Agency: FBI
Originator: DOJ
From: YEAGLEY, J. WALTER
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 10/22/1958
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Date:

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Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

FBI

124-10302-10213

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

2-1499-8

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO :

TITLE:

DOJ

[Restricted]

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 10/22/1958

PAGES: 2

SUBJECTS :

[Restricted]

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS : Consulted

CURRENT STATUS : Withhold

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 11/13/1996

OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF DOJ

COMMENTS: REFERRED TO DOJ

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Office Memorandum • UNITED STAVES GOVERNMENT

: Director, Federal Bureau of InvestigationDATE:

October 22, 1958.

July. Walter lonzlera

FROM : Acting Assistant Attorney General

Internal Security Division

SUBJECT: FRANK ANTHONY STURGIS

Registration Act

FBI File 2-1499

ALL FBI INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE 2) 14/95 BY GP8 MAC

Reference is made to your memorandum of

October 7, 1958 regarding the captioned subject, in

which you request to be advised as to whether the

activities of the subject bring him within the purview

of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as

amended.

The report of Special Agent Robert James

wyer aated September 23, 1950 advises that the subject

nas admitted to informant designated as I-l that he was

engaged in revolutionary activities with Cubans in the

Miami area.

Sturgis stated to T-l that he was attempting

to purchase arms for the Cubans and that he had only two

boses, Fidel Castro and Ricardo Lorie.

This informant

also advised that the subject attended a meeting in Miami

with several Cuban revolutionary leaders at which the

purchase of arms was discussed and, according to the

informant Sturgis appeared to be in charge of the meeting

and did all of the talking concerning the possibility of

purchasing arms, prices, quantity ol guns available ano

methods of transportation to be used.

This same report also advises that Mr. Wallace

Shanley, United States Customs Agent, Miami, Florida

rovided the intomation that arents of the cust as Bureau!

conducted a raid on several houses in Miami and confiscated

an arms cache

belonging to Cuban revolutionaries.

estimated that there were about 50,000 rounds of ammunition,:

about 250 guns, including six machine guns and 130 rifles,

about 10 hand grenades and a quantity of dynamite.

Agent

Shanley advised thatf the

subject was identified as one of

the persons who rented lore the above mentioned houses

According to this same refirt,

a confidential

source abroad, designated as

advised on July 23, 1958

that the

subject was in cuba in the early, part of July

and that the daughter of a boarding house

in Santiago where

the subject stayed, advised that the subjedt showed hey

a OCT 246 1958.

10/23108 f3-21

EX-101

DФOCT 28 1958

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letter which he said had been given to him by Haydee

Santamarina in Miami.

On the outside of the envelope

was written the name SOYLO.

T-2 states that SOYLO

is

thought to be the alias of the person who is the head

of the July 26 action group in Santiago,

and that

Sturgis actually met with SOYLO for about an hour and

a half in Santiago.

According to T-2 Haydee Santamarina

is an important member of the July 26 movement who spent

a year in the Sierra Maestra with Fidel Castro and is now

residing in Miami.

T-2 further advised that the subject was

arrested in Cuba on July 15, 1958 and at this time he

admitted that the purpose of his trip was to deliver an

important message to a leader of the July 26 in Santiago.

He also admitted on this occasion that he had attempted

to transport arms clandestinely into Cuba in April of

1958 by hiding guns and ammunition in a false gasoline

tank and other secret compartments in the bottom of a

car.

He stated that he brought the car over to Cuba via

the ferry from Key West. T-2 advises that the subject

left this car and the cargo of arms in a garage in Havana

and

it was later confiscated by Cuban authorities.

Based on the information contained in this

report, it is concluded that the subject has acted within

the United States as an agent of a foreign principal so as

to require his registration under the Foreign Agents

Registration Act of 1938, as amended.

Accordingly, this

Division is soliciting the subject's registration under

the Act and you will be advised as. to the outcome of our

efforts in this regard.

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