Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LEG, HAVANA
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 06/20/1957
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

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LEG, HAVANA

DIRECTOR, FBI

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06/20/1957

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EPE, BAYO, ALBERTO, MIL, TRAINING, CASTRO, FIDEL

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Released under the John F.

Kennedy Assassination Records collection Act of 1992 (19 USe 2107 lote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

STANDARD FORM NO. 64

Office Men

4 • UNITED

OVERNMENT

TO

FROM

SUBJECT:

• Director, FBI. (100-336318)

Legat,

Havana (105-214)

ALBERTO

BAYO, wa.,

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

REGISTRATION ACT

DATE: June 20, 1957

ALL INFORMATION CANTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSINTED

DATE 4/7/96 BY 5668 SLD/CCL

(JFK)

Remylet March 28, 1957.

Continued contact with Colonel Orlando Piedra Negueruela,

Chief of the Department of Investigation here, original source in

this matter, and with Lieutenant Colonel Mariano Faget, Assistant

Chief of the Department of Investigation, has failed to develop

any additional information regarding the subject.

The

June 7, 1957, issue of the Havana daily newspaper,

"Informacion," published an article written by Francis INCarthy,

United Press

representative in Cuba, setting forth information

received from an unnamed Cuban police official to the effect that

subject BAYO had participated in the training in Mexico of men

under the command of FIDEL CASTRO. The article set forth certain

points contained in reference Havana letter.

On June 18, 1957, Lieutenant Colonel Mariano Faget advised

that he was the unnamed police official who had furnished this

information to McCarthy.

11'4

The June 12, 1957, issue of the Havana daily newspaper,

This item set forth in considerable detail an interview With subject"

BAYO. Complete translation of this article is not being made since

it is presumed that the article has already come to the attention of

the Bureau and the New York office.

Among other things, BAYO stated

that the Cuban Army would have to suffer the loss of four or five

thousand men if President Batista ordered an all-out campaign to

dislodge FIDEL CASTRO and his followers from the Sierra Maestra

Mountains in Oriente Province, Cuba.

is being placed in an RUC status subject to being reopened in the

event additional information is received regarding the subject.

Two extra copies of this letter are attached for forwarding by the

Bureau to the New York office (105-24958) -HOW'LBI

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