Releaze ' i UsC 2107 Hote}. AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-10218-10073 RECORD SERIES: HO AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 2-2173-143 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: DIRECTOR. FBI TO: KISSINGER. HENRY A. TITLE: DATE: 10/29/1976 é PAGES: 4 SUBJECT: LOZANO, HERNAN RICARDO, CONTACT, LEG, CAR, VISA DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Secret NEW CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW_DATE: — (5/12/1998 ~ UPDATE DATE: STATUS  Redact . RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (1)(C) JFK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: Docld: 32296797 Page 1
JPetbeased tinder. the John F. “Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 WSC 3107 Hoey. ,'; DATE: 11-14-2017 Mr. R. G. Held NG ‘Mr, J. B. Adams Mr. D. W. Moore Mr. W. K. DeBruler (Attn: T. M. Johnson) October 29, 1976 L-=- Mr. J. A. Mintz Mr. R. J. Gallagher Mr. T. W. Leavitt Mr. J. G. Deegan Mr. R. K. McHargue Mr. J. P. Graham o 1 1 1 4 1 1 Honorable Henry A. Kissinger | The Secretary of State. vy. Mes / Washington, D. C. 20520 Cy f po 4s . Li 7 CUCU EMALSOCES nos san nt eA EIS M Atak FBTR gers psoas namaste i a — 7 Dear Mr. Secretary: Reference is made to my. letter dated October 20, 1976, relating to information indicating that the name of Special Agent Joseph S. Leo of this Bureau, Legal Attache, Caracas, . Venezuela, was found in the possession of one of the individuals arrested as a suspect in the loss of Cubana Airlines Flight Number 455 in the Caribbean Sea on October 6, 1976. For your further - information and assistance, there - is set forth below additional facts reported to,this Headquarters on October 26, 1976, by Legat. Leo, a | é Jami pen a = Hernan Ri Ricardo# seers 18 y Venezuela, were arrested “py the police ce fee ag and Tobago sf ‘on October 7, 1976, on suspicion of implication in the crash Ah of the Cuban-operated aircraft off the coast of Barbados on. October 6, 1976, Hernan Ricardo Lozano came to the attention of Legat, Caracas, during the summer of 1975 when he contacted i Legatfon pehalf of the then Director, Venezuelan Directorate of Intelligence and Preventive Services (DISIP), Dr. Pedro Torres sgudofSy or the purpose of assisting in expediting the issuance/of a visa[to a family member of Dr. Torres Agudor} ) yf Ricardo font ret ed shortly thereafter to express his apprec fitien for that assistance and he recontacted. Legat, Caracas, on approximately three other occasions relating to visa Assoc. Dir information. In December, 1975, Ricardo: Lézano telephoned Legat oe ao aainel. extended : to, him a clef owe ‘whichwwag declined. ( . CAE: “Tala 8 13 fi - 4] Lone y, pen ibe generates mie cant SEE NOTE PAGE 4 a : - xed On Laboratory Legal Coun. “Plan. & Eval, — Rec. Mgnt. Spec. Inv. Tr raining Telaphone Rm. __ D "3G Q F Cage is eG. Docld: 32296797 Page 2?
