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MR: 21: APPEARED

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ESTUIR!.

MARCH 191

the

Incident

by Taylor Branch and John Rothchild

How two mild-mannered reporters, on the

trail of a Washington bomber,

Clanded in Caracas and ran afoul of thc

• Venezuelan secret service, warring

Cuban terrorists, the Miami police, the State

Department, the C.I.A., the F.B.I.

and the most dangerous man alive- all

this, and their mothers didn't know

a damn thing about it

Are There Pay Phones in Caracas?

They are on the Pan Ari night fight to Caracas; three

hours

away. from at least 'a hurdred murder stories

and a lot of steaming intrigue

are-our

chances of setting through this

'alive?" asks Rothchild.

"Well, that all depends on who you talk to and how

paranoid-they are," says Branch.: "Our friends in

Washington used to be simple journalists. and policy

analysts. Now they are three-pay-phone men. That

means you can't call ther without using three pay

phones. You call them up and all they'll say is 'phone

nurber ore:" Then they so to pay phone number one

and you call them again. Then they ask you for the

number of another pay phope near yours, and they call

jou on that one."

"hat do you talk about?.

"Things like pay phones and letter bombs and wheth.

..er the Feds can be trusted. The last time I called they

told me we would be walking into four nests of known

killers: the Cuban exiles in Venezuela, the Venezuelan

secret policè, the C.I.A. and the Chilean secret police.".

"Is that true?"

it+

"Well, it's true that all those people are dorin there,

Branch says,

"but I don't think they would be after

'u3."

Rothchild does not look reassured. He does not like

the way Branch reels off the life histories of all the

C.I.A. Cubans he has known, espesially since the point

is, alvays that the situation is -too cocplicated for

words. "Tell me," Rothchild says gravely, "did you tell

your mother you sere going to Venezuesa?

Branch squirms at the cruel question. He wants to

appear as knowledgeable and confident as possibie, be

cause he has dragged Rothchild into this adventure on

less than a day's notice. "No, I didn't teil her," he.ad-

mits. "It's too complicated. But I think we'll only have

one point of danger.".

"When's the point of danger?"

"Yell, we may get into the prison and get our an-

siTers," Branch replies, "or we may get them from pra

ple in the Venezuelan goternment Ficher way, we'll

know who did the murders and who paid the killers

and what other murders they're done. That's that se

hope, anyway. If tre get that information, de'll be hot

entil we get rid of i: He'll have to phase it out of

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sueis" It is Hilda !

1, a resorter for The dirmi

Ners, slanding in the aisle, luking dosen al un Sho

is a special on latin terrorism in Miami.

"Lanks like it," sals Brinch, shruszing. Su much for

the secret trip. T'et he is inclined to trust Irelin, even

though he an! Polkchild bal me her only tha? dar.

while going thruush clips at the morgue of the Neits.

The three work out i way to mike contact in Caracas.

Frarch is emburrarsed

at being a litile reserved.

Inclin is candid, her face cheerful and open.

• Inclan leans over and whispers,

"Lisien, I think jou

should be careful. There's something strange going on.

This fight is crawling with cops and prosecutors from

Miami."

Orlando Bosch

Branch and Rothchild turn their heads in unison,

and their necks sink down into their shoulders. 'There

there and then run like bandits."

are to young Lalin inen in the back with neatly

Branch looks out the airplane window and pictures

trimmed beards, uniser hairdos and brightly colored

Orlando Letelier Iring in the middle of Massachusetts

shirts. There are sereral men in the front sho do not

Avenue, his legs blown of at the thigh, his torso put

look like ordinary passengers. Rothchild decides there

verized, detectires all around. On the curb nearby sat.

might not be any ordinary passengers:

his passenger Ronni Moritt, her eyes frozen, boiding

her throat. The bomb in Leteliers car had blown a

"What are they doing here?" Branch asks bluntly.

"Tho knows?" says Inclán. "I know these guys from

sliver of metal through Ronni Moditt's carotid artery.

Miami. They give me tips-sometimes. But now they

and she was drowning in her own blood. Her husband

aren't giving me the time of day. I don't understand

sat nearby, suffering from shock, watching his wife

them, so I'm soing to act just like they are. I don't

die. She was twenty-five. The killers were the kind of

think you should let them in on what you're up to,

people who would inachine-gun a whole crowd of people .

either."

in

a public square just to hit their mark They

• "Those cops arm Cubany, aren't they?" Branch asks.

wouldn't care about the others. Ronni lofitt could just

Inclin nods. Branch worries. Cubans on the Miami

as easily have been half the people Branch knew in

police force are a strange lot, he has heard. The cops

Washington. The next day Jerry Ford rode right over

mant to infitrate Cuban terrorist groups and drug.

the bloody spots in the rosd on his may to a reception

running organizations, but sometimes it turns out that

for the president of Liberia; he never said a word

the terrorists and drug runners are infitrating the

-about Washington's first sangland-style political 23

cops.

sassination." Unwise to taix about it, especially if the

Branch and Rothchild exchange sigas of bewilder

force behind the murders is most likely the gorern.

ment as Inclin drifts back to her seat "Jesus Christ,

ment of: Chile. The miitary junta there overthrew

Salvador

*Alleride with a big boost from the CirA,

Orlando Letolier's bomberl car, Wughington, D.C.

which is still thick as thieves ith the generala Le

telier was ambassador to the United States under Al

•lende, then foreiga affairs minister, interior minister

and defense minister. He had been jailed and tortured

by the generals after the coup, then, a jear later, de

ported, and in September of last year he was stripped

of bis citizenship.

-From the day of the murder, Branch had been pon-

dering the bomb he thought was used ön Letelier-

¡Cil, aiwhita odorless dough resembling Silly Putty

Branch: had heard many Cubans tell tales about C-4

and its predecessor, C-3. It was the GlA's favorite

substanice for sabotage in the war against Castro, and

thousands of Cubans were trained in its use. Branch

had not been surprised when evidence came out that:

-Cuban exiles might have pulled the Letelier job, but

he was surprised by tips he receired that they had also

- killed hundreds of others on a big spree in the Carib:

bean. God, there is someting big soing on, he had

thought And all his sources and his instincts told him

¡the ansiers were in Venéziels, of all places

:.:It tvas now October 21, oce morth to the day since

the Letelier murder.

So you decided to tuke a Listle trip to Caraca

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John," Branch mutterg, "I figured we'd le in for sumn

srapes, bue l never thought it sould start before we

esen sot there." Then he's all businese "I'v'a sot to

give you s quick brieling on rur maia raa thile we

hase the chance. He may nol, have as much leisure

lime a9 lve expecteil."

Branch pulls down their dinner trays and spreads out

a pile of notes and news clippings. Then be pulls out a

police mus shot. "Neet Orlando Bosch," he sief's.

Rothchild stares incredulously at a porcine Cuben

man with a thin moustache and thick lize "He looks

like the headmaster of a military school."

"I know," Branch says, "but he's a killer. He's also

a pediatrician, This whole thing's like that-yin and

John hothchild

Hilda Incián

Iazion Branch

Jang. Boston Strangler and Mad Hatter all mixed up."

- Branch eyes the mass of clippings and notes, wonder-

Aliami harbor. He sot ten years, but be vas paroled

ing where to

begin. "It would take all aight to go

-In 1972. That briags us to his international periou."

through what l've heard about Bosch, so lil get you

Branch picks up one particular clip and boids it in

up loi Letelier as quick as I can for now. The back... readiness.

"Bosch went underground two years after

ground is simple: Bosch has been a politics! terrorist

his parole and the pace of Miami bombings escalated.

ikat they call an action man-ever since the late For-

So did terrorist bombinas against. Castro's embassies

ties in Cuba. He worked for Castro, then for the CI.A.,

alt over the world, Then, in 1971, Importani Cubans

and then he denounced the C.I.A: He bag been an anti-

started getting. knocked oft in gangland-style murders.

• Castro outlaw since the mid-Sixties, alwass telling the

A lot of groups, including Bosch's, tank credit for

Miami Cubans not to trust the C.liA. in their war

them.

The word was that C.I.A. stooges were being

against Castro. Noiv most of the hard-line Cubans be-

eliminated. Bosch became a phantom. Mysterious fig-

lieve him. Bosch is the patriarch of Cuban terrorism."

ures with names like Ernesto would pop up in the Mi-

Branch pauses, then lips briskly through the clip-

ami press to speak for him. Here's a Miami does clip

pingy. "Bosch got arrested and indicted pretty regular.

from thiy period. It's headlined 'Bosch Declares War

3y all through the Sixties. He usually got of. The wit-

on Castro.' Hilda wrote it. She's the last American re-

nesses against him tended to sweat a lot and forget

porter to interview Bosch. Shortly after it came out,

things on the stand, if they even showed up In gen-

Bosch slipped out of the country."

eral, Bosch had a threefold operation: firsi, political

While Rothchild studies the clips, Branch castinues.

terror against Castro sympathizers; second, ordinary

"He got arrested in Venezuela about two Jears aga

crimes like extortion from rich people and companies

The Justice Department decided not to ask far his re-

• to finance the political terror; and third, all kinds of

turn to the United States despite all he's wanted for.

wars and feuds with his terrorist rivals. Fically, Bosch

That's weird. Then the Yenezuelans turned him 1o0se.

got nailed in 1969 for shelling a Polish freighter in

and he left' with a bunch of Chilean bodszuaris and a

big pile of money. I heard all kinds of stories about

Fosch being down in Chile with the Pinoches junta

there, bargaining. Now the stories jump to February

of last year, when Bosch got arrested in Casia Rica

right before Kissinger visited.. The rumor is that he

was plotting to assassinate Kissinger. Basch soi out

'of Costa Rica somebor, and pretty soon there traja

secret meeting in the Dominican Republic of ail the

major Cuban terrorist groups, which the Dominicans

allowed; of course. There was a negotiated trait, and

the terrorists united ünder Bosch in an umbrella group

called CORU, suppasedly with the support as several

juntas in Latin America

Now in the last month there has been the Leielier

mürder," Branch continues grimly. "The terrorists

shower that they were not afraid to kill in the Uniied,

States, right in the capital. They have ever threstened

lo kill one of the F.M.I. agents ón the Letelier case.

And his fançée. The anonymous threats show they

havo collected a lo: of intelligence about the rent's

life. Tha f.B.I. is upsel "Then, two weeks after Loielier

• was killed, terrorists blem up a Cuban plane near Rur-

bados killing errenty-three prople. Castro blama! the

C.I.J. and canceled tha date-gitjacking trealt. The

perrarlata loved it: Casero and the Armericans resting i

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mad at ruch other. Then Bnach sue ar.

•d in lene-

zuela again, along svich a suhaie bures of Cuban exiles.

Stories base-Ören sepping out in the l'enezuelan press

linking Bosch wich boih Leielies and the Cuban plane.

