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Mr. A. J . Weberman

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE

WASHINGTON D.C. 20223

OFFI E OF THE DIRECTOR

March 20, 1978

Independent Research Associates6 Bleecker Street

New York, New York 10012

Dear Mr. Weberman:

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Reference is made to your request under the Freedom o f InformationAct for records and f i les pertaining to the assassination o f forme1•President John F Kennedy and his vis i t to Miami , Florida onNovember 18, 1963.

In that connection, almost all the documentation and physical evidence

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in the possession o f the Secret Service has been transferred to theNational Archives . That agency has been designated as the official

depository o f all material relating to the assassination o f the formerPresident . However, in response to your request, we have conducted anextensive search o f the materials which are currently maintained in therecords o f the Secret Service . Attached hereto are copies o f al l documentscurrently maintained in Secret Service f i les which relate to your inquiry .

Some documents have had information deleted from them because they containinvestigative information compiled for law enforcement purposes. Pursuant

to Title 5, United States Code, Section 552 b) ?) C), they have been exemptedsince disclosure would constitute an unwarranted invasion o f personal privacyto other persons mentioned in the requested f i le . The citation o f theabove exemption is not to be construed as the only exemption which may be

available under the Freedom o f Information Act .

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CERTIFIED COPY OF A REPORT . A Record of

DEPOSITION of Witness J o s ~ Pelaez Mora. (Cont'd.)

on ~ h e s t ree t that a few minutes bef ore he had seen an airplane

up above ·, .but -·quite far from ·that place·; that he could see how .. . . . , ·

from. t ~ e ground _the p ~ a n e w ~ s f i red a t w h ~ . e i ~ ~ a s f lytng ~ l o n gthose pla.ces, and· that . O P J e t h T h g l ike a spark or' f i r_ lfJaS pitched

overboard from the ai r vessel ; t h a ~ ~ _did not s e ~ a n y a u t o m o b i l ein t rans i t by that s i te with i t s occupants t hrowi'ng explos i ves or

shooting; that , a t that plaa-e severa l per s ons were wounded by r eason

of the explosion; that hi s legal r epresentat ive i s his mother whose

nam e i s Laudelina Mora Mart nez, who l ives in t he .s ame home wit h ·

the deponent.· Thai- -th i s· i s a l l he k nows-.- ·Once t 'hi s -wa s re·a(i ·and .-

. f ound of conformity, he ra t i f ies ; the pert inent l egal warnings

wer e made to him, and he s i gns afte r t he Judge . I do Cer t i f y. (Sgd.)

Dr. Cervantes G u t 1 ~ r r e J o s ~ A. Pelae z Mora . A. Rib eaux.

INVES TIGATION: R e p ~ ~ ~ i c of Cuba. Minist ry of Nat ional Defense. Army.

Headquarters of the DIER (Department of Inves t igat ion of Rebel A r m ~Ciudad Liber tad. October 27, 1959. To His Honor the Judge of

Inves t igations of t h ~ Sixth Section. Havana. Sir: The undersigned,

ABELARDO COLOME IBARRA, Commander of th e Rebel .Army, Chief of t he

Department of Inv es t igations of the Reb.el Army, has t h e honor t o

inform you that by r eason of the events which t ook pl a ce on t he

22nd of t hi s mont h i n th e Ci ty of Havana , wherein ai r planes or

small l ight ai rcraf ts part icipated , which vessel s , according tosupposedly

exist ing news/c ame fro m s ome par t in the North Ameri can t er r i t ory;

said pl anes having dropped a manife sto and s h r a p n e ~ over the

defenseless people , I del egated on the Pol i ce Agents of th i s Body

RAMON RODRIGUEZ AC UNA and LUIS CAHBRANA < ~ h o ~ i n t h e . course of t hei r

inves gat ion have succ eeded i n l earning the fo l lowing : Tha t on

the s aid dat e , in the a f t er noon hour s , two or more ai r plane s or



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INVES1IGATION: (Cont 'd.)

small l ight a i rcraf ts dropped from -above the City some subversive

propaganda s).ips whereby; d.efamation was made of the Cuban Govern- : . . . . . . · ·- .. . . . . .ment and ts f e v o ~ u t i o n r y Laws·. -· -Also they ·dropped shrap_nel on

s i t e s where the greatest c o n c e n t r ~ t i o n of public ~ s ~ ~ u n d a t the. .. .- .said time; e s p e c ~ l l y upon sucn- places ·where the p ~ o p l e assemble ·

in order to get on or off the b u ~ ~ s ,_thus c u § i ~ g a sad balance

of numerous persons wounded to different degrees, as also two dead,- . ·

about which occurrence the p r o p e ~ a u t h o r i t i ~ s ~ e already aware of

through the actuations carr ied out a t the various s t a t i·ons · of the

Natio_ lal RevolJltior:t9J'Y Police. Likewise, the said Agents have. -- -

known that the attacking planes were piloted by i n d i v i d u ~ dis- .

Revolutio-nary Government under the direct ion of Ex-

Commande who was formerly, and unt i l very

recently, Chief of the FAR (Revolutionary Air Force; which factt r.. ___ __ _ • • -

can be very well appreciated through ar t ic les .and news. already- ·- -

p u b ~ i s h e d in the local .press, in pronouncements of functionaries

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of the North American·Government, as well as through the very

confession of the s ~ tanz, as appeared on the Cuban news- ·

paper Informaci6n , issue of October 23, ·1959, wherei-n there i s

·-·a paragraph which l i t e ra l ly reads as follows: - Diaz Lanz stated

to the informant, manifested to the investigators tha t he piloted

the plane and threw the s l ips of paper. He added, tha t h e was

-the ins t i gator of the whole idea o That carrying on fur ther the

investigations, they managed to know tha t as the s i t e known as

Esquina de Te jas was one of' the places most affecte-d by the throw-

ing of shrapnel ~ o m the ai rp la nes or small l ght ai r c raf ts , t he

resul t was several persons wounded and a man ki l led as a conse -

quence of the wounds suffer ed, of which fact the Judge of Inves t i gat

of the Sixth Section of Havana, i s already informed, t his being t he

Court wh ere Case No. 3007 of 1959 was est abl ished, duly informed re -

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garding the crimes of Imperfect Homicide Infraction to Law 425-959,. .. . . . .

