AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-10213-10419 ~ RECORD SERIES: HO AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 2-2173-188 ~ DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: LEG. CAR TO: DIRECTOR. FBI TITLE: DATE: 11/04/1976 PAGES: 5 SUBJECT: DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Secret CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: 05/14/1998 STATUS Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (1\(C) . JFK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: Docld: 322946453 Page 1 NEW CLASSIFICATION: UPDATE DATE:
i t yr 4y ey 2 ° b - ‘ ‘as oe , . . °, IX | Assoc. Dir. oo 8S C) KS é . ° C ; H Dep.-A.D.-Adm...... are ~ FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESIiUAIION * : ated +f Dep-A.D-Lw. H Asst. Dir.: COMMUNICATIONS SECTION \ anh lyovae ap) Me oaceETYeE Labora ,eo4 “y va ‘prc LAS iBIED 8 Oh tg tle Pien & “Insp. - © B41932Z NOY 76 CL, kv Laie ae Ree. stem | - ee ~ Spec. Inv. f “ Training WH | Telephone Rm. _ j Director Sec’y __ | W/ Gen. Inv, aA Z| Ident. WW... rf Intall. err CARACAS Y (P) uiisups; BOMBING OF CUBANA AIRLINES DC=-8 NEAR . “BARBADOS, WE ST INDIES, OCTOBER §, 1976, NEUTRALITY SIRO SETTAB SO Maes MATT ERS = CUBA - WEST INDIES. (eels REBUTEL, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 4 Gale AFTER NO CONTACTS WHATSOEVER IN SEVERAL DAYS, RICARDO MORALES NAVARRETE UNEXPECTEDLY TELEPHONED LEGAT AT HIS HOME ON THE NIGHT OF NOVEMBER GN QOUYN AND EXPRESSED THE DESIRE TO.VISIT LEGAT AT HIS OFFICE gh ON THE MORNING OF wo vensee lS 76D Di 2/73 - / 4s AT APPROXIMATELY 1@ AM ON NOVE 19-76, cee Bart MORALES TELEPHONED LEGAT AND SAID HE WAS NOT ABLE TO LEAVE THE PLACE WHERE HE WAS AND THAT HE WOULD NOT BE LL NOV 9 WS ABLE TO SEE LEGAT IN HIS OFFICE AS HE HAD HOPED. HE SAID HE WAS “GOING ACROSS THE BORDER” AND ASKED LEGAT AG 7 oh TO JOT DOWN HIS MOTHER °S TELEPHONE NUMBER IN MIAMI ! a END PAGE ONE | pe cv! TS, 605, CP &y va 1 OTE. 355, MAME SEURET ifs (1 PL Docld: 3227946453 Page 2?
PAGE TWO CAR (2-9) S ENC RET (261-8269) RPT (261-8269) THROUGH WHOM LEGAT COULD CONTACT HIM IF HE (MORALES) SHOULD MANAGE “TO GET BACK.” MORALES SAID HE WISHED HE COULD DIVULGE SOME INFORMATION TO, LEGAT FOR HE HAD A LOT TOTELL, BUT THAT IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE AT THIS TIME. HE ASKED LEGAT TO.NOTE THE NAME OF ONE PERSON WHO WAS “BEHIND EVERYTHING,” AND HE THEN UTTERED THE NAME, ~memperto .*(4)(U [ REMBERTO.UZCATEGUI WAS DIRECTOR OF THE DIRECTORATE Cs J OF INTELLIGENCE AND PREVENTIVE SERVICES (DISIP) | DURING: THE PERIOD THAT LUIS. POSADA CARRILES WAS UFILIATED W ITH THAT ORGANIZATION, AND LEGAT IS CERTAIN uz caTEaut | CS_) IS THE INDIVIDUAL MORALES INTENDED TO INDICATE. WHAT MORALES MEANT BY HIS CRYPTIC COMMENT THAT SAID INDI- VIDUAL WAS "BEHIND EVERYTHING” IS NOT KNOWN, HOWEVER. MORALES SAID NOTHING MORE AND TERMINATED THE TELEPHONE conversation. (Q(«! IT IS BELIEVED MORALES WAS IN CARACAS AT THE TIME HE PLACED THE TELEPHONE CALLS, BUT LEGAT HAS LEARNED FROM A SOURCE THAT MORALES HAD BEEN SPIRITED TO. MARACAIBO, VENEZUELA, BY DISIP OFFICIALS SHORTLY AFTER HY 4 An END PAGE TwO. Docld: 322946453 Page 3
