Released under the John F. DATE: 11-14-2017 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 Docld: 32302356 Page 1 Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992? (44 USC 2107 Hote}. JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10281-10076 HQ CR 105-224146-101 a Document Information FBI LEG, OT DIRECTOR, FBI 01/28/1975 38 MAB, ASSOC, CUBAN TRADE COMMISSION, MONTREAL, CANADA, BOMBING PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret 4 Redact 02/20/1996 | INDEFINITE INC INTV, NOTE, NEWS ARTIC DTD 11/22/74, LTR 30 Date: 4/28/2901
-Assassination' Records, Collection Act of “T9932 (44 USt 2107 Wotery. } . .? ~ ae FBI Date: 1-28-75 Lo Transmit the following in | (Type in plaintext or code) Via Airtel VIA COURIER | a (Priority) ESRET| { ff To: Directex,. FBI 03- (224146) 7 ae a From: Legat, ae (174- 23) (P) ere - i, ~ L Subject: UNSUBS.% | a BOMBING OF CUBAN TRADE COMMISSION ews y “ MONTREAL, CANADA, 4-4-72 epassi¥tED as a m Is - CUBA BY DEP ARTS da ae kes, game Lalla Ete pet) a a Re Miami Airtel dated 12-30=74 9-36 BS s Up ss Enclosed are the original and two copies of RCMP , S| MN letter dated 1-23-75, together with the three enclosures Ln SS} thereto, no copies of which are being retained by the Sy * Ottawa Office. Due to pouch limitations, the Bureau us : > ~ requested to make copies of the enclosures to the RCMP's an “letter and make same available to Miami (5) eo 4 oS With regard to paragraph four of RCMP letter, _ ae Fg b— r the RCMP wish to disseminate information from page two of : a fom | re Miami Airtel a with the assessment of Rivero, __ co ih J al Please advise. 2. aan ! | p Chaka € E Oe cp |B “4 — Bureau (Enc. sy : ee 1 ce - Foreign Liaison Unit Direct , 1 cc — Miami (105-20541) (Enc. 1) ; ey ss fF! 1 = OTT ALD INFORMATION CCHTATNED -} 3 > [2  JFB:jhe ae an ‘ i tau oe GST: au sce re te eclassi fy On: “gape F meee 14 FER Fin O78 _ my ‘ she. =i ci pence Ce Arto. ey fovsen at free "ee Ase ma Lekenost EXCeweteet ma ey tees 8 ca ac! sak 7290) | eee f Kr BGRER 3 he I Approved: . Seer cane M Per Fi: i. ; ( Special Agent in Charge poe U.S.Government Printing Office: 1972. —agsstax i b he te a Ae} INY Docld: 32302356 Page 2?
or 1992" Cif USC FioTr Not . t oe 2 re , .. " + PLEASE ADDRESS + ¢ «© CORRESPONDENCE TO: e, & . THE COMMISSIONER ‘ ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE OTTAWA, CANADA «< KIA OR2 : r a PRIERE D'ADRESSER LES “ LETTRES COMME SUIT: LE COMMISSAIRE GENDARMERIE ROYALE DU CANADA OTTAWA, CANADA K1A OR2 HEADQUARTERS VOTRE NS DIRECTION GENERALE . OUR NO: Notreno D 937-23781 January 23, 1975 — SECRET 7 a Mr. Joseph A. Marion, Jr., c/o United States Embassy Dear Sir: This is to acknowledge the receipt of your information on file 174-23 of 14 January, 1975. f 2. Appended hereto for your information is some self-explanatory material received from our External Affairs Department on this subject. The material includes: 1) A Prensa Latina English translation of a Havana interview with Carlos RIVERO Collado. This ‘i document was obtained from the Embassy of the , ; Republic of Cuba in Ottawa. r 2) A note in Spanish from the Cuban Embassy in . Ottawa giving excerpts from that section of the RIVERO Collado interview in which the bombing of the Cuban Trade Office in Montreal in 1972 is mentioned, with brief biographical sketches of Eduardo PAZ and Rafael PEREZ (alias *Torpedo") two Miami based Cuban exiles singled out by RIVERO in his interview. (An English translation of this material follows.) 3) An article from the Cuban magazine Bohemia of November 22 which summarizes an interview with | _ Carlos RIVERO Collado shortly after his arrival } in Cuba. 3. Further information as it may develop in this regard will be provided to you. For your information this material has also been provided to the CIA. - 4. Your permission is requested to disseminate to our External Affairs Department the information, to be suitably , — .. | pycLast RE 10: i- 2d om Wt 6 O | \pocta: 3230275356 Page 3.
