Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 11/7/58
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/11/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10287-10153

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

39-2656-1

Released under the John

issassination Record:

Collection Act of 1991

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Caser:Nd 54460 Date:

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM: SAC, MM

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE:

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

11/07/1958

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PDL, AIRCRAFT, REGISTRY, UNK, DIAZ, TRIANA, ASSOC,

ARREST

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS : 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/18/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

INC MEMO

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STANDARD FORM. NOW-A

Office Memorandum • UNITED SIATES GOVERNMENT

TO

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-480)

SAC, MIAMI (39-76)

SUBJECT:

ANTONIO SANSON CASANOVA

FCC

(00:MM)

DATE: 11/7/58

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REVIEWED BY

STUFK TASK FORCE

ON

BELFASE IN FULL

LEASE

IN PART

Relet from Legat Havana 9/10/58; Bulet 10/3/50:

Miami tel to WFO 10/7/58; and WFO tel to Miami 10/8/58.

Legat Havana letter dated 9/15/58, lists

Cessna 180-A, having American Registry HN 52130:

WFO tel advised that CAA records reflect that this number

is now not assigned to any aircraft and never to a Cessna.

resistration su out to MaD, advlsed that the correct

CAA, Miami, advised that a foreigner may

purchase an airplane but to be flown, it must be register-

ed.

Only a U. S. citizen may register an aircraft in

the

States.

U.S. Customs advised that PEDRO DIAZ LANZ

purchased N

5213D, a Cessna, sold it to an American,

GEORGE TREDWELL,

who sold it to SANSON CASANOVA, who

traded the plane in on a twin-engine Beechcraft, N 482,

which subsequently crashed.

TREDWELL subsequently purchased a Lockheed

Lodestar N 74659 that went to Cuba on 10/15/58, and was

seized by U. S.

Customs on 10/16/58. RICARDO LORIE TALIS,

July 26 leader, is wealthy and capable of supplying the

money for the purchase, is suspected of being in Cuba

on 10/15/58, aboard the Lodestar, and was aboard

Cessna N 5213D on 9/11/58, at Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba.

2: - Bureau

washington Field CT-46

Newark

Miami

39-2456=1

NIAL

ARJD: ush

+(8)

REC- 27

12 NOV 10 1958

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MM 39-76

U. S. Customs advised that many of these pur-

chases have gone through Mr. ROBERT MEYERS, Linden, New

Jersey, who has been co-operating with Bureau Agents

and

who is handling a purchase for four F8F Bearcat fighter

planes, and that $0,000 has been deposited by either

TREDWELL OF LORIE VALLS.

Papers found in possession of TRIANA DIAZ,

ENRIQUE CABRE, and JOSE NARANJO when arrested in Miami

on 10/22/58; now charged with ITSA, indicate that a

C-47 plane in Canada,

registration N 26753, has been or

will be stolen by Cuban rebels.

MM 635-S, who talked to RAUL CASTRO on 10/29/58,

advised that CASTRO plans to purchase a number of F-51

fighter planes for use in the Sierra Cristal, Cuba.

It is requested that WFO contact CAA, Washington,

D. C., to ascertain who registered above-mentioned air-

craft

and if any of the above-named persons registered

any other aircraft.

Newark Office requested to contact Mr. ROBERT

MEYERS, Linden, New Jersey, concerning his knowledge

of above airplane purchases and other pending purchases

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