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

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CIA HAS NO OSJECTION 7O

DECLASSIPICATION MY

RELEASE OF CIA IMFORMATION

IN THIS DOCUMENT. 5m 9-15-97

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T'olson

Belmont

DeLoach

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Parsons

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Trotter

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ECLASSIFY

SPINACIVE

DADD

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Office of Security

Department

of State

ATI INC

TOUr CONTAINED

John Edgar Hover, Dtrectopuni

"ChAOSIFIED

PIORO LUIS DIAZ LANG

THIERWIS

INTERVAL SUCURITY • CUBA

The subject is the former Cuban Air Force (JK) 1/20/48

officer who recently arrived in the United States

is at the present time testifying before the

Senate Subcommittee on Internal Securityo

On July 15, 1959, a confidential source

who has furnished reliable irformation in the post

advised that one Bill Atwood Uno may be identical

with an employee of look maganine of the some names

conferred with Luis A. Baralt, Consul General of

Tuba New York city.

According to our source, Atwood

dvised Baral that the subject wos hidina in Havano

three days before he contacted the Americans and as a

result of his getting out of cuba, ne

48 now testruin

n order to justify his trio. Atwood bas of ch

opinion that, wnile there is no doubt that there is

communist infiltration taking place

Cuba, to call

Costro a communist

is fantastical 1

advised Atwood that the sunject's hazi

brother,

Sergio Diaz Bru,

is a distant relative of his

and the black sheep of the family. Baralt dointed out

that when he met Sergio Diaz Bru

in Hashinatong Do lo=

and was told by him that his brother, the sarishas

bringina him into the Cuban Air Forces ne

amazed because he knew Sergio. Diaz Bru had been

Wanted AJ!!

JEW: two gur

(21)

SEE NOTE PAGE 30

1959

69 JuLz 1

MOM, 5

MAIL ROOM I

TELETYPE UNITE CONNIEE ZA

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r.?1÷

Hotel.

Office of security

Department of State

by the police in Havana for about fifteen years since

he was involved in e $150,000 swindle concerning a shrimp

deal Barald in referring to the subject's charaoter

pointed out that Sergio Diaz Bru, according to newspaper

accounts, was sitting with the subject

of the move nentioned subcommitter. rog the hearings

Foamas of the opinion that the situation

Cube will not be helped by the subject's testimony

0000 Xs T0 001 T0 103410 08 0011

similar to the subject's testifying arouse Castro and

this gives ammunition to those around him who are trying

co push him in the wrong airection. in commenting that

fortunately people nave not given up in cuba Atwood aquise

Baraltithat the United States imbassador in Cube was very :

good and that the Central Intelligence Agency had advised

him that it is still trying to do something sensible.

In addition, according to Atwood Carlos Frangui, who

may be identical with the editor of the July 26 Movement

newspaper "Revolution" and who once worked for the

conmunist Party publication "Hoy," can be very helpful

The foregoing is furnished for your information

and should not be disseminated outside your agency.

1 - Director.

Central Intelligence Agency

Attention: Deputy Director, Plans

I • Immigration and Naturalization Service

'I - Assistant Chief of staff for Intelligence

Department of the army

Attention: Chief, Security Division

I = Director of Naval Intelligence

- Gro a spectal Investigationg litt

Air Force :

- 2 =

CONZIDINNEA

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COUT IDENTIAT

Office of Security

Department of State

NOTE &

Classified "on toontan since its disclosure

may indicate our

investigationsof. la foreign representative

to the United States, Baralto!

SEGIST

COUT EDEN

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

U. Sy DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Mr. Tolson.

Mr. Belmont.

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

Mr. DeLoach

Mr. MeGuir

105

JUL 15 1959

Mr.

Mohr-

CASIAS NO OBLECTION TO:

Mr. Parsons.

Rosen

Tamm

ALI, INFORMATION CONTATAZI

DECLASSIFICACION AND/OR:/Frote

- HEREIN IS UNCIASSIFIED

PELEASE DE GTA INFORMATIO

EXCEPT WHERE SHOWN

IN THIS DOCUMENT. JAIr. QuEst

SUDIESL

SHAL

10-6197

CLAS

URGENT 7-15-59 4-28 PM JLW

DECLA

DACH

(JEK)

(JFK

TO DIRECTOR 4

FROM SAC

NEW

YORK

4P (foreign Politial Mutter)

PEDRO LUIS DIAZ LANZ, FPM = CUBA.

