Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 09/14/1959
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/7/2015

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90076-10166

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 109-584-340

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

(44 USC 2107 Note) .

Case#:NW 54460 Date:

10-04-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

MM

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 09/14/1959

'PAGES:

18

SUBJECTS :

ANTI FIDEL CASTRO ACTIVITIES

MARCOS DIAZ LANZ

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/06/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

RPT

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

PORTING OFFICE

MIAMI

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

MIAMI

LE OF CASE

ANTI-FIDEL CASTRO

ACTIVITIES

SEP 1 4 1959

REPORT MADE BY

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

7/15

- 8/31/59

ROBERT JAMES DWYER

CHARACTER OF CASE

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

TYPED BY

RJD: DLP

REFERENCE: Report of SA ROBERI JAMES DWYER, Miami, 7/13/59.

Bulet to Miami, 3/30/59.

Do NOW DISEMI

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MIAMION 2 251

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AT MIAMI, FLORIDA

Classied by spebietta

Dectessity

on: OADR

415/85

Will continue submission of a monthly summary

report re captioned subject matter.

ADMINISTRATIVE

HEREIN I

URE SHOWN 0238291387

All offices receiving copies of enclosed report

should continue to send Miami copies of all communications

*ROVED

PIES MADE:

SUING

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

Bureau (109-584) (RM)

COPIES SEE PAGE "B"'

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

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CONFIDEN

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Copies, continued:

1 - Boston

(105-4151) (Info.) (RM)

1 - Jacksonville (109-8) (Info.)

(RM)

1 - Newark

(Info.) (RM)

1 • New York (105-35253) (Info.) (RM)

1 - San Juan

(Info.) (RM)

1 - Chicago (105-6033)

(Info.) (RM)

1 - Los Angeles

(Info.) (RM)

1 - New Orleans (105-1095) (Into.) (RM)

1. - San Francisco (109-11) (Info.) (RM)

1 - Washington Field Office (105-29955) (Info.) (RM)

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containing information relating to anti-FIDEL CASTRO activities

Copies of enclosed report are being furnished to

offices receiving copies of reBulet 3/30/59.

Inasmuch as this report is not being disseminated

outside the Bureau, only the identities of symbol number

informants have been protected.

INFORMANTS

Identity

MM T-1 is MM 639-S

MM I-2 is NY 2622-S (PSI)

Location of Original Information

7

134-238 Sub A J& (4)

105-1742-682 Jcp(u)

Careful consideration has been given to each source

concealed in this report and "T" symbols were utilized only

in those instances where identities must be concealed.

-B-

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MOVEMENT ANTI-COMMUNIST AMERICAN AND

LATIN AMERICAN FOUNDATION,

INCORPORATED,

MIAMI FLORIDA

FRANK PEREZ PEREZ, (protect) advised that this

organization was formed by ROLANDO MASFERRER who only

uses the name when he has some use for a formal name or

for propaganda purposes.

On August 28, 1959, DANIEL VASQUEZ and his wife,

MARIA SOLEDAD ALBA, Miami Beach, Florida, advised they were

no longer connected with this organization or MASFERRER.

VASQUEZ was formerly editor of "Tribuna", and well known

revolutionist, claimed to have quit all political activity.

RICHARD JAFFE (protect) on July 12, 1959, advised

that the function of the organization was to

drop propaganda

leaflets over Cuba. The organization is now dormant; has

no activity, and there is no intention to reactivate it.

(PEREZ PEREZ is a Miami source who is closely

associated with MASFERRER.)

(JAFFE is a Miami PSI.)

24th OF AUGUST

NEW YORK AND NEWARK :

On July 14, 1959, BARTOLOME VALDES MAURIS, Newark, FLA

New Jersey, appeared at the Miami Office and

"advised this

organization is anti-CASTRO; has 200 members in the Sierra

Maestia Mountains of Cuba, and 401

members elsewhere in Cuba.

