Agency: FBI
Originator: DOJ
From: YEAGLEY, J. WALTER
To: SIPES, JOHN
Document date: 12/4/67
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hotel.

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

4/6/2015

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10294-10214

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

105-165503-43

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: DOJ

FROM: [Restricted]

TO: [Restricted]

TITLE:

DATE: 12/04/1967

PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

[Restricted]

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS : Consulted

CURRENT STATUS : Withhold

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 10/23/1996

OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF DOJ

• COMMENTS:

REFERRAL TO DOJ, INC MEMO

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection

Aot of 1992 (44 USC • 2109

late).

DATE: 11-14-2017

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UNITED STATES

MENT OF JUSTICE

Memoranu im

TO

: Director

Federal Bureau of Investigation

DATE:

December 4

196% 4-1

FRO

J. Walter Yeagley

Assistant Attorney General

Internal Security Division

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SUBJECT:

FRANK ANGELO FIORINI, and others

REPORTED PLANS TO BLOW UP CUBAN SHIP

IN MEXICAN PORT, POSSIBLY VERACRUZ

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

NEUTRALITY MATTERS - CUBA

Pursuant to the request contained in your memorandum

dated October 18, 196/9

there is attached for your information

a copy of a letter which we have sent to the Director, Office

of Munitions Control, Department of State, requesting

that

certain inquiries regarding the captioned

matter be made

through

appropriate diplomatic channels.

Enclosurel

PRO

DEC $ 1967.

FBI INFO

ALL ENFORZNTION CONTAINED

HERE IN IS UNGLASSTTINL

EX-103

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REC- 14

14 DEG 19671

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by routing slip for

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6 4 DEC1 1 19671

ANNAMOANI

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"Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (14 tse

DATE: 11-14-2017

107 Note).

December 4

1967€

Mr. John Sipes

Director

Munitions Control

Department of State

2121 Pennsylvania Avenue,

Washington, D. C. 20520

Dear Me. Sipes:

N.W.

for exporting munitions of war in violation of Part

Title 22, Code of Federal Regulations, and Section 1934,

Title 22, United States Code.

Aecording to the inforation which we have received,

Plorini and two other men travelled by automobile from Miami,

Florida to Mexico via Brownsville, Texas.

At the time when

they entered Mexico on about April 12, 1967, they were carrying

certain explosives and detonating devices.

The alleged purpose

of this activity was to damage some Cuban ships in Mexico.

was subsequently decided that the venture was too risky, and

the explosives were buried at an isolated spot in the vicinity

of crudad Mante, lanaulipas, Mexico, where they were subsequently

Of a report on this matter prepared by Jose Maria Navarro Barquero,

Departuent of Milltary Industry, Tecanachalco, Mexico City.

The FBI has advised us that an official of your office

stated that additional descriptive data or chemical analysis

is necessary in order to make a determination as to whather

explosives in this case are on the Munitions Liat.

We havo

been advised further that these explosivas are still in the

possession of the Mexican Army at the Department of Military

Industry and that the Mexican Arny has the capability of

conducting an analysis to determine the chemical composition

of those explosives.

FBI INFO

FBI

ALI INFORMIATION CONTAINED

HBREIN IS UACLASSIATED

DETS 4-13-94 BxSP8 Mar Muc

BANGKOSUR 65503 94331)

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Coltection Act of 1992 141 use 210) Note).

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It is requested that inquiry be made through appropriate

diplomatic channels to determine whether the Mexican authorities

will conduct a chemical analysis of these explosives and make

the rosults available to us.

If so, it is further requested that a determination be

to whether the Mexican Government would make avallable

for purposes of prosecution witnesses who could tastily regarding

the recovery and custody of the explosives and the chemical

composition of those explosives.

Sincerely,

J. WALTER YEAGLEY

Assiatant Attorney General

Internal Security Division

By:

JOHN H. DAVITT, Chief

Criminal Section

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