Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 12/26/1963
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/4/2015

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10278-10396

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 97-4474-77

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, MM

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE:

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS:

12/26/1963

14

MIRR, ACA, MEMBERS, AIRPLANE, BOAT, RAID, CUBA, MIL

ACT

DOCUMENT TYPE:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS : 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/30/1998

OPENING CRITERIA:

INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

INC LHM

v9.1

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(Rev. 12-13-56)

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Transmit the following in

USCS

FBI

REWIEIVED BY FENJFK TAOX FORDE

7/03/50 DAR

Date:

12/26/63

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AIRTEL

Via

TO:

(Type in plain text or code)

RELEASE I PART

AIRMAIL

TOTAL DENIAL

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

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DIRECTOR, FBI (97-4474)

Mus Cardy

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FROM:

SAC, MIAMI (105-2855) (P)

RE

SUBJECT: MOVIMIENTO INSURRECIONAL DE

6-11-940 54mec/ase

RECUPERACION REVOLUCIONARIA (MIRR)

-IS - CUBA

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

NM

HEREIN, IS UNCLASSIFIEL

DATE 84a

17113

Re Miami airtel to Bureau, 12/19/63, and Miami

teletype to Bureau, 12/24/63.

Enclosed are twelve copies of a LHM, dated and

captioned as above.

Copies of this LHM are being furnished locally

to INS, State Department, Border Patrol, Customs (local

and regional), Coast Guard, G-2, ONI, OSI, CIA, and FAA,

In addition to the USA, Miami.

The Miami Office has also been in frequent

contact with Mr. GREGG BENTLEY, Special Branch, Bahamian

Police, Nassau, with regard to all pertinent developments.

On 12/24/63, Mr. BENTLEY flew to Miami for a conference

with Agents of this office, and he was introduced to Mr.

EDWARD FICKIE and Mr. STANLEY SCHACHTER, U. S. Customs,

who subsequently made arrangements to place a U. S. Customs

official in Bimini to work directly with Mr. BENTLEY on

scheduled date of this operation.

97-44

Mr. FICKIE has also

advised.'

that U.

'Customs

has three boats which will be used to intercept this

operation and to prevent the boat from successfully leaving

the Miami waters. One of these boats is a 95' Coast Guard

3 - Bureau (Enc. 12) (AM) (RM)

- Miami

plasmade

mines, crudenito, Cuben affair

for reviewet

by

Seguest

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8H52-11989

Sent

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Per

Agent in Charge

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(dev. 12-13-56) REVIEWED OV-EBUJFK TASK FORGE-

ON

RELEASE IN FULL

RELEASE IN PART

• TOTAL DENIAL

Transmit the following in

FBI

Date:

12/26/63

wer

Via

AIRTEL

(Type in plain text or code)

AIRMAIL

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (97-4474)

FROM:

SAC, MIAMI (105-2855) (P)

SUBJECT:

MOV INIENTO INSURRECIONAL, DE

NM

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

TEREIN. IS UNCLASSIMIE

Re Miami airtel

AT 3864 809/0

teletype to Bureau, 12/24/63.

to Bureau, 12/19/63, and Miams

captioned as above.

Enclosed are twelve copies of a LHM, dated and

Copies of this LHM are being furnished locally

to INS, State Department, Border Patrol, Customs (local

and regional), Coast Guard, G-2, ONI, OSI, CIA, and FAA,

in addition to the USA, Miami.

Mr. Tolsons.

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Mr. FICKIE has also

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has three boats which will be used to intercept

that U. S. 'Custom

this

operation and to prevent the boat from

the Miami waters.

successfully leaving

Bureau (Enc. 12) (AM) (RM)

Miami

Copy ic: CUA/Jiao/

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Agent in Charge

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MM 105-2855

boat which will maneuver well off shore. The other two

boats will

be located in strategic areas closer to shore.

In the event the Cuban boat succeeds in evading inter-

ception, the British will be prepared to seize the plane

and the boat at Bimini.

Due to information furnished by MM T-l concern-

ing the boat obtained by WILLIAM JOHNSON for this operation

' a 28' sports fishing vessel with a flying bridge

powered by one motor. JOHNSON has been observed by U.S.

Customs aboard this boat during the periods of time that

MM T-],reported JOHNSON was scheduled to be in contact with

the boat selected by BOSCH.

MM T-I IS EVELIO ALPIZAR PEREZ, 3625 N. W. 11th •

St., Miami, a former Cuban commercial pilot.

Miami has instructed MM T-l to advise this office

immediately of all further pertinent developments.

The

Bureau and appropriate local agencies will be promptly .

informed of subsequent developments.

The Miami Office has been furnishing oral inform-

ation immediately to the necessary local agencies on a

current basis pursuant to Bureau instructions.

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Please Refer t0

File No.

Re:

CIA HAS NO OR ECTION TO

Miami, Florida

December 26, 1963

DECLAGOR EA

AN ANGIOR,

IN ORViATION

IN THIS Gi MENT.