He said he was the head of the organization in the United States,

and had about 321 members

in the New York and New Jersey

areas.

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(MARCOS DIAZ LANZ is contacted by the Miami

Office.)

II. PUBLICATION

"TRIBUNA"

On August 28, 1959, DANIEL VASQUEZ, Miami Beach,

Florida, advised that this weekly anti-CASTRO publication is

no longer being published. VASQUEZ said he no longer associates

with ROLANDO MASFERRER.

MASFERRER and ANSELMO ALIEGRO, former Cuban

publication of

crossed MASFERRER and is now out of the anti-CASTRO movement

III.

ILLEGAL RADIO

MM T-1 advised that the CRAC has obtained

possession of the boat owned by MASFERRER named "Aladino,":

formerly known as the "Olo Kun, II," docked at Dinner Key,.

Miami.

CRAC has a radio transmitter aboard the boat and

will broadcast propaganda to Cuba. Several attempts

have been made to do this, but there have been technical

difficulties. Broadcasts will he made at sea, three miles

off the Florida coast.

This operation is known to Dade

County, Florida Sheriff's Department. *(u)

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on August 6, 1959, and returned to Cuba aboard

54 foot yacht. He had received over four hundred thousand

dollars from FERRANDO. He turned over $78,000 to the

Cuban government.

MORGAN said that three planes full of arms were

sent from the Dominican Republic to Trinidad, Cuba, and

the third plane was captured when (FNU) BETANCOURT opened

fire on Cuban Army representatives posing as anti-CASTRO

rebels.

He said that POLICARPO SOLER, representative of

General TRUJILLO, and JOHN ABBES, Chief of Dominican

Intelligence, were later arrested in the Dominican Republic,

as a result of a purge started by TRUJILLO against persons

involved in this operation. MORGAN admitted his double

agent role in favor of CASTRO.

VI. IDENTITIES AND ACTIVITIES OF LEADING ANTI-CASTRO INDIVIDUALS

ROLANDO/MASTERRER ROJAS -

MIAMI, FLORIDA™

CUBA

RICHARD JAFFE, (protect) advised that MASFERRER

resides in Miami; moves

his residence constantly; fears

assassination, and keeps bodyguards with him constantly.

He expects his wife to arrive from Mexico in the near future.

She will be smuggled into the United States. MASFERRER is

reportedly financially broke, but can obtain money easily

from other

BATISTIANOS because they fear him. He recently.

obtained a $27,000 "donation" from ANSELMO ALIEGRO, a

wealthy Cuban "National in Miami.

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MASFERRER feels that the August 8 to 14, 1959 aborted

uprising in Cuba, although a failure, enhanced his

reputation and prestige because he opposed any invasion

from the Dominican Republic.

MASFERRER, through regular liaison and courier

system, is in contact with leaders in the Dominican

Republic and Miami. He was offered a base to operate

from in Guatemala and arms from Panama.

JAFFE will leave

in the near future for Guatemala concerning setting up

a base for MASFERRER in that country.

MASFERRER is considered important to General

PEDRAZA and other leaders because he reportedly has between

two to three thousand men in Oriente Province of Cuba

and two or three hundred in Havana Province.

These persons

reportedly will respond to MASFERRER and will revolt against

the CASTRO government whenever MASFERRER so orders it.

General BENITEZ advised that on August 8, 1959,

a meeting was held at MASFERRER's residence where

about

300 anti-CASTRO Cuban Nationals attended. Between 30 to

40 were former Cuban Army officers. All were alerted for a

possible expedition to leave the United States for eventual

armed invasion of Cuba.

When it was ascertained that the August 8, 1959

uprising in Cuba was unsuccessful, a shadow of gloom was

cast on the movement in Miami; however, the movement soon

recovered and claimed that the unsuccessful uprising did

e movemene in it the

not change any plans, but only postponed them.

(JAFFE, an American, is a close associate of

MASFERRER.)

