CR 134-18087-4
Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 11/12/68
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/5/2015

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10285-10219

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AGENCY FILE NUMBER: SEE TITLE

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SAC, MM

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE : [Restricted]

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

11/12/1968

6

MR, TRA, ASSOC, REL, RES, EMP, IMPRISONED, CUBA, ACA,

US, RCK

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS: / Redact

• DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/12/1998

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

MAY 86M (IT 8) 101-11.6

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO

DIRECTOR, FBI (134-18087)

FROM

SAC, MIAMI (134-1565)

(P)

SUBJECT:

JOSE SANTIAGO APARICIO GARCIA VALDEZ

PSI (UD) - CUBA

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CIA HAS NO OBJECTION, TO S

DECLASSIFICATION AND/ER,

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATIO

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Declassity on: OAD$Y

Re Miami letter to Bureau,

10-15-68.

Bureau letter to Miami, 11-5-68.

DECLASSITIED BY 5648 540./KSR

09 10-1697

A.

A check of the field office files reflects

that CIA, by letter dated 6-18-61, advised that a meeting

was held by six Cuban exiles, and

the purpose of their

meeting was to become useful

to the Cuban cause.

GARCIA

was one of those who attended the meeting. (K) (U)

Bureau files contain INS, Miami, information

sheet dated 4-9-60, which discloses the following informa-

tion: Subject was an automobile mechanic for Batista

Police Force in Havana in 1953. From 1954 to 1958, subject

, which was owned by Colonel

VICTOR MANUEL DUENOS ROBERT, who was imprisoned in 1960.

On 10-1-59, subject was arrested and charged with hiding

counterrevolutionaries, spent 40 days in jail, was released

on bond, and was in partial hiding since his release.

Subject was then wanted in Cuba by CASTRO forces for hiding

counterrevolutionaries. Subject arrived in the United

States on 4-18-60, at Key Largo, Florida, via boat together

with three other Cubans, two of whom were also escapees.:

By report dated 6-2-64, CIA advised that on

5-26-64, GARCIA said that a JURE mission was delayed,

furnished information concerning a boat named "True"

and

331-26 motorboat, blue, moored in the miami River, du)

By letter dated 6-3-64, U.

S. Customs advised

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MM 134-1565

SECRE

they had received an anonymous call saying that

explosives were stored at the house of GARCIA, 400

N. W. South River Drive, Miami, and as a consequence,

a consent search was conducted

and no explosives were

found.

It was noted the residence did contain

considerable food, which was stored there for JURE.

S. Customs, by letter 6-8-64, advised that

MANOLOYREY,

head of Jure, arrived in the United states

on 5-24-64, on an unsuccessful attempt to infiltrate

Cuba.

The Department of State, by letter dated 11-30-64,

advised that GARCIA had contacted U. S. Customs concerning

a re-entry permit to go to the Dominican Republic (DR). He

planned to deliver a boat to the DR and stay there two

months to train a boat crew.

On 11-7-64, U. S. Customs checked GARCIA prior to

his leaving for Nassau on the boat. The boat contained no

articles of war.

On 11-10-64, GARCIA and the boat were in a Nassau

shipyard, where the boat was undergoing repairs.

Nassau

authorities inspected the boat and found no arms or

ammunition, but arrested GARCIA as a prohibited immigrant,

fined him, and deported him.

A CIA report, dated 10-4-64, stated that on

to Tavernier and embark some persons on a raid to

Cuba.

u)

Inverner, but Customs adyised that the boat was taken

to

engine trouble and bad weather conditions

prevented its departure for Cuba.

2.

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By letter dated 11-7-64, the Bureau was

advised that GARCIA

was of operational

By letter

•dated 10-26-64, CIA advised GARCIA

was of opexational interest to that agency (Ru)

CIA, Miami, on 11-12-68, advised GARCIA is

not of operational interest and was discontinued

because the group to which he balonged was discontinued (uy

B.

