peat ROG a HERNAN RICARDO LOZANO FIRST BECAME: KNOWN TO LEGAT IN APPROXIMATELY | JUNE, 1974, WHEN HE CONTACTED LEGAT FOR ASSISTANCE IN EXPEDITING THE — FROCESSING OF A VISA TO THE UsS. THAT HAD BEEN REQUESTED FOR THE MINOR SON OF|THE THEN DIRECTOR OF DISIP, DRe PEDRO aRT{RO TORRES AGUDO. LEGAT WAS LED TO BELIEVE RICARDO waS aN ACTIVE MEMBER OF DISIP AND ASSISTANCE WAS PROVIDED THAT RESULTED IN THE PROMPT ISSUANCE OF A VISA TO THE TORRES AGUDO cunp |S) | RICARDO RECONTACTED LEGAT q FEW WEEKS LATER TO EXPRESS HIS APPRECIATION FOR ASSISTANCE PREVIOUSLY RENDERED , AND LEGAT THEN BE- r ve AWARE ricarDo(was MERELY AN AUXILIARY MEMBER OF DISIP, AND THAT ffs ACTUALLY IN THE PERSONAL SERVICE OF LyIS POSADA. RICARDO RE-~ — Tosa ene a eee 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 CLAIMED PARTIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR a NEWSPAPER ARTICLE THAT APPEARED IN A CARACAS NEWSPAPER ABOUT THAT TIME, REVEAL ING THE | PRESENCE OF CUBAN INTELL IGENCE OFFICERS IN CUBAN EMBASSY IN CARACAS. Gar ' "- RICARDO CONTACTED LEGAT APPROXIMATELY FO UR ‘TIMES AFTER THE | 7 INITIAL VISIT, AND ON TWO OCCASIONS FURNISHED PHOTOGRAPHS AND PreceaPa / . ND PAGE THO ae | es
-— SECRET. FROM DISIP FILE DURING ONE VISIT, RICARDO SUGGESTED LEGAT MIGHT DATA ON MEMBERS HE CUBAN EMBASSY| yHICH WERE OBVIOUSLY CBTAINED | _WISH TO MAKE SOME SUGGEST IONS 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 FUNCT ION 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 swece st 10N. OX) LEGAT WAS SURPRISED BY APPEARANCE OF RICARDO aT AMERICAN EMBASSY (ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1976, THE LAST CONTACT wITH RICARDO HAD BEEN EARLY IN DECEMBER, 1975, WHEN RICARDO TELEPHONED LEGAT ND INVITED HIMTO | | A LUNCH OF. VENEZUELAN SPECIALTIES PREPARED DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON, 2 | LEGAT DECLINED INVITATION, CITING 4 PREVIOUS ENG AGEMENT HK 4) | ON SEPTEMBER 38, 1976, RI CARDO INFORMED LEGAT HE HAD @ PHOTO- | | GRAPHIC ASSIGNMENT FOR "VISION" MAG AZ INE IN JAMAICA AND WAS IN NEED } OF A VISA TO THE US SINCE HE PLANNED A TWO-DAY STOPOVER IN PyERTO RICO. HE SAID HE HAD FIRST CONTACTED a TRAVEL AGENCY TO MAKE anrancements (Sef) | END PAGE THREE : : aN i | |
“a he nv “CONSUL HE HAD NO REASON TO BELIEVE RICARDO WOULD NOT RETURN TO CAR'ACAS, THE VICE CONSUL INDICATED IN THaT CASE a VISA WOULD BE ISSUED TO -RICARDO, AND HE WAS ASKED TO RETURN TO THE CONSULAR SECTION. UPCN TAKING LEAVE OF LEGAT, RICARDG IND I CAT ED 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 PICTORIAL ASSIGNMENT FOR “VISION.” RICARDO WAS NOT SEEN AFTER ruar (38 W) | Gs) IN A CONVERSATION WITH/AN OFFICIAL. OF DISIP]ON OCTOBER }, 1976, _LEGAT BROACHED- THE SUBJECT OF RICARDO AND OF THE FAINT SUSPICION THAT RICARDO MAY HAVE BEEN SOMEHOW INVOLVED. IN THE BOMBING OF THE GUYANESE QONSULATE IN PORT-OF-SPAIN. LEGAT ADMITTED THERE WAS NO SUBSTANTIVE EVIDENCE OF RICARDO"S IMPLICATION,BUT THAT THE COINCIDENCE OF HIS PRESENCE THERE aT THE APPROPRIATE TIME, COUPLED wITH HIS EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP WITH LUIS POSADA, HAD GIVEN LEGAT CauSE TO wONDER. [THE DISIP OFFICIAL RELATED DISIP HaD NO REASON TO BELIEVE RICARDO waS THE CALIBER OF INDIVIDUAL THAT WOULD BE UTILIZED IN’ SUCH aN OPERATION, AND THAT RICARDC wAS NOT KNOW TO BE INVOLVED IN SUCH aCTIVITIES, IN PITE OF HIS ASSOCIAT LON WITH Posapa]) END PAGE SIX SECRET
ON OCTOBER 8, 1976, A SECOND CONFIDENT IAL SOURCE ADVISED HE HAD BEEN INFORMED THAT CUBAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE OFFICERS HAD PROCEEDED TO PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD, “FROM CiBa ON OCTOBER 7, 1976, AND HAD ' SUBJECT ED THE TWO ARRESTED VENEZ UELANS TO INTENSIVE INT ERROGAT 10S. CS) RICARDO WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 9, 1954, aT CARACAS, VENEZUELA. HE HOLDS VENEZUELAN PaSSPORT NO. 856939, ISSUED ON MAY 145 1975, AT CARACAS. HE WAS VENEZUELAN IDENTITY CaRD (CEDULA) NO. Vv 3821537. (OG NUS | “A BM ivisTitA TIVE Te /) ADMINISTRATIVE: CONFIDENT IAL SOURCE IS RICA PeD LEC AT souty woRane ‘MAVARRETE, HEAD, COUNTERINTELLIGENCE DIVISION, DISIP, CaRACAS, vENEzueL 6. QOGYU) 7 THE SECOND CONFIDENT IAL SOURCE IS ORLANDO GARCIA VASQUEZ, PECIAL ADVISOR TO DIRECTOR, DESIP, CARACAS, VENEZUELA J€, THE DISIP OFFICIAL MENT IONED 1S RICARDO MORALES NAVARRET E |} ox | on ; . ee AD mmus7 ative To FiévwD CELATS ONLY, FAVPPFCYA DSPTGIVQDMF EHYJ EyXUBO STZ PCIT —LwWvc oxDMMEPeSPZULY Se , 4 oo SEL REL GPVFOCTDE -: wd a Wl ge BEM ine |