Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 08/29/1968
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_NUMBER:

124-10201-10372

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE_ NUMBER: 45-10848-2

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

SAC, MM

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 08/29/1968

PAGES: 7

SUBJECT: LANCASTRIAN PRINCESS, LOCATION OF BOMB, SUSP, UNK, TRA

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Confidential

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

04/06/1998

Redact

UPDATE DATE:

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

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NR

-6/15 AM

URGENT

8029/68

VIA TELETYPE

AUG 2 $ 1968

EDT.. ADE

ENCIPHERED

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FROM MIAMI

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Declassity on:

CAUN

6-13-83

Mr. Tolson_

Mr. DeLoach

Mr. Mohr

Mr. Bishop-

Mr. Casper.

Mr. Callahan

Mr. Conrad

Mr. Felt

Mr. Gale.

"Mr. Woßen

Mr. Sullivan

Mr. Taxel

Pok Trotter.

Tele. Room_

Miss Holmes

Miss Gandy

declin

ON CONTAINE

XGUASSIFIED

BACKEI RAZIE SHOWN

OTHDRWISE

UNSUBS; ATTEMPT TO DYNAMITE THE BRITISH FREIGHTER LANCASTRIAN

RINCESS" ON HIGH SEAS AUGUST TWO EIGHT, SIXTYEIGHT, CHS - FOTUV•

plancemi

99-4494

AT NINE THIRTY PM AUGUST IWENTY EIGHT SIXTY EIGHT

U.S. COAST GUARD; MIAMI NOTIFIED MIAMI THAT A BOMB HAD

BEEN FOUND ATTACHED TO THE "LANCASTRIAN PRINCESS", A BRITISH

FREIGHTER, ANCHORED ABOUT THREE MILES OFF MIAMI BEACH BY

CAPTAIN TOM BRODIE, BOMB EXPERT OF DADE COUNTY SO AND.

SO DIVING EXPERTS WHO WERE ABOARD THE VESSEL ALONG WITH USCG

AND

US CUSTOMS REPRESENTATIVES •

IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER MIAMI CONDUCTED THE FOLLOWING

INVESTIGATION ABOARD THIS VESSEL • CAPTAIN BRODIE ADVISED THAT

DADE COUNTY SO DIVING EXPERT. LOCATED THE BOM:

REC- 103ON. THE

2016.

•DILGE KEEL AMID SHIP ABOUT FIFTEEN FEET BELOW THE WATER LINE..

THE BOMB WAS SECURED TO A METAL GIRDER BY MEANS OF

A HEAVY

25 SEP 4

1968

CHAIN AND PADLOCK• THE BOMB CONSISTED OF A STEEL CASING ABOUT

THIRTY INCHES LONG, POINTED AT ONE END AND SEALED AT THE OTHER

END INSIDE WERE ABOUT TEN STICKS OF TWO INCH BY TWENTY FOUR

5

LUCH DURONT RED CROSS DYNAMITE ONE STEN

1S, BLOWN OPEN BY

SEP 4

1968

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PAGE FOUR

Uza be too a bask

THE SHIPS OWNER TO PUT INTO THE NEAREST PORT, MIAMI, TO HAVE THE

VESSEL CHECKED FOR A BOMB AS A RESULI OF A USCE ALERT • HE EXPECTS

TO SAIL FOR MANCHESTER MOMENTARILY, UPON RECEIVING USCE

CLEARANCE.

REFERENCE IS MADE TO MIAMI TELETYPE TO BUREAU AUGUST

IWENTY EIGHT LAST ENTITLED QUOTE MOVIMIENTO INSURRECCIONAL DE

RECUPERACION REVOLUCIONARIA, AKA, CUBAN POWER GROUP OF ORLANDO

BOSCH AVILA), IS - CUBA END QUOTE. THE MIRR IS AN ANTI CASTRO

ORGANIZATION OF CUBÁN EXILES HEADED BY FORMER CUBAN MEDICAL

DOCTOR ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA• HE HAS CREATED A SECRET AUXILIARY

ACTION GROUP KNOWN AS CUBAN POWER AND HE HAS ISSUED PRESS

RELEASES UNDER THE NAME "ERNESTO, GENERAL DELEGATE, CUBAN POWER"

CLAIMING CREDIT FOR FOUR SHIP BOMBINGS SINCE MAY FOUR LAST

ON EVENING AUGUST TWENTY SEVEN LAST OSCAR ANGULO REYES, PSI-UD,

WHO HAS FURNISHED SOME RELIABLE INFO IN THE PAST AND WHO IS

WELL ACQUAINTED WITH SOME MEMBERS OF BOSCH'S ORGANIZATION,

REPORTED THAT BOSCH DISCLOSED ON EARLY EVENING AUGUST. TWENTY

...

