Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, WMFO
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 07/15/1959
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

DATE: 11-14-2017

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DATE: 07/15/1959

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1992

411 USC 271

Mr.

Tolson_

Mr. "Helmont

Mr.

DeLoach

Mr.

McGuire

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Mr. W.C.Sullivan

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Mr. Holloman

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TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

FROM:

AC,

(105-31259)

PEDRO LUIS DIAZ LANZ

IS - CUBA

notti

Attached for the Bureau are five copies of

letterhead memo dated and captioned

above.

The source

of this information is WF 1134-S*

The attached memo is classified confidential

since it involves Investigative coverage of a foreig

iplomatic establishment and the information could resul

in identification of an informant of continuing value

and jeopardize the future effectiveness thereof.

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eLeased, under the. John

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DATE: 11-14 ZUNFIDENTIAL

Kennedy Assassination Records collection Act of 1992,

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

WASHINGTON 25, D

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

July 15, 1959

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR

PEDRO LUIS DIAZ LANZ

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION

IN THIS DOCUMENT:- K 7-29-4/

1959, a confidential informant, who stilest

during a discussion of Pedro Diaz Lanz,

has furnished "ly lole intormation in the past has present 8-15-97

the Cuban Air Force, who on that date testified before

the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee.

" This discussion

was between Dora Saavedra, wife of the Cuban Military

Attachel, and his assistant, Lieutenant Joaquin BertranS,

According

that all the statements made by Dia?

to the informant, Bertran asserted

Lanz were false and

without proof.

Among these Bertran indicated that Diaz

Lanz stated that Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro had

told Diaz Lanz that he,

, Castro, is a communist and

fortranda Mall acedra lamented the Cact hat these

statements, even

though Talse, are being made public.

Bertran continued by saying that Diaz Lanz

has been

making one accusation after another without

corroboration and be witnesses present to rebut the

statement.

Bertran felt that the whole proceeding

totally lacking in judicial qualities of a fair

hearing and believed that no one has tried to

ascertai

whether the statements of Diaz Lanz are true or false.

This memorandum is loaned to you by the Federal

Bureau of Investigation,

and neither it nor its contents

assed by distributed outside the agency to which loaned.

7/85

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EXCEPT WHERE SHOWN

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