AGENCY INFORMATION Released under the John . Kennedy Oo ollection Act of 1992 RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10220-10005 (44 USC 2107 Note). RECORD SERIES: HO pesca Ny Sa027 Date: AGENCY FILE_NUMBER: 2-2173-199 | DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: CIA FROM: CIA TO: TITLE: DATE: 11/12/1976 PAGES: 3 SUBJECT: \ OBA, CUBANA AIRLINES, CRASH, CAUSED BY BOMB, EVID, CONVICTION, SUSP DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Secret NEW CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW_DATE: 12/05/1996 UPDATE DATE: STATUS _ Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (1)(B) COMMENTS: HW 54027 DBocld: 32297729 Page 1
| ae 4 uw EDITIONS ruKm- -“30U0A — woewsan: P73 3 cd tg . | SECRET (When Filled in) . = i rr ae “ ‘ > ® ROUTINE Intelligence In Information Cable G NOTICE IN 058668 _ SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE AR OURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED oom MC (DIA) C SWS NSA TREAS NSC/S SDO NIO cRS PAGE 1 OF 3 PAGES fBL Bed o SS/ID ECUR . . from Goneral Declassification Schodule of E.O. 11652 Exemption 1A HAS NO OBJECTION TO CEP impocele of Automatic Doclassification. DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR,.- EMINATION AND USE OF THIS INFORMATION SUBJECT TO RELEASE OF CIA en ‘OLS STATED AT BEGINNING AND END OF REPORT. THIS DOCUMENT DRMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE ASS MrT ZED ' GB &Is/9, | en GOVERNMENT REPORT CLASS S E CR E TeWARNING NOTICE*SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE Dist 12 NOVEMBER 15976 SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED=-NOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS- “Sy "NOT RELEASABBE: TO CONTRACTORS OR CONTRACTOR/CONSULTANTS opt COUNTRY. -VENEZUELA/CUBA OC OOAWA- » Hiker WES is 7 EARLY NOVEMBER 1976 CUBANA AIRLINER CRASH aca [VENEZUELA caracaS](5- + gp VEMBER 1976) (FIELD NO . 7541 SOURCE A VENEZUELAN WITH CLOSE cieae ste Yuone VENEZUELAN )S GURITY, HA —al23~ [44 OFFICIALS. HIS RELT ABIEATTOG HAS NOT BEEN Biel ks DURING THE WEEK OF 1 NOVEMBER 1976 RETIRED GENERAL RAUL ee — eA ~~~ BW NOV. 16 1976 | 61 MENE ACKINZAs HEAD OF “FHETDTRECTORATE FOR THE SERVICES OF. P| INTELLIGENCE ANO PREVENTION (DISIP), SAID THAT HE HAD ACCEPTED AN “OFFER BY THE CUBAN GOVERNMNE T TO PROVIDE HIM WITH EVIDENCE. AGAINST THE FOUR INDIVIDUALS CURRENTLY UNDER DETENTION IN VENEZUELA IN THE CASE GIMENEZ SAID, CAME FRUM woasea eft ERNAN D mafeeeuns THES CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO VENEZUELAs Jeet at EOE 2, ‘THE EVIDENCE » GIMENEZ SAID» CONSISTS OF MEDICAL REPORTS WHICH PbS. INFORMATION CONTAINED — ach 5 5 DEC. 81976 ®t ae HEREIN pi cart D. DATE [enn a Cite torn DB 315/11388-7b er ancien nn ee HW 54027 DBocld: 32297729 Page 2?
2 a | Nov: 23 >. FORM 3007 “OBSOLETE PREVIOUS a, 1976 ” RECEWED ST | 0-f0005 ! ENERAL NNVE STGATIVE cast, 8 27 AM 76 ae | IN D54bb4 ANTE A Bh TDFIR DB 315/11388-7b HE ce, f JUSTARRiNG NOTICE SENSING AINTELY GENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED PAGES OF 3 PAGES ae SECRET. ___f classification ) FURTHER DISSEMINATION AND USE OF THIS INFORMATION SUBJECT TO . CONTROLS STATED AT BEGINNING AND END OF REPORT. WAS CAUSED BY .A POWERFUL BOMB, THE BODIES OF THE CRASH VICTIMS WERE EXAMINED BY DOCTORS FROM BARBADOS AND ANOTHER UNIDENTIFIED COUNTRY, AND: CUBAN DOCTORS WERE IN NO WAY INVOLVED WITH THE EXAMINATIONS OR THE PREPARATION OF THE MEDICAL REPORTS, GINENE? SAID THAT HERNANDEZ © INFORMED HIM THAT TH ey SHOW THAT AN EXPLOSION DEFINITELY OCCURRED IN THE AIRCRAFT, AS MANY OF THE BODIES, OF THE - OR ASH VICTIMS WE RE BLO WN APART AT THE WAIST, ran THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT, GIMENEZ SAID, BADLY NEEDS  ADMISs 18Lé EVIDENCE AGAINST THE FOUR DETAINEES» AS LITTLE SUCH | EVIDENCE CURRENTLY EXISTS, IN THE EVENT THAT THIS LACK: OF EVIDENCE ; | | | PERS I srs) GIMENEZ SAID THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT THE CASE WOULD _ BE TURNED UVER TO THE MILITARY COURT WHERE MUCH LESS EVIDENCE 16 | NEEDED FOR CONVICTION | 7 | a. Geter Cowman A USUALLY RELIABLE SOURCE INDEPENDENTLY 7 | oe THAT TWO DIgiP OFFICERS ARE TO BE DISPATCHED 10 HAVANA ON THE MORNING “OF 11 NOVEMBER Vo PICK UP THE EVIDENCE OF FERED “GIMENE 3Y THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT, A SOURCE OF UNDETERMINED RELLABILITY INDEPENDENTLY REPORTED THAT AS OF EARLY NOVEMBER THE V ENEZ UELAN- GOVERNMENT LACKED ADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE AGAINST THOSE SUSPECTED OF %& BEING INVOLVED IN oe * CUBANA INCIDENT, BEFORE ' “EZUELAN COURTS wee ea seers _ HW 54027 DBocld:32297729 Page 3
, Ea . oe a) = 975 \ had . c IN 058468 TDFIR DB 315/11388-7b. WARNING NOTICE SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED PAGE 3 OF 3 PAGES - _SEGRET _ FURTHER DISSEMINATION AND USE OF THIS INFORMATION SUBJECT TO . CONTROLS STATED AT BEGINNING AND END OF REPORT. : (classification) - CAN PROCEED WITH A CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST ANYONE SUSPECTED OF BEING - INVOLVED IN THE CUBANA CRASH, THE AUTHORITIES MUST PROVE THAT A CRIME WAS INDEED. COMMITTED. THE CUBAN INFORMATION MIGHT PROVIDE . THE NEEDED PROOF OF A CRIMINAL ATTACK AGAINST THE AIRCRAFT AND ITS PASSENGERS.) 5. (IELDYDISSEM: EMBASSY , FBl AT CARACAS, REPORT CLASS § EC R E TeWARNING NOTICE*SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE. “SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED*=NOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONAL S+- “NOT. RELE AS ABLE TO CONTRACTORS OR CONTRACTOR/CONSULTANTS. CLASSIFIED BY RECORDED REPORTING OFFICER. XGDS=2, HW 54027 DBocld: 32297729 Page 4