Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LEG, CAR
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 10/12/76
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10213-10349

RECORD_SERIES:

HO

AGENCY FILE_NUMBER: 2-2173-79

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

LEG. CAR

TO: DIRECTOR. FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 10/12/1976

PAGES: 4

SUBJECT:

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL:

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

08/01/1995

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

ОСт 12 1976

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Assoc. Dir.

Dep.-A.D.-Adm..

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Asst. Dir.:

Adm. Serv.

Ext. Affairs

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UNSUBS; SUSPECTED BOMBING OF

CUBANA AIRLINES DO 08 NEAR BARBADOS O

WEST INDIES, OCTOBER 6, 19760

NM • CUBA- WEST INDIES.

RECARTEL OCTOBER 128 -19,400

Havised That

SETUPS RAMMER, DEPUTY CONMISSIONER OF POLICE, TRINIDAD,

AND TOBAGO POLICE FORGE, PORT OF SPAIN IB INIDAD, ARRIVED IN

CÁRACAS ON OGT OBER 16, 1976, TO CONS% DEG

WITH VENEZUEL AN AUTHORI C

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TIES REGARDING THE CUBANA AIRLINES CRASH. LEGAT HAS BEEN ACQUAINTED

WITH DEPUTY COMMISSIONER RAMDWAR FOR SEVERAL YEARS. RAMDWAR OCT 21 1976

TELEPHONED LEGAT AT HIS HOME AI APPROXIMATELY 10:15 PM ON OCTOBER

1lo 1976, STATED HE WAS AT THE RESIDENCE OF THE TRINIDAD AMBAS-

SADOR AND REQUESTED A MEETING WITH LEGAT•

LEGAT PROCEEDED TO THE RESIDENCE OF THE TRINIDAD AMBASSADOR

WHERE HE PICKED UP RAMDWAR AND THEY PROCEEDED TO.IHE TAMANACO

HOTEL, WHERE THEY CONVERSED• LEGAT RECOUNTED TO. RAMDWAR THE

DETAILS OF HIS CASUAL ACQUAINTANCE WITH ONE OF THE SUSPECTS..

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RAMDWAR NOTED THAT WHEN LEGAT'S NAME AND TELEPHONE NUMBER WAS

FIRST FOUND AMONG ONE OF THE SUSPECT 'S PAPERS, HE THOUGHT IT

MIGHT BE AN INDICATION THAT AN ACTION MAY

HAVE BEEN PLANNEd

AGAINSI LEGAT. HE SAID THE SUSPECT LATER DISCLOSED HE HAD BEEN

TOLD "BY HIS BOSS" TO.SEE THAI INDIVIDUAL REGAT) IF HE HAD A VISA

PROBLEM ED4)

RAMDWAR ST ATED HE HAD BEEN INSTRUCIED BY THE TRINIDAD PRIME

MINISTER ERIC WILLIAMS TO. UNDERTAKE THE INVESTIGATION OF THE

PLANE CRASH AS A CRIMINAL MATTER STRICILY, AND NOT TO. BECOME IN-

VOLVED IN ANY POLITICAL ASPECTS. HE SAID HE THEREFORE PROCEEDED TO

CARACAS WITH PHOTOGRAPHS AND FINGERPRINTS OF THE TWO. SUSPECIS

INTENDING ONLY TO. HAVE THEM

CHECKED THROUGH INTERPOL SECTION

FILES OF THE TECHNICAL JUDICIAL POLICE. HE SAID, HOWEVER, THAT

UPON HIS ARRIVAL HE WAS MET AT THE AIRPORT BY A CONTINGENT OF

OFFICIALS, INCLUDING THE TRINIDADIAN AMBASSADOR, AND THAT HE WAS

PROMPTLY USHERED TO A MEET ING WITH VENEZUELAN MINISTER OF

FOREIGN AFFAIRS RAMON ESCOBAR SALOM. AT THE OFFICE OF THE

FOREIGN MINISTER, RAMDWAR WAS TOLD HE COULD EXPECT THE FULL

COOPERATION AND ASSISTANCE OF THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT. HE SAID

