Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 10/25/1959
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/7/2015

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90076-10139

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 109-584-523

Released under the John

Assassination Recorde

Collection Act of 1992

li44 USC 2107 Note!.

Case#:NW 54460 Date:

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: MM

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 10/25/1959

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

ANTI FIDEL CASTRO ACTIVITIES

MARCOS DIAZ LANZ

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/06/1998

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Mr. Trotter

Mr. W.C. Sullivan

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Mr. Holloman

Miss Gandy

URGENT

10-25-59

10:46 AM EST RLB

TO DIRECTOR

Clas

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117-85

FROM SAC MIAMI

251030

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ANTI-FIDEL CASTRO ACTIVITIES; IS-CUBA. RE FI

LEPHONE CALLS

OCTOBER 24 FROM ASSISTANT DIRECTOR BELMONT OF BUREAU AND

ALT INFORVATION COMMINCE

FROM SAC TEAGUE TO ASSISTANT DIRECTOR BELMONT. ON EVENING

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

OCTOBER 24 FOLLOWING PERSONS INTERVIEWED AT 120 SW 71 AVENUE

EXCEPIWHERE SHOWN

MIAMI, PEDRO LUIS DIAZ LANZ FORMER CHIEF OF CUBAN AIR FORCE

(FAR); HIS BROTHER MARCOS

DAZ LANZ FORMER INSPECTOR GENERAL

AND ASSISTANT TO PEDRO AN

FAR; RICARDO CORLE VALLS, FORMER

OTHERWISE

JULY 26

MOVEMENT UNDERGRONAD MOVEMENT LEADER TN MIAMI; FRANK

ANTHON

STURGIS, AKA FRANK FLORIN, US CITIZEN FORMER UNDER-

• GROUND MEMBER JULY 26 MOVEMENT IN MIAMI; AND CARLOS ECHOGOYEN,

FORMER MEMBER FAR AND CLOSE ASSOCIATE ABOVE PERSONS!

"AT" OUTSET

OF INTERVIEWS ALL WERE INFORMED. OF THEIR RIGHTS. PEDRO LUIS DIAZ

LANZ CONFIRMED INFORMATION FURNISHED BY HIM OCTOBER 22 LAST.

HE

FURNISHED FOLLOWING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. LEAFLET DROPPINE

FLIGHT OF OCTOBER 21 LAST WAS JOINT ENTERPRISE OF ABOVE PERSONS

UNDER LEADERSHIP PEDRO DIAZ ON BEHALF OF 26 OF JULY ANTI COMMUNIST

§MOVEMENT, BUT NOT WITH SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF MOVEMENT. PEDRO

DIAZ PLANNED INCIDENT• RECEIPT OF INFORMATION CONCERNING ABBEST

BY FIDEL CASTRO OF MAJOR HUBERTO MATOS CAUSED DIAZ TO MOVE U

DATE AND CHANGE TARGET FROM CAMAGUEY TO HAVANA. PURPOSE OF

DING

LEAFLET DROPPING FLIGHT WAS TO PREPARE CUBAN PUBLIC OPINION IN

FAVOR OF 26 OF JULY ANTI

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FOR FROM SAC, MIAMI

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ANYTHING TO FURTHER EMBRASS US GOVERNMENT. STATES HE MADE ONLY

ABOVE FLIGHT AND KNOWS NOTHING RE ALLEGED LEAFLETS BEING DROPPED

SINCE. FOLLOWING ARE INCIDENTS REPORTED BY MM 639-S TENDING TO

SHOW DESTRE AND ATTEMPTS OF CASTRO GOVERNMENT TO DISCREDIT US

THROUGH CASTRO GOVERNMENT ENGINEERED AND PLANNED INCIDENTS. UNDER

NO CONBITIONS SHOULD ANY OF FOLLOWING BE RELEASED TO PRESS NO

CONDITIONS SHOULD ANY OF FOLLOWING BE RELEASED TO PRESS, AS TO DO

SO WOULD MOST CERTAINLY PLACE INFORMANT'S LEFE IN IMMEDIATE

JEOPARDY. IF FURNISHED TO OUTSIDE AGENCIES, IT SHOULD BE DONE

UNDER THESE CONDITIONS ONLY. SEPTEMBER 18, 1959, INFORMANT WENT

• IU HAVANA CUBA AND WAS MET AT AIRPORT BY FERNANDO

COBA, SGT CUBAN

-POLICE.

