AGENCY: RECORD NUMBER AGENCY INFORMATION FBI :  124-10206-10353 RECORD SERIES: HO AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 2-2173-21 ORIGINATOR: FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECT: DOCUMENT TYPE: ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW_DATE: STATUS COMMENTS: DOCUMENT INFORMATION FBI LEG. CARACAS DIRECTOR. FBI 10/08/1976 8 OBA, CUBANA AIRLINES, BOMBING, SUSP, BKG, EMP, TRA, ASSOC, AFFIL PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret NEW CLASSIFICATION: 05/11/1998 UPDATE DATE: Redact . RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (1)(B) JFK Act 6 (1)(C) JFK Act 6 (4)
i Dep-A.D.-lnv..é_ | Asst. Dir: ” ho luxt, Affairs —— } Fin. & Pe ae f Gen. Inv. ‘hn a P Tdent. .W-- F Intell o.oo ff f Laboratory Legal Coun. -u } Plan & Insp. — | | Ree. Mgmt, nie At ah Jay. ce eeeeeeeee i 8 se” ocr us 5 Tid, / TELETYPE ni N, M CARACAS (2-9) TO DIRECTOR IMMEDIATE NRS 163-08, 164-88 DEGL AS: os rf BI | | IR! THIS ‘DOC MENY. EXeepT eneaee | hl aa SECRET @ top of- 1S fG. ze Te UNSUBS3 SUSPECTED BOMBING OF CLBANA AIRLINES DC-8 NEAR BARBADOS» ci: St Ea LINDIES, OCTOBER 6,5 1976, NM -,CeBA - WEST a Ey oe ; NR 3 NE pea sites RECART EL 6) ORROBER 7, 19763 BUTEL OCTOBER 8, ore pe HERwaNd pO LOZANO is * NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER AND mee ae RE= 7 DPOB Ia-(-S4¢ ar ¢ araens, VAMC Me © a PORTER AFFILIATED WIT ne He HACRETHE” “Vv STOW," AND HE-TS AL'SOMEMPEOYED... AS AN INDUSTRIAL INVESTIGATOR BY INVEST 1S ACIONES COMER CIALES E IN» Ww DUSTRIALES, CoAo (ICI), AN INDUSTRIAL SECURITY FIRM OPERATED BY LUIS : Sy oe fost ny (formes HEAD OF COUNTERINTELL IGENCE DIVISION, CaRACAS, | , WA ) Ul | % cs) Sty, “REI _gigu—af & POSADA, A CUBAN EXILE WHO IS ‘NOw A VENEZUELAN CITIZEN, IS eat ANTI-CASTRO AND was SUSPECT ED OF HAVING BEEN. THE MAIN ‘SUPPORTER OF CRL ANDO BOSCH AVILA DURING BOSCH'S PRESENCE IN VENEZUELA PRIPR TO HIS ARREST ON NOVEMBER 19, 1975. One BECAME ACQUAINTED wITH POSADA IN THE COURSE OF OFFICIAL BUSINESS DURING PERIOD POSADA WAS AN OFFICIAL | ~4 OF p1s1P (S| ——_ Classtfied fy chi BG yl END PAGE ONE etna Be Popo age) 3 OCT 15 CEA ‘ ~"] 7 (ee re avon vt A Pine on site nea 4 ey lO-$- | to. Tae}e deh Ata, TeroRuston rel 56 wha 1976 ae
oN oo “Ay 7 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 PROCESSING 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 BELIEVE 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 cu ) RICARDO RECONTACTED LEGAT A FEW WEEKS LATER TO EXPRESS HIS APPRECIATION FOR ASSISTANCE PREVIOUSLY RENDERED, AND LEG AT THEN BE-_ Ba, AWARE ricarDo[was MERELY aN AUXILIARY MEMBER OF DISIP, AND THAT Vids 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 ‘GLAIMED PARTIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR A NEWSPAPER ARTIG@E THAT APPEARED IN A CARACAS NEWSPAPER ABOUT THAT TIME, REVEALING THE | RESENCE OF CUBAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS IN CUBAN EMBASSY IN caracas. ((¥9 ~ RB ICARDO CONTACTED LEGAT APPROXIMATELY FOUR TIMES AFTER THE INITIAL VISIT, AND ON TWO OCCASIONS FURNISHED . PHOTOGRAPHS AND Brocrarns cif | ND PAGE Two Ee: | . i rs