| : uf PAGE THREE CAR (2-9) SE & RET iy MORALES® MUCH PUBLICIZED ALTERCATION AT THE CARACAS | AIRPORT WITH THREE AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ON OCTOBER 21, 76K | LEGAT BEL IEVES MORALES IS NOW BEING SENT OUT OF THE COUNTRY BY VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, | PROBABLY BY AUTOMOBILE TO COLOMBIMUAND THAT MORALES | WILL SUBSEQUENTLY ATTEMPT TO RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES FROM THERE. AFTER THE AIRPORT ALTERCATION, THE VENEZUELAN | KINISTRY OF INTERIOR NOT ONLY PUBLICLY DENIES THAT MORALES | WAS AFFILIATED WITH DISIP BUT DISCLAIMED ANY KNOWLEDGE OF HIM, SO IT FOLLOWS THAT THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT WOULD WISH TO. | GET MORALES OUT OF THE WAY IN ORDER TO AVOID ANY FURTHER | eusarrassnent. (% | ON NOVEMBER 2, 1976, SUB-COMISARIO CARLOS FABBRI, HEAD, |: EXPLOSIVES SECTION, DISIP, VISITED THE LEGAT OFFICE AND EXPRESSED TO.LEGAT HIS INDIGNATION AT HAVING; BEEN SUMMONED TO DISIP HEADQUARTERS AT 2 AM ON NOVEMBER 1, 1976, AND SUBJECTED | TO AN INTENSIVE INTERROGATION BY ORLANDO GARCIA VASQUEZ, : MINISTER COUNPELLOR ATTACHED TO DISIP AND DE FACTO HEAD, (yu! END PAGE THREE | - an SEGRE T Po S271 Docld: 322946435 Page 4
Se oe ob ° : aa s & o . } © ° 7 - : : ° ° PAGE FOUR CAR (2-9) SENG R ET REGARDING HIS KNOWLEDGE ‘OF THE BOMB OR BOMBS USED IN THE SABOTAGE OF THE CUBANA AIRLINES PLANE ON OCTOBER 6, 1976. FABBRI SAID PRESENT AT THE INTERROGATION WERE RAFAEL RIVAS VASQUEZ, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF DISIP, AND THREE OTHER UNKNOWN PERSONS WHOM FABBRI DESCRIBED AS CUBANS. HE SAID HE WAS ACCUSED OF HAVING | FURNISHED HERMES ROJAS PERALTA WITH A PENCIL DETONATOR AND THAT HE CATEGORICALLY DENIED IT. FABBRI STATED HE READILY ADMITT ED ACQUAINTANCE WITH ROJAS, WHO.UP TO.TWO. YEARS AGO HAD WORKED WITH HIM IN DISIP. HE SAID HE HAD FURNISHED NO. BOMB MATERIALS WHATSOEVER TO ANYONE. FABBRI RELATED THAT GARCIA WAS FINALLY CONVINCED THAT FABBRI HAD HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BOMBING: INCIDENT AND THAT THE MEETING ENDED AMICABLY. FABBRI DID NOT CONCEAL THAT HE WAS STILL UPSET BY THE INTERROGATION, HOWE VER (9 iy IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE MIAMI OFFICE REMAIN ALERT TO THE POSSIBLE RETURN OF RICARDO MORALES NAVARRETE TO THE MIAMI AREA IN THE NEAR FUTURE. LEGAT BELIEVES MORALES COULD SHED CONSIDERABLE LIGHT ON NOT ONLY THE renpetrarons COBY (I END PAGE FOUR 9093-148 Docld: 322946435 Page 5
PAGE FIVE CAR (2-9) SE CNR E T OF THE CUBANA AIRLINES CRASH BUT ALSO WHETHER OR NOT ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA WAS INVOLVED IN THE ORLANDO LETELIER ASSASSINATION, WHILE MORALES MAY HAVE BEEN CONSTRAINED FROM DIVULGING FULL INFORMATION WHEN HE WAS PHYSICALLY IN VENEZUELA, IT IS BELIEVED THAT IF HE SHOULD RETURN TO.THE UNITED STATES HE WILL BE READY, AND WILLING TO.DISCLOSE ALL HE KNOWS. ¥ (i 3 lis wy a 223 Wares ee ae S aint Be Fed oe ees ee Ee ey ” SONY fue, ON RYO Pe A YOMIFZAIV YU E28 -B- Docld: 322946453 Page 6