Originator: CIT
From: DEAN, HARRY
To: KENNEDY, JOHN F.
Document date: 06/28/1961
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

4/9/2018

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10188-10205

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 62-116395-1448

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: CIT

FROM: DEAN, HARRY

TO:

KENNEDY, JOHN F.

TITLE:

DATE: 06/28/1961

PAGES:

170

SUBJECTS :

CC, RESP, FBI MATERIALS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 12/23/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: EBF, INC ABSTRACT, COVER SHEET, 32 MEMO, 8 LTR, 3 NEWS ARTIC, ENV, PHOTO, 12

A/T, CARD, 3 TTY, PRESS RELEASE, 5 LHM, 18 INTV

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

UNITED STATES

RNMENT

-Memorandum

DECLASSISIED BY 9803 ROT/EN

05 1-5-9/

TO

DIRECTOR, FBI (62-109217)

DATE: 3/-6/64

FROM

ROSAC, LOS ANGELES (105-12933) (C)

COMFIDENTURE

SUBJECT:

SEID

JARA OF DECILSSIFICATION IN

HARRY

DEAN

IS - CUBA

(00:

LOS ANGELES)

10X LETS

BERATH I

ICEY

TRE SEOUR

3

Classied

60JA/G2

Declaraty ai: 0ADI PA86a

ReBulet to Los Angeles, 2/19/64.

Enclosed are nine copies of a letterhead memoranaum.

dated as above, at Los

Angeles, setting forth requested

information concerning the subject.

The enclosure is being classified "Confidential"

for the protection of the sources utilized to cite the Chicago

Chapter

the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) and EDGAR

SWABECK.

The concealed sources utilized in the citations of

the FPCC and EDGAR SWABECK, applicable for the period of DEAN'S

activities in Chicago, mostly were derived from the reports

and SA LEE. R.

fI SA JOHN N. MORGAN, dated 7/26/61, at cardino "EDGAR SWABECK,

INMAN, dated 7/26/62,

at Los Angeles, regarding

SM - SWP"

WE'

1282-5 Ba (Ca 6100-3313 Come to wath the PCS 4 3184-S,:

CG

5933-S, CG 6259-S and LA 4015-S in connection with SWABECK.

In accordance with Bureau instructions, a letterhead

memorandum concerning FRANK VEGA will be prepared separately

in the case captioned,

"FRANK VEGA, IS - CUBA,

" following

reinterview with DEAN

for any additional information he may be

able to furnish regarding VEGA and his contact with him in

(2-109068-3113

This case is being placed in a closed status.

Bureau (Enc. 9) (RM) (AM)

REC 7.

os Angeles

62=3

1- 105- 16378 -

FRANK VEGA)

5

MẠR 10 1964

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(4)

ENCLOSURE

Copy io: CIA/State/RAO

ONE/OSI/ACSI

by routing slip for into.

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MAR 19196%

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3)

4-22 (Rev. 1-22-60)

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Records Br

HW 53074

Jame Searching Unit - Room 652

Service Unit - Room 6524

Forward to File Review

Too DRAgon 63305, 206.

Supervisor

Room

Type of References Requested:

Regular Request (Analytical Search)

AH References (Subversive & Nonsubversive); |

Subversike References only

- Nopsubversive

Referencestoray

Mates: are showi

Type of Seaich Requested:

I Restricted to Locality of -

Exact Name Only (On the Nose)

Builduran

сотід

Massimeo

Declassify m: DABg 101,185,

Subject -

FRANK

VEGA

Birthdate & Place

11/19/96

Address

CLASS SED 575668-540/mude

DECLASSIPY ON: 25X_

Localities

R#_

Prod.

Date

2-11

Searche

Initials l

NS-S

FILE NUMBER

SERIAL

105127490

115- 1920d/V

praties not

25-425690

25-378/78

25-482673

105-104211-1

100: 16-16.58

97-4196 - 31-20,05

10-5-1041821-2

105-105129-1

145-87173-30018,20

115-11.5045-1

105-105044-1

105-94191-11

92. 3243:222p/5

105-103.244-3

105.106231-2,5

110-6-210-432

(64 - 230 - 210-16022(5)

DECRES

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Released under the John

DATE: 11-14-2017:

Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote) •

CG 62-6115

ENTIAL

At this time DEAN had one arrest by the Detroit Police Department

for disturbing a religious meeting and two arrests for usirg

indecent and obscene language.