Discreet canvass of logical informants

reflected the following:

MM 635-S advised that GARCIA was previously

operations involving boats. Informant said he knew

MM 639-S advised he knew GARCIA and considered

him a dedicated anti-CASTRO Cuban exile who has been

involved with other

exiles in boat operations against

Cuba.

Informant said in one/ instance, in 1966, GARCIA

tried to obtain boats for an invasion of Haiti, then

Cuba

being sponsored by ROLANDOY MASFERRER, ROJAS, former Cuban

CARLOS ZARRAGA MARTINEZ, Key Source. - Cuban,

advised that GARCIA is well known among anti-CASTRO

activists in the Miami area, was formerly a yacht

captain in Cuba and has participated in Cuban exile

Naval operations

against Cuba.

The above sources advised they know of no

derogatory information concerning GARCIA.

C. U. S. Customs, Miami, advised that GARCIA

is not of operational interest to

that agency but they

have contacted him in the past and considered him well

informed, honest, truthful, and

a person well connected

with Cuban activists in Miami.

U. S. Customs said that

agency considered GARCIA to be in

an excellent position

to furnish information.

3.

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Customs explained that GARCIA, being a

qualified boat captain,

is especially well connected

with

Cuban fishermen in Miami and is especially

knowledgeable concerning these boats, the identities

of would-be raiding boats and the locations from where

the different boats operate.

Customs said that GARCIA

is presently unemployed and in a bad economic situation.

D. Local credit checks were negative.

The Dade County Municipal Court reflected that

a fisherman and on

motorboat or vessel

without proper Florida registration.

This citation was dismissed on 10-23-62.

FD-165 and FD-9 have been submitted to the

Bureau.

The following is the identification record

Of GARCIA, dated 10-14-68, under FBI #486 329 D:

Contributor of

Fingerprints

USINS Miami Fla

Name and

Number

Jose Santiago

Aparicio

Garcia-Valdes

#CPI (MIP)

Arrested or

Received

Charge

Disposition

4-18-60

Dep PrOC

Dept of Pub

Safety

Miami Fla

Jose Santiago

Garcia Valdez

#60-4868-41925

4-19-60

vio of imm laws

USINS Miami Fla

JOSE S. A.

garcia valdes

#A11S34855

10-15-61

vio of Imn Laws

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in the

U.

GARCIA advised that he has never been

S. Armed

forces.

F.

Because of GARCIA's age, he is not

required to register with the Selective Service System.

G.

Sources contacted and GARCIA, himself,

advised he has no marital difficulties.

H. There are no known special problems which

may limit the scope of the initial investigation.

On 10-2-68, INS, Miami, records reflected the

following information:

JOSE SANTIAGO APARICIO GARCIA VALDEZ arrived

in the United States on 4-18-60. He was an automobile

mechanic until 1953 in Cuba, and from 1954 to 1958,

• yacht captain aboard "Pal".

On 10-1-64, he requested a re-entry permit

INS to deliver

the boat "Three Seas" to the

Dominican Republic, and planned to leave on this trip

on 10-23-64.

On 2-10-66, a Cuban refugee, MARIA LUISA BRESO,

in a signed statement, said she asked GARCIA to go to

Nassau

and bring her sister to liami, and GARciA did. boarde

In a signed statement, CELIALBRESO, born 9-21-21,

in Cuba, advised she entered the United States on 2-11-64,

without inspection.

She said she was picked up in Nassau

by GARCIA, who took her in a boat to Miami, where she

entered illegally and took a taxi to the home of her sister.

BRESO said she paid GARCIA no money for bringing

her into the United States.

INS records do not reflect any action was taken

against GARCIA.

5.

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INS records reflect GARCIA was born 5-23-30,

at Caibarien, Las Villas, Cuba., His parents were not

listed (indicating their dentity is unknown).

He was

married toMERCHDESyPAZ, and had three children, JOSE

584-10-8371,

and FBI No. 486 329 D. His address

was listed as 7280 South Waterway Drive, Miami.

for emanci

captioned individual as a Bureau-approved potential

security informant and to proceed with his development.

Cub-

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