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# Miami Called Base Of Cuban TerroristsUnited Press InternationelMilitant pro- and anti-Castro Cuban groups in the Miami area are engaged in terrorist activities both in and outside the United States, according to closed-door testimony before a Senate subcommittee released yesterday.The testimony came last May before a Judiciary subcommittee on Internal security chaired by Sen. James O. Eastland, D-Miss. It said that as many as 50 different Cuban groups of various shadings have been operating in Miami at any one time, many of them engaged in violent plots involving local actions and activities in Mexico, Central and Routh America and Cuba itself.Lt. Thomas Lyons, who has been with the Dade County, Fla., Public Safety Department for more than nine years, and Raul J. Diaz of the department's organized crime, terrorist and security unit, told of efforts to track down terrorist elements in the greater Miami area.LYONE SAID MOST Cubans in the area are hard-working and industrious, but some individuals "use Dade Country as a base for international terrorism against allied governments of Cuba, Cuban shipping, Communists, purported Communists and individuals who take a stand against their terroristic-type tactics."During the last two years, Lyons said, there have been four homicides with strong indicators on each that the motivations were political in nature and terroristic by design."Pies said some Castro groups have infiltrated exile organizations and there were plans to assassinate Latin American diplomats and foreign lawyers.Lyons said his unit received information from a confidential source early this year that there would be an attempt on the life of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger during his February visit to Costa Rica.FBI AND Secret Service were notified, he said. A widely- known fugitive exile, Orlando Bosch, was jailed after illegally entering Costa Rica. There were no incidents during the Kissinger visit.He did not mention the CIA's own efforts to use Cuban exiles in Florida or U.S. gangsters to kill Castro.Two weeks ago, the body of underworld figure John Roselli was found stuffed in a chain-weighted, 68-gal-lon drum floating in a bay near Miami. Roselli had testified last year before the Senate Intelligence Committee that he and Chicago gangster Sam Giancana were hired by the CIA to recruit Cubans to kill Castro.Giancana was killed by unknown persons last year just before he was to testify before the Washington panel.IT WAS LEARNED yesterday a lawyer for Roselli told the FBI in 1967 that the underworld figure, recruited by the CIA to kill Castro, believed agents of the Cuban leader were involved in slaying President Kennedy.An FBI "blind memorandum" on an interview with Edward P. Morgan, Roselli's former lawyer, was included in last June's Senate Intelligence Committee report on the role of the intelligence community in the Kennedy assassination investigation. But it did not identify Morgan at the interviewee.Morgan told the FBI, according to the summary, that Roselli and another client were called on to participate in a government-approved project aimed at assassinating Castro. He said Castro employed "teams of individuals who were dispatched to the United States for the purpose of assassinating President Kennedy."Egyptian Plane Hijacked, Other Arabs BlamedCAIRO (AP) - An Egyptian airliner was hijacked today by seven gunmen believed to be Libyans, Palestinians and Lebanese, informed sources said.The plane was on its way from Cairo to Luxor, 330 miles to the south.A spokesman for Egyptair, the Egyptian airline, said the plane, a Boeing 727, landed in Luxor, and the hijackers threatened to blow it up unless fuel was provided.Security men surrounded the plane, the spokesman said.He reported there were 95 passengers and crew members aboard. Some of the passengers were foreign tourists on their way to Luxor to see the ancient Temples of Karnak and the Valley of the Kings. But their nationalities were not available."THE WASHINGTON STAR"23 AUGUST 1976