Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HAV
To: HQ
Document date: 07/16/1958
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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, JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

6/8/2015

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90136-10013

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

105-70973-2

Released under the John

issassination Records

Collection det of 1992

144 USC 2107 Note!.

Case#:NW 54462 Date:

10-05-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: HAV

TO : HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 07/16/1958

'PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

WILLIAM ALEXANDER MORGAN

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/26/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

MEMO;

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STANDA: FORM NO. 64

Office Memorandum • UNITED STALES GOVERNMENT

TO

Director; FBI (105-70973 ONI

FROM

Legat, Havana (105-395)

SUBJECI:

WILLIAM ALEXANDER MORGAN

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

SECKET

DEGLARS

AND/OR

AELEASE FOR INTORMATION

IN THIS DOCUMENT KP 5-18-98

ReBulet July 2, 1958, and Havana letter June 20, 1958(4)

On July 8, 1958, Lieutenant Roberto Vila (conceal),

investigating agent

for the Cuban Army Military Intelligence

Service,

advised he had received information that the subject had worked as

a bodyguard for the well-known gambling figure, MEYER LANSKY, prior

to joining the insurrectionary forces of the Directorio Revolucionario.

Vila had a photograph contained on a leaflet putoout by the Directorio

Revolucionario, the caption of which indicated that one of the men

in the photograph was the "North American, William Morgan."

Lieutenant

Vila advised that he planned to contact LANSKY personally to verify

this

allegation and obtain all available background on the subject.

)u)

Lieutenant Vila stated he has sent to Santa Clara Province,

who had joined the insurrectionary forces of the Directorio E2

Cubai

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Revolucionario and who was subsequently

and returned to the United states. 00u

states. Ku)

arrested by Cuban authorities

The Havana office of the CIA

submitted a reported dated

July 9, 1958, classified secret on the following subject,

"Rebel

Activities in the Sierra Escambray Area," which contained the

following information which is believed to refer to the subject:

C/Monto Rebel activity has increased considerably in Las villas

in, clashed Province since April 1958.

There are several rebel

bands of from five to twenty men each.

Another grour

ot twenty or thirty rebels is led by an American

who

is believed to be a veteran of the Korean war and

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everienced in guerrilla warfare

n 30 June 195o Richard,wetzler

¿ an American re

¿Cuba.

TEla

eported from Habana F Miamron flight 496 of th

Compania Cubana de Aviacion (Cuban Aviation Company) :

Wetzler was imprisoned for twenty-one days in the

jailoat santa

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Declassity

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Bureau

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DATE OF

Chargi nam

Prior to that time

105- 20223-1803

A: JUL 21 1958

DECLASSIFIED BY 5668 SUAS

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• Havana 100-45

SECE TRE

7/16/58

Sierra Escambray

fighting with the rebels.

He

confessed that there are more than 250 well-armed

rebels fighting in the Sierra Escambray.

rebels operate in groups of ten men each, using

guerrilla warfare tactics.

They fight by day and

rest by night, when they await reports from their

finger

letten a 83

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Field Comments:

1.

A fairly reliable source reported on 25 June 1958

that a rebel force in the Sierra Escambray was successfully

employing guerrilla tactics against a much larger con-

tingent of the Cuban Armed Forces, and, at the same time;

winning the sympathy of the natives in

that area.

The source of Field Comment No. 1 above also

reported the presence of an American war veteran

among the rebels.

One William Alexander Morgan was

identified in the 8 April and 17 May 1958 issues of

or Wetzler may possibly be identical with the American

rebel leader of this and/or the above-mentioned report..

The above has not been disseminated in, the Embassy inasmuch

as information submitted by Lieutenant Vila has not yet been verified

and information submitted by

the CIA is known to be available to all

interested agencies

This office is continuing to follow this matter and the

Bureau will be kept advised of pertinent information. (dU)

Two extra copies of this letter are submitted to the

Bureau for forvarding to the itami office (s

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