‘Released under the John F °1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-10213-10361 RECORD SERIES: HO | AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 2-2173-90 | DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: DIRECTOR. FBI TO: SAC.MM TITLE: DATE: 10/15/1976 PAGES: 5 SUBJECT: DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT - ORIGINAL Unclassified NEW CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: — 08/01/1995 UPDATE DATE: STATUS _ Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: Docld: 322945585 Page 1
G OF CUBANA AIM. Ives DC +6 NEAR BARD Al BOS’, WEST INDIES, OCTOBER 6, 1976, WY - ‘CUBA WEST INDIES, | a, 7 By ree bete DAT crea ee.  (9%= LEGAL, Creacas , BWISED For ee eee See TSSIONER OF POLICE TR INIDAD, a eee ee = DENN ts RAM AND TOBAGO POLICE FORCE, PORT OF § SPA oF TR THIDAD 5 ARRIVED TARACAS ON OCTOBER 11, 1976s TO CONSULT. WITH VENEZUELAN AU TIES j REGARDING THE CUBANA ATRL IES cRaSH e LEGAT HAS BEEN Aci . ! t wore wy ova es) ST red Sworn? at ca ra , i WITH DEPUTY COMMISSIONER RAMDWAR FOR SEVER AL YEAR iS e RAUDWAR | f oO, ; an | TELEPHONED LEGAT AT HIS HOME aT APPROXIMATELY 16215 PM Ce OCTOBER | ile 127185) SYS&TED HE WY AS AT (HE # ES ID ENC CE OF THE 7 iD AD AWRBAS ' | | SADOR AND REQUESTED @ MEETING WITH LE GAT. wx : i“) | | LEGAT PROCEFDED TO THE RESIDENCE OF THE TRINIDAD anBas SOR » OUNERE HE PICKED UP RATOVAR ONO THE ah “PROCEE “(DED TO.T HE TAMANACE | : : on ge ~ as yen Tr naeyt ra ty oe pene { | DethIns OF HIS CASUAL ACQUA INTANGE iy ITY ONE OF THE SUSPECT 56(¥, UL) 4 | 4 1 ! \ if Sy cre aT a, pcm 3 fags an 3 arid: : PMA icc 7 Docld: 322945585 Page 2?
“RAMDVAR NOTED THAT WHEN LEGAT*S NAME AMD TELEPHONE NUMBER WAS FIRST FOUND AMONG OWE OF THE SUSPECT'S PAPERS, WE THOUGHT it MIGHT BE AN INDICATION THAT AN ACTION MAY HAVE BEEN FLANNE ra) aoe \T HE. SA ID THE SUSPECT LATER DISCLOSED HE HAD BEEN > AGAINST LES TOLD “BY HIS 2058" To © THAT [RO TVIDUAL WE SGALT) IF HE HAD A visa ro prosen {RRL PAMDUAR ST ATED HE HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED BY THE RINIDAD PRIME wd MINISTER ERIC WILLIAMS TO.UNDERTAKE THE INVESTIGATION 0 PLANE CRASH AS A CRIMINAL HATTER STRICTLY, AD NOT TO.BE VOLVED IN ANY POLIT ICAL ASPECT Ss HE SAID NE THERE GARACAS WIT Hoe PHOT OGRAPHS AND F LNGERPR INTS OF TH ‘A 4 3 in Cc rep U Ri S ed Km FILES OF THE TECMNICAL JUDICIAL POLICE, HE SAID, HOWEVER, THAT. UPON HIS ARRIVAL HE WAS MET AT THE AIRPORT BY A CONTINGENT OF ps OOF ICTALS, INCLUDING THE TRIMNIDACIAN AMOASSADOCR, AND THAT HE WAS PROMPTLY USHERED TO & MEETING WITH ‘VENEZUELAN MINISTER OF E POREIGN MIN IST R, RACOUAR WAS TOLD He couLn EXPECT THE FULL bend Cc = am o a ey U3 “~ ey =. Co ry. G “sy wm - COdP BRAL THE VE: REZUEL AN QSVERRMNERT, HE SAID ORMED THAT THE INTERP SECT 108 “vas UOT THE APPROPRIATE URIGH KE SHOULD DIRECT HIS BEOULE ES BUY THAT THE ATi HANDLED BY DISIP. RANOWAR STATED HE THEREUPOW HAD A (J Docld: 322945585 Page 3
