° 2 wee vot a : Oy PAGE TWO CAR 2-9 SECRET HERNAN RICARDO LOZANO FIRST BECAME KNOWN TO LEGAT IN APPROXIMATELY JUNE, 1974, WHEN HE CONTACTED LEGAT FOR ASSISTANCE IN EXPEDITING THE FROCESSING OF A VISA TO THE U.S. THAT HAD BEEN REQUESTED FOR THE MINOR SON or(THE THEN DIRECTOR OF DISIP, DR. PEDRO ARTURO TORRES AGUDO. LEGAT WAS LED TO BEL IEVE RICARDO wAS AN ACT IVE MEMBER OF DISIP AND ASSISTANCE WAS PROVIDED THAT RESULTED IN THE PROMPT ISSUANCE OF A VISA TO THE TORRES aGUDO cunok g RICARDO RECONTACTED LEGAT A FEW wEEKS LATER TO EXPRESS HIS /PPRECIATION FOR ASSISTANCE PREVIOUSLY RENDERED, AND LEG AT THEN BE- nae) AWARE RIcARDO[WAS MERELY aN AUXILIARY MEMBER OF DISIP, AND THAT HEY W ds ACTUALLY IN THE PERSONAL SERVICE OF LUIS POSADA. .RICARDO RE- VEALED HE WAS ALSO A NEWSPAPER REPORTER AND PHOTOGRAPHER AFFILIATED WITH THE MAGAZINE “VISION,” AND INDICATED HE DEVOTED MOST OF HIS TIME RESEARCHING NEWS ARTICLES INTENDED TO DISCREDIT THE CaSTRO GOVERN- MENT. HE CLAIMED PART IAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE THAT APPEARED IN A CARACAS NEWSPAPER ABOUT THAT TIME, REVEALING THE RESENCE OF CUBAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS IN CUBAN EMBASSY IN caracas. (39 - RICARDO CONTACTED LEGAT APPROXIMATELY FOUR TIMES AFTER THE INITIAL VISIT, AND ON TwO OCCASIONS FURNISHED. PHOTOGRAPHS AND BrockaPns ff ND PAGE TWO e NW 45701 DociId:32291077 Page 3
°o “gs eo YS ° “A ©) Q SE THREE car 2-9 SECRET pM DAT A°ON MEMBERS OF THE CUBAN EMBASSY (WHICH WERE OBVIOUSLY OBTAINED FROM DISIP Pessp bur IN ONE VISIT, RICARDO SUGGESTED LEGAT MIGHT WISH TO MAKE SOME SUGGESTIONS REGARDING COURSES OF ACTION THAT MIGHT BE TAKEN AGAINST THE CUBAN EMBASSY IN CaRACAS BY aN ANTI-CASTRO GROUP OF WHICH HE FORMED PART. LEGAT INFORMED RICARDO SUCH WAS NOT PART OF THE FUNCTION OF THE LEGAL ATTACHE*S OFFICE, AND THAT IN ANY EVENT, LEGAT PERSONALLY ABHORRED TERRORIST ACTIVITIES REGARDLESS OF wHOM THEY MIGHT BE DIRECTED AGAINST. LEGAT POINTED OUT TO RICARDO THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WAS DOING EVERYTHING IT COULD. TO PREVENT DISRUP- TIVE AND TERRORIST ACTIONS BY ANTI-CASTRO GROUPS IN THE US. RICARDO DID NOT AGAIN REPEAT THE suacest1on(QX) LEGAT WAS SURPRISED BY APPEARANCE OF RICARDO aT aMERICAN EMBASSY ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1976, THE LAST CONTACT WITH RICARDO HAD BEEN EARLY | IN DECEMBER, 1975, WHEN RICARDO TELEPHONED LEGAT qND INVITED HIM TO A LUNCH OF VENEZUELAN SPECIALTIES PREPARED DURING THE HOLIDgY SEASON. LEGAT DECLINED INVITATION, CITING PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENT. bef) — “ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1976, RICARDO INFORMED LEGAT HE HAD A PHOTO- — \ — - GRAPHIC ASSIGNMENT FOR "VISION" MAGAZINE IN JAMAICA AND WAS IN NEED \ OF A VISA TO THE US SINCE HE PLANNED a TWO-DAY STOPOVER IN PyERTO RICO, HE SAID HE HAD FIRST OONTACTED a TRAVEL AGENCY TO MaKe apRancements (ff) . END PAGE THREE NW 45701 DociId:32291077 Page 4
