Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 01/28/1960
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/1/2015

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-90090-10063

RECORD SERIES: Q

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 105-84265-10

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

collection Act of 1992

144 05C 2107 Notel.

Cased:NT 54460

Date:

10-04-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

MM

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 01/28/1960

PAGES:

5

SUBJECTS :

JUAN FERNANDEZ DE CASTRO RODRIGUEZ

ROLANDO MASFERRER

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/15/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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CONFIPRINTIAL

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

ALL INFORMATION COUPANED

W. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED EXCEPT

WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE

JAN 2 8 1960

713181

CLASS.

& EXT.

3Y R842 PMUlBALMS TELETYPE

REASON-FCIM II

-2.4.2

DATE OF REVIEW

7131|91

URGENT

1-28-60

11-17

PM.

JWA

DECLASSITED BY SPOMACKSC

DIRECTOR, FBI

FROM SAC, MIAMI

04 5-6-94(106) прос

JUAN FERNANDEZ DE CASTRO RODRIGUEZ.

ET AL, ROLAND

Mr.

M-

Tolson

Mohi

far. Parons.

Mr. Belmont

Callahan

DeLoach

Mr. McGuire

Mr. Rosen.

/ Mr. Tamm

66

Mr. Trutter.

Mr. W.C.Sullivan

Tele. Room

Mr. Ingram

Miss Gandy

Mosin

PAREN, IS DASH CUBA. RE TELEPHONE CALL JAN. TWENTYEIGHT

INSTANT FROM DONALD MOORE, BUREAU. USA, MIAMI, WAS INFORMED

TODAY CONCERNING STATUS FERNANDEZ DE CASTRO, PURSUANT BUREAU

INSTRUCTIONS. AT TWELVE FORTYFIVE PM, JAN. TWENTYSEVEN, MM

SIX THREE FIVE DASH S TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED SA GEORGE E.

DAVIS, STATING HE HAD JUST ARRIVED MIAMI INTERNATIONAL

AIRPORT AND WAS BEING DETAINED BY INS FOR INTERROGATION:

de

16°

129

8

LATER IN AFTERNOON, DISTRICT DIRECTOR, INS, CONFIRMED THAT

INFORMANT DETAINED FOR INTERROGATION ON GROUNDS HE IS

EMPLOYED BY CUBAN GOVERNMENT, BUT IN POSSESSION U. S.

UNICORDED

RESIDENT VISA, AND THAI INS POSSESSED FBI REPORT DATED

NINETEEN FIFTYFOUR REFLECTING PERSON OF SIMILAR NAME

INS DIRECTOR STATED MU

LANDRO CY MILLING IN HAVANA,

APPROPRIATE AGENCID

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DATE

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INFORMANT DENIED ANY CP AFILIATION AND WOULD BE RELEASED

LATER IN AFTERNOON FOR DEFERRED INSPECTION. AT ABOUT FIVE

FIFTEEN P. MO, INFORMANT TELEPHONED SA DAVIS FROM PAY STATION,

STATING HE HAD JUST BEEN RELEASED BY INS AND WAS LATE FOR

AN APPOINTMENT WITH INDIVIDUAL HE DID NOT INDENTIFY AT THAT

TIME

(И)

INFORMANT SUGGESTED HE MEET DAVIS AT EIGHT P. M. SAME

DAY,

BUT SA DAVIS TOLD HIM HE HAD TWO OTHER APPOINTMENTS SAME

IVENING AND UNABLE TO MEET HIM EIGHT P. Mo, BUT INFORMANT

SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT SA DAVIS BY TELEPHONE LATER SAME

EVENING IN EVENT ANY IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS OCCURRED.

INFORMANT ALSO AGREED MEET SA DAVIS ELEVEN A. M., JAN.

TWENTYEIGHT. UPON BEING FURTHER QUESTIONED, INFORMANT

STATED THAI HE PLANNED SPEND NICHI AT RODENCE JOHNER

MIAMI, WHO HAD BEEN RECRUITED INTO CUBAN INTELLIGENCE, AND

HE WOULD CONSULT EK RE SOME GUNS.

INFORMANT STATED HE DID

NOT PLAN SEE ANY OTHER AMERICANS THAT EVENING, NOR DID HE

MENTION NAME VALDES. FOLLOWING HIS ARREST BY OTHER AGENTS,

INFORMANT PRIVATELY INTERVIEWED BY SA DAVIS. HE EXPRESSED

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AFFILIATION

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REGRET INCIDENT AND STATED THAT NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENED, HE

FBI

WOULD NOT VIOLATE HIS CONFIDENTIAL RELATIONSHIP THIS OFFICE.

