Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DIRECTOR, FBI
To: SAC, MM
Document date: 11/5/76
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_NUMBER:

124-10220-10001

RECORD_SERIES: HO

AGENCY FILE_ NUMBER: 2-2173-197

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

DIRECTOR. FBI

TO: SAC. MM

TITLE:

DATE: 11/05/1976

PAGES: 6

SUBJECT:

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

05/14/1998

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (1)(C)

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

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Assoc. Dir.

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UNSUBS; BOMBING OF

CUBANA AIRLINES DC-8 NEAR

BARBADOS, WEST INDIES, OCTOBER S, 1976. NEUTRAL ITY

MATTERS - CUBA - WEST INDIES.

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1975° LEGIOT, CANSCES ADVISES MAT

AFTÉR NO CONTACTS WHATSOEVER IN SEVERAL DAYS,

RICARDO MORALES NAVARRETE UNEXPECIEDLY TELEPHONED.

LEGAI AT HIS HOME ON THE NIGHT OF NOVEMBER GN GO UYN: •

AND EXPRESSED THE DESIRE TO VISIT LEGAT AT HIS OFFICE

ON THE MORNING OF NOVEMBER 4, 1976.(A)(U)

AT APPROXIMATELY 12 AM ON NOVEMBER 4, 1976,

MORALES TELEPHONED LEGAT AND SAID HE WAS NOT ABLE TO

LEAVE THE PLACE WHERE HE WAS AND IHAT HE WOULD NOT BE

ASLE TO SEE LEGAT IN HIS OFFICE AS HE HAD HOPED..

HE

SAID HE WAS "GOING ACROSS THE BORDER" AND ASKED LEGAT

TO JOT DOWN HIS MOTHER'S TELEPHONE NUMBER IN MIAMI U

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THROUGH WHOM LEGAT COULD CONTACT HIM

IF HE (MORALES) SHOULD MANAGE "TO GET BACK." MORALES

SAID HE WISHED HE COULD DIVULGE SOME INFORMATION TO.

LEGAT FOR HE HAD A LOT TO TELL, BUT THAT IT WAS NOT

POSSIBLE AT THIS TIME. HE ASKED LEGAT TO. NOTE THE

NAME OF ONE PERSON WHO WAS "BEHIND EVERYTHING," AND

HE THEN UTTERED THE NAME, "REMBERTO. (R) M

CREMBERTO.UZ CATEGUI WAS DIRECTOR OF THE DIRECTORAIE (SJ

OF INTELLIGENCE AND PREVENTIVE SERVICES (DISIP) DURING:

THE PERIOD THAT LUIS POSADA CARRILES WAS UFILIATED

WITH THAT ORGANIZATION, AND LEGAT IS CERTAIN(UZ CERTAIN(UZCATEGUI](5]

IS THE INDIVIDUAL MORALES INTENDED TO INDICATE. WHAT

MORALES MEANT BY HIS CRYPTIC COMMENT THAT SAID INDI-

VIDUAL WAS "BEHIND EVERYTHING" IS NOT KNOWN, HOWEVER.

MORALES SAID NOTHING MORE AND TERMINATED THE TELEPHONE

CONVERSATION

IT IS BELIEVED MORALES WAS IN CARACAS AT THE TIME

HE PLACED THE TELEPHONE CALLS, BUT LEGAI HAS LEARNED

FROM A SOURCE THAT MORALES HAD BEEN SPIRITED TO.

MARACAIBO, VENEZUELA, BY DISIP OFFICIALS SHORTLY AFTER EDU

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MORALES® MUCH PUBLICIZED ALTERCATION AT THE CARACAS

AIRPORT WITH THREE AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ON OCTOBER 21, 19766J6)UL

LEGAI BEL IEVES MORALES IS NOW BEING SENT OUT OF

THE COUNT RY BY VENEZUEL AN GOVERNMENI OFFICIALS,

CoLomBiA

PROBABLY BY AUTOMOBILE TO COLORTETAND THAT MORALES

WILL SUBSEQUENTLY ATTEMPT TO RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES

FROM THERE. AFTER THE AIRPORT ALTERCATION, THE VENEZUELAN

KINISTRY OF INTERIOR NOT ONLY PUBLICLY DENIES THAT MORALES

WAS AFFILIATED WITH DISIP BUÏ DISCLAIMED ANY KNOWLEDGE OF HIM,

SO IT FOLLOWS THAT THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT WOULD WISH TO.

GET MORALES OUT OF THE WAY IN ORDER TO AVOID ANY FURTHER

EMBARRASSMENT

ON NOVEMBER 2, 1976, SUB-COMISARIO CARLOS FABBRI, HEAD,

EXPLOSIVES SECTION, DISIP, VISITED THE LEGAT OFFICE AND

EXPRESSED TO LEGAT HIS INDIGNATION AT HAVING BEEN SUMMONED TO

DISIP HEADQUARTERS AT 2 AM ON NOVEMBER I, 1976, AND SUBJECIED

TO AN INTENSIVE INTERROGATION BY ORLANDO GARCIA VASQUEZ,

MINISTER COUNPELLOR ATTACHED TO DISIP AND DE FACTO HEAD (5) 1

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REGARDING HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE BOMB OR BOMBS USED IN

THE SABOTAGE OF THE CUBANA AIRLINES PLANE ON OCTOBER 6, 1976.

FABBRI SAID PRESENT AT THE INTERROGATION WERE RAFAEL RIVAS VASQUEZ,

DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF DISIP, AND THREE OTHER UNKNOWN PERSONS WHOM

FABBRI DESCRIBED AS CUBANS. HE SAID HE WAS ACCUSED OF HAVING

FURNISHED HERMES ROJAS PERALT A WITH A PENCIL DETONATOR AND THAT

HE CATEGORICALLY DENIED IT. FABBRI STATED HE READILY

ADMITI ED ACQUAINTANCE WITH ROJAS, WHO. UP TO. TWO. YEARS

AGO HAD WORKED WITH HIM IN DISIP. HE SAID HE HAD

FURNISHED NO BOMB MATERIALS WHAISOEVER TO ANYONE.

FABBRI RELATED IMAI GARCIA WAS FINALLY CONVINCED I HAT

FABBRI HAD HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BOMBING: INCIDENT

AND THAT THE MEETING ENDED AMICABLY. FABBRI DID NOT

CONCEAL THAT HE WAS STILL UPSET BY THE INTERROGATION,

HOWEVER

Below into

to mism i ondy.

IS SUGGESTED THAT THE MIAMI OFFICE REMAIN ALERT

TO THE POSSIBLE RETURN OF RICARDO MORALES NAVARRETE TO THE

MIAMI AREA: IN IHE NEAR FUTURE. LEGAI BELIEVES MORALES

COULD SHED CONSIDERABLE LIGHT ON NOT OMY THE PERPETRATORSED (4)

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OF THE CUBANA AIRLINES CRASH BUT ALSO WHETHER OR NOT ORLANDO..

BOSCH AVILA WAS INVOLVED IN THE ORLANDO LETELIER ASSASSINATION.

WHILE MORALES MAY HAVE BEEN CONSTRAINED FROM DIVULGING FULL

INFORMATION WHEN HE WAS PHYSICALLY IN VENEZUELA, IT IS

BELIEVED THAT IF HE SHOULD RETURN TO. THE UNITED STATES

HE WILL BE READY AND VEL UNG TO DISCLOSE AL HE NONSEN U

INDERINIFE

NAME SEVERA

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