. Serious Injuries and .others. Inasmuch as Mr. Diaz Lanz f inds him-

sel£ offen<red. e ~ a u g e h e -Was . d i s m i s s e ~ f ~ o m t ~ e positiQJ?- ·he W S

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_holding withit?- the ranks of the Rebel Ar UL1'l_llch l a t t e r ·he was he-

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t raying trom the post he was d i s c h a r g i Q g ~ has entered in to ~ ·- -- - : . . - - . : - >"'"·. - - -- ... ~

plot w i ~ . l J . t l ? ~ enemies of ·the R'evolutionary Govermn·ent ·whq belonge-d

to the deposed Regime of Criminals and gui l ty of malversation

and such l a t t e r mentioned elements have charged him with the re

sponsibi l i ty of carrying on insidious propaganda and sneaky attacks

which are being perfo-rmed against our nation such as the attacks

on Central Niagara Pinar del Rio a t Central Punta Alegre Cama

giley and others in which with t .he use of a i rc ra f t s they have

bombed shelled and put on f i re the said places and also carried•

__ t tacks on rai lroad t ra ins . That it has also been known .. hat Diaz..Lanz Rolando--Ma-sferrer s ~ Eleuterio Pedraza and -other-s - .who- are

.. enemie-s -:of· GUba-, have devised a pact for. maintaiirl.ng. 9Ur country

in a s ta te of anxiety and do not s.:t'op in · projecting and carrying .

-out such criminal acts as the ones already cited. That there i s

such a ser ies of evidences and proofs o f the direct par t icipation _·

of Diaz Lanz in the acts thus consummated as to render them aplenty;

such as news published in the daily press and re leased as piece

of news by the various cablegraphic agencies as also through pho

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suffering the aggression jo in t ly with the pamphlets signed and thrown

by Mr . Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz. That the foregoing plus .the knowl

edge and the experience of t he a f o r e s ~ i d D az Lanz insofar as i t

refers to public circulat ion of th is Capital City , the hours of

agglomeration of peopl e on the s t reets and the s i tes which are

unprotected and thus permit him with impunity to carry out the

abovement ioned criminal acts , leave no t race of doubt that he ,

hi msel f , avai l ing himself of such inside knowledge has mad e th e

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(Article ent i t led "ExilesReady nfi l i t rat ion AgainstFidel") .

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reported to the Miami Officethat was supporting Artime and theMRR knowing that regarded Artime with great disfavor. Healso furnished a three-page leaf le t in the Spanish language enti t led, b1(_as translated, Open Letter to the People of Cuba and to the Exiles

670in General from Commander Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz." This leaflet

consisted of a vitr iol ic attack upon Manuel Artime, Cuban exile ~ ~leader of the MRR and upon the Administration of P r e s i ~ e n t John F.Kennedy, which he claimed was supporting Artime as the leader in theanti-C-stro movement at that time. He repeatedly referred toArtime as "prefabricated' ' by the A d m i n i s t r a t i o n . ~ ~

On 10/6/63, Pedro Diaz Lanz appeared on Channel 10Television Station, Miami, in a program ent i t led The Cuban SituationNow. During this program Diaz Lanz cri t ic ized Artime, saying thatArtime had US sponsorship and t h a t ~ e had been indoctrinated incommunism in Cuba his father. r, ureau Agent observed andl is tened to program) \ A

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\ On 3/7/66, Manuel Artime was interviewed a t his residE1270 N.E. 85th Street , Miami. Artime advised that the MRR (97-4133)continued to maintain an office a t 1035 N.W. lOth Avenue, M i a m i ~ Hesaid the MRR was re la t ive ly inactive and not engaged in any signif icantoperations in the Miami area a t tha t t ~ e ~

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On 3/1/66, in Havana, CUba, two former Cuban Army majors,Rolando Cubelas Secades (105-77667) and Roman Guin Diaz, _were arrestedfor plot t ing to assassinate Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro. Agovernment communique charged tha t the plot was hatched in Spain withthe help of exile leader Manuel Artime and the United States CIA. I t

claimed that Cubelas was designated as the assassin and t h a r ·he wasto be rewarded by sharing power with Artime af ter Castro's death.In November: 1964, contact allegedly was established with CIA agentsin Paris by Cubelas and in Madrid, Spain by Cuban Embassy off ic ia l s

Odon Alvarez de l a Campa and Odon Alvarez Garrarreta. Funds allegedly

were furnished by one James Jimmy) Noel, anoff icial

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AmericanEmbassy in Spain . Subsequently, Cuban exiles in Madrid arranged meetingsbetween Cubelas and Artime in February . 1965, a t which meetings the

. assassination and counterrevolutionary plots allegedly were drawn up •. . . Also, in Madrid, Artime was alleged to have given Cubelas a powerful· . telescope and si lencer to be used on a r i f l e owned by Cubelas . Trial

· - before a revolutionary t r ibunal in Havana resulted in conviction on. 3/9/66, and prison sentences for Cubelas and others or the conspirators.. -· : \;A . . .

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1. The alleged $2,8oO payment ts e s ~ e d to be 'par tor. the mone.7 given to DIAZ Lanz by SIJ ..AI.EliUI as a personalloan in support or D I ~ Lanz• anti-CASTRO act1v1t1es.

. 2. DIAZ Lanz t s of course, preparing his ai rcraf tCor the Vuelo de Verdad and instruct ions given by him toa t r c r a f t ~ i C i a n s including the possible use or nationalflags· on t he nose or the aircraf t would conttr2 that DIAZintends to vis i t a number or countr ies.

3. .BARKER says tha t he has met FIORINI on only oneoccasion with a group or people and has never seen him,...before or s1nce . Tne alleged address of BARKER providedby PIORifti is not carrect .

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\ . I t ts to be noted that FIORINI has los t the .confidence of DIAZ Lanz and has been t reat ing with suchpeople as RASCO tn an attempt to involve hi2self in ant i -CASTRO a e ~ t v t y Yvu. wil l note t h ~ t DIAZ Lanz p ~ e s e e dconcern tr.a t ·FIORINI ~ m t g h t get 'involved tn such . a way that

· would impatr the plans of t he ant i- CASTRO groups. .

5. DIAZ Lanz alleges tha t he a n ~ his people w b e i n gbounded by federal agents and inspectors ~ b o s e in teres t intheir plans has been piqued -by 'plane overnauling act ivi t ies , .and ·that these federal off icials asked leading and provocativequestions. · · ; .

