PROGRESS OF PLANS TO ASSASSINATE FIDEL CASTRO RUZ.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: MIAMI
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 01/18/1966
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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(FIELD COMMENT. THERE HAVE BEEN-A SERIES. OF ALLEGED PLOTS

¿ TO ASSASSINATE FIDEL CASTRO RUZ, PLANNED BY VARIOUS EMIGRES. AND

EMIGRE GROUPS IN MIAMI.).

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• AND HIS GROUP WERE READY TO LEAVE FOR CUBA TO CARRY OUT THEIR PLAN

• TO ASSASSINATE FIDEL CASTRO RUZ. (SOURCE COMMENT. AS OF 13 JANUARY

DIAZ HAD NOT BEEN SEEN AGAIN, AND IT IS POSSIBLE THAT HE LEFT MIAMI

FOR AN EMBARKATION POINT IN SOUTH FLORIDA.)

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THEIR PLAN TO ASSASSINATE CASTRO WAS COMPLETE.

THE ATTEMPT WILL BE

MADE AT AN UN:DENTIFIED BEACH WHERE CASTRO VISITS FOR SEVERAL DAYS

AT A TIME. WHEN CASTRO ARRIVES AT THE BEACH, UNNAMED PEOPLE IN THE

UNITED STATES WILL BE NOTIFIED.: (SOURCE COMMENT. PRESUMABLY THE

ASSASSINS WILL LEAVE THE UNITED STATES FOR CUBA AT THAT TIMÉ.)

PRINCE AND PELAEZ HOPE THAT NOTIFICATION OF CASTRO'. ARRIVAL AT.

THE BEACH WILL BE RECEIVED BEFORE THE END OF FEBRUARY.

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4. ACCORDING TO PRINCE AND PELAEZ, THE FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS

FOR: THE VENTURE WERE COMPLETE, EXCEPT FOR SOME MINOR LAST MINUTE

EXPENSES:

5.. PRINCE AND PELAEZ WERE ATTEMPTING TO OBTAIN SEVERAL MORPHINE

INJECTIONS AS WELL AS. TWO TRANSISTOR RADIOS AND SPARE "BATTERIES, FOR

AN UNSPECIFIED PURPOSE:

6. (FIELD COMMENT. A RECENT REPORT FROM THE SAME SOURCE

REPORTED THAT DIAZ, A MEMBER OF THE MOVIMIENTO REVOLUCIONARIO 30 DE

NOVIEMBRE (MRTN, 30 NOVEMBER REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT), PLANNED TO LEAVE

THE UNITED STATES ON ABOUT ID JANUARY FOR CUBA TO ATTEMPT TO

'ASSASSINATE CASTRO... THE SAME REPORT INDICATED THAT PRINCE AND

PELAEZ HAD POSTPONED THEIR PLAN.)

7• FIELD DISSEM. CINCSO, CINCLANT, COMKWESTFOR, MIAMI REPS. OF

STATE, FBI, I&NS, CUSTOMS, BORDER PATROL, USCG.

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