Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 05/21/1964
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/4/2015

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10278-10434

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

97-4474-116

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, MM

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 05/21/1964

'PAGES:

10

SUBJECTS :

MIRR, MEMBERS, ASSOC, PLAN, MIL ACT, LAS VILLAS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/29/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INC LHM

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10-29-631

SECRETI

FBI

Date:

5/21/64

ransmit the following in

AIRTEL

Via

(Type in plain text or code)

CHA HAS NO OP UP GION TO

SAD/OR,

REGISTERED MAIL

RELEAN

GIGIMATION

(Priority)

M THE DOG MICHEL,

Jm 10-6-97

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (97-4474)

FROM:

SAC, MIAMI

(105-2855) (P)

SUBJECT:

Quate Me, CIA,

5/26/64 aditian so S.J

MOVLMIENTO INSURRECIONAL, DE

RECUPERACION REVOLUCIONARIA

(MIRR)

IS - CUBA; NM

DECLASSIFIED SY

5660 540 1

00: Miami

0A 411-1-97

Re Miami airtel to Bureau, 5/12/64, and Miami

teletypes to Bureau, 5/12, 13, 15 and 20/64.

Enclosed are 12 copies of a letterhead memorandum

(LHM) dated and captioned as above.

Copies are also being

furnished locally to State Department, Co-Ordinator of

Cuban Affairs,

border Patrol, Coast Guard, G-2, OSI

Customs (Miami and Region II), INS, FAA, ONI and CIA.

This communication is classified "Confidential" to

protect a source of continuing value.

Declass

MM I-1 iS EVELIO ALPIZAR PEREZ, Cuban pilot.

The Miami Office has immediately notified Mr.

STANLEY SCHACHTER of U. S. Customs, Miami, of all pertinent

developments and is maintaining close liaison with Mr.

SCHACHTER.

Mr. SCHACHTER has advised that U. S./ Customs

is taking immediate appropriate investigative action and

surveillance action as to stop this raid and seize contraband.

At 118

Miami will maintain close contact with ALPIZAR and

close liaison with Customs and

will advise Bureau of further

pertinent developments.

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- Miami

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97-4474

MAY 25 1964

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Please Refer to

wile No.

Miami, Florida

May 21, 1964

4S5

REMIEWED BY FUFK TASK FOROE

BONTIDIITAL

7/23/97 clad

RELEASE IN MIL

RELEASE IS PART

TOTAL DENIAL

Re. MOVIMIENTO INSURRECIONAL DE

RECUPERACION REVOLUCIONARIA

(MIRR)

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA;

NEUTRALITY MATTERS

Previous investigation has reflected that the

Movimiento Insurrecional de Recuperacion Revolucionaria

MIRR) 'As an anti-Castro organization of Cuban exiles

oto some of

Bosch's close associates, furnished

information reflecting that Bosch had drawn up plans for a

joint sea and air raid designed to sink the "las Villas"

a 300 foot Cuban freighter which was scheduled to have

recently departed Marseilles, France, for Havana, Cuba,

with a load of heavy equipment such as railroad stock

or buses. Bosch planned to have this attack take place

off the

coast of South Florida, utilizing a Bertram's

speedboat equipped with a homemade torpedo and an airplane

which would drop napalm during a co-ordinated attack on

the "Las Villas"

current Developments

on may 12, 1964, MI. Stanley Schachter, U. S.

customs, Miami, Florida, advised it hadbeen verified

obtain rental of a Bertram 25 foot Speedboat at 8:00 4. t

on May 12, 1964.

Through subsequent surveillance by U. S.

Customs this speedboat, bearing Registration FL-3696, was

TIT INTORUITTON CONTAINAD

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SONATE

TrAL

Re: MIRR

determined to be on the night of May 13, 1964, at Lake

Worth, Palm Beach, Florida, a short distance south of

the Lake Worth Inlet which connects the Inland Waterway

with the Atlantic Ocean.

Mr. Schachter advised that two

nen were observed on boardithis speedboat, one of whon had

been identified as Orlando Ramirez, who, according to

MM T-1, is the MIRR bomb expert.

Fa

on May 12, 1964, Mr. Schachter also advised that

as a result of investigation and surveillance by U.s.

Customs in the neighborhood of a house located near N. W.

29th Avenue and 9th Street, Miami, it was determined that

dost throne if may, eat to, a boat house 10cad cuban

Miani International

nonet later that en it a homemade to

in a car-drawn trailer.