6. The entL'e Executive Committee or the FRD, or course,as well es the propaganda commission, t s tul ly acquainted withprepar atcry .plans tor the f l ight and t t la t h e r e f o r e ~ not

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only hope Ties with the electionof i o n s e r ~ a l l v e s to Congt-ess I ·and to the White }louse.

Dlas Lanz was Interviewed In

'· ._, his hotel room beforo he ad dressed the Town Talks Luncheon Lecture Club at the Broad

view Hotel.The CUban exile was active

in the overthrow of Juan Batista, Cuban dictator, and wasmade commanding chief ol theRebel Air Force by Castro forhis cCCorts In supplying armsto Castro's forces.

He said he was .one or th efirst rebel o f f i c e r a to turnagainst Castro when It became

a p p a r e n t that Castro was

changing Cuba Into a Commu·nist stronghold .

Diaz Lanz alleged he tr ied towarn the Cuban exiles In lo'lorl<la and Central Am erica that 'the invasion of tlle Bay of Pigswas doomed to fa ilure. No onewould l isten to him, he said.

He accused the Kennedy Ad ·n1inislratlon of openly aidingthe Communll;t conspiracy InLatin America. The Alliance forProgress aid program 11ctuallyIs being used to enlurce Com·

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(Continued from Page 1lrrmnism In Sou th America, he

&aid.Examples of actions to support these charges c11n be roundm the aid being sent to keepPresident Goulart in power InBrazil and in the r i lure of theadminis tration t.o r e c o g n l ~ e thEcivilian jun ta which overthre1

~ h e Communist - backed leader·ship In S11nto Domingo, Dia1.Lana contended.· "Riaht now, there is a Com ·munlsl-lnsplred false · rebellionbeing prepare/ In Cuba," DlazLanz asserted. ·

: He said t t ~ l n l e t ~ d e r s In the· · Cuban exilo movemen t pres·

enUy being aided by lhe Amer·lc3 n government 3 1 ' ~ t : ~ k i n gpert In thA rebellion lh al willonly strengthen the Communisthold in the Americas.

I'>laz Lanz, whn claims th erehave been &everal " ltempl > nnhi life in this country, s11id the ·united States should stop allaid to Communist countt·ie r; In .

· whatever shapo or form. :: But, he said this Is lmpos- :

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. The Ju JUce Department stll1 1' (s trying to collect a $2,000 ine ;l.evied against him when he 1

· .. took his airplane and dropped .leaflets on Havana on Oct. [ ...c:1959, he said. prov slonal .

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2. DIAZ talked freely about theelection results wbieb by that t ~ • indicated PresidentJohnson. had ~ e n elected o r another t e n . As the c:lrg1n of _Totes for Johcson increased, DIAZ becaMe aore and more exelted.DI.\Z cr i t ized Johnson Yery severely and referred to bia •oSOB. Be said that it was b e c o 1 1 1 i n ~ obvious tbat "they'' wouldhave to ro and 1gbt tn the s t ree ts because "they" •ere unableto accept t ~ e Johnson GovernMent. DIAZ did not clar i fy who

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reeelYed a de:ln1te l•pre ls1on that DIAZ b1•self was deeply. 1nTohed u y action C?otemplate<f.

3 . DIAZ. ade eo r.ference to the fact tbat the U.S . would f • ~

b e t t ~ • ~ f f t Johnaoa Yere dead, but, could not say tha t DIAZ had made 1

anr direct reference or s u ~ ~ e s t i o n that he or the Minutemen 1intended to do anythinr beyond rotnr to the streets to t t rht ae

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a ~ s e ~ u g g l i n g o ~ e r a t o ~ in the Xiami are1 directed a ~ a i n s t Venezuela . In ~ h i s c o n r . e ~ i o n

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r evo l t in a r ~ e d i : s ~ ~ r e c t i o D ~ i • i ~ s t t ~ ~ United S:a t e s GDvernmeot. G A P . C ~ braggec ~ h 1 t be ~ ~ p r o v 1 ~ & ~ the arCB ~ o r the a ~ o v er e v o l t . .r

2 . - G..a.RCIA ' s remarkswere made casua l ly , • c: ,__ _

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operat ion a ~ d pa r t i cu l a r e=phas is w i l l ~ placed uncover ingDlAZ' i n t e : : i o n s and a c t i v i t i e s in cooaec: ioa wi th : ~ e above c i ted

i a s u r r e c t i o ~ p l an s . t h i s coctex t , it s requested t h a t t h i sof f i ce be i ~ o r = e d i f the aboYe ~ n o r m a t i n a r e l a t i v e to an 1osur rec

t1oa c o 1 o e i ~ e s Yitb aDy 1nfor- -at ioo ava i l l o l e to •our o i c e . Iso , d e t a i l s are reques ted •

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o f f i e ~ . In t h i s r e r ~ r n we wi l l be ~ l a d to aervice aay r equ1re-

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4re\ rlrf t ~ o ~ a n d i r l f Cornm unding Chlef of Ute ·why. Castro a Communist, but was dedicated

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to spreading Com m u n \ s mthe Castro regime, M ~ i n l C a s ~ r o In the s i e r r a agatn was th gh t L l Am . s·

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2 un er the auspices of Tc1wn As c vidence 1f castro's · boat. that time everything be said hasTalks J,ccture Series . The :1ec· with J1c Comrnunists . M j o ~ Lanz como true. Major Lanz has sinceture will be preceded by \unch - more and mo re . a .Senate sutK:om- been active in various under.

eon in the Broadview Hotel EaU· J,an:t re$igncd his ·Castro was not only ground movements.-· . -- --· ·- ···- -·· . -·- •.- .room at 1 p.m.

· . Major Lanz was ·t.he fil'st highranking Cuban publicly denounce Castro, within a fewshort weeks after he assumedoUiee. Since then he has beenactive in various anti-Ctcstrogroups working for the (lverthrow of the Communist pUJpct.Major Lanz' topic will be "In·side the Anti.Castro Revolt."

Major Lo.m; I : m e n tipeaker 'for a friend o[ his, Alexantler Rorke, Jr . who was originally scheduled to pppear here.