ON SEPTEMBER 19, 1959 COBA TOLD INFORMANT THAT CHIEF OF!

POLICEA

ALME/JERAS GAVE HIM 81,000 TO GET RAFAEL DEEMPTINO TO CUBA.!

TT BEING NOTED BEL PINO PUBLICALLY INDICATED HIMSELF TO BE A S

ANTI CASTRO LEADER AT MIAMI AND SUBSEQUENTLY WAS SIZED IN CUBA

JULY 25, 1959, AFTER HIS AIRPLANE LANDED ON HIGHWAY OUTSIDE HAVANA.

COBA TOLD DEL PINO WHILE IN MIAMI HE WAS LOOKING FOR A PILOT TO

FLY TO CUBA AND RETURN WITH ALIEN TO MIAMI. DEL PINO VOLUNTEERED

FOR THE JOB. TWO PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS WERE MADE TO KIDNAP DEL PINO

BY VIOLENCE WHICH FAILED. 'ON SEPTEMBER 20, 1959, ALMEIJERAS TOLD

INFORMANT HE WOULD LIKE LATTER TO SET UP AN EXPEDITION IN MIAMI

CONSISTING OF 100 MEN, ARMS AND A BOAT, AND TO EFFECT A LANDING

AT A PLACE DESIGNATED IN CUBA WHERE THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT WOULD

SEIZE THE INVADERS. ALMEIJERAS SAID HE WOULD BE SATISFIED IF HE

COULD SEIZE 20 MEN. HE SAID HE WANTED TO EFFECT THE SAME TYPE

OF INCIDENT THAT WAS CARRIED OFF BY WILLIAM ALEXANDER MORGAN ON

OR ABOUT AUGUST 8, 1959. SAME DATE INFORMANT, ALMETJERAS, COBA

AND TAREE BODYGUARDS WENT TO RAUL CASTRO,S HEADQUARTERS WHERE

RAUL CASTRO CONFIRMED ALMEIJERAS PLAN FOR INFORMANT TO BRING AN

INVASION GROUP INTO-GUBA. RAUL SHOWED GREAT INTEREST IN THIS ANG

MADE ARRANGEMENTS WITH INFORMANT TO USE COBA AS HIS HAVANA CONTAOT,

DESIGNATED A PRIVATE AIRPORT FOR USE BY INFORMANT TO ENTER AND

DEPART CUBA AND INFORMANT WAS FURNISHED AN ADDRESS TO BE USED IN

raphratelligence contained in the above message is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be se

no order to protect the Bureau's cryptographic systems.

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Mr. Holloman -

Miss Gandy —

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251030

HAVANA AS A MAIL DROP. DURING THE SAME CONVERSATI ON 'ALME I JERAS

AND RAUL CASTRO EXHIBITED INTEREST IN THE POSSIBLITY OF THE

ASSASS INATI ON OR KIDNAPPING OF ESTEBAL ENTURA, FORMER LT, COL

CUBAN NATIONAL POLICE, IN EXILE MIAMI.

'SEPTEMBER 28, 1959

MM 639-S WAS IN CUBA AND MET WITH FERNANDO COBA AND EFIGENIO

ALMEIVERAS CHIEF CUBAN NATIONAL POLICE. LATTER INDIVIDUALS IN

CONVERSATION GAVE INDICATIONS THERE ARE CUBAN AGENTS IN MIAMI

INVESTIGATINO BATISTIANOS. ALMEIJERAS WAS CONSIDERING SENDING

SOMEONE TO MIAMI EITHER ASSASSIANTE OR KIDNAP ESTEBAN VENTURA

ALME JERAS UP.TO THIS TIME HAD DENIED PERMISSION OF HIS PERSONAL

BODYGUARDS TO CARRY OUT MISSION AGAINST VENTURA. ON OCTOBER 10

1959 MM 639-S WAS IN HAVANA CUBA AND CONVERSED WITH EF GENIO

ALMEIJERAS. WHO AGAIN DISCUSSED WITH INFORMANT HIS DESIRE THAT

INFORMANT LEAD EXPEDITION FROM THE US TO CUBA AND AGAIN EXPRESSED

A GREAT DESIRE TO SEIZE THIS EXPEDITION UPON ITS ARRIVAL IN CUBA.

