Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: STEVENS, WILLIAM W.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 10/24/1962
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

FBI

124-10279-10074

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 105-114959-9

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

STEVENS, WILLIAM W.

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 10/24/1962

PAGES:

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SUBJECTS :

CC, PLOT, ASSA, CHIARI, ROBERTO, PRESIDENT, PANAMA,

SUSP, JIMENEZ, JUAN E.

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/09/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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Captain HUMBERTO GUSTAVO JULIO RODRIGUEZ DIAZ

Bufile 105-80969

General MANUEL BENITEZ VALDES

Bufile 64-30637

ROBERTO ARIAS GUARDIA

Bufile 10048779

This report has been classified "SECRET"'

, inasmuch

as it contains information furnished by CIA which was so

classified.

- INFORMANTS -

IDENTITY

LOCATION

MM T-1 is information report, (3)ER (U)

CIA,

telegram report number

TDCS DB 3/651,171, 8/28/62

105-6555-1

MM T-2 is LUIS ANTONIO FILOS

OTOYA, PSI (Under Development) 134-821

MM T-3 is NY 2865-S

105-6555-9

MM T-4 is MM 492-S

134-44 Sub A

MM T-5 is MM 761-S

134-379 Sub A 77

C.

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(4) (4)

SOLOZABAL, PSI

134-698 Sub A 9

Various sources familiar with Latin-American

affairs contacted in this matter in San Juan and

New York City were enumerated in referenced letters to

the Buzeau from San Juan and New York.

Various sources contacted in this matter in

Miami were as follows:

*(u)

MM 817-S and MM 776-S, contacted 9/17/62,

SA WILLIAM G. FRIEDEMANN

MM 801-S, contacted 9/26/62, SA JOHN E.

MC HUGH

X (u)

MM 635-S, contacted 9/24/62,

SA

GEORGE

E. DAVIS, JR.

JOSE UBIEIA, PSI, contacted 9/26/62,

SA PETER J. NERO

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Copy to:

Report off

Date:

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSIFICATION A30/OR

RELEASE OF CIA INFORGIATION

IN THIS DOCUMENT. 34/94 GME

9803 RDD 80l21894 AC

Ofice Mani, Florida

Field Office File #:

WILLIAN W. STEVENS

OCT 2 4 1962

105-6555

Bureau File i-1768

Title:

Character:

JUAN E. JIMENEZ;

SERGIO CASTRO GUERRA:

Captain HUMBERTO GUSTAVO JULIO RODRIGUEZ DIAZ;

Plan to Assassinate President ROBERTO CHIARI Of

Panana

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Synopsis:

5781.

DEG

ON.

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA - PANAMA :

NEUTRALITY MATTERS;

veclassify on:

REGISTRATION ACT • CUBA - PANAMA

JUAN E, JIMENEZ, AlSO knowN as "BABY", wealthy Penamanian,

former

Panamanian Ambassador to Cuba, was in Miami during

6/62 and 7/62, criticizing Panamaniangovernment; stated

wanted to

contact Cubans for action in Panama, and boasted

he was involved In plot an Panams against President ROBERTO

CHIARI• JIMENEZ advised General MANUEL BENITEZ VALDES of

above, and BENITEZ referred JIMENEZ to Captain HUMBERTO

GUSTAVO JULIO RODRIGUEZ DIAZ and SERGIO CASTRO GUERRA, known

Cuban hoodlums.

JIMENEZ contacted RODRIGUEZ and

CASTRO

reportedly paid them $500.00, and told them to stand by for

future action.

CASTRO reported this to benIte?, who advised

Panamanian Consul, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

BENITEZ offered to

report to Panamanian official on continuing basis

the

progress of this plot, through information obtained by CASTRO,

who was infiltrating instant plot.

Panamanian. Consul reported

matter to U.S. and

ranamanan Government officials

Nothing

has subsequently developed and matter considered closed

by sources who did not take JIMENEZ. boasting

seriously.

JIMENEZ reportedly nor serving as official of Panamanian

Government In Washington, D

and no longer opposed to

group in power in Panama.

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This document contatns neither recommendations nor cond

your agency; it and its contents'are not'to be distributed outside your agency.

property of.t

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serious, but he was only trying to make himself important

in discussing such & matter in

such a loud tone Had

he been serious, JIlENEz certainly would not have discussed

the matter openly in the hotel lobby. Aul

On September 18, 1962, GLENNADAMS,

Supervisor,

Investigations, Imigration and Naturalization Service (INS),

Miami, Floride, advised a search of the files of that

agency

failed to reflect any file relating to JuAN E.

"BABY" JIMENEZ.

During September of 1962, various sources in

San

Juan, Puerto; New York, New

York and

Miami, Florida

familiar with latin American activities in those areas

were contacted, but were unable to furnish any specifie

information concerning JIMENEz, Captain RODRICUEZ DIAZ

oI. SERGIO CASTRO.

Os Detober 8, 1962, DE. RAFAELAARCIATIAVARRO,

Panamanian Consul, 1300 Seabreeze Boulevard, Fort

aube

Lauderdale, Florida, advised he was a Cuban national

employed as an official of the Panamanian Goverment.

