Originator: FBI
From: HQ
To: DL
Document date: 06/25/1976
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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124-10370-10016

2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK Assassination System

Date:

Identification Form

Agency Information

4/15/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10370-10016

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 62-117290-ADMIN FOLDER-G6

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

HQ

TO : DL

TITLE:

DATE: 06/25/1976

'PAGES:

350

SUBJECTS :

HSCA ADMINISTRATIVE FOLDER, ASSASSINATION

MATTERS VOLUME VI

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1A; 1B; 1C; 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 03/11/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF CIA

COMMENTS :

INC FOLDER, NEWS RELEASE, NEWS ARTICLE, MEMO, TTY, LAB RPT, LAT RPT, A/T,

LHM, LET, R/S, S/S, FD-302, EXHIBIT, ADDENDUM, PRESS RELEASE, INSERT, NOTE

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DECLASSIEICATION ALTECEITE DEBIJED ERDI:

FBI AUTOMATIC DECLASSIEICATIEN CUIDE

DATE 00-16-2023

BY: 304493142

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ILONA MARITA LORENZ, AKA

INTERNAL SECURITY • CUBA

TO

PURPOSE:

The purpose of this memorandum de to advise you of

information in FBI files concerning the subject, who according

to recent newspaper articles (copius attached), pubiiely

pamitted to being involved in 2 CIA plot in 1900 to

assassinate Cuban Promier Fidel Castro. The newspaper articles

indicated that she was interviewed during that period by the FBI.

SYNOPSIS:

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The subject, according to recent newspaper accounts,

alleged to have been involved in a 1960 CIA plot to

assassinate Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, According to the

newspaper accounts she was in contact with Alex Rorke allegedly

a CLA

and FBI employce and a fran!: Florini allegedly a CIA

employee.

During contact with the New York Office in 1959 and

1960, the subject admitted being the lover of Castro and having

an abortion as a result. She never advised the IBI of alleged

involvement in the above plot nor was she ever directed to

perform any tasks on behalf of the TBI.

The subject's husband is a New York Informative asset

In the soviet bloe field. The subject, who is separated from

her husband, vas briefly dider development as a criminal informant

Irom April to June 11, 1976; the case is closed.

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CONFIDENTIALA

Memorandum to Mr. T. W. Leavitt

Re: Ilona Marita Lorenz

The attached newspaper stories alleged that "Alex

Rorke, a wealthy adventurer who worked for both CIA and the

FBI" was involved with Frank Fiorini, a "CIA Agenty who recruited

the subject in an assassination plot

against Castro.

Alexander I. Rorke is a former FBI clerical employee who, during

• the time of the alleged plot in 1960, was a free lunce

photographer. He had been temporarily detained by the Cuban

Government in 1959 and for many years was active in anti-Castro

activities in the Florida area.

From time to time he contacted

the FBI and was dealt with at

arms length because of his

adventurer, personality and self-serving motives. He disappeared

on a plane flight in 1963 to Central America.

Frank Fiorini

also known as Frank Anthony Sturgis was well known to the FBI

for his anti-Castro activities in the U. S. following his:

defection from Cuba in 1958. He was also one of

the Watergate

break-in subjects.

Additional information in FBI files indicates that the

subject also furnished information concerning the July 26th

Movement in the U. S. This group was the original political and

military organization which Castro used to overthrow the Batista

Regime in Cuba.

The subject was also interviewed in 1962 in

Florida regarding a White Slavery Traffic Act (WSTA) case and

admitted being the mistress of Marcos Perez Jimenez, former

President of Venezuela, who fathered her daughter.

Investigation

failed to establish the subject was.

a victim in the above mentioned

WSTA case.

The subject is the present wife of NY 7511-IA who

furnishes

information on

Soviet and Soviet bloc matters. She

aware of her husbands cooperation with the New York office and

has, on occasion, volunteered information of value.

The subject"

is presently separated from her husband and in April, 1976, the

New York Office opened a potential criminal informant file on her

because of her contacts with a New York 'area crime figure,

Guiseppe Faggiano and a race horse trainer.

She furnished

information regarding gambling, shylocking and bank robbery matters.

However,

because of

the recent publicity set out in the attached

newspaper clippings, the fact that she is planning to write a book

concerning her Cuban experiences and the fact that she terminated

her contact with criminal elements, her case was closed by the.

