Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 08/30/1968
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT, PHOTO

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_NUMBER:

124-10212-10111

RECORD SERIES:

HO

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

45-10837-10

Released

under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NU 53932 Date:

08-18-2017

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

SAC. MM

DIRECTOR. FBI

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

DATE: 08/30/1968

PAGES: 20

SUBJECT:

OBA, EXPLOSION, "CARIBBEAN VENTURE", EVID, METAL FRAGMENTS,

CUBAN POWER

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT. PHOTO

Unclassified

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

05/01/1998

Redact

UPDATE DATE:

COMMENTS:

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

INC ADMIN PAGE, ENV, 7 PHOTO

HH 53932 DocId: 32293835

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MM 45-1168

The above described enclosures were obtained from

the following sources:

Items 1, 5 and 6 were obtained from Captain THOMAS

BRODIE, Dade County Department of Public Safety Bomb Disposal

Squad.

The photographs in item I were taken by him personally.

Items 2 and 3 were obtained from Mrs. DOROTHY

HOWARD, Harrington and Company, Pier III, Old Port, Miami,

Fla., shipping agents

for the

British freighter "Caribbean

Venture".

Item #4 was obtained from Lt. JOSEPH J. SMITH,

Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection Division, U.S. Coast

Guard, 501 N.E. First Ave., Room 301, Miami, Fla.

On 8/27/68, Captain BRODIE advised that through

arrangements with the Port of Miami Harbor Patrol Boat, the

area

in the vicinity of Pier III, Old Port, Miami, where the

"Caribbean Venture" had docked, was dragged with a magnet

for possible fragments or other evidence of the explosion

that occurred aboard that vessel.

In connection with this

search three pieces of chain have been recovered which appeared

to be mauled and twisted and broken. Also found was a piece

of twisted metal, similar in appearance to other metal frag-

ments found inside the "Caribbean Venture" and previously

forwarded to the FBI Laboratory. This piece of metal has a

curvature in it similar to the contour of chain fragments.

These items are being prepared for forwarding to the FBI

Laboratory.

In this connection it is noted that on 8/28/68,

an entire bomb was found attached to the British vessel

"Lancastrian Princess" and all items

contained therein were

forwarded to the FBI Laboratory in a separate case on that

matter (Miami File 45-1172). It is noted that the device on

the "Lancastrian Princess"

was attached by a link of chain

which was woven through some grill work on the bottom of that

ship.

(on 8/21/68, - MM 492S furnished an article which

appeared in "Patria"

, Miami,

on 8/9/68.

A summary

translation by Miami Office

'translator ELEANORE M. SCHOENBERGER

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