Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 01/11/1961
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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124-10291-10148

2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK Assassination System

Date:

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5/11/201

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FBI

124-10291-10148

HQ

105-72630-2ND NR 77

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TITLE:

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SAC, MM

DIRECTOR, FBI

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01/11/1961

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DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFCATION :

Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1A

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/03/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA

COMMENTS :

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FROM

SAC, MIAMI

Pedro DiAz LAnz

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CLIP.

MIAMI HERALD NEWSPAPER, MIAMI, FLORIDA, JANUARY 115

CARRIED FRONT PAGE ARTIOLE ENTITLED "HOW MIAMI'S ÁNTI-CASTRO

AIRLIFT WORKS-SECRET PLANES ON DEADLY MEISSIONS."S

ARTICLE

DESCRIBED USE OF OPA LOCKA AIRFIELD AND AN ABANDONED AIRSTRIP

NEAR CLEWISTON, FLORIDA, BY UNMARKED, UNLIGHTED PLANES, "AND

INQUIRED WHETHER THIS WAS

"THE MIAMI

LINK TO A MANY FACETED

OPERATION REPORTED FOR MONTHS: IN THE CITY'S CUBAN COLONY AN

AIRBORNE MOVEMENT OF ANTI-CASTRO PATRIOTS TO A GUATEMALANE:

TRAINING CENTER?" ARTICLE CONTINUED THAT IT. IS THESE INCIDENTS

AND REPORTS THAT THE CASTRO ORGAN, REVOLUCION, TIED TOGETHER

TUESDAY IN CHARGING ALL WERE PART

OF. A GROWING US BACKED CON

SPIRACY TO OVERTHROW THE CASTAO GOVERNMENT..

ARTICLE CONTINUED

THAT THE CASTRO ORGAN, REVOLUCION; QUOTING FROM THE NATION MAGA-S

ZINE, CHARGED THE US CIA IS FINANCING THE OPERATION WITHOUT THE

KNOWLEDGE OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT. AND THAT THE NEW YORK TIMES

ALSO PUBLISHED A STORY TUESDAY MORNING UNDER THE HEADLINE "US

HELPS TRAIN ANTI-CASTRO FORCES AT SECRET GUATEMALAN AIR GROUND

LEASE, E HERALO STORY CARES A SEE HERONIO THAT MUSLION ON.

WAS HELD TRU BY HERALD FOR MORE THAN TWO MONTHS AND THAT ITS

RELEASE WAS DECIDED UPON ONLY AFTER.US.AID. OF ANTI-CASTRO

FIGHTERS IN GUATEMALA WAS FIRST REVEALED. ELSEWHERE. ON AFTERNOON

OF JANUARY 11, NAMES BUCHANAN, REPORTER, HOLLYWOOD, FLOBIDA

SUN TATTLER,

AN AFTERNOON FIVE DAY A WEEK NEWSPAPER, CONTACTED

SA

DENNIS JO DISHEA AT THE FORT LAUDERDALE RESIDENT AGENCY:

AND

INFORMED HE WAS CONTACTING. ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES TO DETERMING

10522630-

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201 JAN 79 1961

DABR

DECLASSIFY ON:

JFK)

730S

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58 JAN 2 5 1961

If the intelligence contained in the above message is to bedstem

paraphrased in order lo protect the Bureau's cryptographic syst

de the Bureau, its su

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AnAl (Rov. 1-11-o0)

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COPY

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Parsons --

Belmont

Callahan

DeLoach

Radio

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Telefyee

MeGulre -

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Tomm

Trotter

W.C. Sullivan

PAGE 2 FROM MIAMI

Tele. Room

120045

Tngram .

Gandy

THE PRESENT ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE CUBAN CONSTITUTIONAL CRUSADE, (6CC)

BUFILE 105-34768, IN VIEW OF THE REVELATIONS

MADE BY THE MIAMI

HERALDA NO COMMENT WAS MADE.

BUCHANAN. THEN ADVISED THAT

ON

JANUARY 9, LAST, AFTER AGREEING NOT TO RELEASE ANY INFORMATION

UNTIL AUTHORIZED, HE HAD BEEN INVITED. TO ATTEND A MEETING IN

MIAMI OF, THE CCC. REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MIAMI NEWS, CBS, AND

NBC, WERE ALSO PRESENT.

HE LEARNED THE CCC INTENDS TO OPEN

OFFICES IN MIAMI, NEW YORK, AND POSSIBLY FORT. LAUDERDALE, AND

ITO RECRUIT IN THESE AREAS.

IN ORDER TO DO SO, THE ORGANIZATION

WILL NEED FAVORABLE PUBLICITY, FOR WHICH REASON THE PRESS WAS

INVITED• HE DECLINED TO FURNISH THE PLACE OF THIS MEETING HE

SAID: 11 PERSONS WERE PRESENT, INCLUDING PEDRO DIAZ ANZ, THE

PRESIDENT OF THE CCC. ONE OF THE SPEAKERS WAS FRANK FIORINI,

ASSISTANT OF DIAZ LANZO THE GROUP'S AIVS, WHICH IT DESIRED TO

PUBLICIZE, WERE TO REINSTATE THE CUBAN CONSTITUTION OF 1940,

AND TO HOLD FREE ELECTIONS:

IT WAS STATED THE GROUP INTENDED

TO RECRUIT PEOPLE FOR TRAINING IN GUERILLA WARFARE AND TRANSPORT

THEM TO CUBA FOR THIS PURPOSE. IT WAS STATED ARRANGEMENTS HAD

BEEN MADE WITH

A RANCHER IN BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, TO USE MIS

ISOLATED FARM AS A TRAINING GROUND. IT WAS CLAIMED THEY HAVE

THE FULL ENDORSEMENT OF ALLEN DULLES AND CIA: BUCHANAN: ADVISED

THAT IN VIEW OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE HERALD STORY, ABOVE MEN.

TIONED, HE INTENDED TO RELEASE A STORY ALONG THE SAME LINES IN

THE HOLLYWOOD SUN TATTLER ON JANUARY 12. IN: VIEW OF THE FACT

THAT: PEDRO DIAZ LANZ IS NOW UNDERSTOOD TO BE A MEMBER OF THE

FRENTE REVOLUCIONARIO DEMOCRATICO, A CLIP ORGNIZATION, CROBERT

HOPKINS, ICIA REPRESENTATIVE AT MIAMI, NOTIFIED OF THE ABOVE MISJ

LETTERHEAD MEMO FOLLOWS.

RECEIVED:

11:13 PM TELETYPE

11:15 PM CODING UNIT

RN

If the intelligence contaireil in the above message is to be dissertinatoc on tra lhe Bureau, in is suggested that it be suitably

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

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