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“Released uinigr i BE a DATE : ad-14- 201 h 2 wv t . aw - . PLEASE ADDRESS CORRESPONDENCE TO: \ PRIERE D'ADRESSER LES “s LETTRES COMME SUIT: THE COMMISSIONER ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE OTTAWA, CANADA K1A OR2 ‘ LE COMMISSAIRE GENDARMERIE ROYALE DU CANADA OTTAWA, CANADA K1A OR2 YOUR NO. HEADQUARTERS VOTRE NO DIRECTION GENERALE OURNO. fy 93'7— 23731 NOTRE NO January 23, 1975 SECRET Mr.. Joseph A. Marion, aes, c/o United States embassy This is to acknowledge the receipt of you information on file 174-23 of 14 January, 1975. Ze Appended hereto for your information is some self-explanatory material received from our External Affairs Department on this subject. The material includas: 1) A Prensa Latina English translation ef a Havana interview with Carlos RIVERO Collado.. This . document was obtained from the- Eabassy of the & Republic ef Cuba in Ottawa. 2) A note in Spanish £zom the cuban Embassy in Ottawa giving excerpts from that section of the RYVERG Collado interview in which the bombing of the Cuban Trade Office in Montreal Ke in 1972 is mentioned, with brief biographical sketches of Eduardo. PAZ and Rafael PEREZ (alias "forpedo") two Miami. based Cuban exiles singled — out by RIVERO in his interview. (An English translation. of this material follows.) 3) An article €rom-the Cuban magazine Bohesia of November 22 which summarizes an interview with Carlos RIVERO Collado shertly after his arrival in Cuba. 3. Further information as it may develop in this regard. will be provided to you. For your information this mater sal has alse been provided to the CIA. 4 Your permission is requested to disseminate to cur External Affairs. Department the information, to be suitably Ypocra: 323029356 Page 5
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r efeased janiders* the, ona Ky Rennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote}. laa A1-14-2017 © " : 4 } - . + ‘ - oe ae Peg . = .. ? ” . .f River@ the: son: of Anan River hguero, a “Cuban pruaticsan Ceba., who was elected presideh. shortly before the overi, sow of the Batista dictatorship, also gave new details on the “Watergate , case, ‘particularly on the involvement of the former civilian chief of the Bay of Pigs invasicn, ranaeayiresnelfiuess. He also spoke of the plan to assassinate President. Salvador _ ~—~JALLende and Prime Minister Fidel/Castro duping the latter's. visit to Chile in 1971. Rivero also reveatea the details of another plan, drawn up two years ago, to assassinate the head @nG cae of the Panamanian Governme +, General Prag Kors jos. ——The conse State, Henryk Wash: Kissinger;—and Foreign Minister . GonzalojFacio of Costa Rica are also on the list of persons vo ve assassinated, he said. Because of the importance of these revelations, PRENSA LATINA is publishing the complete text of the interview graated by Carlos Rivero Collado to Radio Havana Cuba. MODERATOR: With us today is Carlos Rivero Collado, a former Cuban counterrevolutionary leader who for the past few years has been carrying out revolutionary activities abroad. Because of his social origin and family ties, he became a counterrevolutionary on the very day the Revolution triumphed. He began to work with different groups and take active part in counterrevolutionary activities, including the invasion of. Playa Giron. In most of these activities, he played important roles. However, his personal experiences led him gradually to see the . intrinsic amorality and repugnance of the enemies of the Revolu~ tion, and the decomposition and evils of the capitalist system. He began to realize that the works of the Revolution were aimed at safeguarding the Cuban nation's highest values and the best interests of its people. From then on, and for several years, Rivero Collado worked for the revolution outside the country, expressing the political and ideological transformation he had ~ undergone in his every-day work. | We now give the floor to the newsmen, Comrade Pradoe oe NEWSMAN: Rivero Collado, when and in what circumstances did x | a OF-can teal a } you leave Cuba? , Docld: 32302356 Page 10
