MEMO:VICTOR ESPINOSA HERNANDEZ
Originator: CIA
Document date: 1977-04-27 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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TITLE : MEMO: VICTOR ESPINOSA HERNANDEZ

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SEGRET

27 April 1977

SUBJECT : Victor Espinosa Hernandez

REFERENCE:

SSC Final Report (Book V), Pages 78, 79,

and 105 - (A Cuban Exile)

Subject arrived in the United States on 2 May 1960.

granted a POA on 18 October 1960 for participation in operations

against the Cuban regime.

He was terminated on 20 March 1961 as

malcontent.

in Jas Angetir

In July 1963, Subject was involved with the purchase and

of 2400 pounds of dynamite,

100 pounds of practice bombs and

other related material, and with plotting to bomb

the Shell Oil Com-

pany and other Cuban targets.

Since the FBI felt that the aerial at-

tack on Cuba had been

effectively thwarted by seizure of the munitions

and impounding of the aircraft,

they contemplated no criminal action

at that time against subject and his conorts.

On 2 May 1965, Subject contacted an INS officer who, on the

basis of information in Subject's story which appeared to, affect U.s.

security, notified the FBI.

On the same day (2 May 9965), Subject

by the FBl ang CIA was notified on 3 May 1965.

contacted Subject on 4 Marm the New York field office of the FBI.

The gist of Subject's story was that he was aware that AMLASh and

others had been planning a coup which involved the assassination of

Castro and that CIA had been involved with AMLASH and others in the

plotting.

In a 9 June 1965 cable from Headquarters to Paris and Madrid,

DIRECTOR 17510, Headquarters advised the Paris and Madrid Stations that

"it evident that security of our Cuban ops in some cases and our own

compartmentation not all that we would desire.

Urge therefore that

Stations concerned continue take such steps as feasible to improve se-

201-File

5.

The Ageney does not have copies of the FBl reports cited ir

Book V of the SSC Final Report

6. The information supplied by subjects adds little, if anything,

to the overall SSC report.

It simply shows that the SSC was reviewing

every lead.

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