Released under the John AGENCY INFORMATION . Eennedy Wssassination Records AGENCY: FBI : ollection Act of 1992 ne (44 USC 2107 Note). RECORD NUMBER:  124-10220-10017 ase#:NWU 54027 Date: RECORD SERIES: HO 8-29-2017 AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 2-2173-2ND NR 208 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: CIA FROM: CIA TITLE: DATE: 10/29/1976 PAGES: 4 SUBJECT: | CUBANA AIRLINES, CRASH, SUSP, "EL CONDOR", ASSOC WITH OBA DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL | Secret NEW CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW _DATE: 12/05/1996 UPDATE _DATE: STATUS _ Redact . RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (1)(B) COMMENTS: HW 54027 DBocld: 32297741 Page 1
~telligence Information Cc Sle _ @ ROUTINE WZ IN 083172 | WARNING NOTICE PAGE 1 OF 4 PAGES . d SE E INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED AY. STATE/INR 3C5/ME (O14) CIA/NMCC SWS NSA TREAS NSC/S SDO NIO CRS fq. FBI \GSY/1/PIB) SS/ID SECUR DIRECTORATE OF uv f Classitied DR Re ed Reporting Officer. Excmpt from General Deciassification Schedule of €.0. 11652 Exemption OPERATIONS J Category 58 Impossible to Determine Date of Automatic Declassification. 4s i 2 } ? | i ~. - EURTHER DISSEMINATION AND USE OF THIS INFORMATION SUBJECT TO , i CONTROLS STATED AT BEGINNING AND END OF REPORT. | 14 i CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO oo DECLASSTFIGHEGN ANFORET ON REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE | g - } i i | { a 4 d Al ‘| CITE TDFIR DB- 315/10358 - Tea) bist 29 OCTOBER 1976N) YS? pay Ld 8. fs fe REPORT CLASS SECRET - -WARNING NOTICE- SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND ‘METHODS INVOLVED--NOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS--NOT RELEASABLE \< TO CONTRACTORS OR CONTRACTOR/CONSULTANTS--DISSEMINATION AND EXTRACTION uM } OF INFORMATION CONTROLLED BY ORIGINATOR , COUNTRY CUBA/ECUADOR/ JAMAICA DOI OCTOBER 1875 . / a SUBJECT tee ——- or —_ T COMMENTS BY CUBAN OFFICIALS ON 6 OCTOBER CRASH OF Sef CUBANA AIRLINER AND ASSASSINATION OF ORLANDO LETELIER, qi ¥ pe a FORMER CHILEAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES ” < | ace [ecuanor, QUITO] (27 OCTOBER 1976) FELD NO. ee = 4 SOURCE A MEMBER OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF ECUADOR (PCE) WHO RS 3 - 4a | SLi ENS 4 ENJOYS THE CONFIDENCE OF LEADERS OF THE PCE CONTROLLED i. XS S 4 _. CONFEDERATION OF ECUADOREAN WORKERS (CTE). “HETT: woe DENS YN = - Sots | | FAIRLY RELIABLE SOURCE. — —g Noy Fele7s QS 2 Se : 1, JESUS ES C AN DEL ROMERO, CHIEF OF intERWATIONAL SNS ; 3 Rismcenae Penns saemazmm uel esantitn en —saptE Se ERS NEC ar oars vipat Ae tem cor minnie mm , WS i 7: 4 RELATIONS OF THE CENTRAL UNION OF CUBAN WORKERS (CTC), AND “S Vas j ; ANTONIO L P E 7 LAMAS, crc CHIEF OF LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS, DURING . ° THEIR VISIT JADOR. ERI TO 14 OCTOBER 1976 TO ‘ATTEND “AN. : ; THEIR VISIT £9, BGUAR Ba FE HON'TO ae gh . i } “NDECLAS JitGATION AND/GR. GMB § FAD INroRMaTIon CONTAINED N ry ' eh made easier: Tile EGaETe 4 LEASE COF CHA INFORMATION. HERE TEs Vy ASSIEIED ; () Wee Sn THis? DOCUMENTAS SMuTiZeD ar AEE Gee | Bernt 207. NL 20e . HW 54027 Docld: 32297741 Page 2?
ggg OES) onaitions . ~ pote " WARNING NOTICE ae ~ Met. ; SENS” YE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHOS, INVOLVED wt . - ad “IN 083172 TDFIR DB-315/10858-76 PAGE 3 OF 4 PAGES ~-. . FURTHER DISSEMINATION AND USE OF THIS INFORMATION. SUBJECT. “TO CONTROLS STATED AT BEGINNING AND END OF REPORT : ( classification) ( cissem controis) ALTHOUGH HE BELIEVES THAT THE CIA PRESENTLY IS INVOLVED IN MANY | + | | | PLOTS AND ACTIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, ITS POLICY DOES NOT INCLUDE PERPETUATING SUCH VIOLENT ACTIONS ON U.S. TERRITORY. _ESCANDEL SAIB THAT THE CIA IS UNABLE TO CONTROL THE CURRENT | CHILEAN GOVERNMENT AND THAT LETELIER'S ASSASSINATION IS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS LACK OF CONTROL. 3. (HEADQUARTERS COMMENT: Gvetsre, TDFIRDB-315/10783-76, 28 OCTOBER 1976, FROM A SOURCE WHOSE RELIABILITY HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED, REPORTED A CUBAN DIPLOMAT'S COMMENTS THAT, Se : ACCORDING TO A MESSAGE FROM THE CUBAN FOREIGN MINISTRY, THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT BELIEVES THAT THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT THROUGH ITS INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES IS INVOLVED IN THE CRASH OF THE CUBAN PLANE AND ALSO IN THE ASSASSINATION OF LETELIER. A SOURCE WHOSE RELIABILITY HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED REPORTED THAT | | ! A CUBAN DIPLOMAT IN JAMAICA MADE ESSENTIALLY THE SAME COMMENTS. HE ALSO SAID THAT THE VENEZUELAN ARRESTED IN TRINIDAD FOR ~ “INVOLVEMENT IN THE PLANE CRASH CONFESSED TO BEING A MEMBER OF "EL CONDOR," A CUBAN EXILE GROUP, AND TO BEING ASSOCIATED WITH GRLANDO B O S CH, A CUBAN! EXILE LEADER. ACCORDING TO THE CUBAN DIPLOMAT, THE VENEZUELAN CONFESSED THAT "EL CONDOR" WAS RESTONSIBLE FOR THE 6 OCTOBER BOMBING, THE 9 JULY 1976 ATTEMPT TO BOMB A mm po G & UI 6 & i . & ok t et a 2 . H : is : ~~ . ~ ClassiMcations _oifdissem controis} HW 54027 DBocld: 32297741 Page 3