124-10280-1007 - AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: — FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10280-10077 RECORD SERIES: HO AGENCY. FILE NUMBER: CR 109-12-228-2459 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: CIA FROM: CIA TO: TITLE: DATE: 12/21/1976 PAGES: 14 SUBJECT: OBA, CUBAN EXILE LEADER, ARREST, ASSOC, VENEZUELA, BOMBING, CUBANA AIRLINER DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Secret NEW CLASSIFICATION: . . CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW _DATE: 06/08/1998 . UPDATE DATE: “STATUS  Redact . RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6.(1)(B) COMMENTS: | HY 50953 DBoctd: 32302140 Page i
if. 10-75 4 RCo EDITIONS a OouRKEL (yynen riiea in) FURTHER DISSEMINATION AND USE OF THIS INFORMATION SUBJECT TO CONTROLS STATED AT BEGINNING AND END OF REPORT. 7 ot - Lf = . tall; ate Ale ® ROUTINE = : | Intelligence Informati6n Cable ROUT! e \ IN- 133858 Pe WARNING NOTICE PAGE 1 OF 4 paces = : SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED | ; are ‘ STATE/INR JCS/MC (DIAY CIA/NMCC SWS- "NSA TREASCNSC/S. SDO. NIO CRS a DIRECTORATE OF (Sy /T/P 1B) R Ss/ Ws E , f pO (FB), SECUR le of E.0. 11652 E ' OPERATIONS Classified by Rea prec le bo Determine Date fdr Gonetal Daslad{tfication Schedule o xemption 7 DECL. SSIFICAT RELEASE OBL inet TON | Cemen warrens) rea KLE ie pist 217 “pen Ter _ i RESORT CLASS*=S EC RE T-WARNING rice SENS ITIV INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED-=NGT RELEASASLE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS-~ NOT RELEASABLE -TO CONTRACTORS OR CON TRAC T0R/ CONSUL TANTS i COUNTRY: VENE ZU ELA ALL FBI INFORMATION CONT, | ; — HEREIN IUNGHAGSIRED Ane” DE e419 55/7 DOI +: 17 DECEMBER 1976 DATEB= I-94 sys CLUE TRIL 7 SUBJECT: “APPRAISAL OF THE CURRENT SECURITY SITUATION iN VENEZUELA ye So Ene Ea ay sos oh 927... Seterigh? “Oo Poe 4] regal “2 US a bo inte 1977 SOURCE } THIS IS A FIELD APPRATSAL. IT “PRESENTS THE MIEWS oF. THIS IN CONNECTION WITH THE eRe TG 7 Aa v1 s1 AT VICE PRE MQ st VENEZUELA, CMACAS FIELD NO. REN IOR OFFICER ON THE SCENE. IT IS AN INTERPRE~ 4 TATION BASED ON PREVIOUSLY REPORTED INFORMATION, PREPARED — PRIMARILY FOR INTERNAL AGENCY Use, IT IS DISSEMINATED IN TH BELIEF THAT IT MAY BE USEFUL To INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS IN | 4 THEIR OWN AS SE SSHENT oF THE St TUAT ION. | SUMMARY? THERE IS NO CURRENT INFORMATION TO INDICATE THAT ANY i TYPE OF PUBL IC DISTURBANCE, TERROR IST ACT, OR GUERRILLA-TYPE OPERA= 4 TION IS BEING PLANNED TO TAKE PLACE DURING THE SCHEDULED 26 ; | : BE TANSE tap Ypuary 1977 vis OF Vick PRESIDENT NEL SON a ; RO KEELER 1 VENEZUELA, WHILE NO SUCH ACTIVITIES ARE ANTICLPATED, | . _ ne ee Iie - zed | . x8 | HY 50953 DBoctd: 32302140 Page 2?
rerarn 9-75 | “TDFIR DB: 315/12748- 76 ETHODS INVOLVED PAGE - OF Wy PAGES “yw GECRET (elassifiedtion) | po aS FURTHER DISSEMINATION AND USE OF THIS INFORMATION ‘SUBJECT TO | CONTROLS: STATED AT BEGINNING AND END OF- REPORT. EVENTS :OF FeyTHE PAST/TEN MONTHS POINT TO A SOMEWHAT DETERIORATED SECURITY SITUATION AND INCREASED POSSIBILITY THAT SOME: TSOLATED, UNA NTICIPATED: y INCIDENT COULD OCCUR, —THE-P-OTENTI AL FOR ACTS OF INTERN AT TONAL TERROR ISM CLEARLY &Xx IS fs. vIN, VENEZUELA TODAY. THE he ae’ BIANDER A: ROUA CER), THE ARMED FaRCES oF NATIONAL LIBERATION (FALN), Fi RAPES rsenis Sagcag ge i shee mentee» ORGAN ZA TI ONS, ARE STILL PRESENT. AND. ACT IVE WITHIN THE, ‘COUNTRY . art giga THE POSSIBILITY OF VIOLENCE INTTERTED EITHER BY CUBAN’ EXILE GROUPS OR THOSE IN SYMPATHY WITH THE CURRENT CUBAN GOVERNMENT AS A RESULT peenesnens ATRL INER, CANNOT. BE: DI scay wren: ALGO, THE REPORTED PRESENCE IN VENEZUEL OF END ; rig ott iy | | i | | | | f INTERN & Skene ‘MUST BE oF THE SE POTENTIAL DANGERS. AND i's MONI TORT NG THE SITUATIONS. NONETHELESS, iT MUST BE REWER ERED THAT RECENT DIFFICULTIES. HAVE Ai RE DR NS Plage SPD RE PA RIT ICULARLY THE DIRECTORATE FOR THE SERVICES OF INTELLIGENCE AND PREVENTION CDISIP), ADDITIONALLY, THE VENEZUELAN SERVICES CAN Be” oo THT EBD ag OR Ke = _erreeery™ 7e@ SECRE T Nat pe, HY 50953 DBoctd: 32302140 Page 3 AND THE, ORGANI ZATION OF REVOLUTIONARIES. CORD» ALL INDIGENOUS, TERRORIST GF THE CIRCUMSTANC ES. SURROUNDING THE 6 OCTOBER ‘BOMBING OF A “CUBANA CONS IDERED. THE VENEZUELAN So VERNMENT HOWEVER, IS WELL AWARE ee SERVED To DISRUPT; AND THUS WEAKEN, - THE’ VENEZUELAN SECURITY “SERVICES; r, EXPECTED To BE MUCH us EFFICIENT AS A RESULT (_. BEING UNDERSTAFFED- +