ON JULY ONE FIVE INSTANT, INY TWO

FOUR NINE FOUR DASH S ASTERISK, ADVISED THAT ONE BILIN ATWOODE etiC

CONTACTED LUIS AY

BARALI, CONSUL GENERAL OF CUBAS NIC,

AND ATTEMPTED TO

ARRANGE A LUNCHEON ENGAGEMENT. (BARALT ADVISED THAT HE WAS HAVING LUNCH

WITH-BOB TABOR /PH/, A NEVSPAPER MAN. CATWOOD STATED THAT HÊ KNEW TABORA

TWOOD THEN STATED QUOTE" I WAS INVOLVED IN THAT DIAZ LANZUTHING TO

SOME EXTENT UNQUOTE. BARALT THEN ASKED IF HE HAD FOUND OUT ANYTHIN

ABOUT INTO WHICH ATWOOD ANSWERED "YES, THIS IS QUITE A THING, HAS

A LÖT BEHIND IT. IN A WAY HE IS SINGING FOR HIS SUPPER. HE WAS

HIDING IN HAVANA FOR THREE DAYS AND CONTACTED THE AMERICANS, I THINK

THE FBI GOT HIM OUT IN A BOAT, AND AS A RESULT I THINK HE IS KIND OF

SINGING FOR HIS SUPPER. I THINK THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THERE IS LSJ

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Let to State

REC- 89

It 2, INSTa05-20430

CLASSIFIED BY 56i8 suo/cer

7-725

+ 53ed

11 JUL 24, 1959

DECLASSTY ON: 25X(X62

SALS

Belmont

- Ex-131

NAT. TNY. SEC.

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COMMUNIST INFILTRATION TAKING PLACE, BUT TO MAKE THESE CHARGES OF

CASTRO BEING A COMMUNIST AND ALL THAT IS JUST FANTASTIC. AND, WHAT HE

IS DOING IS HE IS JUST JUSTIFYING HIS TRIP. AND THERE WAS A LOT OF

SHENANIGANS IN THE AIR FORCE. HE, HIMSELF, WAS CONSIDERABLY INVOLVED

IN NEPOTISM. THE AIR FORCE WAS SITTING DUCKS FOR ANY ATTACK. ".

BARALT THEN ASKED " DO YOU REMEMBER THE STORY I WAS TELLING YOU ABOUT

HIS HALF-BROTHER WHO IS A DISTANT RELATIVE OF MINE... HE IS THE BLACK

SHEEP OF THE FAMILY, AND IS CALLED

SERGIO DIAZ BRU /PHY, AND I MET

HIM IN WASHINGTON AND HE HAD TOLD ME THAT HIS BROTHER, "DIAZ LANZ WAS

BRINGING HIM INTO THE AIR FORCE, IN AN IMPORTANT POSITION THERE.

WHEN I HEARD THAT, I SAID MY GOD, THE AIR FORCE IS GOING TO POT,

BECAUSE THIS GUY, SERGIO DIAZ, COULD NOT EVEN GO TO HAVANA AS HE

WAS WANTED BY THE POLICE FOR ABOUT FIFTEEN YEARS.. NOT FOR POLITICAL

REASONS, BUT BECAUSE HE HAD CHISELED ABOUT ONE FIVE ZERO THOUSAND

DOLLARS IN A SHRIMP DEAL INVOLVING SOME INVESTORS I KNOW.

ASIDE FROM

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THAT, HE HAD MANY OTHER DIRTY DEALS• YESTERDAY I READ IN THE NEWS THAT

SERGIO WAS SITTING IN WITH DIAZ LANZ IN THIS INTERNAL SECURITY HEARING.

SO, YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT KIND OF A CHARACTER... ATWOOD THEN STATED

"I KNOW THE SITUATION THERE IS NOT GOING TO BE HELPED BY THIS TYPE

ÕF THING AND THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN HELP THINGS DOWN THERE IS TO GET

TO FIDEL AND CALM THINGS DOWN, AND THIS CAN BE DONE, BUT WHEN THINGS

LIKE THIS HAPPEN HE FLARES UP AND THIS GIVES AMMUNITION TO THOSE AROUND

HIM, WHO ARE TRYING TO PUSH HIM IN THE WRONG DIRECTION. FORTUNATELY

PEOPLE HAVE NOT GIVEN UP DOWN THERE. OUR AMBASSADOR IS VERY GOOD

AND CIA CALLED ME ABOUT IT AND THEY ARE STILL WORKING TRYING TO DO

SOMETHING SENSIBLE. I HAD A VERY INTERESTING TIME WITH CARLOS FRANQUI

TOO, WHOM I BELIEVE CAN BE VERY HELPFUL". ARALI ASKS IF ATWOOD SAW

DE LA CARRERA /PH/ DOWN THERE 01 TO WHICH ATWOOD REPLIED THAT HE DID

AND HE WENT OUT TÖ HIS HOUSE UNQUOTE. IT WILL BE NOTED THAT THE FILES

OF THE NYO REFLECI THAI ON FEBRUARY SIX ONE NINE FIVE SEVEN, EY ONDESI

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EIVE ONE NINE DASH ASTERISKJADVISED THAT ONE EDWARD WILLIAM STEVENS)

CONTACTED ABILE ATWOODJAT THE OFFICES OF LOOK MAGAZINE FROM MOSCON,

USSR, REGARDING STEVENS PASSPORT. IT WILL BE NOTED THAT THE MAY, OER

ONE NINE FIVE NINE ISSUE OF THE "NEW YORK JOURNAL AMERICAN REFLECTS

THAT CARLOS FRANQUI IS EDITOR OF THE JULY TWENTY-SIXTH MOVEMENT

NEWSPAPER, "REVOLUTION" AND ONCE WORKED FOR THE COMMUNIST PARTY

ORGAN "HOYT.

THE ABOVE IS BEING FURNISHED FOR THE INFORMATION OF

THE BUREAU®

END

WAR NY 4 DM

66--MRO BELMONT

SENSEN

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