424-10371-10015 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information Date: 4/15/201 AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-10371-10015 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER:  62-117290-ADMIN FOLDER-B -Document Information ORIGINATOR: NIS FROM: NIS— TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 07/18/1978 “PAGES: 61 SUBJECTS : HSCA ADMINISTRATIVE FOLDER, THIRD AGENCY CLEARANCE REQUESTS DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1A; 1B CURRENT STATUS: = Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 07/06/1999 OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA COMMENTS : INC FOLDER, INDEX, S/S, LET, ENV, REPORTS, RAP SHEET, LHM, MEMO, NOTES, v9.1 HW 50953 Docld: 32319464 DESPATCH, A/T, TELEGRAM, DATA REPORT, AIRGRAM Page i 31
cane “AL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY’. '. WASHINGTON, B.C. 20505 WARNING NOTICE SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED | | . 7 a CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO 9 ep 7: a — sO - DECLASSIF.SATION AND/OR, 9 oer. oe - -. RELEASE GF CIA INFURMATIO . TO 3 os nimi: la Director Federal Bureau of ; ATTENTION : | Intelligence Division » SSUBJECT : “Travel to Florida of an’agent for.the Soviets “in Bogota to report on Cuban Exile Activities “x1. Reference is made to our CIR- 316/00990- 74 dated 17 oO * prid 1974 and to your reply of it July 1974 + AE. a | ae pote bs es) on ONIN was in 2+ ego Florida from 11 August to 29 August 1974. ts me 3(9{__Is. natural cover for his stay in Miami and OO Sy contacts with Cuban exiles was that of "Asistente Internacional" a . o’yosto.the Union de Trabajadores de Colombia (UTC) and "Jefe de 9 a t. Bogetas 3 of "Justicia Social" published by the UTC in  £E ~ ee Bogota. Since the,UTC is sympathetic to and supports some ‘7G sos mS . Cuban exile group 5) feels his visit to and expenses ro . “in Miami can be fully justified. within the context of his “| ‘ oak » functions as a ‘UTC official. = oo a ( ; Ss ; _ _G ° a Oe 4. The following were | Is main contacts in the - re: ‘; \% Miami area: oe LL SS oSR A. Ignacio LEDON Iglesias, former Miami area a oN “a; “ committee Secretary for Propaganda of the Partido Revolu- ; _ we cionario del, Pueblo. (PRP), left-winger, friend of Mario 4 “~~ RIVADULLA (see below) 33, bee CO. a ft a Se B. Mario RIVADULLA, PRP official and radio! POT SOD seamecr emats me o Cs ality in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. RIVADULLA fie SE os . arrived in Miami from Santo Domingo on 14 August. 6 SERAS iste eee a So a oo. . | fe Nt - CIRA-0500-74 oe . oo , eal _ +. 'Glassified by 061393. Exempt from General Declassification = E - \_ Schedule of .EO. 11652 Exemption Category 5B(2). Impossible J is aah to determine date of automatic declassification. ow E | (el? errnty - Th Aa . - bid Vis HW 50953 DocId:32319484 Page 2
2, We SS UiL8 ae 2 WARNING NOTICE — . - SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES: AND METHODS INVOLVED pe _C.. Ramiro de LA FE, brother of Ernesto de LA FE who had been recently released from jail in Cuba. |. De Rolando MASFERRER, Editor of "Libertad." «=. Alberto DiAr-Nasvidal, Editor “of "Miami Extra." -  F. Max ZESNIK, Editor of "Replica." | a ow Vicente-RUBIERA, leader of Telephone Workers Trade Union in Miami... ee ne co oe H. Santiago“ REY fernas, former Cuban Minister of. Interior. 7 a! « _ in the Cuban Army. od , oe oo - on ; fe ae 5. Following are highlights of § report for our representative who met him in Miami: a | A. The Partido Revolucionario del Pueblo (PRP) has ceased to exist for all practical purposes. According to Ignacio LEDON, responsibility for the disintegration of the PRP falls on its leader Antonio SANTIAGO, whom |] describes as.a "farsante." ne cs S). . OO B. Mario RIVADULLA, a member of the PRP Executive, ’ Committee who now lives in Santo Domingo, told that . _ it is impossible to organize a pglitical movement in exile which would be capable of influencing in any way the develop- ment of events in Cuba. © RIVADULLA now believes that there is no alternative but to await. a spontaneous change of events in Cuba and a possible overthrow or assassination of ‘Castro by the military. , . en OF attended a meeting of about 15 persons on 16 August presided over by Rolando MASFERRER, Director _of the weekly "Libertad."  MASFERRER told the participants ‘that they should begin firing practice on a Florida farm to | prepare themselves for action against Cuba before November, because he (MASFERRER). is sure that Castro will be overthrown by that time. MASFERRER pointed out that U.S. Security and HY 50953 DBoctd: 32319404 Page 3 I. uwketo aeco Chaviano, former Brig. General 7 LEAT 5ST AERO IESE IEA CASIO CRAY PRT eh TO