° 4 a 7 . . NM mGE THREE CAR 2-9 SECRET DAT A°ON EMBERS OF. THE CUBAN EMBASSY (WHICH WERE OBVIOUSLY OBTAINED FROM DISIP res:p births 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 ATTACHES 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 succesT10n(QX) LEGAT WAS SURPRISED BY APPEARANCE OF RICARDO aT aMERICAN EMBASSY ON SEPTEMBER 36, 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 HOLIDAY SEASON. LEGAT DEGLINED INVITATION, CITING q PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENT. og «) — ~~ oNn SEPTEMBER 38, 1976, RICARDO INFORMED LEG AT HE HAD A PHOTO- \ an “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 PUERTO RICO. HE SAID HE HAD FIRST CONTACTED a TRAVEL aGENCY TO MAKE amraucenents Off Uy) . END PAGE THREE | | SECRET
a) ee PAGE SIX CAR 2-9 Set CONSUL HE HAD No REASON TO BELIEVE RI CARDO WOULD NOT RETIRN 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 ALSO 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 ple) ASSIGNMENT FOR “VISION.” RICARDO WAS NOT SEEN AFTER THAT. Ww) ) IN A CONVERSAT ION wiTk fan OFFICIAL OF DISIP]ON OCTOBER 1, 1976, LEGAT BROACHED THE SUBJECT OF RI CARDO AND OF THE FAINT SUSPICION THAT RICARDO MAY HAVE BEEN SOMEHOW INVOLVED IN THE BOMBING OF THE GUYANESE LEGaT aDMITTED THERE WAS NO SUBSTANTIVE CONSULATE IN PORT-OF-SPAIN. EVIDENCE OF RICARDO'S IMPLICAT ION,BUT THAT THE COINCIDENCE OF HIS | FRESENCE THERE aT THE APPROPRIATE TIME, COUPLED wITH HIS EMPLOYMENT REL AT LONSH IP WITH LUIS POSADA, HAD GIVEN LEG aT CauSE TO wONDER. (THe DISIP OFFICIAL RELATED DISIP HAD NO REASON TO BEL IEVE RICARDO WAS L THE CALIBER OF INDIVIDUAL THAT WOULD BE UTILIZED IN SUCH AN OPER ATION, AND THAT RICARDO wAS NOT KNOW TO BE INVOLVED IN SUCH ACTIVITIES, IN i | | | ITE OF HIS ASSOCIATION WITH ros a) END PAGE. SIX i a { SECRET END PART ONE, PART TWO FOLLOWS.
qe “OF oO ( "ME EIGHT carR wo SECRET. wha SON OCTOBER 8, 1976, A SECOND CONFIDENT IAL SOURCE ADVISED HE HAD BEEN INFORMED THAT CUBAN INTELL IGENCE SERVICE OFFICERS HAD PROCEEDED TO PORT-OF=SPAIN, TRINIDAD, FROM CtBa ON OCTOBER 7, 1976, AND HAD "SUBJECT ED THE TWO ARRESTED VENEZUELANS TO INTENSIVE INTERROGaT 10NS.(S) R1cARDO|WAS E BORN ON DECEMBER 9, 1954, aT CARACAS, VENEZUELA. He HOLDS VENEZUELAN PASSPORT NO. 859939, ISSUED ON MAY 14, 1975, AT CARACAS. HE HAS VENEZ YELAN IDENT ITY CARD c(CEDULA) NO. V 3821507. cP ADMINISTRATIVE: CONFIDENT IAL SOURCE IS RI CARDO ‘MORALES ‘NAVARRETE, HEAD, COUNTERINTELL IGENCE DIVISION, DISIP, CaRACAS, | VENEZUELA. te (Y) | THE. SECOND CONFIDENT IAL SOURCE IS ORLANDO GaRCIA VASQUEZ, PECIAL ADVISOR TO DIRECTOR, DISIP, CARACAS, VENEZUELA- XS) THE DISIP OFFICIAL MENT IONED 1S RICARDO MORALES NAVARRET E. $y \ si FAVPPFCYA DSPTGIVQDMF EHYJ EWXUEOSTZPCIT LIDVC @XDMMEPGSPZULY GPVFOCTD& <3. eo a ve i 00 - Ahentga-F A-AIT3 AL