ii- 14-2017 PARTS OF THE INTERVIEW WITH MR. CARLOS RIVERO COLLADO, AS’. - “PRODUCED BY NATION" DIO AND TELEVISION OF CUBA, NOVEMBER 3,_! 3, 1974. Sis JOURNALIST: We have heard that theset terrorist activities will continue. Right? RIVERO: Yes, in fact, the terrorist activity will continue since the neutralization, as it may be understood, was ineffective in addition of being a temporary one, i.e., the neutralization of this group, I understand, was effected mainly with the purpose of letting the elections be conducted in a climate of peace. However, an analysis of the facts, that have taken place in the counter~ revolutionary circles in the last ten years, brings to our knowledge that, after three, or a little more years this terrorist campaign scoceceeceee Believed to be suspended, resurged with an action which essumed characteristics of criminality. There was an incident eeecees in the city of Montreal; you remember, when the Cuban Trade Mission in Montreal was attacked in the beginnings of April, 1972; when ..eesceee a revolutionary was killed. The attack was carried out by a terrorist band called "Joven Cuba" ("Young Cuba") in coordination with other fascist elements ‘that resided - and, as I understand, still reside - in the city of Montreal and in other Canadian cities, and had been collaborating within. “Movimiento Nacionalista Cubano" ("Cuban Nationalist Movement") since 1964. ither shall we forget these (terrorist acts, Tr.) ofthe of 1966: and 1967; our Embassy in Ottawa was attacked on two occasions. It is to say that the acts ‘were carried out .acocese _ by a sequence of young: fascists. ‘who were members of Ex-president f Carlos Prio Socarras’ group, or of the group of Ramiro de la Fe, . invador.of Playa Giron; a counterrevolutionary who served a term of three and a half years in the United States for illegal activities. . I have’ heard that the action was carried out and financed with a contribution of $2,500. which Ex-president Carlos Prio Gocarras made to the "Joven Cuba" band. In the operation, Pr (05: afin Pe 2.2 ON paren? --——-— Doclda: 32302356 Page 31
Release@«tider the Jofm F. Kétnedy Aesassi ~ DATE: 11-14-2017? - : . = ; . ‘ ay “ Op) e ry - 4 se . - -~ Ay, 7° 2 My ¢ , specifically in the one against the Cuban Trade Mission in Montreal, took direct part the counterrevolutionaries, yEduardo Paz and Rafael Perez "Torpedo", together with an individual called "Seto", a resident of the city of Montreal. 4G [paliteto, / [ Doclda: 32302356 Page 32
Released DATE: w1-14- 2017 ag * ~ NS wider the John F. Re Canvey “Aesassenetten-Recore Soeetnen ct o i ote). - PERSONAL DATA. OF P ‘SUMED AUTHORS OF DYNAMITE ATTACK AGAL st or oO KS eCUBAN TRADE Missio* } OFFICES IN CANADA. . Hrd XI IES spuigpd (ona. approdimately’ “29 years old. Livses at 2483_S.W. i6th St. , el 7 7 ia home of his father Rene Pas, 021 S.W. 19th aAvenue;"Miami. Linked with "Partido Revolu- cionario Cubano Autentico" which is directed at Miami by Carlos Prio Secarras. . ng en mewbedy Belonged to other counterrevolutionary organizations, cecionercen bn such as "Directorio Autentico" and “Juventud Autentica". Took part in organization of the terrorist band "Joven Cuba", and was one of its ringleaders. Participated in the dynamite attack against the Cuban Trade Missionboffices in % Montreal, April 4, 1972: returned to New York once the action had been carried out. neg Gle.. nber.al | Following the aforementiongd™ wien thi organization yidoven Cuba Cuba" changed their name of YAcci Neo-revolucionaria Hue de i aa Pragmatista". Their principal ringleader is iro ro de neem la Vre. Biapypor IF FS < RAFAELYPEREZ alias /*TORPEDO". ~ ilsimstely 29 years of age. Lives ‘at 920 S.Welith Ave., "Apartment _5,telephone 373-6715, j Miami. A Bergan « of the war against Vietnam where | whe obtained the rank ik O¢ Sergeant 3 in a demolition squad. ad. three neh. oN. nf J Linked with the organization "Joven Cuba", took part in he the dynamite attack against the Cuban Trade Mission offices in Log Montreal: returned to New York once it had beeh carried out. Also | emains linked with the group "Pragmatista". Recently has joined Met 2e-Onye group "Pragm y j “tPederaGion Rev Revolucionaria de Estudiantes Cubanos" | _(FREC), — AoA LOLS DEI: A Ter OAT HI mye tp RT RES TETRIS £ m based at the University of Miami. Is used to carry firearms. Both Eduardo Paz and Rafael Perez often visit a joint, ke at “Restaurant Badias", 16th Avenue and 8th Street S.W., Miami. a nD, ae AQ a Mantle Ae 7 | aN Doclda: 32302356 Page 353
