Originator: HSCA
From: BLAKEY, G. ROBERT
To: WALD, PATRICIA
Document date: 1978-01-19 00:00:00
Document type: LETTER

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

10/1/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

HSCA

180-10073-10035

RECORD SERIES: NUMBERED FILES

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

004703

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: HSCA

FROM: BLAKEY, G. ROBERT

TO: WALD, PATRICIA

TITLE:

66000 Date: 11-04-2021

DATE: 01/19/1978

PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

HSCA, ADMINISTRATION

DEA

DOCUMENT TYPE: LETTER

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: Open in Full

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

10/15/1993

OPENING CRITERIA:

COMMENTS :

Box #:98.

v9.1

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LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMAN

RICHARDSON PREYER, N.C.

SAMUEL L. DEVINE, OHIO

WALTER E: FAUNTROY,

D.C.

STEWART B. MC KINNEY, CONN.

YVONNE BRATHWAITE BURKE, CALIF.

CHARLES THONE. NEBR.

- CHRISTOPHER J, DODD, CONA.

HAROLD S. SAWYER, MICH.

FAOYD J. FITHIAN, IND.

ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA.

(202) 225-4624

Select Committee on Assassinations

M.. House of Representatives

3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING. ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

JAN 1 9 1978

004703

Ms.

Patricia Wald

Assistant Attorney General for

Office of Legislative Affairs

Department of Justice

10th and Constitution Avenue, N.W.

Room 1603

Washington, D.C. 20530

Dear Ms. Wald:

In connection with its investigation into the

circumstances surrounding the death of President John

F. Kennedy, the House Select Committee on Assassinations

requests that by January 30, 1978 the Drug Enforcement

Administration provide to our duly authorized representa-

tives any information in DEA's files on the individuals

listed below:

1. Manuel Artime

Cuban national who headed political action

for Bay of Pigs invasion; with Brigate 2506

Leader of MRR

Died: November 17, 1977

2. Dominick E. Bartone

Office in 1962: Room 551

Pan American Bank

Miami, Ohio

Born: Toledo, Ohio (possibly)

3..

Sam Benton

Miami, Florida

Arrested July 1963, La Combe, Louisiana

Indicted in Florida 1971

Associate of Mike McLaney

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Ms. Patricia Wald

Assistant Attorney General for

Office of Legislative Affairs

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4.

James Braden, Eugene Hale Brading

Present address:

3224 Peachtree Road

Atlanta, Georgia

Convicted: 1951

Parole: 1959

5.

Edward Browder, Jr.

DOB: June 22, 1917 at Amarillo, Texas

FBI No. 4 840

823

6...

Dino Cellini

FBI No. 219 8122

7.

David Ferrie

DOB: March 28, 1918

Social Security No. 282-18-8219

8.

Michael McLaney, aka McClainey

DOB: Approx. 1915

Owner of Nacional Casino, Havanna, Cuba

during late 1950's.

Indicted 1971 Southern District of New York

9.

John Martino

DOB: August 3, 1911

Atlantic City, New Jersey

DOD: August 3, 1975

Miami Beach, Florida

10.

Captain William Morgan

American "soldier-of-fortune" jailed in

Cuba in early 1960 and killed in prison

for allegedly anti-Castro activities.

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Ms .

Patricia Wald

Assistant Attorney General for

Office of Legislative Affairs

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11. John Roselli

(real name Felippe Sacco)

12. Norman Rothman aka "Roughhouse"

13.

14.

DOB: December 26, 1914

Bronx, New York

Sergio Arcacha Smith

Leader of New Orleans branch of Cuban

Revolutionary Council through 1962

Manuel Antonio DeVarona aka Tony Varona

Miami official of Cuban Revolutionary Counsel

Miami address in 1962: 826 Madrid Street

Coral Gables, Florida

15.

Eduardo Whitehouse

Cuban National, former head of Bastista's

Air Force.

To expedite access to the Agency's records, the

Committee would appreciate it if priority were given to

preparing information covering the period 1958 - 1963.

Please notify us when documents pertaining to that period

have been completed.

If you have any questions concerning this request,

please call Jackie Hess at the Committee offices.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Sincerely,

2. Nolet Bleaks

GRB : jSC

G. Robert Blakey

CC: Mr. Robert M. Stutman

Chief Counsel and Director

Director

Office of Congressional Affairs

CC:

Mr. Robert L. Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

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