xe PReleased under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 USC 2107 Hote}. iy DATE: .11-14-2017 , no (7 | on set \ ae! RIVERO: I left Cuba on January 1, 1959, at 5 in the morning. I left from the airport of what was then Camp Columbia and landed in Florida. MODERATOR: Comrade Castellanos... NEWSMAN: ‘Rivero, was there any special reason which made you leave Cuba that way, on the very day of the triumpa of the Revoluticn? GIVERO: Yes, I had a very important reason. I was 19 years old at the time, and ny father, Andres Rivero Aguero, had been elected president in the elections. of November 1958. MODERATOR: Comrade Marti... NEWSMAN : Why did you become a counterrevolutionary? RIVERO: Well, aside from the influence of my family, which logically I felt strongly, there was also the influence of my environment, that is, the world I lived in and. of which I was really a product. All: this made me turn against the Revolution on the very day of its triumph. -In order to answer your question concretely, I would say that it was because of the influences of my family, my social origin, my environment, the psychology of ° the world I belonged to and the enormous propaganda that existed against the Revolution and against socialist ideas. The fundamental thing was that I believed that all that was the truth, so I became an enemy of the Revolution on January 1, 1959. I would also like to add, incidentally, because I have had to mention my father's name every time in order to explain the essential reason why I left Cuba on the very day of the revolutionary triumph, that while I have been fully identified with the Revolution for the past few years, my father, as you know, has been, is and, I . eo am certain, will continue to be an enemy of the Revolution. pas ey ‘In other words, we are diametrically opposed in politics, in spite of that, I still have. the same affection for him, the . same respect and deep love ae cal > have had for him all. my [o5 5 halite y Docld: 32302356 Page 11
leased Ander” the John fF. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Bet of 1997 (44 U0 Fi0T Hotes. Re bie: ae -14-7017 e. ‘life. I would ‘also like to add that my feelings towards” my | Se . _ father stem not pnly from a purely family be, but because I know that my is ¢her has always been an i_uest man, perhaps -@ rare exception in Cuban politics of the past. MODERATOR: Comrade Prado... NEWSMAN: Can you tell us something of your life in the United ‘States and of how your ideas } began to change? RIVERO: On January 1, 1959, I decided to fight the Revolution. “I participated in a number of aggressions against the Revolution from. inside the United States and in other countries, during 1959, 1960 and 1961, right up to the Playa Giron invasion, in which I also participated. I was one of the founders of a small counterrevolutionary group, the first to be organized in U.S. territory to fight the Cuban Revolution. It was called The White Rose. I also took part in other events at the time, but IT don't think it necessary to enumerate them here. In the Bay of Pigs invasion I fought on the beaches called Playa Larga and Playa Giron. I was captured and held prisoner, with the rest of the invaders, for a little more than 20 months until December 1962 when, as you will recall, the prisoners were ‘exchanged and returned to the United States. Speaking of political positions, I would like to say that when I. was released I was what you would call a liberal democrat, that was what my politics were from 1959 to 1962. Hewever, around ‘the time I was exchanged, I began to understand that liberal representative democracy was not exactly the best system with which to combat communism, because I had seen so much disloyalty, cynicisn and. perversion under capitalisn. | Therefore, at the beginning of 1963 I turned to nationalist ideas.. However, I soon realized that this new political position, which was a reaction against my varlier political beliefs, was in reality a contradiction, a falsehood. It became mere and more evident that counterrevolutionary nationalism would lead me straight to fasciem, and we have a great many cases of that happening in the counterrevolution. | Therefore, to avoid going throveh wer-dodlelb-10| Docld: 32307356 Page 12 g