1 1 picard up similar stories in diami My sourers there

tell so the Cubans in jail are alma dil tom C.i. "

ten. 2.B.1. informanio and a lew relerans o! the l'en-

pauplan secret

pulice.

the DiSt?.

Some peuplo siy

DISIP has tortural the hell sut of these says, but

other people say DISiP is in bed wits their holding

them under protective custady till the heat blows over.

It's the bigrest damn mess you ever sair."

"And su're Bail." trie

i gives him a lina hand.

shaño and sumps don in his seal Hilda lasica shares

her head and walks e!t."

"Shu's Rail"" asks Kothchild.

"He's Rolando Martinge son-in-lair. One ní ide 143.

tante tess à opinia iut of dime srich him sa diami."

"W'hat's so had about that?" asts Pothohia.

"I don'e kaoir, li's juse that he probabis isary who

my. Cuban contacts are, and I don't know whai le hell

ho's up to, You see, sonic of the people iho hare been

telling me about the terrorists are right minters and

some of them are lefi-wringers. I don't care aboui any.

thing except the Latelier murder, but I thins i: rould

"You folky wouidn't mind telling me tho jou are and

That you're up to, would you?'

bo healthy for us if we could leep sha tira groups

separate. The onis say see can do that is to siry kind

Rothchild and Branch look up at the man standing

of incognito."

in the aisle. He wears a leisure suit with a fashy shirt

"You're doind great so far," Rothchild sars His

opened to his sternum, showing a lot of tan and some

mind has been wandering over the Rosch briefing

tufted chest hair. i.

2: "What makes you think se can sel into the pirisan lo

"Tail" says:Branch, "I'm not sure Whit are you

see Basch and his friends?" he asts. "And why-would

doing? We're just thinking about racetracks and Cu. ' they svant to talk to us?'.

bans and stuff like that."

"It's a long shot," Branch answers. "But Bosch is in

"Corse on now. You can tell ine," the man urges

a tough spot The Castro government wants him, and

-"'Don't tell him anything," sara Hilda Inclán from

Basch knows that would mean curtains for him. He

behind. She is laughing as if it were a game, but her

also knows that he could get killed any day is Teno

eyes signal a warning.

• Fos-in.

zuela by either his friends or his enemies. He mer fig:

Branch is way off-balance. "I'll take the fifth. Thy

•ure that his best chance to survive is to come ta the

don't tre start with jou?"

United States. What we hope is that he prunts to set

"Okaj." days the man, smiling. "I'll play it your way,

some of his story out in the American press to fores

friend.

Mly

name's George

Yoss I'm an assistant

the government to turn the screws and get him back in

state's attorney out of Sliami." He flashes an ID card.

the States. That's what I hear from some of our leao

• Branch and Rothchild can't beliere it. He seems more

zuelan contacts. I don't know if' it's true, but they are

" lite a condominium salesman who irishes he could be a

pretty high up. Yos even if ive can't talk to Baseb and

soif pro. "Is that right, Hilda?" Branch asts.

the other prisoners directly, we might get stuf indi.

"Yeah, but he's being a bad boy tonight," she re-

rectly from the Venezuelans."

pies "Tell him

to mind his own busiseis, whatever

• "What happens it all the Venezuelan contsets turo

tkat isi

-out to be flaky?"

• "Okay." says Yoss,

"I'm going to gire jou one more

"Then we'll just hare to pole around," sus Branch

chaace I know you're a journalist why don't we start

"I have a lot of names. There's only one guy i kzow

• Dich tho you work for?"

don here personally. He's a Cuban named Ricirdo

i sranch looks down and notices that his hands have

Morales. I interviewed him back in 1971, just before

beea covering up the news clippings urconsciously.:

he came lo-Y'enezuela. People in Miami tell me be's

""These gave me away, eh?" he says weakly. "I'll tell

way up high in the Diste, the secret police. I can't

¡Jói what You've gut mé a little paranoid Why don't -

knos what he's doing now, but he might be a gred

go give me the name of your hotel and Ill call sou

fallback if nothing else works out i

when me set our feet on the ground? The can talk this

÷ Rothchild is encouraged. At least Branch kions on

15 real person. "What's he like?"

zi:

"Tas don't we start with who you work for? Yous?

-'-"He's 'one of the most cynical people l've erer. me:"

persists He is still kidding, but there is an edge to it.

- Branch replies,

"but I liked him anylay. He dosa't

"Ica may need me down here. You never know. This

have any illusions about the business he's is, asd he

is a strange country and you guys could fin yourselves makes fun of all the people who do Ricarday an old

: on the next pläne out. I'll give you one more chanée."

operator, even though he's only in his late thirties to

"I think i'll lay low for the moment"" Branch says:

ivorked for Castro's secret police. Then he worked far

Joes makes a few more thrusts, then saurters" off.

the C.l.A. ns an explosives expert. He fought for the

•"Mayta I' was too set on getting into the country on

Agency in the Congo in the mid-Sixties, and Rhea de

the si. " Bränch says.

"That sure didn't work out This cané an F.B.l: informant. He's the guy sha 508 Busch

Aiset's liko a soddamn convention! Tell

ice:

Miliar

convicted in: 1964. "Small world, isn't it? llo gurfared

'ono of the Cuban cops is named Paúl Diai, I hopo?

" In court with eversthing on lape, Then all hell broke

::That's Diaz right behind you, " she replies.

Morales' car was Blown up. He survired bu!

"Oh shit!" says Branch. lle turns slowly ia his seat

blamed Rosch for. trying lo kill him. Morales himself

and fads himsel!

staring

at one of lno babdomo

His indicteil for trutelegree murder, but he sos off.

He's a survivor ilittero ever was ane."

"You must be Taylor Branch," Rail Dies says With

"So he must halo disch, ther," says Rothchild.

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sounds

Dark and loren siom ors scam to thr

lido isnach and Storalre have erral hard

otha?.

enough to kill each niher." Hiranch hasi.

In about ten minules,

Turtlent 'is ro

cates ant then deciler mal to tell Kurtro

turny aral harls pach of the reportors a

child chas sume uf the old r.l..d.

Cutans

in Meami

believo

Lurch And

Morales

ritacion-m triphcate. Rothchuld, trans

hava putcher chines up, Isranch does not

lating

for

Branch, doesn't sereinber

the local debnition of the mord

Deliere it and de soull make things tou

enariel. "I'e amazire that the lunerue

ciún.

cilia.

Ile does,

however,

word farther down in

the docurrent

lans would have a suy like Morales hich

di:rel. Carrel means jail The regurters

up in their security apparalus," ho says

being summoned

siiend

absentnindallyang mean lin's a Cuban,

dred ol mering on a sinister soundne

some

•dirical explanation la that sume

one on die piano

draped alt lho firné

zurlaria. But 14,°

Hiranch thristes around in his spi

tiurld for ansupra.

dothing serms

1o

he, The three of them throrize all the

Pay to

ti.e

hotel, aid they can

only

settic, lilo dieranies Maig, on a sinis-

lor forre.

tranch is still sure that the

summons mil be

lifired as soon.as he

can

talk

8e tis

friendly

contacts In

Venezuela. Hothchild diceps looking out

the trindow for a tail.

and ho has worked fur Castro, the C.lo..,

room, D-034, in a building somewhera

A Visil to a Small Hotel

and the F.B8.1.,

and he's

unloran e!

In Caracas at nine am: the following

The taxi drops theni orf it the Anauco

candland-typo warfare, It's like linding

disy. The leiterhead belungs to DISIP.

Hilton, whero Inclin is staying. Branch

a liese Cierman high up in the Cil.A. and

Turtleneck keeps saying il is all rou-

offera to carry Inclin's baxs. The lobby,

then discovering that he has also torked

Lind just sign the cilacion and every.

ainazingly,

for tho KGB and the Shah of frai, But

is

fllord

trith

the

same

baly can get a good night's sleep. While

DISIP lu.kers; they Lavo managed to

from what i hear, that's a protis com.

mon background

have

dosen

Rothchild strugzles to understand the

move their

whoie seno intack.

They

here.

fine print, Inclin tells him she thinks it

ure, leaning axainst walls and sitting

•Thoro sro Cubans all over Lalin Amer-

ica."

might be a mistake to acknowledge the

un the

rouches.

Branch louks toward

summons. It mizht conceivably be con-

the elevator in timo to seo the Aliami

Branch begins packing up the newe

strued as in admission of something,

allorneys and cops scurrying to get in

clips.

"I'm paranoid as hell donut this

and the reporters don't know wha? it is

side, franticalls pushing bullons to get

plane."" ho says.

"Ive're supponast to get

• for. Incián devides to try an offensive

the door to close.

They

are as jittery

s'call at the hotel around midnight.

to set information.

She whips out her

about seeing

the reporters as the ro

That sives us an bour to kot through

notebook

as if to surito a trafic ticket

are aboat seeing. the

Venezue

customs

and get settled. 'I want to

hustlo airy from'these guys and mako

Be aaks T elenack what his name iso

porters

doesn't

AnsIver.

lan goons. And the

must jittery of 'all.

She reprats

in the middle of the

rator,

is Ricar-

suro we're on time."

question and finally he mumbles,

pector Romula."

"In-

do Morales himself. Morales

is staring

it the ceiling, irfing to avoid eye con-

1 Greeting from Rómulo

'That's all there is to it?"

and Branch has

tho

feeling

Rothchild and Inclán notico

a huddle

"Yeah Just Rúmulo."

tact,

Morales

that

is scared.

It is the first

time

of shady Ave-footers lurking In a dark

"Who ordered you to do this?"

ho

has

fear on

corner

besido

the

airport

entrance.

"I don't know, I can't say, It'a just a

the

fice

of

this

hardener

veteran of

Congo

wars

and

They must be a Venezuelan bur group,

Rothchild thinks, waiting for a burkain

procelure."

"Why is this happening to us?"

Castro

plots

8.2d

murders.

Seeing

Right out of the country. I'm not suing

"It is so because it is so."

Moraley scared

rankos Branch scared.

le warn Inclin not to go anywhere or

to get parsnoid about-everything l see.

Inclán writer that down.

do anything-just to call him when he

But the group stares

at the pasgen-

Branch, whose

rudimentary knowl

arrives at his hotel, the Avila.

gers; their suits blend so well into the

edge of Spanish often led him to offend

in &

is going

shadows that all you see are their mir-

sunglasses.

like

dis

the Cuban community in Miami-there

Back

taxi

Branch

through another run of Cuban polities.

They look

he

would mean to say

"ihat a stand

"I don't linolo, John," he says.

"Maybe

play uf Foster, Grants at the

back of

redding this is" and end up sayinz

Morales is behind all this, but I can't

an unlighted urugstore.