He was also AWÖL from Fort

Knox, Kentucky, in 1949.

In December, 1960, DEAN

again called this office to

report that he had been residing in Detroit for the past two

months.

At that time he said he was living in Chicago but he

refused to divuige his local address.

He Continued to

telephonically contact this office on several occasions until

June, 1961.

• He furnished information concerning Cuban nationals

connected with the 26th of July Movement and on local persons

connected with the FPeC.

He was last contacted by

two agents of the Chicago

Office on June 7, 1961, at which time he was told that this

office did not desire his assistance:

Former CG 6403-S

advised in August, 1960,

that DEAN

was a white male, age about 25 (in 1960), stocky build, and

black hair.

While DEAN voluntarily furnished information to the

Chicago Office over a period of nearly a year, he was never

considered

a PSI or informant by this office.

On December 7, 1960, HARRY DEAN telephonically contacted

this office.

He advised that he had been in contact with a

ED SWABECK,

1716 St. Michaels, Chicago, Illinois, telephone

number Wh 4-6445.

He stated that he had originally met SWABECK

in Cuba this past summer. He said that SWABECk invited him to

a meeting in his home

on the evening of December 7, 1960 at

7 p.m. DEAN stated that this is

a meeting of a Fair Play For

Cuba Committee (FPCC) group and that he intended to attend:

He said that from theway. SWABECK talked it is his belief that

this

group is trying to out due other groups re the FPCC and

tbus cause a split in the group. He also said that SWABECK

made mention of a letter that he received from TABER which

stated that EDDIE SHAW Of Detroit had been moved into a position

Similar to that of a regional director of the FPFCC.

2

CONFYOENTIAL

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

DATE: 11-14-2017

CG 62-6115

CONFISENTIAL

On December 20, 1960 CG 6403-S advised SA RAYMOND

E. MOONEY of a meeting of a group of persons interested in

forming a North Side Branch of the Chicago Chapter of the

Fair Play for Cuba Committee which meeting was, held on

December 7, 1960 at the home of EDWARD SWABECK, 1716 St.

Michael's Street, Chicago. Y(U)

This group decided that an organizational

meeting

should be held on January 6, 1961, at the home'of MIMI HARRIS.

BARNETT was selected to be in charge oi the program

SWABECK was assigned the duty to have the announcements printed

by DICK CRILEY and mailed, and HARRY DEAN was to call ANGUS

SUMNER and JOHN ROSSEN to obtain reading material that can

either be sold or passed out free of charge. Temporary

Branch Officers, i.e.,

Chairman,:

Secretary and Educational

Director are to be elected

and MARCIA STARR will collect dues

from new members.

During this meeting, HARRY DEAN was overheard to

state that just before he leit Whiting, Indiana, he had been

beaten,

a rock had been thrown through his window and he was

given a "hard time" by the townspeople. He said that he

is presently a sheet metal worker in Chicago. DEAN also

stated that he was in Cuba in June,

1960, and while en route

met ED SWABECk on the plane. He and SWABECK were in Cuba

at the same

time and were together in Cuba at least part of

the time.

DEAN said his first contact with the. Cubans was

when he donated money to the Cuban cause on two occasions when

they held parades on State Street in 1958.

At that time, he

mentioned that he was working for the Curtis Publishing

Company. DEAN said he then went to the Cuban Consulate,

Chicago,

and met Dr. FERRIER, a Consulate official.

DEAN

expressed his sympathies toward the CASTRO revolution to

DI. FERRIER. He said that Dr. FERRIER knew of and worked

with the 26th of July Movement in Chicago,

and he also knew

01

the formation of the FPCC. According to DEAN, Dr. FERRIER

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