AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10206-10374 RECORD SERIES: HO AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 2-2173-1 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: DIRECTOR. FBI TO: SAC.MM TITLE: DATE: 10/08/1976 PAGES: 9 SUBJECT: | CUBANA AIRLINES, BOMBING, ACA, SUSP, BKG, TRA DOCUMENT TYPE: - PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Secret | NEW Co CLASSIFICATION: : CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW_DATE: 05/11/1998 UPDATE DATE: STATUS _ Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (1)(C) JFK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: NW 45701 DociId:32291098 Page i
ee = NW 45701 DociId:32291098 Page 2 | | ~ _ANTI-CASTRO AND WAS SUSPECTED OF HAVING! BEEN THE oMAIN SUPPORTER OF — . : | | j 5 vA bs stataremes aera necineren nem nase oesst HERNAN RICARDO. LOZANO IS A NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER AND FREE} LANCE RE- FORT ER AFFILIATED WITH THE MAGAZINE “VISION,” AND HE IS aso EMPLOYED AS | 'AN INDUSTRIAL INVEST IGATOR BY INVEST IGQACIONES COMERCIALES £& IN= . DUSTRIALES, CeAe cICI), AN IND USTR TAL SECMITY FIRM OPER aT ED BY LUIS | Lo FOSADA, [Forner HEAD OF COUNTERINTELL IGENCE, -DIVISION, CAR ACAS’, * ba ES vewez ue al(Z) | . oa 7 POSADA, A CUBAN EXILE WHO IS NOY a’ VENEZUELAN CITIZEN, ‘Is STRONGLY RL ANDO BOSCH AVILA DURING BOSCH" S PRESENCE IN VENEZUELA PRIOR TO HIS... * ARREST ON NOVEMBER 1S, 1975. [vec ar BECAME ACQUAINTED wITH POSADA IN THE COURSE OF OFFICIAL BUSINESS DURING PERIOD POSADA WAS AN OFFICIAL OF pistP.|(S) - oe | - END PAGE ONE
ee > . ; a re tet : < ~ 4 a o . © we NON we Pi ce ae > a \ \ > | i i HERNAN RICARDO LOZANO FIRST BECAME: KNOWN 10 LEGAT IN APPROXIMATELY JUNE, 1974, WHEN HE CONTACTED LEGAT FOR ASSISTANCE. IN EXPEDITING THE - PROCESSING OF A VISA TO THE UeSe THAT HAD BEEN REQUESTED FOR THE MINOR _ SON oF [tHE THEN DIRECTOR OF DISIP, DRe PEDRO ARTURO TORRES aGUDO. LEGAT WAS LED TO BELIEVE RICARDO waS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF DISIP AND ASSISTANCE WAS PROVIDED THAT RESULTED IN THE PROMPT ISSUANCE OF A VISA TO THE TORRES AGUDO cunp iS) | RICARDO RECONTACTED LEGAT a FEW WEEKS LATER TO EXPRESS HIS APPRECIATION FOR ASSISTANCE PREVIOUSLY RENDERED , AND LEGAT THEN BE- | HE AWARE RrcarDo(was MERELY AN AUXILIARY MEMBER OF DISIP, AND THAT | fils ACTUALLY IN THE PERSONAL SERVICE OF LyIS POSADA. RICARDO RE- | VEALED HE WAS ALSO A NEWSPAPER REPORTER AND PHOTOGRAPHER aFFILIATED | | WITH THE MAGAZINE “VISION,” AND INDICATED HE DEVOTED MOST OF HIS TIME - | RESEARCHING NEWS ARTICLES INTENDED TO DISCREDIT THE CaSTRO GOVERN~ | MENT. HE CLAIMED PARTIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR q NEWSPAPER ARTICLE THAT APPEARED IN A CARACAS NEWSPAPER ABOUT THAT TIME, REVEALING THE PRESENCE OF CUBAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS IN CUBAN EMBASSY IN CARACAS. Gey "- RICARDO CONTACTED LEGAT APPROXIMATELY FOUR TIMES AFTER THE . INITIAL VISIT, AND ON TwO OCCASIONS FURNISHED PHOTOGRAPHS AND BLOGRAPHI Gy ND PAGE TWO EE 7 | res y : | . 7 | SEeper j | | { ! { | | NW 45701 DociId:32291098 Page 3
