Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, WMFO
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 12/3/76
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10221-10284

RECORD SERIES: HO

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 185-789-595

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SAC. WMFO

TO: DIRECTOR. FBI

TITLE:

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

DATE: 12/03/1976

PAGES: 16

SUBJECT:

OBA, ASSOC, INTV, SOTO, SAGRARIO PEREZ, BKG, POLIT ACT, DEATH,

LETELIER, ORLANDO, TRA, REL

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

08/17/1998

Redact

UPDATE DATE:

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (1)(B)

JFK Act 6 (1)(C)

COMMENTS:

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PÁGE ELEVEN ME 185-

SECRÊT

•08.

LEGAI,

CARACAS MAS ADVISED THATÉRICARDO MORALES CU

NAVARDETE

N ESTABLISHED SOURCE, STATED THAT ORLANDO BOSCH

AVILA, OM SEPTEMBER 22, THE DAY AFTER LETELIER'S DEATH, STATED

HE BELIEVED THAT THE NOVO BROTHERS. WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR

LETELIER'S DEATH AND THAT THE ACTION WAS TÄKEN IN BEHALF OF

DINA.

ON NOVEMBER 1, 1976, DADE COLNTY DETECIIVE PAUL DIAZ.

ADVISEN THAT RICARDO MORALES NAVARRETE, A VENEZUELAN INTELLIGENCE LAICU

OFFICIAL, TOLD HIM ON OCTOBER 23, 1976, THAT BOSCH MADE THE

FOLLOWING STATEMENTS FO MIM CNAVARRETED REGARDINE THE LETELIER (UJ

ASSASSINATION:

DURING FARLY 1975, GUILLERMO NOVO VISITED CHILE, AT

"VICH TIME HE ALSO VISITED ORLANDO BOSCH. NOVO, DURING

THIS TRIP TO CHILE, MADE CONTACI WITH AN ULTRA PIGHT WING

CHILEAN POLITICAL ORGANIZATION KNOWN AS "PATRIA Y LIBERTAD"

(FATHERLAND AND LIBERTY). BOSCH STATEN THAT ORLANDO, RETELIER'S

DEATH WAS THE RESULT OF AN AGREEMENI BETWEEN GUILLERMO

NOVO

AND THE PATOLA Y LIBERTAD ORGANIZATION. M(U)

chile

LEGAT, CARAÇAS, ADVISED IN A TELETYPE MOVENBER 1, 1976(8) (4)

SECREN

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PAGE TWELVE WE • 195-425 SECRET

THAT AT APPROXIMATELY JASMA AM. ON THAT DATE ICARDO MORALES LED(UJ

NAVARPETE ADVISED LEGAT THAT HE WISHED TO DIVULGE SOME

INFORMATION TO HIM BUI IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE AT THAT PARTICULAR

TIME BUT ASKED THE LEGAT TO NOTE THE NAME OF ONE PERSON WHO

HAS "BEHIND EVEPYTHING," AND THEN UTTEREO THE NAME LEREMBEPTO, J(5)

WHO THE LEGAT FELT QUITE CONFIDENT WAS, IN FACT, EME HEAD OF

THE VENEZUELAN INTELLIGENCE ORCANIZATION, PEMERTOKUZCATEGUN (4) CS?

120

THE: LEGAT, AT THAT IIME

, HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS MEANT BY THE

COMMENT THAT PEMBERTO

WAS THE INDIVIDUAL "DEHIND EVOYTHING," CHEST

BUT SUGGESTED THAT MORALES WOULD PRORABLY COME TO MIAMI AND THAT (U]

THE MIAMI OFFICE COULD, IN FACT, OBIAIN THE DETAILS DESIRED

FROM (MORALES] CAP EU

THE POSSIBILITY CLEARLY EXISTS THAT THE INFORMATION•

MONA: O CASION, TO MOTO THE MY TE ENCUS

IMFOPMATION RECEIVED BY MIAMI, FROM ANOTHER HIGHLY PLACED

SOURCE, THERERY INCPEASINE THE IMPOPTANCE OF IHE INTERVIEW

WITH ROPALES J (8) (US

WHILE

TYE MIAMI OFFICE MAS INDICATED THAT THEIR RELATIONS

MITH MORALES) HAVE BECOMS SOMERHAT STRAIMED, THERE IS COP) C4]

SECRE

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•FAGE THIRTEEN UF 185-425 C E CRET

