Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, WMFO
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 02/25/1963
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:

4/29/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10301-10062

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

2-1423-1ST NR 88

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

SAC, WMFO

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

02/25/1963

4

IID, ASSOC, POLIT, B/F INT, DONATIONS, US, DEMOCRATIC

PARTY

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 07/20/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (11 USC 2107 Mate).

DATE: 11-11-2017

2/25/63

AIRTEL

SECRET

SEX

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (100-1438951] (5)

FROMS SAC, WFO (105-19678)] (P) (8)

EMBASSY OF NICARAGUA

15 - NICARAGUA

(00:WFO)

2-7-98

CLASSINED BY 561% Suo/ESR

DECLASSIFY Oil. 25X4, Como

I. IRVING DANDIAN

Enclosed for the Bureau are nine copies of a LM

dated and captioned as above.

The informant mentioned in the enclosed LHM is

[WF 970-S*.

Due

to lack of background information BOB McGRATH

mentioned in the enclosed LHM is not identifiable in WFO indices.

The enclosed LHM is classified "Confidential"/inasmuch

is it reflects Nestigative interest Infa foreign diplomatic

establishment..al

alsoybecause the information reported could x

reasonably result in identification of a confidential informan

of continuing value and compromise his future effectiveness.

Bureau (Enc 9)

WFO

JES: j1t

(4)

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EXCEPT WHERE SHOWN

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78 MAR I 1963

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I Reléased Kinder the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.141 USC 2107°totel.

DATE: 11-14-2017

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

CONFI

MITAL

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

2-7-48

CLASSE ON 546x. 508/15R

DECLASSIFY ON: 25X.

JFs)

WASHINGTON 25, D.C.

February 25, 1963

EMBASSY OF NICARAGUA

SAN SONY - MORA

On February 21, 1963, a confidential

informant

who

has furnished reliable information in the past, advised/that

he had learned the following concerning a contact between

Frank Barry, registered agent for the Government of Nicaragua

and Oscar Danilo Sanson-Roman, Counselor, Embassy of Nicaragua:

Barry indicated that he had recentiy returned to

Washington, D. C., and referred to a recent article by news

was mentioned.

Pearson® sinformation because the individual he believes

be Pearson's source shares an office with Jack Anderson,

Pearson's partner.

Barry noted that Pearson said he got the information

he published from a

not belleve this. and both agreed that such

contained in

"foreign agent's reports".J(5

It is noted that I. Irving Davidson, registered

agent for

• Nicaragua, shares an office with Jack Anderson.

In reference to the source of Pearson's Information

Barry continued that he got his start in everything from "old

General Somoza". He said this person was starving to death,

and that everything he has he owes either to the Somozas of

to Barry. (Sanson-Roman commented that|Sold General Somoza*

even gave

the individual being aiscussed the down payment for

his hone

The informant could not explain or elaborate on

the following, but noted that Barry commented, "remember, he

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

DATE: 11-14-2017, *

CONFID

LATLAI

RE:

EMBASSY OF NICARAGUA /

SECRET

put in that three hundred and some thousand dollars that he

got, well I never put in the donation because I have nothing

do with the donation, they gave it themselves."

Sanson-Roman commented that he had visited the

Protocol

Office at the United States Department of State (USDS).

the morning the Pearson article appeared.

At the USDS, there

was comment to the eftect that Latin American countries could

conceivably give $1,000,000 to the Democratic Party (DP) •

making the comment reasoned by citing the example that

• if the

Latin American countries now see that the Somozas gave $10,000

to tho ep

Nicaragual 21 follows that other countries will try to better

s donation earry felt that such a situation is

commented that the Deputy chief of

Protocol, USDS, told him that he does not consider it a bac

situation because the Nicaraguan Government does not have to

reply to Pearson's article, inasmuch as President Kennedy was

unaware that the somozas gave sio.00e to his campaign.

Sanson-Roman continued, However,

that the Deputy Chiet of

erotocol pointed out that in soite of the actual circumstances

the article will cause people to believe that the Somozas'

donation had influenced the United States aid to Nicaragua.

Sanson-Roman conjectured thai an spite of an

attempt

of the part of Pearson's

source to hurt Barry, it has

all turned out for the best.

Both BarryLand Sanson-Roman

Jagreed that Nicaragua

have been in a very bad situation if it had given the

donationsto Richard Nixon, the Republican candidate for the

Presidency•

Barry indicated that he is going to insist that

Nicaragua take the Nicaraguan gency away from the individual

under discussion and described him as crazy for money with a

desire to be a second Jimmy Hoffa.. Hoffa is President of the

International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehouse-

men and Helpers.

In regard to the above, it is noted that on

February 13, 1963,

"The Washington Post Times Herald"

carried

an article by Drew Pearson which reported that United States

Senate probers had unearthed two political contributions from

Laiss and Anastasio Somoza, President and Secretary of Defense

of Nicaragua respectively.

One contribution was described as

a $10,000 donation to the

1900 presidential campaign of

President Kennedy• Pearson's article pointed out that

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