Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (442 Ust Fi0T Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: 5/11/201 Identification Form ooo Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-10288-10275 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER:  105-72630-SUB A-NR ou Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: WASHINGTON CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE TO: TITLE: DATE: 00/00/0000 “PAGES: 84 SUBJECTS : PDL, JFK, NRA A/O AOKRI DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: = 03/19/1997 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : INC 15 NEWS SERVICES DTD 7/8/59 THRU 4/25/75, 45 NEWS ARTIC DTD 7/14/59 THRU 4/25/75 Se v9.1 ] \ Docld:32305645 Page 1
Released under the DATE: [: A C-a"Rey,"1,80-74) : 11-14-2017 ML wrrognein: CONTRO pe ee AS SIFIEQ WHERE fuwa wi ISE ce ar reat At 3:10 pa m. on March 4, 1960, -@ French munitions ship blew up “In Havana harbor, killing at least : 75. people and injuring more than 7 200. i The vessel, Le Couvre, exploded du Ing the unloading of 76. tons of ammu-! ‘nition and grenades intended for. Fidel *Castro’s military and police forces. Cas-_ itro suspected sabotage, bit couldn’t: ‘prove it. The United States denied any. . involvement in the incident. A former CIA agent told The News: ‘wecently that Le Couvre was sabotaged by “CIA frogmen.” He said an under-’ “water demolition team slipped into the: ‘water at night and attached a bomb to ‘the ship’s hull, under the waterline. The. bomb, a detonator and a timing device’ Were ‘in a waterproof container, he said.’ ; The ex-agent added that the frog-' “men were Cubans working for the CIA.: “It -was definitely a “CIA- connected | thing,” he said. Another source’ said the ‘bomb was! supposed to go off around 3-a.m., when! the waterfront was deserted, but. some: : y thing went wrong with the’ timer and- the blast came 12° hours later, when the: area was crowded with dock workers | and harbor traffic, . i Still another source, foninerly con ~ a a re wh lee ne nected avith the CIA ‘and “other “sntellé ‘gence agencies in the Carihbean area, | blamed the big blast on Gen. Rafael . Trujillo, then dictator of the: Dominican Republic. fs +. Prupillo and his sinister intelli igence | -chief, Johnny Abbes, had many confer-: ences’ with CIA... officials and secret -agents.” On one ‘occasion in 1960, Trujillo offered CIA agents Frank Stur- gis and Pedro Diaz Lanz, former chief ‘of Castro’s Air Force, $1 million to lead’ an invasion of Cuba, from the Domini-, can, Republic. Diaz Lanz declined, tell-- ing his CIA. bosses that he didn't want to work for another dictator. Ploffing to kill Prujilie While in the Dominican Republic to coafer with Trujillo in 1961, Sturgis also contacted Dominican military offi-+- ee es MST wUinition, ce, ygro were plotting to kill Trujillo. ‘ cal fst éct, ta gi a 7B Potters Docld: 32305645 Page 2? anya guns. ~artived in 1 boxes sonttaa sugermaee in Ciudad Trujillo (the Do- Minican capital, now called Santo Domingo),” said Frank Nelson, an American who worked with Trujillo in a plot to overthrow Castro. “The Domini-- ‘ean officers didn’t need the guns. They - already had enough stuff for a war. ‘They /needed the moral support of the U.S. government, and this was repre-~ sented by the arms shipments.” - The rebel officers - assassinated ‘Trujillo. on. May" 80, 1961. Whether they | ‘esed the “CYA \guns has not Been, lise * closed. But similar weapons figured in subsequent attempts to exterminate Francois (Papa Doc) Duvalier, the voo- doo Hitler of Haiti. ‘ On the night of Aug. 26, 1963, a converted B- 25 bomber left Plovida/ with, -an arms shipment for Gen, Leow. Ca tava, @ former Haitian Ariiy Cor eF’who was -planning to invade his ‘homeland from the Dominican Republic, , which shares the island of Hispaniola - with Haiti, The CIA plane swooped over a. flare-lit ‘fie Id near the Dominican ‘Military airport of Dajabon. Wooden crates rained down on. paras chutes. They * bazookas, M-1 rifles, _.50-caliber ma- pistols, grenades and ammunition. The weapons were distributed among’ 210 Haitian exiles who comprise a ‘Cantava’s invasion army. They eressed the Massacre River, borderline between _ the Dominican Republic and Haiti, on. the night of Sept, 22. Late the follow- ing day, after a bloody battle with Hai-. £15 Sm iroops, ‘of_his. repel band back acro: s to their Dominican sanctuary. Cantava led the A weck later, a small proup ip of Hai- tian refugees entered a U.S. Army Spe-' cial forces camp in North Carolina for - guerrilla warfare. Most of the Eaitians were in their early 20s and had attended college in the United States after service in the U.S. Army ‘training in or Air Force. All of them lived in New _ York City. _ - They had been hand-picked by -the > CIA for what became one of the brav- * est and mast pitiful invasions in the- history of Caribbean cavaage. : The invasion ferce ennsisted of only 13 men, eight of whom had heen trained by the Green Rerets. They belonged to jalier group called Haiti (Young ‘contained mortarsfQirz Vee, Fiait 1). Nearly “alr-6i the | Assoc. Dir. Dep. AD Adm. Dep. AD hE. Asst. Dir.: Admin. —_ \ ~ Comp. Syst. i Le? Ext. Affairs Arh / Files & Com. __ Gen. Inv. —} Ident. Inspection : : tntett, tT Laboratory _ Plan. & Evol. __ EY / Spec. Inv. 3 Training Lega! Coun. Telephone Rm, __ Director Sec’y __. unlucky BB ‘were. “ine sons of Haitian “wilitary officers or officials Who” ‘Had | _been killed by Gul \ s thugs. : The leader, Guslé! Villedrouin, was a former U.S. airman witose” Tatiler, Hai- . tian Army Col. Roger Villadrouin, was clubbed to-death by Papa Dae’s Tonton Macoutes. ‘They chartered a boat in Florida and landed in Haiti on Aug. 5, 1964," .ing a variety of weapons supplied by “CIA agents. idoomed to failure before it began, the 18 young New Yorkers managed to hold Although the invasion was off hundreds of Duvalier soldiers, miti- tiamen and Tonton Macoutes. . . They were killed one ‘by one, and those, who’ were left kept fighting. The last three invaders ran out of ammuni- tion’on Oct. 26, then threw stones at. 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