Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DAVIS, GEORGE E. JR.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 06/25/1974
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/28/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10222-10271

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 9-57631-7TH NR 9, 8TH NR 9, 9TH NR 9

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

DAVIS, GEORGE E. JR.

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 06/25/1974

PAGES:

65

SUBJECTS :

MAB, ASSOC, ACA, CUBAN EXILE LEADER, TORRIENTE,

JOSE ELIAS, ASSA, THREATS, VICTIMS

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

07/29/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS : INC RPT, A/T

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

issassination Records

Collection

Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel .

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CONFI

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SJ 9-909

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San Juan

2 - 105916186

1.-

105-12785)

105-2856

105-RAUL BORANDELA)

USA, San Juan, Puerto Rico)

ATTN :

AUSA JUAN A. PEREZ)

(1 -

105-11343)

ARTURO RODRIGUEZ

JOSE ELIAS de

18

Jose E. Torriente

REINALDO VERGARA

VICTIM;

RIENTE taka.

ICTII

VICTIM

REFERENCE

Miami. Report of SA GEORGE E. DAVIS, Jr. dated

6/25/74: 20134.41

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The cover pages of this report are classified

confidential to protect

the identities of SJ 492-5, SJ 1430-

PSI,

and SJ 1441-PSI

LEADS

MIAMI

AT MIAMI, FLORIDA

Forward photograph and identifying data re RAUL

BARANDELA to San Juan, if available.

BARANDELA reportedly

is close associate of. ORLANDO BOSCH

SAN JUAN

AT SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO

CONF

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CONF

SJ: 9-909

1. Continue investigation of activities: of ORLANDO

BOSCH, RAUL BARANDELA, and ENRIQUE NUNEL in San Juan, Puerto

Rico inasmuch as it appears possible motive for sending

"ZERO" letters to San Juan

"ZERO" victims exists re

these

individuals.

:2.

Will continue contacts with sJ 492-s.

1И

and SJ 1442-PSI for information regarding this matter by (&4)

3. Reinterview ENRIQUE NUNEZ, Director, Replica

Newspaper, San Juan, Puerto Rico re visit of. ORIANDO BOSCH

to San Juan and knowledge re "ZERO" letters!

4. Locate and conduct background checks re MANUEL

DE DIOS and IGNACIO AIZCOITRA, San Juan, former distributor

of Impacto newspaper and interview them

re

"ZERO" and Cuban

related matters.

5. Interview ENRIQUE JORDAN re "ZERO" letter

information.

ADMINISTRATIVE

INFORMANTS

SJ 492-S,]sJ. 1438-PSI and SJ 1441-PSI are all

victims

in captioned matter.

Information from them regarding

"ZERO" letters is set forth openly in this report inasmuch

as failure to do so openly would

tend more to identify than

to conceal their identities

been in Miami

(6) [On 5/3/74 [J. 492-S lisclosed that he had recently

"ZERO'

marks and slogans

on restroom

(dU)

walls in Miami.

He said that two theories re

"ZERO"

exist.

One was that they were a group of pro-Castro Cubars acting

under the guise of anti-Castro activities while eliminating

anti-Castro. leaders of the Cuban exile community.

The other

theory was that they were a group of extreme anti-Castro

Cubans who felt current anti-Castro Cuban leaders

were

betraying the

anti-Castro

quement through their inactivity

and financial endeavors.

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SJ 9-909

(4) On 5/9/74 sJ. 492-S disclosed that ANTON CONSTANZA

PALAU was known to Him as ar

Individual who had escaped fro

Cuba via Guantanamo.:It had been reported that while at

Guantanamo in

the room where CONSTANZO was sleeping one

night another individual was ill and groaning.

CONSTANZO

had been reported to have struck the ill individual on the

lead with a pipes.

knocking him unconscious so that CONSTANZO.

could go to sleen. He advised that CONSTANZO was reportedly

of an extremely violent nature. CONSTANZO had reportedly

been involved in a shoot out in Miami, Florida wherein he

was seriously wounded..: He

was also a fugitive from justice

at one time and had also been reportedly involved in the

burning of a gasoline station at Miami, Florida.

He advised

that coNstanco was currently employed at the counter.

Canada at the Miami International Airport.

SJ. 492-Swas of U

the opinion that CONSTANZO did not put his

"ZERO"

CONSTANZO's name. on the

attempt by someone, possibly for revenge at CONSTANZO or to

direct the blame to CONSTANZO. CONSTANZO has a brother by

the name of AVELINO CONSTANZO PALAU who reportedly came

from Miami to San Juan in 3/74.

