: . : A A LZ ‘ ‘ st 1905-21892 - 2 Anterview was conducted by SAs ROBERT JAMES DWYER and = =... * (GEORGE E, DAVIS, JR., after information was. received co from Cuban exile leader MANUNL ARTIME that FUSTE had. nol oo ee. peceived a "Zero" extortion letter and wanted to furnish. Fo at to FBI, | ahs Bes eh It is. noted "Zero" | has claimed eredit. for. Apri 12, -1974, assassination. of JOSE ELIAS DE LA - ae -TORRIENTS, ‘Cuban exile leader, at his, Coral Gables residence. ey After obtaining "Zero" letter and details “from at FUSTE, “Agents then questioned him concerning Frente de ' Liberacion Nacional de Cuba (Cuban exile terrorist organi- gation), which claims credit for a series of recent bombings. ' Investigation has reflected that a number of FLNC members — -/' >: visit. WFAB caily, use facilities of WFAB, and broadcast ~ "propaganda over WFAB, FUSTE orally acknowledged this. aa '- £act, but denied responsibility. He was informed that = © =. | _ FLNC claims: credit for acts which are in violation of Lo 7 oo. UY 8S, laws, and FLNC is presently subject of a. Federal | Grand sury. investigation, Miami. i arnt oe On 4/24/74, MM 1337-S ‘advised on “4/22/74, LEOPOLDO. Justo, General Manager, WFAB, overheard conversation at *-) WFAB between FUSTE and Miami City Commissioner and Vice _. Mayor MANOLO REEOSO, who called upon FUSTE shortly after .., departure of Agents, REBOSO reportedly told FUSTE that “°° next time SA DAVIS talked to FUSTE, REEOSO would telephone * Ris friend, Congressman DANTE ‘FASCELL, and make | complaint ‘ against DAVIS, - . Ot MM 1337-s said that JUSTO is. deeply ‘upset | about _-FLNC. visits to WrAB and is opposed. to FUSTE's policies and associations with regard to such hostile elements. On 4/24/74, JUSTO confirmed that. “FLNC members frequent WFAB and said he is willing to testify and would have no objections to any other employees of WEAB being HW 45342 Docld:32332382 Page 4
. 4 . : . E A owe 305-22004 - - subpoenaed to testify before the Federal Grand ssury regarding FLNC activities, He then related that he is in “ag power struggle with FUSTE, who has allowed WFAB. to. ~ “pe-used for political purposes by FLNC and other Cuban “exile groups contrary to FCC regulations. He related : “> that his opposition to FUSTE came to a head when FUST® fired, _. without any justification whatsoever, WFAB news -reporter ' . OSCAR ANGULO, ‘several days previously, against orders of 3) RICHARD EATON, owner and President of United Broadcasting: 5 CORPS» Washington, D, C., ‘who strongly supports ANGULO, a a on morning 4/26/74, MM 1337-8 advised that as - 8 result of EATON's order that OSCAR: ANGULO be rehired >. {mmediately, FUSTE is resigning from WrAB and has. declared _ that he will immediately hold.a press conference and. _ 4.) @mnounce that his resignation results. from pressure applied | by the U.. Ss. Government, ; Se, ra 7 : SAS DAVIS and DWYER. during the separate interviews: oe of. -FUSTE and JUSTO explicitly informed each that the FBI. .- was not investigating WFAB, and that the FBI interest in - > making this inquiry related. only to the "Zero" extortion oy Reteere’t and the activities of the FLNC terrorists. boty Roe on 4/30/74, “MM 1337-8 advised: that “FUSTE. returned os te. his ‘position as Program Director at WFAB on the morning. =") O£ 4/30/74, despite the fact that he had resigned on . .» 4/29/74, On both occasions, FUSTE was accompanied by “Miami City Commissioner MANOLO REBCSO, MM 1337-S subsequently c~learned that his own status had become in doubt but he ' “expected to receive some definite word from Mr. EATON, He _.Speculated that REROSO and FUSTE had succeeded in. placing pressure upon Mr. EATON to retain FUSTE, as a FCC hearing: ad pending on WEAB in the near future es pac ee At 3: 00 p.m, on 4/30/74, MM-1337-S advised that a - g08E ANTONIO ARIAS, TRey | an employee of WFAB, told him on HW 45342 Docld:32332382 Page 5 ee ee : . . ty — , .
