AGENCY INFORMATION Released under the John . Eennedy WSsassination Records AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: 124-10208-10305 ollection Act of 1992 .. (44 USC 2107 Note). RECORD _SERIES: HO ase#:NW 53932 Date: AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 45-10852-4 ns-17-2017 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: DIRECTOR. FB TO: SAC. SJ TITLE: DATE: 09/13/1968 . PAGES: 4 SUBJECT: OBA, MIRR, SUSP, CONSPR, BOMB, BRITISH FREIGHTER "LANCASTRIAN PRINCE" DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Unclassified NEW CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: 04/06/1998 UPDATE _ DATE: STATUS Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: HW 53932 Docld: 32292029 Page 1
~~ DEPARTING FOR MOBILE. THE BOMB CONTAINED AS WADDING,”"A NEW : ORLEANS NEWSPAPER DATED AUGUST TWENTYTHREE, SIXTYEIGHT. ! PRELIMINARY INDICATIONS ARE THAT THE BOMB WAS PLACED MOST LIKELY AT NEW ORLEANS, BUT COULD HAVE BEEN PLACED MOBILE. A CONFIDENTIAL MIAMI SOURCE, WHO FURNISHED THE INFORMATION CONCERNING THE BOMB ON THE LANCASTRIAN PRINCE, REPORTED ON EVENING SEPTEMBER TWELVE THAT® HE HAD JUST BEEN INFORMED BY ANDRES JORGE Ju) pheonensen foxza.2, BOSCH! HS | CHIEF BOMB EXPERT, THAT HE HAD BEEN \,2 INTERVIEWED BY FBI TWO DAYS PREVIOUSLY CONCERNING GONZALEZ'S wy WHEREABOUTS DURING THE PAST TWO WEEKS, GONZALEZ RELATED THAT HE "TOLD FBY HE HAD BEEN IN MIAMI DURING THAT TIME, BUT GONZALEZ SAID HE HAD ACTUALLY BEEN AT THE SAME PLACE WHERE HE HAD PLACED THE BOMB ON THE LANCASTRIAN PRINCE. GONZALEZ THEN DISCLOSED THAT HE HAD PUT A BOMB ON A SMALL SPANISH SHIP AT THIS PLACE, AND THAT THIS BOMB SHOULD EXPLODE WITHIN THE NEXT FIVE OR SIX DAYS. HE SAID HE TOOK PHOTOGRAPHS OF THIS SPANISH SHIP FOR THE NEXT PRESS RELEASE OF CUBAN POWER ABOUT THIS BOMBING. HE CLAIMED HE IS: USING NEW EQUIPMENT WHICH ENABLES HIM TO REMAIN UNDER WATER FOR FIVE CONSECUTIVE HOURS, AND THAT HE HAS A NEW TYPE OF FLOAT FOR TOWING THE BOMB UNDERWATER, GONZALEZ ALSO STATED THAT HE HAS THREE MORE BOMBS READY TO PUT ON SHIPS. GONZALEA DID NOT DISCLOSE THE NAME OF THE SMALL SPANISH SHIP NOR STATE THE NAME OF THE PORT WHERE THE BOMB HAD BEEN PLACED, EXCEPT BY DISCLOSING IT 48 THE PLACE WHERE BOMB HAD BEEN PUT ON THE LANCASTRIAN PRINCE! f GONZALEZ WAS IN FACT INTERVIEWED BY ‘AN FBI’ AGENT BEGINNING | AT APPROXIMATELY NINE THIRTY AM, SEPTEMBER TEN, AT WHICH TIME GONZALEZ DENIED HE HAD BEEN OUT OF TOWN DURING THE PAST TWO WEEKS. yn wgsB Ft HW 53932 DBocld:32292029 Page 2?
oe : . ee. 0 0 PAGE THREE ° ADMINISTRATIVE THE MIAMI SOURCE IS OSCAR ANGULO REYES PSI UNDER DEVELOPMENT, IF BOMB FOUND, PEBLIC DISCLOSURE AT THIS POINT WOULD JEOPARDIZE LIFE AND SAFETY OF ANGULO ~ ProTECT.(X{ «) SA ROBERT STRONG INTERVIEWED GONZALEZ ON SEPTEMBER TEN. £ PRIO! CONTACT WITH GONZALEZ'S SISTER BY MIAMI SOURCE, ANGULO, ON NINE "one suxtveront, INDICATED GONZALEZ sivour OF TOWN ON A MISSION" | “AND SPOT CHECKS OF GONZALRZ'S RESIDENCE FAILED TO REVEAL HE RETURNED TO MIAMI PRIOR TO DATE OF HIS wreavied(u) "NEW ORLEANS AND MOBILE ARE REQUESTED TO IMMEDIATELY ALERT U.$.C.G. AND APPROPRIATE HARBOR AND DOCK OFFICIALS, AND IDENTIFY ALL SPANISH SHIPS WHICH WERE AT PORTS OF NEW ORLEANS AND MOBILE DURING PERIODS EXTENDING FROM SEPTEMBER TEN BACK TO AUGUST | TWENTYTHREE, APPROPRIATE ARRANGEMENTS IF POSSIBLE, SHOULD BE MADE TO HAVE ANY SPANISH SHIPS STILL IN PORT FALLING WITHIN THIS CATEGORY SEARCHED FOR BOMBS, AND SHIP AGENTS OR OWNERS NOTIFIED VIA U.S.C.G. WHERE ANY SUCH SHIPS ‘HAVE DEPARTED FROM PORT. MIAMI HAS PREVIOUSLY PROVIDED NEW ORLEANS AND MOBILE WITH PHOTOGRAPHS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF CUBAN POWER ACTION GROUP. . | . CAPT, TOM BRODIE, BOMB EXPERT, DADE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, MIAMI, WHO DISMANTLED THE BOMB FOUND ON THE LANCASTRIAN PRINCE, HAS PREVIOUSLY REPRESSED A WILLINGNESS TO PERFORM SIMILAR SERVICES ANYWHERE REQUESTED, ON EXPENSE BASIS ONLY. IF ANY BOMB FOUND AND BISMANTLED, BOMB AND ITS COMPONENTS SHOULD BE FURNISHED FBI LAB FOR APPROPRIATE EXAMINATION . NEW ORLEANS AND MOBILE ADVISED TELEPHONICALLY, AND AMSD COPIES SENT TO THESE OFFICES, U.S. COAST GUARD, STATE NEDARTMENT MYTAMYT RETNG ANVISEN HW 53932 DBocld:322927029 Page 3