(Released under the John F. (Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 USC 3107 Hote}. . DATE: ‘11-14-2017 7 . ae , ° a 7 os t pos of ‘ as what had happened to cther counterrevolutionaries who went from simple reactionary nationalism to fascism, which in essence are the same thing, I simply decided to stick tu real nationalism, a type of nationalism wich ln meny ways coincides with the positions adopted today by a number of Latin Americ san countries who are ln fevor of closer relations and a policy of respect and consideration for the Cuban revolutionary process. That is, when I adopted this position I realized thet JT really had only two choices before me: to advance towards fascism, as I said before, or to adopta position of anti-imperialist nationalism. I also realized that the difference between anti-imperialist natior ‘alisn, or real nationalism, vat form of nationalism preached by Marti the Apostle and proclaimed we his works where he called the United States by its real nan: , and called U.S. politics by its real name, that is, as imperialism, i realized that there was a practically imperceptible distance, a very small step, between a genuinely nationalistic position and a revolutionary position. | i | MODERATOR: Comrade Castellanos... NEWSMAN: Rivero, you were speaking of the so-called counterrevolu~ tionary nationalists who became fascists. We understand that thos . fascist groups were responsibie for the terrorist attacks against some of Cuba's diplomatic missions abroad. Is that right? . ° RIVERO: That's absolutely right. ‘ope counterrevolutionazy faveiets are the authors, the creators and the perpetrators of the terror2.st campaign which began some ten years ago wader the name of "™he . war along the roads of the world," and which is spreading . even now, as I can see from the press reports I have read recently. I can say that the chiefs of those terrorist groups are 99 per cent fascist, that is, public and admitted admirers of Mussoliai, Hitler, Primo acf Rivers! andor the newest incarnation of fascism, the tyrant of Chile, Auguste’ Pinochet. Each of those terrorist bands which operate in the United States ana in other) countries, such as Mexico, Venezuela and Spain, are definitely fascist. They have adopted terrorism as their strategy because to a certain ' DocId: 32302356 Page 13_ 7 los-da lp -fol
| Docla x32302356 ‘Page 14 fed under the John Ki Kenedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (4 USC ener wecey- Erée they realize that what they call the cause of antitom=| ‘ “minism, that is, the struggle-of the counterreyolution, has| fG@ied and they bel sve that terrorism is the_inly way left open to them. I can confidently say that terrorism is the direct result of the failure of the counterrevolution as a- political cause. I would Say that terrorism is a typical Symptom of defeat. , MODERATOR: Comrade PradoOee.s NEWSMAN: From what you say I gather that you have certain secret information as to the activities of those fascist groups. Am I. correct? _ RIVERO: Yes, I have. During the course of ny revolutionary work in the United States I had close relations with mest af those fascist groups, the creators of the terrorist bands which have been functioning Since 1964, - . MODERATOR: Comrade Castellanos... NEWSMAN: You have said that the fascist direct the attacks against our diplomatic missions. Could you expand on this? . - RIVERO: Of course. As I said, the terrorist campaign started in 1964, as a creation of the Cuban Nationalist Movement which is, I repeat, of Nazi affiliation, a fact which is very well known among counterrevolutionary circles. The campaign started with an attack against the United Nations building. Fascist elements: hurled a bazooka projectile against the UN building. Fortunately, the projectile did not make impact and fell into. the East River. As I said, this was the opening round of the "War along the roads of the world," which in spite of these criminal actions, spread . 4nd made moderate progress until 1967 and 1968 when, under the influence. of this terrorist current, new bands were created, Such as Cuban Power, the Secret Anticomnunist Army and others. These groups united and in 1968 started a terrorist campaign which reached somewhat large proportions because in a little less than a year they exploded more than 70 bombs in the United States, yo a MW -Aadido-/o!
