Originator: CIA
From: CIA
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 10/29/1974
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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124-10294-10304

2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK Assassination System

Date:

Identification Form

5/7/2015

Agency Information

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER:

FBI

124-10294-10304

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

105-80115-15, 16

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: CIA

FROM:

CIA

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 10/29/1974

'PAGES:

11

SUBJECTS :

MDL, AKA, BKG, PDL, MIL, REL, EMP, POLIT ACT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/05/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA, INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INC 2 MEMO, LHM, A/T

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DECLASSIEICATION AUTECEITI DEBTED

FBI AUTOMATIC DECLASSIEICATION CUIDE

DATE 00-16-2023

BY: 3043/98142

REC

(CI-3) 105-80115 - 10

FOREIGN DISSEMINA

1 - Mr. V. H. Nasca

SECRET

BY COURIER

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To:

Exon:

Subject:

November 25, 1974

Director

central Intelligence Agency)

111961944.

Attention:

Deputy Director for Opexationsel4)

Clarence M. Kelley, Director

MARCOS DIAL LANZ

INTRINAL SECURITY - CUBA

Declassify

ISPORENCIEN

JFK

Reference is made to your communication dated

october 29,

1974, your reference 614941 in the captioned

matter and

to our interim reply dated November 5,

1974.

You requested information on the current activities of

the subject

and & briel asassament of him with an

indication

service

[of what could be passed to an official Chilean

Attached

for your inforation are two copies of

& memorandus dated November 1S, 1974, at Miami, Florida,

which contrine the intormation

you requested.

It is

noted that the lost two paragraphs of this memorandun

contains an assessment of hin which was provided by our

Miant Oiiice.

I = Miami

(105-1962)

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NOV 261974

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NO FOREIGN DISSENIL

SECRET

Director

centrat

Intelligence Agency

IS (U)

We have no objection to your making the

information in the attached ygmorandum available

to

the orticial Chilean serviceS rovided this bureau

1s

Not revealed as the source of the information and the

assessment

soh

memorandum

forth in the lnst two paragraphs of the

Enclosures - 2

NOTE :

Classified "Secret No Foreign Dissemination"

because it contains information so classified by CIA SLI

CIA advised that(an official Chilean Service

requested data on

the subject,

a Cuban exile residing

in Miami. Subject wrote letter to the President of the

Chilean Junta requesting data from the Chilean Government

which he could use in talks before U. S. businessmen. CIA

requested information on the current activities of the

subject and a brief assessment of him with an indication

of what could be passed to the Chilean Service JIt is

Toted we have previously furnished information to CIA

concerning the subject

The 11/18/74

memorandum notes that subject is

the younger brother of Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz,

the latter

having been head of the Cuban Air Force under Castro in

early 1959.

Subject was Inspector General of the Cuban

Air Force during the same period. Both defected from the:

NOTE CONTINUED, PAGE THREE

SE

IT * NO FOREIGN DISSEMINATION

(U)

•(U)

SECRET

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DECLASSIEICATION AUTHCEITI DERIVED EROU:

FBI AUTOMATIC DECLASSIEICATION CUIDE

DATE 00-16-2023

BY: 3043/98142

SECRET

FBI

Date:

NOV 1 8 1974

Transmit the following in

(Type in plaintext or code)

Via -

AIRIEL

(Priority)

CIA HAS NO DEJECTION TO

0540":

PON AND/OR,

Razzas

it lie

#rOnMATION

IN THIS DOGMENT

- ExpuT the brackets

(4B 9-30-977

TO:

FROM :

SUBJECT:

DIRECTOR, FBI (105-80115) -145

SAC, MIAMI (105-1962) (C)

MARCOS DIAZ LANZ

IS - CUBA

00:

MM

roller

Declassily go ON

Re Bulet to CIA 11/5/74

Enclosed for the Bureau are

five copies of LHM

dated and captioned

as above.

MM T-l is former MM 635-S, who requested that his

identity be concealed

is noted that CIA desires an assessment of MARCOS

DIAZ LANZ

indication of what may be passed to the

Chilean Service?

The assessment is made at the end of the

enclosed LHM.

the Chilean Servicel

information in the LHN may be passed to 3-21-98

FEAS

(c)

DEGLASSIET

ON:

105801150)

21

NOV 24 1974

10/12/17

In see enchan

encloser. 1, 2

ALL INFORNATTON CONTAINED

PUERED N IS UNRASSIFIED EXCEPT O

THERE 3A0/ OTERWISE.

