CUBAN MINISTER-COUNSELLOR DOSMENT ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: CHIEF, LAD
To: SA/ADDO
Document date: 11/11/77
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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104-10056-10090

SECRET

DD/017-1000

1.1/60/267-7

11 NOV 1977

INSPECTOR GENERAL

77-2379

MEMORANDUM FOR:

SA/ADDO

FROM:

Raymond A. Warren

Chief, Latin America Division

SUBJECT:

SLHORIZON-1 Report Mentioning Cuban

Minister-Counsellor Statement

on the

Assassination of President Kennedy

REFERENCE:

LA/CO/235-77 Dated 30 September 1977

The referent memorandum reported information from

ZRWAHOO intelligence report of a statement made by the

Minister-Counsellor (MC) of the Cuban Enbassy in Kingston,

Jamaica, on 24 September 1977, that "Cuban exiles such as

DIAZ Lan (fnu) (sic) and others had been involved in the

assassination of President John F. Kennedy."

that this could refer either to Pedro DIAZ Lanz, or his

brother Marcos DIAZ Lanz, formerly Chief and Deputy Chief,

respectively, of the Cuban Revolutionary Air Force Since

entered the U.S. from Cuba as exiles in mid-1959.

that time the DIAZ Lanz brothers reportedly have been

closely associated with, and involved in

numerous activities

Frank STURGIS (aka FIORINI) of Watergate

assisted in the evacuation of Marcos,

entered the U.S. on his own.

Although both

were debriefed

by the. Agency, there is no

indication that they were. ever

considered Agency assets:

queried source for further infor-

mation

as promised in paragraph 4

of the reference.

source said that the MC referred to the Kennedy assassina-

tion during a pep talk to party members to maintain good

security.

satu had arrived" implicating DIAZ Lan (Enu)

that the MC said that "recent infor-

former air force officer,

in the Kennedy assassination

but did not mention any

other Cuban exiles by name or give

any further

details.

Although the MC did not identify

source of his information,

source had

the impression

that the

information might have been included

in a cable from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

source is unable to elicit further information from the MC

without jeopardizing his security.

signed

Raymond d. Warren

Raymond A. Warren

CC:

IG Staff

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