Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 01/13/1965
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

6/17/201

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90158-10029

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

CR 105-137317-1

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO :

TITLE:

FBI

MM

HQ

DATE: 01/13/1965

PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

FERNANDO GALAN CAPILLO

[Restricted]

DOCUMENT TYPE:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 12/08/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

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Assassination Records Collection Act ol

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

Miami, Florida

JAN 1 3 1005 . -

RE:

FERNANDO GALAN CAPILIO

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

CUBA

INFORMANT

Or November 5, 1964, LUIS POSADA, a Cuban ex1le

associated with an anti-CASTRO group named JUNTA REVOLUCIONARIA

CUBANA, and

who resides at 750 N. W. 15th Street, Miami, Florida,

advised as follows:

He recently learned from SERGIO MARTIN VIDAL, Miami

telephone number FRanklin 1-6967 (address not recalled),

that MARTIN VIDAL had seen FERNANDO GALAN CAPILIO in Brooklyn,

New York, two or three months prior to their conversation.

According to MARTIN VIDAL, FERNANDO GALAN CAPILLO:

is a Cuban Communist employed as a merchant seaman.

POSADA

did not possess details as to how GALAN came to be described

as a Communist.

POSADA speculated that GALAN entered the

United States as a

seaman.

An article in the Cuban exile newspaper, "Cuba

Libre"

, date not indicated but possibly September 2, 1960,

related that FERNANDO GALAN CAPILLO, ERNESTO/RERDONO

CONTRERAS, and JUAN ANTONIO/MAS of G-2, had been arrested

In Honduras because

they disthibuted Communist propaganda

from Cuba.

- Also

arrested was FELIX EDUARDO, BELLO. (OP BELIA)

a cousin of "cha

ELEVARA, from whom five false passports

were confiscated.

The four arrested individuals were to be

deported.

On December 21, 1964, SERGIO MARTIN VIDAL, 244

S. W. 9th Street, Apartment 20, Miami, Florida, advised as

follows:

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

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