[1]124-10300-10024) | 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
[3]Date: 6/5/2015
[5]JFK Assassination System
[6]Identification Form
[8]Agency Information
[10]"AGENCY: FBI
[11]RECORD NUMBER:  124-10300-10024
[12]RECORD SERIES: HQ
[13]AGENCY FILE NUMBER: . CR 105-162207-3 \,
[14]; Document Information
[15]ORIGINATOR: FBI
[16]FROM: SAC,MM
[17]TO: “DIRECTOR, FBI
[18]TITLE:
[19]DATE: 07/10/1967
[20]PAGES: 4
[21]SUBJECTS :
[22]‘ [Restricted] .
[23]DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
[25]RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 4
[26]CURRENT STATUS: — Redact
[27]DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 06/14/1998
[29]OPENING CRITERIA :
[31]COMMENTS :
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[36]INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF CIA
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[55]Date: 7/10/67
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[58]Via A ERTEL BAS nin su isetubsy Piss Gandy 7:
[59](Priority) a ley PEL ——— ;
[61]Sonar ib las APGRMA NON ;
[62]TO: DIRECTOR, FBI i THR DGS ENT, Im 9-3-9
[63]FROM: SAC, MIAME (105-12062) (P) ed Pr Foe the Bua
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[65]a4 SUBJECT: JORGE RAUL ROBLEJO LORIE Jr
[66]\. INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA a HA oon
[67]OO: Miami g
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[69]Re Miami airtel dated 6/21/67, captioned COMITE i
[70]PRO-LIBERACION DE LOS CIEN (CPLLC) (COMMITTEE FOR THE 4!
[72]BS JUL 20 1967
[76]son (A= (6 Lo
[78]Approved: Sent WM Per
[79]wa Special Agent Charge _ ;
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[86]je LIBERATION OF THE ONE HUNDRED), IS’- CUBA.
[87]x On 7/5/67, SERGIO OSWALDO' BETANCOURT COLLAZO, No
[88]we 35 West 9th Street, Apartment 4, Hialeah, Florida, telephone a
[89]38 887-7218, voluntarily turnt spn the following information: XS
[91]| @ eicaias BY SG6E Seb pisje oa
[92]: DECLASSIFY Ci: 2o4__] 1
[93]. (8)- Bureau (RM) = it ~).
[94]. (1 - 105-147458) (CPLIC) . (Fi ) Ache as,
[95]| (2 - Legat, Mexico) (Into,) ff* ADA Ce
[96]~ “(1 = 105-4947) (CPLLC) yi hn!
[97]SS (2 - Legat, Ottawa) (Info.) #202 & Pp 94
[98]= (1 - 105-3083) (CPLLC) Classified by/2N
[99]a4 2 - New York (Info.) (RM) Declassity tik |
[100]=> (1 - 105-77103) (CPLIC) Serassity on: At =I
[101]2.4 2 - San Juan (Info.) (RM) A
[102]& * (1 = 105-9215) (CPLLC) =o
[103]-) 3 - Miami - A a E
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[114]BETANCOURT indicated that he had been the General
[115]Coordinator of the 30th of November anti-Castro organization
[116]in Cuba during 1959, 1960 and the first part of 1961. He
[117]arrived in the United States at Miami on June 29, 1961, via
[118]small boat. Upon his arrival in the United States, he assumed
[119]leadership of the 30th of November movement in Miami until
[120]approximately October, 1962, when he entered the U. 8. Army
[121]under the Cuban recruitment program at Fort Jackson, S. C,
[122]Subsequent to this, he has been affiliated with the 30th of
[123]November movement in Chicago for approximately two years,
[124]1963-1965, and in Miami, 1965 to date.
[126]BETANCOURT is currently employed.as a security guard
[127]for the National Patrol Detective Agency and the National
[128]Industrial Security Corporation (affiliates), 590 S. W.27th
[129]Avenue, Miami, Florida, in connection with this employment,
[130]he is a guard at the Cuban. Refugee. Processing Center of the
[131]Department of Health, Education and Welfare CHEW) three days
[132]la week. The Processing Center is located in Buildings T-90
[133]and T-94 which are utilized by the U. S. Immigration and
[134]Naturalization Service (INS) in processing, fingerprinting and
[135]photographing Cubat refugees upon their arrival in the United
[136]States. Yora {under the guise o NS interviewers] interrogates 6)
[137]these arrivals fat this location)
[139]of January, 1967, when ROBLEJO reportedly returned from Mexico
[140]x City where he had been attempting to seek the release of Cuban
[141]af geese prisoners in Cuba. He met ROBLEJO through ANGEL...
[142]7 —_uSTEVEZ, a coworker of BETANCOURT at the Hotel Fontainebleau \
[143]\ AQHePeboth were employed as waiters at that time, At the
[144]; request of ESTEVEZ, BETANCOURT furnished ROBLEJO a table gratis
[145]at the Frank Sinatra. show at the Fontainebleau Hotel, for which
[146]ROBLEJO was apparently grateful. As a result of this, ROBLEJO
[147]sought BETANCOURT'’s assistance in attempting to obtain the
[148]rélease of political prisoners and recently BETANCOURT was
[149]/ made a member of the Executive Committee of the CPLLC.
