Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 06/17/1959
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/3/2015

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER:

RECORD SERIES:

FBI

124-10302-10247

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

2-1499-29

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

188a881nation Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Cased:NIT 54462 Date:

10-04-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FROM:

TO:

TITLE :

FBI

SAC, MM

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 06/17/1959

PAGES:

4

SUBJECTS :

FS, ANTI-COMMUNIST, BKG, MIL, CITIZENSHIP, ASSOC,

SMUGGLING, WEAOPNS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/17/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

INC MEMO

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LASSITIED

BY

STANDARD, FORM NO. 54

Office Mem-randum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO

DIRECTOR, FBI (2-1499)

DATE: June 17, 1959

Dot at

SUBJECT:

SAC, MIAMI

(2-192)

FRANK ANTHONY STURGIS, Aka.,

Frank Fiorini

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ReBulet to MM, captioned as above, dated 6/5/59,

instructing MM to furnish information re activities of

subject and recommendation for approach to him.

On April 7, 1959, MM 635-S advised SA GEORGE

E. DAVIS, JR., that FIORINI is a Captain in the Cuban

Air Forçe, and that RAUL CASTRO, Chief of the Department

of Defense of Cuba, was believed to be investigating

FIORINI for anti-Communist sympathies. (134-211 Sub A-139.)

On May 6, 1959, PSI ROBERT A. WILLIAMS (protect)

stated that FRANK FIORINI is an American who works for

the Cuban Air Force in Miami. (134-354 Sub A.) A(Ul)

On May 12, 1959, MM 635-S advised SA DAVIS that

FRANK FIORINI had, until recently, been serving as liaison

man by the FAR (Cuban Air Force) and U. S. Embassy in

Havana, Cuba. The Embassy notified him, however, that

he might lose his United States citizenship and that he had

to decide between the United States and Cuba. FIORINI

thereupon decided to remain in Miami in order to retain his

for FAR but not for FAR intelligence. These investigations

relate to individuals suspected of smuggling guns into

Cuba; smuggling people out of Cuba, and related matters.

MM 635-S said FIORINI is living at the Ankara Motel, Miami

Beach, Florida. (134-211 Sub A-144.) -

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MM 2-192

On May 26, 1959, MM 635-S advised SA DAVIS

that FRANK FIORINI wants to become a public relations

13421 50 4105 A vice as do arati aur.

(134-211 Sub A-146.).

By letter dated October 22, 1958, from J.

. WALTER YEAGLEY, Acting Assistant Attorney General,

Internal Security Division, Department of Justice, to

the Director, FBI, and captioned, "FRANK ANTHONY STURGIS;

RA", it was concluded that from information contained in

the report of SA ROBERT JAMES DWYER dated September 23,

1958, at Miami, same caption, that "The subject had acted

within the United States as an agent of a foreign

principal so as to require his registration under the

Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 as amended.

Accordingly, this Division is

soliciting the subject's

registration under the Act and you will be advised as to

the outcome of our efforts in this regard."

On April 13, 1959, Mrs. RUTH BRADY, Registration

Section, Internal Security Division, United

• States Department

of Justice, advised SA DONALD HOTEING that her records

failed to reflect that subject is registered as a foreign

agent of a foreign principal.

On June 9, 1959, J. A. TURNER and EMIT PHILLIPS,

Investigators, Immigration and Naturalization Service,

Miami, Florida, advised SA WILLIAM A. WIGHTMAN that that

office

had no current information regarding or interest

in the subject.

On June 9, 1959, WALLACE SHANLEY, Investigator,

United States Customs Service, Miami, advised SA WIGHTMAN

that his office had no pending investigation regarding subject

and was in possession of no informationnot previously.

disseminated to the Miami Office.

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