Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LEG, CARACAS
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 10/8/76
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_ NUMBER: 124-10206-10353

RECORD SERIES: HO

AGENCY FILE_NUMBER: 2-2173-21

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

LEG. CARACAS

TO: DIRECTOR. FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 10/08/1976

PAGES: 8

SUBJECT:

OBA, CUBANA AIRLINES, BOMBING, SUSP, BKG, EMP, TRA, ASSOC, AFFIL

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

05/11/1998

Redact

UPDATE DATE:

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (1)(B)

JFK Act 6 (1)(C)

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

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INSUBS; SUSPECTED BOMBING OF CUBANA AIRLINES DC-E HEAR BARBADOS, MUSTR

INDIES, OCTOBER 6e 1976, NM - CUBA - WEST INDIES.

RECARTEL OCTOBER™S, 1976; BUTEL OCTOBER 8,

1976 pruded

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LOZANO IS A NEW'S PHOTOGRAPHER AND FREE-LANCE RE-

Veneauda

PORTER AFFIL LATEO WITH THE MAGALINE VISTON ME ARE ALSO EMPROYED

AS AN INDUSTRIAL INVESTIGATOR BY INVEST IGACIONES COMERCIALES E IN

DUSTRIALES, COAO (ICI), AN INDUSTRIAL SECURITY FIRM OPERATED BY LUIS.

POSADA, FORMER HEAD OF COUNTERINTELLIGENCE DIVISION, CARAÇAS,

VENEZUELA (5) 21-100

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POSADA, A CUBAN EXILE WHO IS NOW

A VENEZUELAN CITIZEN, IS STRONGLY

ANTI-CASTRO AND WAS SUSPECTED OF HÄVING BEEN THE MAIN SUPPORTER OF

CRLANDO BOSCH AVILA DURING BOSCH'S PRESENCE IN VENEZUELA PRIOR IO HIS

APRESS ON DOVENES 1O, 1973. CLEGAT BECAME ACQUAINTED WIIN PASADA IN

THE COURSE OF OFFICIAL BUSINESS DURING

PERIOD POSADA WAS AN OFFICIAL.

OF DISIP. (S)

Classified fy 3P3C

Declassion:

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•HERNAN RICARDO LOZANO FIRST BECAME KNOWN TO LEGAT IN APPROXIMATELY

JUNE, 1974, WHEN HE CONTACTED LEGAT FOR ASSISTANCE IN EXPEDITING THE

PROCESSING OF A VISA TO THE U.S. THAT HAD BEEN REQUESTED FOR THE MINOR

SON OF THE THEN DIRECIOR OF DISIP, DRO PEDRO ARTURO TORRES AGUDO.

LEGAT WAS LED TO BELIEVE RICARDO WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF DISIP AND

ASSISTANCE WAS PROVIDED THAT RESULTED IN THE PROMPT ISSUANCE OF A

VISA TO THE TORRES AGUDO CHILD

(g)

RICARDO RECONTACTED LEGAT A FEW WEEKS LATER TO EXPRESS HIS

APPRECIATION FOR ASSISTANCE PREVIOUSLY RENDERED, AND LEGAT THEN BE-

CAME AWARE RICARDO WAS MERELY AN AUXILIARY MEMBER OF DISIP, AND THAT

HE WAS ACTUALLY IN THE PERSONAL SERVICE OF LUIS POSADA RICARDO RE-

VEALED HE WAS ALSO A NEWSPAPER REPORTER AND PHOTOGRAPHER AFFILIATED

WITH THE MAGAZINE "VISION," AND INDICATED HE DEVOTED MOST OF HIS TIME

RESEARCHING NEWS ARTICLES INTENDED TO DISCREDIT THE CASTRO GOVERN-

MENT. HE CLAIMED PARTIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR A NEWSPAPER ARTIQE THAT

APPEARED IN A CARACAS NEWSPAPER ABOUT

THAT TIME, REVEALING THE

FRESENCE OF CUBAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS IN CUBAN EMBASSY IN CARACAS. (

RICARDO CONTACTED LEGAI APPROXIMATELY FOUR TIMES AFTER THE

INITIAL VISIT, AND ON TWO OCCASIONS FURNISHED PHOTOGRAPHS AND BIOGRAPHIC

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DATA ON MEMBERS

ESTHE CUBAN EMBASSY WHICH WERE OBVIOUSLY OBTAINED

FROM DISIP FILES.

