INSISTENCE OF ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA THAT THE MIRR BOMB THE CITY OF HABANA.
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SUBJ: 1• INSISTENCF. OF ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA THAT THE MIRR BOMB THE

CITY OF HABANA.

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COUNTRY CUBA

DATE OF 20 FEBRUARY 1965

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1. MIRR INTENTION TO BOMB ¡LABANA

2. USE UF AMERICAN PILOTS lIL MIRR AIR STRIKES

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DATE ACQ. UNITED STATES, MIAMI (22 FEERUARY 1965)

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APPRAISAL A MIAMI BUSINESSMAN WHO WAS A RESIDENT OF MABALA FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

THE SOURCE HAS CONTACIS WHO RECOGNIZE MIM AS A OAMEL TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE.

THIS INFORMATION MAS OBTAINED FROM GILE JOGISON.

- 1. ON 2$ FEBRUARY 1965, BILL JOHNSON, AN AMERICAN PILOT WHO

: ARRANGES THE SUPPORT ASPECTS JF AIR STRIKES AGAINST CURA BY ORLANDO

BOSCH AVILA'S MOVIMIENTO INSURRECCIONAL DE RECUPERACION REVOLUCION-

ARIA SMIRR, INSURRECTIONAL MOVEMENT FOR REVOLUTIONARY RECOVERY), SAID

THAT THE MIRR WAS MAKING 18%-POUNO "ASH CAN" BOMBS FOR SUBSEQUENT

RAIDS, "MORE THAN AMPLE TO BLOW UP THE OIL TANKS IN HABANA." JOHNSON

SAID THAT BOSCH STILL INTENDS TO BOMB HABANA, BUT. "IT WILL BE AGAINST

MY ADVICE". JOHNSON LATER ADMITTED THAT HIS OMN MOTIVATION IS PURELY

MERCENARY. (FIELD COMMENT: SEE: ECSD8-315/88558-65, DATED 16

FEBRUARY 1965, FOR INFORMATION ON BOSCH'S INSISTENCE THAT THE CITY

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OF HABANA BE THE MIRR'S NEXT TARGET. THIS MISSION WAS ORIGINALLY

SCHEDULED FOR 1Ó FEBRUARY.)

2. JOHNSON ALLEGED THAT THE PLANES OPERATING FOR THE MIRR ARE

LEAVING FROM THE UNITED STATES. WHEN

•TAMPA WAS MENTIONED AS A POSSIBLE

DEPARTURE POINT, JOHNSON SAID: "YOU'RE GETTING CLOSE."

3. JOHNSON SAID HIS SMALL GROUP PRACTICES GOOD SECURITY."

"WHEN VE GET A PLANE AND A PILOT, WE CONTRACT THEM FOR THREE OPERATIONS""

THE PLANES ARE FLOWN BY AMERICAN PILOTS SINCE "THE CUBAN PILOTS DON'T

HAVE THE GUTS. "

4. JOHNSON GLAIMED THAT JACK GRIFFIN, THE AMERICAN PILOT WHO

CRASH-LANDED A B-25 EARLIER THAT MORNING, HAD TAKEN PART IN A PREVIOUS

RAID ON CUBA. HOWEVIR, HE DID NOT KNOW IF THE DOWNEU B-25 HAD EVER BEEN

USED IN ANY RAIDS. JOHNSON SAID HE DOES NOT KNOW DAN SHAW,

GRIFFIN'S CO-PILOT ABOARD THE DOWNED B-25.

5º JOHNSON INSISTED THAT THE RAID WHICH THE IRR ANNOUNCED AS

HAVING TAKEN PLACE ON BAHIA HONDA ON 13 FEBRUARY HAD TAKEN PLACE

IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT CUBA HAS NOT ACKNOWLEDGED IT.

6. FIELD DISSEM: CINCLANT, CINCSO, COMKWESTFOR, MIAMI REPS OF

STATE, ¡BI, CUSTOMS, LENS, BORDER PATROL, AND USCG.

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