CUBAN MINISTER-COUNSELLOR DOSMENT ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: CHIEF, LAD
To: SA/ADDO
Document date: 11/11/77
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SECRET

DD/017-1000

MEMORANDUM FOR:

FROM:

1.1/60/267-7

11 NOV 1974

INSPECTOR GENERAL

77-2379

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

SA/ADDO

Raymond A. Warren

Chief, Latin America Division

SLHORIZON-1 Report Mentioning Cuban

Minister-Counsellor Statement

on the

Assassination of President Kennedy

LA/CO/235-77 Dated 30 September 1977

1.

ZRWAHOO intelligence report of a statement made by the

Minister-Counsellor (MC) of the Cuban Enbassy in Kingston,

Jamaica, on 24 September 1977, that "Cuban exiles such as

DIAZ Lan (fnu) (sic) and others had been involved in the

assassination of President John F. Kennedy.".

We believe

that this could refer either to Pedro DIAZ Lanz, or his

brother Marcos DIAZ Lanz, formerly Chief and Deputy Chief,

respectively, of the Cuban Revolutionary Air Force Since

entered the U.S. from Cuba as exiles in mid-1959.

that time the DIAZ Lanz brothers reportedly have been

closely associated with, and involved in numerous activities

with,

Frank STURGIS (aka FIORINI) of Watergate

Agency

assisted in the evacuation of Marcos,

fame.

The

Pedro

entered the U.S. on his own.

Although both

and

were debriefed

by the. Agency, there is no

indication that they were. ever

considered Agency assets:

:2.

queried source for further infor-

mation

as promised in paragraph 4

of the reference.

source said that the MC referred to the Kennedy assassina-

tion during a pep talk to party members to maintain good

security.

satu had arrived" implicating DIAZ Lan (Enu)

that the MC said that "recent infor-

former air force officer,

in the Kennedy assassination

but did not mention any

other Cuban exiles by name or give

any further

details.

source of his information,

- on thn the MC did not idsoure

source had

the impression

that the

information might have been included

in a cable from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

source is unable to elicit further information from the MC

without jeopardizing his security.

signed

Raymond d. Warren

Raymond A. Warren

CC:

IG Staff

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