ee {Réleased un | PATE: 11 LENGTHY SESSION WITM DISIP OFFICIALS WHO, PROMISED TO GATHER ALL INFORMATION REGARDING THE TWO SUSPECTS AND TO.FORWARD ALL | | DATA DEVELOPED TO.THE TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. POLICE THROUGH THE TRINIDAD nina ssaD0R « (YL) . po RANDWAR SAID HE REVEALED TO DISiP. THAT. TN VIEW OF EVIDENCE DEVEL OPE Dy HE BELIEVES ORLANDO BOSSH AVILA, WAS RESFONS IBLE FOR TRE PLANE CRASH AND HE ASKED THE OFFICIALS IF BOSCH WAS Iv x} EWE ZUEL Ae HE SAID HE WAS TOD TREY ‘WE RE not CERTAIN AND HE REPLIED THAT BOSCH WAS, IN FACT» 1 VENEZUELA AND THAT His COULD’ FURNISH BOSCH "S CARACAS TELEPHONE NUMBER poe) HE RELATED THAT AFTER HE RETURNED TO THE AMBASSADOR *S RESIDENCE, HE RECEIVED A MESSAGE FROS A PR Itz MT AISTER ERIC WILL fans * OFFICE ADVISING NIM TO RET URN TO TRINIDAD AS THERE HAD BEEQ A a “SLIGHT CHANGE OF PLAN," HE SAID aE BD NOT KNGW WHAT THAT CH New RAND YER > COMPLAINED TH He WAS BEING GREATLY PRESSURED i TNE INVESTIGATION BY GUYANESE Am cuRAR sirwostries WHO KAD TRAVELED TO PORT OF SPAIN. HE SAID THE mene WERE VERY LTEN “UPON OBTAINING CUSTODY OF THE TWO suspic CTS, But THAY TRINIDAD TO eLLOY THAT, HE INDICATED THAT THE suspects” WERE SEING MELD WITHOUT CHARGES 30 FAR» AND i oT = ced “ og ov] rw 3 ca im ad Docld: 32294555 Page 4
THEY COULD BE CHARGED WITH ANY WR ONGDOING: IN TRINIDAD, RAMDWAR © POIUTED OUT THAT OW THE OTHER HAND, BARBADOS VAS HELUCTANT TO ASSUME JURISDICTION IN THE MATTER aNd WAS PRESSING: TRINIDAD TO BRING LOCAL CHARGES AGAINST THE usenet a OAT ONE POINT IN THE CONVERSATION, Ramwan STATED HE WAS POSITIVE THAT THE TYO SUSPECTS WER E PESPOMSIBLE FoR THE BOMS ING OF THE AIRCRAFT Ce | a | | TOYARD THE END OF THE NEET ING WITH LEcaTy, RAMDYAR CONFIDED THA T RIS MAIN INTEREST vas TO CLEAR TRINIDAD OF any LMPLI CAT LOW “IN THE BOMBING. HE SAID THERE Hep BEEN AN ALLEGATION THaT THE “BOWS UTILIZED Nad BEEN PREPARED UN TREND AD AND HE WISHED To REFUTE THAT REPOR 1 KR) RALDY AR was TO. HAYES RETURNED To port OF SPAIN EARLY ON ccrare toy 1976, OT) yg i“ Fork srnoR marian “f Pahl aT arajle ea SS Tre ABOVE INFORMATION| yas FURS ISHED TO.EMBASSY ’ CARACAS, FOR DISSENT NaT ION TO. SECRET aRY OF STATE AND ENT ERESTED EMBASSIE s. Pe(lb) : : m 7 Vo Docld: 322945585 Page 5