They stop losking

only whan

the

"what tremendous tits you

save"-is

•figure out why he's doing it. He sure

getting a

headache trying to keep up

looker as if he's in trouble. He could

- Miami

assistant state's attornoja

and

with

the

"Isn't

there

the

samo ontg

who

have

been

conversation.

have been making some secret deal with

Tho speaks

Enslish here?"

those cops.

Something ho knows about

bugging Branch on the plane, so

somebody

over

he keeps asking.

and sive some of the men in the shad-

"That's

one

of

those

bombiags

in

Miami.

all'right," says

Rothchild.

ows

warm,

Latin'

embraces.

Inclan

Morales might not knoir that se ivere

"The guy isn't saying a damn thing in

on

the fight by airident ile. night

thinks it is a meeting betireen the sli-

Spanish, e

and

ither." Inclan agrees.

think tre were tailing the cops.?"

•ami. Jaw-enforcement

contirisent

reporters gel

the

Venezuelan ' secret

polico.

She

keep reling a det evasive Romice

Rothchild is trying not to listen. The

catches up in the line and says sha has

Kreps

only sure contact he thought

Branch

cracking his knuckles

pacing

had has suddenly turned into n poten-

recognized one of the people in tho po

back and forth detween rooms,

thrust

lial

enemy.

Rothchild is petrihed by

lice -huddle

Ricardo

Moráles,

ths

ing pens into the reporters' harids like

the thought that Branch das gotten in

mysterious Cuban pho is supposed lo

a door-to-door salesman pushing maga

over his head. "I think ine are in more

be

Branch's fallback contact in. Cara

zine subscriptions

asks

сR9.

, Branch is stunned. First he is read-

they

him it

trouble," he says

"Look behird you."

will so

jail for not signing

This time there is a

tail The other

ing

clips about Cubans and

cops,; and

Romulo says,

won't ko to 1a1l

car is right

their

buinper as

they

•the Cubans and cops start fingering

• for that, and I don't caro what sou do.

him on the airplane. Now Morale».

orders

hand you

"They aren't even pretending not to be

"Give me your papers

and

follow

My

were

to

this

ci

wind up the back streets of

Caracas.

mo!" ¡ voico booms suddenly. It ba

la eon, ind that I have done. The rest

following,"

Pothchild says.

don't

is entirely. up to you"

think that's a good sign."

longs to a man in a turtleneck sweater

Inclin decides to accept the summons

•and leather jacket A funky moves next

but not to sign is, baser on Rómulós

Branch, overhelmed, keeps looking

at the car behind them.

sjou

to each reporter in the line, Thero la

assertion

that 'it rémains in. force no

he says trith a smile,

"this is

know,

the first

nothing to do but hand over the pais

matter what. Branch and Rothchild ge

time

'I've erer been Railal."

Roihchik!

ports and lollow.

along after a briel huddle. Rómulo is

freis as if he is being crankel through

Turtlenock and his garis herd the ra

definitely peered.

Ho hands. each

of

the roller of Graham Grrend's

ortors into a spacial room al the vac

them a summons in an envelope and

of the airport. He dispopcars into ar

tells them lo leave.

writer.

They reach the Mofel Avila, a Casa

other office, lerving them alone mith an

"I don't undersiand how they picked

blanca-typo place at the cop ol a hill.

oll man spatel behind a desk. T'hero

us out,"

Bays Inclin la the cab.

"Es

It reems deserind unil Kothchild looks

• Is furious ty pins coming from tha adja

pocially you,

John.

You're

not exen

duum from-a balcony near their room.

one soors into

which

Turtienerk has

cuming 2s

a resorter.

They couldn't

There aro propio pulling into the drime

lisappeard. Ills dunkies keep running. •haro suiten us oil our dacuments." The

way

in smail cars and toey have

басітида

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14-00000

alains and

rem in the lobby at all tines. leclin

They

of their plain dartinuita

srides she will sleep an a rusch in tho

themselies

around

the

Inblis.

and

she

wonders if she should

hoirl ratrance and oven in the forter

pist

on her rightzrun fu: the feans.

bra! a.

They haro the plino surroundal.

Sho

sets

her baji

beanle

Therp hava

then

one rouch,

no phone calls-or

and the lelihop

dierts hes urer lo

at least that is the morel from the dark.

Si:lo: 0.d trill a gracious Aouriah: «e

Branch

p-1C49

nervnusly around

the

could hare bren

opening the

190,71.

He thinss that sumething ho al-

she redding suite.

ready hauiry about

C.I.A.

Cubans

and

terrorisme must

ho

the

key 8u

what's

After sa nly scourine the lubby for

phones, the reporter aires that

happening.

,but he dopsn't know what it

hey hive to make a more lor the rooni

teiis orarything

he knong to

so they

ran

talk near a phone.

The

Roinchild,

doing

ell

the

back

three make their sray up the stairs like

th.oush trio and tho pre-castro stu.

deat

movement

Rothchild

thinks

Grant

tipturing

betsreen

rooms. To etip vitt, never beg

Branch has lost his mint.

It is fear, ho

Inclan.

fgurpa

Branch realises that Nothchild

Branch offers Inclan his bed, saying

is lying down on the bed pretending not

he will sieep on the floor. Rothchild

to bo arrate,

that ho has fallen into a

doesn't say

anything.

but lis paranoin

stupor. It is fear, Branch figures.

tells him it is foolish to give the Vene

quelans a chance to arrest them under

Then a call comes through, but it is not

the pretest of immoral conduct.

the contaci Branch alruite

Itits Inclin,

Roth.

child keeps

opening the door because

who has bren denied a room at the

Hil-

o? his paranoia; Branch keeps closing

- lan (even though sho had

• it because of his. He doesn't want to be

tion)

and-she can't reuch anyboily at

listene in on. Branch and Rothchild

tho

U.S.

Embassy. She wonders

tho

what

are not communicating much with each

hell is going on.

Branch tells her

the situativa

at the

cides

Avils,

other by

now.

Each is worried

that

bụt sho de

whatever he says the other nill think it

come over;

there are. lots of

is crazy.

and at

least-the reporters can

Incián tries to phone her editor in

show some solidarity.

Miami, but it becomes clear after about

It Enkes & long timo, too long, for

an hour of excuses that the desk clerk

Inclin

to show

up.

Branch wanders

isn't

going to put through her call.

downstairs:

Rothchilt

Traits

phone for calla that never

by

the

Local lines still seem to be available,

come.

is an uproar at the desk.

The

There

but whom to call? Branch has his list

clerk is

of connections, but these people are in

telling Inciän there aro no rooms avail-

their

owvn

delicate

situations

and

able even

though the bank of keys is

Branch doesn't went to blui their cov-

behind him in full view. He holds shat

ers by calling it four a.m.

on what is

position for

about five minutrs;

then certainly a tapped line. Inclin can't get

retreats to "there is some prüblem with

an answer at the U.S. Embassy. Roth:

JOU

people. I'can't, sivo you

Tle.

scared.

roum."

child has nobody to call, and that is one

Everyborty, seenis.

•of his problems

Since

he is

scared.

Denying &

SO

un-

wonian a toora

at

connected

with

the

story, he is sure

thres aim

in

Venezuela

is

that the

police

will figure he is

the

violstion

of the chivalrie

cade.

The

heasy-a deep-cover C.I.A.

, man out of

three reporters talk. aboud it, but they

• retirement from the Ererslades.

can't sit down or move around without

being

By

elimination,

the reporters

can

followed,

cops.

There

almost

mimicked, by

- think of only one person in Venezuela

at least

six

of

that they could contact.

Inclán has

by was here?

ZIECCES

fife

d out, frash her

visit to tho

A:

shat

Avo?

Piranlo

Moraleo is atnying un and she thirts

sin knows mial his ruin number is.

Her plan is lu call him directly, It is

clearly

de-seration

Incla!s

rings up Moraler at.dre Anauco Milor.

apologies for she tour and bering lo

rapinin her preiranent. Lut it is clear

things are nut juinz

well. Morales ap

parently is denging that da is diorates.

"You aren't Rira.do

'sales?" Inclin

asks incredulously.

"'us knoss me and

I know you.

I laired lo your nepher

In Miami gesterday. His family is fino

and lis sends his rearmest ergards."

There is a pause ari, lacian begins

to sound lio is panelis: on Whol's Mu

Lino? "You've never heard of a Da

tales? Who are you then? Your voice

sourda faniliar. I'ou're not a Venezua

Jan.

You

sourd Cubaa. Are youg

Cuban?"

Murales says

he is tired of

being interraped in his sleep; he hangs

up the phone.

An

air

of resismation has settled

over the room. It is almost murning

and the goons are sull stand.in by the

bushes.

The reporiers are under, sons

kind el house

arrest. and

they

feel

enged. They wonder why Morales has

just denied

beiry himself. Staybe all

this is happening because they know

cover

identity.

maybe

Morales doesn't want Branca to reveal

his

background io anybody in

zuela.

Vent

The reporters kick this notion

around, but it doesn't fi.. It seems pre-

posterous that tha

Venezuelans don't

about

Morales,

prerious lives,

which are talked about all the lime in

the Miani rumor mill.

Branch paces around the room, try-

ing to make. his mind catch up trich his

feary. He even asks. Inclin-whether she

is

guarding

sOme

secret that might

have caused the troubie. Irclán says no

and politely doesn't return the quastion.

The reporters already trust each other

instinctively, but the spy sorid threit

ens to swalloir them up,

too. They de-

cide there is nothing lö do except try

• anything te reach the outäide wörld in

the morning before geiting shuttled off

to the DISIP.

Inclán goes off to the lobby for some

&leep on her couch, Branch tells Poth

child the rumor about the

rabproche

ment between Morales and Bosch, say:

ing he'd even. heard Bosch had

been

staying in Blorales' apartment. But it

doesn't make angisense. Nothing does.

Branch babbles on until ko finally runs

out of nervous ererby.

"Well, John,"

he says," smiling thinly as no sinks onto

the bed, "I was right about one thing

I told you it wouldn't be a boring week.

end."

Morales Takes Dier

It 'ls five-thirty a.m.

and somebady la

pounding on the door. Bothekiid, a light

alceper, jumps out of ded. He opens the

dons just a crack, and thea the door is

thrown back so hard it bargs against :

tho wall like a sunshre A man in a

arren suis with a long talkielatio

hanging from his beil bursts past Poth.

child,

throwing

all

lighta

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## Page 12

""paca!" ho polis In hall a socorol ho is

ali the cry acrore the torn.

"P'ark!"

Branch sits ou straipht in on! aind fo

shee mast glainlive voice Ruthchill has

the populatal armas and into thos

sts nhero rariutionis and airilent.

tato plare.

ing to make contact with

Cars

wether they will pier rel lo

•lind on.

volume it in Nonals, alter ail,

Anone mpere the reporters are and the

unir thing un their side, braking soone

eire beard him use, a mixture of tennise-

nition,

четтог.

disappointrent, confu-

resignal compassion that might reside

he aird Morning

had once saliel

• somewhere even in frons, is the senso

sion and pleadini, sajs just une vuru:

"Alicardo?"

sether. Que eresy tinia liranch droja l

that

rovid be on Mo

16N1N,

opinion

Morales turns the solune up on

ralago burd if thing dit set torture of

Morales

all right.

