Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 11/7/64
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/7/2015

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90076-10004

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 62-107261-644

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

444 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 54460 Date:

10-03-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO:

MM

HQ

TITLE:

DATE:

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SUBJECTS :

11/07/1964

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MARCOS DIAZ LANZ

MINUTEMEN

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/06/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

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ALL IRFORMASION CONTATRED

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DECODEDICOPY

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DECLASSIE 3E SL01085LD/H6SP

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4:02 AM EST URGENT 11-7-64 PUR IDI2G94 SPEMACIEAGT

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O3RDDCAL

TO DIRECTOR

FROM MIAMI

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RADIA 245 M

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MINUTEMEN, INFO CONCERNING - 1S• INTERVAL SECURITY

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AS ITS

REBUTEL NOVEMBER 4, 1964.

KP 10t9

ON NOVEMBER 2, 5 AND 6, MM 635-S, WHO HAS BEEN LONG

TIME FRIEND OF MARCOS DIAZ LANZ, BROTHER OF FORMER CUBAN AIR

FORCE MAJOR PEDRO LUIS DIAZ LANZ, BOTH EXILED IN U.S., AD=

VISED AS FOLLOWS:

CABRERA, VENEZUELAN EMPLOYEE OF

RANSA AIRLINE WHO RESIDES MIAMI, REQUESTED INFORMANT TO PUT

HIM IN TOUCH WITH SOME ARMS DEALER: WHO COULD SUPPLY SOME

SUPPORTERS OF FORMER VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT PEREZ JIMENEZ,

ON DEBOBER,29, INFORMANT INTRODUCED CABRERA TO MARCOS AUTAZ

NZ. WHO TOLD CABRERA HIS NAME WAS GARCIA. DIAZ IN PRESENCE

OF

'MM: 635-S CLAIMED TO CABRERA HE COULD SUPPLY WEAPONS.

CABRERA EXPRESSED INTEREST IN MAKING PURCHASE. DURING THIS

DIAZ: ALSO EXPRESSED THE OPINION TO CABRERA THAT IF

"LBU'" BECAME PRESIDENT, U.S. WOULD GO COMMUNIST. DIAZ ÁLSO

REMÄRKED THERE EXISTED SOME SECRET ORGANIZATION SUCH AS

"MINUTEMEN" WHICH WOULD FIGHT TO THE END. THAT ITS MEMBERS

HAD

BEEN RECEIVING TRAINING, AND THAT IN HIS OPINION THERE

SHOULD BE A MILITARY CORPS.

DIAZ MENTIONED SOME PLAÇE

NOT

IN FLORIDA WHERE THE MINUTEMEN ARE REPORTEDLY ORGANIZED.

TEROR DIAZ DID NOT STATE, HOWEVER, THAT HE L'S MEMBER OF MINUTEMEN

OGANOR THAT HE HAD SOLD ARMS TO THEM. DIAZ DID NOT STATE THAT

20.

THE MINUTEMEN PLAN AN ARMED INSURRECTION AGAINST U.S. GOVERN

MENT.

-DIAZ CLAIMED THAT HIS BROTHER PEDRO HASSOME

CONNECTIONS

Panese eh

EX-103 REG- 43

62-16

105-135158

(FAIN)

NOV 19 1964

105-700

MR. BELMONT FOR THE DIRECTOR

810458

If the intelligence contained in the above message is to be dissem

NHO NINE C

e Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably

paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau's cryptographic systems.

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MIAMI 060200

WITH GROUPS OF THIS SORT. DIAZ DID NOT MENTION ANY MINUTE-

- MEN MILITARY CAMPS IN FLORIDA. INFORMANT BELIEVES THAT DIAZ

HAS HAD SUBSEQUENT MEETINGS WITH CABRERA, BUT HE DOES NOT

KNOW RESULTS OF SAME.

ON NOVEMBER 3, JOE VIDAL, CIA LIAISON, MIAMI, TELEPHON-

ICALLY INQUIRED RE BACKGROUND

INFORMATION ON MM 635-S UNDER

HIS TRUE NAME AND IDENTITY OF CUBAN WITH WHOM HE WAS ARRESTED

IN MID 1950'S. THIS OFFICE GAVE CIA THE NAMES OF MARCOS WHO

WAS ARRESTED WITH MM 635-S IN 1950'S. IT THEREFORE APPEARS

THAT CIA'S "UNTESTED SOURCE" IS EFRAIN CABRERA, WHO IS KNOWN

ITO THIS OFFICE, BUT NOT REGARDED AS COMPLETELY RELIABLE DU)

MIAMI RECEIVED CIA MEMO LOCALLY DATED NOVEMBER 4 EN-

TITLED "PLANNED INSURRECTION OF MINUTEMEN IN FLORIDA AREA."

