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104-10110-10074 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (12/28/1967)

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28 December 1967


SUBJECT:  BARTES, (CLARENS), Francisco Antonio
          aka BARTS,  Frank
          (See also HEM4ING, Gerald P.)


ALLEGATION:


CIA CONNECTION:


     To date there had been no
information which involves Frank
BARTES, Cuban exile, in GARRISON's
investigation.  However, as a New
Orleans citizen who was prominent
in Cuba, opposed to CASTRO, head of
the Cuban Revolutionary Council in
New Orleans, and known to Gerald
EMMING  and LABORDE, he may be in-
volved later.


SOURCE:

     Memorandum dated 20 November
1967 from CI/R&A and Enclosure 14
of Memorandum No. 5 dated 7 August
1967.


     Subject, an alien, former
President of Cuban Railways, was
approved for contact use in January
1961 and May 1967.  The FBI inter-
posed no objections to these contacts.
He was to furnish information con-
cerning Cuban railways.  He was
granted a Provisionsl Operational
Approval on 4 January 1961 for
contact and assessment for use on
Project JMATE.  This approval was
cancelled 31 August 1961.  On
7 October 1965 Subject was granted
anothpr 1PA for use as a
            He was cove  ly investigatec
with favhorable results and received


He returned to the United States on
11 February 1966 and his clearance
was cancelled 28 October 1966.


OS INDICES RESULTS:

        Subject is 47 years old (born 14 September 1920 in Havana,
Cuba).  He was formerly President of Consolidated Railways of Cuba
and also owned sugar and rice plantations.  He left Cuba because of
his opposition to CASTRO and entered the U. S. on 4 January 1961.
An FBI report dated 14 June d963 from New Orleans, Louisiana concerned
a visit by BARTES to the New Orleans FBI office in which he offered
his services to the U. S. Government and said he would be willing to
cooperate with the U. S. Government in any acceptable plan the U. S.
might devise to combat CASTRO's government with no thought of personal
gain or favor.  On 20 December 1966 BARTES called the New Orleans DCS
office to inform that office that his mother had arrived from Cuba
and would be willing to provide information.  He also stated that a
cousin, a 29 year old Cuban ballerina, Alicia Cruz BUSTILLO  not a
Communist and still residing in Cuba,
                                                    iThere s no
record of Alicia CRUZ BUSTIID  in OS indices and no indication that
these offers were acceptable by the Agency.

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