Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HAV
To: HQ
Document date: 9/3/59
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

6/8/2015

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90136-10132

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

105-70973-NR

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

HAV

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 09/03/1959

PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS :

WILLIAM ALEXANDER MORGAN

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/26/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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SECURITY OF OFFICE

HAVANA, CUBA

RELEASE

RELEASE

TOTAL

Reference

Havana letter dated

August 28, 1959

Frot

On

September 1, 1959. Colonel Samuel G. Kail,

Army

Ameriças mibagsy,

Havana

advised that he had

learned

that WILLIAM ALEXANDER MORGAN had

told JULES DUBOIS of the Chicago

Tribune that Karmad cartedat a house which MORGAN had rented

in connection

with a counterrevolutionary plot against the Cuban

Government and that Kail

had attempted to warn some of the plotters

that the Cuban Government

knew of the counterrevolutinnary plot.

It is to be noted that in connection with the counterrevolutionary

plot, MORGAN actually

was operating as an agent for the Cuban

(22)

Government.

Kail confidentially advised legat that he did not

make such a call and did not even know where the house was located

FBl agents out of

Cuba, claiming they had always been.

close friends and collaborators

of ex-President FULGENCIO BATISTA.

HAV-32; ig disoussing this matter with MENDIETA, who was for many

years connected with the Cuban National Police, pointed out that

as MANDIEDA would recall the FBI representatives in Cuba had alway

beensinterested only in criminal matters which were of mutual

interest to the Cuban Government and the United States.

MENDIETA

stated hebrealized this and that if he became aware that Cuban

authorities

in the future were considering acting for the recall

of FBI

agents

here, he would voice his objections to the Ministry

of State. A

Captain RENE VALDES Of G-2, Cuban Army Military

Intelligence,

on

September 2,

1959,

advised that the present bead

his organization 1s RAMIRO VALDEZ. HAV-22 has reported tha

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 fate) .

NDATE :: 11-14-2017

Havana 66-87

9/3/59

Both RENE VALDES and GEORGE NOBREGAS of the Ministry of

Interior,

as well as HAV-32, have advised that RAMIRO VALDEZ, is

the most important police official in Cuba at the present time.

RAMIRO VALDEZ has actual supervision of all organizations attempting

any type of intelligence investigations.

(A V

RENE VALDES voluntarily stated that almost all members

of G-2 are violently anti-American in their statements.

Colonel Kail, Army Attache, advised Legat he had

learned that RAMIRO VALDEZ is very seldom in his office but spends

almost his complete time in the company of RAUL CASTRO, head of

the Cuban Armed Forces. (s

Legat will attempt to

advise the Bureau immediately

follow this matter closely and

any developments with respect

to police relations.

With

respect

to information furnished by colonel Kail

in paragraph i of this

letter, it will be appreciated if this

infornation is not disseminated outside the

Bureau as it was

furnished the legat in confidence.

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