LOSURE

le: 11858684

RE:G-73,

-Bureau (Enc. e)

(RM)

2-Miami

(1-1051962)

(1-134211- Sub A)

flattenl

JSD/kr

(4)

REQ. REC'D

AUG 23 1976

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Special Agent

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DECLASSIEICATION AUTECELTI DERIJED EROI:

FBI AUTOMATIE DECLASSIDICATION CULLE

DATE D5-18-2023

BY: 3043/98142

1 - Mr. V. H. Nasca

SERRET

ITPRRMATION CONTAINED

12

SSIFIED EXCEPT

WHERE

(CI-3) 105-80115-15

REC-6#

Declassify on: DAOR JFK

Date:

To:

November 5, 1974

Director

Attention: Daty Director lor operatians (a)

From:

Clarence M. Kelley, Director

CLACOR

Subject:

MARCOS DIAZ LANZ

3-21-98

5668 300/1SR

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

lated October 29, 1974

Dor 25, 207, your retorence 61a4a:0 u)

An inguiry le being made and the pertinent

Information will be made avallable to you upon

receipt.

(JEK)

2 - Miami

communication dated 10/29/74)

SEE NOTE SAC, MIAMI, PACHA HAS NO OBIERZON TO

Assoc. Dir.

Dep. AD Adm. -

Dop. AD Inv...

Asst.

Dir.:

Admin.

Comp. Syst.-

Ext. Affairs.

Files & Com.

Gen. Inv.

Ident.

Inspection

Intell.

Loboratory

Legal Coun,

Plan. & Eval.

Spec. Inv.

Training

Telephone Rm.

Director Sec'y

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FBI

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SEE NOTE, PAGE TWON THIS DOCUMENY

ExcopI FoR the brAchErs

6m869-30-97

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1974

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SECRET

Director

eneral Into gene Ageney 0) (u)

HOLY FOR SAC, MIAMI:

Attached is copy of

referenced CIA

communication dated 10/29/7465

Comply and submit results in form suitable for

dissemination by airtel. Any information included

herein originating with other Government agencies

must be cleared with those agencies for dissemination

to the Service mentioned prior to its incorporation

in the material prepared

for dissemination.

this is done,

an appropriate notation must appear in

the cover communication transmitting the material

prepared for dissemination.

(U)

NOTE:

SECRET - NO FOREIGN DISSEMINATION

Classified "Secret - No Foreign Dissemination"

sealer do coates intormactor to class led by 4y

SCIA has advised that an orficial Chilean

Servicel

requested data on subject, a Cuban exile iiving

in Miami.

Subject wrote letter to the President of the

Chilean Junta requesting date from the Chilean Govern-

ment he could use in talks before U. S. businessmen.

Chileans would like information on subject.

We have

previously furnished information on subject to CIA. CIA

has réquested information on the current activities of

the subject and a brief assessment of hin with an in-

dication of what could be passed to the Chilean Service (8) (U)

SECRET

- NO FOREIGN DISSEMINATION

NOTE CONTINUED - PAGE THREE

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§ SUBJECT: MARCOS DIAZ LANZ

HEREIN. IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE 10-8-94BY SPOMACH

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1. CAN OFFICIAL CHILEAN SERVICETHAS REQUESTED INFORMATION

ON MARCOS DIAZ LANZ, A CUBAN EXILE LIVING IN MIAMI, FLORIDA•

DIAZ WROTE A LETTER TO GENERAL AUGUSTO PINOCHET, PRESIDENT OF

¿ THE CHILEAN JUNTA, IN GUARDED LANGUAGE REQUESTING: DATA ON IME

GOVERNMENT OF CHILE WHICH HE COULD USE IN

SERIES OF TALKS

REC-67 105 - 80115-

BEFORE, POWERFUL U.S. BUSINESSMEN, THE LETTER IMPLIES THAT DIAZS

S§IMPORTANT BUT PROVIDES NO DATA. GENERAL PINOCHET WOULD LIKE

INFORMATION ON DIAZ.

ME NOV 8 1974

105-80r15

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• 20 THE FILES OF THIS AGENCY REFLECT THAT MARCOS DIAZ LANZ,

BORN MAY 20, 1928, HAVANA, CUBA, ALIEN REGISTRATION NUMBER

A-1:188113D, WAS EMPLOYED IN APRIL 1974 AT SOD. BRULL AND ASSOCIATES,

2299 SoW. 27TH AVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDA. A SOURCE

WHOSE INFORMATION HAS PROVEN: ACCURATE REPORTED THAT IN NOVEMBER 1964

DIAZ WAS OPERATING AS AN ARMS DEALER UNDER THE ALIAS "PEDRO GARCIA"

AND WAS A MEMBER OF AN ULTRA-RIGHTIST GROUP CALLED "MINUTEMEN"

IN YALAHA, FLORIDA. (THIS REPORT WAS PASSED. TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVE

IN MIAMI ON 4 NOVEMBER 1964•>

3. INFORMATION FROM YOUR FILES IS. REQUESTED ON THE CURRENT

ACTIVITIES AND A BRIEF ASSESSMENT. OF MARCOS DIAZ LANZ [WITH AN

LIARAGATION OF DHAT MAY BE PASSE TO THE ONLIAN SERVISE SE

4* CLASSIFIED BY RECORDING REPORTING OFFICER. EXEMPT

FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION SCHEDULE OF E.0• 11652 EXEMPTION

CATEGORY 5B (2) • IMPOSSIBLE TO DETERMINE DATE OF AUTOMATIC

DECLASSIFICATION.

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