HE ADMITTED HAVING MET VALDES THROUGH FICENTO AMELJEIRAS, EAR

CHIEF, CUBAN NATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY POLICE, ON JAN. TWENTYSIX

IN HAVANA AND WAS INSTRUCTED BY AMEIJEIRAS MEET VALDES AT

MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT HOTEL ON JAN. TWENTYSEVEN TO

WORK WITH VALDES ON A JOB. INFORMANT INSISTED HE WAS NOT

INFORMED THAT A KIDNAPING PLOT WAS INVOLVED. HE CLAIMED HE

FIRST LEARNED NATURE OF JOB AFTER HE MET VALDES INTERNATIONAL

HOTEL AFTER SPEAKING TO SA DAVIS, THAT HE HAD NO OTHER

OPPORTUNITY NOTIFY SA DAVIS AFTER BEING BRIEFED BY VALDES,

BUT INTENDED DO SO IMMEDIATELY AFTER MEET, AND THAT HIS

ARREST PREVENTED HIM FROM DOING SO. INFORMANT SAID THAT

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WOULD HE HAVE ASSISTED IN ACTUAL

KIDNAPING

HE STATED HE HAD NOT PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED TO SA

DAVIS HIS SCHEDULED APPOINTMENT WITH VALDES BECAUSE HE WAS

NOT THINKING CLEARLY AT THAT MOMENT DUE TO FACT HE WAS

EXHAUSTED FROM INS DETENTION, HAD NOT SLEPT FOR TWO DAYS, AZU

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AND WAS PUSHED FOR TIME IN ORDER MEET VALDES. FOR INFO

BUREAU, INFORMANT WAS IN MIAMI JAN. THIRTEEN TO NINETEEN

LAST AND FURNISHED VALUABLE INFORMATION CONCERNING CUBAN

INTELLIGENCE, INCLUDING IDENTITY SEVERAL CUBAN AGENTS• ALSO

REPORTED IMPROVEMENT IN HIS POSITION IN NATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY

POLICE. SA DAVIS GAVE HIM INSTRUCTIONS TO ATTEMPT OBTAIN

ASSIGNMENT IN QUOTE CONFIDENTIAL ASEND QUOTE, WHICH IS

CONFIDENTIAL SECTION NATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY POLICE, WHICH

CONDUCTS INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATIONS OUTSIDE CUBA, FOR

PURPOSE ENABLING MIAMI OBTAIN INFORMATION CONCERNING IDENTITY

CUBAN AGENTS IN U. S. AND COLLATERAL INFO. ON JAN.

TWENTYSEVEN INFORMANT STATED HE HAD JUST SUCCEEDED IN BEING

PROMOTED TO POSITION AS ASSISTANT TO FERNANDO SOLA, CHISE

CUBA

OF CONFIDENTIAL A UNDER AMIJEIRAS, AND THIS dAS HIS FIRST

FOREIGN ASSIGNMENT IN THAT CAPACITY. MIAMI FEELS THAT

INFORMANT GAVE PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATION UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES

AND THAT HE STILL HAS VERY VALUABLE POTENTIAL AS INFORMANT E(2U)

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AND DOUBLE AGENT DEPENDING UPON PROSECUTIVE RESULTS.

INFORMANT HAS BEEN ADVISED ON NUMEROUS PREVIOUS OCCASIONS

THAT FBI CANNOT PERMIT OR CONDONE HIS VIOLATION ANY U. SO

LAWS. IN THIS CONNECTION, IT IS NOTED THAT DURING THE

PRELIMINARY INTERVIEW WITH INFORMANT, WHILE HE WAS BEING

TREATED AS A SUBJECT AND BEING BROUGHT FROM THE AIRPORT

HOTEL TO THE MIAMI OFFICE IN CUSTODY, HE WAS ASKED WHETHER

HE DID NOT KNOW THAT TO CONSPIRE TO KIDNAP SOMEONE WAS A

VIOLATION OF THE LAW. HE SAID HE KNEW THIS. WHEN ASKED

WHY HE CONTINUED ON THIS MATTER AFTER HE LEARNED FROM

VALDES THAT THE DEAL WAS TO KIDNAP ROLANDO MASFERRER, HE

SAID HE WAS JUST CARRYING OUT THE INSTRUCTIONS OF HIS SUPERIOR

EN (AMEIJEIRAS ENDSPAREN TO WORK WITH VALDES ON SOME DEAL

IN MIAMI, DETAILED AIRTEL RE INFORMANT FOLLOWS. SIGNED

STATEMENT TAKEN FROM CATHERINE TAAFFE SUBSTANTIALLY IN

ACCORDANCE WITH INFORMATION CONTAINED IN MIAMI TELETYPE JAN•

TWENTYSEVEN•

END

ACK PLS

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11-35 PM OK FBI WA RES

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