INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION CABLE: SUBJECT - PLOT OF JOSE RICARDO RABEL NUNEZ TO USE JURE'S M/V VENUS IN A POSSIBLE RAID AGAINST CUBA
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: JMWAVE
To: WH/SA 8
Document date: 02/15/1965
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- 1. AS OF 2 FEBRUARY 1965, JOSE RICARDO RABEL NUNEZ, CAPTAIN

OF THE MAN VENUS, WAS STILL PLOTTING AGÍNGT ANUEL RAY RIVERO,

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LEADER OF THE JUNTA REVOLUCIONARIA CUENNA (UUR:, CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY

SOMETIME BEFORE THE END C- FLERJARI RISEL PLANS TO TAKE

OVER THE IV VENUS, THE TWO BOSTON WALI:S, VENUS NO. I AND VENUS

NO. 2, ANO ALL THE WEAPONS AND LOL INiTI MEN JURE HAS AT ITS

LUMINICAN ENSE. HE IS SELIEVED TO SE FLINNING TO EXFILTRATE HIS

WIFE FROM CUBA AND/OR PLANNING TO USE THE VENUS IN A COMMANDO RAID

AGAINST A UNIDENTIFIED CUBAN TARGET. MI WILL THEN PROCLLO TO AN

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WILL BE CACHED. AFTER THE VESSEL HAS GEEN STRIPPED OF ARMS, HE

WILL PROCEED TO MIAMI AND RELINQUISH CONSAND OF THE VESSEL TO THE

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES. THE WEAPONS ON THE KEY WILL

THEN BE-USED TO ARM A 50-FOOT CRAFT BELONGING TO PEPIN CARBONEL,

A FORMER MEMBER OF JURE WHO HAD BELN ABCARO THE VENUS. AS OF 2

FEGRUARY, THE VENUS WAS ANCHOREO DiE THE MAINA RIVER BUT WAS TO BE

TAKEN TO THE OZAMA RIVER NEAR SANTO DOMINGO WITHIN A WEEK.

29 RAY THINKS THE PLOTTING HAS SUBSIDED ANG GAVE RABEL $1, 8852S

ON 350 JANUARY TO COVER BOAT EXPENS SO ML ALSO GAVE EACH MAN

AT THE BASE $58.

ON Z FEERUARY, THE FOLLOWING: CREW MEMBERS LEFT JURE'S

DOMINICAN BASE FOR PUERTO RICO ABO. RO THE SHARK VO A CRAFT OWNED

DY ENRIQUENCASADOS, A CUBAN EXILE IMO FISHES NEAR BEATA ISLANO IN

THE DOMINICAN REPUELIC: ALSERTON: ONSO CRUZ, ROBERTO CANAL

GARCIA, RAFAELIMAXOLA, ABELAÑCONIO INGUEZ, MANIELAGARCIA FERNANDEZ,

AND LISTORIEL TORRES JONARAON. IF ELS CONSENT: CSDO-312/80002-04,

DATED 19 OCTOBER 1904, REPORTED TM.I INSIQUE CASADO CUERVO WAS THE

OWNER OF A "MOTHER GOAT" WHICH WAS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC IN

ABOUT LATE SEPTEMBER AND WHICH WAS RELATED TO IN ALLEGED ATTEMPT

BY RAY TO ENTER CUBA. THE SMARA V IS BELIEVED TO BE A FORMER U.S.

NAVY CUTTER, ABOUT EL FEET LONG:) PNEN THE NE ARRIVED IN PUERTO

RICO, THEY WENT TO THE HOME OF RAY WHEPE TREY VERE FURNISHED PLANE

TICKETS TO MIAMI BY RAY'S WIFE DIOCENCIO,LEAL HAD DEPARTED, FOR.

MIANI PREVIOUSLY FROM THE ELVINICAN REPUGLIC AÑOARD THE MY TITAN.

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(FiELO CONMENT: A CUBAN EXILE WITT EXCELLENT CONTACT IN THE ANTILLEAN

MARINE STIPPING CORPORATION IN MI: 11 REPORTED THAT INCOCENTE LEAL

MERRERA ARRIVED IN MIAMI ABOARD IT.: M/V TITAN FROM SANTO DOMINGO

AT 18:NO A.M. ON 9 FESRUARY, THE :ITiL IS ONE OF SEVERAL CARGO

VESSELS USED BY THE ANTILLEAN MARI LE SHIPPING CORPORATION IN TRADE

THROUGHOUT THE CARIBEAN) • IN ADITION TO RASEL, THE FOLLOWING

PERSONS REMAINED ABOARO THE VENUS: GILBERTO EVIDI TIMORRA RICAZARA

MAXIMOOEIGADO FROMETA, PAELO TEZAINDEZ PEREZ, ANO MUSCRRATOS

ARALUCE.

4. ON 9 FEBRUARY RAY SAID IN ! IAMI THAT HENCEFORTH HE WOULO:

INFORM POTENTIAL RECRUITS THAT THEY WOULD BE UNDER VERBAL AGREEMENT

TO REMAIN AT HIS BASE FOR AT LEAST THREE MONTHS SEFORE UNDERTAKING

ANY OPERATIONS.

5.. ALSO ON O FEERUARY, RAY SAID THAT ME HAD A MEETING WITH

SOME UNIDENTIFIED VENEZUELAN LAUS LEADETS IN MIAMI. HE LEFT FOR

PUERTO RICO AT 1:35 P.M. ON 9 FIS JARY.

6. FIELO COMMENT: FOR PREVIOiS REPORTING ON RAY'S INTERNAL .

PROELEMS WITHIN JURE, SEE TOCSDS: 15/10301-65 AND

TDCSDS-315/145283-65.

7• FIELD DISSEM: CINCLANT, CINESO, CONKNISTEOR, MIAMI REPS

OF STATE, USCG, BORDER PATROL, LUIS, FOI AND CUSTONS.

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