Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 10/22/1959
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/11/201

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10284-10391

RECORD SERIES : HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 2-1566-1ST NR 1

Released under the John

f. Kenneay

issassination Recoros

Collection Act of 1992

l44 USC 2107 Notel.

Case# :NW 54460 Date:

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, MM

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE :

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

10/22/1959

7

PDL, ACA, CONVENTION, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF TRA,

BOMBING, MIL AIRCRAFT, TERRORIST ACT, HAVANA,

CUBA

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 05/15/1998

OPENING CRITERIA : INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

INC MEMO

v9.1

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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMIMUNICATIONS SECTION

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ALL INFORMATION CON

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FROM SAC, MIAMI

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DATE 31IU/Sa BY SPSTEN/eu/CO

ANTI-FIDEL CASTRO ACTIVITIES,- IS CUBA. TODAY-S ISSUE

"MIAMI HERALD CARRIED ARTICLE ENTITLED,

TWO HAVANANS

KILLED DURING AIR BATTLE OVER CUBA CAPITAL, " DATELINED

HAVANA,

REFLECTING THAT ANTT-AIRCRAFT FIRE AND AN AERIAL

DOGFIGHT BETWEEN A LEAFLET DROPPING PLANE AND CUBAN MILITARY

AIRCRAFT ROCKED DOWNTOWN HAVANA WEDNESDAY NIGHT, WITH TWO

CUBANS REPORTEDLY KILLED AND THIRTY WOUNDED BY EITHER STRAY

MACHINE GUN BULLETS OR BOMBS. TERRORISTS REPORTEDLY

ALL INTORIATION CONTAI

HERE INIS UNCLASSIFIE

EXPLODED SEVERAL NOISE BOMBS IN HAVANA IN AN APPARENTLY

EXCE

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COORDINATED ATTACK,

ACCORDING TO ARTICLE. ATTACK OCCURRED

DURING CONVENTION AT HAVANA OF AMERICAN SOCIETY OF TRAVEL

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AGENTS• ARTICLE ALSO DISCLOSED THIS DRAMATIC ACTION CAME

AFTER FIDEL CASTRO: PERSONALLY ARRESTED MAJOR HUBERT MATOS,

COMMANDANT OF IGNACIO AGRAMONTE ARMY POST IN CAMAGUEY

PROVINCE, WHO WAS SUSPECTED OF LEADING A REVOLT WITHIN THE

CASTRO REVOLUTIONARY FORCES. ARTICLE DISCLOSED THAT

LEAFLETS DROPPED WERE SIGNED BY COMMANDANT PEDRO LUIS

DIAZ LANZ,

FORMER CHIEF OF CUBAN AIR FORCE. /TODAY CHARLES

WILLIAM HORMEL, PCIg: REPORTED HAVING LEARNED THAT A

B TWENTYFIVE PLANE, BEARING SERIAL NUMBER NINE EIGHT

SEVEN SIX C, PILOTED BY PEDRO LUIS DIAZ LANZ, DEPARTED

REMMERT WARNER AIRPORT, POMPANO, FLA.,

AT. FIVE P.M. LAST

NIGHT AND RETURNED NINE P.M. THIS MORNING DIAZ, FORMER

CHIEF OF CUBAN AIR FORCE, INTERVIEWED BY MIAMI AGENTS AND

FURNISHED FOLLOWING INFORMATION AFTER BEING ADVISED OF HIS

RIGHTS. DIAZ PILOTED ABOVE DESCRIBED PLANE, DEPARTED

POMPANO FOUR POM., ARRIVED MAVANA FIVE-TWENTY P.M., AND

DEPARTED FIVE- THIRTY P.M., RETURNING TO POMPANO. HE

APPROACHED CITY FROM EAST, FLYING AT FIFTEEN HUNDRED-FOOT

ELEVATION OVER MARIANÃO, SANTO SUAREZ, VEDADO AND BUENA

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TODAY,

ALCIDES DE LOS REYES,

PHYSICIAN, NATURALIZED U.S.

