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SUBJECT : Travel to Florida of an agent for the Soviets
in Bogota to report on Cuban Exile Activities
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Reference is made to our CIR-316/00990-74 dated 17
April 1974 and to your reply of 11 July 1974.
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☐ 2. ✓ Carlos Miguel KASSEL (also known as CACEL) Castro (s)
was in Miami, Florida from 11 August to 29 August 1974.
3 (5) [KASSEL] s natural cover for his stay in Miami and
contacts with Cuban exiles was that of "Asistente Internacional"
to the Union de Trabajadores de Colombia (UTC) and "Jefe de
Redaccion" of "Justicia Social" published by the UTC in
Bogota. Since the UTC is sympathetic to and supports some
Cuban exile groups? KASSEL feels his visit to and expenses
in Miami can be fully justified within the context of his
functions as a UTC official.
(s).
4.
The following were [KASSEL] s main contacts in the
Miami area:
A. Ignacio LEDON Iglesias, former Miami area
committee Secretary for Propaganda of the Partido Revolu-
cionario del Pueblo (PRP), left-winger, friend of Mario
RIVADULLA (see below)
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B. Mario RIVADULLA, PRP official and radio'perso
ality in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. RIVADULLA
arrived in Miami from Santo Domingo on 14 August.
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Schedule of .EO. 11652 Exemption Category 5B(2).
to determine date of automatic declassification.
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C.. Ramiro de LA FE, brother of Ernesto de LA FE
who had been recently released from jail in Cuba.
D. Rolando MASFERRER, Editor of "Libertad."
Alberto DIAZ Masvidal, Editor" of "Miami Extra."
F. Max LESNIK, Editor of "Replica.".
G.
Vicente RUBIERA, leader of Telephone Workers
Trade Union in Miami..
Interior.
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H.
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Santiago REY Pernas, former Cuban Minister of
I. Alberto del RIO Chaviano, former Brig. General
in the Cuban Army.
Following are highlights of [KASSEL s report for
our representative who met him in Miami:
5.
A. The Partido Revolucionario del Pueblo (PRP)
has ceased to exist for all practical purposes. According
to Ignacio LEDON, responsibility for the disintegration of the
PRP falls on its leader Antonio SANTIAGO, whom [KASSEL describes
($)
as a "farsante."
B. Mario RIVADULLA, a member of the PRP Executives)
Committee who now lives in Santo Domingo, told [KASSEL] that
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it is impossible to organize a political movement in exile
which would be capable of influencing in any way the develop-
ment of events in Cuba. RIVADULLA now believes that there
is no alternative but to await a spontaneous change of
events in Cuba and a possible overthrow or assassination of
Castro by the military.
(5)
C. [KASSEL] attended a meeting of about 15 persons
on 16 August presided over by Rolando MASFERRER, Director
of the weekly "Libertad." MASFERRER told the participants
that they should begin firing practice on a Florida farm to
prepare themselves for action against Cuba before November,
because he (MASFERRER). is sure that Castro will be overthrown
by that time. MASFERRER pointed out that U.S. Security and
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Intelligence Services are aware of his plans and that he has
no difficulty in their implementation. Participants at
the meeting were then asked to contribute funds for the
purchase of weapons; the total cash raised exceeded $1,000.00.
[KASSEL] Commented that it is his impression that the funds.
raised were intended for MASFERRER's personal use rather
than the purchase of weapons.
D. KASSEL] discusse
discussed with Ramiro de LA FE the
possibility of founding a conspiratorial and secret political
movement to create a mechanism of penetrating Cuba for the
purpose of contributing to conditions which would result in
a military coup against Castro. The movement would be
headed "in absentia" by Ernesto de LA FE, who had been
released from prison in Cuba two months ago. The decision
to launch this movement was made on 25 August in the apart-
ment of Ramiro de LA FE. Present at that time, in addition
to KASSEL and Ramiro de LA FE, were Armando MEDINA, Manuel
CAVEDAS and Miguel A✓ ZERQUEIRA (Cubans) and Juan LÓPEZ.
(naturalized American). The new movement was named Movimiento
|| Independente Radical de Cuba (MIRC) and Ramiro de LA FE
was named its temporary leader until such time as Ernesto
de LA FE can leave Cuba. The MIRC will seek contact with
Cuban armed forces to launch a coup against Castro and it
will also seek contact with anti-Communist groups in Brazil
and with the government of Chile. Ramiro de LA FE claimed
already to have contact with Patricia BERDUGO, a Chilean
supposedly working for the Chilean Intelligence Service in
Miami. During the meeting, Armando MEDINA said that he
had once worked for CIA and that he participated in an
attack on a Spanish merchant vessel which was mistaken for
the Sierra Maestra of the Cuban Merchant Fleet. [KASSEL] (s)
was named [the Editor of the MIRC Manifesto which will be
published in the Latin American press on 10 October.
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E. KASSEL met with Alberto DIAZ Masvidal, Editor-
in-Chief of Miami Extra, " and offered his services as an
unpaid contributor of articles from Bogota. The offer
was accepted.
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6. [KASSEL's draft report to his Soviet contact in
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Bogota is a single-spaced nine-page paper entitled "Composicion
Politica de la Emigracion Cubana en Miami, Florida."!
covers those groups with which KASSEL has become most
familiar: the PRP, the MIRC, Alfa 66, and several other
minor groups. Following are highlights of that report
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A. [In response to a specific requirement from
KASSEL's Soviet contact to determine if U.S.. Government
agencies, including specifically the CIA, support any of
these groups, KASSEL makes emphatically clear in his report
that none of the exile groups have the support of the U.S.
Government, although some groups falsely claim to have such
support. He points out that the U.S. Government not only
ignores the political exiles, but places high priority on
its relations with the USSR and is "disposed" to lift the
blockade of Cuba and reestablish relations with Havana.
In connection with the latter point, KASSEL reports on his
interview with Dr. Alberto DIAZ Masvidal, Director of the
Spanish edition of Miami Herald, who told KASSEL that
reestablishment of U.S. Cuban relations is now imminent.](s)
B. Regarding on-island operations of Cuban exile
groups, KASSEL concludes that none of them have any operational
contacts in Cuba.
(s)
C. Regarding terrorism, (KASSEL] reports that
Dr. Orlando BOSCH, a fugitive from the U.S. who now lives
* in Venezuela under an assumed identity, and Antonio VECIANA,
a founding member of the PRP who is now in 
prison, have a
plan of attack against Cuban embassies and consulates 
and
against Soviet Bloc missions in Latin America, 
to be put
into effect when Venezuela, Costa Rica, and other unidentified
He also singles
countries reestablish relations with Cuba.
out Jose de Jesus QINQAUMA, a Cuban political gangster who
last year planned an attack against a Soviet family in
Venezuela, and the Frente Unido de Liberacion, 
which 
was
formed this month in Miami and which announced the launching
of a terrorist campaign against Cuban and Soviet Bloc
diplomatic installations in the entire Western Hemisphere.
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2.
If you wish, we will forward to you copies of
(S) KASSEL) s reports to our representative (paragraph 5 above)
[ and to his Soviet contact in Bogota (paragraph 6 above).
8 We shall advise you if (KASSEL visits Miami again
on a mission for his Soviet contact in Bogota (S) If and when
he does, we shall request that a Miami representative of
the Bureau participate in our representative's meetings
with (KASSEL Slas the subject matter of [KASSEL reporting
is of direct interest to the Bureau.
FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS:
• Herbert W. Nat 1] (s)
vid A. Phillips
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