AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: _ FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-10221-1 0296 RECORD SERIES: HQ. AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 174-2-16304 ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: LEG, OT TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: 06/22/1977 PAGES: 7 SUBJECT: DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION: Confidential REVIEW_DATE: 06/17/1996 - STATUS ~ Redact ~- RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (1)(C) JFK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: INC LTR Docld: 32340903 Page.1 DOCUMENT INFORMATION NEW CLASSIFICATION UPDATE DATE:
PReleased under the John F. “Kennedy” ‘Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 Use 2107 Hate; . DATE: 1i- 14- (2017 C a ho a. a Lg FD-36 (Rev. 2-14-74) TO: ° Oo 'o 7 o e { | 3 ° , . } 36 ° ~ am FBI , a8 | | | SZ, Date: 6/22/77 ONE cin ONT? wae “Ee GN Edi Transmit the following in —_ : - - ne iAL \ . (Fype in plaintext or code) | | Via AIRTEL u| (Precedence) \ a ee cra — — — a | — —_— —— TO DIRECT FROM: LEGAT, OTTAWA (174-60)(P) ALLEGED BOMBING..O Kaige ‘(VENEZUELAN AIRLINES’ OFFICE NS IN PUERTO RICO? PCF “EID - CUBAN MATTERS : Vv CPOMBINGS & ATTEMPTED ROMBINGS \ AR “ Enclosed are original and two copies of RCMP letter dated 6/16/77, along with three copies of attachment thereto, which are self- -explanatory.(@ ) ws Please note request in paragraph 2 of letter for | information as to authenticity of alleged bombing. /@, ) (Feu 40 ens #226 ead (2 Bureau (ine, .6) Classified by 3 ( (1 - Foreign Liaison)(Direct) 2 (1 _ San dean) Declassify on: OADR 7, Yip 3 1 - Ottawa JFB: cae . (5) | | CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL ATTACHED 1623 | wes 17d L! ed re aoe REC-86 ms I? —— aa mn 9 turk . Sunn a 14 > UNE c28 1977 “4 woe he i, . Approved: Speci 7 A 7 Ch : Sent 0s per fe uf : pecial Agent in Charge a. iP TT r 1¥ SEG rh = — no 70 AUG 41977 nent DoclId: 32340903 Page 2?
| Released under the John FP. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 1S 2107 Hote Ee}. DATE: ite -14-2017 » Soe . Se 5 + “es ‘ = PLEASE ADDRESS CORRESPONDENCE TO: ‘ LETTRES COMME SUIT: ° o LE COMMISSAIRE GENDARMERIE ROYALE bu CANADA OTTAWA, CANADA io . { PRIERE D'ADRESSER LES ‘ THE COMMISSIONER ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE OTTAWA, CANADA K1A OR2 K1A OR2 \ YOUR NO. { HEADQUARTERS VOTRE NO _ DIRECTION GENERALE our no. NotreEno D937-1-568 \ | \ i CONFIDENTIAL June 16, 1977 Mr. Joseph A. Marion, Jr. c/o United States Embassy Ottawa, /Ontario Dear Mr. Marion: Further to the Burns/Prentice conversation on ; 13 June 1977, attached is a transcript of the 'As it Happens’ ip programme. This concerns the interview between Blake Fleetw od, free lance reporter from New York, and Orlando é Malad , in his Venezuel cell. a On page 4, BOSCH states that his organization recently bombed the Venezuelan Airlines' office in Puerto Rico. It would be appreciated if you could determine whether this incident did actually occur. oes me en ee Reports of anti-Castro terrorist attacks in the USA and other parts of the western hemisphere are not always available to us. These incidents do not have any direct impact on Canadian security but the frequency of Cuban exile attacks does indicate the seriousness of their purpose. As | Canada is known to be a potential target area, particularly Cuban establishments and personnel, it would assist us in evaluating the potential threat to Canada if we could be advised of those anti-Castro incidents that come to the 7 attention of your organization. Yours truly, ~ : a s. K. J. Miller AsSistant/Officer i/c Security Intelligence or | y-2-10304 ENCLOSURE) i _ D8 ee ee eee ed iy PB eet — DoclId: 32340903 Page 3
“Released under the John F. _ Kennedy’ Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hofe}. DATE: il- 14-2017 .