Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 09/17/0000
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

517/2015

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER:

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

FBI

124-10294-10303

HQ

105-80115-13TH NR 14

Released under the John

Assassination Recorde

Collection Act of 1992

i44 USC 2107 Note!.

Case#:NU 54460 Date:

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SAC, MM

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 09/17/0000

'PAGES:

13

SUBJECTS :

[Restricted]

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/05/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS : INC LHM

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FBI

Date:

9/i7,

Transmit the following in

Via

- AIRTEL

(Type in plain text or code)

REGISTERED MAIL

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

is

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI

FROM:

SAC, MIAMI (134-1191) (P)

GENERAL ELIAS WESSIN Y WESSIN

IS - DR

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINES

HEREIN IS UNGLASSINED

DATE //-/-94 BY&P&MAC/EN

JFK.

MARCOS.

DIAZ

LANZ

ReButels 9/12/65 and 9/13/65 and Miami tel 9/15/65.

Enclosed herewith for the Bureau are 10 copies of

letterhead memorandum dated and captioned as above.

extra copy is designated for the Bureau for transmittal to

Legat; Santo Domingo.

A copy of this letterhead memorandum has been

designated locally to INS in view of General WESSIN's alien

Status:

109

Information copies are being sent to San Juan,

New York and Washington Field Offices in view of their

continuing interest in the Dominican situation.

NM T-I is Legat, Santo Domingo.

place com 105-80115(B-DiAzLANZ)

2-1489

FURNIS

Bureau (Enc-10)(2M)

1 - New York (Enc-1) (RM)

- San Juan (Enc-1) (RM)

-

Washington Field

(Enc-1) (RM)

- Miami (1 - 134-1191)

(1 - 105-1962,

MARCOS DIAZ LANZ

(1 -

2-192,

FRANK FIORINI)

(1 - 105-1084, DOMSIT)

ELP:S11

(10)

# Wien

1105-80/15-

ORIGINAL FILED IN

ED

176 OCT

NOT RECORDED

176

1965

72 SEP R0 1965

Approved:

Copy to: CIA/States/RAQ-Ageht in Charge

by routing

Date 41-13-65

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infe.

190b

by wep /226.

Sent

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MM 134-1191

WM T-3 is MM 635-S.

This letterhead memorandum has been classified

"CONFIDENTIAL" because it contains information from informanta

of continuing value. Unauthorized disclosure of this infor-.

mation could result in compromising these sources and affect

the national defense.

General WESSIN's letter to HECTOR GARCIA GODOY was

translated by Miami translator SOPHIE SALIBA.

General WESSIN was interviewed on 9/15/65 and

9/17/65 by SAS EDWARD J. DAHL and EUGENE L. PAYNE in the

Spanish language inasmuch as WESSIN claims to speak no English.

WESSIN expressed admiration for the Bureau as the

only serious agency in

Florida. He stated he would be avail

able for future interviéws by

Bureau representatives:

WESSIN appears tired and remote.

He is undoubtedly

bitter, as expressed in several press releases, toward t. S.

authorities since he believes the U.S. betrayed his

efforts

in the Dominican Republic.

As noted in the enclosed letterhead memorandum,

WESSIN on 9/15/65 was encountered at the residence of ANTONEO

LIANO MONTES, in company with Cuban exile MARCOS DIAZ LANZ,

Bufile 105-80115. On 9/17/65, MARCOS DIAZ LANZ and FRANK

FIORINI, Bufile 2-1499, were observed in contact with General

WESSIN.

On 9/17/65, LIANO MONTES advised that individuals,

mostly Cuban exiles whom he has not been in contact with for

more than three years, 'have continually appeared at his.

residence or telephonically contacted him in an effort to

gain access to General WESSIN. WESSIN has been thus occupied

during most of his waking hours with these contacts, as well

as with widespread representatives of local and national

press, radio and television.

This situation will more than

likely continue for some time.

Because of the situation

regarding DIAZ LANZ and FRANK FIORINI, as described in the

enclosed letterhead memorandum, it is possible that WESSIN's

attitudes will undergo a change if

and when he perceives

their intention to exploit WESSIN's own anti-communist

ambitions.

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MM 134-1191

As explained in referenced Miami teletype, Miami

will endeavor to cover the activities of General WESSIN

through contacts with established sources who are among

those Cuban exiles who are ir contact with him..

In addition,

WESSIN will be contacted at such times as deemed appropriate

for the purpose of entarging our channel of communication

with him and looking toward the possibility of explorting

his admiration and confidence in the Bureau.

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In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

134-1191

UNIT

STATES DEPARTMENT OF j

-STICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Miami, Florida

September 17, 1965

DECLASSIFIED BYSP& MAC/EM

ON 11-1-94

(SER)

RE:

GENERAL ELIAS WESSIN Y WESSIN

INTERNAL SECURITY - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

On September 12, 1965, MM T-1, a confidential source

abroad; advised as follows:

General ELIAS WESSIN Y WESSIN, commanding officer of

the Central de Ensenanzarde las Fuerzas Armadas (CEFA) (Armed

Forces Training Center); was retired, appointed Dominican

Consul General in Miami, and sent out of the Dominican

Republic (DR) to Panama on the night of September 9, 1965.

Indications were that WESSIN was to travel from Panama to

Miami and it was expected that he would be joined by his

family in Miami by September 12, 1965.

WESSIN has stated that had not United States troops landed

- According to Mu I-la

the DR in April, 1965, the country would have been lost to

communism. According to information available to MM T-1 on

September 9, 1965, WESSIN was visited by Brazilian General

HUGO ALVIN, Commanding General of the Inter-American Peace

Force, and General BRUCE PALMER, Commanding General of U.S.

Forces, DR. This visit was made at the express instructions

of American Ambassador. ELLSWORTH BUNKER, American Representa-

tive to the OAS Committee in the DR. It appears that ALVIN

and PALMER directed an ultimatum to WESSIN to depart the DR.

The September 15, 1965 edition of the "Miami News,"

a local daily newspaper, carried an article entitled, "Bayonet

Forced Me - Wessin."

This article attributes WESSIN with

alleging that an American lieutenant put a bayonet in his back

and forced him out of his country and carried WESSIN's

rejection of a consulate post in Miami.

The article quoted

WESSIN as saying,

"The American official who ordered my

expulsion in such a humiliating way has given the coup de

grace to the fight for democracy in Latin America." This

article further contained excerpts from a letter

purportedly

written by WESSIN to the Dominican

Provisional President,

HECTOR GARCIA GODOY.

105-800150

ENCLOSUNg

•CONFIDENTIAL

Fseluded fron antonatie

downgrading and

declassifiertion

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FD-323 (Rev.: 11-29-61)

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

134-1191

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BURFAU OF INVESTIGATION

Miami,

Florida

September 17g

1965

Title

GENERAL ELIAS WESSIN Y WESSIN

Character

Reference

INTERNAL SECURITY -

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Memorandum dated and captioned

as above at Miami, Florida

All sources (except any listed below) whose identities

are concealed in referenced communication have furnished reliable

information in the past.

This document containe nether recommendations nor conclusions of the fBi. le da the property

of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside

your agency.

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