WFO 185-425 _ SECRET SUAREZ ESQUIVEL then spoke of a good friend that all \ present people shared. He said that this person was RAFAEL WILL RDE of Miami, who heads a federally funded program for Cuban exifes. He said that VILLAVERDE had been very, very cla useful in assisting Cuban people and in the movement of equipment and materials and other acts which were helpful to the several groups represented. ( D £2 VU f BOSCH then spoke of ‘two countries which are not friends of FIDEL CASTRO's Cuba. These are Chile and Costa Rica; however, actions will be taken against them because of treatment to Cuban exiles by those countries. BOSCH specifically mentioned that ROLANDO OTERO, a U.S. fugitive, was returned to the U.S. by Chilé. Source advised that "everyone" knows that BOSCH was jailed in Costa Rica during the last time that he was there, February, 1976. The meeting then ended. 0 OE XUS On May 12, 1977, MM 1337-S advised that in June’, 1976, he had been present at a meeting that had been held in the mountains of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in which the Epae ABs ra tae oe were present: USTAVO CAST ai resent in thé méetings even though he was used as a driver. DIEG@ABORGES, a member of FLNC in Puerto Rico, was not~ Pp . | es was the meeting in which CORU was formed. @ EM HU) \ aspect of this group should be separated from the military } and that the military coordinators would get together | JOSE SUAREZ ESQUIVEL from MNC stated that the political for a meeting. During this meeting it was discussed that: no f action should be carried out in the U.S., but JOSE SUAREZ : . . and JUAN PULIDO were not in favor. SUAREZ stated that MNC was F planning a very important kidnaping that would produce big money. \ MNC would use eir name and would make a good money contribution \ to CORU. (Sy UE ) / \ On the following merning, after this meeting in Santo Domingo had terminated, MM 1337-S met SUAREZ by coincidence at A the airport. JOSE SUAREZ was coming via Puerto Rico in a | clandestine fashion. In running conversation between SUAREZ and MM 1337~S, SUAREZ had made a statement something to the effect that there was a "son of a bitch'"LETELIER" in Washington w) that they would have to do something about. MM 1337-S did not know anything about "LETELIER," did not give it much smportance(@) 6 SECRET SS HAS NS | Docld:32340877T Page 3
Oe ON SL Lo WFO 185-425 SECRET and at that time did not make any connection between the kidnaping planned by the MNC and LETELIER; however, MM 133 -S feels that the name mentioned was in fact "DETELIER.", 6&)(X {W) / e ~ "On March 9, 1977; Dr. RAFAEL..RIVAS. VASQUEZ, Deputy. DireetorsDISIP, advtsed that in Jane, 1976, two meetings were held in the Dominican Republic which were attended by leaders of the principal Cuban exile organizations. They had two meetings, the first one, and the larger of the two, was a political meeting to agree on a political strategy for the various exile Cuban groups. The other one, a much smaller meeting, was strictly operational and was attended by 6 people. Itsspurpose’ was to decide on terrorist activity against Cuba. ‘DISIP learned from a source that the following people attended the operational meeting: ORLANDO BOSCH, GUILLERMO NOVO, LUIS POSADA, an unidentified representative of the Brigade 2506, FRANK CASTRO and ARMANDO LOPEX ESTRADA. PROPPER volunteered that one of his sources identified ROBERTO CARBALLO, present Head of the Brigade 2506, as its representative at the meeting. “Aceording to RIVAS, a map was marked up during the meeting, showing the various divisions of responsibility. For example, POSADA's group was assigned all of South America and the Caribbean was a target of opportunity for all groups. Mr. PROPPER asked who had..been assigned North America. RIVAS said he did not B. Information Furnished by Venezuelan Intelligence Services on March 9, 1977 to AUSA EUGENE M. PROPPER ‘Know, but -that he hada copy of the-map.. PROPPER asked for a copy. of--the-map-and—REVAS agreed £0 furnish it. PROPPER™ explained that he speculated that North America may have been divided in two by a horizontal line, running across the U.S. at the level of Washington, D.C. If so, the “\ territory north of the line may have been assigned to the NOVO brothers, who worked primarily out of New Jersey (although one of them, IGNACIO, actually lives in Florida); the Brigade 2506 may, have been assigned North America south of Washington, p.c. XS) ] .. Subsequent to that meeting, said -RIVAS, POSADA's group had carried out a number of operattons. These were: bombing of the Air Panama office in Bogota (carried out by LUIS GPOSADA, HERNAN RICARDO and OLEG GUETON RODRIGUEZ); bombing of the Cuban office in Panama (RICARDO and auEton) ($) 7 SECRET | SSV WSS Docld:32340877T Page 4