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JUSTO, LUISY POZO, MIAMI,

FLORIDA

JAMES HAZEN JONES, (protect) Miami source, advised

POZO was formerly Mayor of Havana; has an anti-CASTRO

group of between 15 - 20 men in Miami, who are former

business and professional men in Cuba. The group has

no membership in Cuba. POZO is in daily contact with

anti-CASTRO leaders in Miami.

His son, LUIS, acts as

liaison with General PEDRAZA.

Press releases datelined Havana, Cuba, reflected

that LUIS was arrested in Cuba on or about August 8, 1959,

as a counter-revolutionary, having been involved with

the aborted invasion from the Dominican Republic handled

by WILLIAM ALEXANDER MORGAN, Major in the Cuban Revolutionary

Army •

JUSTO POZO is not reported as being involved

in any plans to purchase arms or send an expedition

against Cuba.

ORLANDO ELENG PIEDRA NECTERUELA

FT.

LAUDERDALE

FLORIDA WA

PIEDRA is former Chief of the Department of

Investigations, Cuban National Police, resides in Ft.

Lauderdale, and is considered one of the top "war criminals"

by the Cuban Government.

It is frequently said by CASTRO followers that

PIEDRA is amassing men, arms, planes, and boats for an

armed expedition against Cuba.

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ANSELMO PALIEGRO

MIAMI, FLA

was Prime Minister of Cuba under BATISTA. He recently

"donated" $27,000 to ROLANDO MASFERER. This was done

out of fear that if he did not, MASFERRER would retaliate

against him at some later date.

ALIEGRO has a plan to bomb Havana with two

Vampire Jet Airplanes.

The plan has to have approval

of General PEDRAZA, who has been notified of it, but,

who has not as yet

sent the money to carry it out. Ku)

ALIEGRO recently had a meeting at his house

attended by wealthy Cuban Nationals residing in Miami.

This meeting appeared to be for the purpose of getting

them to donate money for the anti-CASTRO cause. It is

not known if they contributed. Au

ALIEGRO is in contact with all anti-CASTRO

groups in Miami and has attempted to obtain some sort

of unity agreement with them; however, this has not been

successful. Ku)

One of ALIEGRO's sources ascertained an assassination

plan against unidentified BATISTIANOS in Miami.

Source

wanted to go into some complicated counter-plan. ALIEGRO

handled the matter simply by notifying the authorities

and forewarning the BATISTIANOS. * (U)

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SALVADOR TAL VERSON

- TAMI, FLORIDA

MARIANO FAGET (protect), advised DIAZ was

formerly an anti-Communist writer in Cuba and at times

resorted to receiving money from people for not publishing

newspaper articles accusing them of being Communists. * (U)

He was a leading member of CRAC and made a number

of trips to South America to collect money for CRAC's

anti-CASTRO activity. He kept this money for his own

use.

He received an $8,000 radio transmitter from the

Dominican Republic Consul General in Miami and converted

it to his own use. This transmitter was given with the

understanding that CRAC would broadcast propaganda to

Cuba. DIAZ VERSON has been expelled from CRAC. & (U)

(FAGET is the former Chief of BRAC, and has known

DIAZ for 25 years.) * U)

AGUSTO, MARIA/TERRANDO

no. win

MIAMI, FLORIDA

WILLIAM ALEXANDER MORGAN, Major, Cuban Revolutionary

Army, advised on August 20, 1959, that Dominican Republic

Consul General FERRANDO, gave him over $400,000 to start

a revolution in Cuba. FERRANDO's bank account reflects he

gave a Miami policeman, JOSEPH LIQUORI, two checks for

the amount of $45,000 for an unknown purpose. FERRANDO

was indicted by a

Federal Grand Jury, Miami, on June

4, 1959, for conspiring to illegally ship arms and bribery

of a Customs Agent.

FERRANDO is in contact with anti-CASTRO revolutionists

in Miami and is now considered by some Cubans to be the next

to be purged by TRUJILLO for failure of the MORGAN episode.

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