Branch

the radio. He leavrs is that 109y, blar.

hilled. Hat that's just the poine-world

tratches him anatch back sho curiains

ing, until the quiriioner sives up airl

to cheris the balcony, then dart around

opinion

Has on

the terrurists backs

Bits back in his scal.

liu? desperation

the chairs.

"Yack!"

There is a rhthm

about

the

Cuban

airlino

crash

and

croatrs another question, unther try,

to his order.

He is muring liho a cal,

which

noust let lier and Mothet. They killed

ends in another

mambs

blast.

them anytras. They didn't give a damn.

frenzimi but in lobid control. Rochchild

Branch fires up on the name-dropping

The car puils up it the airport. It is

Iceis the

«ПеТКУ

cumins

off

him

in

411d

even tries sone

spy-world

waves. He slips into the bathroom

to

production.

Kille

less than eisht hours since the report

"Kip could not list what

piss just to get away

from Morales,

you

are doing

to

* he

says.

era cutered the country, and they have

"Кір

talked to nobody except Morales.

the

but he is so scared that nothing comes.

sould be ashameil." Rip Robertson 1.a9

prons and each other. Their beit guess

More

onders

corno cut in staccato

burslo" let those

bag's clused!

Cive

Moraies' sun-toting case officer in the

in that Morales pluns to deep it that

operations.

Rothchild

thinks

me your passports! Give me your air-

Branch is foulish to bring up the Conxo

way.:

ling

tickets!"

Branch ard

Rothchild

and remind Morales how litule he cares

Breakfast al Kicardo's

are convincel that he wants to destroy

for human life, Morales suys nothing.

tho documents belore he kills

them.

He just. giveg the radio knob anuther

Moralt's

marches

the grcup

through

part of the nirport lobby aid then up

Morales

leaveg

minutes,

the room within two

twist

some back stairs, past the méteorology

but his perforniance leaves so

Incián is taking the personal route

room and into the tover section. They

much

afterlife

that

Rothchild

and

again, talking about this nephew she

arrive at a locked,

knobless door with

-Branch don't do anything once he has

has seen, mentioning other relatives of

small

pass-through

left. They don't call anybody, they don't

Morales

who live in

Miami.

Morales

Bloralts

has

and

to

knock before

is

sneak off the balcony, they don't even

isn't answering her, either. He is get

opened. from the inside.

They have

say & word to each other.

ting tired. of

the radio,

Now he just

arrived at the goon control

Both of them jump off the foor when

~leans.his head over against the door to

center.

There is a four-drawer cabinet where

the phone ring's, then look dumbly at

get some steep.-Watching Morales.not,

re

the DISiP police file their guns and

each other. Branch picks up the

fury

off- like

• ballet clips like niemos.

There is an

ceiver, stunts, and puts it downi.

"All.

the

turned

light,

Branch's mind is filled with memories

old couch,-a. few desks, and in an ad-

the guy said was, 'He is traiting,'" he

of Miami

Cutang

telling

stories

Joining room some bunk- beds. All the

tells

Rothchild.

Branch's own

voice

lexendary axents whn would drop off

people

from the night shift are still

sounds far oft to him.

to sleep just before lamling in Cuba on

thiere,

including Rómulo, in the surre

Inclán has had-rough going down-

a C.I.A. commando raid. le never quite

turtleneck and the sane leather jacket

stairs, maybe rougher than the other

believed

the

stories,

hut

he

thinks

The most impressive net

luther is a

(two because she is alone and also be

Morales' nup is very efective theater.

also

пэр.

character they call "El Largo," or "The

cause she is not yèt a.

U.S.

citizen.

Rothchild

is

watching

the

Long Ore"

Morales wahes her: up with the same

Every

time

Morales nods,

Rothchild

It is clear now that the plan is not

staccato commands.

She thinks maybe

thinks he is ducking so thut the bullets

torture, it is deportation,

but the re

he is going to take her away and have

fron the

car behind won't hit him.

porters sense that the plan could easily

her deported back to Havana.

She is so

Rothchild ducks, too.

be changed. Morales is

stalking

ber

scared that she locks

herself in.the

After about tienty minutes of drit-

tween rooms, giving orders and mah-

bathroom

and doesn't. come out until

ing, the road flattens out and the re-

Iny calls, and when he looks at the te-

she hears the other two reporters stum-

porters can see the airport in the dis

porters he seethes

•bling downstairs with their bags:

tance.

with anger. Inciún

Morales mentioned

"nirport"

and Branch are directing more ques

Morales trists the knife with a little

once back in the hotel lobby,

but the

humiliation.

tions at him from the couch..

Не на-

"Pay your bill!" he yells.

reporters were never sure he intended

swers onij with contemptuous looks.

Branch doesn't think he should have to

to take them there. If he ivere just.

No one is prepared for what happens

pay for the hospitality he has received.

planning to expel them, it would seem

next

but he pulls out his wallet without a

that he could afford to be more com-:

Morales walks out with a vide

grin on his face.

He clasps his hands

second's

hesitation.

Let's

"Pick

up

your

municative, more curious about what

together like a waiter and cheerfully

fo!"

The reporters are

• the reporters were doing, more worried

addresses the

reporters:

"Is anybody:

hustled out of the lobby, past a squad-

about the

kind of story

they might

son of sunglasses.

Blörales is already

write

hunkry? Are you ready for some break-

about him.

But Morales asked.

ahead of them;

barking orders on his

no questions.

Rothchild- knew

from

fast?"

The reporters follow Morales dumbly

walkie tälkie. It is still dark.

Braneh's incessant britings. that Ma

dosva

the maze of corridors.

They de

The reporters are put into the back

• Tales sore a lot-of hats: terrorist as

cide there is something oriental about

of a car.. Morales and

a driver are up

well as informant, mercenary as well

recent deselopments, and they are con-

front. Nobady is talking much. Branch

2s. cop.

bomber as well as representa-

vinced Morales could show them great

is wearing his best suit, shich he does

tive of a government. It might be more.

courtesy one moment and jank

not remember putting

on during bla

paranoia to think he would kill them,,

their. toenails the next

They

ont

follow

rales brutal proiding. Now ho thinks

but all last night's paranoia had come

maybe something deep in his

uncon:

true.

Bloralts down the corridors until they

rome la a small dining ruom that ap

scious had ordered him to look his best

The reporters know ore thing: they

Rothchild is terrified

that they

are

have stumbled onto a story that is

Hears to be reserved for airport por-

sonnel.

Branch gives fleeting thought

traveling iri a private car instead of

big enough and sensitive enough that

an official police car. His fear of being

top people in the Venezuelan

DISIP

to the idea menon neve

officially detainer is

rapidiy. being re-

are interrupting their sieep and risk-

decides

Morales

would

brought them here unless he controlled..

placed by

unoftirially

ing diplomatic reprisals li scare the

hell

out of them.

tho area. Besides, Branch realizes, he

It isn': routine in

does not luve the courare lo make a

the car fuil of roons that is following

Venezuela, une of the few South Ameri.

srene in front of Mornles, who still has

close bahinal as they carpen durn the

can countries left with

any sense of

mountain at one hundred twenty ki-

the

reporiers nearly parnlyzed; with

frecion of tho press.

There is sorra

Sriaht

lumeters an bour.

thing big going on, and the reporters

Morales

lass his bise walkie talkio

Tho car is heading out of town now

don't know, as they spearl through

down on

she

suble and snaps for a

sentiaied

?

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## Page 13

waiter.

-1.-

will you tara?" he

asks

reslily." Ito locke iff and

"apiri

hat are yuu dring in le

graciou-iy.

a talled in Washineto

sio reporleTs had frurel breallari

acut dund for the first

they

think

" think so," snyx Inclán. "!

Ajurales ersiands.

mas prubibly

ruse. to

think se

"Because 1

think the people

shio

struggle.

lime.

16 is

• ni:h

embalming fluid

fillint

"No,

dred

anj's ilurales ")ou are a hur.

mile

from

reality.

conspired lo bill line are here. That's

liothchild's stomach

and oin a

what inj souices s3j.

and it has even

queasy

hundred yours from reality. You under.

been in

somo of the Venezuelan nel's.

louding at the mene.

fur cotten and an order of loast.

only

Hoth.

stand diere e

dun'e know

papers."

what I understand,"

Morales

child follar's suil Morales louis disap

says Inclin.

"I know

soniething abuut

louhs

disgusted.

"You

shouldn't read the nesspapers," lie Baj's

poir.int and

urges them

to pal

mora

you. Tajlor says die talled lo you about

lightly.

"They lie. And you

should in-

heartily

luckin

and

blo

your

background

in

Miami

and

you

vestigate that

murder in

Washington

rales louks pleased. He orders a sump.

culled lo

him

like a frierd.

He says

instead of coming halfway aruund the

tuous breakfast for himself. It arrives

you were nice and now you are..."

proimptly.

am

not

nice,"

Morales

world."

Branch tries another tack, "I don't

"f'ell," he asts grandly, "who do you

"You know ihat I used to du in Cuba

understand what's behind this, Picardo.

think will win jour election, Carler or

f'ord?"

when I was a hid? I sent aronsmous

wrenths to

my friends. All the

I saw you, in 1974.

Don't you rement.

The reporters exchange the

look,.

death

You aren't like you were the last time

familiar by

now, that signals

their

Lime. Is that nice?"

ber? It was at nicht in Miami Beach,

Branch does not like this subject or

and you brought your girl friend over

agreement that- absurdity has renched

the faintly

homicidal look he sees be

to the house I was staying in. And

new heights. They mumble ollhand an.

fore him.

He decides to male

another

Fotingo Silva ras there, And Tamaso

sirers as Morales listens intently.

stab at levity. "Look, Ricardo," he says,

was there.

He talked almost all night

"You don't really hare much choice,

"I'm upset that you and your men have

about

Conso.

Why

have

jou

•do jou?". he aska.

"I mean, you have

kept

me from

seeing.

anything

about

there something

tro guys who don't have any ideas and

the last game of the Warld Series last

Branch stops because of what he sees

don't have any backbone, right? And

night."

on Moraics' face

neither one of them can command any.

"The World Series," he says, his eyés

"You are lying!" he explodes, "I have

thing or stop ansthing,

so it doesn't

opening widé.

"Let me tell you about

never heard of Ricardo Morales! This

make any difference.

right? At least

that's

the

World Series. It is just like the

is the first time I have ever met you,

what I get from

Tire mug-

world everythere: the Reds are

win-

and it is the first time you have met

zirré."

