Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HQ
Document date: 03/29/1963
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

Identification Form

Date:

4/29/201

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90107-10305

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

105-117222-NR

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: HQ

TO:

TITLE :

DATE: 03/29/1963

PAGES:

4

SUBJECTS :

COMANDOS LIBRES 66

JOHN THOMAS DUNKIN

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

Consulted

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 08/03/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF USCG

COMMENTS :

MEMO, REFERRED TO USCG

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Colleötion Act of 1992 (41 USC 2107 Note).

DATE: 41-11-2017

SECRET

ANTI-CASTRO ACTIVITIES

1963,

raid against the Soviet ship

off Cuba wos conducted

The harch coy live nonbors of 1-66 under ine

leadership of Antonio Cuesta del Valle with Ramon Font Saunel

as second in cormand. The raid reportedly was accomplished

with the use or a 25 root Sibergas boat powered by twin 210

norsepower chrysler engines capable of a specd of 55 miles

per hour.

Reportedly, amament on the boat includeda

caliber light machine gun, a 22 millimeter antitank rifle,

various detonation devices, and

powered by a seven and one half horsepower outboard motor

& honemade torpodo which tasyn CAla

The boat was loaded with firty pounds of explosives. l

On barch 27, 1903, a

at Miami advised that

on March 24

the Coast Guard had

observed the fifty foot yacht "Ailsan" at an unnamed island

located between Anguila

Cay and Donosk key in the cay sal troup,

arter sooney miles a cabarel sound die jacieo

some Cuban in appearance, were observed on

On March 21

1963, Lucia reinandez,

wife of Santiago

Juan Antonio Alvarez Rodriguez,

advised our Miami Dirice that

her husband had departed from the United States about fifteen

days previously on his yacht the

"Alisan" en route to Anguila Cay.

She said that she expected his

retur to the United States some

time this week.

Fernandez denied any knowledge that her

husband

vas connected with the group I-oo or its leaders.

A source who has fumished

reliable information in

the past has advised that the "Alisan" has on nunerous occasions

cuba,

operating from the Cay Sal Bank in the

Bahamas

March 28, 1965,

our Miami Office interviewed

Antonio

• Perez Quesada

who clainca to have piloted meniers of

the L-oo group from the area to a locacion in the Bahama Islands

from where the attack on the Soviet vessel was launched.

Perez,

who entered the United States in January, 1261, as a refugee from

Caibarten, Cuba, and who is thoroughly familiar with the coastal

advised that he was recently recruited

to 8 107a Danato cuba by Anionio Cuesta as the Commandos L-66.

1963g

he piloted a 22- or 23-100t

Aliami Beach to a location about one mile from Cat cay in tie

Para 2 does not anant classincation

per DOT USCE letter 3/8/8201

SP-I GSK/RB6

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