Mr . Rol'ke and his pilot, Geof-frey 'SvlliVIIn, lll'e missing nomewhere in the Caribbean ~ g i o n

Pedro Diaz Lanz attendedCatholic school:; in llavan.a andlearned to fly when he w u only15. By the time he was 18 hehad his private pilot's license.Afler a year In Batislals AirForce, he became a commercialairlines pilot. For five yearsflew tor Q" A i r w a y ~ ~ t w e e nHavana pnd Palm Beach, Fla.

Long beion he knew o·r .lo'ldelCMtrO, he became involved inactivities 'Batista. andIn November, 1953, wa s throwo

v f a 9 f t ~ f l a i d l l ' ~ ~ l J n . Y · ~ t t i ,i pd \I

htlcal enemies 'In 1 ( r . , : ~ upuu •.,..turninS to CUba, he aga in jc.lnedforces with underground groups,but ·not With Cutro's.

}Ie r e ~ a l n e d his pilot'1; license ,and became el l exeeuti.ve pllot

1for the Moa Bay Mining Co. In 1

orienta Province. <This pla ntnow being operated by the Hus-isians.) In due e o u r ~ ~ : D a l lmen were a(ter him Allain , andhe was forced to flee, Lhis Ume\into Costa Ricrc, where be became the first rnan ·tc. fly arms\into CUba for Castro's guerillas ._ _organized and b e C I I I ' ~ e ·-

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.This paper is in tone with the constant c o n v e r s ~ t i o n or D azLanz, to the effect that Kennedy and most ot his administrationare .coinmunists, and are betraying Cuba and the Cubans, as .wel1 asthe · c i i ~ ~ n ~ .or the United States. /

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. This . paper was shmm to Fraclt Fiorini , who told m th t D: az. · Lanz had edited 1t in cooperation w1 th two american gi r l s 1 not

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general tenor or a canversntion held with newspaperman /uex Rorke.~ h i l e conversing with Rorke, approximately a month ago, I asked '

· him i.f he had spoken to D az Lanz., as the:y both sounded the s a m e ~.· He admitted he had.

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MEMORANDUM March 7, 1978

6234TO : G. Robert Blakey

FROM: Fonzi Gonzales

RE: MARCOS OI AZ -L ANZ

Ma r cos Oiaz -Lanz was interviewed in his home, 7551 S . W 36th Terrace, Miami 2 64-8859), o n the evening of

March 6, 1978.

His brother , Pedro Oiaz-Lanz, was Chief of the Cuban

Air Forc e from the t ime of the Castro re vo lu t ion , Janua r y,1959, unti I his res i gna t io n and defect ion o n June 29, 1959 .Ma r cos was Second in Comman d of the Cuban Air Fo r cefor the same period. [Ref: Memo randum 9/23/77: Gon zal es

Fonzi in terview of Pedro Oiaz-Lanz]

Marcos Diaz-Lanz sa id tha t beginning in 19 52 he and hisbrother began act ive ly fi ghting agai ns t the r e i gn ofBat i s t a in Cuba. As a re su l t of t he i r a c t i v i t i e s theywe r e f o r c e d i nto e x i I e i n fv1 i am i u n t i I I 9 54 . T h e yre turned to Cuba and renewed t he i r a n t i -Ba s t i s t a ac t i v i t y ,Marcos mostly sur rep t ic i ously in Havana and Pedro inthe Sie r ra Mountains with Castro . Marcos sa id hisbrother f i r s t met Frank Fi o r in i Sturgis in the mountainswith Cast ro and la te r gave him the post as head ofAir Force Secu r i ty .

Ma rcos Diaz -Lanz sa id he and. his brother objec ted immed i a te l yto what they considered w e ~ e A b e i n g committed by Cas t ro

from the f i r s t day of the revolut ion . They objec te d to

Cas t ro taking property and mater ia l with out due process andto the summa r y execut ions he was order in g . He said t h a the and hi s brother persona l ly did not permit t ha t in theAir Fo rce. He sa id t ha t a t one point he personal Jy wen tto the Caba na prison and agains t the orders of Castroand Che Gueve r r a re leased al l of Ba t i s ta s pi Jot s wh o were

scheduled to be execute d.

He sa id t ha t he ear ly reco gnized t ha t Castro was a Communistand t ha t he was usin g Comm uni sim as a ve hic l e to take overCuba. He sa id he rep o r t ed t h i s to Co l onel Nicho l s , th eAir Force Mi i t a ry Attache a t the Ame ri can Embassy, withwhom he had been in • regul a r co n tac t . Th e n o n March 6,1959, the American Ambassador, Phi I I i p Bon sa I , was a t arecept ion a t the Havana Count r y C lu b. Present were bothCastro and the Diaz-Lanz brothers . Marcos Diaz - Lanz sa id

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tha t he asked Col. Nichols to arrange for him to speakto Ambassador Bansal, who was conversing with Castroacross the room. When Bonsai came to speak with him,Marcos Dlaz-Lanz said he to ld him t ha t he had Just

been speaking with a cr iminal and tha t Castro was turningCuba to Communism Diaz-Lanz said tha t Bonsai then to ldhim t ha t he thought Castro was the most honest man inthe Western Hemisphere and that I t was not Castro who

was the enemy of the United Sta tes but Diaz-Lanz forsaying such a thing about Castro. I c ou ldn t believewhat he w s te l l ing me, Diaz Lanz sa id

Then in Aprif , 1959, Marcos and Pedro Diaz-Lanz went

to Washington. Marcos said he had previous ly had contactwith J . Edgar Hoover and many FBI agents in the HavanaEmbassy. He says he doesn t remember the names of anyof the FBI agents he met in Havana.) He sa id he hadalso previously sent Frank Fiorini to FBI headquartersIn Washington with reports of Castro turning towardCommunism When he arr ived in Washington, Marcos saidhe went di rec t ly to the Sta te Department and asked tospeak with the highest of f ic ia l deal ing in Cuban matters .He was taken to William A Wieland, di rec tor of the off icef Caribbean Af fa i rs

Marcos sa id he to ld Wieland what Castro was doing and askedfor the help a• the United Sta tes Government to stop him.He sa id Wieland I is tened to him and then to ld him tha t hewanted to o everything possible to help him. Marcos saidhe then fold Wieland of plans to overth,ow Castro and gavehim the deta i l s and the names of a the Castro governmentof f i c i a l s and Air Force personnel who would help.