- ing

and the l'anks are losing!" Mo

Inclán

tries to

change the subject.

rales breaks into laughter.

Something

mel

Understand?

I have never

seen

you before in my life! If you say dif-

She asks Morales about his position in

snaps in the reporters and they laugh,

ferent you are

lying! And

the

DiSIP and gets no response.

Sho

too,

uncontrollably.

Fear floats out of

mentions Morales'

nephew, whom

she

happen to liars!"

bad things

their mouths and they feel better.

Inclún comes to Branch's rescue.

knows in Miami, and Morales parries the

Branch wades in to reestablish con-

remark. Suddenly a cioud comes acrosa

"Look, Kicardo," he says gamely,

"and

tact.

have seen your picture," she says,

I'm sure

tho you

his face.

"I can't help thinking this is some kind

Morales,

are.

If you're not

then what is your name?"

"W'hat's the natter with you?" he

demands, "Why aren't you eating?" Ile

of mistake. I want lo be straight with

"I don't ansiver personal quertions,"

you. All I'm interested in is the mur-

Morales say8,

peints down

at the dry last,

which

der of Orlando Letelier. That's what 1.

shy.

smiling,

trying to look

Branch and

Rothchild have been pick-

' came down here for, and I want..."

"I think maghe you figure there's a

ing nt

like

waftlers

"Aren't you hungry?"

at

Communion.

"He's the guy who got blown up in

little spy conspiracy here,

" Branch ob-

W'ashington, right?" Morales breaks in. i

-serves, stabbing in the dark. "But there

Branch nods yes;

Rothchild nods no.

"I think I saw that in Tinie."

isn't. John and I are old friends, but

*You

cold

me you

"That's right. He was blown up right

She is

brenkfust,

hadn't gotten

any

we just met Hilda yesterday.

SO

I. give jou

breakfast,"

around the corner from my apart.

interested in Bosch and his friends be

Morales

declares angrily, waving

his

ment."

cause of the bombings in Miami and

armis. "It you are not hungry, you are

the Cuban plane.

We are interexted in

liars! What's the matter with you?"

them because of Letelier. The three of

The reporters are exasperated.

"We

us just happened

are afraid and confused," sayg. Inclán,

on the same plane."

"to come down here

"because noboly will teil us why this is

"Oh, really?" says Morales dubious-

happening to us. I'am a reporter like

"I guess you are good friends now."

all the other

reporters

down here.

through some

• Ivant to interview Orlando Bosch like

thing together,"

say's Rothchild.

i did once before..

"Now you

"Never

Morales

heard of hin," interrupts

nion,"

have something in com-

he nods,

"Itigning tenderness.

He gives us an exaggerated

"Let's see,

what else is thére? Have

siirug and a quizzical look.

you all been married?" The reporters

Inclin shakes her head in despair.

nod. "How about divorced?" The re-

"Oh, conte or. You testified against him

porters nod again. "Once?" They nod

again.

Morales hoids up three fingers

"I

have been divorced' three tinies" he

"Did. he snake Tinto magazine?"" asks

Morales

"Yes," says Branch.

"I quers I missed it," says Morales,

• Ho pauses, then turns lo Inclin.

"You

should not be runniny arourl askine so

many questions," he saja: ternly. "You

are a unman, Women should be at

home having babies und making their

men happy. Nothing else."

¿ Inclin is rutled, "I can work as seli

as mast other reporters," she says.

Morales shahrs his head rigurously.

"No you can't tou are a hundre miles:

saj's, "aller four kids. I haven't' seen

them in seren jears." This hangs in the

air.

"Do you miss tliem?" asks Inclán.

"Not" the children," Morales says

•softly. "Just the vives sumetimes.

don't miss much. You know I haven'l

slept in tiro jears." The reporters fire

each other significan: looks, like shrinks

attending « primal-therapy session.

"It you are soing to kick us out of

the rouners. you should at leust let us

call our families," Inclin sass. "My

editors are going lo be worrial. No

sentiques!

$

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have appuintments

and

chase prople

-Aa hour later.

Morales

suddenly

don't hase uns' luea there we are. Bly

nouriiars his entire atire. Soro el his

eiet ret out it

his dueches,"

can't you

det us

make at loast one

phone call?"

men

krab the regar:

suitiases and

Raja Kranch.

"I shirl inapão it's the

• ranis!.

Others

tale

o!T

tinknown

ford that this terrorist: is oscanisod

alipped into

or ella shee his melancholy n

destinations.

rest fal! in

around

internationally. Rosch mures around on

• пе

persona.

the

ad Moralts leads them

illegal passports and has laner "und.

rager.

"You're right," lie 5n5'a

"I'll call

briskly out the door.

them. Anjolly you want

Teil me tho

figures they

able people in luts of counirie

jour appuintments are with." He pulls

Kothchiid

hare

just

raisina dinners with supposely propert.

enough time to make the ten a flight

aupported by st least part of a los of

out a pen in llagh. Branch blinks. He.

to Miami that he had seen

pasted on a

goiernnients. And this stuft lants cross

is startled by

low fast Morales moves

point

bourd some time earlier. He reises an

national-Cubans killing Chileans and

and nuiv fiercely he snups the

down.

and coming and feels solle relief. But

so forth.

Now look ai hour Venezuela

when the entourage emerges on the air-

fis in. It's kind of an entrepot for er-

each

sh reporters glance knowingly at

port's main concuurse,

Morales turns

erybody on all sides. The foremment is

other.

They share

vision

Morales hauling their contacts down to

toward

the

exit. into

Caracas,

not

in

a real pickle. It has to get along

toward the planes.

with the military juntes that have tak-

DIS!P's welcome wagon. We're not that

•"I thought you were putting us on

en over most o! Latin America, and it

dumb, they think.

the plane."

sag's

Branch.

"There are

also has to get along with Castro. This

Inclún tells Moraies to call her editor

we going?'"

mountry is filled with lefting Chilean

• at The

Miami News, a safe, serious

*To

the other.

call. More es speils out the name letter

rales..

His mind is elsewhere.

exiles

and

right wing Cuban erles

Letelier is buried here, which is & tilt

by letter as he writes on his napkin

"What happens it

te

mako a fuss

when

to the left, but the people tho helped

like a schoolboy taking down his home

jOu-

put us on the plane?" In-

conspire to kill him might well be right

wörk.; Ho is

putting

on a show. He

clin usks.

"What then?'"

..•-

in the DISIP, which

is full of Cubans:

Jooks at Branch. ...

•т..÷•:

Morales' face is laut but breaks into

• like Morales.

President Pérex (Carlos

Orlando Bosch it doesn't look

as if i'll be able to make it this trip." leave

si tour-guide smile.

"You

will

either

nice

Andrés, of Veneruela] has got his owa

Venezuela.

and: happy,

Jittle Watergate here, because his owa

Branch says.

"He's in the DISIP pris.

or.: " He pauses.

"Or you will leave

government is kangled up with

ón." : +

nice anj happy." He delivers the last

terrorists and the 'ansi-terrorists.

giggle,

but Morales

0-г-1-а-i-d-0

line with a lilt, as if making a rhyme.

the

both

dradpans.

В-о-дл:...

"You've spelled Bosch wrong." says

Inclán. "It's Bog-c-h."

"I'm sorry," says Morales,

• Morales

keeps writing.

"You

are

funny one," he says jovially. He looks

up. Yes y

"Anybody else?"

says Branch.. He has

been

trying to think of one of his contacts

in Venezuela

who would not he

vul-

nerable to Mornles but

whose

clout

might impress him. Any name is a risk,

but he decides to take one.:

"Tell the

governor of Caracas thut I non't be

able to sie him. His name is

Diego

Arias. Do you know hiin?"

Branch studies Morales for & reac

tion, but there is sione.

The

This whole country is like a tinderbox.

regorters

absorb the menacing

The governmert is making little ges

smile and fall silent.

tures to both sides,

trying to keep the

Several cars screech up to the curb.

lid on.

i=.

Once loaded, they. take off at the usual

"Okay," branch

continues.

"Let's

torrid pace. Branch feels panic open-

assumne that Morales is not bootlegging

ing trapdoors under his lungs and he

us out of the country on his own. That

Jeans

over to Rothchild.

"Holy shit,

seems stupid to me.

Let's assume that

John," he whispers. "I don't think there

at ieast the people in the interior

is another airport in Caracas,"

ministry k7015

After racing a quarter mile down

let's

what's going on.

And

assume the're afraid te'll get

the road, the cars turn abruptly into a

• into the country and find a story that

parking lot. The reporters are bafled

by the rush and the short trip but te

hoes

something

like

INTERSATIONAL

TERRORIST

ORGASiZATION

HEADQUAR-

lieved to be staying near the airport.

TERED IN VENEZUELA. OPERATIES MOST-

They figure they are headed for a

plane Iron a different direction,

but

LY CURAN. EXILES "TITH CLA AND FRE TIES.

VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT PLAYING BOTH

Morales

leads them

through another

•SIDES. And we go on to say that Bosch

maze of corridors and into a new hold-

has brought a lot.of Latin 'poternments

ing room.

It has a big waiting area.

around to his position, which is that it's

with, two rooms partitioned off ou the

After breskfast, as the procession goes

by a pay

phone,

Inclan suddenly an-

nounces;

"I'd like to make one call 'to

the American

Embassy."' She breaks

step and marches toward it, the first

sign

overt

freezes

resistance.

Morales

Branch and Rothchild with a

malicious glance

and walks. with her,

shaking his head. Suppor: goons appear

from around corners:

They seen:

re

Jaxed. Morales fingers his walkie-talkie.

Inclan sets to the phone

and starts

tumbling for Venezuelan change

her

and

phone numbers. Morales leans up

against

the wall near the phone.

He

looks amused. His body seems to twitch

• little under his suit, as it he might

need some exercise.

Branch and Rothchild keep telling

themselves that Inclán is

making

futile gesture,

but they

admire

"She's

not more

guts

than

her.

do."

whispers Rothchild.

Branch and Rothchild watch her lift

tho

phone from the cradle,

but they

don't think she has the change or the

- number.

She is

nerrous.

She

Morales in the face, which is probably

: a inistake. He stares at her, shakes his

head, and hangs up tho phone gently.

side.

The doors

are

metal

better to trust each other than to trust

with no:

the C.I.A. Now, what I'm saying is that

handles. They lock from both sides.

a story like that would realiy seret up

Morales

vanishes,

and El

Largo in

charge.

learing Rómulo's

Humulo

the Venezuelans, especially it it's fleshed

fingertips

do push-ups on his

oat. It's the last thing the goreriment

desk. here needs right now."

while he looks on, stoneifaced. Roth-.

"So what side is Morales on?" aglis

child gets the impression that Rómulo

Rothchild.

likes to stare at blank walls more than

othechink he's on both sides says

at people. El Largo, mho seems to be a

notch

above

Inclán.