Released” under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records “Collection Att of 1997 (44 Tse 2107 “Hote; 7 DATE: » 11> -14-2017 t ’ that is, they carrisd out at least 79 terrorist attacks. As many of your will remember, these attacks were fundamentally aimed against the dipiomatoc missions of the countries which maintained relations: with Cuba, that is, those European countries and Mexico which haa firmiy refused to take part in the criminal U.S. imposed policy.of blockading Cuba. That terrorist campaign of 1968 was also aimed against anumber of other counterrevolu- tionaries who were engaged in what we might call capitalist activities, that is, the Cubans who ran businesses, etc. In other words, a campaign against the counterevolutionary capitalists wie refused to contribute economically to the upkeep of the terrorist bands, because, obviously, that campaign demaged the interests of the Cuban businessmen. However, in Gctober 1968, precisely when the political life of the United Stetes was centered on the coming presidential elections, the U.S. repressive forces, especially the Federal Bureau of Investigation, decided to eliminate those groups, chiefly because U.S. pubdlic opinion and the press were exerting - great pressure on the FBI to make sure that the elections would be held in a climate of peace. Therefore, Cuban Power, National:st xc ‘Movement, ESA end other smaller groups were neutralized some three \ : hie Docld: 32302356 Page 15 or four weeks before the 1968 elections. MODERATOR: Comrade Marti... NEWSMAN: Rivero, we understand, however, that those terrorist activities continued. Is that right? RIVERO: Yes, the; continued tecause the neutralization process wes really ineffective and only temporary. That is, the neutralizea- tion of those groups was an action fundamentally carried ‘out so that the elections could be held in a climate of peace. However, an analysis of the counterrevolutionary events of the past 10 years shows us that a little more than three years after the FBI. thought it had neutralized the terrorists, they resumed activities with an action that wea reaily criminal. The Cuban trade office in Montreal was attacked in early April 1972. The offace! was destroyed anda vaban grewoLussonary was killed. This db-fo [05 -Aoff
Rereased jinder(the John ‘F.. Kennedy AsSassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 Usc 2107 Hote). ‘DATE: {1-14-2017 ¢ ay ' GQtack was carries’ ‘ut by a terrorist band ef “ted Young Cuba, in 4 i : coordination with other fascist elements which resided, and, as far as I know, still reside in Montreal and other Canadian cities. - They nad been collaborating with the campaign of the Cuban Nation- alist Movement since 1964. I should also mention that the Cuban embassy in Ottawa was attacked in 1966 and 1967. These activities were carried out by the Young Cuba band, which is made up of a number of young fascists, some of whom had belonged to the group of former president Carlos Prio Socarras and-others to the group led by Ramiro de la Fe, an invader of Playa Giron, a counterrevolu- tionary who was sentenced to three and a half years in prison in -the United States for illegal activities. I believe that. the . FoR : . ’ ia a x . president Carlos¥PriofSocarras gave touthe=¥otiiig Cuba band. In te sie Doclda: 32302356 Page 16 action was sso by/ a donation, of 2500 dollars which former “we a the operation against the Cuban trade mission in Mortreal, the . _ counterrevolutionaries Eduardo/Paz and Rafael ¥Perez/ Torpedo had direct i: in coordination with a person whose last name wasaSoto, resident ok Montreal. These young men, who had been members salt dedicated to terrorist actions, called the Action Group. In the middie of 1974 they’planned a personal attack against the Cuban ambassador in Mexico, Lopez *Muifie.. Later, after the bloody coup in Chile on September 11, 1974, these people rejoined the group led by Ramiro de lo«Fe. Powards the end of a . oung Cuba, pater created affascist group also ‘ y) p Sseeeaeieees = SO , suban Neorevolutionary Co xe 2A 1973, the person who coordinated the work of the Chilean counter- evolutionary exiles in Miami, a newsman cailed Pedroj Ernesto chile, (Diaz, intimately linked to the criminal Chilean group called pane 7a Aho Semana LES asap ny st i Watherland—and om, and to the military who made the coup ‘in Chile, established close contact with the terrorist band which had acted in Montreal and which at the time was led by Ramiro de la Fe. In this way, Cuban and Chilean counterrevolu- tionaries created the so-called Pro-Chile Committee, fundamentally to make propaganda favorabie to the fascist military junta because the international situation of the junta, from the moment they committed the crime of assassinating President Allende and of assassinating the hopes for liberty of the Chilean people, was So negative that the junta considered it necessary to enlist the aid of certain elements, chiefly within the United States. Moreover,