CITIZEN OF CUBAN BIRTH, PRESENTLY RESIDING MIAMI, FLA.,

WHO HAS WIDE ACQUAINTANCESHIP AMONG ANTI-FIDEL CASTRO

LEADERS IN MIAMI WHO HAS FURNISHED RELIABLE INFORMATION

IN THE PAST, FURNISHED FOLLOWING CONTIDENTIALLY - HE HAS

LEARNED THROUGH MIAMI SOURCES THAT PEDRO LUIS DIAZ LANZ

DID PILOT PLANE OF LEAFLET DROPPING EXPEDITION FROM SOUTH

FLA• AREA OVER HAVANA, CUBA, EVENING OCTOBER TWENTYONE LAST.

SOURCE COULD FURNISH NO DETAILS RE OTHERS WHO MIGHT HAVE

ACCOMPANIED DIAZ LANZ. SOURCE SAID A PLAN OF SABOTAGE

AND TERRORISTIC ACTIVITIES HAD BEEN APPROVED BY GENERAL

JOSE PEDRAZAS LEADER OF ANTI-CASTRO GROUP IN DOMINICAN

REPUBLIC, ENDORSED BY GENERALISSIOM RAFAEL TRUJILLO,

DOMINICAN DICTATOR. SOURCE SAID PLAN CALLS FOR DAILY

BOMBING ATTACKS ON SPECIFIC CUBAN TARGETS OCTOBER TWENTY

LAST THRU OCTOBER, THIRTY NEXT.

SOURCE CLAIMED FNU PEREZ

SOSA, & FORMER DOMINICAN CONSULAR OFFICIAL IN CUBA,.

WHO

RECENTLY CAME TO MIAMI FROM DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AS RÉPRESENTA-

TIVE OF GENERALISSIMO TRUJILLO,

IN CONNECTION WITH ANTI-

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CASTRO, MOVEMENT, RECEIVED TELEPHONE CALL FROM DOMINICAN

REPUBLIC CONFIRMING SUCCESSFUL BOMBING OCTOBER TWENTY

LAST OF SUGAR CENTRAL PUNTA ALEGRE LOCATED. PROVINCE OF

CAMAGUEY CUBAN

SOURGE REPORTED LEARNING TARGET FOR

OCTOBER TWENTYONE LAST WAS CUBAN PRESIDENTIAL PALACE

WHEREIN CUBAN MINISTERS REPORTEDLY WERE IN SESSION.

HOWEVER, PLANE THAT DROPPED BOMB MISSED TARGET AND

BOMB FELL IN STREET KILLING: SEVERAL PEOPLE•

SOURCE

SAYS FLIGHT OF DIAZ LANZ AND AIRCRAFT PARTICIPATING

ON BOMBING MISSION EVENING OCTOBER TWENTYONE LAST ENTIRELY

COINCIDENTAL AND UNRELATED. SOURCE STATES FOLLOWING VILL

BE DENIED, BUT PLANES PARTICIPATING IN BOMBING MISSIONS

ARE COMING FROM A BASE IN OR NEAR THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC,

EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN TO SOURCE. SOURCE STATED

ACTIVITLES OF ABOVE DESCRIBED NATURE ARE NOT BEING CARRIED

OUT FROM US. BASES DE LOS REYES DESIROUS BUREAU TAKE

UTMOST PRECAUTION IN PROTECTING HIS IDENTITY RE ABOVE

INFORMATION.

MIAMI MAKING FURTHER INQUIRiES REGARDING

THIS MATTER AND BUREAU WILL BE KEPT ADVISED

END AND ACK PLS R RELAY

WA 7-48 PM OK FBI

WAJG

TU DISC VV

JAL SAI

ORIG -MR.

BELMONT FOR DIRECTOR

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