In connection with his official capacities, he had

obtained the following information: X(41

JUAN "BABY" JIMENEZ, & Panamanian who had been

an Ambassador from Panama to Cuba In the past,

had been

in the Miami area during the period of June and July,

1962, JIMENEZ was a very influential and Important man

In Panama, with connections in the government in the past, and

active in

various business interests. It has been reported

some of his business activities have been"on the margin of

the law", and he was reportedly connected, in the past,

with an attempt to

unseat a former president of Panama. du)

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On his recent visits to Miam, JIMENEZ

several occasions expressed strong sympathies in

opposition to the present Panamanian Government and

President, and the current Panamanian Government policies.

He indicated he wanted to hire several gangsters for possible

future action in Panama.

Accordingly, he was trying to

make contact with a group of local Cubans In this

connectior.

$(U)

Is June of 1962, JIMENEZ had stated he wanted

to buy a quantity of arms, and he was involved in a plot

to shoot the President of Panama.

He indicated the

assassination was to take place during an uprising in

Panama, and offered as

proof of the alleged plot the

fact that there would be an uprising in the near

• future

in Panama.

In connection with the plot, JIMENEZ

hạd

contacted General MANUEL BENITEZ, a Cuban exile

in

Miami, who had recommended that JIMENEZ contact

SERGIO

CASTRO and Captain HUMBERTO RODRIGUEZ DIAZ to a8818t him

in this plot.

DI. RAFAEL CARCIA NAVARRO explained he had

obtained the above information from General MANUEL

BENITEZ VALDES, who was a personal acquaintance of GARCIA

NAVARRO. He characterized General BENITEZ as an opportunist

involved in

various plots and intrigues. General BENITEZ!

had reported the activities of J'IMENEZ and JIMENEZ' contact

with RODRIGUEZ. DIAZ and CASTRO EO DI: GARCIA NAVARRO;

and stated he (BENITEZ) would follow the activitles of

this plot through SERGIO CASTRO and furnish Information or

a continuing basis to DI. GARCIA NAVARRO..

General BENITEZ

had explained that SERGIO CASTRO, who was a contact

of his,

would infiltrate this plot, and GARCIA NaVarro would be

promptly advised of all developments. *(u,

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DI. GARCIA NAVARRO

stated in his opinion,

General BENITEZ was attempting to ingratiate himself with

the Panamanian Government, and apparently planned to try

to obtain economic aid from the Panamanian officials in

return for information in the alleged plot. fu

General BENITEZ had subsequently advised DI.

CARCIA NAVARRO that JIMENEZ had paid some $500.00 to SERGIO

CASTRO in connection with the alleged plot, but that CASTRO

and RODRIGUEZ DIAZ had taken no action to further the plot,

but were only standing by awaiting further developments.

No further developments apparently materialized. d/u

DI. GARCIA NAVARRO advised he had not taken

the above allegations of a plot by JIMENEZ, as reported

by General BENITEZ, at all seriously, in view of General

BENITEZ' reputation.

subsequently, however, at the time

of the

uprising on the part of members of the National

Guard in Panan, wich appeared to coincide with the threats

made by: JIMENEZ, DI. CARCIA NAVARRO felt that there might

be some basis for concern, and accordingly had furnished

information concerning the alleged plot to United States

Government officials, as well as to Panamanian officials.

Subsequently, an Inspector from the Panamanian National

Police had been sent to Miami to investigate this matter,

and had interviewed BENITEZ in connection with the alleged

plot. A(u)

Subsequent to that time, no further information

has been developed concerning the alleged plot, either

through the Panamanian Investigator or General BENITEZ,

and In DI. GARCIA NAVARRO's opinion, the matter is

closed.

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plot against the President of Panama as serious. He

had felt, however, that he should report this matter

to his acquaintance, Di. GARCIA NAVARRO, Panamanian

Consul in Fort lauderdale. Accordingly, he had made the

above information available to DI. GARCIA NAVARRO, who

subsequently reported it to his government. General

BENITEZ indIcated in his opinion, DI. GARCIA NAVARRO may have

over-emphasized the significance

of this alleged plot in

order

"to enhance his (Dr. NAVARRO'&) position with the

Panamanian Government.

General BENITEZ saLd probably the primary purpose

Of JIMENEZ' visit to Miami during the sumer had been

to visit his Cuban girl friend, who subsequently. has

moved to Puerto rico.

General BENITEZ stated since this all

- happened,

an official of the Panamanian Government had come to Miami

to investigate this matter, and had interviewed several

of the participants in the alleged plot, including

SERGIO. CASTRO.

It was determined at that time that

no further action had been taken in this plot, and that it

considered & closed matter.

General BENitez advised that he has recently l

learned from a friend of his, one JOSE LUISALPARO,

a former police official In Panama, that JUAN JIMENEZ

recently received an appointment with the Panamanian

Gowernment. JIMENEZ is reportedly now assigned in a

diplomatie

capacity for the Panamanian Government, and

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reportedly in Washington.

D. C. Accordingly, JIMENEZ IS

no longer unhappy with the Panamanian Government.

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