Marcos Diaz-Lant sa id he then went to see J . Edgar Hoover.He sa id Hoover to ld him tha t i t was a very bad mistake tohave to ld Wieland everything. He sa id Hoover to ld himhe d idn t t rus t Wieland and tha t Wieland had never beengiven a secur i ty clearance . Marcos said he l a t e r foundout t ha t Wieland had once used the name of GuillermoMontenegro when h0 l ived in Cuba and tha t iO the 1930s /he was pe7sonal ly se lec ted by then-Ambassador Summer Wei Is,Who Marcos Diaz-Lanz says was pro-Communist, tO move toa high Posi t ion In the Sta te Department. Diaz-Lanz saysthat Wieland s t i l l holds a high posi t ion in the StateDepartment. He says tha t Hoover to ld him tha t , as a resul tof reveal ing h is plans to Wieland, i t would be unwise ofhim and his brother to return to Cuba.

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Marcos Diaz-Lanz sa id th a t nei ther he nor his brotherreceived any help from the U. S. Go vernm e nt i n the ir plansto overthrow Castro . He s aid a coup was planned for

June 29 1959 which was suppose to involve more than

/50 pi Iots in the Cuba n Air Fo rce. He said Cas tro foundout about th i s plot becau se Ambassador Bonsai told him .

However, he sa id Cas tro d id nothing about i t becausehe f igured tha t th e Diaz-Lanz brothers would not ge tthe support they were counting o n. Marcos says th a t

Cas tro was r ight . Every o ne of the pi lo ts backed out

of the plot a t the fas t minute. That's when Pedro wasforced to leave the country and come to Miami. Marcossaid he persona / ly took to every major newspaper and

wire se rvice in Havana his and his brothe r s resignat i onand a s ta tement denouncing Castro . He then went undergroundfor a month before he joined his brother in exi fe.

Prior to the i r leaving, they had arranged for FrankFior in i S turgis to f ly out a 8-25 airplane.

Marcos Diaz-La nz sa id tha t when he arr ived in Miami hehad num e rous meetings with what he assumed we re hi ghU. S . Go v e rnment o f f i c i a l s . He said he do es not knowwheth e r any of them were C. I.A. a nd i t did not make anydif ference to him because they a l l repr esen t e d the U. S.Go vernment. He said t ha t he and his brother were t o l dto j u s t be quie t for a t ime, plan no ant i-Ca s t ro operations ,and they would be ca l l e d when they were needed. He saidhe and Pedro decided that wa s the wrong t ac t i c to useagains t Castro, that Castro sho uld not be given any time

to ca nso / ida te his vi c to ry and tha t act ion had to be t akenimmediat e ly. That l ed to th e i r famous l e afl e t drop onHavana on Octobe r_ 2 1 959.

Ma rcos Diaz-Lanz said tha t he, his brother and Frank Fio r iniplanned a nd executed the raid them se lves . They had no he l p

. from any U S. agency . He sa id they we r e s up po r ted by somewealthy Cub an exi le s , wh ose names he do es n t r e member.

<Pri o wa s not among them, s inc e he was s t i l l th e n in Cuba.)

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After the ra id , he said, the U.S. gove rnment conf iscatedth e 8-25 and Cuba tr i e d to get th e m ex tr adic t e d.

I t was pointed o ut to Ma rc os Diaz-Lanz th a t E. Howard Hu ntmentions in his book, Give Us Thi s Da y the l ea f le t ra id

and tha t Hunt writes o ~ m e d i a t e / y a f t e r w a r d s in t e rvi ewin gPedro Oiaz-Lanz, but no t Ma rcos o r Frank Fio r in i . MarcosDiaz-Lanz r e sponded' I wouldn' t wast e a minute r ea dinghis book. I don't know the ma n. Why sho uld I r e ad the

book? I don t know the man. The book to me I don t thinkI'm going to l earn anything reading the book, becaus e Idon't know the man.

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He was then asked i t he had ever met E. Howard Hunt. He

saId he had not. He was asked I t he had ever met Eduardo.He sa id: We I I you know, someone wiII come to you and

say they worked tor the Company and they wi I I be wearinga brace le t tha t says John on i t and they will te l l youanother name. You j u s t don't know who you meet .

About four months pr ior to the a y of Pigs invas t i on, s aidMarcos Diaz-Lanz, then-Senator George Smathers to ok

Pedro to the then-Director of the C IA in s hin g ton.The CIA chie f t r ied to convince Pe dro to go tou a ~ e m a l a to tra in p il o t s and become part of the

U.S. invast ion plan, said Marcos. Pedrto.· to ld himi t was a prefabricated defeat the plan was, and

t ha t most of the people i nvo lve in charge were Cas t roagents . Marcos sa id tha t Pedro prepared an eight-pagedocument demouncing the planned Bay of Pigs invasion

as a preordained fa i lure a defeat planned to hand Cubacomplete ly over to the Russians and designed only tor e i ieve the pressure that was being appl ied by the

Cubans in exi l e . he document was dis t r ibu ted throu ghoutal l 4evers of the U.S. Government, said Marcos, fromPres ident Kennedy to J . Edgar Hoover. He said tha tU.S. o f f i c i a l s were very upset with Pedro for his

public declara t ion . hey to ld him he was very imma ture .

Although Marcos sa id he and Pedro refused to j oin . theBay t Pigs invasion plan, they were told t ha t they wouldbe in charge of a Spec i a I Air Group . That group wasnever formulated and Marcos said they never i go touaiftema la .

Marcos said that he and Frank Fior in i had gone to u a ~ e m a J ain November, rgsg, to es tab l i sh a base t ant i -Cast rooperations . They thought they had the backing of

Pres ident Ydfgoras but l a t e r found he had betrayed them

and was going to have them arres ted, so they had to f lee .

Fio r in i ' s c i t izenship was taken away as a r e su l t t thatoperation and was only restored a f te r the in te rvent ion t

Senator Smathe r s. Marcos Diaz-Lanz said he was put onparole and forbiaden to l eave Dade County unti 1974

Marcos sa id tha t a f te r the Bay of Pigs invasion he was notIn · any ac t ive mil i ta ry ant i -Cast ro opera t ions . I t waspointed out t ha t he was I i s ted as a corpo ra te of f i ce r ,

with Frank Fior in i , of the Hampton Road Salvage Company,a Flor ida corporat ion which owned three or four boatsinvolved in ant i -Cas tro operat ions in the ea r ly '60s .