KP 2-5-98

MOVIMIENTO INSURRECIONAL DE

SLD/KSR

RECUPERACION REVOLUCIONARIA

2-19-98

(MIRR)

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

(JFK)

NEUTRALITY MATTER

Previous Information furnished by MM I-1,

a Cuban exfle who has been involved in anti-Fidel Castro

activities for, several years, reflects that Doctor

Boschwvila, head of

the Movimiento Insurrecional

de Recuperacion Revolucionaria (MIRR), an anti-Fidel

castro organization of Cuban exiles, has been planning

a bombing raid against an o11 refinery at Nuevitas,

Camaguey Province of Cuba.

This raid was originally

scheduled for the night of December 14, or 15, 1963.

It was then postponed, and as of December 10, 1903,

Bosch indicated the last and final practive flight in an

Aero Commander airplane, registration N26-24-B, preparatory

to the raid would take place

on the night of December 20,

1963, at Broward International Airport In Florida.

On Degember 20, 1963, MM T-l advised that

the Cuban pilot scheduled to

pilot the plane in this bombing raid, went to broward

International Airport where Charles Bush, owner

of the

Aero Commander, Informed

the pilot that one of the

motors of the plane had "burned out,"

and the plane

could not be flown without extensive motor repairs.

l 1-1 sala that the pilot, Alpizar, examinea the plane

and verified that one of the motore

was in fact not oper-

able.

Bush promised he would make another plane avall-

able

to Doctor Orlando Bosch.

On the same day, MM T-1 learned that someone

other than charles Bush would pilot whatever plane was

selected from Broward International Airport to Bimini,

Bahama Islands, preparatory to the bombing raid. The

individual selected to pilot this plane would park the

plane on the Bimini airport and register at a hotel in

the town of Bimini, leaving the plane unattended over-

242961

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

(551 5685,586877/69 *21,306

Sp8 mAC/KSL

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Re :

MOVIMIENTO INSURRECIONAL DE

RECUPERACION REVOLUCIONARIA (MIRR)

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBAS

NEUTRALITY MATTER

FAA

REVIVED BY REWJFK TASK FORCE

8/14/97 dol.

BE ROSE iN FOLL

RELEASE iN PART

TOTAL DENIAL

night.

The raiding party was scheduled to arrive by boat

at Bimini under cover of darkness from Miami and load the

plane with bombs and then fly It from Bimint to the target

1n Cubi.

they would then return to Bimini, still under

cover of darkness, and return by boat to Miami after

leaving the plane at the same place where they had taken

On December 22, 1963, MM T-1 advised that Charles

Bush Informed Alpizar that he would substitute a Piper

Aztec plane for the Aero Commander.

MM T-I

said that Bush

had such

a plane at his company at Broward International

Airport.

vising Inspector,

Federal Aviation

that Charles Bush has leased a Piper Aztec plane

registration N4811-P from the Fleet Rental Leasing Corpor-.

ation, Box 940, Clarkesburg, West Virginia, effective in

April, 1903. Mr. Linehan advises this 1s the Aztec plane

which Bush maintains at his place of business.

are he plate beatness.

bearing

In transporting the airplane crew and the bombs from Miami

to Bimini would depart from Miami on Christmas Day at about

10:00 a.I. or 12:00 a.M. He said this boat has a speed of

only 10 miles per hour, and consequently would have to

depart early in the day instead of during the evening as

was originally planned had a faster boat been obtained.

Bosch said the plane would leave later in the

day after

receiving a radio signal from the boat that everything was

proceeding according to plan.

MN I-1 said that Willian Johnson, who made

in mind.

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REs

MOVIMIENTO INSURRECIONAL DE

RECUPERACION REVOLUCIONARIA (MIRR)

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA;

NEUTRALITY MATTER

Later on December 24, 1963, MM I-I said that

Bosch announced to his party that it had become neces

sary again to postpone the bombing rald from December

29, 1903s to a later date due to rough seas which would

endanger

the boat.

. One of Bosch's associates Indicated

December 27, 1963.

swept over the liam area on the early morning of

December 24, 1963, and seas were reportedly rough.)

On December 26, 1963, MM I-1 advised that the

pilot Alpizar would take both an afternoon and night

practice flight with the Piper Aztee plane In possession

of Charles Bush at Broward International Airport. Bosch

provided money to the pilot for the flight.

MM T-I sald that Bosch disclosed that the boat

1s now scheduled to depart Miami between 5:30 p.I. and

6:00 pull. on December 27, 1963, for Bimin1.

MM T-1 said

there will be no

additional praetice flights by the pilot

after December 26, 1963.

It 1s to be noted that on December 26, 1963,

the skles in the Miami area were clear and sunny, and

weather conditions were reportedly favorable at sea.

on December 20, 1963, MM T-1 advised that

boctor bosch planned to have the raiding party droi

MM T-1 furnished the

propsand earlets one in the spenden tanguage and

which has been translated as follows:

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