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# SPECIAL REPORT Cuban Extremists in U.S.A GROWING TERROR THREAT![map of mexico, cuba, dominican republic, haiti republic, jamaica, puerto rico, barbados, venezuela]Out from Miami spreads a wave of violence. Terrorists' aim is to topple Castro, free Cuba. Nearly all Cuban refugees share this dream. But the acts of a few zealots create trouble for fellow exiles and for the U.S.Reported fromMIAMI and WASHINGTONTerrorism by radical Cuban refugees has become a thorny problem in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy and, in the view of some authorities, a potential threat to the lives of American leaders.The terrorists' goal is to wrest control of Cuba away from its Communist dictator, Fidel Castro.In pursuit of that goal, they have blazed a trail of violence from Miami across the Caribbean Sea, not only to Cuba but also to Mexico, Barbados, Jamaica and Panama-even across the South Atlantic to Argentina.They have engaged in a series of bombings in the U.S. and abroad. They have carried out military-style attacks on Communist ships. They are strongly suspected of several killings.A federal grand jury in Miami is investigating their activities and their leaders.Now, as a new Administration prepares to take over in Washington, it is feared that the Cuban terrorists will step up their attacks in an effort to thwart any turn toward reconciliation with Castro.Officials familiar with their operations warn that none of the Cuban extremists will stop at nothing, not even at assassinating members of the Carter Administration."The Cuban terrorists are the most highly trained assassins in the world today," says one U.S. official.Many of the terrorists were trained by the Central Intelligence Agency in the days when this country was trying to overthrow Castro, or kill him.The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee recently held hearings on the Cuban-terrorist threat. It heard testimony from Lt. Thomas Lyons, head of a special antiterrorist squad of the Dade County public safety department in![Dr. Orlando Bosch, an anti-Castro leader, is accused in plane bombing fatal to 73.]Miami, where Cuban refugees are concentrated:"The overwhelming majority of the Cubans in Miami are strongly anti-Castro. That's why they came to Miami in the first place. They are also law-abiding citizens who, with minor exceptions, manifest their opposition to Castro in legal ways.""However, there are a small number of individuals whose hatred of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro and Communism has led them to engage in extralegal actions and to violate the laws of the country which gave them sanctuary."These individuals use Dade County as a base for international terrorism against governments allied with Cuba, Cuban shipping, Communists, purported Communists and individuals who take a stand against their terrorist-type attacks."Some Cuban groups purporting to be involved in terrorist-type attacks against the Cuban Government are no more or no less than outright criminals, feeding upon the Cuban population and diverting the collected funding for their own purposes."Other investigators charge that the terrorists, to finance their crusade, have dealt in cocaine and prostitution and in extortion from wealthy fellow refugees.The number of hard-core terrorists is small, officially estimated at fewer than 300. But their reach is wide. In this year alone they have either bragged about or been accused of such acts as:*   Machine-gun attacks on the high seas against vessels from Cuba and other Communist nations.*   Bombing a wide variety of targets in the United States, Latin America and Portugal.*   Planting a bomb that caused the crash of a Cubana Airlines plane near Barbados on October 6, with the loss of 73 lives.*   Possible involvement in the still-unsolved bomb death of