MM 105-22094 -2 a confidential basis that he had overheard a conversation _/ that morning between TUSTE and MANOLO REBOSO, He heard. '’ REBOSO state, ‘Don't forget the information I received from LESNICK that ANGULO planned to work for DEA and imay now be. working for DEA, woe wom, ccm tree emer cine . bom oe On ‘the morning of . 5/1/74, MO 1337-8 advised > that. he still does not know what is his present. status, | and— ome has not returned to the station.— Seapine apres e shen pe tmmete e tee eo "Information has been previously submitted ‘to the . . ‘Bureau in the case entitled, "MAX LESNICK, aka.; IS.- CUBA," ~ -peflecting that in the spring of 1973, MAX LESNICK, publisher - of Spanish language publication Replica, came to this office ~ on, two separate occasions to make allegations against —. ....RICARDO MORALES NAVARRETE, claiming that MORALES was engaged in illegal activities under the protection of the FBI, “.° “Jt is to be recalled that: MORALES was a. key: witness in “> the’ 1968 prosecution in federal court. of. ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA © and eight co-defendants, all of whom were ‘convicted: on. wale, “charges relating to ship bombings, extortion, and conspiracy, “> He also served as a key witness in a narcotics case which “. yesulted in the conviction of MANUEL PENABAZ, who was a: friend | of LESNICK. and a writer for his publication, oh “Investigation has reflected that. since BOSCH owas released on p2role on 12/15/72, he has become an almost ooo. @aily visitor to LESNICK's office at Replica,. and one of BOSCH 's co-defendants, JORGE GUTIERREZ, "is employed by: ESN: as ao heed ae ” Algo, ‘shortly after LESNICK* s. ‘first visit ‘to. this office, MANOLO REBOSO, Miami City Commissioner, who » -- ‘has- subsequently become a Vice Mayor of Miami, came to © -.... this office to make similar complaints against MORALES,. '..° REBOSO disclosed that he himself had recommended that ... LESNICK complain to the FBI, REBOSO confided to SA DAVIS -.on the occasion of his first visit that his own former - girl friend, PILAR ALFONSO, was the current girl friend _@f MORALES, and that PILAR always contacted REBOSO immediately after any contact with ORALES to inform REBOSO concerning her relations with MORALES, REBOSO: | HW 45342 DBoclda:32332362 Page 6
Coons Lo a _ . - ae po ese UM get poet sug, meri bo Ue woes es Pa Z an 7 ps AES RD es eS rs . ; 2 \ oe a : vt rr’ “yar 1905-22094 © ‘also stated that he planned to make complaints to congress- men . in Washington, — It later came to the be a, . attention oi this office that he did contact one or ~ gore law enforcement officials in Miami to make similar ’ gomplaints against MORALES, alleging MORALES was Joos | receiving protection from both the TBI and certain — . “: .@fficers of the Miami PD and the Dade County. SO, . ee | OM 5/25/73, an attempt was made by two. “men to assassinate MORALES, -This. occurred at 9:00 p.m, | “i safter MORALES had telephoned PILAR at 8:00 pim, for geen Lf foo (@, dinner date, telling her that-he-would pick’her up-” ES Bete oo at 9300 p.m, He notified no one else of his plans, ©. mo . The assassination attempt, which resulted in minor | i. dnjuries to MORALES, was made sharply at 9:00 p.m... s> ags he arrived at the residence. of PILAR, _ Fs oa. Shortly thereafter, REBOSO came to the Miami. “i: Office to lodge another complaint against. MORALES, At. “c-that. time, he denied any connection ~ith the assassina- .tton attempt against MORALES, but declined. to signa -.- See On 8/11/74, at about 11:30 p.m., shortly re - after leaving his place of employment, an-unidentified | -- man in an automovile fired two shots at MM 1337-S, who | (was not hit. ‘Subsequently, MM 1337-S received information eonfidentially from OSCAR IBORRA, an enployee of Revlica, wooo that. the plan to assassinate MM. 1337-S bad been drawn up <°. dn LESNICK‘s office and had been financed by LESNICK, “2° Phe identity of the would-be assassin is unknown, - At — 0: that time, MM 1337-S conjectured that LESNICK may have found out that MME -1337-S had filed an application for — ho > employment by the DEA, This speculation is based upon ©.) .-) -the fact that an individual known to be a friend of LESNICK had been interviewed by DEA concerning MM 1337-S‘ applica- . Oe os On 3/20/74, a bomb exploded at about 2:00 a.m. at 2344 5. 4. 16th Street, Miami, and two members of the _ FLNC were seriously wounded as they were preparing a ~~“ package boabd which went off in the’r hands, SA DAVIS “went to the scene of the pombing- at approximately 2:30 or HW 45342 Docld:32332382 Page 7