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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600300027-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: March 3, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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asking tee a' jot. pf queptioas
about sours (PetroWs former
neighhor`in Cuba). Be aiked
me about my interest in Cuba
and about gun-running.
"1 didn't know whether he was
a Castro agent or, what, so when
he left I got in touch with the
CIA clown here and told them
about him.
"The CIA agents picked up
the fellow and questioned him.
It turned out he was Army In-
telligence from Washington and
.aroc to \f iaoii to investigate
without telling. the CIA agents
here:'
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Skfitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R000600300027-7
The Standard carried' a story:
last week telling of telephone
calls made by John Petroff of
ltfianu to former neighbors in.
Havana. I'etrotT sought'to tniist
their aid in freeing 'nIt .Amc i-
can skin divers reportedly held
by Castro.
On Saturday, Petroff, an
Operator of an electronics firm,
phoned The Standard to tell what
happened after the story ap-
peared:
"I was visitcc' by this fellow
who showed rip his identifica-
tion and said be as from Army
Intelligence in Vashington. He
howed inc a Clip lug he said was