Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 01/14/1960
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote) .

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

4/27/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10291-10399

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

CR 105-81895-15

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, MM

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS:

01/14/1960

3

NRO, ASSOC, ACA, SUSP, BOMBING, SUGAR CANE FIELDS,

HAVANA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

08/13/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

v9.1

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Mr. Mohr

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COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

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TO DIRECTOR, FBI AND SACS, MOBILE, NEW ORLEANS, WASHINGTON

FROM SAC, MIAMI

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ROBERTO FERNANDEZ MIRANDA, IS DASH CUBA. ANTI FIDEL CASTRO

ACTIVITIES, IS DASH CUBA• REBUTEL TO MIAMI JAN THIRTEEN

LAST, ENTITLED ANTI FIDEL CASTRO ACTIVITIES. FOR

INFO MOBILE, NEW ORLEANS, LEGAT HAVANA ADVISED TWIN

ENGINE PLANE DROPPED LIVE PHOSPHORUS BOMBS TWO THIRTY

PM, JAN TWELVE LAST WHICH BURNED APPROX. EIGHT HUNDRED TONS

SUGAR CANE LOCATED ABOUT THIRTY MILES OUTSIDE HAVANA. GOVT.

CONTROLLED PRESS CLAIMED PLANE FROM U. S. BUT FURNISHED NO

PROOF• PLANE RED AND GRAY, REPORTEDLY APPEARED FROM NORTH.

ONE NEWSPAPER CLAIMS PHOSPHORUS DROPPED IN CANS BEARING

MARKING QUOTE BRISTOL MARILES UNQUOTE PAREN POSSIBLY BRISTOL

MYERS END PAREN. EMBASSY INEXAZSTED ANY PROOS PLANE CAME

FROM U. S. U. So CUSTOMS, MIAMI, SUSPECTS FIGHT MABE JAN.

TWELVE UNDER DIRECTION CUBAN EXILES RESIDING BITTORE TERRACE

HOTEL, MIAMI BEACH, FLA. HOTEL OWNED BY ROBERT FERNANDEZ

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MIRANDA, BROTHER IN LAW OF FORMER CUBAN PRESIDENT BATISTA.

CUSTOMS BELIEVES ARRANGEMENTS MADE BY NORMAN ROTHMAN, MIAMI

BEACH HOODLUM, CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH BILTMORE TERRACE GROUP.

| ASTOMS HAS NO INFO RE IDENTITY PLANE OR PILOT. ON JAN

THIRTEEN LAST VINCENT JOY HANARD, REGISTERED AGENT FOR CUBAN

GOVT., WHO HAS FURNISHED SOME RELIABLE INFO IN PAST AND IS

IN POSITION TO KNOW, ADVISED RELIABLE SOURCE TOLD HIM PLANE

FLOWN JAN TWELVE WAS TWIN ENGINE BEECHCRAFT, SN N THREE EIGHT

Z, RENTED FROM LIBERTY AVIATION CO., MIAMI, IN NAME BERNARD

JAFFEE, HANARD CLAIMED PLANE LEFT MIAMI ELEVEN A. MO JAN

ELEVEN, FLEW TO MERIDA, YUCATAN, MEXICO, THEN TO CONSUMER

PAREN PH END PAREN ISLAND, MEXICO, THEN FLEW TO CUBA, DROPPED

BOMBS, RETURNED MIAMI ELEVEN AM, JAN THIRTEEN. ON JAN.

THIRTEEN PCI ROY-KATON, ARMS DEALER INVOLVED IN CUBAN REVOLU-

TIONARY ACTIVITIES, SAID CHARLES WILLIAM HORMEL, NOTORJOUS

ARMS SMUGGLER AND PILOT, SAID ROBERTO FERNANDEZ MIRANDA CONTACTED

HIM TO FLY MEN AND MUNITIONS FROM NEW ORLANS AND/OR MOBILE

TO UNDESIGNATED SPOT IN MEXICO. HORMEL SAID FERNANDEZ

MIRANDA-S GROUP HAS MACHINE GUNS, PHOSPHORUS AND DYNAMITE

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IN NEW ORLEANS AND MOBILE AND ARE FLYING IT TO MEXICO IN

B TWO FIVE AIRPLANES. PHOSPHORUS AND DYNAMITE TO BE USED

TO BLOW UP AND BURN SUGAR CANE FIELDS AND REFINERIES IN

CUBA. HORMEL TOLD KATON THAT ON JAN ELEVEN LAST TWO

PLANE LOADS OF GUNS FLOWN OUT OF U. SO AND OVER PAST SEVERAL

WEEKS ABOUT NINE HUNDRED MEN HAVE BEEN FLOWN TO SECRET

ENCAMPMENT IN MEXICO WHERE BATISTA GROUP REPORTEDLY FORMING

INVASION FORCE. HORMEL SAID HE TURNED DOWN MIRANDA-S OFFER

AND THAT MONEY ARRANGEMENTS TO BE HANDLED BY NORMAN ROTHMAN.

WHO OBTAINS MONEY FROM MRS. FULGENCIO BATISTA, RESIDING

DAYTONA BEACH, FLA• MOBILE AND NEW ORLEANS ADVISE U. S.

CUSTOMS AND BORDER PATROL LOCALLY, INASMUCH AS THESE VIOLATIONS

UNDER THEIR JURISDICTION. MIAMI WILL ATTEMPT TO DEVELOP

FURTHER DETAILS AND NOTIFY BUREAU. TEPATHETEHOUSE, PILOT (

AND FORMER HEAD OF CUBAN CAA, RESIDING BI LTMORE TERRACE

HOTEL, CLOSELY CONNECTED WITH ROTHMAN, ADVISED TODAY HE DOUBTED

FLIGHT ON JAN TWELVE WAS MADE FROM U. SO U. SO BORDER PATROL

OF SAME OPINION. WASHINGTON FIELD CHECK FAA FOR OWNERSHIP

TWIN ENGINE BEECHCRAFT, SN N THREE EIGHT Z. LIBERTY AVIATION

DISCLAIMS ANY KNOWLEDGE THIS PLANE.

WA RELAY TO WO

END ACK PLS IN ORDER

WA 5-10 PM OK FBI WA RAM FOR RELAY

NO OK FBI MO ES

NO OK FBI NO LRC

CO- MR. BELMONT

TU DISC

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