- (~ ~ ~~ owe fo oft. 4 2 . ot . ~ ‘MAITLAND. rae ~ o . . Nop oe Nt ’ AS If HAPPENS MAY 9, 1977 HOSTS: Barbara FRUM - Allen MAITLAND Orlando BOSCH, one of the world's most dangerous terrorists, may be behina bars but he still is the spider at the centre CASTRO has! admitted to countless murders and bombings and “ERGUSON. aX fsitting in “or FRUM) i LEETWOOD of the Cuban web of terror. whe one time friend of Fidel i - ; says he will stop at nothing to destroy the Cuban Premier. BOSCH is now in’ a Venezualan prison awaiting trial for the bombing last October ofa Cuban plane off the coast of Barbadoes. | Even in jail he's directing terrorist activities around the world. Blake FLEETWOOD, a freelance journalist in New York, recently i ; got inside; the prison for an exclusive interview with BOSCH, | Mr. FLEETWOOD is on the line now. - - Mr. FLEETWOOD ; how difficult was it to reach this man , and get an | “interview with him in prison? ; Well, it was almost impossible. He was underground for about three years and then he was in prison “for about six months, and he hadn't talked to a reporter in all that time. I went. | ; . down there just on a hunch that maybe I could talk to his. lawyer and | some o£ his friends and try and find out what was going on down there. I. hoped that maybe I might be able to get some written questions to him. But I found out that on two days a week there's a visiting day and I just went and — stood in line with the rest of the visitors and I might be able so Mw Lo ——e Docld: 32340903 Page 4
* Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Coll i } . ection Act of 1992 (44 USC 21 DATE: 11-14-2017 _— 5 | ne myer: Co / a ~ 7 oT : \ 0 - to get ins<he prison, they have .a syx-tém rn Venezuala where - you just sign yourself into the prison and you don't have: to say who you're going to we. That's. basically what I did. I walked in and got in line with all the womenfolk, their men, and I just walked in and nobody asked me who I mainly the women were waiting to go in the prison to see | | was going to see.. Once I got in the prison I asked a couple - . 1 of other prisoners if. they knew where this Orlando BOSCH was and they took me to him. We wasn't expecting me at all. I walked up to him and said, hello Dr. BOSCH, my name is Blake | FLEETWOOD, I'ma reporter, I would like to talk to you. He was flabbergasted. He said, how did you get in? “RGUSON He was expecting at least a basket of fruit I-suppose.- How was he being treated, (a) by the prison authorities, and. (b) by his £ellow prisoners? “\.EETWOOD He was being treated alright. It wasn't bad. He had a nice cell. It had wallpaper on walls, he'd.obviously wallpapered and he had-a television set. He had designor sheets on his bed. I think it wasn't a question that he was getting any favoured treatment, it. was just that he's had people who have | . sent ail this stuff into him in prison. He was clearly the most famous prisoner in prison, the country, perhaps in all of South. America.  y RGUSON | What were your impressions of the man? “4 ‘EELWOOD He was a very dedicated and actually. very friendly man. I didn't expect it at all. Very educated. Very.in toush with 174-2-1y304 oo Co. ; ; . . _ | . se 4 Docld: 32340903 Page 5
“Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hotey. DATE: 11-14-2017 : . a, . . 7 . . \ - 3 —- oo" FN , i . what he was doing. Obviously a man Who considers himself s* . t .  -at war and willing to stop at nothing to get what he wants, ‘ which is thei liberation of his country. Cuba. It's a oa, funny position for a man who was a pediatrician,.a doctor. “ERGUSON _ Yeah that's the chilling factor, that he started out helping_ to heal little children, and of course now an international | i if killer of the first order. Is he open in talking about all the, what is it, in the last two,or three years, fifty bombings | : and 170 murders. -. Does he talk about that freely. | | ~ “LEETWOOD . He was very open and as far as talking with me, he held back | on a few things but he admitted some of the bombings and a lot . wv of the killings he admitted. These are in Miami and all around J 1. ; ; . South America, Caribbean. |  ERGUSON What kind of a deal has he made with the Vénezualan government? “LEETWOOD He'd been a wanted man for three years before he fihally landed in Venezuala. approximately six or seven months ago. So he got together ‘with the top advisors to the President and they offered him a sancturary in Venezuala in return for, this is his story, in return for not bombing in Venezuala, they said he couldn't bomb in Venezuala, they said he couldn't bomb in . ot . - . the Dominican Republic and Panama and they wanted him to throw i : ] . } in Guyana and he said, no, I want to bomb in Guyana, we like . . t . fo. . - , to bomb in Guyana, we just set off a bomb there last week. ORGUSON ' That in itself is strange. Why wouldn't they deport the man?- Say, you're not going to set a foot in Venezuala, rather than “- 3 } . So 4 i ] | (74-210 0F | i oe . DoclId: 32340903 Page 6