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1104-10069-10077

2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

0018)3.244,087

6G2E200C1

MLA 30372

27 November 1902

Subject:' Reported Use of Yacht Potomac by Alpha 66

1.

On 20 Nov 62 IAFO received an unsolicited telephone call on tha

listed telephone numoer.

The caller wanted to advise that there was reportedly

In the harbor at Long Beach a vessel., formerly used by the late Theodore

roosevelt,

called the Potomac.

This

vessel, according to the informant, vas

being used by the Alpha 66 organization.

She was believed taking on a cargo

of weapons crated as Argentine beef, and destined to leave soon for Seattle.

He added that a Wes Davis had just signed on as an engineer, and there was

another character named Cliff Roberts on board.

Both were descrived as bcarded

adventurers.

2.

The caller refused to identify himself, claiming that he did not

know whether

contact with the Agency would be approved by his employer, and

that ther is a vessel,

the Potouac, formerly one of the 155' USCG cutters.

For some time It had been used by the late F. D. Roosevelt as the presidential

yacht.

Later it had been disposed of to the Maryland (State) Fish and Game

Commission, and more recently

• the Hydra-Capital, inc.,

410 West Coast Highway, Newport Beach, California (OR 5-1549).

USCG advised further that an investigator for the Los Angeles County

Prosecutor, D. L. Wheeler,

had accepted an assignment (taking leave of absence

to do so) to bring the Potomac from the Barbados to California.

supposedly, was to make her a floating museum of some sort.

On his arrival

in Bartados, Wheeler 1s reported to have found the craft in foul shape, with

only a single engine operative. He refused the job and returned to Los Angeles.

The craft later, however,

did turn up In San Diego in October and was later

observed tied up in Cerritos Channel; Los Angeles harbor area; and subsequently,

she was moved back to San Diego, where It is presently In a shipyard.

her nute been palated, and appeara to be undergoing

her hull:

Us Dept of Justice -782. BLdg-JA, Lax

(paragraphs 1 and 2), subsequently identified

Bill. Spivaky was re-contacted by telephone.

suggested to him that in the event any more information concerning the Potomac

ind the likelthood of her use in any foreign activity came his way, we would

appreciate another call.. On this occasion, Spivak volunteered the staterent

that 1t was his understanding that the Cliff Roberts he had referred to pre-

vlously had

reference to Barbados.

o come Prom Barbados with the vessely this was Spivak'irst

The above is for your information only.

The sketchiness of

the material

presented LAFO as well as the circumstances of 1ts origin militate against its

credibility. As a conseguence, no follow-up 1s anticipated unless requested.

TFW - 30/200 62

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