Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 08/20/1959
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/8/2015

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90136-10116

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 105-70973-NR

Released under the John

Hasassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

$44 USC 2107 Note!.

Case#:NW 54462 Date:

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

MM

TO:

HQ

TITLE :

. DATE:

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08/20/1959

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WILLIAM ALEXANDER MORGAN

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

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DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

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C'OBRAL BUREAU OF IANESTIARTION

N. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

AUG 20 1953

AULINFORIARTONCDNAINE

HEREIN SUNGLASSSHED

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Mr.

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Mr. W.C.Sullivon

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TO DIRECTOR, FBI AND SAC,

WASHINGTON FIELD

TROM SAC,

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JOHN JOSEPH FRANK, - WATSON LO

ROPERO RA, IS - DRO WILLIAM

ALEXANDER HORGAN,

IS - CUBAo

LT. RENE AL RAZOLE INAL MONROE COUNTY

SOS HEY WEST, FLA•S FURNISHED FOLLOWING ON MOST CONFIDENTIAL

PASIS TO SA JO RICHARD BUTTS, KEY WESTO FLA. TODAY. RAIOLE

ADVISED ON AUGUST EIGHTEEN LAST RECEIVED PHONE CALL FROM FORMER

SA BATSON DO ROPER OF MIAMI. ROPER WAS FORMER DEPUTY IN KEY WESTU

AND KNEW RAIOLE VERY WELLO ROPER STATED FISHED SEE RAJOLE ON MATTE

AND VAS CONING TO KEY WEST ON AUGUST NINETEEN LAST. ROPER CALLED

RAIOLE AND ASKED HIM TO LUNCH. WHEN RAIOLE ARRIVED. ROPER INTRO-

DUCED HIM TO SOWN JOSEPH FRANK AND THREE HAD LUNCH. RAIQLE STATES

ASTER AROUS TUR HOUR CONVERSATION DURING WHICH TRANK WAS OBVIOUSLY

SIZING HIM UP, HE FINALLY ASKED THEM WHAT THEY WANTED. FRANK TEN

STATED WE KNOW MAJOR WILLIAM AO MORGAN HAS BEEN CONSPIRING WITH

COMMANDANT OF TRINIDAD BARRACKS IN CURA TO START ANTI-SASTROY 027 = 8

REBELLION. FRANK SAID MORGAN WAS DISAPPOINTED WITH HARE ARGON OUT

OF CASTRO-S GOVERNMENTO: FRANK ALSO TOLD RAIOLE MABRAUG 26 1959

INFO MORGAN

HAD ASKED DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TO SEND HIM SOME TRAINING OFFICERS.

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LT. Belmont

12 AUG 25 1959

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• ACCORDING TO FLANK,

MORGAN WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE TWO THOUSAND

TROOPS READY TO MOVE AGAINST CASTRO AND MORGAN AND THE COMMANDANT

OF TRINIDAD MAINTAINED RADIO CONTACT WITH DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.

FRANK TOLD RAIOLE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC WANTS ASCERTAIN WHETHER MORGAN

WAS ACTUALLY CUBAN DOUBLE AGENT. FRANK ASKED RAIOLE IF HE COULD GO

TO CUBA AND ASCERTAIN WHEREABOUTS OF MORGAN AND WHETHER HE IS UNDER

ARREST AND WHAT HIS STATUS IS. FRANK GAVE RAIOLE ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS

FOR PLANE FARE AND EXPENSES, HOWEVER, RAIOLE TOLD HIM HE COULD NOT

GIVE HIM DECISION AS TO ACCEPTING THE ASSIGNMENT YET. RAIOLE SAID

HE TOLD THEM HE WOULD CALL ROPER IN MIAMI BY AUGUST TWENTYFOUR

NEXT AND' LET THEM KNOW IF HE WILL GO. RAIOLE ADVISED ONLY REASON

HE ACCEPTED MONEY AND APPEARED TO GO ALONG WITH THE DEAL IS TO HELP

BUREAU OR ANY OTHER U. S• GOVERNMENT AGENCY AND HE WILL NOT GO

UNLESS BUREAU WANTS HIM TO. RAIOLE WAS INFORMED BUREAU WOULD

PROBABLY NOT DESIRE HIM TO TRAVEL TO CUBA ON ITS ACCOUNT, HOWEVER,,

THE POSSIBILITY EXISTS ANOTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCY MIGHT. BUREAU

REQUESTED TO ADVISE EXPEDITIOUSLY INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS MATTER AND

: ALSO TO CONSIDER REFERRING THIS INFO TO CIA OR STATE DEPARTMENT

INASMUCH AS RAIOLE HAS INDICATED WILLINGNESS TO COOPERATE WITH OTHER

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. NOTED RAIOLE ADVISED ROPER HE WOULD LET

HIM KNOW ANSWER BY AUGUST TWENTYFOUR NEXT. IT IS NOTED FRANK

REGISTERED AS AGENT OF DR JULY SEVEN, LAST.

END AND ACK PLS FOR THREE

WA

10-27 PM OK FBI WA JDS FOR 3 MSGS

12251.

TU DISC PLSV

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