Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 7/8/77
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

6/1/2015

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90090-10192

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 174-6515-NR

Released under the John

hasassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel •

Case#:NU 54460 Date:

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

MM

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 07/08/1977

PAGES:

4

SUBJECTS :

ROLANDO MASFERRER

ROLANDO MASFERRER ROJAS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/15/1998

OPENING CRITERIA :

INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: MEMO

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TO:

7/8/77

SAC, MIAMI (174 926)

UNSUB; BOMBING OF CAR AT

6775 S.W. 27th STREET,

MIAMI

FLORIDA g

10/31/75

ROLANDO MASFERRER ROJAS, (DECEASED) - VICTIM

EID

(00: MIAMI)

DIRECTOR, FBI (174-6515)

N 5-19-94

Enclosed for the Bureau are one copy each of FD-302s

regarding interviews of ANDRES PASEIRO, MrS. LUCILA MASFERRER

and JOSE ELIAS THUMAS and copy of Mrs. MASFERRER'S letter

ROLANDO MASFERRER ROJAS, former editor of "Libertad"

newspaper. Miami, Florida, was Killed on 10/31/75, When & bomb

exploded

in his car at Miami, Florida.

MASFERRER was known as

"El Tigre" (The Tiger) when

he was a Senator in Cuba.

Men who worked for him in Cuba

were his personal bodyguards and made up a small army which

MASFERRER utilized for his own personal protection and for

his political advancement. These men were known as "Masferrer's

Tigers" and were feared by the Cuban population as they were

responsible for many killings.

was then living in Miani, Florida, and was utilized as an

Informant by the FBI, defected to Cuba.

While in Cuba, DE ARMAS

made numerous releases to the press at the request of the

Cuban Government.

Much of the information furnished by

DE ARMAS was false. In one of the interviews which was

televised in Havana, DE ARMAS stated that the explosives used

to kill MASFERRER were furnished to him by SA ROBERT MILLS Of

the Miami Division.

DE ARMAS said that he in turn gave the

explosives to members of the anti-Castro organization Abdala.

De ARMAS alleged that members of Abdala

Killed MASFERRER using

the explosives furnished by SA MILLS.

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On 1/24/77, MM 3945-C advised that ANDRES PASEIRO,

brother-In-law of MASFErRER, wanted to bring criminal charges

against SA MILLS based on DE ARMAS' statements. A(")

PASEIRO, JOSE ELIAS THUMAS and LUCILA MONTERO MASTERRER,

ROLANDO MASFERRER's widow, were interviewed regaraing the

allegation against SA MILLS in late January and early februarys

1977•

It Is noted that DE ARMAS returned to the United

States In September, 1976, and was interviewed by Special

Agents of the Utica, New York Resident Agency and the CIA.

In the interview DE ARMAS denied any direct knowledge of

MASFERRIR's murder, and aimitted fabricating this story about

SA MILLS having furnished him with explosives.

It is noted

that DE ARMAS alleged that SA MILLS funished Co4 for the

MASFERRER killing, when in fact dynamite was used. DE ARMAS,

who appears to be a pathological liar, also told Homicide

detectives of the Dade County Public Safety Department in Miami

that tho

information he furnished about SA MILLS 18 false. yU,

Because of MASFERRER's involvement with the violent

element in the Miami area and the possibility that his friends

and followers may have believed DE ARMAS' story and could

retaliate in some violent way against SA MILLS or his family,

it was decided by the Miami Office that an interview of Mrs.

MASFERRER and her brother-in-law was proper to evaluate the

possibility of a threat to sA MIlLs or his family. SAS

FREDERICO VILLALOBOS and ROY L. MOBLEY, JR. were instructed

to interview Mrs. MASFERRER,, ANDRES PASEIRO and JOSE ELIAS

THUMAS, aka Jose Ellas Nacin. (Copy Of ID-302s regarding

these interviews are enclosed).

It is noted that NACIN is a member of a violent

terrorist organization named "Pragmatistas" and was recently

convicted in Miami of conspiracy to commit murder.

involved the shooting death of LUCIANO NIEVES, a well-known

Cuban exile in Miami-

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