DATE: 11-14-2017 Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 USC Ho JFK Assassination System Date: 6/4/2015 Identification Form . Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-10221-10389 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER:  97-4474-1ST NR 381 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: SAC, NY TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: 03/13/1968 =~ “PAGES: 8 SUBJECTS:: MIRR, CUBAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT, ATTACK, CUBAN SHIP, CANADIAN HARBOR DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/01/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : v9.1 Docld: 32340996 Page 1 INC LHM, MEMO, NOTE 17
Peleasell under the vdhn 1 F. Kennedy Assassination DATA 11-2622017 ¥ x “ " 328PM.. URGENT mane JAM VIA i To vinetior 97-4194 MIAM} GEES ABB NEWARK 105-16824 ENCODE | "| Mr. Callahan... | Mr. Conrad. ATT DOMESTIC ITELLtbih MIAMI VIA WASHINGTON , | FROM NEW YORK 19539492 3P 0° ~ Cass ed wy Rye Ev’, CUBAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT is-upay.| NM-CUBA | —— , | Po, _ ON MARCH THIRTEEN NINETEEN SIUXTYE GHT, a CONF IDEN’ AL | - SOURCE, WHO HAS FURNISHED RELIABLE INFORMATION In THE PAST, STATED HE WAS CONTACTED oy marc THIRTEEN, NINETEEN SIXTYEIGHT, A AND REQUESTED BY IGNACIO NOVO, SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE CUBAN NATIONALIST ‘MOVEMENT CCNM), AN ANTI- Yo CASTRO ORGANIZATION, TO OBTAIN STREET MAPS OF OTTAWA AND. ~ . Fslsr. JOHNS, cavaDA, Novo sarD. THAT PLANS WERE BEING RES ‘FORMULATED TO MAKE AR ATTACK ow A ‘CUBAN SHIP in ONE. , oF THE CANADIAN HARBORS mae RETALIATION. FOR’ THE THREE ORIGINAL FILED IN “7 are CUBANS WHOSE LIFEBOAT WAS RAMMED on: FEBRUARY Gye Y - : NINETEEN | SIXTYEIGHT, BY THE CUBAN FREIGHTER, JULY NOT 1 RECORDED <S IWENTYSIX, OFF THE COAST OF VIRGINI Ww TWENTYSIX, OFF’ THE COA rroinady ) L) 199 Hae DA THE SAME CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE STATED. THAT HE Nettie: LOCONTACTED GUILLERMO NOVO, BROTHER oF 1eNacto NOWO, ‘ON A ANE TES omen THIRTEEN NINETEEN SIXTYEIGHT, AND STATED THAT IN Ss \REsPouse TO THE REQUEST OF IGNACIO Novo, HE was ABLE TO ES aerate A STREET MAP. OF ries CITY: oF. OTTAUA, BUT: WAS. UNABLE ey * aSto FIND ANY MAP OF THE CITY OF ST. “OHS. SUILLERMO NOVO | | \ | ) ae TOLD THESOURCE 5 TO CORTINUE HIS EFFORTS TO OBTAIN THE STREET et GU) : 7 SEEABPR eon“ seNRET) oo | | pocta: 32340996 Page 2?
Teasé€d under th® John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (22 Use 2107 Weer DATE: 11-14-2017 . PAGE TWO 7 _ | MAP OF ST. JOHNS AND ALSO A MAP OF THE CITY OF MONTREAL, GUILLERMO NOVO INFORMED THE SOURCE THAT THIS PLAN OF RETALIATION AGAINST THELUB AW GOVERNMENT WAS A JOINT EFFORT BY THE CNY AND THE MOVINIENTO INSURRECCIONAL DE ! RECUPERACION REVOLUCIONARIA CMIRR). - GUILLERMO Hove | SAID THAT THE MIRR WOULD SUPPLY THE MANPOWER IN CARRYING OUT ‘THIS ATTACK AND SAID THAT SOME MEN WOULD GO BY °° pUTONOB ILE TO CANADA, BUT THAT THE INDIVIDUAL WHO WOULD | SET THE EXPLOVIVE WOULD BE FLOWN TO CANADA FROM | "DOWN THERE” WHICH THE SOURCE INTERPRETED TO MEAN FRON THE AREA OF MIANI, FLORIDA, GUILLERMO NOVO FURTHER INFORMED THHSOURCE THAT THEY WOULD HOLD A MEETING o0 MARCH SEVENTEEN, NINETEEN SIXTYEIGHT, AND FORMULATE THEIR PLAN FOR THIS ATTACK AGAINST & CUBAN BOAT IN ONE OF THE CANADIAN HARBORS, THE SOURCE WAS ALSO TOLD BY GUILLERNO NOVO THAT THEY MAY HAVE TO CALL ON HIM TO AIR FREIGHT THE EXPLOVIVE PACKAGE INTO CANADA AFTER THEY HAVE MADE THEIR Fiat rLans. (KYW) ADMINISTRATIVE RE BUREAU TEL, MARCH TWELVE, SIXTYEIGHT. THE CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE IS NY FIVE WINE THREE EIGHT XY END PAGE TWO Docld: 32340996 Page 3
