Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 5/8/73
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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At 5:10 р.M1.,

5/4/73, MI. MANOLO REBOSO,

Miami City Commissioner, residing at 40 Shore Drive,

Day Heights, Miami, cane to the Miami Office, where

he was intervieved

by SAs RODERT JAMES DwYER and

GEORGE E. DAVIS, IR.

Mr. REBOSO, who was appointed to the

position of City Commissioner, is the first person

of Cuban origin to hold such position in Miami.

He

advised that he is a Bay of pigs veteran and attended

Georgia Tech.

Mr. REBOSO stated that he wanted to report

that MM 1550-KS is involved in a plot with one MANUEL

OTERO to discredit

REBOSO before the next elections

by having OTERO make a public statement to the effect

that HENRY GUTIERREZ made a pay-off to Mayor DAVE

KENNEDY and that RESOSO arranged the meeting between

GUTIERREZ and kENNEDY.

REBOSO described GUTIERREZ

as a wealthy Cuban builder who has just completed

construction of Miami's tallest building.

It is to

be noted that Mayor DAVE KENNEDY was recently indicted

by State Grand Jury in Florida on charges relating

to alleged

corruption while serving as

Mayor of the

City of Miami.

Mr. REBOSO acknowledged that he is

a friend of

Mayor KENNEDY, as well as KINNEDY'S

predecessor, layor 85-6

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Mr. REBOSO requested that his primary source,

PILAR ALFONSO, not be disclosed. He indicated that he is

still in contacteBoso revealed that he had been the

recipient of one of these anonymous letters and

was

aware of its contents.

SA DAVIS informed Mr. REBOSO

that there was no truth to the allegations.

Mr. REBOSO said that he had an appointment

on Monday, 5/7/73, with Congressman DANTE FASCELL

of Miami, to discuss this matter.

At the same time,

Mr. REBOSO advised that the FBI could call on him

at any tine and he sould be glad to cooperate.

Mr. REBOSO advised that he had ascertained

that MM 1550-KS has a permit to carry a weapon. He

asserted that he intends to have this permit revoked.

Examination of Miami file reflects that

on 5/26/72, IRS, Miami, advised by letter that in

connection with

the National IRS Narcotics Project,

it was requested that complete background information

be furnished on JOSE MANUEL REBOSO-BELLO, born

11/26/33, Havana, Cuba, Naturalization No. 934 7055,

at 40 Shore Drive N., Bay Heights, Miami.

At that time, Miami advised IRS that infornation in

our files reflects that REBOSO is a construction

designer and in 8/61 was President of the Beachhead

Brigade for Cuban Freedom in Washington, D. C.

In

was head of the Cuban Constitutional Unity,

an organization which attempted to obtain U.S.

sponsorship for anti-CASTRO lectures in South America.

He claimed that he had been physically persecuted in

Cuba because of his father's military status with the

BATISTA Government, and that he had been in jail for

forty-one days in Cuba while being held for investigation.

On 1/29/71, MM 1311-C-TE reported that

MARIO ESCANDAR, arrested with JUANITO RESTOY in a

narcotics raid in Miami, Knew SANTO TRAFFICANTE frOm

Cuba, and had introduced TRATFICANTE to MANOLO REBOSO,

Cuban architect, who is going to build a race track

in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

(SANTO TRAFFICANTE

is a well-known ICN figure in Tampa and Miami).

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On 10/30/68, Detective CESAR CAMACHO,

Dade County Public Safety Department (PSD) (protect

by request), advised that several weeks previously,

at Crela's Restaurant, Miami, he obsérved SANTO

TRAFFICANTE seated at

a table with MANOLO REBOSO,

owner of the Flagler Medical Center, and close friend

of Mayor STEVE CLARK, with two other men.

On 5/8/73, MM 1337-S, who has a wide range

of contacts among Cuban politicians, newsmen,

and other elements of the Cuban community in

activists,

Miami,

advised that REBOSO has the reputation of being a

petty gangster type, and it is rumored among some

members of Brigade 2506, as well as other Cuban groups,

that REBOSO is involved

in narcotics. MM 1337-S said

that he possessed no evidence of this, however.

MM 1337-S said that he recently had a

conversation with REBOSO, at which time REBOSO made

derogatory remarks against Chief BERNARD GARMIRE

of the Miami PD because of the Volusia County Grand

Jury proceedings which resulted in the indictment of

Mayor KENNEDY of Miami, who is a close parsonal friend

Of REBOSO.

REBOSO, according to MM 1337-S, accused

Chief GARMIRE of responsibility for KENNEDY's indictment.

MM 1337-S said that REBOSO is not relatédl

in any way to Mr. "BEBE" REBOZO, a personal friend of

President RICHARD M. NIXON, However, MANOLO REBOSC

has told MM 1337-S that many people in Miami believe

that he is related to BEBE REBOZO and that this fact

brings him political benefits.

For the information of the Bureau, MM

1550-KS is separated from his wife and he has not

mentioned the name of PILAR ALFONSO tO SA DAVIS, who

is the contacting Agent.

A1So, he has not mentioned

MANUEL OTERO Or RAUL, LOPEZ, neither of whom is identifiable

in Miami files on the basis of information furnished bj

REBOSO.

(5)

. On 3/23/73,4WF

2047 Skadvised that PILAR

ALFONSO, same address

carpished by REBOSO, Dad requested

a visa of the Czech Embassy

to enable

her

travel

Cuba to visit her gravely ill nother, LiCIA ELiAS,

who

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