Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 11/7/64
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/11/201

AGENCY :

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10294-10126

RECORD SERIES:

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

HQ

105-72630-1ST NR 118

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Cased •NIl 54460 Date:

10-03-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SAC, MM

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 11/07/1964

'PAGES:

15

SUBJECTS :

PDL, MDL, EMP, RES, MINUTEMEN, ASSOC, WEAPONS,

INSURRECTION

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/04/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INC MEMO, LHM, NOTE

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OPTIONAL FOIM NO. 10

MAY 1002 EDITION

GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memoranuum

SEXE

TO

DIRECTOR, FBI (62-107261)

DATE:

NOV 1 7 1964

AIT, INE

TSATTON CONTAINED

FROM

SAC, MIAMI (105-4921) (P)

SIE SHOWN

OTHERWE

SUBJECT

"MINUTEMEN"

INFORMATION CONCERNING

(INTERNAL SECURITY)

placsce+1 100-72630

(P. 0. 600)

100-8005@Mi0.cowk

deSR

ReButel 11/4/64 and Miami tel to Bureau 11/7/64.

Enclosed are 13 copies of a letterhead memorandum

dated and captioned as above.

An extra copy is being pro-

vided to, the Bureaufor Secret Service, Washington, D. C.

Copies are being disseminated locally to CIA, U.

S. Secret

Service, ONI, G-2, OSI, Office of Cuban Affairs, State

Department,

and INs.

CLASSEIET BY 5668 SiD/GaL

MM I-I is [CIA, Miami.

DECLAOU

JFKS 48197

MM T-2 is MM S35-S.

For the information of the Bureau and Oklanoma

City, the following is submitted.

On November 2, 5 and 6, 1964,

MiX!

635-S,

been a long-time friend

of both MARCOS and

¿ Venezuelan employee of Ransa Air-

who resides in Miamil had requested Mil 635-s to place

him in touch with some arns dealer who could supply some

supporters of former Venezuelan President PEREZ JIMENEZ with

Tv duced CAB

Consequently, on October 29, 1964, Mu 635-S intro-

duced CABRERA to MARCOS DIAZ LANZ, who had previously dis-

closed to MM 635-S that he could supply weapons from outside(4)

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MM. 105-4921

of the Miami area.

When MM 65.5-S introduced CABRERA to

• the latter told CABRERA that his name was

GARCIA. The CIA source knew DIAZ LANZ aS PEDRO GARCIA.

Its memorandum of 11/4/64, stated that ClA had

DIAZ, in the presence of MM 635-s,

told CABRERA

he could supply weapons and CABRERA expressed interest in

making a sizeable purchase, indicating that he wanted to

furnish them to some political followers of former

Venezuelan President PEREZ JIMENEZ, who is now in prison

in Venezuela.

Informant said that during this meeting,

DIAZ expressed the opinion that if "LBJ" became President,

the United States would go communist and he remarked that

there existed some secret organizations, such as the

"Minutemen," who would fight to the end and that in his

opinion,

there could be a military coup.

DIAZ mentioned

some place, not in Florida, where the "Minutemen" are

reportedly organized.

At no time, however, äid DIAZ state

that he is a member

'of the "Minutemen" or that he had sold

arms to them.

Also, DIAZ did not say that the "Minutemen'

plan

an armed

insurrection against the United States Govern-

ment. He claimed, however, that his brother, PEDRO, had

some

connections with groups of this sort but did not

specifically mention the "Minutemen."

Also, he did not

claim the existence of any "Minutemen" military camps in

Florida.(ul

M I-las of the opinion that DIAZ probably had

subsequent meetings with CABRERA but informant does not

i anything, transpired during these meetings * Ju,

Miami,

"On November 3, 1964 Mr. JOE VIDAL, CIA ILAZSOn,

telephonically inquired

concerning background infor-

mation on MM 635-S, under his true name, and requested

identity of the Cuban who had been arrested with him ir

Since it was known that MARCOS DIAZ LANZ

had

been arrested with informant during that period LCIA,

was furnished with the name of MARCOS DIAZ LANZ

ground information on informant, without disclosing his

elatiönship with this office.

gIA's source is undoubtedly EFRAIN LORENZO CABRERA

It therefore appeario au)

known to this office but not regarded as being completely

reliable. He has been contacted concerning FALN activities

in Venezuela.

