Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: WANNALL, W. R.
To: SULLIVAN, W. C.
Document date: 4/1/63
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

4/27/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10205-10487

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

105-106995-2ND NR 15

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FROM:

FBI

WANNALL, W. R.

TO: SULLIVAN, W. C.

TITLE :

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

04/01/1963

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AGRUPACION MONTECRISTI, ACA, RAIDS, ALISAN, ARMS

ACT, AMMO, AFFIL, CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL,

FINANCE

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Confidential

RESTRICTIONS: 1C; 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 04/23/1998

OPENING CRITERIA:, INDEFINITE

COMMENTS : INC LHM

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

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DATE:

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April 1, 1963

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ANTI-CASTRO ACTIVITIES

AgRUPACION MONTCRIST

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the Director's

information,

there is attached a memorandum

which summarizes the results of our investigations of anti-Castro raids

and contemplated raids; as received through 3/31/63.

We have obtained complete resumes on the 3/26/63 raid

carried out by L-66 on the Soviet ship from some of the participants

and have learned both boats used in the raid had been docked previously

at North Miami Beach.

". One leader states the bomb used was made up

in the Bahamas from material taken from the U. S. and he also states

other arms used were provided by CIA prior to the April, 1961, invasion

of Cuba and were subsequently hidden at various locations in the

Bahamas.

Those interviewed positively denied any U.S. assistance

or support for the raid.

•All participants have been identified and Miami is locating

and interviewing those not already interviewed. We are separately

advising British Intelligence of the new ramifications involving

the Bahamas, which are British possessions (e)

CLASSIETED DECISIONS FINAUTZED

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ACTION: EV DEPARIUENI RAVION CO NURITE (DRC)

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Attached letter to the

• Attorney General enclosing a

copy of the memorandum will be sent.

Copies have been designated

sox the Deputy Attorney General and Assiate sten sch oasley.

5668511

Liaison will deliver

173-3324

at the International Situation Room of the White House

Bromley

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

DATE: 11-14-2017

ALL

UNITE STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUS

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

LUIN IULINAL

In Repli, Please Refer to

File Nis.

WASHINGTON 25, D.C.

ApriMA HAS AGSOBJECTION TO

ORC!

P.1 CANTI-CASTRO ACTIVITIES

DECLASSISCATION AND/OR

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION

9-10-86

IN THIS DOCUMENT: Jm 9-15-4

SID/KSR

On March 29, 1963, our Savannah, Georgia, Office

Intervieved Private Santiago Alvarez Iernandez,

a Cuban traine 10b 4

stationed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, with the United StatesJFk

Army.

Private Alvarez identified hinself

as the son of Doctor

Santiago Juan Antonio Alvarez Rodriguez,

owner of the yacht

"Alisan," which reportedly was used in the raid against a

Sov" ship off Cuba on the night of March 26, 1963. He said

his Ixther had telephonically contacted him from Miami, Florida,

on ilach ?aia Jas, to acivise that he was back home sale and

successful. He quoted his father as stating

the remainder of the raiding group had returned to a base,

which was not identified.

On March 29, 1963, Santiago Juan Antonio Alvarez

Rodriguez advised our Miani Office as follows: (4)

He was formerly & Senator in Cuba and a doctor in

Mexico.

He resides in Miani and is unemployed at the present

time but owns and operates the "Alisan," which has two diesel

12D

engines.

The "Alisan" left Miami on March 17, 1963, and went

to the vicinity of Orange Key on the western edge of the Grand

Bahama Bank of the Bahama Islands, and

thence proceeded noith

to i rendezvous with a 23-foot boat which took place on March

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1963

between Cat Cay and Orange Key.

The 23-foot boat was

taken into tow with the intention that arms hidden in three

seputie locations in the Bahamas would be picked up. Bad

weather forced a deiay, but on March 24 and 25, 1963, some

arms were collected.

The 23-foot boat was used to make the

attack and seven men participated. M/u)

After the attack,

the 23-foot boat was then used to

return the arms to the hiding places, and the "Alisan" subsequently

towed it to a point near the Miami shore.

The "Alisan" is

presently docked at North Miami Beach, Florida. K/u) appa 232-0524

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FACE CONFIDENTIAL

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DATE: ^11-14-2017

Anti-Castro Activities

CONFIDENTIAL

time the balance was $250, Three individuals identified with

Im66 in Puerto Rico advised on March 28, 1963, that they had

no previous knowledge. concerning the date the L-66 raid would

take place and that representatives of the group in fuerto Rico

had furnished nothing but money for this raid. It was stated

the group's funds in Puerto Rico have been exhausted and that

what little money had been available was sent to Pedro Muina

in Miami, Florida.

Concerning the March 18, 1963, raid on Cuba conducted

by members of Alpha 66.and the Second National Front of Escambray

(SNFE), our Miami Office on March 29, 1963, interviewed

Armando Fleites, a leader, of the SNFE, who

has previously been

identified

as having participated in this raid.

Fleites

claimed that all boats and weapons which figured in this raid,

as well as all participating personnel, are still located in

area of the Caribbean which he declined to identify.

However,

he insisted that no part of the action or preparation therefor

occurred in United States territory, including Puerto Rico or

the Nirgin Islands.

He declined to

be more specific or to

this raid, but claimed that n

With regard to the use of British territory in connection

with these raids, it is noted that the British territory in

closest proximity

to Cuba is the Cay Sal Bank, located 40 miles

from the northern coast of Cuba. This Bank includes many

uninhabited islands and stretches over hundreds.of miles of

water. A representative of British Intelligence who is located

Bahama Islands, advised our Miami Office on March 19,

1963,

that the British Government in the Bahamas has very few

patrol boats and that the Cay Sal is difficult to patrol because

of its great distance from Nassau. He acknowledged that the

majority of recent anti-Castro raids have reportedly been

conducted from islands located in the Cay Sal Bank. (C)

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