Originator: HSCA
From: BLAKEY, G. ROBERT
To: DAVIS, REX D.
Document date: 00/00/0000
Document type: LETTER

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

10/1/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES:

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

HSCA

180-10073-10037

NUMBERED FILES

004705

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: HSCA

FROM:

BLAKEY, G. ROBERT

TO:

DAVIS, REX D.

TITLE :

Heleased under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act ol

1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case#:NW

5600d Date: 11-04-2021

DATE:

PAGES:

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HSCA, ADMINISTRATION

ATF

DOCUMENT TYPE: LETTER

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: Open in Full

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/15/1993

OPENING CRITERIA:

COMMENTS :

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LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMAN

RICHANOSUN PREYER, N.C.

SAMUEL L DEVINE, ONIO

WALTER E, FAUNTROY, D.C.

STEWART B. MCKINNEY, CONN.

YVONNE BRATHWAITE BURKE, CALIF.

CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN.

HAROLD S. SAWYER, MICH.

HAROLD E, FORO, TENN.

FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND.

ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA.

(202) 225-4624

Select Committee on Assassinations

U.S. House of Representatives

9331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

JAN 1 9 1979

004705

Mr. Rex D. Davis, Director

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

Federal Building, Room 4000

Washington, D.C. 20226

Attention: Mr. Marvin J. Dessler

Chief Counsel

Room 5226

Dear Mr. Davis:

In connection with its investigation into the

circumstances surrounding the death of President John

F. Kennedy, the

House Select Committee on Assassinations

requests that by January 30, 1978 the Bureau make available

to our duly authorized representatives all information

and files it has on the individuals listed below:

1. Manuel Artime

Cuban national who headed political action

for Bay of Pigs invasion; with Brigate 2506

Leader of MRR.

Died: November 17, 1977

2 .

Dominick E. Bartone

Office in 1962:

Room 551

Pan American Bank

Miami, Ohio

Born: Toledo, Ohio (possibly)

3.

Sam Benton

Miami, Florida

Arrested July 1963, La Combe, Louisiana

Indicted in Florida 1971

Associate of Mike McLaney

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Mr. Rex D. Davis, Director

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

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4.

James Braden, Eugene Hale Brading

Present address:

3224 Peachtree Road

Atlanta, Georgia

Convicted: 1951

Parole: 1959

5.

Edward Browder, Jr.

DOB: June 22, 1917 at Amarillo, Texas

FBI

No. 4 840 823

6.

Dino Cellini

FBI No. 219 8122

7.

David Ferrie

DOB: March 28, 1918

Social Security No. 282-18-8219

8.

Michael McLaney, aka McClainey

DOB: Approx. 1915

Owner of Nacional Casino, Havanna, Cuba

during late 1950's.

Indicted 1971 Southern District of New York

9.. John Martino

10.

DOB: August 3, 1911

Atlantic City, New Jersey

DOD: August 3, 1975

Miami Beach, Florida

Captain William Morgan

American "soldier-of-fortune" jailed in

Cuba in early 1960 and killed in prison

for allegedly anti-Castro_activiries.

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Mr. Rex D. Davis, Director

Bureau of

Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

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11.

William Robert Plumlee

Associate of John Martino

12.

John Roselli

(real name Felippe Sacco)

13. Norman Rothman aka "Roughhouse"

14.

DOB: December 26, 1914

Bronx,

New York

Sergio Arcacha Smith

Leader of New Orleans branch of Cuban

Revolutionary Council through 1962

15.

Frank Sturgis aka Frank Fiorini

16.

Manuel Antonio DeVarona aka Tony Varona

Miami official of Cuban Revolutionary Council

Miami address in 1962: 826 Madrid Street

Coral Gables, Florida

17. Eduardo Whitehouse

Cuban National, former head of Bastista's

Air Force

To expedite access to the Agency's records, the

Committee would appreciate it if priority were given to

preparing information covering the period 1958 - 1963.

Please notify us when documents pertaining to that period

have been completed.

If you have any questions concerning this request,

please call Jackie Hess at the Committee offices.

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Mr. Rex D. Davis, Director

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

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Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

sincerely,

1 0otex Blabey

G. Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel and Director-

GRB: jsc

CC:

Mr. J. Robert McBrien

Special Assistant for Special

Legislation and Projects

Department of the Treasury

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