He is a former chauffeur and bodyguard to

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MM 105-4921

On Novembe

5, 1964, Miami contacted RAY DIBOIS

CIA, Covert, Miamitath order to interview CIA source Pursiant

to Bureau instructions. DUBOIS felt that interview of their

source by the FBI at this time would compromise that source

relative to another facet of importance to CIA, Miami. He

indicated that this additional facet related to an arms

transaction involving Venezuela, This office did not insist l6]

view of the vulnerable

pon interviewing their source led that only three indi-

position of MM 635-5, it being

viduals were present during the first conterence between

MARCOS DIAZ, CABRIRA and Miami informant. Mr. DUBOIS agreed

when the suggestion was made that interview of MARCOS DIAZ

by the IBI based upon the newspaper article mentioned in the

enclosed letterhead agorandun would not jeopardize CIA

This memorandum is classified "Secret" because it

contains information which was so classiized by cla. R

- LEAD -

OKLAHOMA CITY

AT TULSA, OKLAHOMA

Will locate and interview PEDRO LUIS DIAZ LANZ,

5437 North Johnstown Avenue, who is now a full-time lecturer

concerning any knowledge he may

possess relative to the "Minutemen" and any preparations of

that organization for an armed insurrection in the event of

President JOHNSON's election; also, concerning the extetence

of any military training camps or organizations of that

group in Florida or elsewhere. (V)

It is to be noted that PEDRO LUIS DIAZ LANZ has

been the subject of investigation by the Miami Office since

1959 relative to his anti-CASTRO revolutionary activities.

He has also cooperated with this office on many occasions

and is personally known to SA GEORGE E. DAVIS, JR., who

interviewed his brother, MARCOS, in this matter.

informant has reported

in the past that PEDRO DIAZ has

attended some meetings of the John Birch Society in the (4)

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OAIRGRAM

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSIE

DECODE

D

COPY RELEASE UP CIA VERMATION

IN THIS DOCUMENT MKH

Sullivan

1.02-6-98

• CABLEGRAM

RADIO

XX TELETYPE

Tele. Room

Helmes

Girdy

ACIVA

11p to

4: 02 AN EST URGENT 11:7-64 PUR

TO DIRECTOR

FROM

MIAMI

060200 CLASSITED BV/546& Sto/GeL

DECLASSIFY

25.

07KS 418197

MINUTEMEN, INFO CONCERNING

INTERNAL SECURITY

'ON:

ALL INFOR

HEREIN

EXCURT

HLIA

OTHERWAS

REBUTEL NOVEMBER 4, 196L.

ON 'NOVEMBER 2, 5 AND 6, MM. 635-S, WHO HAS BEEN. LONG

TIME FRIEND OF MARCOS DIAZ

OWZ, BROTHER OF FORMER QUEAN AIR

FORCE MAJOR PEDRO LUIS DIA:

_ANZ, BOTH EXILEO IN U.S93 AD

VISED AS FOLLOWS:

EFRA

CHERERA

FRAN VENEZUELIN EMPLOYEE OF

RANSA AIRLINE WHO

RESIDES MIAMI,

REQUESTED FORMAN? TO PUT

HIM IN TOUCH WITH SOME ARMS DEALER WHO COULD SUPPLY SOME

SUPPORTERS

OF FORMER VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT PEREZ JIMENGZ,

ON OCTOBER 232 INFORMANT INTRODUCED CABRERA TO MARCOS DIAZ

LANZ WHO TOLO CABRERA HIS NAME WAS GARCIA, DIAZ :: PRESENCE

MM: 635-3 CLAIMED TO CABRERA HE COULO SUPPLY WEAPONG

CABRERA EXPRESSED INTEREST IN MAKING PURCHASE DURING THIS

MEETS: DIAZ ALSO EXPRESSEO THE OPINION TO OUT: TRA THAT IF

"LBU'" BECAME PRESIDENT, U.S. WOULD GO COMMUN::• D::" ALSO

REMARKEO THERE EXISTED SOME SECRET ORGANIZATION SUCH AS

"MINUTEMEN" WHICH WOULD FIGHT TO THE END. - THAT ITS MENDERS

HAD BEEN RECEIVING TRAINING, AND THAT IN. HIS OPINION THERE

SHOULD BE A MILITARY CORPS.

DIAZ MENTIONED SOME PLACES NOT

IN FLORIDA WHERE THE MINUTEMEN ARE REPORTEDLY ORGANIZED.

DIAZ DID NOT STATE,

HOWEVER, THAT HE IS MEMBER OF MINUTEMEN

NOR.

TIAT HE HAD SOLD ARMS TO THEM. DIAZ DID NOT STATE THAT

THE MINUTEMEN PLAN AN ARMED INSURRECTION AGAINST U.S. GOVER!

MENT. DIAZ CLAIMED THAT HIS DROTHER PEORG

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SELSY

1105-12630-

NOT: DECORDED

1/201 NOV 2Ö 1964

4 NOV

271

Stage ED BY 50l0. 220/552

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(JFK)

I¡ the intelligence contained in the aboue messuge is to be disseminated ouside the tsuuau, it is suggésted that it be suitauls

paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau's cryptographic systems.

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• AIRCRAM O CABLEGRAM

RADIO

XX TELETYPE

PAGE TWO

MIAMI

060200

WITH GROUPS OF THIS SORT. DIAZ DID NOT MENTION ANY MINUTE-

- MEN MILITARY CAMPS IN FLORIDA, INFORMANT BELIEVES THAT DIAZ

HAS HAD SUBSEQUENT MEETINGS WITH CABRERA, BUT HE DOES NOT

I KNOW RESULTS OF SAME

ON NOVEMBER 3, JOE VIDAL, CIA LIAISON, MIAMI

TELEPHON-

ICALLY, INQUIRED RE BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON MIM 635-3 UNDER

HIS TRUE NAME AND IDENTITY OF CUBAN

WHOM HE WAS ARRESTEO

IN MID 19509S. THIS OFFIOS GAVE LO!