5 re PAGE SIX CAR 2-9 SG") OO.NS UL HE HAD NO REASON TO BELIEVE RICARDO WOULD NOT RET URN TO CARACAS. THE VICE CONSUL. INDICATED IN THAT CASE a VISA WOULD BE ISSUED TO RICARDO, AND HE WAS ASKED TO RETURN TO THE CONSULAR SECTION. UPON “TAKING LEAVE OF LEGAT, RICARDO INDICATED HE MIGHT aL SO VISIT NEW YORK CITY BEFORE RETURNING TO CARACAS, AND MENTIONED IN PASSING THAT BESIDES JAMAICA, HE MIGHT ALSO BE VISITING BARBADOS IN CONNEC- TION WITH HIS PICTORJAL ASSIGNMENT FOR “VISION.” RICARDO WAS NOT SEEN AFTER THAT. fay ) IN A CONVERSATION WITK[AN OFFICIAL OF sssuife OCTOBER 1, 1976, LEGAT BROACHED THE SUBJECT OF RICARDO AND OF THE FAINT SUSPICION THAT RICARDO MAY HAVE BEEN SOMEHOW INVOLVED. IN THE BOMBING OF THE GUYANESE CONSULATE IN PORT-OF=SPAIN. LEGAT ADMITTED THERE WAS NO SUBSTANTIVE EVIDENCE OF RICARDO*S IMPLICATION,BUT THAT THE COINCIDENCE OF HIS PRESENCE THERE aT THE APPROPRIATE TIME, COUPLED wITH HIS EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP WITH LUIS POSADA, HAD GIVEN LEGAT CaUSE TO WONDER. [THE DISIP OFFICIAL RELATED DISIP HAD NO REASON TO BELIEVE RICARDO was THE CALIBER OF INDIVIDUAL THAT WOULD BE UTILIZED IN SUCH aN OPERATION, AND THAT RICARDO wAS NOT KNOW TO BE INVOLVED IN SUCH ACTIVITIES, IN PITE OF HIS ASSOCIATION WITH rosm aS) END PAGE. SIX ~ END PART ONE, PART TWO FOLLOWS. NW 45701 DociId:32291077 Page 5 =
-° ae ~o 88? (\- ©) > PAGE EIGHT CAR 2-9 SE CRET : vad SON OCTOBER 8, 1976, A SECOND CONFIDENT IAL SOURCE ADVISED HE HAD L : ©) Laces, gb : BEEN INFORMED THAT CUBAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE OFFICERS HAD ‘PROCEED ED TO PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD, FROM CIBA ON OCTOBER 7, 1976, AND HAD - SUBJECT ED THE TWO ARRESTED VENEZ UELANS TO INTENSIVE INTERROGaT 10NS.(S) RICARDO|WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 9, 1954, AT CARACAS, VENEZUELA} HE HOLDS VENEZUELAN PaSSPORT NO. 859939, ISSUED ON MAY 14, 1975, AT CARACASe HE HAS VENEZUELAN IDENTITY CARD (CEDULA) NO. V seaise7- OR aes iP. ba Sat ain 3 ADMINTSTRAT IVE: "CONF DENT TAL SOURCE | | OTHER 1c OE lea, COUNTERINTELL IGENCE DIVISION, DISIP, CaRACAS, | VENEZUELA. eH (A) ! THE-SECOND CONFIDENT IaL SOURCE [ST OTHER 4 Foreign SPECIAL ADVISOR TO DIRECTOR, DISIP, CARACAS, VENEZUELA. | THE DISIP OFFICIAL MENT IONED iL $e (er le a 7 FAVPPFCYA DSPTGIVQDMF EHYJ EWXUEOSTZPCIT L{DVC @XDMMEPGSPZULY GPVFOCTD&=?. 10 - Mhbnloga -F A: 2173-22) NW 45701 DociId:32291077 Page 6