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

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch72198 and id is 1 raw text is: 14-00000 . . 104-10110-10074 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 SECR-ET- 28 December 1967 SUBJECT: BARTES, (CLARENS), Francisco Antonio aka BARTES, Frank (See also HEDMING, Gerald P. ) ALLEGATION: To date there has 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 HEMMING 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. CIA CONNECTION: 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 another POA for use as afdlotTn C-the Cong. He was covertly investigate with favorable results and received an dOperational Approval on 15 No6rember 1965 for use as aFM-Pilot-in-Africa 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-1963 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 BUSTILIO, not a Communist and still residing in Cuba, would be willing to he-I the .; U. S. if she were approached in the proper manner.; There is no record of Alicia CRUZ BUSTILLO in OS indices and no indication that these offers were acceptable by the Agency. SECOE i Exclude fra stoaatk SECRET deer :- a C 0

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