Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 10/29/1969
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90084-10068

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

105-183815-NR

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FBI

FROM:

MM

TO:

HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 10/29/1969

PAGES:

5

SUBJECTS :

LAUREANO BATISTA FALLA

LAUREANO FERNANDO BATISTA Y FALLA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS : 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/14/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

• COMMENTS :

MEMO

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Date:

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• Kennedy

issassination Records

Collection act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Note!.

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situation in the Dominican Republic changed and the

training camp was discontinued because the new

government in that country would not approve the

continuance of the camp.

In 1965, CIA advised that that agency had an

operational interest in BATISTA.

Later the relationship

vas discontinued.

On 10-22-69, CARLOS ZARRAGA, Key Source - Cuban,

who is a personal friend of BATISTA, described BATISTA

as an intellectual and a student of

Political Science

who possibly has devised some political proposition to

offer the Cuban Government concerning the treatment

or exchange of political prisoners in Cuba.

said that BATISTA's wife,

ZARRAGA

(FNU) DE LA CAMPA DE BATISTA,

is the daughter of the former Foreign Minister of Cuba

who was also Cuban Ambassador to England and France.

SATISTA's wife would be about 28 years old, 120 pounds,

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and they have two Small children.

One of the •

children is about two or three years old, is named

LAURZANO, and the other is an infant about one year

old, name unknown.

ZARRAGA Said that BATISTA's wife

is not interested in politics and if she contacted

the Czech Embassy, Jit was probably on behalf of someone

(*(u)

On 10-22-69, MM 635-S advised that BATISTA

is a known anti-Communist who has spent the past nine

years actively working against the Communist Government

of Cuba. Informant said that it BATISTA or his wife had

contacted the Czech Imbassy, it was probably an attempt

to facilitate an immigration permit for someone in Cuba

to come to the United States inasmuch as the Czech Embassy

rundies dovertent of Cuba affairs in iie inited States Jesu)

The Miami Office has interviewed BATISTA a

number of times in the past and does not consider him a

security risk or a potential informant..

He is not a

government employee or employed in a sensitive industry.

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