Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 10/25/1959
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

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SAC, MM

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE:

10/25/1959

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FEDERAL BURERU OF INVESTIGATION

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATIONS. SECTION

OCT, 25

1959

URGENT 10-25-59 5-58

TO DIRECTOR, FBI

PM KNG

TELETYPE

Polson..

Van Belmont L

DeLoach

•Mr. McGuire

Mr. Mohr

Mr. Parsons.

Vir, Rosen

Mr. Tamm.

Mr. Trotter.

Mr. W.C.Sullivan

Tele: Room.

Vir. Holloman

Miss Gandy

DonatoE

ANTI- FIDEL CASTRO ACTIVITIES.

IS DASH CUBA REURTEL OCT. TWENTY

FOUR LAST CONCERNING DEPARTMENT REQUEST FOR IDENTITY, AVAILABILITY:

AND WILLINGNESS OF PCI CHARLES WILLIAM HORMEL TO TESTIFY TO DATA NOT

HE FURNISHED OCT TUO TWO LAST , RE FLIGHT OF PEDRO LUIS DIAZ LANZ.

HORMEL SUBJECT MM DILE TWO DASH ONE NINE ICHT, BU FILE ONE ZERO FIVE

DASH SIX NINE SIX FOUR EIGHT.

HORMEL, PILOT, RESIDES SEVEN EIGHT FIVE

ZERO SOUTHWEST TWENTY THREE STREET, MIAMI, FLA•, BORN FEB. FIVE,

ONE NINE ONE FOUR, DAYTON, OHIO, IS SOLDIER OF FORTUNE WHO ADMITTED

SOME TWENTY EIGHT TRIPS TO CUBA WITH ARMS AND AMMUNITION FOR ANTI-

BATISTA REBELS

HORMEL INDICTED U. S• DISTRICT COURT, JACKSONVILLE,

FLA, SEPT. ONE SEVEN LAST ON CHARGE ILLEGALLY TRANSPORTING ARMS FROM

US So HORMEL HAS FBI IDENTIFICATION RECORD THREE THREE ZERO NINE TWO

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

SABIL

ЗТЕК

TWO REFLECTING NUMEROUS ARRESTS DATING TO YEAR ONE NINE

THREE ZERO.

SSIFIE

HORMEL INTERVIEWED BY BUAGENTS TODAY AND STATES HOFLINCOANDD

LA

Q

AVATLABLE TO TESTIFY, HOWEVER HAS ONLY HEARSAY iNORWATION RE PEDRO

DIAZ LANZ FLYING B DASH TWENTY FIVE AIRCRAFT, REGISTRATION NINE

HEREIN IS UN

NIGHT SEVEN SIX C FROM POMPANO BEACH, FLA., OCT. TWENTY ONE LAST.

ASTATED TWO UNIDENTIFIED WATCHMEN POMPANO BEACH AIRFIELD ADVISED HIM

HIFTER ELEVEN TWENTY PM, OCT. TWENTY ONE LAST , WHEN HORMEL LANDED

CHERE; QUOTE PEDRO DIAZ UNQUOTE MAD TAKEN OFF IN ABOVE IDENTIMIER

55 NOVS

TWENTY

1959

FIVE ABOUT FIVE PM, OCT. TWENTY ONE LAST, AND

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RETURNED ABOUT NINE PM SAME DATE. HORMEL STATED WATCHMEN

MADE NO STATEMENT RE ANYONÉ BEING WITH DIAZ OR IF THEY SAW

ANYTHING LOADED IN B DASH TWENTY FIVE. HORMEL ADVISED PERSONALLY

CHECKED REGISTRATION OF B DASH TUENTY FIVE, CHECKED PLANE FOR BULLET

HOLES, FINDING NONE. STATED PLANE PAINTED CRAY WITH REGISTRATION

NUMBER PAINTED ON FUSELAGE RATHER THAN WINGS. HORMEL STATED WATCHMEN

ADVISED DIAZ MAKES QUOTE FREQUENT TRIPS UNQUOTE IN B DASH TWENTY FIVE,

RETURNING POMPANO: BEACH IN THREE OR FOUR HOURS.

WATCHMEN REPORTEDLY

ADVISED HORMEL DAIZ HAS THREE ADDITIONAL AIRCRAFT, SPECIFICALLY,

C DASH FORTY SIX, DC DASH THREE AND PBY, BUT FURNISHED NO ADDITIONAL

INFORMATION CONCERNING THESE AIRCRAFT. HORMEL ADMITS PERSONAL

ENMITY TOWARD DIAZ LANZ RESULTING FROM DIAZ CONFISCATING HORMEL-S

NAVION AIRCRAFT, REPORTEDLY ORDERING ARREST HORMEL AND FORBIDDING

HORMEL FLY IN CUBA, ALL DURING JAN.- FEB., LAST, HORMEL ADMITS

THREE FIST FIGHTS WITH DIAZ LANZ CONCERNING ABOVE•

END AND ACK PLS

WAG-6// 6-06 PM OK FBI WA WS

TU DISC

ORIG MR. BELMONT FOR DIRECTOR

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