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# FBI Told of Chilean Plot to Use Cubans to Kill Allende KBy Jue CrankshawThe Niemi HrealdMIANH--The Chilean secret police last bruary attempted to recruit two albered Cuban exile terrorists to asasinate the nephew of Chile's late Cepurest Marxist President Salvador Silende, a ranking South American Intelligence oficial told U.S. authori-١:٢٠The Intelligence official, Reardo Morales of the Venezurlan secret police told FBI contacts that Chile's secret police (DINA) sought the assassination of both Andres Pascal Allende and his companion, Anne Marie Brussier, according to documents made Available to The Miami Herald.Morales, himself a Cuban exile, said the DINA plot, which was never carried out, was reported to him by Ro-Lando Otero, who curtatly faces trial in Miami on 19 felony charges related tomme terroust bombings here.Susparions of Chilean secret police incelement in plots against political exiles have been widely expressed in enute circles. This was the first re-pufted Instance of an allegation to the Fill by a high-ranking intelligence official suggesting complicity of the Chilean intelligence service in political assassination activities. Morales had himself been associated with the Central Intelligence Agency and FBI as an operative and informant after flecing Cuba following Castro's accession to power.]At the time of Morales' report to the FBI, Otero was a fugitive from a Miami federal grand jury indictment related to the bombings. He was subsequently acquitted of that charge earlier this year at a federal trial in Jacksonville.Morales quoted Otero as saying DINA had attempted to recruit both Otero and Orlando Bosch for the assassination. Bosch was charged in Venezuela last week with first-degree murder in the sabotage of a Cuban airliner that claimed 73 lives.Morales quoted Otero as saying DINA offered arms and funds to Cuban exile groups.Otero refused to do the "favor," left Chile and told the Latin American intelligence official on Feb. 15, then returned to Santiago. He was arrested two weeks later and held until he was handed over to the United States in May.Bosch was arrested entering Costa Rica with a false passport on Feb. 19. He was charged with plotting to kill U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, Andres Pascal Allende and Anne Marie Brussier.No trial was held and Boseli was later deported. He returned to Santiago and apparently remained there until going to the Caribbean area to organize CORU, a militant anti-Castro group which claimed credit for the Cuban airliner bombing last month.Morales made the reports to the FBI in an exchange of intelligence with U.S. officials about exiled terrorists' plots.An FSI spokesman in Washington said Monday the bureau would have no comment on the reported DINA plot. (FBI officials in Caracas had no comment on the case in response to Independent inquiries by The Washington Post.]Information on alleged DINA Cuban exile conspiracy against the surviving Allende family and government members was suppressed during the federal bombing trial of Otero in Jacksonville in September, 1976.When Otero started to testify about his activities in Chile. government prosecutors objected that the information was immaterial to the hombing charges.Otero was fourd innocent of federal charges that be placed bombs at Miami International Airport in October, and at the Miami FBI office, Social Security Office, State Unemployment Office, two post offices, a bank; the Dade State Attorneys Office and the Miami Police Department Headquarters on Dec. 34His trial on related state charges was to begin here Monday but was ordered postponed until after the bexin-ning of the year and transferred to Pensacola.Otero remained in Florida until late December. 1975, when he was told by an FBI informant that the FBI was preparing to have him indicted on the bombing charges.Otero then went to the Dominican Republic, where he was arrested, then paroled to the custody of Admiral Cesar de Windt, father-in-law of Frank Castro, an Otero friend.When a Miami federal grand joy returned indictment against Otero in the bambings. 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