CABLE RE MARCOS DIAZ LANZ.
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 12/10/1974
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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LO FOLLOWING, BASED ON DBD-83232. 25 NOV 74. MAY BE

PASSED LF JBARGAIN ON MARCOS DIAZ LANZ WHO HAS NOT REQUESTED INS

NATURALIZATION. DO NOT ATTRIBUTE FBI-Y

MARCOS DIAZ LANZ WAS INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE CUBAN AIR

FORCE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE FIDEL CASTRO REGIME IN 1959 WHIN IT

BECAME EVIDENT THAT CASTRO WAS LEANING TOWARDS COMMUNISM.

SINCE 1959 HE HAS BEEN LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES, MOSTLY

MIAMIT FLORIDA Y

DURING THE 1960'S DIAZ WAS KNOWN AS AN ANTI-COMMUNIST

CRUSADER AND GAVE SPEECHES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES

ATTACKING THE CASTRO REGIME IN CUBA, AS WELL AS COMMUNISM IN

GENERAL. FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS HE HAS BEEN WORKING FULL TIME

IN THE CONSTRUCTION.COMPAMY OF HIS HALF BROTHER SERGIO BRULL

AND HAS SETTLED DOEN TO THE TASK OF EARNING A LIVING. HE IS

•A PROFESSIONAL SPEECHMAKER. FOR A WHILE HE HAS A PREACHER

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MIAMI IS VERY SLOW AT THIS TIME IT IS POSSIBLE DIAZ PLANS TO

SUPPLEMENT HIS INCOME BY GIVING TALKS ON THE COMMUNIST SITU-

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