Romulo in the

pecking

"I think so; too,.

" says Branch, "just

order, moves into one of the partitioned .

like the government

Morales is in the

offices and stays almost continuously on

underworld of both sides."

the phone. He reminds the reporters of

Inclan thinks for a moment "There's

his

presence

from

time to

time

loudly

orily. one big problem," she sai's

"If

sucking phlegm up his long

they're so afraid of a story, like that,

spiny nuse.

why do thes let other

reporters stay

After about ten minutes,

starts

Branch

and just throw us out? W'hr do they

pacing

away

from

Rómula

pick on us?"

"Goddamn it," Branch sourts

"I don't

don't know,"

Branch

sighs.

"I

think

we knoo enough about Morales

don't know much about the cortespon-

to make him do all this. He's going to

dents here. They're setting some' stuft

a lot of trouble to seal us off from

out, but my impression.

is that they

Venezuela,

but it doesn't make sense

cover nine countries and just diy in for

that he

mould do it just because te

the coups

and earthquales

That still

linoss who he is."

doesn't make us so special. But marbe

"Why' not?" asks Inclan.

te are lo Morales.

We know him. He

"Because," says Rothchild, "rhat we

know's lllda knows a lot about Busca

already know is going in come out anjo

and Miami connections.

He knows tient

way it he kicks us out rf the countis."

rot

pietly deeply

into the

aL.A.

"* think maybe Norales is

shone

Cubans. Then he sees us with the proos

sentined

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## Page 15

cutors

That may have been tuo much

for

hira lo. sahe chances snich us. !

don: kaur.

diaybe he thinks

traito.

C.L.A.*

sage handier

with Inclin. They

agree.

the mitille of the scene, loitiny lito the

plan and

Ther. all

8.

abaniun their shullle, to the sur-

There

1 derritor ul a sunditi cirl

-in melt

dwens of DISit men

priso

tho

herders,

pushirie all alung.

have.

bern

in plain

clothes, a

dev ripimentatives

Suellenly they sre

frum abut four dilterent military do

Sirorda na ibe Runway

their

running

tront

Rachmerits,

frantic jeep drivers.

nirlino

1l Larzo. piris up tho three passports

oil Mimisio's

desk

Chema.

Largo doesn't catch on right

au:horities, pilots and around tres per.

and puints them

ашлу.

but he know's that ahatever the

sonnel, ali

croilina around to tratch

suwand fire laded dour lie a bakön

reporters

want to do, it must be thi,

or tahe part in

the

action.

CAmalgy

"Y'anos" is all ho sasa

winng thine. So he starts running after

looks skyman, thinning under pressure,

The

nitin. dour is

unlocked by FI

them.

jeiling.

"Stop!"

Branch

and

and bris his idea.

"Why don't you los

Larso, all unie again the DISIP cor-

too appeas from

noyhere.

Rothchild hit the double slass door wiih

пе 50

with there people?" he aslis the

They es

Incián unt El Largo and ihe aimy just

behind.

piloz "If I take thern to Miaml, l guar.

curt line reparters donn airuther stair-

They all pour oul onto the run-

antre there lon's be

any funny sluf?

Cas0

and cai toard an

immigration

tray to.

ite

surious look:-of hundreds

on your plane." Hothchill thinks this is

stall in a larzo

roin that s completely.

who are lined up to get on the plane.

a 'ille ironic. The reporters cume down

isolated. it is a busy part.of the day at

For

frst. lime since they

landed.

major aitor, but the DISIP leeps

in Veneruela,

Inclan is

visibly

upset.

to inrestigate one, plane

Dumbing and

return under guard so that they can't

finding

empty halls

and empty

rooms to stick the reporters in.

She Füshes

out to

the line of passen-

pull'one of theriselves.

gers, screaming in Spanigh and English

The pilot doesn't think too much of

Something about

approaching

this

that

soman

reporter whose

Camargo's idea.

"Do you hare a U.S.

immigration stall, which is not attend-

ed.

and

dignity

been

trampled on by the

visa?" he asks Camargo,

"No." "Then,

knowing he will pass through.

secret-police.

The police,

sho are mass

do you know what they will do to you

it and get on as airplane and not and

ing behind her in freder numbers than

when you get to Miami? such worse.

Letelier's murderer starts to galvanico

ever before,

don't know

quite how to

Branch. There is a tiny passage to 8ó-

deal

with

this

The passengery: don't

that Catego doesne like

whatever you have done to them;

the way

through and: El Larzo is motioning

know:

whether to secept her as a lunatic •

them. to talk any but Branch is having

these

traveler

whom they don't want

with

that sounds.

He scrops the plan; and

the captain retúrns to the plarie.

visiors of the bombed car outside

them on

the plane; or to bélieve,

that.

aren't sure of what

his apartment and he is

getting mad.

she is saying,

shich would be unpleas

The

madderrho seti,

the slower

he

ant. Most of them pretend that nothing

they have. just done They have scored

get

on

a theatrical victory-just look around

walks

"Tié van't

just

this

is happening and so on up the ramp.

at all these cars and soldiers and dis

Le sers to Hothchild, "Ne have.

meanwhile, has planted him-

tressed officials-but they don't like the

s: do son

ing." He and

child,

Roti-

seif on the stairy that lead to the front

prospect uf lunch with Ricardo Morales.

then Incian.

behind them,

go

cabin

of the

plane. "He is sitting

down

but

Nobody seems to be running to call the

not & complete stop,

and his hands are clenched to the

rails

American Embassy or any other out

are slowing it way down.

Moraies

Jike

Quaker chained to the

Whita

ide help, so the plan is a qualified

ste ciamped down

Orl

this little

House

• fence.

Rothchild is sitting on the

scond,

but El

Largo

steps just below. Branch, and they are

failure:

The three of them head back to the

eems merely agitated. He is getting in

being surrounded by à brigade of reins

ront

of the reporters,

pleading and

forcements:

the swurd. company.

Tlie

passenger line, where people 'aré still

aging, pulling

with his arms as if

men in •

brown

loading, and start writing phone nurs-

uniforms have circled

bers on little scraps of paper-the num-

tbey

are all connected by an invisible.

them, and

they pull the swords a few

ers are of editors in Miami, friends

горе

inches out of their long scabbards ready and even

niothers.

They try handing

complete exasperation,

he starts

to hog-stick Rothchild and 'Branch into

them out to boarding passengers. The

sputtering threats.

"If you don't move

the airplane. Behind them oficials and

reporters are received in this effort like

chrough here, I ans going to use ihe

police seem to be pouring out of the

Salvation Army collectors at the race-

force!" Two guards go running

down

doors and oficial jeeps are screeching

track. Only a few of the passengery ac-

to the end if the room, apparently to go

and screeching. off, and Rómulo has

tually take the notes, but just to make

find

the force,

which turns out to be

even

showed tip again.

four young sidiers

and

in greer.

fatigües

The

captain

sure,

the

DISIP people are

picking

zuelan,

of the airplane, a Vene

them off at the higher end of the line.

parat-coper böots.

With the army

behind them,

the

re-

which

Branch

i and othchia have ben

Some passengers ever go out of their

way to hand over the notes, with an

porters coatinue their shufle. Two

ahead

• move

their sit in;

and he has a seow

feet andone hängs-back

his

air of having done their civie duty. It:

face. Yenezuela has enough trou.

Thiên tạo

plus

the

nembers of the armed

forces

developing tourism and here is his

notes

and notes

DISIP

DISIP people surround

the

plane

being

and. his

-passen-

goons collecting just as fast as Inclán,

strägster, prodding him,

alöng,

while

gérs

ast memory of Venezuela will b

Branch and Rothchild can serawl..

one of the other two breaks away

to the

these goons with swords' and blackjacks

It is now; with the plané about to

same. spot the straggler just vacated.

Out of

picture

prodding" Americans up the ramp. He

close its doors, that Branch comes up

window the report

steps over Branch and goes.right.down

with anóther plän: send one, leave tvo.

ers

сал

the

plane being gassed up

to the huddle of secret police, where the

Branch still is hoping he can break the

is

VIASA

the

Venezuelan

airline,

current brains of the operation, Rómulo

Morales-logjam and get out'into friend-

and not Pan Ai, Inclán, anally exi

and El Largo, are standing: The cap

pressing some paranoia hersell,

says,

tain

proceeds to

cher them

out,

tell

ly

territory, where

his

contacts

are

waiting to help him. Inclán speaks the

"Well chey could blow us up on the

them that they are idiots to pull a show

best Spanish and seems the most adept

but they wouldn't sacrifice'a

like this. and that he will not take pas

at handling inspectors and bureaucrats.

Venezuelan plane. They don't have that'

sengers

on his airplane if they.

are

They, will stay and 'Rothchild is chosen

mang of frem.".

loaded by force: The security risk, for

to leave. Branch reminds him, in front

They have been

dragging

on

this

one thing. 'If there people are that ilan..

of the sword brigade, that he is an "ex-

trail's for almost forty minutes now, and

gerous, then why should they be flying

pectant father," but Rothchild needs no

they çau see.

„the busloads of tourists

s'une on his airplane?

- encouragement. He instantly calls for

being Aushed bick cut from their vaca-

tions. The bases are stopping at

the

El Largo

and

Rómulo don't quite

the captain and explains that he wants

back

strinaray

of

the

plane.

Then

know how to handle this sudden obsta-

cle.

'to get on the plane. The captain hesi-

They get a let's-talk-this-one-over.

tates,

then agrees, and Rothchild runs

Branch ge's his idea.

"In here whère

buddy loos on their faces and so into a

for the stairs. As he passes Branch and

there is nobody to see us ira can't do

huddle with the captain. They also di

Inclin, Branch sticks one page of phone

much."

tells Rothchild.

"But out

fer to even higher authority, a

bee ly

•numbers in, his pocket and, as a di-

there, in front of all those tourists, tre .

cop named Camarzo, who is wearing a

versionary tactie, clumsily sticks anoth

can get sonto telp. Let's go." Rothchild

short sleare shirt

Camarzo arrives in

er note in his hand, this one in full

•::"

arce romes

10.

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are friskini

Kvetchika, étie irrorid nole

Is triumphantly confra rd

They don't

know chat it sayy

"Joe Morpan" on il

T7a numo di

the great Cincinnati sen

end baseman will so somewhero into the

DISIP files

Halfliay

up. the

татр.

Rothchild

atrises

Brat the pressure has somehow

been

eversel

that

nor the

DISIP

the

ground. Ser.

if they

thie

and

aimust belore

hits

and the tiva coms reach out as

him.

• then

change their

minds

abruptly leare

the aircraft

• But they

quickly return. They teil. Rothchild in a

бегу

friendly

tone

that his friends

down on

the ground.

want

to: 'hRvo

wore with him and that he

buckle and come dow

Rothchild is so

Ágitated he believes them

far.

