Originator: CIA
From: CIA
Document date: 11/09/1976
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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124-10280-10076,

2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_ NUMBER:

124-10280-10076

RECORD SERIES: HO

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 109-12-228-2441

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: CIA

FROM:

CIA

TO:

TITLE:

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

DATE: 11/09/1976

PAGES: 5

SUBJECT:

OBA, CUBAN EXILE LEADER, ASSOC, VENEZUELA, BOMBING, CUBANA

AIRLINER

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

06/08/1998

STATUS

Redact

UPDATE DATE:

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (1)(B)

COMMENTS:

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: EARLY NOVEMBER 1976

DATE 7-21-94 BYSP& MAC/ISR

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SUBJECT: POTENTIAL EMBARRASSMENT FOR THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT

DUE TO POSSIBLE EXPOSURE OF PROOF THAT RICARDO MORALES

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.:VENEZUELA, CARACAS (I-4 NOVEMBER 1976) FIELD NO.

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OF THE 6 OCTOBER BOMBING OF A CUBANA AIRLINER

AND HE HAS HAD PREVIOU

CONTACTS WITH SOME OF THE SUSPECTS

IN THE BOMBING. A VENEZUELAN NEWSMAN

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THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. WOULD PROVE EMBARRASSING TO THE GOVERNMENT, AND.

IN AN EFFORT TO COUNTER THIS POTENTIAL DIFFICULTY, HAVE ISSUED A

BACK-DATED CIRCULAR OSTENSIBLY RELIEVING MORALES OF HIS DISIP

ASSIGNMENT, END SUMMARY,

" 1, IFIELD COMMENT: THERE HAS BEEN CONSIDERABLE PRESS COVERAGE

CONCERNING RICARDO MORALES NAVARETTE, A CUBAN BORN.

NATURALIZED VENEZUELAN CITIZEN, MORALES' STATUS WITH THE VENEZUELAN

GOVERNMENY CAME INTO QUESTION WHEN THE FOREIGN PRESS REPORTED THAT

MORALES IS A HIGH LEVEL VENEZUELAN SECURITY OFFICIAL AS WELL AS

BEING CONNECTED WITH VARIOUS AGENCIES OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERN

MENTIUSG), VENEZUELAN OFFICIALS HAVE ALTERNATELY DENIED.

AND ADMITTED MORALES' ASSOCIATION WITH VENEZUELAN SECURITY

ORGANIZATIONS, FOR THIS INFORMATION SEE EMBASSY CARACAS TELEGRAM

12667 0F 26 OCTOBER 19760}

2.

SOURCE OF PARAGRAPHS 3. AND 4: A VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT

EMPLOYEE WHOSE POSITION GIVES HIM ACCESS TO OFFICIAL REPORTS ON

VARIOUS SUBJECTS, HIS RELIABILITY HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED.

_THIS INFORMATION IS NOT TO BE DISCUSSED WITH ANY FOREIGN OFFICIALS,

INCLUDING THOSE OF THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT.

3. DESPITE DENTS BY SOME -OFFICIALS OF THE VENEZUEL AN GOVERN

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MENT, RICARDO MORALES NAVARETTE IS CHIEF OF THE FOREIGN ESPOINAGE

DIVISION OF THE VENEZUELAN DIRECTORATE FOR THE SERVICES OF

INTELLIGENCE AND PREVENTION (DISIP), THIS SECTION IS KNOWN AS

DIVISION 54, FURTHERMORE, MORALES IS HEADING THE VENEZUELAN

INVESTIGATION OF THE 6 OCTOBER 1976 BOMBING OF A CUBANA AIRLINER!

IN THIS CAPACITY; MORALES RECEIVES AND MAINTAINS ALL INFORMATION

ON THE CUBANA CASE, INCLUDING

INFORMATION WHICH CONNECTS HIM,

MORALES, WITH THE CUBAN EXILE MOVEMENT AND INDIVIDUALS IMPLICATED

IN THE CUBANA CASE, (FIELD COMMENT: FOR AN EARLIER

REPORT ON

MORALES' CONNECTIONS WITH CUBAN EXILE LEADER ORLANDO

BOSCH.

WHO IS CURRENTLY UNDER DETENTION IN CARACAS IN CONNECTION

WITH

THE CUBANA AFFAIRO SEE VES%514 TDEIRDE 3154182656-764

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OCTOBER, FROM A USUALLY RELIABLE SOURCE. I

4. AS HEAD OF THE INVESTIGATING TEAM, MORALES ISSUES PRESS

RELEASES ON THE CASE UNDER THE ALIAS "COMMISSIONER JIMENEZ." IN

ORDER TO AVOID DIRECT CONTACT WITH NEWSMEN, MORALES IS NOT

UTILIZING HIS USUAL DISIP OFFICES, BUT RATHER MAINTAINS SEPARATE

FACILITIES.

5. SOURCE OF PARAGRAPHS 69I A VENEZUELAN WITH CLOSE

CONTACTS AMONG VENEZUELAN SECURITY OFFICIALS, HIS RELIABILITY

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HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED VEN'

6: DURING THE WEEK OF I NOVEMBER, DI SIP DIRECTOR RETIRED

GENERAL RAUL

GIMENEZ

GAINZA SAID THAT MORALES IS STILL

WORKING AT DISIP AND IS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THE CUBANA INVESTI

GATION. IN AN EFFORT TO MITIGATE ANY FURTHER PUBLICITY CONCERN-

ING MORALES AND HIS CONNECTION WITH THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT,

GIMENEZ SAID ME HAS UFFICIALLY RELIEVED MORALES AS CHIEF OF

DIVISION 54. THE RECORDS ANNOUNGING MORALES' REMOVAL HAVE BEEN

BACK-DATED TO 1 OCTOBER.

Ven

GIMENEZ SAID THAT HE IS AWARE THAT CIRO

CHIEF EDITOR OF "BOHEMIA" MAGAZINE, HAS IN HIS POSSESSION A

DISTY CIRCULAR ANNOUNCING THE

APPOINTMENT OF MORALESAS CHIEF

OF DISIPIS DIVISION 54, MEDINA, GIMENEZ SAID, IS ATTEMPTING TO

HAVE THE CIRCULAR REPRINTED IN THE VENEZUELAN PRESS, BUT THUS

FAR, HAS BEEN UNABLE TO FIND AN OUTLET WILLING TO PUBLISH IT.

8. MORALES, GIMENEZ SAID, WAS APPOINTED TO DIS IP ON

THE RECOMMENDATION OF ORLAND

GARCIAL A SECURITY ADVISER

TO PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRES

PEREZ.

THE CIRCULAR APPOINTING

MORALES IS SIGNED BY GIMENEZ AND ACCORDING TO GIMENEZ, WAS APPROVED

#BY OCTAVIO

EP:A

GE, MINISTER-OF INTERIOR, AN PRESIDENT

PEREZ.

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