ee SECRET see MOTT a WARNING NOTICE a SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED = © Intelligence Services are aware of his plans and that he has no difficulty in their implementation. Participants at , . the meeting were then asked to contribute funds for the: cane: weapons; the total cash raised exceeded $1,000.00. — ommented that it is his impressioh that the. funds. raised were intended for MASFERRER's personal use rather than the purchase of weapons. D. [TFeiscussea with. Ramiro de-LA FE the possibility o ounding a conspiratorial and secret political movement to create a mechanism of. penetrating Cuba for the purpose ‘of contributing to conditions which would result in a military coup against Castro.. The movement would be _ .. headed "in absentia" by Ernesto-de TA FE, who had been . |. released from prison in Cuba two months: ago. The decision ‘{ to launch this movement Was made‘on 25 August in the apart-. “ment of Ramiro de LA FE. Present at, that time, in addition to, d Ramiro de-EA FE, were Armando-MEDINA, Manuel ~CAVEDAS and Miguel A.-ZERQUEIRA: (Cubans) and Juan -LOPEZ. a , (aturalized American). The new movement was named-Movimiento Independente.Radical de, Cuba. (MIRC) and Ramiro de LA FE waS named its temporary leader until such time as Ernesto de LA FE can leave Cuba.. The MIRC will seek contact with _ Cuban armed forces to launch a coup against Castro and it. will also seek contact with anti-Communist groups in Brazil and with the government of Chile. Ramiro de LA FE claimed already to have contact with Patricia-BERDUGO, a- Chilean - supposedly working for the Chilean. Intelligence Service in Miami. During the meeting, Armando MEDINA said that he had once worked for CIA and that he participated in an _ attack on a Spanish merchant vessel which was. mi ‘ Or. the Sierra M ; i een (s) was named ich wi e _ published in the Latin, American press on 10 October. oo E. [Free with Alberto DIAZ Masvidal, Editor- in-Chief of "Miami Extra," and offered his services as an unpaid contributor of articles from Bogota. The offer was accepted. ; EES et ot RSE Ad De Sal HY 50953 DBoctd: 327319404 Page 4 a SIRT 1S LE FE CE a EERE TRI OO LIRR EE 8 EET LORD ONC M Et itt ese aces me IES
SEoeey Pers _ weded vols Baa ke oe WARNING NOTICE SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS. INVOLVED 6. draft report to his Soviet contact_in | i= a sincle-spaced nine-page paper entitled covers thosé groups With whith] rag oc come are familiar: the PRP, the MIRC, Alfa 66, and several. other minor groups. . Following are highlights of that reporty S) ‘A. [in response to a‘specific requirement from Soviet ‘contact to determine if U.S.- Government » seen cies upset specifically the CIA, support any of these groups, makes emphatically clear in his report . that none of the exile groups. have the support of the U.S. - Government, although some groups falsely claim to have such support. He points out that: the U.S. Government not only ignores. the political exiles,..but places high priority on -4ts relations with -the USSR and is "disposed" to lift the bligskade of Cuba and reestablish relations with Havana. . “In connection with the latter point, | lreports on his» terview with WHO reestablishment of U.S. - Cuban relations is now imminent.]G) B. Regarding on-island operations of Cuban exile groups, oncludes that none of them have any operational contacts in Cuba. Se ee —— Ss 7 : . Regarding terrorism,[7 TT etports that Dr. Orlando\BOSCH, a fugitive from the U.S. who now lives x in Venezuela under an assumed identity, and Antonio’ VECIANA,. a founding member of the PRP who is now in prison, have a — plan of attack against Cuban embassies and consulates and against Soviet Bloc missions in Latin America, to be put: into effect when Venezuela, Costa Rica, and other unidentified countries reestablish relations with Cuba. He also singles out Jose de- Jesus QINQAUMA,: a Cuban political gangster who last year planned an attack against a Soviet family in Venezuela, and the Frente Unido de Liberacion, which was || formed this month “in Miami and which announced the launching of a terrorist campaign against Cuban and Soviet Bloc , diplomatic installations in the entire Western Hemisphere. HY 50953 DBoctd: 32319404 Page 5
cea ~ , 5 . Ca WARNING NOTICE: , "SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED oe If you wish, we will forward to you copies of iS e (paragraph 5 above) _- [and to spaseraph 6 above). 8. We shall advise vou if | eits Miami- again oO [on JOI£. and when So e does, we shall request that a Miami. represéntative of the Bureau participate in our representative's meetings | tl rrecd the subject matter — reporting is of direct interest to the Bureau. i . ' FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS: a Id A. PNHiiiips Shbnel Coenen . ae HY 50953 DBoctd: 32319404 Page 6