Caba

•On. 5/17/74 [sJ 492-sJadvised that a Cuban MARIANO

KROCCAY GUTIERREZ, Waldorf Towers, Room 707, Isla Verde, Puert

Rico had openly

expressed resentment towards Cubans who

have gained wealth.

• ROCCA has failed in his business endeavors

while watching other Cubans rise financially.

ROCCA waS a

past Director of Lions International many years ago at san

Juan, Puerto Rico and currently is an insurance salesman for

the Confederation Canada,. Banco Popular Center in Hato Rey,

Puerto Rico.

ROCCA had in the past spoken out against

JERONIMO ESTEVEZ and MANUEL RAY.

ROCCA was an Adjutant

Captain to NINO DIAZ, a leader of the Cuban Liberation Army

at the time of the CASTRO takeover in Cuba but after a

confrontation with CASTRO, ROCCA left Cuba and moved to

Puerto Rico.

ROCCA had opened his home in San Juan to the

housing of extreme radical leaders of the Cuban movement,

including many Cubans who were formerly closely involved

with CASTRO

i

revolution.

the Sierra Maestra prior to the Cuban

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On: 6/5/74 5J 492-S advised that he had determined

that

• CONSTANZO PALAU'S brother

- AVELINO CONSTANZO PALAU

was in San Juan on or about 3/20/747 CONSTANZO also has. E

cousin, last name PALAU, who owned the Calimano Supermarket

In Guayama, Puerto Rico. lE ( (U)

On: 7/15/74 SJ 1441-PSI disciosed that he had learned

that between 2/24/74 and the end

0f 3/74 Doctor ORLANDOXBOSCH

of Miami, Florida, RAUL BARANDELA, aka Commander Barandela, /

who formerly resided in San Juan but was now residing in

Miami, and ENRIQUE NUNEZ, the Director of the Replica

Marin

newspaper, San Juan, Puerto Rico had attempted to cöllect

money from the leaders" of the Cuban movement, at San Juan,

Puerto Rico.

The purpose of the collection was for financial

support for the Internationalization of the

General Fight

Against Cuba.

SJ 1441-PSI said he personally was contacted

on the night of 2/24/74 by BOSCH, BARANDELA and NUNEZ and

was asked by BOSCH to offer financial support for the

Internationalization of the General Fight Against Cuba to

countries outside of the United States and against countries

cooperating with Cuba.

BOSCH: did not provide source with

further details and source did not offer any financial

assistance to the three men.

SJ 1441-PSI said he was of the

opinion: that by Internationalization

of the General Fight

Against Cuba BOSCH may personally have implied recent bombings

of the: Cuban Embassy in foreign countries.

SJ 1441-PSI

also felt personally that BOSCH, NUNEZ and BARANDELA may

have had motives for capitalizing on "ZERO" letters sent

to individual Cuban leaders who had not cooperated with

their requests for financial aid and because of personal

conflict between NUNEZ and BARANDELA against the San Juan

victims of the

"ZERO" letters.

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SJ 9-909

on 6/5/74 SJ 492-S disclosed that during 3/74

Doctor ORLANDO BOSCH of Miami, Florida had made three attempts

to contact him at his office but that the source had

avoided

BOSCH and had not returned BOSCH'S

calls. He did not know

what BOSCH wanted at the time.

(и.)

On 6/11/74 5J 1438-PSI Who

has been contacted

insufficient number of times

to determine reliability advised that

on an unrecalled date in 4/74 he traveled from Miami to

San Juan.

When he boarded the airplane at

Miami he encountered

Doctor ORLANDO BOsCH on the same airplane. He spoke to

BOSCH and recalled that the conversation concerned errore

made in the Cuban movement but that he did not discuss

BOSCH did not elicit any funds from

him nor did he discuss any of his activities.

The source

advised that BOSCH and RAUL PARANDELA were good friends.

SJ 1438-PSI recalled that he had communicated to BOSCH that

any activities which would bring repression against the

Cuban community in the United States should be avoided but

provided no further details. regarding this matter.

BOSCH

told the source that he was traveling to San Juan to see old

friends: SJ 1438-PSI disclosed that this was about one and

one-half months before the Casa Cuba, San Juan, Puerto Rico

The source advised that he and

ENRIQUE NUNEZ, the Director of the Replica Newspaper

bore

no love for each

confrontations.

ther guy in the past had haased politica.

On 7/16/74 SJ 492-S disclosed that he had determined

that the Impacto Newspaper of Miami, Florida was distributed

in San Juan, Puerto Rico until about 11/72.

The distribution

was handled by MANUEL DE DIOS and IGNACIO AIZCOITIA.

said IGNACIO AIZCOITIA was known as a Cuban organizer at

San Juan, Puerto Rico.