This torpedo was seized by U. S

Customs agents on the morning of May 12, 1964 as Dr.

Orlando Bosch Avila and one Mesa, a Cuban, were transporting

it by car trailer from the house

located on N. W. 29th

Avenue to the Coconut Grove area of Miami.

Mr. Schachter

described this torpedo as being about nine feet long, about

two feet in diameter and constructed from a nodified airplane

wing tank. This torpedo had an outboard propeller and on

top an adapter for a radio antenna, which appeared to be

part of the mechanism intended to make it operable by

electronic directional control. It also contained an

electric motor,.

battery operated.

The nose of the torpedo

contained space

for explosives but it was not loaded.

on May 12, 1964, MN T-1 advised that the HIRi

planned to use several walkie-talkie units to maintain

communications between the Bertram speedboat, the attacking

airplane and ground personnel for this operation. He

identified the walkie-talkie as a Cadre Model C-75.

"It

was determined that these units transmit on 27.085 megacycles

and receive on 27.54 megacycles.

On May 14, 1964, MM T-I reported that the MIRR

now plans to use a floating explosive mine as a substitute

for the torpedo which was seized by U.S. Customs. He said

this mine had been transported to Palm Beach so that the

Bertram speedboat could plant this mine in the direct path

of the "Las Villas" in connection with the planned attack

on this vessel.

SONPIDENTIAL

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CONFIDENTTAE

Re: MIRR

Fla

MM T-l stated that Evelio

Alpizar

Perez had

been making daily flights in a Cessna airplane from Miami

to the Palm

the MIRR had received informa-

tion reflecting that the "Las Villas" would not arrive off

the coast of South Florida until later in the week.

Customs had aMar 1511d tou approper are eat thats:

the "Las Villas" departed Marseilles, France, on May 4,

1964, and passed the Rock of Gibraltar on May 9, 1964,

destined directly to Havana.

"On the basis of the reported

speed of the "Las Villas" as being ten miles per hour it

was anticipated that the "Las Villas" would arrive off

the Florida coast about May 22, 1964.

On May 18, 1964, MM T-1 advised that Bosch had

instructed that aerial

surveillance flights to locate the

"Las Villas" be discontinued temporarily and that Bosch had

Altered his plans to include a daily look-out by boat in

the vicinity of Fowey Rock Lighthouse, which is located

at sea about ll miles southeast of Miami.

MM T-I said that

Captain Francisco Hernandez/Fernandez,

who was skipper of

the

"Ebb Tide" during the unsuccessful December 28, 1963

MIRR sea air raid, is in charge of the look-out boat.

Hernandez will conduct this surveillance daily in the

vicinity of Fowey Rock in order to spot the "Las Villas"

as it proceeds south toward Havana.

Upon locating the

"Las Villas"

, Hernandez is scheduled to notify by radio

the other participants so that the air • sea raid can be

conducted as originally planned.

on May 18, 1964, Mr. Schachter advised that the

Bertram speedboat, mentioned previously, had been returned

to Miami on May 16, 1964 and is presently under surveillance

by U. S. Customs in Biscayne Bay.

It was also determined

by U. S. Customs that rental of

this boat had been continued

for an additional week.

This document contains neither recommendations

nor conclusions of the FBI.

It is the property of the FBI

to be distributed out ade your agent ts contents are not

CONFIDENTFAL

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Ploase Refer to

File No.

miami, Florida

May 21, 1964

iseS

REVIEWED BY KATURK TASK FORCE

CONFE

AL

ON

1/23/47 clat

RELEASE IN FULL

RELEASE IN PART

• TOTAL DENIAL

MOVIMIENTO INSURRECIONAL DE

RECUPERACION REVOLUCIONARIA

(MIRR)

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA;

NEUTRALITY MATTERS

Previous investigation has reflected that the

Movimiento Insurrecional de Recuperacion Revolucionaria

(MIRR) is an anti-Castro organization of Cuban exiles

headquartered in Miami under the leadership of Dr. Orlando

Bosch Avila.

On May 11, 1964, MM T-1, a Cuban exile who

1s friendly to some of

information refleoting that Bosch had drawn up plans for a

joint sea and air raid designed to sink the "Las Villas"

a 300 foot Cuban freighter which was scheduled to have

recently departed Marseilles, France, for Havana, Cuba,

with a load of heavy equipment such as railroad stock

or buses.

Bosch planned to have this attack take place

off the coast of South Florida, utilizing a Bertram's.

speedboat equipped with a homemade torpedo and an airplane

which would drop napalm during a

the "Las Villas"

co-ordinated attack on

Current Developments

on May 12, 1964. Through subsequent surveillance by U.S.

