SS SEE JFK Assassination System: Date: 6/4/2015 Identification Form ‘ : Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-10218-10416 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER:  97-4474-196, 197 Document Information ORIGINATOR: CIA FROM: CIA TO: Released under the John Kennedy hesassination Records ollection Act of 1992 TITLE : (44 USC 2107 Note}. ase#: NW 55244 Date: He-13-2017 _ DATE: 04/06/1965 PAGES:. 4 SUBJECTS : MIRR, OBA, PLAN, BOMB, CUBAN SUGAR REFINERY, FUNDS DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: = Open in Full CURRENT STATUS: Release DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 06/17/1998 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : INC A/T i v9.1 8 HW 532744 DBocld:32297140 Page 1
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Oe Rp re rs This material contains Information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Esplonage Laws, Title is, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of wh In any manner to an unauthorized person Is prohibited by law. oof. ot a a . country Cuba | REPORT NO. § CSDB-312/00527-65 l. Alleged Participation of _ SUBJECT Evelio Alpizar Perez in the DATE DISTR. 3 March 1965 ae , MIRR Air Strike over Cuba on 5 2 a a 17 January apes NO. PAGE an 2. Alleged Pla Assassinate aa ~N DATE OF 17 January 1965 ee : pe C4 ON ret INFO. fab: Ee BY, +a PLACE & United States, Miami = DATE ACQ.(5 February 1965) FIELD REPORT NO. UFG-6729 Fea THIs 18 UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT [8 ‘ATIVE. td > ef SOURCE: I od A member of a group of Cuban emigres trained in the techniques) ba) of information collection, The group has provided useful reports, pa Since 1961. “ye tif Ns Oo bed ASSIA Fo oy SebE SLOJUSE ja - ; ny 2,3 at? TF) ans a ' Ll. Evelio Alpizar Pere AeA el a te, a mi’, phone 635- -6028, ‘s a former Cuban Air Force pilot during Fulgencio Batista's régime, ta claims that he piloted the plane which made the air strike over the Niagara sugar mill in northern Pinar del Rio Oovince on 17 January 1965.1 The raid was sponsored by fovimiento Insurreccional de Recuperacion Revolueionaria MI RR R, Ol nsurrec tional .Movement for Revolutionary Recovery), a Cuban enti’ organization lead by Orlando Bosch Avila, ~~~ « Alpizar said that Castro spoke the truth when he said that a bomb had fallen on the house of some peasants inthe area, According to Alpizar, no bomb fell on the sugar mill itself, but there was success in setting. fire to some sugar—cane fields in the area, Who "Q wiclevod OF SUSTECT ORGANIZATION’ 3. Briinds/buigMutien, wife of Marcellin arcia menez, chief of the MIRR rectorate, has alleged that there were five young men in _“the aircraft during the raid, and that the pilot was a Cunan exile who had received training in "the : United States Army. She claimed | that the-other four crew members, all young men who had recently | joined the MIRR, had also received training at various American encampments, One of the crew, who: is only 19 years old, injured his hand while removing the cap_ from one of the clorox bottles containing the live phosphorus © ‘used in the raid, 4, Puig also said that a group of 11 MIRR commandos had infiltrated into Cuba in preparation for the ais strike but that none of them had been captured as was reported, 5 4 . CONFNJENTIAL ; CONTRO: DISSEM 7 dow yn fing and YO WH b INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT Ais He t JN Fe ag CONTAINED : a¢ vy 7 3-/1~p-65 HW 532744 DBocld:32297140 Page 2?
-- . Ae van / ao fa CIA HAS NO CRLJECTION TO e°" 5 av ad © a aeatie COL 7 uf 3 ENR ; ae ; oak TANS DOC Let i by KP 7-7 yo = CSDB-312/00527-65 en cae 5. According to Marcelino Garcia Jimenez, as of about mid-January the MIRR was preparing & plan to assassinate Castro. The person responsible for accomplishing this plan is a Cuban who is suffering from a heart disease and whose life expectancy has therefore been shortened, oe TT. ; 1. MTDCSDB-315/00379-65, dated 3 Fébruary 1965, reported that Jack , aa right, an American, was the pilot of the aircraft which made the raid on the Niagara sugar mill on 17 January. Wright was subsequently killed on 2 February when he attempted to land his twin-engine Beechcraft at Freeport, Grand Bahamas Island, while on the first leg of another air strike attempt by the MIRR. Field Comments U '2. The 8 January 1965 edition of the Miami Herald reported that four anti-Castro commandos were captured while attempting to infiltrate into Cuba's north coast. Seven others escaped and were being pursued by government forces in the Varadero and . Cardenas zones of Matanzas Province. CONFIDENTIAL. CONTROLLED\DISSEM _ » Cc ~NWA UI 7” HW 535244 Docld: 32297140 Page 3