 11-1497

On Sunday, October 21,

1962, Mr. Arthur J.

Shanahan

the Central Intelligence Agency

a lead capsule

FBI Laboratory for the purpose of identifying

gray-appearing powder

contained in a well inside the capsule.

This capsule was reportedly recovered from a Cuban beach

by an individual who said it was one of many which were being

unloaded from a Soviet submarine.

the instant device reportedly

fell from a wheelbarrow being used for transport 57(9

It was reported to the Laboratory that the Atomic,

Biological and Chemical Division of the Office of Special

cons

DeL

CASTRO

Approximately 8 1/2 grams of a mechanical mixture of

ground. glass (55%) and ground sintered iron particles (45%)

constituted the powder inside the well in the lead capsule.

A1SO,

present in the powder were several opaque crystals of potassium

The lead cylinder itself measured 3" high, was 1 9/16"

in diameter and bore a 1/2" diameter hole having

1/2 threads per

inch, which is

n1d-13-43 standard domestic pipe thread,

CLASSIFIED BY 5648 SID/ISR

DECLASSIRY ON: 25X

- MI. Belmont

-

Mr --DeLoach

(JFK ST-120

RE 9109-584-33477

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

Mr Sullivan

, OCT S0 196₴

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED /

- Liaison

Attention:

271

Mr. Papich

EXCEPT WHERE SHOWN

OTHERN

Enclosure

WRH : SLB (10)

109-584

90114 + 229,80k

APPEAI, #

CIVIL ACT. #

5. 0. # 12356

DATE

2/10/86 INITTIS 1A

(S-1) iS CIA

Classified by EPUBAlTAL

Declassity

DATOR, 2/10/86

SECRET

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