Originator: FBI
From: SAC, MM
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 10/22/1976
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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124-10213-10375

2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10213-10375

RECORD_SERIES: HO

AGENCY FILE_ NUMBER: 2-2173-158

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SAC. MM

TO: DIRECTOR. FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 10/22/1976

PAGES: 2

SUBJECT:

CUBANA AIRLINES, REPORTER, HERALD NEWSPAPER, FABRICIO, ROBERTO,

SUSP, ARRESTED

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

12/05/1996

Redact

UPDATE DATE:

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (1)(B)

COMMENTS:

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Training

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CLEAR

Direetor So:y

UNSUBS; SUSPECTED BOMBING OF CUBANA AIRLINES DO-S NEAR BARBADOS.

WEST INDIES OCIOBER 61976 NM - CUBA - WEST INDIES.

RE BUREAU TELETYPE TO MIAMI, OCTOBER 19, 1976.

ON OCTOBER 22, 1976, ROBERTO FABRICIO, REPORTER, MIAMI

HERALD NEWSPAPER, MIAMI, FLORIDA, ADVISED HE LEFT MIAMI AND O

WENI TO BARBADOS IMMEDIATELY AFTER, THE OCTOBER 6, 1976,

CRASH OF CUBAN AIRLINES PLANE NEAR BARBADOS®

ON ARRIVAL IN BARBADOS, HE FOUND OUT THAT THE SUSPECIS,

FREDDY LUGO AND HERMAN RICARDO LOZANO, HAD BEEN ARRESTED AND

TAKEN TO TRINIDAD. FABRICIO DID NOT GO TO TRINIDAD BECAUSE

BWIA AIRLINES WAS ON STRIKE AND. NO TRANSPORTATION WAS AVAILABLE.

FABRICIO NOTICED THAT IN BARBADOS THERE WERE A NUMBER OF

AT? TIFORNATION CONTALED

GOVERAMENT AND CUBAN OFFICIALS REPRESENTING THE GUZAN FA 15 8

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

EXCEPT WHERE SHOR

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Doctoraly on: CAR gane see

OCT 29 1976

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8-73

to CIA Caracas

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OMANG THEN ASKED IF THE VISA WAS ISSUED AND WHEN. THE IO REPLIED

"INAT "THÉ VISA WAS ISSUE OCTOBER I" OMING THEN WARD TO YMON

WHAT THE FIRST VISA WAS ABOUT. SHE WAS TOLD THAT "RICARDO WAS"

REFERRED TO MR. LEO TO HELP EXPEDITE/A VISA BEING REQUESTED FOR

THE MINOR CHILD OF THE THEN CHIEF OF DISIR THE VISA WAS

SUBSEQUENTLY OBTAINED.

3.. OMANG SAID THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME SHE HEARDLOF RICARDO WORKING

FOR DISTE AND ASKED WHAT HIS JOB NAS. THE IO REDLIED THAT ME MAD MO

INFORM AT TON ON IT. WHEN ASKED TF HE WORKED FOR THE DISTEST THAT

TIME, THE ID REPLIED "THAT IS MY UNDERSTANDING."

Russ

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40 OMANG THEN SAID THAT SHE WAS TOLD BY HER OFFICE IN WASHINGTON

THAT MR. LEO KNEW LUIS CARPILES POSADA AND ASKED FOR CONFIRMATION.

THE IO CONFIRMED THAT MR. LEO "KNEW POSADA CASUALLY WHEN HE WAS

EMPLOYED BY

DISIA.

MR. LEO WOULD SEE HIM ON ROUTINE VISITS TO

DISIP. "](5)

CHEL

VAKY

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