Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 07/23/1974
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/21/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90102-10008

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

9-57985-2

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection

Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 54460 Date: 10-04-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

MM

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE:

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

07/23/1974

35

MAX LESNICK

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/31/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

RPT

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FDO I (Rev. 1-7-92)

FEDERAL I UREAU OF INVE TIGATION

REPONTINO OFFICE

MIAMI

TITLE OF CASE

OFFE OF

HI +

MIAMI

CAl

7/23/74

REPORT MADE

tar

5/20 - 7/18/74

UNION MUNDIAL ANTICOMUNISTA

(WORLD ANTI-COMMUNIST UNION)

GEORGE

E.

DAVIS, JR.

CHARACTER OF CASE

IS - CUBA; EXTORTION

UNSUBS, aka

/Union Mundial Anticomunista

World Anti-tommunist Union.

Max Lesnik

aka

VICTIM

REFERENCES

Miami airtel to Bureau, 6/6/74.

Bureau Latent Fingerprint Section Report,

6/26/74.

latent ranger 6/6/4pyi file

TYPED BY

nli

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED

FINES

CONVIE.

FUG.

APPROVED

PIEBMADEI

1) - Bureau (305 261797)

(1 - 9-New)

1. - USA, Miami

(Attn: AUSA GRAFTON WIISON)

4 - Miami (105-22159)

(1 - 9-New)

(1 - 105-22094)

Discomination Record of Artached Rapart

Agency

Request Recd.

Date Fwd.

How Fwd!!

BY.

TAUSOC 172

ALL INFORAATION CONTAINED

JFK

SAVINGS

CE NONE

RECOVERIES

ACQUIT.

TALS

CASE MAS BEEN:

FENDING OVER ONE YEAR EYES LINO

PENDING PROSECUTION

OYER SIX MONTHS

DrEi CINO

05-269491-

FILED IN 0S- 26/

ORIGINAL

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

9-57985-2

NOT RECORDED

50

JUL &9 1974

REC-73)

ST-101

Notartens

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MM 105-22159

ADMINISTRATIVE

On 6/12/74, MM 1550-KS, who has known LUIS

TORNES for many years and who is in frequent contact

with him, stated that TORNES remarked that that same

•day that ARMANDO GARCIA SIFREDO, publisher of "Patria"

had received a new UMA letter and that it would be

published on 6/12/74. MM 1550-KS said that so far as

he true renta"t od not annound deto anyone, as or

On 6/25/74, MM 2960-PSI, who is well acquainted

with MARIETA FANDINO, publisher of "La Verdad", described

FANDINO as an enemy of MAX LESNICK's. She has been trying

to undermine LESNICK's work in Miami

and has been speaking

and writing against him and his publications.

MM 2960-PSI

expressed the opinion that FANDINO could be affiliated with

UMA and could be behind the threatening notes that have

been directed to various newspapers in the Mimi area by

UMA

On 5/29 and 30/74, MM 1550-Ks reported that on

5/24/74, TORNES disclosed that he is putting acid on copies

of "Replica" which are at various newstands in Miami.

TORNES

said he has dynamite fuses and other equipment for the

construction of bombs.

On 5/30/74, TORNES disclosed that

he is against LuiS sABINEs, president of the Latin chamber

of Commerce, which was bombed on 5/27/74. TORNES said that

SABINES

is an associate of MAX LESNICK's.

TORNES also

related that he is putting pressure on various Cuban

merchants not to sell "Replica" and that before the Latin

Chamber of Commerce was bombed,

he attempted to pressure

that organization into persuading merchants to stop .

selling "Replica".

TORNES referred to "Replica" as a

bolshevik publication.

TORNES said that UMA has issued a warning

that the only target of UMA is "Replica" and no one else.

TORNES expressed considerable interest in the

Continental Bank located in the 1800 Block of S.W. Ist

Street, which he believed was a bank in which LESNICK

has considerable financial interest. He indicated to

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