INDICATION THAT THE LIAISON BEVEEN MOPALES AND CARACAS LECAL CUS

ATTACHE JOE LEO HAVE BEEN IMPAIRED. THE WASHINGTON FIELD

OFFICE FEELS THAT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE INTERVIEN OF (MORALES] (SCUI

CARNOT BE UNDERESTIMATED SINCE RECEIPT OF INFORMATION

FROM "WILDCAT"

AND, THERPPORLS THE BUREAU IS REGUERIED 10

ASY LEGAT

CUPICASE TO ATTRES: DO ESTADLION CONFARE MITH

MORALESS AND

ATTEMPT

MADF

(LO OETAIN DETAILS OF COMMENCE PREVIOLTLE

BY MOPALES TO LEGAI.

AND INTERVIEWED BY THE LEGAT AND BECAUSE OF THE EXTREMELY

SENSITIVE NATURE OF THE CONTACT, WASHINGION FIELD IS HOLDING

IN AREYANCE ANY CONTACT WITH THE STATE DEPAPTMENT REGARDING

THIS MATTER UNLESS. ADVISED TO THE CONTRARY BY THE BUREAU

IN COMPLIANCE WITH BUREAU INSTRUCTIONS, ASSISTANT UNITED

STATES ATTORNEY CAUSA) FUGENE M. PROPPEP, MAJOR CRIMES UNIT,

UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D.C., WAS

CONTACTED ON THE MORNING OF DECEMBER 3, 1976, AND ADVISED

IHAT THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGÁTION'S FRI'S) DESIDE

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PAGE, FOURTEEN NE 185-125 SECRET.

AFTEP THE COMPLETION OF IHE TRIAL OF OPLANDO OTERO IN FLORIDA

ON VARIOUS LOCAL BOMBING CHARGES. PROPPER STATED THAT HE

WAS INABLE TO SEF THE

NECESSITY FOR DELAY IN THE INTERVIEW

OF MORALES NAVARRETE SINCE THE INTERVIEW WOULD BE CONFINED

SOLELY TO THE FACTS IN THIS MATTER AND WOULD IN NO WAY

JEOPARDIZE THE OTHER CASE PENDING IN

LOCAL COURT. PROPPER

INQUIRED SPECIFICALLY WHETHER IME FBI WAS AWARE OF (MORALES JEAL

PRESENT WHEREABOUTS AND STATED THAT HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND

THE PELUCIANCE OF THE BUREAU TO HAVE NO CONTACT WITH HIM

UNTIL. AFTER THE

TRIAL. PROPPER WAS

TOWDVISED OF THE NATURE

OF THE FRI PELATIONSHIP WITH MORALES)

AND THE PROBLEMS THAT HAD

ARISEN IN CONNECTION WITH HIS TESTIMONY IN THE FUTURE TRIAL

REGARDING ORLANDO OTERO. HE WAS ALSO ADVISED THAT THE FRI

VAS CUPONTLY ATTEMPTING TO EFFECT AN INTERVIEW OF MORALES

I!' VENEZUEL

ELIGIT THE DESIPED INFOPMATION IN THIS

MATTER.

AUSA FROPPER ALSO ADVISED THAT WHILE THE VENEZUELAN

GOVERMENT HAD PEFUSED TO ALLOW UNITED STATES OFFICIALS TO

BI

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PAGE.

SIXTEEN UP 105=425 S EG. RE I

ROGATORY TO BE SURMITTED BEFORE CHIEF JUDGE JONES, UNITED

STATES DISTRICT COURT, WASHINGION. D.C., ON TUESDAY, DECEMPER

71. 1976, AND WACH, WASHINGTON FIELD WILL POEPARE THESE

NUFSTIONS AS PEQUESTED.

DEANEST OF THE BUREA!:

THE RUOEAU IS REQUESTED TO DISSEVINATE INFORMATION

CONTAINED IN THIS TELETYPE TO LECATS, BERN, RONN, LONDON,

PARIS, ROME, CARACAS AND RUENOS AIRES. U

THF RUREAU IS REQUESTED

TO HAVE LEGAT,

CAR ACAS

INMEDTATELY ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH

CONTACT WITH MOPALES WITH A VIEW. TOWARDS OBTAINING AMPLIFYING

DETAILS OF HIS PREVIOUS STATEMENIS TO LEGAT.

APMED AND DANGEROUS.

SLASCIPI

2 BY 2298, XeDS Tr

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