HE WAS INFORMED THAT THE INTERPOL SECTION WAS NOI THE APPROPRIATE

OFFICE TO WHICH HE SHOULD DIRECT HIS INQUIRIES BUT THAT THE MATTER

WOULD BE HANDLED BY DISIP. RAMDWAR STATED HE THEREUPON HAD A

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LENGTHY SESSION WITH DISIP OFFICIALS WHO. PROMISED TO GATHER

ALL INFORMATION REGARD ING THE TWO SUSPECTS AND TO. FORWARD ALL

DATA DEVELOPED TO.THE TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. POLICE THROUGH THE

TRINIDAD AMBASSADOR •

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RAMDWAR SAID HE REVEALED TO DISIP THAT IN VIEW OF EVIDENCE

DEVELOPED, HE BELIEVES ORLANDO BOSCHVAVILA WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR

THE PLANE CRASH AND HE ASKED THE OFFICIALS IF BOSCH WAS IN

VENEZUELA. HE SAID HE WAS TOLD THEY WERE NOT CERTAIN AND HE

REPLIED THAT BOSCH WAS, IN FACT, IN VENEZUELA AND THAI HE COULD

FURNISH BOSCH•S CARACAS TELEPHONE NUMBER. (SCU)

HE RELATED THAT AFTER HE RETURNED TO THE AMBASSADOR 'S

RESIDENCE, HE RECEIVED A MESSAGE FROM PRIME MINISTER ERIC WILLIAMS•

OFFICE ADVISING HIM TO RETURN TO TRINIDAD AS THERE HAD BEEN A

"SLIGHT CHANGE OF PLAN." HE SAID HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT THAT CHANGE

MIGHT BE. *(a)

RAMDWAR COMPLAINED THAT HE WAS BEING GREATLY PRESSURED IN

I HE INVESTIGATION BY GUYANESE AND CUBAN AUTHORITIES WHO HAD

TRAVELED TO PORT OF SPAIN. HE SAID THE CUBANS WERE VERY INTENT

UPON OBTAINING CUSTODY OF THE TWO SUSPECTS, BUT THAT TRINIDAD

WAS NOT PREPARED TO ALLOW THAT. HE INDICATED THAT THE SUSPECTS

WERE BEING HELD WITHOUT CHARGES SO FAR, AND HE WAS NOT CERTAIN

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THEY COULD BE CHARGED WITH ANY WRONGDOING; IN TRINIDAD. RAMDWAR

POINTED OUT THAT ON THE OTHER HAND, BARBADOS WAS RELUCTANT TO

ASSUME JURISDICTION IN THE MATTER AND WAS PRESSING: TRINIDAD TO

BRING LOCAL CHARGES AGAINST THE SUSPECTS.

*(4)

AT ONE POINT IN THE CONVERSATION, RAMDWAR STATED HE WAS

POSITIVE THAI THE TWO SUSPECTS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BOMBING

OF THE AIRCRAFT.

(И)

TOWARD THE END OF THE MEET ING WITH LEGAIT, RAMDWAR CONFIDED

THAT HIS MAIN INTERESI WAS TO CLEAR TRINIDAD OF ANY IMPLICATION

IN THE BOMBING.. HE SAID THERE HAD BEEN AN ALLEGATION THAI THE

BOMB UTILIZED HAD BEEN PREPARED IN TRINIDAD AND HE WISHED TO

REFUTE THAT REPORT. I

<(4)

RAMDWAR WAS TO. HAVE RETURNED TO PORT OF SPAIN EARLY ON

OCTOBER 12, 1976. R(U)

ADMINISTRATIVE: ABOVE INFORMATION WAS FURNISHED TO. EMBASSY,

CARACAS, FOR DISSEMINAT ION TO. SECRETARY OF STATE AND

INTERESTED EMBASSIES. (OD/U)

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