Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 6/11/65
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/26/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

FBI

124-10214-10482

HQ

2-1917-1

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO :

TITLE :

FBI

SAC, MM

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 06/11/1965

PAGES:

SUBJECTS:

GPH, ASSOC, CUBAN REFUGEE, ACA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/21/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INC NOTE

v9.1

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DECODEDICOPY

AIRGRAM

• CABLEGRAM

RADIO XX*TELETYPE

carbona

Conrad

Felt -

Gale _

Hosen

Sullivant

Tavel -

Trotter

Tele. Room

Holmes -

Gandy

12:43 AM EST DEFERRED

TO DIRECTOR

FROM MIAMI

110300

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION 1O

6-11-65 UVVDECLASSIFICATION AND/OR!

RELEASE LE/CIA INFORMIATIO

IN THIS

DONNENE RP 1-15-98

ANTONIO

CONSTANZO PALAU; GERALD PATRICK HEMMING, ETAL, NM,

N.

ZETO

INTERNAL SECURITY- DOMINICAN REpELORiE

RE CIA MESSAGE JUNE SMAST ENTITLED "RECRUITMENT OF CUBA)

3

8

EXILES IN MAAMI, FLORIDA TO ASSIST GENERAL ANTONIO IMBERT A

BARRERAS, HEAD OF THE LOYALIST FORCES IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLI

LUIS POSADA, A CUBAN REFUGEE IN MIAMI, WHO HAS FURNISHED

RELIABLE INFO IN THE PAST, AND WHO REQUESTED HIS IDENTITY BE

PROTECTED, ON JUNE 10 INSTANT FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING.

CONSTANZO AND HEMMING IN MIAMI ARE RECRUITING CUBAN REFUGEES

AND AMERICAN ADVENTURERS TO GO TO/THE DR AS COMMANDOS.

AFTER THE TOTAL OF 49 CUBANS AND 11 AMERICANS ARE RECRUITED

THEY WILL BE ARMED WITH FAL AND AR 15 RIFLES AND SENT TO DR BY

PRIVATE PLANE. THEY WILL HAVE VISAS TO ENTER DR. EACH COMMANDO

WILL RECEIVE 200 TO 250 DOLLARS ON DEPARTURE FROM US A AND WILL

RECEIVE

$50 A DAY COMBAT PAY. CONSTANZO CLAIMS THEY WILL LEAVE

ON JUNE 12 NEXT; PLACE OF DEPARTURE UNKNOWN. THE RECRUITS HAVE

NO ARMS

AS YET. THE SOURCE OF THE ARMS

AND MONEY IS UNKNOWN.

CONSTANZO CLAIMS THE SOURCE IS GENERAL IMBERT AND THE COMMANDOS

WILL FIGHT WITH HIS FORCES. HEMMING CLAIMS THE SOURCE OF MONEY

IS AMERICAN BUSINESS MEN WHO ARE EMPLOYING THESE COMMANDOS TO

GUARD THEIR FACTORIES AND BUSINESSES AN: DR. LUIS POSADA, SAID

HIS SOURCE IS RAMON ESCARDA RUBIO WHO

IS IN CONSTANT CONTACT WITH

CONSTANZO AND HEMMING. POSADA

SAYS

CONSTANZO IS UNRELIABLE,

RESPONSIBLE, AND ADVENTURER

EVERYDAY HAS

NEW PLAN FOR

-MC

DECLASSIFED BY 5468 SLD/SR

01 1298

MR. BELMONT FOR THE DIRECTOR

11 JUN 17 1965

sooth

JUN 22

XEROX

(JFK)

2570

-71.

60 1800

1/31/45

Classhied Iv

Doctarsio

•If the intelligence contained in the above message is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably

paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau's cryptographic systems.

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4-3 (Rev.,

612-11-64)

J AIRGRAM

DECODED COPY

• CABLEGRAM'

RADIO XXTELETYPE

Tolson .

Belmont

Mohi -

De Loach

Casper.

Callahan.

• Conrad _

Felt -

Gale -

rosen .

Sullivan

Tavel -

Trotter -

Tele. Room

Holmes

Gandy -

PAGE TWO FROM MIAMI

11.0300

REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITY. POSADA THINKS THIS EXPEDITION IS HIGHLY

UNLIKELY TO HAPPEN. CONSTANZO AND HEMMING USE AN APPLICATION

FORM FOR RECRUITS TO COMPLETE. OF THE THOUSANDS OF YOUNG

UNEMPLOYED CUBAN REFUGEES IN MIAMI, RECRUITMENT IS EASY •

U.S. CUSTOMS MIAMI SAID THEY HAVE NOT RECEIVED RE CIA 5(U)

MESSAGE AND WILL DETERMINE LATER IF THEY WILL ACTIVELY

INVESTIGATE THIS MATTER.

MIAMI OFFICE IS MAINTAINING CONSTANT CONTACT WITH POSADA AND

WILL KEEP THE BUREAU ADVISED. BUREAU IS REQUESTED. TO PRESENT THIS

MATTER TO DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO ASCERTAIN IF A MOM. MEUTRALITY

INVESTIGATION IS REQUESTED. MIAMI WILL SUBMIT THIS INFO IN MATER

FORM SUITABLE FOR DISSEMINATION LOCALLY. LMM FOLLOWING.

RECEIVED: 2:01 AM MLT

CC-MR. SULLIVAN

If the intelligence contained in the above message is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably

paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau's cryptographic systems.

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