[151]| BETANCOURT related he met ROBLEJO around the first
[153]In this connection, BETANCOURT accompanied ROBLEJO
[154]to San Juan, Puerto Rico, the first week of June, 1967.
[155], BETANCOURT by this time had the impression ROBLEJO was actually
[156]| anti~United States and he considered ROBLE 2 “leftist-socialist. “4
[157]While in Puerto Rico, they met with MANOLOWRAY and RUFOSROPEZ.... '
[158]VERESQUET. ROBLEJO discussed the possibility of RAY and LOPEZ }
[159]‘FRESQUET becoming active in seeking the release of Cuban :
[160]political prisoners. However, no definite agreement or
[161]conclusion was reached.
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[176]BETANCOURT stated that on or about June 15, 1967,
[177]he and ROBLEJO, while temporarily staying at 2936 “Lotta,
[178]Santurce, Puerto Rico, were having a general conversation and
[179]ROBLEJO changed the topic toe BETANCOURT’s current work as a
[180]security guard at the Miami Airport where the Cuban refugees
[181]are processed, ROBLEJO asked detailed questions concerning
[182]the nature of the activities-at~this-tocation, to which BETANCOURT
[183]explained that Cuban refugees upon their. arrival in the United
[184]States are processed here’, including having their photographs
[185]taken, being fingerprinted, and being interrogated, ROBLEJO
[186]asked BETANCOURT if the FBI was there, which BETANCOURT acknowl-
[187]edged in the affirmative, and ROBLEJO asked, "What do they do
[188]there?" BETANCOURT answered, “They investigate and clear all
[189]of the refugees arriving from Cuba in the United States."
[190]ROBLEJO was interested in knowing if BETANCOURT saw "those papers"
[191]and BETANCOURT stated he had seen them. (BETANCOURT indicated —
[192]this was entirely fictitious, but since he did not trust ROBLEJO,
[193]he felt he might be in a position to be of possible assistance
[194]to the U. S. Government). ROBLEJO asked BETANCOURT if he could
[195]"photograph...take a picture of the documents or the people
[196]the FBI investigates," BETANCOURT asked ROBLEJO if he was
[197]"crazy," stating that if he did something like that, he could
[198]be put in the “electric chair." ROBLEJO indicated that with
[199]the use of a small camera, this could be accomplished very
[200]easily. Almost immediately, the topic was changed and BETANCOURT
[202]‘indicated to ROBLEJO he had to leave San Juan immediately because
[204]his child had just broken his collar bone, BETANCOURT also
[205]indicated to ROBLEJO that his, BETANCOURT'’s, wife had called
[206]and said she did not have any money in the house to buy food,
[207]etc, At this point, ‘ROBLEJO gave BETANCOURT a check in the
[208]amount of $300.00, drawn on the Pirst National Bank of Miami,
[209]on the account of. the Committee of Relatives of the One Hundred.
[210]ROBLEJO made.out this check in BETANCOURT's presence and —
[211]requested $50.00 be given to ROBLEJO's mother. Immediately,
[212]BETANCOURT cashed the check and sent a money order to his wife,
[213]ERMITAS RAMON ARIAS.
[215]BETANCOURT stated ROBLEJO had given him $50.00 in
[216]cash prior to their departure. for Puerto Rico.
[218]BETANCOURT advised he returned to Miami from Puerto
[219]Rico on June 18, 1967, and ROBLEJO remained in San Juan until
[220]June 28, 1967. He recalled ROBLEJO attempted to have him stay
[221]in Puerto Rico and was “mad” at BETANCOURT for leaving early.
[223]On June 30, 1967, ROBLEJO telephonically contacted
[224]BETANCOURT, during which conversation ROBLEJO indicated he
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[234]planned to go to Venezuela, Panama and Ottawa, Canada, and
[235]would see BETANCOURT upon his return, ROBLEJO is interested
[236]in obtaining a Mexican visa in order to go to Cuba to possibly .
[237]converse with FIDEL CASTRO or other important leaders in the
[238]communist government of Cuba in connection with the possible
[239]release of Cuban political prisoners.
[241]Local stops have been placed with INS in order to be
[242]notified of ROBLEJO's return to the United States.
[244]: ' Miami plans to lecate and possibly monitor the bank
[245]account of the Committee of Relatives of the One Hundred and
[246]any other accounts where ROBLEJO is the authorized signature
[247]of an account.
[249]The Bureau is being requested in a separate “communi-
[250]cation captioned "SERGIO OSWALDO BETANCOURT COLLAZO, aka
[252]"“Aviel,” PST ~ CUBA," to grant authority to contact him in
[254]order to follow up in connection with ROBLEJO's request as
[256]| mentioned above in the event ROBLEJO attempts to pursue this
[258]| : matter further.
[260]The Bureau will be kept advised, LHM incorporating
[262]pertinent data regarding subject's activities will be promptly
[263]furnished to the Bureau. ,
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