He said the boats were never used in any mil i t a ry operat ions,on ly for In f i l t r a t ions to es tabl ish communications with

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for the p urchase and opera t io n of the boa ts , MarcosOiaz-Lanz said they came from p r iva te dona t ions .Asked whe r e t he boats w p u r .a nd · f ro m whom,he sa id he doesn ' t r emembe r , but th inks one wasbought in No r fo l k Virg i nia , and the othe r s in Miami.

Asked i f he remembered the names of any of the boatshe sa i d 11 No, · I d o n t remembe r . One was an ex-Navy

boat , it had no name . The o ther s had numbers. I don t

remember it s t o ~ ma ny yea r s . 11

He sa id he had hea r d about the I nternat iona l Anti-CommunistBrigade fo unded by Fior in i , but was not a member of

i t . He said he neve r hea r d of any s to r i es or rumors ofOswa l d attemp t ing to i n t i l t r a t e i t or having any

assoc ia t ion wi t h i t .

He sa id he never met or heard of Merita Lorenz in a nyant i - Cast ro opera t ions and knows no bas is for hera l l ega t io ns t ha t Fior i ni and Pedro Diaz- Lanz were invo l ved

i n the Kennedy assass ina t ion .

As ked abou t an assoc ia t ion wi t h Or l ando Bosc h , he sa id :" Jus t the name of Bosch br i ngs out a repuls ive r eact ion

in me. I dis t ru s ted Bosch ever s ince he came from Cuba .Pedro has deno u nced him as a Cast ro G-2 age n t . 11

He said he had met Al e x Rorke but was never invo l ved

in any ope r a t io n with him. 11 He was not i n contac t wi t hus Ia te r when he had the B- 2 5 . I never saw i t . 11

Asked i f he had ever bee n in vo l ved i n a n y assass i na t ion

at tempts on Cast r o o r was aware of the a t t empt St urg iscla ims was made with poison p i l l s , he sa id : 11 1 be l ievei f the C IA, with a l l the i r very smart me n and a ll the i r

unl imi ted r esources, had rea l l y wanted to ki l l Cas t ro , theywou l d have done i t . As for t he so-cal l ed poiso n pi l l s ,you d o n t need poison pi li s to ki II Cast ro . Al l you needis a bucket of water to pour over him . He hates water .

He t akes a bath about o nce a year . 11

Ma r cos Diaz-La n z sa id his f i nanc i al s upport over the yea r scame as a res ul t of his being the Latin Ame r ican rep resen ta t i veof IMCO a f i rm in Afton Wyomi ng , which ma nu fac t ures c r opd us t ing a i rp l anes . He sa id he did we l l se ll ing p l anes to

Lat in America even though he was no t pe r mitted to l eaveDade Cou nty , Flor i da un t i l 197 4, Now he is work i ng for

a company i n Cinc in na t i , Ohio cal led N-Ren Corp. and

promoting the ins ta l l a t i on of syn the t i c te r t i I i ze r p l a n t si n La t i n America .

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by the CIA. Asked If he knows whether or not FrankFior in i Sturgis is a CI employee he said

The CIA is a ery big organiza t ion ow they operateand what they do is v ry comp I i ca ted . What they rea I I ydo Is v r y d i f f i c u l t to pinpoin t because they haveso many f ron t s I f we r e run n i ng an i n t e i gen c eorganizat ion with unl imi ted resources and unl imi tedfunds, I would have so many f ronts no one would be

able to t e l l what I was doing o r who was doing ~ < h a tThat s the way the CiA i s , you c a n t even te l I whatt is May6<the name of the Agency is not even the

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MEMORANDUM - 9/23/77

TO: Cliff Fenton

FROM: Gonzales & Fonzi

RE: INTERVIEW OF PEDRO DIAZ LANZ ON 9/20/77

Mr. Lanz was born in Havana, Cuba on 11-11-26. He i s theformer Chief of Airforce, Cuban Forces. Mr. Lanz now works forEastern Airl ines as a mechanic and resides a t 1 11 .93 CT.,

Miami, Florida.This writer ·asked Mr. Lanz to explain Marita Lorenz al lega t i ons

in the NY Daily News and Mr. Lanz s ta ted the following:Mr. Lanz s ta tes he was in Wichita, Kansas speaking before

a Womens Club on Nov.22, 1963. His lecture was interrupted by

one of the women to announce tha t JFK had been assassinated.This can be ver i f ied by checking newspaper announcement of hislecture . Lanz also s ta tes tha t the sis ter- in- law of FredericoCampos, Beechcraft Aircr af t Corp. went to his hotel when shefound out he was in town and invited him to s tay a t her home,which he did.

Lanz s ta tes he was in Dallas two or three days af te r theassassinat ion on a speaking engagement. Lanz states tha t Flick Ki

Ick (phonetic) of New York , sponsored his cross-country speakingtours , also Christ ian Crusades, Bil ly James Harges i t s representat ive and the John Birch Society. Many other organizations, suchas the VFW DAR and Rotary Clubs invi ted him to speak and pa ida l l cos t s .

Mr. Lanz was one of the f i r s t off ic ia l to defect fromCastro ' s Cuba and has been sentenced to death by Castro himse l f .

Mr. Lanz expects some sor t i t tempt on his l ~ f e with thes tory in todays newspaper by Marita Lorenz, accusing him of beingone of the assassins involved in the JFK plot .

Castro hates him so much that he assassinated his two brothe r s ,one an invalid and the ot her an a r t i s t who was never involvedin pol i t ics .

RE: B-25 bomber, Lanz s t a tes that he purchased the plane i n

Phoenix, Arizona in l a te 1958. He traded in a 1957 Cadi l lac and$1500.00 cash, the auto was valued a t $3500.00 t ota l deal was$5000.00. Ben Whitfield del ivered to Havana in ear ly 1959 and

Lanz a sked him to take back to the s ta tes which he did. Owners hipwa s in Frank Sturgis name because Lanz was not a USA c i t i zen .