ON ABOUT OCTOBER 20, 1959, MM 639-S RECEIVED A TELEPHONE CALL

FROM FERNANDO COBA WHO WAS CALLING FROM CUBA. COBA HAD PREVIOUSLY

CALLED THE GREEN MANSIONS MOTEL IN AN EFFORT TO CONTACT LYNN BAIR

CUBA. ALPIZAR FORMER CUBAN AIR FORCE PTLOY, NOW ENGAGED TIN ALIEN

AND GUN SMUGGLING AND WORKING FOR ROLANDO OF ERRER,

SENATOR, RESIDING IN MIAMI. THIS WOULD BE SAME ST TUATION AS WHEN

COBA DELIVERED DEL PINO. COBA OFFERED THIS ASSIGNMENT TO INFORMANT,

cuter

f the intelligence contained in the above

message is to

be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably

paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau's cryptographic systems.

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Mr. Tolson

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Mr. Holloman

LWHO DECLINED. ON EVENING OCTOBER 24 MM 639-S ADVISED

Miss Gandy

HE HAD JUST RETURNED MIAMI FROM HAVANA, CUBA HAVING ARRIVED

THERE OCTOBER 23 IN COMPANY WITH ALEX HERNANDEZ, CUBAN RESIDING

MIAMI WITH WHOM INFORMANT ASSOCIATES. INFORMANT AND HERNANDEZ

HAD CONFERENCE OCTOBER 23 WITH EFIGENIO ALMEIJEIRAS, CHIEF CUBAN

NATIONAL POLICE, HAVANA, AND FRANCISCO COBA, SERGEANT IN CUBAN

POLICE. ALMEIJEIRAS PROPOSED TO INFORMANT THAT HE APPROACH

FROMER CUBAN SEANTOR ROLANDO MASFERRER OR SOME OTHER ANTI CASTRO

LEADER OF PROMINENCE IN MIAMI, AND OFFER TO PILOT A BOMB CARRYING

PLANE FROM MIAMI TO CUBA FOR PURPOSE BOMBING HAVANA. THAT INFOR

MANT SHOULD CONTINUE TO PROCURE BOMBS WITH US GOVERNMENT MARKINGS

AND UPON ARRIVAL IN CUBA MAKE LANDING ON STRIP 25 MILES WEST OF

HAVANA WHERE BOMBS WILL BE TURNED OVER TO ALMEIJEIRAS. CUBAN

GOVERNMENT WILL THEN MAKE PRESS RELEASE CLAIMING THAT

MIAMI BASED

PLANE DROPPED BOMBS OVER CUBA AND WILL OFFER AS PROOF ONE OR MORE

BOMBS BEARING US MARKINGS WHICH THEY WILL CLAIM WERE DUDS. OTHER

BOMBS WILL BE EXPLODED AND FRAGMENTS OF SAME OFFERED AS ADDITIONAL

PROOF. ALMEIJEIRAS DISCLOSED THAT PURPOSE OF THIS HOAX IS FOR

PROPAGANDA AGAINST US STATE DEPARTMENT IN ORDER TO FORCE US ACTION

AGAINST ANTI CASTRO EXILES RESIDING IN US. ALMEJEIRAS DESIRED

THIS PLAN TAKE PLACE OCTOBER 26 AND HE DESCRIBED IT AS BEING

HIGHLY IMPORTANT TO CUBAN GOVERNMENT. ALMEIJEIRAS ALSO TOLD

INFORMANT THAT SEVERAL HAND GRENADES WERE DROPPED BY LEAFLET

DROPPING TWO ENGINED PLANE WHICH FLEW OVER HAVANA OCTOBER 21

LAST. HE SAID THAT ANOTHER PLANE FLEW OVER HAVANA SAME EVENING,

BUT GUBAN GOVERNMENT DID NOT POSESS DESCRIPTIVE DATA. INFORMANT

