Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 06/24/1964
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/4/2015

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10277-10441

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 97-4474-128

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SAC, MM

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE:

06/24/1964

"PAGES:

7

SUBJECTS :

MIRR, ASSOC, OBA, LOPEZ, LUIS DIAZ, ACA, AIR RAID

CUBA, CRASH, BOMBING, SUGAR MILI

DOCUMENT TYPE:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1C; 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/17/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS : INC NOTE

v9.1

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TO DIRECTOR

FROM MIAMI 240145

FORMATION CONTAINE

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KERWISE

BUREAU FILE 97-4474.

MIAMI FILE 105-2855.

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(MIRR)

LUTENAL

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[RECUPERACION REYQLUCLOMARLA

NEUTRALITY MATTER

RE MIAMI TELS JUNE 20, 1964.

ON JUNE 22, 1964

(PROTECT IDENTITY

'RE REQUEST), A CUBAN

IN EXILE WHO HAS PREVIOUSLY FURNISHE

RELIABLE INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH ACTIVITIES OF THE MIRR

AND SOME PERSONALITIES INCLUDING ITS LEADER, ORLANDO BOSCH,

FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION.

ON JUNE 22, 1964

by

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WAS IN CONTACT WITH

OF MIRR, WHO TOLD

THE AIR RAID IN

WHICH LUIS DIAZ LOPEZ, PILOT, PARTICIPATED OVER CUBA ON JUNE 19,

1964 WAS SPONSORED BY THE MIRR.

THAT CONTRARY TO REPORTS SURCULATED A-A

BY CUBAN GÖVERNMENT SOURCES, THERE WAS NO SURVIVORS FROM THÉ

CRASH OF THIS AIRCRAFT.

CLAIMED HE HAD CONFIRMED

THIS THROUGH HIS SOURCES INSIDE CUBA.

CONVERSED ON JUNE 22, 1964 WITH A CUBAN PILOT

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WHITE MALE, ABOUT 24 YEARS OF AGE, WITH ABOUT

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EXCE?'T WHERE SHOWN

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2:47 AM EST URGENT 6-24-64

TO DIRECTOR

FROM MIAMI 240145

BUREAU FILE 97-4474.

MIAMI FILE 105-2855.

RECUPERAC LON REVOLUCIONARLA

(MIRR

RE MIAMI TELS JUNE 20, 1964.

ON JUNE 22, 1964, EVELIO ALPIZAR PEREZ (PROTECT IDENTITY

RE REQUEST), A CUBAN PILOT IN EXILE WHO HAS PREVIOUSLY FURNISHED

RELIABLE INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH ACTIVITIES OF THE MIRR

AND SOME PERSONALITIES INCLUDING ITS LEADER, ORLANDO BOSCH,

FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION.

ON JUNE 22, 1964 ALPIZAR WAS IN CONTACT WITH LAREDO

RODRIGUEZ, TREASURER, OF MIRR, WHO TOLD ALPIZAR THE AIR

• RAID

IN

WHICH. LUIS DIAZ LOPEZ, PILOT, PARTICIPATED OVER CUBA ON

HUNE i9,

1964 WAS SPONSORED BY THE MIRR

RODRIGUEZ TOLD ALPIZAR THAT CONTRARY TO REPORTS

GIRCULATED

BY CUBAN GÖVERNMENT SOURCES, THERE WAS NO SURVIVORS FROM THÉ

CRASH OF THIS AIRCRAFT. RODRIGUEZ CLAIMED HE HAD CONFIRMED

THIS THROUGH HIS SOURCES INSIDE CUBA.

ALPIZAR CONVERSED ON JUNE 22, 1964 WITH A CUBAN PILOT

WHOSE NAME HE IS ATTEMPTING TO ASCERTAIN. THIS INDIVIDUAL,

WHITE MALE, ABOUT 24 YEARS OF AGE, WITH ABOUT SEVENTY HOURS

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paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau's cryptographic systems.