Lanz has received many threa t s on his l i f e for exposing,Ernesto a hero to Cuban ex i l es in Miami. This Ernesto always

wore a mask when addressed exi le groups. Ernesto is actual ly

Orlando Bosch a communist t e r ro r i s t now in j a i l in Venezuelafor airplane bombing. Bosch took name of Ernesto from his heroErnesto Che Guevarra. Bosch's leader i s I s rae l Soto Barraza

(always behind the scene)

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~ Lanz knows Frank Sturgis from Cuba. Lanz states Sturgis works

for the CIA and was sent to Cuba by the CIA. Frank Sturgis l e f t

Cuba about the same time Lanz l e f t but not together.Lanz

l e f tby boat and when he arrived in the US an Immigration Officer,

offered him f inancial help. Lanz questioned the offer of help andwas told that he would be given instructions work for the CIA),

Lanz did not accept th is so he did not get any helpo Lanz and

o tner .3 s t a r t ~ a il iL groups of men and trained in the Everglades. Frank

Sturgis and Lanz flew together over Cuba dropping leaflets. Then the CIA

brought in Artime (communist) to run the show. Frank Sturgis stayed for a whileand then lef t for Guatemala.

Lanz went to Wash.DC and spoke to Sen. Smathers and Allen Dulles, toldthem the Bay of Pigs operation with Communist heading i t would be a fiasco.

Lanz sent le t ters to FBI Hoover, Smathers and JFK. When Lanz returned to

Miami an attempt was made on his l i fe someone fired four shots at him andmissed. Lanz s tates that Manolo Ray, Emilio Cardona are communist.

Alpha 66 now being led by communist(top leaders) Veciana and others.Re: Orlando Bosch-communist te r ror is t met him once on W 8 St. in a

restaurant, spoke to him but never worked together.Lanz s tates he has never met Marita Lorenz in Miami or ever entered

any auto with her to go any place.Lanz has never worked with Gerry Patrick Hemming, doesn't know him.

Victor Penaque (Diego) absconded with a lo t money that exi les contribw

uted to fighting Castro. Lanz had nothing to do with him. As for John

Martino, Lanz heard of him but did not know him personally.Re: Felipe Vidal Santiago. Felipe and Lanz made many t r ips to Cuba to

bring out relat ives in seperate boats. When Felipe was caught there was a

G man with him on board. Lanz had warned Felipe about the G man. Lanzhad observed Ge man taking pictures of the boats and Felipe and Lanz

together. Felipe was captured by the same G man and the mil i t ia as he

s lept on board his boat. Feilpe was executed.About Alex Rorke Sherman Billingsley son-in-law), Lanz describes him

energetic, impetuous but did not act intell igently . Was not afraid of any

thing, did not l ike advice. Worked out of the Bahamas (Keys), used Sigmaboats out of Cuba. Menoyo used same boat but was never caught, top speed

was about 8 knots per hour. Frank Sturgis was with Rorke much more than

Lanz. Hears9y, Cuban entered plane with Rorke and plane disappeared.Frank Sturgis knew pi lot .

Lanz does not know the Buchanan bothers, only Buchanan he knows is anewspaper man with the Herald.

Lanz states he never met LHO but knows a young man in New Orleans, one

Carlos Briniguer who had fight with LHO in st ree t and both were arrested and

charged with public disturbance. I t seems LHO offered to help exile Cubancause in New Orleans but was not accepted. Then LHO took opposite stand

and star ted handing out leaf lets on s t ree t corner for Fair Play For Cuba.

Lanz states he was with Barker many times. He told Barker tha t Artime

was a communist, and that the CIA had taken him out of Cuba to Mexico and

s tarted propagander against Castro. Artime's fa ther was a member of Spains

Communist Party, and fought against Franco, he also brought up his offspr ingas a communist.

As for Carlos Prio, Lanz knows him from Cuba. Prio refused Lanz aidto s ta r t A n t i ~ C s t r o group because he was supporting Menoyo. Prio also had

f ired Lanz s father from a high position when the elder Lanz had uncoveredfraud in several agencies and had brought to Prio 's a t_ention •



Lanz describes Bender (CIA) as an older man over 45 yrs. of age (1960's)

curly hair , under 5'9 not American born, had European accent, not GermanFrench or Spanish but possibly H u ~ r i a n He met Bender at safe house inCoconut Grove and Bender offered ~ i m position as Chief of Air StrikeForce in Guatemala (Bay of Pigs Operation) Lanz did not accept t because

he wouldn't have been in on the planning . t was al.l very secret and runby the CIA. Lanz was then offered another p o s i t i o n ~ u b a but refused and

had heated words with Bender because he stated i t was just an effort todestroy the Cuban forces in exile. Bender agreed off the record. Lanz

was very hot and someone came over and attempted to calm him down. Lanz

believes i t was Hunt.

Shortly thereafter Artime arrived and he and Bender hugged and kissed

each other on the mouth. This drew Lanz at tent ion because he knew i twasn't an American or French or Spanish custom for men to kiss each other.

Mr Lanz stated he would be glad to cooperate with the Committee and i f

aKi this investigator needs any other information to feel free to cal l him.

On Sept. 21, 1977 th is writer returned to residence of Pedro Diaz Lanzand showed him some pictures for ID purposes. Lanz could not ID Hunt,

so I asked Lanz to explain how Hunt wrote about him in his book Give

Us This Day , Lanz could not explain. Lanz was upset about the s toryin the newspapers the day before (Marita Lorenz) and Frank Sturgisstatement. Lanz explained tha t Frank Sturgis did not know what he wastalking about when he made the statement to the press in response toMarita Lorenz al legat ions that Operation 40 possibly had an Assassination

Squad. Lanz explained that Operation 40 was a CIA operation and s t r i c t ly

sabotage-in Cuba to destroy ins ta l la t ions , such as elec t r ic and powerplants with explosives. One such opera t ion was scrapped when order todestroy was c8ntermanded and al l the explosives had to be removed froman elec t r ic pfant. This order was direct from Wash. D.C.



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~ } ~ : ~ ~ ~ ; ~ ~ Th:te art : tcle datel:tned Havana· . ~ e t ha t the newspaper Revoluc:ton, a . . •

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s t a t ed on 12/28/59, ' that an 8X'IIled a t tack on Cuba . to - . - - ~ - , . ~ ; : : : , ; : : : · _ : . : ~ . , : .·

overthrow the CASTRO reg:tme was imminent; .. This page · . . : . . : : ; : : : ~ - - · ~ f : ~ : · • ' - : . · ·ar t : tc le s t a t ed tha t the a t t ack ffi.S being prepared 1n · , ~ ; : / ; J / ~ ~ . - : i : . ~ ; . ; r . ; ,/;;Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, the D o m i n i c a n · : ; : , ~ · . \ ' • ? ' t ' : - : : 7 . > ~ ~ - . ; >Republ:tc, Hai:ti , and Miami:, by former members of the ; ; . 2 ~ t i ' . - ; f . : ? i / : . o • i t f r·· .