SEVEN THAT A BOMB HAD BEEN PLACED BY CUBAN POWER ON THE

"LANCASTER PRINCESS", A BRITISH VESSEL, ABOUT NINE DAYS PREVIOUSLY :

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CRAFTER LAS

PAGE FIVE.

DID NOT DISCLOSE PORT WHERE BOMB WAS PLACED AND HE CAUTIONED

ANGULO NOT TO MENTION NAME THIS VESSEL • MIAMI IMMEDIATELY

NOTIFIED USCG, MIAMI, WHO ADVISED THAT NO VESSEL BY THIS NAME

HAD BEEN IN MIAMI, PORT EVERGLADES, OR LAKE WORTH, BUT THAT

THE "LANCASTRIAN PRINCESS", BRITISH REGISTRS DEPARTED AUGUST

TWENTY SEVEN FROM MOBILE, ALA•, FOR MANCHESTER, ENGLAND• USCG

ADVISED IT WOULD IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SHIPS AGENIS LAU

PREVIOUS INVESTIGATION HAS DISCLOSED THAT BOSCH'S GROUP•

HAS THREATENED TO BOMB SHIPS OF COUNTRIES TRADING WITH FIDEL

CASTRO AND THAI THEY CONSTRUCT BOMBS UTILIZING A BATTERY CONTROLLED •

TIME DELAY DEVICE WHICH IN THE CASE OF THE JAPANESE FREIGHTER

"ASAKA MARU" DELAYED THE EXPLOSION FOR APPROXIMATELY FOUR

DAYS LSINCE BOSCH EXPECTED INSTANT DYNAMITE TO GO OFF ON

AUGUST TWENTY SEVEN IT APPEARS THAT THE BOMB MAY HAVE. BEEN

PLACED ON THE "LANCASTRIAN PRINCESS" ON AUGUST TWENTY THREE

WHILE DOCKED AT NEW ORLEANS

*(u)

FOR THE CONFIDENTIAL INFO OF HOUSTON, NEW ORLEANS, AND

MOBILE, THE DUPONT RED CROSS DYNAMITE IN THIS CASE DID NOT

EXPLODE BECAUSE IT IS SIMQUL

ATED DYNAMITE FURNISHED BOSCH,

WITH BUREAU APPROVAL, BY A MIAMI SOURCE WHO WAS APPROACHED BY

BOSCH FOR EXPLOSIVES •

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BY SEPARATE COMMUNICATION MIAMI WILL FURNISH NEW ORLEANS

AND MOBILE WITH PHOTOS OF THE KNOWN ACTION MEN IN BOSCH'S

ORGANIZATION•

THE BUREAU LAB WILL BE REQUESTED TO COMPARE THE FINGERPRINTS

OF BOSCH AND HIS ACTION MEN WITH ANY LATENTS DEVELOPED ON THE

COMPONENIS OF THE BOMB •

OFFICES RECEIVING THIS COMMUNICATION ARE REMINDED THAT

ANY PUBLICITY CONCERNING THE FINDING OF THIS BOMB ON THE

"LANCASTRIAN PRINCESS COULD JEOPARDIZE THE SECURITY AND LIFE

OF ANGULO A A

MIAMI HAS REQUESTED LOCAL AGENCIES AND CAPTAIN

MARSHALL TO TREAT THIS MATTER CONFIDENTIALLY.

NEW ORLEANS AND MOBILE ARE REQUESTED TO IMMEDIATELY CONDUCT

APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION IN THE AREA WHERE THIS VESSEL WAS DOCKED

WHILE IN THOSE PORTS. PHOTOS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF BOSCH'S KNOWN ACTION

MEN WILL BE PROMPTLY FURNISHED NEW ORLEANS AND MOBILE.

MIAMI WILL IMMEDIATELY FORWARD TO THE BUREAU LAB THE

ENTIRE BOMB AND ITS COMPONENTS FOR LATENT FINGERPRINI EXAMINATION

AND. LAB STUDY. MIAMI WILL MAINTAIN CLOSE CONTACT WITH SOURCES

AND INFORMANTS FOR ADDITIONAL INFO AND WILL ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE

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