Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SULLIVAN, W. C.
To: BRANIGAN, W. A.
Document date: 3/1/67
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_NUMBER: 124-10078-10474

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE_NUMBER: 62-109060-4634

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

BRANIGAN, W. A.

TO: SULLIVAN, W. C.

TITLE:

DATE: 03/01/1967

PAGES: 9

SUBJECT: IG, INVEST, LHO, POST-RP, ASSOC

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

03/02/1994

Redact

Released under the John F. Kennedy

ussassination Records Collection

Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Notel.

Case:NT 53244 Date: 06-12-2017

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (1)(B)

COMMENTS:

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO

ACkL-75

Mr. W. C. Sullivag

FROMEM

Mr. W. A.

Branigan

DATE:

S:BE RE

SIDE

OMSSI

ACTION

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT/

KENNEDY

Mr. DeLoach

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Mr.

Wick

Mr. Conrad

3-1-67

Mx.

Rosen

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Mx .

R. Jensen

Mr.

Sullivan

Branigan

, Lenihan

Tolson

DeLoach

Mohr

Casper

Callahan

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Tele. Room

Holmes -

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GNONG

SIA HÁS NO AB

DECLASSIFICATION -AND/OR

NOVEMBER 22 -

1963

TEXAS

CLASSIFINA BY 2040

ROM GOS CATEGORN 2

Re menorandum Mr.

MI ACCIFICATION INDEFINITE

Deloach to Mr. Tolson dated 2-28=67,

RELEASE OF CIA

setting forth results of

a

conversation Mr. Deloach had with

3 Merriman Smith, senior White House correspondent, on:

'The Director instructed that Mr. Deloach's memorandum be i

reviewed by the Domestic Intelligence Division to ascertain

Hif Mr. Smith obtained any information from New Orleans District

attorney Garris so

not already, reflected in fBI files.

SYNOPSIS:

undished etcept when i

King are Per CIA lettu 9/23/88-

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 Garrison

group"of

alleged David William Tersie member of a

anti-Castro Cubans who were located in 196} and 1962

at. Lake

• Pontchartrain,

Louisiana.

Qn 2-23-61 we were confi-

dentially advised by the Central Intelligence Agency' (CIA)

thatiCIA

was planning to initiate a

training operation at

"amp Belle Chase, which was

short distance south o

New_Orleans. CIA-indicated E

would be utilized for

training_Cuban exiles. We,

coursE

did not investigate

activities at Camp Belle Chase,

Louisiana.

Nothing' in Bureau

fles to indicate

David William

Ferrie

connected with this

craining camp

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ili;

3

We also received information in July, 1963,

as number

of Cüban réfugees had been brought from Miami,

to attend a training camp in the New Orleans area d

Our inquiries disclosed these

becane disenchanted and returned to Miami.

No indication

David William

Ferrie or Lee Harvey Oswald had any contact or

connection with

this group.

Results of bir inquiries of this

group at that

on L-25-63 valid Terrie edisa tat room approxite

November, 1960;"untii "AUgust, 1961, he was associated with the

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Memorandum Branigan to Sullivan

Re: ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY

62-109060

SECRET

DETAILS:

Merriman Smith, senior White House correspondent,

reported Garrison alleges David William Ferrie was associated

with a group of anti-Castro Cubans which trained at Lake

Pontchartrain,

Louisiana, during the period 1961-1962. LOn

February 23, 1961, CIA confidentially informed this Bureau

that in connection with a sensitive CIA project directed

against Cuba, one phase of which involved the training of

Cuban exiles, CIA would initiate a training operation at

Camp Belle Chase, located a short distance south of New Orleans

said Lake Pontchartrain. CIA advised that this camp had been

a deactivated Naval base but would be reopened by CIA under a

Department of Army cover.

CIA further advised it would be

training from 15 to 40 Cubans at a time for a period of about

five weeks.

We, of course, did not investigate CIA's activities

at Camp Belle Chase, Louisiana, and our files contain no

information that David William FerFlebad any connection with

this CIA operation.

In July, 1963,

we received information from several

sources that a number of Cuban refugees had come to New Orleans

from Miami, Florida, through the efforts of Rudolph Davis,

Fla

reportedly to attend a training camp after which they would be

sent to a training camp in Guatemala.

Sources reported this

group became disenchanted and returned to Miami shortly after

their arrival.

We interviewed Rudolph Davis in this matter and he

indicated he acted

as a coordinator_ between the Movimiento

Democratica_Cristiano (MDC), an anti-Castro organization, and

the New York City Police Department in 1961 and that he was the

delegate for this anti-Castro organization in New Orleans. He

stated he came to New Orleans in August, 1961, and in early

1963 made friends with persons in the lumber business in

Guatemala with whom he formed the Guatemalan Lumber and Mineral

Corporation. Davis said he brought approximately 19 men to

New Orleans

to train for lumber cutting work in Guatemala. He

added that when the men learned they were to work in a lumber

industry and were not recruited for military operations against

Cuba, they became disenchanted and returned to Miami.

Our

files contain no information indicating that David William

Ferrie or Lee Harvey Oswald had any contact or connection with

Davis or the anti-Castro organization which Davis represented.

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