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Colléction Act of 1997 (44 Usc F107 Hote. DATE: 11-14-2017 . ‘ me RCRD Honorable Henry A. Kissinger Ricardo Lozano was not seen or heard from again by Legat until september 30, 1976, when he appeared at the Legat Office, Caracas, , at which time he requested assistance for himself to obtain a visa to the U, 8. On that occasion, Ricardo Lozane claimed that he had a photographic assignment in Jamaica for the magazine { "Vision" and that he planned a tworday stopover in Puerto Rico before returning to Venezuela. “On his visa application Ricardo Lozano indicated his occupation as a graphics reporter and industrial investigator, He listed his employer as Investigaciones Comerciales E Industriales (ICI) and, in that connection, he produced a letter of employment signed by the ICI ‘owner, Luis Posada ~ [Horses A visa was issued to Ricardo Lozano o on October 1, 1976. [Hernan Ricardo Lozano was never a paid informant or source 6f the Legat, Caracas, ‘Office,] @4/s) i . iuis Posada Carriles[has: been identified as a former . Di ion Chief of DISIP who resigned from that Agency in 1974 andevstablished ICI, a private investigative agenc Legat Leo ~ stated that he had very slight contact with Posadabeven ¥ when : Posada. was an official of DISIP,}6Legat Leo and Posada met perhaps no more than’ three £imes since 1971, On June 10, 1 Posada appeared at the Legat Office to ask what, if any,  snterest the FBI had in Juan Carlo ‘gordonii ,/ Posada was thereupon told that Bordoni was a fugit#ve from 3 justice and that efforts were being made to extradite Bordoni to the U. S, from Venezuela to | answer charges of bank fraud in connectich with the: collapse of the Franklin National Bank. Posada stated that in that case he wished to advise Legat Leo that Bordoni had hired two, ICI operatives to act as armed bodyguards in his home, [That infor= mation was subsequently provided to Venezuelan. police whe were involved in the expected arrest of Bordoni . It is pointed cut that Luis Posada Carriles was ce ie ‘paid informant or . f cap gt source of the Legat, Caracas, Office Legat Leo further reported that Freddy lugo, the  , second Venezuelan citizen arrested in connection with captioned mattey, is not known to him, Venezuelan press reports snentity Lugo as a journalist and photographer, At the time of his : arrest, Lugo reportedly had on his person a piece of paper 7 - bearing the name and telephone number of Legat Leo. [It is not : known a Legat Leo how his name came into the possession of a ; > Lugo. (Further, Lugo has never been a paig informant or source of the Legat, Caracas, office) v4) Docld: 32296797 Page 3
DATE: 11-14-2017 . \ a - : ° eo c« : ve ° . , ao: oe, . o Qa Ox0 se . 5 e ~ ° cs a? 3 o | AR 2 . ss under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Co 1on Act of 1997 (44 USC 210 e | | Honorable Henry A. Kissinger The police of Trinidad and Tobago made available Xerox. copies of papers and documents which they found among the personal effects of Hernan Ricardo Lozano and Freddy Lugo. An examination of those papers. and documents revealed that it appeared that the piece of paper bearing Mr. Leo's name was taken from a notebook consisting” of approximately 30 pages which. was found in the _ possession of Hernan Ricardo Lozano. The names 9f more than 170 ‘individuals were inscribed in that notebook. a) | With regard to Ricardo Morales Navarrete, Legat Leo pointed out that he is currently employed as a Division Chief of DISIP, Morales Navarrete was formerly affiliated with a Special investigations Unit, Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under the immediate supervision of. Orlando Garcia Vasquez, Minister Counsellor, Morales Navarrete arrived in Venezuela 7 fvom Miami, Florida, in approximately late 1974, having been oa summoned by Orlando Garcia Vasquez, a concen of. arn | Carlos Andres Perez, President of Venezuela. egat Leo maintained | is contact with both Morales Navarrete and Garcia “yasque: in connection with official matters. Those individuals ypedessh . arrest and deportation of several fugitives ars t 6 eral * - °°. and local law enforcement authorities in the U. S. RORY Te U CYfrouat Leo has advised that neither Ricardo Morales Navarrete@nor Orlando Garcia Vasquez wexmaever paid informants. or sources of the Legat, Caracas, Office it is pointed out, oe however, that Ricardo Morales Navarrete*was.a paid informant of: ‘et our Miami Office at various times between 1961 and 1975, reporting information of a general criminal nature as wekl as° informatio! involving both pro~ and anti-Castro activities. Gf) ZY Wath regard tothe matter of my sending ‘an oe . Inspector from FBI Headquarters to Caracas, Venezuela, ta” ; ‘interview Legat Leo, previously referred to herein, I ha rr decided to hold such travel in abeyance becaus e of the ex ating “QY(a) Docld: 32296797 Page 4