Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 05/29/1961
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/26/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10350-10134

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

CR 97-3606-45

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

FBI

MM

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 05/29/1961

PAGES:

6

SUBJECTS :

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 54464 Date:

10-10-2017

GERALD PATRICK HEMMING

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1C

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/11/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: MEMO; INC LHM

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RE: CONSTANTINE N. KANGLES

contact RAUL CASTRO, Cuban Minister of Defense, whom he

had personally known

during his activity in Cuba fron

October, 1958, to May, 1960, relative to efforts by

Attorney CONSTANTINE KANGLES Of Chicago to obtain the

release from Cuban prison of Roberberrelle, a lte

reporter for the Associated Press who 18 from Chicago.

CENTRY stated that on May Y or 8, 1961, MI. KANGLES had

sent a

telegram to RAUL CASTRO from Chicago pointing out

that he, KaNGLes, had assisted GENTRY in the U.S. In regard

to problems arising over the issuance of a passport

to GeNIR by the US. State Department and in return

CASTRO should grant KANGLES the favor of releasing

BERRELLE? from custody.

GENTRY stated that the tele"

gram by KANGLES was addressed to Captain TAUREL, Chief

of Staff,.

Havana

explained that Captain TAUREL,

the code name which RAUL CASTRO used during the

revolution

to overthrow FULGENCIO BATISTA from power

in Cuba and the name has been utilized by KANGLES and

CENTRY in their commmications in order to avoid undue

interest and curosity on the part of telegraph company

employees in the U.S.

GENTRY said he expected that

BErrELLE? would be released probably on May 11, 1961,

because he, GENTRY, had learned In his attempted phone

Intelligence,

interpreted this to mean he was sent there by rAUL

CASTRO to handle the release of BERRELLEZ.

"REDBEARD" ha

been reported as a nickname

of Major MANUEL

ENEIRE

POSAD, Députy Chief of G-2,

C46A

the Cuban Intelligence organization.

GENTRY stated that he has been in occasional

contact with CONSTANTINE RANGLES since the latter's

trip to Cuba in January, 1961, but that they had not

engaged in any recent efforts

to obtain a reconciliation

In the relations between the United States and Cuba.

GENTRY stated that in the beginning of March,

1961, RAUL CASTRO was In Eastern Cuba broadcasting an

appeal to rebels in the mountains there to discontinue

their resistence to the Cuban Government.

GENTRY stated

that those in the mountains

of Eastern Cuba, who are

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