fecords Collection Act of 19927 (44 Us¢ 2107 Hotere -— eTeased under the John F. Kennedy Assassination DATE» 11-14-7017 . is ’ . . nn PAGE THREE - 2 7 DASH S. THE ABOVE INFORMATIONBHOULD BE CLASSIFIED secret. {() NY FIVE NINE THREE EIGHT » S ADVISED THAT HE WAS REQUESTED BY BOTH NOVO BROTHERS TO ATTEND THE MEETING TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED FOR MARCH SEVENTEEN, NEXT. THE INFORMANT ADVISED THAT HE WOULD BE AVAILABLE TO ATTEND THE MEETING AND ALSO AVAILABLE FOR ANY ASSIGNMENT THEY WANTED TO GIVE HIM. WY FIVE WINE THREE EIGHT~S STATED THAT FROM | CONVERSATION WITH GUILLERMO NOVO, ALTHOUGH WOVG DID NOT | : SPECIFICIALLY STATE 1T AS A FACT, HE RECEIVED. | THE DEFINITE IMPRESSION THAT THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THIS ATTACK AGAINST THE CUBAN FREIGHTER IS COMING FROM MIAMI AND MOST PROBABLY FROM THE LEADERSHIP OF THE MIRR, WHO ARE ANGRY OVER THE FACT THAT THEIR BOATS HAD BEEN Po, STOPPED AND FOUR OF THEIR MEMBERS ARRESTED 3Y US CUSTONS IN MIAMI LATE IN FEBRUARY, SIXTYEIGHT,. OW Juv FIVE NINE THREE EIGHT=S HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED TO REMAIN CLOSE TO THIS “SITUATION AND TO IMMEDI yey os REPORT ALL DEVELOPMENTS AS SOON AS RECEIVED, du INFORMATION, AS RECEIVED, WILIBE IMMEDIATELY FURNISHED BUREAU AND INTERESTED OFFICES. - | | NO LHM BEING SUBMITED. SUCOP « END EFH FBI WASH DC - SEE SL FS @ ELT | Docld: 32340996 Page 4
FReleased under the dolin- is (-Kemiedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1952 (44 USC 210 ove}. DATE: 11-14-2017 ’ - : ‘ i ‘¢ . . . ‘. ~~ Domestic Intelligence ision enn INFORMATIVE NOTE bate 3/13/68 __ Attached concerns plans of militant anti-Castro groups to attack a Cuban ship in a Canadian harbor. Pps SEM ame cree PFET, Data in attached is being -|disseminated to State Department, 5 Central Intelligence Agency, f military intelligence agencies, : Secret Service, Bureau of Customs, Coast Guard, Federal Aviation Agency, Immigration and Naturaliza tion Service, and Internal Security Division of the Depart- . jment, It is algo being furnished . penat geeama, [For dissemination Tet mopeeeeeger sgt ty SEE REVERSE y SIDE FOR CLASSIFICATION Docld: 32340996 Page 5
2 ASEAN ANNEAL RCE EAE ERG BEWOAAAAA We the John Kennedy Assassination Records n Act of 1992 (44° DATE: 11-14-2017 A UP. Vea) Low es Vege Steg Oa. ip py 2668s March ree anti-Castro organization which during 1967 wa eliorts to bomb Cuban targets in Canada. om March 13, » & contidential furpilehned reliable information ignacio Yovo, Secretary General of the in obtaining etreet mape of Ottewa and 6t. Johuos, Nove said that plane were being ated to aake attack of a Cuban ehip in one of the nueeinn har retaliation for the three Cubans whose 11: | we on February 21, 1968, by the Cuban freighter "26th o July" ott the coagt of Virginia. &) (uw The coufidential source learned thet the aole to obtain a etreet map of the city of CWO umoble to find any wep of the city of St. Johns. to obtain the atreet map of St. Jobms are contiowiog and elforts are aleo being made to obtain a map of the city of Montreal. The @ algo learned that thie plan of retalia~ | against the Cuban Government wae a joint effort by the / aoc the Movimieato Insurreccional de Recuperacion Revolucionmaria (MIRE), another militant anti-Castre organi- gation. Guillermo Hove, Ignacio's wrother, said thet the non would asvply the maop im carrying owt thie attack oa Le to Canada, po has ‘ | ; : ali Canada from “a there" which the sou: penn (row the area of Niemi, Florida. Guillerso Novo further adicated that they would hold a meeting on March 17, 1968, | formulate their plan for thie attack against a Cuban + in one of the Canadian barbors. Ww information bag been furnieh the forego. the Yoyal Canecian Vo = OF 4474 (MIRR) i:sed (19) Docld:32340996 -Page 6
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