NANCE OF MARCOS WHO

WAS ARRESTED WITH MM 635-3 IN 1950'S..

IT THEF

113 M

APPEARS

THAT CIA'S "UNTESTED SOURCE" IS EFRAIN CABRERA

IS KNOWN

I TO THIS OFFICE, BUT NOT REGARDED AS COMPLETELY REL: ABLE LOST

MIAMI RECEIVEDCCIA MEMO LOCALLY DATED NOVENDER 1I EN-

TITLED "PLANNED INSURRECTION OF MINUTEMEN IN FLOR CA AREA.

ON NOVEMBER 5, MIAM

IDENTITY CIA SOURCE

STRUCTIONES

DUBOIS FELT THAT INTERVIEW OF CIA SOURDE EY

FBI AT THIS TIME WOULD COMPROMISE

THAT

ANOTHER FACET OF IMPORTANCE TO CIALS

2(4) PEE CELATO MOTO

INSIST IN VIEW OF VULNERAGLE POSITION OF

NEd 655.3. CIA

AGREED THAT INTERVIEW OF MARCOS DIAZ BY FBI

BASED UPON AN

ARTICLE ENTITLED "MINUTEMEN URGE SOCIETY TO GET OUNS

BIRCHERS DISOWN TO ARMS TRACT," WHICH APPEARED NOV ELBER 5

IN MIAMI HERALD, WOULD NOT JEOPARDIZE CIA SOURCE, AS PRORO

DIAOH SOCIETIES WE OFFICE TO HAVE ASSOGIATION WITH SHIN

ON NOVEMBER

6

MARCOS LIAZ LANZ WAS INTERVIEWED AT HIS

RESIDENCE UPON THIS PREDICATION, AFTER MARCOS MAG ADVISED

Tolson -

Belmont -

Mohr

DeLoach -

Casper —

Callahon -

toons.

Gale -

Rosen

Sullivon -

Tovel

Trotter -

Tele, Room

Holmen u

Gandy

SELINE

If the intelligence contained in the above message is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably.

paragraced in order to protect the Bureau's cryplographic systems.

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Tolson

Beimont

Mohir -

Del.ouch -

Coppor

Callahan -

Conrad

Evons.

Gale

Rosen

Sullivan

Tovel

Troller

Tele. Room

Holmes

Gundy

DECOD

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DAIRCRAM • CABLEGRAM O RADIO

*X TELETYPE

PAGE THREE

MIAM

060200

THAT HIS BROTHER PEDRO HAS MOVED TO TULSA, OKLAHOMA WHERE

HE IS WORKING FULL TIME FOR THE CHRISTIAN CRUSADE.

MARCOS ADVISED THAT NEITHER HE NOR PEDRO ARE OR EVER

HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF MINUTEMEN. HE DISCLAIMED ANY PERSONAL

KNOWLEDGE OF ANY MINUTEMEN GROUPS IN MIAMI OR ELSEWHERE IN

FLORIDA OR ANY OTHER SPECIFIO PLACE. HE CLAIMED HIS KNOWLEDGE

OF MINUTEMEN IS BASED UPON NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES

WHICH HAVE RELATED THAT THE MINUTEVEN ARE TRAINING WITH

WEAPONS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE U.S* MARCOR ALSO SAW A

TELEVISION PROGRAM LAST WEEK WHICH RELATED TO THE DOWNFALL

OF AN ORGANIZATION SIMILAR TO THE MINUTEMEN. HE FELT THIS

PROGRAM WAS AN ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT ANY ORGANIZATION WHICH

OPPRESSES SOCIALISM. MARCOS SAID HE IS NOT ACOUAINTED WITH

ANY MINUTEMEN AND KNOWS OF NO PLANS FOR AN ARMED INSURRECTION.

• HE EXPRESSED HIMSELF AS FAVORING MORE AGGRESSIVE ACTION

AGAINST CONZUNISM AND THE CASTRO REGIME.

MARCOS ADVISED THAT HE IS NOW A SUAESMAN OF CROP DUSTING

PLANES AND REPRESENTS

SIMCO, INGeS OF AFTON, WYOMING, WHICH

MANUFACTURES SAME.

MIAM! SUGGESTS THAT BUREAU NOT DISSEMINATE ABOVE INFOR

MATION UNTIL RECEIPT MIAM! LHM AS MM 635-3 I'S IN VULNERABLE

POSITION'

LHM FOLLOWS.

RECEIVED: 5:21AM DWM

C-MA. SULLIVAN

If the intelligence contained in the above message is to be disseminated outside the Burecs, it is suggesied that it be suitably

paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau's cryplographic systems.

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