STATED ALEX HERNANDEZ DISCLOSED HE WANTED NO PART IN ABOVE PLAN

PROPOSED BY ALMEIJEIRAS. PCI CHARLES WILL LAM HORMEL RECONTACTED

STATES HE IS WILLING TO TESTIFY.

HOWEVER, POINTED OUT HORMEL'S

INFORMATION HEARSAY. HE STATES HE ARRIVED AT REMMERT WARNER

AIRPORT, POMPANO, FLORIDA ABOUT 11:20 PM OCTOBER 21 LAST, WENT

TO AIRPORT OFFICE WHERE HE PASSED TIME OF DAY WITH NIGHTWATCHMAN.

WHILE TALKING, THEY HEARD NEWS BROADCAST OF AIR RAID AND DROPPING

OF LEAFLETS OVER HAVANA. NIGHTWATCHMAN COMMENTED THAT B-25 AT

parce intelligence oo aired in the abre mee ra po be seeinated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably

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AIRPORT MIGHT HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN MATTER; THAT IT HAD LEFT

ABOUT 5 PM AND RETURNED ABOUT 9 PM THAT DATE. HORMEL ASKED WHO

HAD PILOTED PLANE AND NIGHIWATCHMAN TOLD HIM PEDRO DIAZ LANE.

THEREAFTER HORMEL WENT OUT TO PLANE AND TOOK DOWN SERIAL NUMBER.

THEREAFTER CAME TO MIAMI AND FURNISHED INFO TO FBI. INFO BUREAU,

HORMELPRESENTLY UNDER INDICTMENT ON ATU CHARGE TRANSPORTING ARMS

BY CAR. INVESTIGATION CURRENTLY UNDER@AY TO IDENTIFY NIGHT-

WATCHMAN ABOVE AT WHICH TIME HIS WILLINGNESS AND AVAILABILIT OL

TO TESTIFY WILL BE DETERMINED./ DR. ALCIDES DE LOS/REYES UNANA AL

ABLE FOR INTERVIEW NIGHT OCTOBER 24, BUT WILL BE/cONTACTED

OCTOBER 25 AND ASKED RE HIS AVAILABILITY AND WILLINGNESS TO TESTIFY.

RE ALLEGED DROPPING OF LEAFLETS OVER HAVANA REPORTED BY PRESS

OCTOBER 24, DADE COUNTY DEPARTMENT PUBLIC SAFETY RECEIVED ANONYMOUS

TELEPHONE CALL APPROXIMATELY 8:40 PM OCTOBER 24 FROM INDIVIDUAL

ALLEGING PLANE BEARING LEAFLETS DESTINED FOR CUBA WOULD TAKE OFF

FROM 8TH STREET AIRPORT AT 10 PM. AUTHORITIES GAVE COVERAGE TO

TAMIAMI AIRPORT LOCATED SOUTHWEST 8TH STREET MIAMI WITH NEGATIVE

RESULTS. NO OTHER INFO DEVELOPED RE THIS. OCTOBER 24, 8 PM

NEWS BROADCAST REPORTED LEARING THROUGH SOURCES IN HAVANA, CUB-

THAT CUBAN GOVERNMENT WAS. ASKING FOR EXTRADITION OF PEDRO DIAZI

LANZ TO CUBA. INVESTIGATION CONTINUING AT AIRPORT, POMPANO BEACH

TO VERIFY STATEMENTS OF LANZ ET AL SET OUT ABOVE.

BUREAU WILL!

BE ADVISED RESULTS OCTOBER 25, PM.

RECEIVED:

11:51 AM TELETYPE

11:53. AM CODING UNIT

BLH

BELMONT

"CAN

If the intelligence contained in the above message is to

paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau's cryptographic systems.

be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably

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