Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: CRANE, MICHAEL E.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 08/16/1968
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10209-10461

RECORD SERIES: HO

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 45-10815-10

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

CRANE. MICHAEL E.

TO: DIRECTOR. FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 08/16/1968.

PAGES:

55

SUBJECT:

MIKAGESAN MARU, FREIGHTER, EXPLOSION, SUSP, CUBAN POWER

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

12/17/1997

UPDATE DATE:

Redact

RESTRICTIONS:

Consultation

COMMENTS:

REFERRED TO USCG

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

FD-204 (Rev. 3-3-59)

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Copy to:

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Immigration and Naturalization Service, Miami

Central

Intelligance Agency:

Mien

- Customs

(1-Region I1) (1-Miami)

u.s. Coast Guard, Miami.

111th MI Group, Region VII, Orlando, Florida

- Department of State (Coordinator of

Cuban Affairs), Miami

Report of:

Date:

MICHAEL E. CRANE

Office:

Miami, Florida

8/16/68

Field Office File #: 45-1159

Bureau File #:

Title:

UNKNOWN SUBJECT; EXPLOSION ABOAND JAPANESE PREIGHTER

"MIKAGESAN MARU" GALVESTON, TEXAS, JUNE I, 1968.

Character:

Synopsis:

ALL INEORMADON CONTAINED

CRIME ON HIGH SEAS; FIRINGEREN'S UNCLASSIFED

DAIL 6-1083 вікр 3/а

At approximately 3:15 PM, 6/1/68, an explosion o

unknotr

origin occurred

in the aft section of the Japenese freighter

"MIKAGESAN MARU" while it was docked at Pier 40, Calveston,

Texas..

explosion appeared to. have been caused by an

explosive device from outside the vessel, abóut 6 to 8

feet above the water line.

This vessels

which has & gross

tonnage of 9,424,

Miami,

facilities from 12:55 PM on 5/28/68,

on 5/29/68.

A similar explosion occurred aboard another

Japanese

"Asaka Maru"

, several days after it had been

docked

.at the Dodge Island facilities and clain of responsibility

for the explosion on the "Asaka Mari"

was made by & Cuban

Power organization at Miami,

in communicationa to local news media signed "ORNESTO, General

Delegate, Cuban Power"

• Investigation at Dodge Island facilities

has failed to develop any suspects with regard to instant

explosion.

Intervien of logical suspects believed to have

associated with Cuban

Power movement in Mani, Fla,, non

productive.

-Pa

DETAILS:

This investigation was predicated on information received

from

the Houston Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

(FBI), on June 3, 1958, to the effect that the U.s. Coast

Guard

at Calveston, Texas, had advised that office on June 3,

1968, that an expiosion had ocourred aboard the Japanese freighter

"Mikagesan Maru"

at approximately 3:15 PM om June 1, 1968.

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to

your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note).

DATE: 11-14-2017

FD-302 (Rev. 4-15-64)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date 6/12/68

Lieutenant Commander

WILLIAMS, iS

Acting Commander of the U. S. Coast Guard Base on McArthur

Causeway, Miami Beach, Florida and as such has the addi-

tional title of Acting Captain of the port.

Commander WILLIAMS advised that in connection

with his current capacity as acting captain of the port

he is charged with discharging the U. S. Coast Guards,

a responsibility concerning the security of all port

facilities in the Miami area including the facilities at

Dodge Island.

Commander WILLIAMS advised that as a result

of the fact that three foreign ships have

experienced

explos

sions after having been in the port facilities at Dodge

Island,

Miami, Florida,

he has instituted a complete

tightening of

all Coast Guard security in and about the

Dodge Island facilities.

Commander WILLIAMS advised that he

has alerted

all crews to completely investigate information concerning

any possible suspicious individuals or boats in or about

the freighters that are utilizing the port facilities and

he stated that in the event a Cost Guard vessel is desired

at the facilities or elsewhere, at any time in connection

with any investigation by this office a telephone call

should be placed to telephone number 538-4731 and the

caller should ask to speak with the officer of the day.

He stated this telephone is manned on a 24 hour basis.

Commander WILLIAMS advised that he has been in

contact with the Intelligence Section of the U. S. Coast

Guard as well as other elements of the Coast Guard but

that as a result of these contacts no information has

come to his attention which would suggest any suspects

in connection

with the explosions

that occurred on the

"Asaka Maru"";

""Mikagesan Maru" and

the "Granwood".

On .

6/3/68

_at

Miami, Florida

SAS JOHN R. ACKERLY ard

MICHAEL E. CRANE MEC/rg1

File #

Miami 45-1158

6/7/68

-by.

_Date dictated

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to

your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.

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