He gets

as the plane

the

'83

top

óf

the stairs,

ing,

when he hears

Branch yell-

"Get back."

buals over a stem.

ardess on the way

The cops are

return

not

yet

They

with another ploy

Rothehild has

rot filled out the nec

he

sary papers and

must return to an office

in

the:

port.

"Are you sure this isn't's

air-

Pothchild

sisks.

"No;

trick?".

procedural matter."

no

trick.

Rothchild

Just

tell's

then be isn't moving an inch until he

talks to the captain.

Out his little window, Rothchild sees

further agitation on

the

have

brought

runway.

They

to

up

Branch

they are

Inclan

to

get

into it.. Camargo is

his.arms

like a giant windmill,

mined

to

all

reporters

get

the

plane.

The -reporters

off

determined.

to

Are

equally

keep

split up.

Branch

and

will

not

telling Camargo that they

move from

the

runway

until

the plane

takes off.

They trant to

in

plain

view of all

fearing that the goons

the

stay

passengers,

child once the other two are

and

keep

couraging

and making

okes

about how incredible all the commotion

hAs

becaine.

Workmen in orange

suits

sire crouched in the shade, smoking cig-

arettes

and several

hundred gawkers

are spread

out in & semicircle like faus

in the bleachers.

Camargo -tries

whole:

string

of

tricks to get Branch and Incian out of

sight

Will they move into the airport,

please? No. He goes off into à huddie

and comes back Will they get in the

car so they can get out of the hot sun?

No. Will they get in the car.if he prom-

ises

they

CAn

wätch the plane, from

there? No. After' one huddlé, the inood

changes and several goons swing little

brosvn

blackjacks

•Branch and Incián

say a prayer, refuse to move and wave

atentatiously

at the

airplane

The

joons shove and menace but then to off

again. Rómulo coines back with his gun

pulled, looking. like a crazed

Camargo s00s.

janks him

ASSASSIN.

back to the

poor huddle. The piano starts taxiing

m che rinwar

-. You'ro Mon

hendüle and sas

ground.

Camai

Latka A coinina

тап.

The plaire

sits in the mid

Camargo

5837

r.81

aTin's at

His lips slast in

The reporters

unal it's

•laois

off

the

one arrertion, and the upper row. of his

front trath siants in the other, mading

furious

and

x.

Branch

thinks

Camarto, musi

to his walki

stalkie

fle

bis tooth

lie inches away

tr. mad

and

from

of the

Ca.

Rómulo until ho is almost in loclin's

the toines, the

conclude.

The

герогіять

'Thre hours later. Camargo summors

plared by

and bluits, goes

o3 fur

inches

the two reporters to his odice

after

nearly an hour.

пога

consultation

with Central

Ca.

acas.: Only one thing bas clanged, he

Camargo Plays Hardball

cays graciously. Both their rizas have

Branch and In

aro sprend-e

against the bac

indoor openings

agled

seen

offcially

repated;

they are or

of the

lered to leate it three-thirty. The re

goon car, facini

each other.

the

sorters ask why, and Camargo shrass

jet finally

lakes

off.

They

this

Without warning,

the

session is is-

position for the

ites or

errupted

when

one of

so of the calanc

of

the

Branch's

oft tremors

funded with ro

coup erothe and had the monter

rand-new Jim

Palmer

baseball flore

and a box of six baseballs. The report

lief. He feels

Romuio

essiare astonished.

rearing

his

gun

"Excuse'; me."

tucked inside

pants al

the

regins

'to

noung By Ca ma the :

His

turtleneck

He

and."Camarge

_with

the

jack

man escala

head

lore,

start. tat.20%

al is bearing e and Breach

baseball with a

their nudging

dered Inclan

transiating.

and. extras crowd

in

behind

them.

The

formed: Camarco lets Branch

his

reporters,.talking oret the roof of the

fist into the glove:."

car.

decide that the

plane

will

not be

Camargo is now expansive; is il

the

called back. They get in the car. Rómulo

reporters.

guests in his home

sits rext to Branch, and Camargo takes

He.

a lot sibout the United

the front seat.

They prel off down the

Sta

over to a corner where

runway with other cars following.

there

"How long

will it take the plane to

He Rips

shrough them

get to Minmi?" Inclan asks Camarga

the

floor.

stack of framed diplomas

hands Branch a diploma from the

U.S.

"A little more than three hours," says

Arms School of Special Warfare.

Сята

1180

"It has

to

stop in Mara-

signed by General Joseph

TV.

Stiltrell,

caibo.

Commandant Then he hands-Branch a

Bratich

shivers

and ists-Inelán to: :

certificate from the International Police:

translate the. Spanish to wake sure he . Academy,

a training

school

for

the

heard right.

world's policenten. It has closed aftèr a

"I thought you said it was a direct

dose of scandal. Branch wonders if all

fight to

Miami," Incian sass. in dis-

belief.

the DISIP goons have been trained by

the Agency; he would like to rueet their

"It is going direct to Kiaini, señora,"

American contacts:

replies Camargo,

"But'it is stopping in

Rothchild lias landed in Miami. He

Alaracaibo."

soes straight to The Viami News and

The

reporters discuss with renewed

causes an uproar with his story. The

horror the fact that Marscaibo is still

editors there have been. worried about

in Venezuela; they entision the DISIP

Incián since she missed her check-in

people paying a call os Rothchild. Ca-

call six hours aga

The managing odi-

"Any sHigestions on tho lo get rid of?"

continued!

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"expr

tor cails the American Embassy in Ca.

racas nad lifts'it öfl the ground mith

гаде.

The embassy promises lo investi-

gaio immeliately.

Rothchild beging to

reronsider his viers on neuspaper odi-

вотя

Camargo comes into the holding room

wesring the lovx of a man who has just

arcomplished something.

"Your risas have been officially con

fiscatal," he announces.

The

look at him blankly.

"That's

new about that? asks Inclin.

"You have had them all day."

•Sow they

are permanently confis.

eated." says Camargo.

He shows them

a now Veriezuelan.seal stamped on each

ore

Over

• the

seals,

someone

tay

scrawled, "Visa fue sovocara."

Before the reporters have time to fig

oré out what this signifies,. Camaigo

sives the order to move out: He.says the

plane is late .Tha goon

terialice

squads me.

• Inclin explains to Branch-that they

are.in big trouble.

Even if

tets. them go,

Camargo

she

says, they

could bo

stopped ten feet outside the airport and

asheel for their papèrs

They

. bo

slapped in prison for the "jovocala"

their passports

For the first tirge

on

they

are not on solid legal ground. Branch

shakes his head tearily and tells inclin

they bave lost a round of hardball.

They follow a triumphant Cämarge

to the plane

Epilogue: Moro Pay Phones

On' October 21, to days after

porters

the

left Citracas,

• Deputy

Interior

Blinister Marco

Tulio

Brúnicelli talked

313 n

to

clear

Hilla

up

the

Inclán

tel

rying documents

with

that

83

cordially

ask

with

because

our. lays.

As

1d.'

lie

• declafed

solidarity

with

decided to

leave

striko serietly againse

Casiro Lan

Por

.'e raid ll couls le handle. Tho

Some of thein

"oticial" ter

F.8:1.

upile on the case would ari!

rorists, iho would stoically acrept lunse

jail sentences

rather

than

reseal. a

thrio see nothered they her la fin

terrorista hnd

threatened to

C.I.A. secret Now they tiere no longer

F.B.1. udent. The Isureau lad tiro hun.

official.

dint agents

on

the

case. le sras the

Rothchild was back home in the Er-

biggest thing ir. tie

W.11.!,

englades.

On

Monduy he irrived

the

• What

about

the

first of several phone calls from a man

Branch,

Axenty?"

"Leak, I dun't thin's the CIA.

identifging himself as a "consultant to

fenezuela."

lie

had nnything to do with there murders,

the

government

of

but the terrorisce are uning. their old

wanted to give Rothchild some money

C.I.A. connrictions in more

ways than

to

write about Rothchild's background.

one.

The Mirney is in a bind. ll has

Very weird, thought Rothchild.

He be

creater a monster. 'The whole sorld of

san to worry. that his trip

Caracas

secrets

Miami has

dosin.

•turned upside

would follöw him.

But I'll tet those old pros over

Press reports from Venezuela quoted

at the Agency aren't-abiut to sacrifice

interior ministry officisis in Venezuela

their security and secrecy to help solve

as вяутох

that • Ricardo Morile;

"did

a murder."

not cause the expulsion of the Ameri.

Propper said he was getting coopera.

can journalists:""

In an

official state

tion,

rexins of stuff in

fact,

Branch

ment on

Morales

October. 26 the ministry said

asked him to lest it.

"Ask

them for

"does not even

work for the

their file on Luis l'asada," he

said. "I

DISIP."

A, few days later, Branch received a

know they've got one un hiin.

into

the Agency

through

lle came

the

letter "from someone in

Venezuela who

M.R.P

before the Bay.of. Pigs. Ask the Agency

was working on tha

terrorist network.

That it-has about Posada's involvemént

It came

by

messenger.

-and

read

like

tyith a

bootleg assassination

attempt

Sherlock Holmes:

"The

Hey

to

this

against Castro in 1965 involving'

guy

thing; wh

it is

Morales

the

key

i tà hi

You already

namel-llerminio Diaz.

Dias vas

and killed in Cubi

Noss, it the Agenes

it

that something 'he once

doesn't have anything on that, they're

knows you know will

click

something you would be likely to

woull i

reveal

something

just giving you a fat of smoke." (Pa

is the Cuban detective 1rom

that. he

Disip now held by the DISIP for

didn't svar

Cubans de Aviación bombing.)

to

Propper agreed.

(On & later

the

Assistant

U.S.

Propper

visit

would gay. he

getting

of the Letelier investigation.

WAY

Agency cooperation but declined to give

wanted to know about

ezuela

Branch'any details.)

because he

was thinking

going

On November 4, the State Depart

NO HAS

imself.

the leads pointert

there,

ment responded to Branch's reqüest fo

asked ques

about

the

a position statement on the

rorists. Branch outlined what

Venezuelan

He took a reading of Propper

expulsion, which the

U.S.

Embassy in

Carens

been

investigating.

A

tras

the

that he svanted badl

State Department representative read a

Branch only worrie

portion of a press briefing as follows:

they

both.

over

their

What. did. he

(Branch) say and

that

their

heads.

Q:

His

wher

what's the State Department going to

col-

asked to see a

The

Miami Nows, which contained

article:

do about it?

A: He described the dealings he and

about Morales

and the Venezuela trip

two

others had

with the

Yenezuelan

it same day, Bra

Hopper. knitteuh

eyebroig

•and

authorities at Maiquetia Airport when

•Caban

rutinized the New

out

why

siorales had turned on

him.

as:

Tert

they arrived there last.

week.

