Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 10/22/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/29/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90106-10054

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 105-117222-144

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

MM

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DECLASSTFTED

Department of State

Guidelines, July 21,

Date:

10-12-2017

DATE :

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

10/22/1963

3

COMANDO L

JOHN THOMAS DUNKIN

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS : 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 08/03/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS

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DECLAOSINIED ST

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CONFIDS TIS EGRET

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• AIRGRAM

1 CABLEGRAM

URGENT

/TO DIRECTOR

FROM SAC MIAMI

10-22-63

2:50 AM

• RADIO.

XX TELETYPE

-- Classined

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Declassity on: DA JfK

EST

PJR

Tavel -

Trotter

Tele. Room

Holmes

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212100

COMANDOS L, IS - CUBA, RA - CUBA, NM.

REBUAIRTEL TO MIAMI OCTOBER, 17, 11963.

MM 639-S, WHO HAS FURNISHED RELIABLE INFORMATION IN THE

- PAST, DURING OCTOBER, 1963, HAS MAINTAINED CLOSE CONTACT

WITH SANTIAGO ALVAREZ RODRIGUEZ, HEAD OF COMANDOS L. ON

319-98

OCTOBER 14, INFORMANT ADVISED COMANDOS L BOAT, THE "SILVIA, "

A 50 FOOT MOTOR VESSEL, HAD LARGE SUPPLY OF FOOD AND GASOLINER

ABOARD AND WAS READY TO LEAVE AT ANY TIME FOR THE BAHAMAS ORS

CUBA. ALVAREZ WAS DESPERATELY TRYING TO BUY ADDLTIONAL

ARMS AND WOULD DEPART IN IMMEDIATE FUTURE. CUI

ON OCTOBER 12, ALVAREZ CONTACTED MIAMI OFFICE AND SAID

HIS GROUP HAD A BASE ON A KEY LOCATED ALONG THE NORTH SHORE

OF CUBA. ARMS ARE STORED ON THIS KEY AND. THREE MEN ARE

STATIONED THERE TO GUARD THE ARMS. THERE IS A RADIO

DA HAS NO PREE AND OR.

ORIVATION

CIA HAS

RELEASE OF GIA

IN THIS DOCUMENT.

TRANSMITTER THERE WHICH COMMUNICATES WITH COMANDOS L IN

MIAMI• SINCE HURRICANE FLORA HIT CUBA ON OCTOBER, 4, 1963,

NO FURTHER RADIO COMMUNICATIONS HAVE BEEN HEARD FROM THIS

KEY. A И

REC-103 1 0511172221444

ALVAREZ SAID COMANDOS L ALSO HAS A BASE OF OPERATIONS

IN THE BAHAMAS.

HE REQUESTED PERMISSION FOR THE MV SILVIA

TO DEPART FROM MIAMI WITH GASOLINE AND FOOD FOR THE BASE ONE

THỂ CUBAN KEY. HE SAID IF THE CUBAN KEY WAS NO LONGER SECURE

THEY WOULD MOVE EQUIPMENT STORED THERE TO THEIR BASE AN MONE 6 1963

BAHAMAS

VAREZ INVITED

•So GOVERNMENT TO CHECK THE SILVIA

Classified

Declassify

MR. MELAN, FOR THE DiRECTOR

12.T0%

3 .

3

NOV 12

100

*$)

CIASS.

5pL SIC

10-02-83-

105-1872

If the intelligence contained in the above message is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably

paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau's cryptographic systems.

RET

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P4-3 TRev. 4-17-63)

• AIRGRAM

= FONENTAL

DECODED COPY

17 CABLEGRAM

• RADIO

XX TELETYPE

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Belmont

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Casper.

Callahan

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Del oach

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Sullivan

Tavel -

Trotter

Tele. Room

Holmes

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PAGE THREE FROM MIAMI 212100

THREE 20 MM CANNONS.

CUSTOMS ALSO SEIZED THE MV SILVIA IN THE MIAMI RIVER. THE

SILVIA CONTAINED OVER 1,000 GALLONS OF EXTRA GASOLINE AND

LARGE QUANTITY OF FOOD AND WATER. THE SILVIA WAS SCHEDULED

TO LEAVE MIAMI OCTOBER 21 AT DAWN. CUSTOMS SAID IT APPEARED

COMANDOS L PLANNED TO MOVE THE MEN BY ONE BOAT, BOMBS AND

EXPLOSIVES BY A SECOND, ARMS AND AMMUNITION BY A THIRD, AND

SUPPLIES BY A FOURTH BOAT.

CUSTOMS AND MM 639 S. BELIEVE THAT THE SEIZURE OF THESE

FOUR BOATS AND THE EQUIPMENT HAS ABOUT ENDED COMANDOS L RAID

POTENTIAL FOR SOME TIME TO COME. A (U)

LHM FOLLOWS.

RECEIVED: 4:25 AM

Suction

EFM-HL

0:55 1 1229.03

CONTENTAL

CONNIDENTIAL

If the intelligence contained in the above message is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably

paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau's cryptographic systems.

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