DURING ONE VISIT, RICARDO SUGGESTED LEGAI MIGHT

WISH TO MAKE SOME

SUGGEST IONS REGARDING COURSES OF ACTION THAT MIGHT

BE TAKEN AGAINST THE CUBAN EMBASSY IN CARACAS BY AN ANTI-CASTRO GROUP

OF WHICH HE FORMED PART. LEGAT INFORMED RICARDO SUCH WAS NOI PART

OF THE FUNCTION OF THE LEGAL ATTACHE'S OFFICE, AND THAT IN ANY EVENT,

LEGAT PERSONALLY ABHORRED TERRORIST ACTIVITIES REGARDLESS OF WHOM

THEY MIGHT BE DIRECIED AGAINST• LEGAT POINTED OUT TO RICARDO THAT

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WAS DOING EVERYTHING IT COULD TO PREVENT DISRUP -

TIVE AND TERRORIST ACTIONS BY ANTI-CASTRO GROUPS IN THE US. RICARDO

DID NOT AGAIN REPEAT THE SUGGESTION&

LEGAT WAS SURPRISED BY APPEARANCE OF RICARDO AT AMERICAN EMBASSY

ON SEPTEMBER 3D, 1976. IHE LAST CONTACI WITH RICARDO HAD BEEN EARLY

IN DECEMBER, 1975, WHEN RICARDO TELEPHONED LEGAT AND INVITED HIM TO

A LUNCH OF VENEZUELAN SPECIALTIES PREPARED DURING THE HOLID

SEASON.

LEGAT DECLINED INVITATION, CITING A PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENT.

ON SEPTEMBER 3D, 1976, RICARDO INFORMED LEGAT HE HAD A PHOTO-

GRAPHIC ASSIGNMENI FOR "VISION" MAGAZINE IN JAMAICA AND WAS IN NEED

OF A VISA TO IME US SINCE HE PLANNED A TWO-DAY STOPOVER IN PUERTO RICO.

HE SAID HE HAD FIRST CONTACTED A TRAVEL AGENCY TO MAKE ARRANGEMENIS (AUL).

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CONSUL HE HAD NO REASON TO BELIEVE RICARDO WOULD NOT RETURN TO CARACAS.

THE VICE CONSUL INDICATED IN IHAI CASE A VISA WOULD BE ISSUED TO

RICARDO, AND HE WAS ASKED TO RETURN TO THE CONSULAR SECTION. UPON

TAKING LEAVE OF LEGAT, RICARDO INDICATED HE MIGHT ALSO VISIT NEW

YORK CITY BEFORE RETURNING TO CARACAS, AND MENTIONED IN PASSING

THAT BESIDES JAMAICA, HE MIGHT ALSO BE VISITING BARBADOS IN CONNEC

TION WITH HIS PICTORIAL ASSIGNMENT FOR "VISION." RICARDO WAS NOT

SEEN AFTER THAT

IN A CONCRETEN ATMON OFICEAL OF OLETTER OCTUSE 1, 1876,

LEGAT BROACHED THE SUBJECT OF RICARDO AND OF THE FAINT SUSPICION IHAT

RICARDO MAY HAVE BEEN SOMEHOW INVOLVED. IN THE BOMBING OF THE GUYANESE

CONSULATE IN PORI-OF-SPAIN. LEGAT ADMITTED THERE WAS NO SUBSTANTIVE

EVIDENCE OF RICARDO'S IMPLICAT BUT THAT THE COINCIDENCE OF HIS

FRESENCE THERE AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME, COUPLED WITH HIS EMPLOYMENT

RELATIONSHIP WITH LUIS POSADA, HAD GIVEN LEGAT CAUSE TO WONDER.

THE DISIP OFFICIAL RELATED DISIP HAD NO REASON TO BELIEVE RICARDO WAS

THE CALIBER OF INDIVIDUAL THAT WOULD BE UTILIZED IN SUCH AN OPERATION,

AND THAT RICARDO WAS NOT KNOW TO BE INVOLVED IN SUCH ACTIVITIES, IN

SPITE OF HIS ASSOCIATION WITH POSADAJ(S)

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SON OCTOBER 8, 1976, A SECOND CONFIDENT IAL SOURCE ADVISED HE HAD

BEEN INFORMED THAI CUBAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE OFFICERS HAD PROCEEDED

TO PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD, FROM CLBA ON OCTOBER 7, 1976, AND HAD

SUBJECTED THE TWO ARRESTED VENEZUELANS TO INTENSIVE INTERROGATIONS. (5)

RICARDO

WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 9, 1954, AT CARACAS, VENEZUELA.

HE HOLDS VENEZUELAN PASSPORT NO. 850939, ISSUED ON MAY 14, 1975,

AT CARACAS.

HE HAS VENEZUELAN IDENTITY CARD (CEDULA) NO.

ADMINISTRATIVE: CONFIDENT IAL SOURCE IS RICARDO MORALES

NAVARRETE, HEAD, COUNTERINTELLIGENCE DIVISION, DISIP, CARACAS,

VENEZUELA.

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THE . SECOND

CONFIDENI IAL SOURCE IS ORLANDO GARCIA VASQUEZ,

PECIAL ADVISOR TO DIRECTOR, DISIP, CARACAS, VENEZUELA. @(S)

THE DISIP OFFICIAL MENT IONED IS RICARDO MORALES NAVARRETE.

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