New York Office.

CONF FDENTIAE

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DECLASSIEICATION ALTECEITE DEBIJED ERDI:

FBI AUTOMATIC DECLASSIEICATIEN CUIDE

DATE 00-16-2023

BY: 3043/98142

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Denver, Colorado

January 28, 1976

BICE

RETOLUTION

RICAN

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

FED BY: 56L8 Scolgel

DEGLASS ISATION AND/OR,

RESCROL Or GIA INFORMAHON

IN THIS DOCUMENT. JM 2/32/99

3/8/99

RICHARD. N. ELY

AS SANITIZED

On January 16, 1976, the captioned individual tele-

phonically contacted the Denver Office of the Federal Bureau

of Investigation and spoke with Assistant Special Agent in

Charge Simon Tullai.

He referred to a letter dated January 13,

1976, from the Director of the FBI, Clarence M. Kelley, which

herreceived concerning Mr. Ely's Privacy Act request.

Mr.

Ely appreciated the response of the FBI, but felt he was now

under surveillance by either the FBI or the CIA. He requested

& personal daterview..

On January 22, 1976, Richard N. Ely was interviewed

in the Denver Office of

the fbi by special Agent Dale A. Berndt.

Mr. Ely advised he is investment advisor to D. H. Baldwin

Company, Colorado National Bank Building, Denver, Colorado

(Lucian

Walson, President). Mr. Ily lives in Lakewood, Colo-

rado, and maintains an office at Brooks lowers, Suite 37-K,

Denver, Colorado. He stated he is married and lives with his

wife.

Mr. Ely wished to explain his concern over being

surveilled and felt it was thework of the CIA.

When asked

what would prompt such surveillance, he stated that previously

he had been self-employed in an auto safety device firn.

Having had difficulties with patent infringements on his

devices in Europe, he had occasion to travel to Sweden and

Switzerland®

During 1961, Ely was in Sweden and as he was

having marital difficulties with his first wife, entered into

an affair with a Swedish citizen, Helena Johnson. Miss Johnson

was an agent for various art firms.

At one point in their

affair, Johnson urged Ely to purchase a moose hunting license

and a Swedish war surplus rifle fitted with a Zeiss scope so

that he could bag a moose and sell it for about $700. Sensing

something was amiss, Ely returned the rifle to Johnson and

While going with Miss Johnson he

learned she was a member of the Baltic League, a violently

anti-Russian organization.

After their split, he learned she

was also a member of the Swedish intelligence services.

He,

therefore, suspected he was being set up as a "patsy" for an

This document contains neither

recommendations nor conclusions of

the FDI

It is the

10293EY of

1t and its ocatents cro not to be

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RICHARD N. ELY

assassination attempt which would have taken place in Sweden

when Premier Khrushchey came there to speak to the Swedish

Reichstag, subsequent to the death of United Nations Secretary

General Dag Hammerskjold.

Additionally, Ely claimed to know the identity of

a man described in a recent book relating to the assassination

of President Kennedy, who was supposed to be a hired killer

for the CIA named "Saul."

When Ely's Privacy Act requests of

the CIA failod to produce information to him, he sent a letter

¿o the CIA, United Statos Departmont of State, Department of

State Consular Service, and the Church Committee which indi-

cated he would toll all he know of the CIA unless they revealed

to him all they have on record concerning him.

This letter

seemed to result in the surveillances he suspects are directed

at him, and as a result he has consulted various lawyers, police

officials, and his employers for aid in determining what

wai1

stop the suspected survoillances.

Ho indicated his offico has

been broken into and his mail has boen tempered with.

Mr. Ely roquested the Denver Division of the

• FBI

roceived a personal letter from Senaton Church of the Church

Committee assuring hin his case would be heard subsequent to

the Committee's termination on February 21, 1976. Mr. Ely

advised he would furnish nothing to the Church Committee now

unlass obliged to by it.

During the interview,

Mr. Ely appeared calm, articulate,

educated, and sober.

He indicated his IQ was in excess of 160

and he had graduated from three different colleges.

He was well

dressed and business-like.

On January 23, 1976, Special Agent in Charge James

Sonnerville, CIA, Denver, Colorado,

advised his office

has no

record idontifiable with Mr. Ely. (S)U)

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