’ C-DATE 5 ee - f t s. \poora: 32302356 3 REVERACTOHS in a @esverate etfart to gether in the Hemisphere, : . a OW Sapeou ro Hyeril and in view of i Ae 9 Wy Uspecin| character of the Cuban Revolutions ry fascist "worms"! who operate in Ueo. territory Lerrorist cam have beceme partners of the military Assan of tnose who betrayed their neople and now cling to terrorism, sinate Guban leaders Wert strenrth the satrensth DYOCeSS , COMAPI EVOL PTOn a Lbs el NWivera of MeFViCce at Leys severa). re Teased frae-2017 John. F. Kennedy Assassination Records | “Collection Act of 1997 (44 Isc 2107 17 . . a tA AS saAnes Hote). LAST AA) « definitive moment and irreversible of prepuring @ poign against noiitical perrenalities al the continent, junta of Chile, and plan to and ambasiad oY's« Tt 3g to become the epitarh of the Counterrevolution. Yhe Naticone throvueh its teletynre, a was arthoriging the return to. Uvba of Cantor Hivero Reing a note stated, Hivere Collada the: triumph of the product Revolution and news iinmediately item announcing that the beran Colisdoes covnterrevolutionary rroups, plane and activiliese Nevertheles sh, the cable added, fis ob underrtend the aro oralaty ariel cor rrovtion of As the He equally uncders Revolihion. tasks devolubroneary -cliuvted.e Rivera Collado, 45 years January Page 34 rots ennes 5c} ist. 7] Joverrment and numen misery oft authorized Pad OT left directly He Age ‘ete Vonsequentiy Rivere Collado Fegan nis entry ALR y from te m O57 2a yb —l0t aba ersone) raratoe}ism. is the final Revolutionary ¢ of the social environment te which he belonmed, the counterrevoluticonaries, as agony which io intormation Agerey (AIN) transmitted last Nevember 3rd, Sovernmoant the had. lett the country during the first moments of to take part in different experience made him wall tood that rireht was on the side of the Cuban bo carry out revelutzonary oteide Cuba in sunport of the itevoluticn. to the country, On eecount of “these, the cab the fe cen ndoned the country at dawn or ( Co yhuimbia military came heaacd
pReLeased under the John F. Kennedy Assassination RF ecords, Collecti Daan, a ve 2017 7 ) t ion Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote}. fo le opey ( ” fe - 7 % ! wo Ne ‘for Florida, in the company oi hie father, Andrés Rivero Agtiero, president— elect at the elections organized by the rezime of Fulgencio Batista in November 1958, and he immediately joined the cnterrevolutionary enyonivation Lo Resa Slancae Later Jon April 1061, he was one of the memoers of the brigade of mercenaries which invaded (arba in the area of Playa wirén (Bay of Pigs), south of Matanzase' Havine been made a prisoner by. the people's forces, he remained in prison for about 20 months until the exchanze of prisoners between this country and the United states took races | | Now, during the Havana winter of 1974, dressed in an elesant dark suit, with lons side-whiskers and modern silvery classes, Rivero Collado ont~ lined before three newspapermen the plans of the counterrevolution to assassinate Hemispheric ambansadors and diplomats, the links of the fascist gangs with the Chilean Military junto, and. intimate detailsahout terrorist groups which have their bases in the Uede- He explained that in the development of his work in the UeSe, he was in close connection witn the majority of the fascist STOUpSs , organizers of terrorist gangs which have been operating jn the Hemisphere since 1964.6 After giving an account of several operations by those sroups cdurnins the decade of the 60's, divers Golled said that the so-called Joven Cuba or- eanization carried out a dyna smite: atieck agains t+ the commercial offices of Cuba in Montreal in April 1972. An official of the mission was assassineted in the actiono The person being interviewed holds a group of fascists financed by ex—president Carlos Prio Socarras resvonsible for this actions He also pointed | out that in mid-1973 the same individualg were . \ to organize an attack on the Cuban Ambassador to Mexico, Fernandof Loreyfituifios | _ Cube . og. mF 105 Papbiy- ‘Bj Docld: 32302356 Page 35