rT __SESE-TH REESE. DATA ON MEMBERS HE CUBAN EMBASSY| yHICH WERE OBVIOUSLY OBTAINED FROM DISIP rest pain ONE VISIT, RICARDO SUGGESTED LEGAT MIGHT WISH TO MAKE SOME SUGGEST IONS REGARDING COURSES OF ACTION THAT MIGHT BE TAKEN AGAINST THE CUBaN EMBASSY IN CaARACAS BY AN ANTI-CASTRO GROUP OF WHICH HE FORMED PART. LEGAT INFORMED RICARDO SUCH WAS NOT PART OF THE FUNCT ION OF THE LEGAL ATTACHE*S OFFICE, AND THAT IN ANY EVENT, LEGAT PERSONALLY ABHORRED TERRORIST ACTIVITIES REGARDLESS OF WHOM - , THEY MIGHT BE DIRECTED AGAINST. LEGAT POINTED OUT TO RICARDO THAT | THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WAS DOING EVERYTHING IT COULD TO PREVENT DISRUP- | TIVE AND TERRORIST ACTIONS BY ANTI-CASTRO GROUPS IN THE US. RICARDO | DID NOT AGAIN REPEAT THE susce st 10n. OX) : | LEGAT WAS SURPRISED BY APPEARANCE OF RICARDO AT AMERICAN EMBASSY | ON SEPTEMBER 36, 1976, THE LAST OONTACT WITH RICARDO HAD BEEN EARLY | | | | IN DECEMBER, 1975, WHEN RICARDO TELEPHONED LEGAT aND INVITED HIM TO A LUNCH OF. VENEZUELAN SPECIALT IES PREPARED DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON. = LEGAT DECLINED INVITATION, CITING 4 PREVIOUS cxcnaenen ORTH) | ON SEPTEMBER 38, 1976, RICARDO INFORMED LEGAT HE HAD a PHOTO- .| GRAPHIC ASSIGNMENT FOR "VISION" MAGAZINE IN JAMAICA AND WAS IN NEED } OF A VISA TO THE US SINCE HE PLANNED a TwO-DAY STOPOVER IN PyERTO RICO. HE SAID HE HAD FIRST CONTACTED A TRAVEL AGENCY TO MaKe arrancements (pfu) END PAGE THREE | SORE NW 45701 DociId:32291098 Page 4
“A . sg Egle J 0 % NY ON. a . man - OF tae STG Sb . f/ vy. @ . : -.; ¢ Pes CONSUL HE HAD NO REASON TO BELIEVE RICARDO WOULD SOT RETLRN TO CaRAcas, THE VICE CONSUL INDICATED IN THaT CASE A VISA WOULD BE ISSUED. TO | -RICARDO, AND HE WAS ASKED TO RETURN TO THE CONSULAR SECTION. UPON “TAKING LEAVE OF LEGAT, RICARDO INDICATED HE MIGHT aLSO VISIT NEW - YORK CITY BEFORE “RETURNING TO CARACAS, AND MENTIONED IN PASSING — THAT BESIDES JAMAICA, HE MIGHT ALSO BE VISITING BARBADOS IN CONNEC- “TION WITH HIS PICTORIAL ASSIGNMENT FOR “VISION.” RICARDO wAS NOT | SEEN AFTER THAT( 36 AU) . | () | IN A CONVERSAT ION WITH [an OFFICIAL. OF DISIPJON OCTOBER }, 1976, LEGAT BROACHED THE SUBJECT OF RICARDO AND OF THE FAINT SUSPICION THAT | _- RICARDO MAY HAVE BEEN SOMEHOW INVOLVED IN THE BOMBING OF THE GUYANESE -  QNSULATE IN PORT-OF-SPAIN. LEGAT aDMITTED THERE vAS NO SUBSTANTIVE EVIDENCE OF RICARDO’S IMPLICATION,BUT THAT THE COINCIDENCE OF HIS PRESENCE THERE aT THE APPROPRIATE TIME, COUPLED wITH HIS EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP WITH LUIS POSADA, HAD GIVEN LEGaT CaUSE TO yONDER. [THE DISIP OFFICIAL RELATED DISIP HAD NO REASON TO BELIEVE RICARDO was THE CALIBER OF INDIVIDUAL THAT WOULD BE UTILIZED IN SUCH aN OPERATION, AND THAT RICARDO wAS NOT KNOW TO BE INVOLVED IN SUCH aCTIVITIES, IN P ITE OF HIS ASSOCIATION WITH posed a.) (5) END PAGE SIX — ° | SECRET NW 45701 DociId:32291098 Page 5
= ‘ . ° 6 bey © os > i / . - } \ » a = : ae - = “se : a P 2 ye ri * ‘ o “ SY Sra | ON OCIOBER 8, 1976, A SECOND CONFIDENT IAL SOURCE ADVISED HE HAD ' BEEN INFORMED THAT CUBAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE OFFICERS HAD PROCEEDED TO PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD, FROM CiBaA ON OCTOBER 7, 1976, AND HAD SUBJECTED THE TWO ARRESTED VENEZ UELANS TO INTENSIVE INT ERROGAT 10S. CS) RICARDO WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 9, 1954, aT CARACAS, VENEZUELA. HE HOLDS VENEZUELAN PASSPORT NO. 850939, ISSUED ON MAY 14, 1975, AT CARACAS. HE HAS VENEZ YELAN IDENTITY CaRD cCEDUL4) NO. v 3821597. (OG WN Nee saints aN Deas ea e's! LT se (3) ~* Te 2 ae T TVES7A TIVE 7 2 Ped LL eod. 7 ; = 7 ADMINISTRATIVE: CONFIDENT IgL SOURCE <i [ Jitad, cousteRInTELL IGENCE DIVISION, DISIP, CaRACAS, vENEZUEL 4. POGU) THE. SECOND CONFIDENT TAL SOURCE IS SPECIAL ADVISOR TO DIRECTOR, DISIP, CARACAS, VENEZUELA THE DISIP OFFICIAL MENT IONED IS OTHER 1c BT FAVPPFCYA DSPTGIVQDMF EHYy EWXUEOSTZPCIT —-LWDVC OXDHMEPGS FZ ULY : SE URES aoa GPVFOCTDS-:, NW 45701 DociId:32291098 Page 6