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TITLE : ALLEGED CUBAN PLAN TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT OF PANAMA

DATE: 03/17/64 PAGES: 1

SUBJECTS: CUBAN PLOT TO ASSASSANATE PRESIDENT OF PANAMA PANAMA

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION New Orleans, Louisiana March 17, 1964

ALLEGED CUBAN PLAN TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT OF PANAMA

At 4:55 PM, March 17, 1964, Orlando Piedra, formerly connected with Federal Police in Cuba and presently residing New Orleans, Louisiana, advised that about one week ago he received information from a source in Cuba whom he considers reliable that Castro is not satisfied with the way things are going in Panama and for that reason plans to have the President of Panama assassinated to create additional uprisings in that country. Piedra advised that he furnished the above information by letter to Colonel Bolivar Ballarino, Chief of the National Guard of Panama whom he has known for years. Piedra declines to identify the source and has no additional information to report.

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is the property of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.

This will confirm information orally furnished Mr. J. J. Kelly, State Department, and Mr. Jones Merriman, Central Intelligence Agency on March 17, 1964, by A. J. Decker of this Bureau. This will also confirm data furnished orally to Colonel Graham E. Schmid, Department of the Army; Major William Boya, Department of the Air Force; and Mr. Don Gorham, Department of the Navy, on March 19, 1964, by G. A. Day of this Bureau.

This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi- nation outside your Committee. Use is limited to official proceedings by your Committee and the contents cannot be warranted or disclosed to unauthorized person- nel without the express approval of the FBI.

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