fReLeased junder the John, F. Kennedy Assassination Records, Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 32107 Hote). DATE: ,Al- -14- 2017 ot = D aoe fe SO eee ; ° “ : . Fae! ot ¢ teed 5 dye —_ A little Jn ter, in November of that year, the so-called Secret, Government was preparing a nian to assassinate the Cuban Ambassador to the United Naticns, Ricardo Alareén de fmesada. In the city of New York, in what is called Uptown Manhatten, Rivero Collado added, this group had an apartment where they stored plastic explosive materials krown as C-3, C-4 and D-A-9, as well az vistols, two M=3 machine guns, hand arenades and ammini tion. At the end of 1973, he added, a newspaperman called Pedro Ernesto ‘pias, wno had been the coordinator of the Chilean counterrevolutionary exiles in Miami, intimately linked to the preanization called Patria y Libertad and ' ; to military coun-dtetat aroupa, es ‘tablished firm contacts with the group that had carried out the action in Montreal, Canadas ‘The cnban and Chilean counterrevolutionsries created a Pro=Chile Vommittee with the ohiect of producing propacanda to improve the image of the military junta. A few days after the downfall of Presideat Allende, he said, a close friend of the Chilesn tyrant Aucusto Pinochet, Colonel Eduardo Sepilveda, visited Miami and had a personal interview with the leaders of the terrorist fTOUPSe Rivero Collado said that the Chilean officer and the Cuban counter= revolutionaries made a pact by which the military junta would provide the groups of Cuban exiles with weapons and money. Accordins to the interviewee, the pact has two purposes: to finance tne propaganda campaigns of the Pro-Chile Committee, and to finance directly “the terrorist actions that the counterrevolutionaries have been perpetrating in the U.S. and in other countries in Latin America and Europe. "J can state with authority," he said, "that the terrorist campaigns which are being carried on by the counterrevolutionary group led by Ramiro -pocta:32302356 Page 36 | Jd | [25 XA 19] ° an
Réleased under the Jolin F. Kennedy Assassination Records. Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 7107 Ho ter. ‘ ATE : 1-14- s ° 3 / DD * ia 2087 : : ae ee ; ~h— eo : ’ . - . : * ‘ ¢ ¢ , de la Fé, made{ ‘ot’ former invaders of Playa © om, members of the sceret . S Ne  anti-Commnist Army and by the sroup of fascist youths who carried out the | orime in Montreal, is finenced with money from the Chilean fascist military junta." Rivero Collado advised also that in October 1971, during the visit of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Gastro to Chile, a groun of Cuban counterrevolution- aries under the auspices of the CIA, prepared.a scheme to assassinate the leader of the Cuban Revolution and the constitutional Provident of Chile Salvador Allende. The person who led the operation, he added, is named Jesus Dominzuez Benitez, known as #1] Tslefio. He obtained the cooperation of several Cuban « counterrevolutionaries who live in Caracas, who. provided Benitez with false documents asa YVenemelan citizen and news paperman, with which he travelled to Santiago de Chiles Dominzuez Benitez, it was later Imown, had the help of several Chilean officers who had been conspiring against President Allende since the comings to power of the Unidad Porular. ‘Rivero Collado exnlained that. at the present moment these eroups are planning to unleash open warfare against those Hemispheric governments which are in favour of the lifting of the blockade against Cuba at the Fourteenth ~ Meeting of Foreien Ministers in bnito. | . fhe confrontation takes the form of terrorist attacks against diplo~ matic missions of tha. nations who vote in favour of the lifting of the blockade, “especially in the United States, Mexico, Spain and Venezuela, where their sangs are operating. Oe . Fundamentally, Rivere;Collado said, it is a matter of assas sinating the Foreign Ministers, ambas sad ors and diplomats from those countries whieh are accredited to the above-mentioned emintriese | | WS ADs, | BO LS Ashe ay / \ DocId: 32302356 Page 37
