Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DIRECTOR, FBI
To: SAC, SJ
Document date: 04/27/1962
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

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Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10201-10437

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 105-106633-10

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

DIRECTOR, FBI

TO : SAC, SJ

TITLE :

DATE: 04/27/1962

PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS:

FCH, TEAMSTER UNION, TRA, ASSOC

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Confidential

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C; 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 08/03/1995

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

INC MEMO

D&dId: 32289661

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ANT THrOMATION CONTAINED

F. Kieffer

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MERE IM IS UNCLASSIFIED EXCEPT

WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE.

SAC, San Juan (105-5369) CONFIDENTI/4/27/62

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Director, FBI (105-106633)-10

FRANK CHAVEZ, aKa.

IS - DOMINICAN REFUBLIC

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17:179 4y598: Machide

Declassily on: BANK/JAK

Reurlet of

2/20/62.

A confidential source abroad has furnished the

following information regarding subject's activities in the

Bahamas in late 1961 classified "Confidential":

Chovez checked in at the Nassau Beach Hotel on 10/2i/61

in company with two men, one being Jaime Amador, 800 Figueroa,

santurce, Fuerto Rico, with whom he shared a suite until their

departure on 10/24/61.

On checking out of the hotel, Chavez

paid the hotel bill with a Teamsters Union check drawn on the

Banco de Puerto Rico, Stop 17 Branch, Santurce, Fuerto Rico.

Besides paying the hotel bill Chavez cashed two checks for

himself but these have since been returned by the bank in

Puerto Rico for insufficient funds.

The hotel manager has uritton

Chavez at the address furnished by him, namely, 30 Calle Doncello,

Santurce, Puerto Rico, but to date has not received a reply

Ine Bahama authorities in Nassau did not request

Chavez and his wife to depart upon the arrival of "powerful

Trujillistos" in Nassau.

Our source added that Chavez departed from

the Bahamas on 10/24/61 and he was not in the Bahamas at the

time of the arrival of Arismendi Irujillo on 11/1/61-(C,

The source further aduised that it was rumored that

on 10/22/61 Arturo Ispaillat spent the afternoon drinking with

"foreigners" in a room at the Nassau Beach Hotel.

further stated that

Chavez may have been present but that has

not been confirmed.

1 - Ottawa

- Foreign Liaison Unit

1 = 105-52902 (Arturo Espatllat)

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POSTPONEMENT INFORHATION SHEET (JFK HATERIALS)

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One or more of the following statements, where indicated,

explain this deletion (these deletions).

Deletions were made pursuant to the postponement

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AND INFORRATTON CONTAINED

WESLIN IS UNCLASSIVLED EAGERT

WHOREC SHORN OTHERNISES

Frank CHAVEZ:

19th April, 1962.

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Declassity on: OADP/SP.F

Please refer to your 13764 dated 7th March, 1962, in which

mention was made of CHAVEZ' connection with the Teamsters Union

in Puerto Rico and of his visit to the Bahamas with his wife.

Enquiries have disclosed that Frank CHAVEZ booked in at

the Nassau Beach Hotel on 2lst October, 1961, in company with two

Puerto Rico, with whom

On leaving CHAVEZ

paid the bill with a Teamsters Union cheque on the Banco de Puerto

Rico - Stop 17 Branch - Santurce - Puerto Rico. Apart from the hotel

bill he cashed two cheques for himself but these have since been

returned by the Puerto Rico bank endorsed 'Insufficient Funds'.

The hotel manager has written to him at the address given, which was

30 Calle Doncella, Santurce, Fuerto Rico, but has received no reply.

According to your source, when the Bahamas authorities learned

of the arrival of "powerful Trujillistas" in Nassau, they requested

CHAVEZ and hiS wife to leave the island.

We understand that this

So far as is known CHAVEZ left on 24th October

and, again so. far as is known, he was not in the Bahamas at the time

that And smend ARUJILL arrived on Ist Novemberuno

eat vate port tot era ontobe at the asa tea after.

; Which might have referred to CHAVEZ and his companions, but

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