ON NOVEMBER 5, MIAMI CONTACTED RAY DUBOIS, CIA MIAMI, FOR

IDENTITY CIA SOURCE IN ORDER INTERVIEW PURSUANT BUREAU IN-

STRUCTIONS. DUBOIS FELT THAT INTERVIEW OF CIA SOURCE BY

FBI AT THIS TIME WOULD COMPROMISE THAT SOURCE RELATIVE TO

ANOTHER FACET OF IMPORTANCE TO CIA. THIS OFFICE DID NOT

INSIST IN VIEW OF VULNERABLE POSITION OF MM 635-S. CIA

AGREED THAT INTERVIEW OF MARCOS DIAZ BY FBI BASED UPON AN

ARTICLE ENTITLED "MINUTEMEN URGE SOCIETY TO GET GUNS

BIRCHERS DISOWN TO ARMS TRACT, " WHICH APPEARED NOVEMBER 5

IN MIAMI HERALD, WOULD NOT JEOPARDIZE CIA SOURCE, AS PEDRO

DIAZ IS KNOWN BY THIS OFFICE TO HAVE ASSOCIATION WITH JOHN

BIRCH SOCIETY!!

ON NOVEMBER

6 MARCOS LIAZ LANZ WAS INTERVIEWED AT HIS

RESIDENCE UPON THIS PREDICATION, AFTER MARCOS HAD ADVISED

"Tolson -

Belmont -

Mohr -

DeLoach

Casper -

Callahan

Contad _

Evans

Gale

Rosen

Sullivan -

Tavel -

Trotter -

Tele. Room

Holmes _

Gandy =

nobler

SUNRIDENTAL

If the intelligence contained in the above message is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably

paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau's crypto graphic systems.

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i serrier: 105-66.

"Tolson -

Belmont -

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Tavel

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MIAMI 060200

SNIDENTAl

THAT HIS BROTHER PEDRO HAS MOVED TO TULSA, OKLAHOMA WHERE

HE IS WORKING FULL TIME FOR THE CHRISTIAN CRUSADE.

MARCOS ADVISED THAT NEITHER HE NOR PEDRO ARE OR EVER

HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF MINUTEMEN. HE DISCLAIMED ANY PERSONAL

KNOWLEDGE OF ANY MINUTEMEN GROUPS IN MIAMI OR ELSEWHERE IN

FLORIDA OR ANY OTHER SPECIFIC PLACE. HE CLAIMED HIS KNOWLEDGE

OF MINUTEMEN IS BASED UPON NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES

WHICH HAVE RELATED THAT THE MINUTEMEN ARE TRAINING WITH

WEAPONS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE U.S. MARCOS ALSO SAW A

TELEVISION PROGRAM LAST WEEK WHICH RELATED TO THE DOWNFALL

OF AN ORGANIZATION SIMILAR TO THE MINUTEMEN. HE FELT THIS

PROGRAM WAS AN ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT ANY ORGANIZATION WHICH

OPPRESSES SOCIALISM. MARCOS SAID HE IS NOT ACQUAINTED WITH

ANY MINUTEMEN AND KNOWS OF NO PLANS FOR AN ARMED INSURRECTION.

HE EXPRESSED HIMSELF AS FAVORING MORE AGGRESSIVE ACTION

AGAINST COMMUNISM AND THE CASTRO REGIME.

MARCOS ADVISED THAT HE IS NOW A SLAESMAN OF CROP DUSTING

PLANES AND REPRESENTS IMCO, INCO, OF AFTON, WYOMING, WHICH

MANUFACTURES SAME.

MIAMI SUGGESTS THAT BUREAU NOT DISSEMINATE ABOVE INFOR

MATION UNTIL RECEIPT MIAMI LHM AS MM 635-S IS IN VULNERABLE

POSITION'®

LHM FOLLOWS.

RECEIVED: 5:21 AM DWM

CC-MR. SULLIVAN

SELKET

If the intelligence contained in the above message is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably

paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau's cryptographic systems.

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