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and sistet on

AIRCRAFT WILL LEAVE FROM MIAMI AREA AND FILE A FLIGHT PLAN TO

FREEPORT, BAHAMAS. AFTER CHECKING THROUGH CUSTOMS, PLANE WILL

FLY TO TREASURE KEY IN UPPER ABACO, BAHAMAS. THE AIRCRAFT

WILL THEN DEPART AT ABOUT 5:30 PM AND LAND AT DARK AT MARSH

HARBOUR WHERE IT WILL ROUNDEVOUS WITH THE SMALL PLANE. AFTER

LOADING, THE TWO ENGINE CRAFT WILL LEAVE AT ABOUT 2 AM AND

PROCEED TO THE ORIGINAL TARGET WHICH IS THE SUGAR MILL LOCATED

NEAR THE CITY OF PUNTA ALEGRE ON NORTH COAST OF CAMAGUEY.

BOSCH EXPECTS JOHNSON TO PROCURE A PILOT AND TWIN ENGINE

AIRCRAFT FOR THIS OPERATION WHICH IS YET IN PLANNING STAGES,

ALTHOUGH BOSCH INDICATED HE WAS GOING TO SEND LUIS (LNU) TO

MARSH HARBOUR THIS WEEK FOR ORIENTATION PURPOSES. JOHNSON

DESCRIBED LUIS AS A WHITE MALE, ABOUT 33 YEARS OF AGE, MOUSTACHE,

SHORT STOCKY BUILD, WHO IS A US CITIZEN.

ALL INTERESTED GOVERNMENT AGENCIES BEING ADVISED LOCALLY.

MIAMI ADVISING GREGG BENTLY, SPECIAL BRANCH, BAHAMAS POLICE.](G1)(U)

MIAMI MAINTAINING CONTACT WITH JOHNSON AND OTHER LOGICAL SOURCES

REGARDING THIS MATTER. BUREAU WILL BE KEPT ADVISED OF PERTINEN!

DEVELOPMENTS. LETTERHEAD MEMO WILL BE SUBMITTED:SC46n1l/24/64

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4-3 (Reva 4=17-63) .

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Belmont

Mohr —

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Sullivan

Tavel -

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Tele. Room

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PAGE TWO FROM MIAMI 240145

FLYING EXPERIENCE, TOLD ALPIZAR HE AND ANOTHER CUBAN PILOT,

NAME NOT DISCLOSED, DURING RECENT PAST, HAD BEEN MAKING

PRACTICE RUNS IN A CESSNA AIRCRAFT IN BAHAMA ISLANDS PREPARATORY

TO PARTICIPATION IN AIR RADD ON CUBA WITH LUIS DIAZ LOPEZ."!

THIS INDIVIDUAL TOLD ALPIZAR RAID WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR

SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1964, BUT FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON, PRESSURE

WAS BROUGHT TO BEAR TO CARRY OUT RAID ON JUNE 19, 1964. THE

TWO UNIDENTIFIED PILOTS WERE UNABLE TO GO, THEREFORE, THEY WERE

REPLACED BY OTHER CREW MEMBERS.

ON JUNE 23, 1964, WILLIAM JOHNSON, PILOT, (PROTECT IDENTITY

PER REQUEST), WHO HAS BEEN CHARACTERIZED PREVIOUSLY AS HAVING

BEEN INVOLVED IN CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES FOR SEVERAL

YEARS AND WHO HAS FURNISHED INSUFFICIENT INFORMATION TO EVALUATE

HIS RELIABILITY, ADVISED AS FOLLOWS.

ON EVENING OF JUNE 22, 1964, JOHNSON MET WITH ORLANDO

BOSCH AT BOSCHS REQUEST. JOHNSON WAS ACCOMPANIED BY FRANK ANTHONY

STURGIS, AKA FRANK FIORINI, AMERICAN ADVERTURER AND SOLDIER

OF FORTUNE, AND MICHAEL RAFFERTY, JOHNSONS ASSOCIATE IN MIAMI

USED CAR BUSINESS.

BOSCH, WHO WAS ACCOMPANIED BY SOME MEMBER OF MIRR, RELATED

FOLLOWING: BOSCH SAID AIR RAID OVER CUBA WHICH WAS CARRIED OUT

JUNE 19, 1964, WAS AN INDEPENDENT SPUR OF THE MOMENT OPERATION,

IN WHICH DIAZ, A MEMBER OF THE MIRR WANTED TO PARTICIPATE.

BOSCH CLAIMED TO HAVE SUPPLIED ONLY THE BOMBS FOR THE

'SECRET

If the, intelligence contained in the above message is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it' is suggested that it be suitably

paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau's cryptographic systems.

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