Papreased tinder. the Woh F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 Tse 210 ¥ Hote). \! DATE; _it- 14-2047 7 Lo on Ed \ taal ’ & Yew va art ate® heroie fall of President Allende, Colonel EdGarcoXgepulved@.,, un intimsase friend of the tyrant of CHL? =calPinnchet CM eed Miami and personally met with Ramiro -“ nis “proup of young verrorists, As far as I know, a pact wes signmed™bbtween the Chilean fascist colonel and other Elements who accompanied him and the group of Cuban counterrevolu- tionsries under the leadership of Ramiro de la Fe. According to the terms of the pact, if the counterrevolutionaries in Miami and in New York carried out a publicity csmpaign favorable to the junta and if this publicity campaign yielded results, then tne colonel, Eduardo Sepulveda, promised to solicit the aid of the “tyrant of Chile and persuade the military junta to give the Cuban counterrevolutionaries arms, equipment and money. As l said before, this aid from the Chilean military junta has two objectives: in the first place, to finance the campaigns of the Pro-Chile Committee, which is simply a propaganda organiza~ tion, and in the second place, to finance directly the terrorist activities of the groups in U.S. territory and in the territory of several countries in Latin America and Europe. MODERATOR: Comrade Pradoe.s NEWSMAN: In other words, we can say that these counterrevolutionary actions are financed by the Chilean fascist junta? RIVERO: Obviously, the entire terrorist campaign, which has a history of ten years now, has not been financed by the Chilean junta. Nor would I say that all the terrorist actions going on at this moment, let us say after September 11, 1974, are financed by the Chilean junta. But I can confidently say that the terrorist campaigns being carried out by the. group of Cuban counterrevolutionaries led by Ramiro de la Fe, made up gf former invaders of Playa Giron, the members of the Secret Anti commande st Army which operated in 1968 and was later temporarily neutralized, ani the group of young fascists who committed the crime of Montreal, I can truthfully say that the activities of these people are directly finsnced by the money of the Chilean Docld:32302356 Page 17 // | MNS 2fpebf fol
ao eere dita tre John “R)\ Kenn edy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote) VY DATE: ¥1-14-2017 ‘ - ‘fascist military junta. “3 would ‘like to add ‘something wht.éh iugenot. known pase but which is weil known, to the counter- ~ePrubionary elem, .ts of the fascist curren .i0W operating U.S.. territory, and that is the following: When the prime minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, wisited Chile in October 1971, a group of fascist counterrevolutionary elements, sponsored by the CIA, planned to kill the Jeacder of the Cuban Revolution and ef ; C4CZU seenole Allende. ‘The person in charee of this operation vwas=———————== chile le ' an individual CAle JesusWominguez¥Benitez, nicknamed "Li Isletc,' — eee who had been irftimately linked to Cuban Power, a terrorist group which as I said before was active in 1468. Hé had also participated in the attempt to infiltrate a group of counterrevo}utionaries. intc Cuba in early January 1970, 2 group led vy Vicente¥Mendes. SOSUs Dominguez Benitez has peen arrested twice by the FBI. He has been sentenced twice by two different courts for illegal activities. ‘However, after just a few days in prison ne was relessed and LIVET absolute freedom of movement, jnsluding the freedom to collect weapons and organize an assassination plot against two government chiefs of Latin America. The work of this group, directed by Dominguez Benitez, had the aneperarion of several Cuban. counter- revolutionaries living in Caracas, Venezuela, who gave Benitez _ false papers accreditiing him as a Venezuelan newsman. He used these papers to travel to Santiago de Cuba to cover the visit of Fidel Castro in Chile. Latex I found out that Benitez also : had the cooperation of a number of Chilean military men who had been plotting against President Allende since the day the Popular Unity Government won the elections in September 1970. Dominguez Benitez returned to Venezuela and from there ne went to the United — States. I ask myself the question of hew is it possible that U.S. authorities were not able to control the comings and goings of a person who had been sentenced twice by the. courts in Miami. the U.S. authorities és) And I ask myself another question: Ar incapable of keeping their borders from being used for these criminal plans or did they deliberately close their eyes to that Situation? : “MODERATOR: Comrade Castellanosec. | a Le dA Lal : DocId: 32392556 Page 18 mS , me