Originator: FBI
From: WMFO
To: HQ
Document date: 1963-04-03 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

4/29/201

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI

" RECORD NUMBER:

124-90107-10192

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

105-117222-NR

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

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TITLE:

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WMFO

HQ

DATE:

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04/03/1963

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JOHN THOMAS DUNKIN

OPERATION ALPHA 66

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

CURRENT STATUS :

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

Redact

08/03/1998

OPÉNING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

AT

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WFO 105-50870

CONTXENTIAL

The confidential informant mentioned in the enclosure

is FELIPE LUIS SARRAIN GONZALES, who furnished the information

in the enclosure to SAs HOWARD P. WINTER and HARVEY E. WILKINSON.

SARRAIN requested that his identity as the source of this

information be kept confidential because revelation of himself

as its source would alienate the friend who furnished him the

information and would frustrate SARRAIN's chances of securing

further pertinent information concerning captioned organization.

SARRAIN promised to relay to WFO any further pertinent data he

might be able to secure.

In this connection, SARRAIN stated

that he disapproves of hit-and-run operations but indicated

that, given the opportunity, he might personally engage in a

substantial guerrilla attack in Cuba designed to destroy any

large public facility, the destruction of which would definitely

hurt the CASTRO regime.

During the interview with him, SARRAIN revealed that

run operations of captioned organization. SARRAIN said that

he declined the offer. He advised, however, that he would be

willing to penetrate the organization as an FBI informant if

this were desired and if suitable terms could be agreed upon.

SARRAIN was advised that his offer was approciated hit could

not be accepted.

SARRAIN was interviewed at his home, Apartment P-2,

7888 New Riggs Road, Adelphi, Maryland.

As the Bureau is

aware, SARRAIN is 40 years of age and a lawyer by profession.

He has stated that for some five years prior to 1/1/59, he

served as prosecuting attorney in Havana, Cuba. He fled Cuba

in May, 1959, for political reasons.

He has admitted that he

served

six months of an 18-month prison term in the Federal

Correctional Institute at Tallahassee, Florida, for forging

United States visas in an effort to have relatives and friends

in Cuba admitted to the United States.

employed as a laborer at the Duron Paint Company in Beltsville,

Maryland. M

At the conclusion of the interview with him, SARRAIN

volunteered information that ROLANDO VEGA and a Cuban associate

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of Operation Alpha 66 who might be willing to make monetary

contributions.

SARRAIN said that he had observed VEGA and

associate traveling in an old Ford station wagon bearing

1963 Washington, D. C., License Plate EZ744.Q l

On 4/2/63, Mrs. MARY PARLON, D. C. Motor Vehicles

Department, advised

that

the above D. C.

license tag belongs

to a 1956 Ford ranch wagon registered on 3/2/62 as the property.

of FELIX D. CENTENO, 200 Treaton Place, S. E., Washington,

D. C. It would appear that CENTENO may be SARRAIN's source of

information in this matter. & u

WFO indices contain no references to FELIX D. CENTENO.

WFO indices also contain no information identifiable with the

Dr. TIRSO who is mentioned in the enclosure.

ROLANDO VEGA,

mentioned in the enclosure, was previously mentioned in WO

airtel 3/29/63 in instant matter.

LEADS

REQUEST OF THE BUREAU

Bureau's attention is invited to SARRAIN's offer to

penetrate Operation Alpha 66 as an FBI informant as set forth

on page two of instant letter.

This offer is a continuing one

and could be reactivated if Bureau should find it of value in

the future. I u

LOS ANGELES DIVISION

AT LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

Will endeavor to identify the Dr. TIRSO (phonetic)

mentioned in the enclosed LHM as the owner of a hospital in

California and the head of a society of Latin

Americans which

is very anti-CASTRO.

The informant has reported that Dr. TIRSO

and his associates have offered as much as $60, 000 to finance

a single armed act against the CASTRO regime.

WASHINGTON FIELD OFFICE

AT WASHINGTON, D. C.

1. Will, upon the completion of an appropriate

background inquiry, interview ROLANDO VEGA, waiter at the

mayflower Hotel in Washington, D. C., who is reported to have

replaced DI. LUIS FELIPE DUANY, •TR:,

ara ropresentative of operation ipha 68. CORN iNTIAL

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