AGENCY: RECORD NUMBER: RECORD_SERIES AGENCY INFORMATION FBI 124-10221-10273 : HO AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 185-789-1525 ORIGINATOR: - FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECT: DOCUMENT TYPE: ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW_DATE: STATUS COMMENTS: — DOCUMENT INFORMATION FBI LEG. BUE DIRECTOR. FBI 08/05/1977 7 ) OBA, TRA, INTV, HERNANDEZ, ROLANDO OTERO, VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT, MEETING, LETELIER ASSA . PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified CLASSIFICATION: 08/17/1998 . UPDATE DATE: Redact . RESTRICTIONS: JEK Act 6 (4) Docld: 32340880 Page 1
' Released under. the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 USC 2107 Hotey;. 2 DATE; ,11-14-2017 ° ~ FAGE TWO een au: 157-35 oe . RICA OF LUIS ANDRES PaSCuaL ALLENDE. IT IS NOTED THaT IN INTERVIEWS WITH BUAGEATS, OTERO RECENILY DISCLOSED THAT HE WAS FROVIDED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS OF qaLLENDE AND HIS GIRLFRIEND, AND THAT ON THE BACK OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS THERE waS A BLUE CIRCULAR SKAPED STAMP WITH THE WORDS"DIRECCION INTELLIGENCIA NACIONAL ANTICOMMUN- ISTA.” HOWEVER, OTERO ALSO aDVISED THaT HE BURNED THESE PHOTOGRAPHS. IT IS NOTED THAT DINA IS AN ABBREVIATION FOR THE DIRECCION DE INTELIGENCIA NACIONAL AND IN FACT THE DINa SYMBOL IS A BLUE CIRCULAR EMBLEM SURROUNDING q SPIKED GLOVE SHAPED IW THE FORM OF A FIST. IF OTERO DID NOT DESTROY THESE PHOTOGRAPHS AND TURNED THEM OVER TO DISIP, THEY WOULD BE SEVERELY INCRIMINATING AGAINST DINA IF THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT wOULD MAKE THEM AVAILABLE. QQ . a | THE SECOND TOPIC AND PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT yOULD BE INFORMATION IN THE POSSESSION OF THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT | CONCERNING THE JUNE, 1976, CORU ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING HELD IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. AS PREVICUSLY NOTED, THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF DISIP HAD PREVIOUSLY ADVISED CaRACAS EMBASSY OFFICIALS AND AUSA FROPPER THAT DISIP HAD AN INFORMANT WHO ATTENDED THIS MEETING IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, PRESUMABLY FORMER DISIP OFFICER HO ‘ | oo | ol 5784-1505 Docld: 32340880 Page 2?
' Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hotey. _ DATE; ,11-14-2017 pe amas GUL 15 7-35 PAGE THREE, Sy POSADA. IT HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED THAT ONE OF THE POSSIBLE MOTIVES FOR THE ASSASSINATION OF LETELIER AND THE MOTIVE SUGGESTED BY DINA FOR LETELIER’ 5 ASSASSINATION, WAS REVENGE AGAINST THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT BY CUBAN EXILES FOR THE DELIVERY OF ROLANDO OTERO HERNANDEZ TO THE FBI, WHICH Was VIEWED AS A BETRAYAL OF THE: CUBAN EXILE CAUSE, WFO REPORT OF Sa Le CARTER CORNICK, JRe DATED JUNE 29, 1977, CONTAINS AN EXCELLENT REPORT ON THE JUNE, 1876, CORU ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, AS FROVIDED BY MM 1337-S. POINTS OF EXTREME INTEREST, WHICH SUGGEST — - THE POSSIBILITY THAT LETELIER’S ASSASSINATION MaY HAVE BEEN CONCEIVED AT THE JUNE, 1976, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC MEETING, WITH THE MOTIVATION OF REVENGE AGAINST THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT» ARE SUGGESTED | In PROPOSALS MADE BY JOSE DIONISIO SUAREZ AESQUIVEL THaT A MILITARY COORDINATION GROUP MADE UP OF THE MILITARY DIRECTOR OF EACH CUBAN EX ILE GROUP REPRESENTED AT- THE JUNE, 1976, DOMINICE _ MEETING BE ESTABL ISHED.» SUAREZ ESQUIVEL’S PROPOSAL Was APPROVED AND THE FIRST MEETING OF THE MILITARY COORDINATION GROUP waS TO TAKE HL ACE CN JUNE 27,. 1976, IN ELORIDALAT A LOCATION TO BE SELECTED BY ARMANDGMLOPEZYESTRADA OF THE 256 BRIGADE. CUBAN NaT1OWALT SYP) eal — 6 99°15 2° Lo 2 195° 189 [5 Docld: 32340880 Page 3
| Reepsed under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 SC 2107 DATE; .11-14-2017 - . a o (PAGE FIVE sSemeremm@d, / BUE 157-35 — O SCHILEAN GOVERNMENT MAY HVE BEEN THE MOTIVATING FaCTOR IN BOSCH'S Qo, “PROPOSAL. LATER ON AT THE JUNE, 1976, MEETING, BOSCH AVILA DISCUSSED TWO COUNTRIES WHICH WERE NOT FRIENDLY wITH’ COMMUNIST CUBA, I.E. CHILE AND COSTA RICA. HOWEVER, BOSCH STaTED THAT ACTIONS yOULD BE TAKEN AGAINST THESE COUNTRIES BECAUSE OF TREATMENT TO CUBAN EXILES BY CHILE AND COSTA RICA. BOSCH THEN SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED THAT OTERO HERNANDEZ HAD BEEN RETURNED BY CHILE TO THE UNIED STaTES. MM 1337-S COMMENTED THAT IT IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THaT BOSCK HAD BEEN JAILED IN COSTA RICA DURING FEBRUARY, 1976. LEGaT, BUENOS AIRES, NOTES THaT IF BOSCH CARRIEDOUT HIS STATEMENT OF TAKING ACTION AGAINST CHILE, THE LETELIER ASSASSINATION CERTAINLY COULD BE PLACED IN THIS CATEGORY. If 1S ALSO INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT AFTER THE LETELIER ASSASSINATION, WN ATTEMPT WAS MADE AGAINST THE LIFE OF HUBEEATATOS » al IN COST AmEEGA.%— AFTER MaTOS HAD RETURNED TO THAT COUNTRY FROM A VISIT TO GHLbE., ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WHICH THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT MIGHT BE WILLING TO FURNISH CONCERNING THE JUNE, 1976, MEETING, ESPECIALLY IN THE AREAS OUTLINED ABOVE, WOULD BE OF EXTREME VALUE. Aw) ADDITIONALLY, ALL INFORMATION IN BOSCH aVILa’s POSSESSION CONCERNING CAPTIONED MATTER aND THE JUNE, 1976, MEETING yOULD BEn} | Docld: 32340880 Page 4