. :-, .. ,. BATISTA Regime and Agents of ~ n e r a l ,TRUJTILO of the : . ; : ~ . ~ - ~ ; : . : . ; ; : : ; .. : . i : ~ / - .Domin1.can Republi:c. ·· The paper also reported t ha t M a j o r · , ; ; : : r & · ; ~ . : B i ? · . . : h : ; · , : . ~ . , - > ·PEDRO DIAZ LANZ> the former Chief of the Cuban Air Force; .·::·'?:}:;·;:·· · : ~ - and h i s ·brother , MARCOS, :and other p i lo t s who worked f o r . : : : : , ; > j . . , F ( ; : ; - ~ · .the former BATISTA Regime had di'Bappeared .from Miami,·.:··.,,::,:-.,:;:·:;:: : : · :Fla . The paper s t a t ed tha t 1.t was bel1.eved t ha t these '·::::•· · .;.: ·: ·. _men would t ake par t n the invas1.on-along with mercenary · · ~ · · :;,·:.German sold:l.ers said by Revolucion to be concentrat ing ;>· · . · . · '

in Fla . The a r t i c l e a lso indicated t na t t ra in ing camps . . .fo'r mercenaries from Japan, Germany, and former members · · · '· ·of the French and Spanish Foreign Legions also exis t . .-. . ·, <,-:.,, 1-

in Mex:tco, as well as n the Dominican Republic. The . ·. . : :·information received by the government showed tha t the .... ·..'.· . · : ; . · ; _ ~a t t a c k would come from Ht;Uti. The a r t i c l e also s ta ted ·· .-: ,;.,, . \ : :· 1:,-;:•'.

tha t the UNITED FRUIT co. in Guatemala and Honduras 1.s ·:-·:.: ·:'.".:·t;:::. ·:involved :tn the p la n ; and i s p ~ t e t i n g the plo t t e r s , and ; ~ ~ - I r r ~ .help ing them to get a: t rplanes, boats , and arms for the .. : ::_· :;; ,.,,,.. ,a t t ack . lhe New York Ti.mesw. a r t i c l e continues by s t a t i n g · . : · ~ · . ; _ : . ~tha t a spokesman for the UNITED FRUIT co. s ta ted l a s t ,_roght . tha t the charge by Revoluc:l.on was absolutely Y < o .

1 'a lse . The New York T:tmes art1.cle also indicated tha t ' ... -,.under da te l ine Teguc.igalpa Honduras, dated 12/28/59, ·Pres:l.dent ··. ·MORALES den:1ed the charges t ha t Honduras was harboring a · '·· .\: .,force which planned to invade c u b S . . , . · · , c : ; , . ~ · ; ~ · : . , : < : ' , . ' : . : ' , · : ~ - ) - ~ .

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By Jeremiah O'LearyWashingto;: Star t a f ~ ' r i t e r

s Ihtf address book- -of n recently arrested anti-e Castro Cubun exile is providing investigators intoa the b o m b - r n ~ u r d e r of Orlando Letelier·v..'ith leadsf that might help tie together any conspiracy to j

assassinate the leftist Chilean leader.

n Federal investigators, sources said, are study-

, \ng the address book of Alvin Ross Diaz, 45 of 1

• Miami, who has been in jail in Dade County, Fla.,

1ie since his arrest nearly two weeks ago.

y The sources said that the book contains;5 o The name and home phone number of a ranking Il Chilean diplomat stationed at the embassy of Chile

. in Washington, The diplomat denied that he hadany knowledge of Ross. Officials agreed that any-

' one could have learned the home number of thediplomat. But the mere fact that Ross had thename and number listed underscores an interestand perhaps a connection between the Cuban andthe embassy.

' The telephone number of an address listed in thebook only as being in front of the Bellas Artes Pal- 1

ace Chile's fine arts museum, in Santiago... The telephone number was cross-checked by

The Washington Star and is listed to a mat1 mimed. Roberto Vargas. His connection, if any, with thei Cuban exile is unknown but it establishes at least· zn tie that Ross has with someone..in_Chile.. . -

: d _· r nar addreSs and phone number of Maj.:£ dro Diaz Lan , who was chief of Fidel Castro's•rcbe, mr orce out became one of the first Cuban

. rev?lutionary fighters to defect from the Havanaegm1e.

• Two addresses and phone numbers in Washington and Alexandria, the significance of which hasnot been established. But it was in Washington that

; Letelier was killed by a bomb blast under his carY on Sept. 21, 1976, along with a colleague, Ronni ;g Karp 0n Moffitt. I . ·e • list of four cryptic words accompanied by

what officials say are obviously code letters, Since

t there are only seven letters in the code words, offii- c ia ls bel ieve they indicate telephone numbers. The0 pseudo-words beside each code combination are: 1

·e JOY, LACH, HOS and REY. Investigators aregoing to turn the codes over to cryptoanalysts tosee if they can work out a solution.

ROSS IS OF HIGH fn'terest to Assistant U.S. 1

Attorney Eugene Propper and the FBI, especiallys since he was arrested on April 14 in l\1iami. At the

same time, Dade County sheriff's officers and theFBI seized four pistols and a pound of cocaineamid indications that Ross and Guillermo ovo

Sampol, 38, of Jnion City, N • J ; . e _ _ p . r : e p 1 1 r i n g . . f 0 . . - ~ ~ · ·- - - · - > ± < > - - 0 4 - . - ~ ~ J i : T - 3 t c t t e s . · -· · --- Some investigators believe Ross and Novo were

panicked into trying to get out of the country bythe prospect that Michael V. Townley, 35, anAri1erican and ex-agent of the Chile's secret poiiceorganization, DINA, might be giving probers details of the plot to kill Lcteli er.

Townley is being held without. bond at a militarypost near Washington on a federal charge of conspiracy to kill a foreign diplomat.

Investigators believe that Townley is central t

the plot against Letelier, that he came to theUnited States under DINA orders, found Cubanactiv sts to carry out the 1'hit" against Letclierand helped them assemble the explosives andother devices used.

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