O ore WFO 185-425 SECRET bombing of the Guyanan Consulate in Trinidad (RICARDO and GUETON); bombing of the BWIA facility (which also services Cubana) in Barbados (RICARDO and FREDDY LUGO); and, finally, the bombing of the Culbana airliner on October 6 (RICARDO “ and LUGO). RIVAS-- -explained that under Venezuelan law, there is no way to bring GUETON: ‘tétrial, so he is free, "walking the streets." He also said- “that during the meeting in Trinidad to decide what to do with HERNAN RICARDO and FREDDY LUGO, none of the other countries, including Cuba, wanted to try the two. In effect,-~he said, Venezuela got stuck with them. He-demurred when asked’ when the trial of .the four accused of the Cubana bombing would_take_place., Saying he was only in charge of the investigation ‘and was not following the. trial.aspects—of the-cas¢y S)' — Dr. RIVAS- ‘Said-—that ORLANDO BOSCH -f01d-DISIP that .| || ~-he was told of the bombing of the Cubana airliner before the fact (BOSCH arrived in Caracas in September, 1976, for some fund raising activities), but that he neither planned nor participated in the bombing in any way. RIVAS asserted tat: DISIP beTtreves BOSCH was more involved in the Cubana bombing than he will admit, but that he-was probably. not responsible for it. -RIVAS-does- not believe BOSCH is¢dumb enough to come to Venezuela to raise money also com- plicate things for himself by. the bombing. c%¢ Dr. -RIVAS -Said BOSCH told adm that’he believes the NOVO brothers were responsible for the Cubana bombing. BOSCH also told*°REVAS that the Cuban Exile umbrella organization, CORU, was responsible for the machinegunning in Rome of Chilean Christian Democratic leader BERNARDO LEIGHTON. ' ‘RIVAS—sa--d - that~DISIP--believes that CORU was also responsible for the attempt on the Cuban Consul's life in Merida, as well as the kidnaping (in conjunction with a right wing Argentine group called Trinchera) /¢, uban embassy clerical em- ployees in Buenos Aires. Information concerning CORU Meeting in the Dominican Republic in June, 1976, From May 13, 1977 Edition of New Times Magazine Article Entitled, "I Am Going to Declare War" By BLAKE FLEETWOOD . FLEETWOOD ' S article is a result of a four-hour interview of ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA, who was at the time of the interview incarcerated in Caracas, Venezuela, for his role in the October, 1976, bombing by anti- CASTRO exiles of a Cubana airliner plane, which cost the lives of some 73 people. The interview contained the following information // 8 _ SECRET YN ; ce dhS oo Docld: 32340877 Page 5
a _ j ~ | 7 5 . | WFO 185-425 SECRET regarding the June, 1976, m tng in the Dominican Republic by anti-CASTRO Cuban exiles ty, BOSCH's plotting culminated in a secret meeting of the top terrorist leaders of the hemisphere in the Dominican Republic. "The story of CORU (Coordination of the United Revolutionary Organizations) is true," he told me. "There was a meeting in the Bonao mountains of 20 men representing all different (Cuban exile) activist organizations. It was a meeting of all the military and political directors with revolutionary implications. It was a great meeting. Everything was planned there." (“y The top men from Alpha 66 (New Jersey), Abdalah (a New York-based youth group),. the 2506 Brigade (veterans of the Bay 6f Pigs invasion), FLNC, F14 (New York City) and Accion Cubana (a group BOSCH headed) met for two days in the Bonao mountains in early June, 1976. They decided to band together under an umbrella organization, CORU with BOSCH as the only identified spokesman and render. [H,) "At last we had all the Cuban revolutionary fighters and leaders together after 17 years. We decided to upscale the action after that. We wanted to beat the guy (CASTRO) or at least make his life impossible. I told them that we couldn't just keep bombing an embassy here and a police station there. We had to start taking more serious actions-~hijacking." (According to a Cuban exile newspaper, one of the resolutions that came out of that meeting. was a vow "to begin attacking CASTRO's planes in the air.") i "I accepted the leadership of CORU because I wanted to set everything up on an organized basis. We were tired of being frustrated and not accomplishing everything that we wanted to do." BOSCH brought the other leaders up-to-date . on the kind of help they could expect in Nicaragua, the ~ Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Chile. Then the group dispersed. In the 11 months Since that meeting, BOSCH boasts, CORU has been responsible for over 50 bombings in Miami, New York, Venezuela, Panama, Mexico, and Argentina. (BOSCH refused to admit any personal involvement in bombings within the United States; police sources Say the leaders had agreed not to take credit for actions within the.U. . because the FBI was putting too much heat on trem.) Cy ) / D. Information Furnished By RICARDO MORALES © NAVARRETE, Official of the Venezuelan Intelligence | Services (DISIP) MG : ‘ SL AG, On May 9, 1977, RICARDO MORALES NAVARRETE advised Sp.;,\- that a(DISIP official | LUIS POSADA, attended one of the CORU( (5) 9 SECRET Docld:32340877T Page 6