Customs this speedboat, bearing Registration FL-3696, was

ALL INPORNATTON CONTAINED

DATE 2/ 21/96

BY

OXMACGAE.

(JFK

CONTTDENTIAE

Fretarcted from automatia

downgrading and

dectassifleation.

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Atr

Re: MIRR

determined to be on the night of

May 13, 1964, at Lake

Worth, Paln Beach, Florida, a short distance south of

the lake Worth Inlet which connects the Inland Waterway

with the Atlantic Ocean.

Mr. Schachter advised that two

nen were observed on board this speedboat, one of whom had

been identified as Orlando Ramirez, who, according to

MM I-1, is the MIRR bomb expert.

On May 12, 1964, Mr. Schachter also advised that

as a result of lnvestigation and surveillance by U. S.

Customs in the neighborhood of a house löcated near N. W.

29th Avenue and 9th Street, Miami, it was determined that

on the night of May 11, 1964, some unidentified Cubans

left this residence, went to a boat house located near

Miami International

Airport on a lake and returned to the

same residence later that night with a homemade torpedo

in a car-drawn trailer.

This torpedo was seized by U.S.

Customs agents on the morning of

May 12, 1964 as Dr.

Orlando Bosch Avila and one Mesa, & Cuban, were transporting

it by car trailer from the house located on N. W. 29th

Avenue to the Coconut Grove area of Miami.. Mr.

Schachter

described this torpedo as being about nine feet long, about

two feet in diameter and constructed from a modified

airplane

wing tank. This torpedo had an outboard propeller and on

top an adapter for a radio antenna, which appeared to be

part of the mechanism intended to make it operable by

electronic directional control. It also contained an

electric motor, battery operated.

The nose of the torpedo

contained space for explosives but it was not loaded.

On May 12, 1964, MM T-1 advised that the MIRR

planned to use several walkie-talkie units to maintain

communications between the Bertram speedboat, the attacking

airplane and ground personnel for this operation.

Identitled the walkie-talkie as a Cadre Model C-75. It

was determined that these units transmit on 27.085 megacycles

and receive on 27.54 megacycles.

On May 14,

1964, MM T-1 reported that the MIRR

now plans to use a

• floating explosive mine as a substitute

for the torpedo which was seized by U. S. Customs. He said

this mine had been transported to Palm Beach so that the

Bertram speedboat could plant this mine in the direct path

of the

"Las Villas" in connection with the planned attack

on this vessel.

GON

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CORE DENTIAL

Re: MIRR

MM T-1 stated that Evelio Alpizar Perez had

been making daily flights in a Cessna airplane from Miami

to the Palm Beach area, surveilling the sea lanes off the

coast of South Florida in order to locate the "Las Villas":

that these flights would be

tion reflecting that the "Las Villas" would not arrive off

the coast of South Florida until later in the week.

On May 15, 1964, Mr.

Schachter advised that U. Si

Customs had ascertained through appropriate channels that

the "Las Villas" departed Marseilles, France, on May 4,

1964,, and passed the Rock of Gibraltar on may

9, 1964,

destined directly to Havana.

On the basis of

the reported

speed of the "Las Villas" as being ten niles per hour it

was anticipated that the "Las Villas" would

arrive off

the Florida coast about May 22, 1964.

On May 18, 1964, MM T-1 advised that Bosch had

instructed that aerial surveillance flights to locate the

"Las Villas" be discontinued temporarly and that Bosch had

altered his plans to include a daily look-out by boat in

the vicinity of

Fowey Rock Lighthouse, which is located

at sea about 1l

miles southeast of Miami.

MM T-I said that

MIRR sea - air raid, is in charge of the look-out boat.

Hernandez will conduct this surveillance daily in the

vicinity of rowey Rock in order to spot the "Las Villas"

as it proceeds south toward Havana.

Upon locating the

"Las Villas"

, Hernandez is scheduled to notify by radio

the other participants so that the air - sea raid can be !!

conducted as originally planned.

On May 18, 1964, Mr. Schachter advised that the

Bertram speedboat, mentioned praviously, had been returned

to Miani on May 16, 1964 and is presently under surveillance

by U. S. Customs in Biscayne Bay. "It was also determined

by U. S. Customs that rental of this boat had been continued

for an additional week.

This document contains neither recommendations

nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI

and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not

to be distributed outside your agency.

CONTIDENTIAL

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