Mae {11d the Jolin F. Kennedy Assassination Records, Collection Act of 199% (34 usc 2107 Hotey DATE:, 41-14- 2017 i - 7 4 mm . . ' om Bae, . , , Soe : a an cain ; this4 Fatery was sketched out in min_://4 when elements of the . counterrevolution beran to foresee a chanve tor the better on the nart of the Latin American nations with respect to the Guben Revolutione . . - "7 could say," itivero Collado emvhasised, “that the basic vlan of these froups concentrates on two specific nersons: the U.S. Secretary of itate, Henrv Kissinger, and the Foreign Minister of Costa Rica, Gonzalo Facio, who, as we know, has been the one who arranved the meeting at «uito." These proups, he added, have declared thet, quite apart from their expansion internationally, which is already evident, they will pursue their struggle even thouah they may have to fielt acainst U.S. authoritiese Kivero Collado affirmed that the group that attacked the Waterzate . building was made up of six persons, mit that at the last moment it was decided that the sixth nember should not he there. This sixth individual, he advised, is named Angel J. Werrer. in . addition, the oirect particination of tizmuel Artime Buesa, the civilian leader of the Playa Girén invasion and a GIA azent for many years, who approximately ' two years ago put together a plan to assassinate the head of state of Panama, General Omar Porrijos, has nol heen revealed. 1 “Rivero Collese aise fied in the Uuhan cornierrevoeiution: ries Mikes Sufregz Fernandes ant mberte Tépex toa the latergate case, as well as Ydnardo Buttari and millionaire Rebé Rehozo. | | Going further inte the question of the terrorist campaign of the fascist groups in Miami and other places in the U.Se, the interviewee said that lately there have been confrontaticns amons the fascist "worms", He explained that the so o~called Zero Group, a terrorist gang, publicly admitted the assassination of José Wlias de la Jorriente, accused of having stolen the funds of the "Flan ‘orriente’t which were earmarked to fisht the Revolutione | . [OB-cpspyy-l0! ! , SL \ Docld: 32302356 Page 35
Pate: 2a under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records, Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Wo e DATE: ,it- -14- 2017 oe a > et "A ° - - 7 , . - . . . . «: t 7 « “ : 7 ~ i . . . : . oa = o . ( : ae ore ON ; oy ad MA . A few weeks after the assassination of Torriente, Rivero Collada said, trnesto fodrimues, rresident af the Christian bemocratic Party in exile, was also assassinated in Miami by several shots. Mour days after the death of Torriente, the head of "Cuban Power" in 1968 and rins-leader of the terrorist panes, Arturo Rodriguez Vives, was assassinated in New York, and at the end of Ausust of this year the leader of the cuban Nationalist Vovement, an invader of Girén, Héctor Diaz Limonta, was stranszled in Union City, Wew Jerseye \ . . "This, Logically, is a small, insisnificant part of what hes been called the internal war which exists within the caunterrevolution," Kivero Collado summarized. ny should say that terrorism is the epitaph of the counterrevolution,” he concluded. ‘ Rivero Collade was finent at all times and answered each question with speed and precisione |  Agked bout his future plans, he announced that he is preparing a book in which he tells the story of the ccounterrevolution in exile, covering the period from the founding of La Rosa Blanca in Jamary 1959 to the Water gate affair. | ny am hichly honoured and pleas sed to have returned to my country N a ~ after so many years of absence," he told. the newspapermene "In the short time that I have been here 1 have toured the country from one end to the other and I have been able to realize honestly the extraordinary work of social trans~ | ; | formation which is being carried on by the Cuban Revolution." | 7 . | This transformation; he. concluded, vlaces our country in an out- standing position amore the sations of the contemporary world. , Ww ~~ [05-Aug-16 Docld:32302356 Page 39