I'm not

sind

vei

noon

rock.

Something

going to discuss details of what he said.

worse than a cold shoulder,

Branch

sinking.

feeling.

Nei's

-and..the

That yould be for him

to

do.

11.he

bim

stag.ou

what Sum The

Horgle in blism

wishes, Our Embassy has expregsed out

•The

stisft

about

said.

lot of

"You

concern over this incident to the appro

toja!

reterans

the C.iA-

peop

have

all that, don't you?"

who

haid

spent yeats denouncing

and

don't think

priate

Government of Venezuela: ol

we get

exposing

them," said

Tain fi

terrorists as

detrimen

Prop

per.

•Ant

hour later, an esitaled woman

the anti-Castro cause how supported

"You have to have them," Branch

from the State Department called back

the terrorists and expected nothing but pleaded. Propper made a couple of un-

*Dir. Branch,

* she said

"I'm afräid

opposition from the Agency. "If sou: successful phone calls around the Jus

. there's been a big mistake. That brief-

don't heip the good people fight Castro,"

tice Department and said he would get

ing that was just read to you does.not

said one old C.I.A. Cuban, "then me have

these newspapers from the Library of

- constitute the department's public pasi-

ts help the bad ones do il There's nothi

¡Congress as soon as possible.

tion. It is a quideline."

ing left but terrorism." Branch, was

Branch knew what it must be like to

"hat is a guidéline?"

stunnal by how rapidly the anti-C.l.A.

call the police station in the middle of a

"It is a policy draft setting out what

pro-teriorist trend: haid progressed in

robbery and find its phune disconnected:

the people liere are authorized to say in

eren the two years since he had left

He recovered

and offened.

to do: any.

response to inquiries.

What you have

Miami. C.I_A. loyalises were now in very

short supply. The last defectors

trero

thing he coüld to help, even to go brick

there is what we would have said had

to Venezuela

to been asked. But it is not what we

Cubans whose secret histories stretched

"I've only got one major reservation,"

have said publicly. We have no recond

back to the Fifties and Sixties, when

he said,

the American mainstream

problem.

"and that is the informant

of being asked on the record, although

their anti-Communist movement was in

You have to rely on the F.B.I.

sorue reporters may have inquired pri-

The CLA

and the CId.

to investigate, and the

rately, in which case se would have

trained the Cubans to work by stealth

fact is that most of the suspects and

responded according to the guideline."

to lie, smuggle weapons, move illexally .. likely

in

and out of countries, mako bomos

nitnesses

are

old aid, and

"So what is the Stalo Department's

F.B.I. men of soms sort.

position, tben?"

continues

12

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The

troman

men

many words, that

holding

steady at an expre

That

afternoon,

Propper and

the

Letelier

niet

with

agent pr

con•

vincingly

ders. Branch

адліл..

inöt to

that the

DISIP

chopping.off

bling a dozen

- fele the: F.B.

ers

who

order to chech

Otheraise,

turn

into-Miami, and Miami could turn

into Beirut

Branch agreed and asked it the F'.B.I.

a trip to Veneratia, Th

agent

replied that he

nas

bot

of the Burrau's

ani parsical

there, and cia: furthermair the F.B.l

did

not hire jurisdictiss foi

such a

trip.

He outlined the resitictions

th

..B.!. and Gial as they app

hat are doth domestic ai

onal, criminal and reinted to

erial securito. It addat up to case.

but it did not destroy the

agenty

confidence. -

Branch's:

carifilence,

however,

low. He was just offering to do vihat be

could

again when

call

for

caine taronga

горрст.

The agent

«came excited

sked -Branch-to

way out the door,

Branch

salutation

"Is

Propper. "Listen, are.

on callini

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VENEZUELA, CARACAS 84 FEBRUARY 1977) FIELD NO. HUC-7589.

SOURCE:

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CONTACT WITH CTHER EXILES, HIS PELIABILITY HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED.

20. IN LATE JANUARY 1977 RICARDO MORALES NAVARRETE, A

CUBAN-EXILE WHO IS AN OFFICIAL OF THE VENEZUELAN DIRECTORATE FOR THE

SERVICES OF LATELLIGENGE AND PREVENTION CDISIPS, SARD THAT HE IS

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SPECIFIED CUBAN EXILES TO CARRY OUT HIS PLANS TO GAIN BOSCH'S

RELEASE.

SOURCE. COMMENT:.

MORALES. DID NOT EXPLAIN WHAT TYPE OF FORCE WOULD

BE USED TO GAIN BOSCH'S RELEASE.

MORALES IS AN UNSTABLE INDIVIDUAL AND

IS CAPABLE OF USING FORCE TO GAIN HIS ENDS!

3= SOURCE OF PARAGRAPHS A AND 5: A VENEZUELAN WITH A WIDE

VARIETY OF CONTAGIS AMONG VENEZUELAN SECURITY OFFICIALS, NIS RELIABILITY

MAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED.

4. ON 3 FEBRUARY 1977 MORALES SAID THAT HE INTENDED TO LEAVE

VENEZUELA FOR MIAMI, FLORIDA, LATER THAT DAY: MORALES SAID THAT HE

EXPECTED TO BE IN THE UNITED STATES FOR APPROXIMATELY ONE WEEK.

ISOURCE COMMENT: THE REASON FOR HIS TRIP iS NOT KNOWN.)

SO MORALES CONTINUES TO RECEIVE MIS DISIP SALARY DESPITE AN

EARLIER SCANDAL CONCERNINE HIS DISIP STATUS. AFIELD COMMENTE

FOR AN EARLIER REPORT ON MORALES SEE HUC-I548: TDFIRD3-3951111772-760

OF MID-NOVEMBER 1996. FROM ANOTHER SOURCE OF UNDETERMINED RELIABILITY.

MORALES MA'S RECENTLY RENTED ON EXPENSIVE APATIENT IN A FASHIONABLE

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FU INTINO

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The information provided below is taken

Domingo Station

liaison report transmitted to Headquarters under

HDCA-11074

dated 29 Novenber 1976.

The information dated 29

August 1976 was received by the liaison service from one of its

agents assigned to Miani,

Florida.

It is being sent to you for

All infornation below was reportedly stated

information onlyène trial of the Cuban terrorist Rolando Otero

in testimony at

in Jacksonville, Florida, and Antonio Gonzalez had obtained

immunity from prosecution.

The declarations he made were cor-

Guese o ero do the prole o beacon actora cusens

2.

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Miami up to 500 pro-Castro agents operating; that in a supposed

plot to kill Fidel Castro in Venezuela, there had been with him

and Rolando Otero,

a Cuban naned Ricardo Morales and infiltrating

into the affair, he tried to frustrate the plan.

Gonzalez also

said that Morales, supposedly worked for the

"CiAin the Congo"

and actually is an agent of the Government of Venezuela, used

to investigate those Cubans who enter and exit from Venezuela:

Gonzalez also said that in reality, Morales is a Castro agent.

TOoT MANY

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CONTACT WIIM SLIAT-L IS RESULT OF A VKTANGO-1 DIFECTED

RECRUITMENT OP. WE ARE MORE INCLINED TO BELIEVE THAT-THIS

IS SOME SURT OF STRANGE LIATOSON OR DOUBLE-AGENT OPERATIONS,

PROBABLY SUGGESTED GY MORALES HIMSELF, OSTENSIBLY TO MAKE

HIMSELF USEFUL TO WASCARLET.

IT HAS BEEN

MENTIONED BEFORE.

AND WE HAVE LENG SUSPECTED, WITHOUT ANY HARD EVIGENCE. THAT.

MORALES MAY

SE A CASTRO CUBAN AGENT.

IT IS QUITE PUSSIBLE

THAT HE NAS CORDED THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT, OR WKTANGO-LO

INTO GELIEVINE THAI ME MAS SOME SPECIAL ENTRE WITH SLIAT-I.

ALL-INOALL.

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INVOLVED ANE THE PRESSURES OF THE MGMENT, WE THINK THAT

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• THAN

WKTANGO-I-IS"UF GIVING

A SECOND TRY TO THE RECRUITMENT

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1. 0: 26 A5986 1977 WADIEIS REPORTED THAT RICARDO

10,49

MORALES RAVARRETE ISUEJECT 05 201-22859238, AKA

i fit.

"EL MENO", IS ELUDRED TO HAVE KILLED IN MIAMI À CUBAN

EXILE AY TIE MINE UE ROBERTO PARSONS. WKDIET-S

SAYS INHE EARSEAS WORKED. FOR BEHERALD AND UNDERTOOK

SEVERAL CLANCESTINE TRIPS TO CUSA.

HE SAID AT TIMES DARSONS

PELPED GET PEDILE CUT OF CUBA FOR A PRICE, PARSONS HAS

BEEN MISSING SINCE DECEMBER 1976. THE EXACT REASON FOR

HIS ALLEGED MURDER IS UNKNOWN.

2. FOLLONINE ARE TRACES ON ROBERTO PARSONS: ACCORDING

TO UMHAVE-13CE, 15 FEBRUARY 18680 AN AMCLEVE-IS Ü. !!

MIAMI CONTACT DIS FROBASLY IDENTICAL WITH ROBERTO

PARSONS

RAMIREZ, 5098 EE JULY 1930 IN GUANTANAMO, PARSONS HAS A

BKEGALE AGENT ME!

1965- THROUGH 1907 WHEN HE WAS TERMINATED

ON BE NOVE"SEE MITHOUT PREJUDICE, HE WAS USED IN EXFILTRATION

AND

INFILIGATICA OFERATIONS AND OCCASIONALLY FEPORTED GRATUITOUSLY

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FBI ON Y MAY, BASED ON REFS. PLEASE PASS THE INFORMATION TO THE

LEGATT CARACAS: Y

2. A. ACCORDING TO A VENEZUELAN SOURCE WHOSE RELIABILITY HAS

NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED, RICARDO MORALES NAVARRETE, CUSAN-BORN

NATURALIZED VENEZUELAN CITIZEN, IS RUMORED TO HAVE KILLED ROBERTO

PARSONS, ANOTHER CUBAN EXILE, IN MIAMI, FLORIDA. SOURCE SAID

THAT PARSONS HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE DECEMBER 1976 AND THAT THE

REASON FOR HIS ALLEGED MURDER IS UNKNOWN. Y

8. PARSONS IS PROBABLY IDENTIFIABLE WITH ROBERTO

PARSONS RAMIREZi BORN. LO JULY 1930 IN GUANTANAMO, CUBA. HE

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TO AVOID A COURT APPEARANCE IN CONNECTION MITH THE INVESTIGATION OF

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DO THE ABOVE INFORMATION IS BEING MADE AVAILABLE TO THE

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ORIG: C/LA/PNC/VANDREUSZ; COORD: BEBEBESC LA/OPS-ERATOS,

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