He also disclosed that a car salesman

ENRIQUE JORDAN, Eighth Street, Block 16 Number 11, Saita

Bayamon,

ROS"IZERO" letter received by Casa

Puerto Rico, had specific information about

• Cuba.:. st 492-S said that

he knew of no reason JORDAN

should know of the Casa Cuba

"ZERO" letter and

should be approached

regarding

"ZERO"

21)

GONT

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MM 105-22094,

NB! 9-2000

MIAMI

AT MIAMI, FLORIDA

W111 report

1.

in this case.

FBI Laboratory examinations

2.

Nil continue investisation to obtain evidince

concerning alleged involvement of LUIS TORNES and

FERNANDO

CARRANDI in authoring the "Zero" communications..

3.

Maintain close contact with logical infor nis

and maintain close liaison with Organized Crime Bureau, Dade

County Public Safety Department, and Miami Police Departaent.

4. Attempt to obtain typewriting, printing, ind

and paper specinens which are in possession

of TORNES, ti

available to hin, for Laboratory examination.

Will conduct

the same investigation with regard to CARRANDI, who operates

& printing shop,

ADMINISTRATIVE

On 5/21/74,

MM 1550-KS, who has been closely asso.

ciated in the pist with LUIS NORBERTO TORNES GARCIA, aka Luis

Tornes, FBI #407 171 E, publisher of "Impacto," which ceased

publication

two or three conths ago in Miami, reported that

on the previous Friday, 5/17/74,

TORNES admitted to him ther

he had sent four

"Zero" threatening letters to & number oi li

dividuals, including TOMAS GARCIA FUSTE and MAX LESNICK.

TORNES also disclosed that FERNANDO CARRANDI; Who operates

the AlP Printing Shop, Beacon Boulevard, Miami, Florida, coliabo-

rated with TORNES in the preparation of

these "Zero" lettero.

TORNES said that it was necessary for him to continue

with the

campaign of sending out threatening let ers, but he did not cis

close the identities of any additional victims.

MM 1150-K5

said that CARRANDI, according to TORNES, hates

MAX' LESNICS.

X(4)

C.

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MM 105-22094, MM 9-2690

MM 1550-KS said that TORNES and LESNICK have

been feuding for several years and approximately one year

ago MAX LESNICK, accompanied by several of his associates,

attacked TORNES

and one of his companions, ORLANDO GARCIA,

on the sidewalk in front of "Impacto."

"Impacto" has been

very hostile toward LESNICK's

"Replica." MM 1150-Ks said

that TORNES blames LESNICK for being responsible for adver

tising being withdrawn from "Impacto" so that "Impacto"

had to go out of business two or three months ago. TORNES

is presently working as a busboy at the Fontainebleau Hotel,

Miami, Florida.

MM 1550-KS said that TORNES was formerly head of

the "secret Cuban Army, Miami" several years ago when that

organization was engaged in bombings, extortion and other

acts of terrorism.

Miami files reflect that FERNANDO JESUS CARRANDI

VALDEZ, aka Fernando Carrandi, was born 5/10/25 at Santa

Clara,

Las Villas Province, Cuba, and had Alien Registratior

Number A12 410 957. He had been

employed by & number of

publications during the period from 1962 to 1970.

MM 1550-KS said that other close associates

TORNES who share a similar hatred for LESNICK are LUIS ORTEGA,

a Cuban newsman; MARIETA FANDINO, publisher of "Ia Verdad

Miami; and AUREA POGGIO, a Cuban

newswoman in Miami.

и)

MM 1550-KS said that TORNES is a professional revo-

lutionary skilled in intrigue and very shrewd, cunning and

deceptive in his operations

011 5/13/74, & bomb exploded at the offices of

"Replica" in Miami.

On 5/27/74 another bomb exploded at the

offices of the latin Chamber of Commerce, Miami.

Immediately

after each bombing, the "Union Mindial Anti Comunista" (UMA)

claimed credit for each of these bombings by typewritten

communications sent to the news nedia claiming credit and

D.

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CONF

MM 105-22094, MM 9-2690

threatening Cuban merchants who distribute copies of

"Replica."

MM 1550-KS has furnished information reflecting

that TORNES is responsible for these UM bombings and com-

munications.

The UMA communications and bombings surfaced

shortly after the "Zero" letters ceased being sent. (4)

The Miami Office has opened a separate investiga-

105-22159.

been vandalized and TORNES has informed M 1550-KS that his

campaign against "Replica" and

the merchants who sell

"Replica" will be continued. /41

CONT

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