Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 19927 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: 5/21/201 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-90102-10171 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: CR 105-89680-37 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: HQ TO: MM TITLE: DATE: 09/17/1974 “PAGES: 9 SUBJECTS : MAX LESNICK DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: _ Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1A; 1B CURRENT STATUS: —Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 08/12/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA COMMENTS : AT, INC MEMO rr rr pe v9.1 Docld: 323325274 Page 1
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 19927 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14- 2017 a _ Sun! - — ‘ . Airtel SECHET/SENSTTIVE, UAE WARNING mam. | 0/17/74 a 1 = Mr. W, A. Branigan 1 ~ Foreign Liaison Unit Ree 3 fale 1 - Mr. R, J, Ivey ar _* i- Me ch ‘. Aas ca - eee ~ RH s EQT ON 10 = Oe A RELL 0 7 8 URMATION . { VEL tO See odo on iN lif Ge MENT. ever £  Jeman exme sorrvirtnsY) Foe Benckers K iahs.g $tD]KSE B-6-9% GFL) 7 Clagsif£ied "“secret/senmmitive, Yarning Rotice, Sensitive Cnet igence Sources and Bethods Involved" because it contains information so classified by Crh CRY U () ReButel to CIA 7/11/74. Attached for each office is copy of CIA letter dated 9/9/74 in the captioned matter. in view of the markings placed on the CIA informtion, it cannot be Gatu A) ere rem pe 2, cies sunfeet Omnolonure) beck. tet aio a aerer Con a Ft i WARNING conc | xy Assoc. Dir. Dep. AD Adm, — Dep. AD Inv. —__ Asst. Dir: Admin. . Comp. Syst, —— “ . Ext. Affoirs —_ ‘ ! VHN ° enj Files & Com. (9) ' Gen. Inv. Ident. ________— i te Inspection iL i Intell. 2 i | a Laboratory a . SEH NOTE PAGE THREE Plan. & Ev al, Legal Coun. _. " , | mb; 4 fe SECRET: 3 | Docld: 32332524  BaGQoy a TELETYPE UNIT —
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 | pak CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY .@= oo] gop “ ~ ho eal WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 S$ itis ra FOr ree el Chex 6a leet " wa, S97. . (9A. 9 25 e""WARNING NOTICE . / SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED / TO : Director a | Federal Bureau of Investigation regs = ATTENTION : Intelligence Division _» SUBJECT : €ravel to Florida of an agent for the Soviets \ “in Bogota to report on Cuban Exile Activities / — tare cari. — BO AE ra ee p “ -l. Reference is made to our CIR-316/00990-74 dated 17 (KY April 1974 and to your reply of 11 July 1974. G / 2. {Carlos Miguel KASSEL (aIso known as GACEL) Castro J) was in Miami, Florida from 11 August to 29 August 1974, _ 3S eassen S natural cover for his stay in Miami and 2 ‘y | contacts with Cuban exiles was that of "Asistente Internacional" / . to the Union de Trabajadores de Colombia (UTC) and "Jefe de Redaccion" of "Justicia Social" published by the UTC in Bogota. Since the fae is sympathetic to and supports some Cuban exile. group >{ KASSEL feels his visit to and expenses in Miami can be fully justified within the context of his * ; /, é / ee of . . functions as a UTC official. { a i f 4. The following were/ KASSEL 's Main contacts in the » Miami area: A. Ignacio LEDON Iglesias, former Miami area committee Secretary for Propaganda of the Partido Revolu- cionario del Pueblo (PRP), left-winger, friend of Mario f RIVADULLA (see belawistl. 7 ips &) IN B. Mario RIVADULLA, PRP official and radio P COMA RIE scmscees < ality in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. RIVADULLA arrived in Miami from Santo Domingo on 14 August. pos ° ° 6 SEIS toe Re, ee ~  CIRA-0500-74 . Classified by 061393. Exempt from General Declassification ° . Schedule of .EO. 11652 Exemption Category 5B(2). Impossible A to determine date of automatic declassification. a jee yas aren tee Wes “re SECRET gS 20 1974 i“) UNRECORDED COPY FILED Docld: 323325274 Page 5
7 Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hotty. : 11-14-2017 . SECRET SENSITIVE WARNING NOTICE SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED ae aoe C. Ramiro de LA FE, brother of Ernesto de LA FE who had been recently released from jail in Cuba. D. Rolando?WhSFERRER, Editor of "Libertad." \ E. Alberte¢ {Az-Masvidal, Editor of "Miami Extra." F. wax deESnrK, Editor of "Replica." G. Vicente-RUBIERA, leader of Telephone Workers Trade Union in Miami.f jf, H. SantiagoXRE “Pernas, former Cuban Minister of | Interior. : . ,aa ; I. Alberto def RIO Chaviano, former Brig. General \ in the Cuban Army. Z 5. Following are highlights of (KASSEL]® report for our representative who met him in Miami: A. The Partido Revolucionario del Pueblo (PRP) has ceased to exist for all practical purposes. According to Ignacio LEDON, responsibility for the disintegration of the PRP falls on its leader Antonio SANTIAGO, whom {KASSEL describes as a "farsante. B. Mario RIVADULLA, a member of the PRP Executive Committee who now lives in Santo Domingo, told ]KASSEL it is impossible to organize a political movement in“eXile which would be capable of influencing in any way the develop- ment of events in Cuba. RIVADULLA now believes that there is no alternative but to await a spontaneous change of © events in Cuba and a possible overthrow or assassination of Castro by the military. Cc. (Kassetht tended a meeting of about 15 persons on 16 August presided over by Rolando MASFERRER, Director of the weekly "Libertad." MASFERRER told the participants that they should begin firing practice on a Florida farm to prepare themselves for action against Cuba before November, because he (MASFERRER) is sure that Castro will be overthrown by that time. MASFERRER pointed out that U.S. Security and Docld: 323325274 Page 6
