FRANK ANTHONY STURGIS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005603924
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: May 24, 2011
• Case Number: F-2011-00132
• Publication Date: June 20, 1972

OENTRAL; INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 205055
ALL FBI IIdFOP1LATION C01aAI TED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 09-09-2010 BY 50322/UC/LRPJPLJ/b1s
-MEMORANDUM FOR: The Acting Director
Federal 131ireau of Investigation
ATTENTION : Mr. Arnold Parham
SUB= iT Frank Anthony-Sturgis
(b)(1)
(b)(3)
1. i4r.? F ank Anthony$t gig was,born. oa J,31ec. m en.
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Fra k ttila, and ? r. %tk Belli. _ waa 'honorably discharged
from a following. services; United. States' Marine Corps. ih
which he served from 1. 42 to.1945; United States Naval..Reserve
.front 1947 to 1948; and Uniteci.States Army frpm 1948 to 1.94%.
2. According to .a report_from the Federal Bureau of
kavestigatiioix, he-waa arrested in Cuba by Cuban, a`uthoritie's. in.
,duly 1958, as a courier from the =United States, for Cuban rebels.-.
Jn l 959, he--waa a Captain:ixi the Cuban. Army and,.a government
inspector of gambling at the "Txopicaua. Night Club' in. Havana. He
became disillusioned with Castro and returned to. the ZJhited. States.
Ile was afford4d.a special hearing by the Immigration and
IlT4turalization Servioe in }4iami in Februar' 106,0 regarding
possible deportation on jhe:basis tthat'hee-voluntarily expatriated
-himself through, service in the Cuban. Armed Forces s'ubseciuent:to
.January 1959: it was .restoredfourteen,thonths later.
3,, 3n may 1960, he was, involved with a group- of Cubans in
Miami who were to participate in an invasion of Cuba. In December
19601 an informant .of the federal Bureau of Investigation who lived.
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 and:being'spoitsored-:bythe Ageincyfor'some future military-action'.
against the Goyerzimenr ofi'Cuba_: .His, photographwas on'the cover
of the Washington Post' Parade Section in:1961? "a soldier, pffortune.
Iie described.his Caribbean Sperience fo Jack Anderson of Parade.
4. Iri 1..961;. Subject headed?an_ organization called the-
International ,Aziticommunist Brigade which he, c~a'.medhad 5, 000--
me n. He. has been involved with, Gerald PatricjlHemmang who -is.
head o the- Intercontinental Penetration Forc s, another anti-Castro
group. .He?.flew in an anti=Casird leaflet dropping . mission. over
Camaguey, Cuba, in,October 1961,- The $10,;000. for-she leaflets.
repor?edlyecame. fromJulio.'Lobo w1 o hae been-an Agency contact.
5. An FBLreport dated-4 April 1969;. said'that Subject, a well
known American mercenary and soldier 6? fortune had participated'in?
Cuban revolutionary activities. for- the past ten years. On.I November
1-968, he .'admiiitted- he recruited twelve American adventuress and
inercenaries~for military activities against. Cuba. An September,: 1968,.
they met in Mexico and-set ?up,a military training camp.. Later they
bdaxded ab'oat.andabout two-days later'an- aground'near Belize,
British Ho,nduraa. .After being arrested in ;British Honduras, they
were deported:back.to,the`United? States.
1-19 _.; Su ject r,esideclin. Nort 'west
Miami , and?was employed=as a. used-car salesman' by G.2v1: u s.ed' Gar's,
Miami. - - -
7. The 'above infbimation:is for yoiir? uao? only and should not
be disseminated outside, your Bureau. .Please transmit. any information
on this. matter .to. the -attention ?of ,,the Director, of -Security;
1?'AR' THE DIRECTOR of GENTktAY;:IIITELLIGEIVCE;
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