Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: WIGHTMAN, WILLIAM A.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 09/23/1960
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Date:

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Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10279-10093

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : CR 105-89660-2

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FBI

FROM:

WIGHTMAN, WILLIAM A

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 09/23/1960

PAGES:

28

SUBJECTS :

[Restricted]

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C; 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/20/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

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105-2691

ADMINISTRATIVE

One extra copy of this report is being forwárded

to the Bureau in the event dissemination to Legat, Havana,

is desired.

One copy of this report is being furnished the

New York Office for information,

due to the interest of

that office in Cubana Airlines.

One copy of this report is being designated to

INS locally due to the investigative interest of that

agency in defected personnel

of Cubana.

A separate investigation is being conducted con-

cerning MANUEL MAGARINO DORTICOS, (Miami File 105-2279,

Bureau File 105-85224):

On September 20, 1960, SANTIAGO L. FONT advised

that he is seeking other employment, since working condi-

tions in Cubana Airlines have become intolerable since the

arrival of FAES, in addition to the obvious Communist domi-

nation of the Cuban government.

This report is being classified Secret due to

the highly sensitive nature of information reported by

5)LMM 709-S*| and New York NY 2494-S*Jand also since this

ceport involves investigative coverage.of a foreig

liplomatic establishment In the U. s.

tains information reported by informants, the disclosure

of which would tend to compromise the future effectiveness

of these,

informants and possibly tend to reveal their iden-

tities.

It is observed that most of the defected flight

personnel from Cubana Airlines have been absorbed into the

Democratic Revolutionary Front and have departed from the

Miami area.

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MM 105-2691

INFORMANTS

IDENTITY

MM T-1 is ALBERTO JESUS

E. MARTINEZ FONTS, group

and convention Sales

Manager, Cubana Airlines,

Miami, Florida,

(by request).

MM T-2 is SANTIAGO L.

FONT, District Traffic

and

Sales Manager, Cubana

Airlines, Miami, (byre-

quest) .

MM T-3 is ISMAEL RODRIGUEZ,

Comptroller, Cubana Airlines,

New York City, (by request)

MM I-4 is (AM 709-5*.](5)

MM I-S is (NY 2494-S*](5)

MM T-6 is JOSE M. HERRERA,

former District Manager,

Cubana Airlines, Miami,

(by request).

MM T-7 is ANTONY DIAZ

CARRERAS, former Station

Manager, Cubana Airlines,

Miami International Air-

port, (by request).

LOCATION OF ORIGINAL INFORMATION

Instant report, page 2.

Instant report, page 2.

NY 109-112.

105-22,79-14

105-2279-48

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MM 105-2691

INFORMANTS

IDENTITY

MM T-8 is RAMIRO ZALDIVAR,

Vice-President of Holiday

Tours, Miami, PSI (Under

Development).

MM T-9 is RICARDO MADAN

RIVAS, PSI (Under

Development).

LOCATION OF ORIGINAL INFORMATION

105-2279-29

*(4)

134-379, Sub. A16

Careful consideration has been given to each

source concealed in this report, and "T"' symbols were

utilized only in those instances where identities must

be concealed.

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"Cubana planes must carry enough fuel from Havana

for a round trip flight..

Frequently to do this the

line must lighten its passenger list and load up with

extra gasoline. .... Because of this short payload,

Cubana carried only half of its scheduled passengers

to New York Saturday.

And it had to cancel a flight

to Madrid when the British-Dutch controlled Shell

Oil Company refused to refuel the flight at Bermuda

and Lisbon.

Shell Oil was taken over in Cuba by

CASTRO, along with Esso Standard and Texaco. The

three companies said the Cuban government owes them

nearly seventy million dollars for oil they have im-

ported within the past year..

When they refused to

refine Russian oil, CASTRO seized their Cuban opera-

tions."

On July 8, 1960,

1960, TA FLEE ACTUATEd

LEBLANCOSS

MM T-4,

contacted by ROBERTO CHOMADES*

legal advisor for Cubana Airlines Exon Havana, Cuba 7(5)

According to MM T-4, AMESIGA, notified LEON BLANCO/that 6)

tachment of funds of Cubana

Airlines in Miami upon

orders of a Miani court

According to MM I-, LAMESICA stated to

with a suit filed in Miami, Florida, against the

Republic of Cuba, by the Harris and Company Adver

tising, Incorporated, Miami.

AMESIGA Saccording to

MM I-4, also advised LEON BLANCO] that the funds ofs)

Aerovias

"0" Airlines in Miami banks have also been

attached

MM T-4 added that LEON BLANCO

after being

contacted by lAMESIGA, contacted. RICHARD BERGSTRESSER,

(S

a Miami attorney who has been representing the Republi

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of Cuba in several legal matters.

MM To said he

was able to determine that LEON BIANCO informedS)

BERGSTRESSER that all Cuban planes which will arrive

in the United States will be seized, as well as all

funds of Cuban airlines. MM I-4 said BLANCOJclaimed(5)

to BERGSTRESSER that this action was due to an em-

bargo being placed on the Cuban government by the

United States Government.

On July 8, 1960, FRANK GHIOTTO, Chief

Civil Deputy, Broward County, Florida, Sheriff's

Office, advised that he had

seized a DC-4 aircraft

owned by Aerovias "Q" Airlines at Ft. Lauderdale,

Florida,

as a result of a Writ of Attachment filed

in the Circuit Court of Dade County, Florida. Accord:

ing to GHIOTTO, this Writ was issued under case number

60L2257; was filed on July 7, 1960, by the law firm

Of GUILMARTIN and SCHNIDERMAN, Miami, Florida, on be-

half of the Harris and Company Advertising Incorporated

Miami against the Republic of Cuba, and against any of

FLA

GHIOTTO stated garnishwents have been filed

against each and every bank in Broward County to at-

tach any monies deposited therein by Cuba, its agents

or agencies.

It is to be noted that Aerovias "" Airlines.

and Cubana Airlines are Cuban comercial air carriers

which have been intervened by the Republic of Cuba. |ll

It is also noted that Harris and Company

Advertising, Incorporated, with offices located at

the DuPont Plaza Center, Miami, under date of November

12, 1959, filed with the Registration Section of the

United States Department of Justice a statement regis-

tering as an agent of the Cuban Tourist Commission.

On September 16, 1960, MM I-5, who is ac-

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