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote; DATE: 11714-2017 | SEoRey SENSTWVE WARNING NOTICE | SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED Intelligence Services are aware of his plans and that he has no difficulty in their implementation. Participants at the meeting were then asked to contribute funds for the urchase of weapons; the total cash raised exceeded $1,000.00. ( SIKASSEL| commented that it is his impression that the funds raised were intended for MASFERRER's personal use rather than the purchase of weapons. & D. [KASSE iscussed with Ramiro de LA FE the possibility of founding a conspiratorial and secret political movement to create a mechanism of penetrating Cuba for the purpose of contributing to conditions which would result in a military coup against Castro. The movement would be headed "in absentia" by Ernesto de,/fA FE, who had been released from prison in Cuba two months ago. The decision | to launch this movement was made on 25 August in the apart- ment of iro de LA FE. resent at that time, in addition to [KASSE And Ramiro de-xh Fe, were ArmandgMEDINA, Manuel -CAVEDAS and Miguel A.~ZERQUEIRA (Cubans) and Juan LOPEZ (naturalized American). The new movement was named*Movimiento Independente.Radical. de Cuba (MIRC) and Ramiro de LA FE po waS named its temporary leader until such time as Ernesto de LA FE can leave Cuba. The MIRC will seek contact with Cuban armed forces to launch a coup against Castro and it will also seek contact with anti-Communist groups in Brazil and with the government of Chile. Rami de LA FE claimed already to have contact with Patricia*BERDUGO, a Chilean supposedly working for the Chilean Intelligence Service in Miami. During the meeting, Armando MEDINA said that he had once worked for CIA and that he participated in an attack on a Spanish merchant vessel which was mistaken for the Sierra Maestra of the Cuban Merchant Fleet. (KASSEL (s) was namedf{the Editor of the MIRC Manifest hich will be published in the Latin American press on October. em neers E. cassEttRet with Alberto DIAZ Masvidal, Editor- in-Chief of "Miami Extra," and offered his services as an unpaid contributor of articles from Bogota. The offer was accepted. Docld: 323325274 Page ?F
f Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records C i . ollection Act of 1992 | pare, Lea-2017 ; {44 USC 27107 Hote; WARNING NOTICE SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED 6. [KASSEL's draft report to his Soviet contact in Bogota is a single-spaced nine-page paper entitled "Composicion Politica de la Emigracion Cubana en Miami, Florida." It covers those groups with which KASSEL has become most familiar: the PRP, the MIRC, Alfa 66, and several other minor groups. Following are highlights of that report {(S) A. [in response to a specific requirement from KASSEL's Soviet contact to determine if U.S. Government agencies, including specifically the CIA, support any of these groups, KASSEL makes emphatically clear in his report that none of the exile groups have the support of the U.S. Government, although some groups falsely claim to have such support. He points out that the U.S. Government not only ignores the political exiles, but places high priority on its relations with the USSR and is "disposed" to lift the blockade of Cuba and reestablish relations with Havana. In connection with the latter point, KASSEL reports on his interview with Dr. Alberto DIAZ Masvidal, Director of the Spanish edition of Miami Herald, who told KASSEL that reestablishment of U.S. - Cuban relations is now imminent ]6) B. garding on-island operations of Cuban exile groups, {KASSEL oncludes that none of them have any operational contacts in Cuba. [ee te C.\jRegarding terrorism, [KASSE reports that Dr. Orlando<poscH, a fugitive from the U.S. who now aves in Venezuela under an assumed identity, and Antonio VECIANA, a founding member of the PRP who is now in prison, have a plan of attack against Cuban embassies and consulates and against Soviet Bloc missions in Latin America, to be put into effect when Venezuela, Costa Rica, and other unidentified countries reestablish relations with Cuba. He also singles | out Jose de Jesus<QINQAUMA, a Cuban political gangster who — last year planned an attack against a Soviet family in Venezuela, and the Frente Unido de Liberacion, which was formed this month “in Miami and which announced the launching of a terrorist campaign against Cuban and Soviet Bloc diplomatic installations in the entire Western Hemisphere. eae orem Docld: 323325274 Page &