Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DIRECTOR, FBI
To: MI-5
Document date: 12/31/1969
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-11-2017

JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_NUMBER:

124-10200-10355

RECORD_SERIES:

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AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 45-10854-140

¿DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

DIRECTOR. FBI

DATE: 12/31/1969

PAGES: 1

SUBJECT:

DOCUMENT_TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

OBA, ASSOC, SHIP BOMBINGS, CONSPR, EXTORTION, MRR

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

04/07/1998

Redact

UPDATE DATE:

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

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Released inter

The

DATE: 11-14-2017

issassination Records

Election not of 1992 (14 USe 2107 Hote) .

SECRET

1:- V. H. Nasca

ALE INFORILATION CONTAINED

PEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

IXCEPT WHERE SHOWH

OTHERNISE

December 31, 1969

16/30

RE: ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA

This will confirm information orally furnished

to

Ir. Barry Russell. Jones

1969.

by Mr. W. R. Wannall on December 30,

Orlando Bosch Avila and eight co-defendants were

sentenced in Decenber, 1968, on charges relating to ship

bombings, conspiracy and extortion.

Bosch was the leader of

the Movimiento Insurreccional de Recuperacion Revolucionaria

(MIRR), an anti-Castro organization, and the eight co-defendants

were members of the same group.

The eight co-defendants,

who are out on bond, and Bosch, who is serving a ten-year

term, have appealed their convictions.

prison

The date of the appeal

hearing has been set for January 6, 1970, in Jacksonville,

Florida.

A source who has furnished reliable information in

the past learned that two of the co-defendants plan to put

an action into offect prior to January 6, 1970, in anticipation

that their appeal will fail.

This action deals with a plad

to bomb a ship of a country which trades with cuba.

This

attack will allegedly take place in the port of Miami, Floride

The identity of the target is unknown..

-Those involved have

allegedly scquired a small boat, a motor and some explosines

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Declassity on: OADE

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6/21

NOTE:

Broupsh ships have previously been targeted by Bosch's

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disclosure of this informatio

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continuing value.

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