Agency: FBI
Originator: CIA
From: CIA
Document date: 12/7/76
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10220-10026

RECORD_SERIES: HO

AGENCY FILE_ NUMBER: 2-2173-1ST NR 211

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DATE: 12/07/1976

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STATUS

CUBANA AIRLINES, BOMBING, SUSP, OBA

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EARLY-MID-NOVEMBER 1976

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COMMENTS BY ORLANDO BOSCH ON THE BOMBING RE A CUBANA

AIRLINER

TSAY

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LVENEZUELA, CARACAS 111 NOVEMBER -1 DECEMBER 1976)

FIELD NO

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SUMMARY& WHILE DENYING HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE ASSASSINATION

OF FORMER CHILEAN FOREIGN MINISTER ORLANDO LETELiER, CUBAN EXILE

LEADER ORLANDO ERSCH

UPLIED THAT HE WAS INVOLVED IN THE BOMBING OF

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CUBANA AIRLINE

BOSCH SAID

THAT

PRESIDENT CARLOS

AN DE REPER 1976-

IS ANGRY AT HIM

BECAUSE HE BELIEVES THAT BUSCH BROKE HITS AGREEMENT

AND PLANNED THE CUBANA INCIDENT IN VENEZUELA, WHICH BOSCH DENIES.

•HERNAN RICARDO WHO IS ALSO IMPLICATED IN THE PLANE CRASH ADMITTED

INVOLVED IN THIS BOMBING AS WELLAS OTHERS.

FURTHERMORE E SALO THAT THE SUBAN EXILE GIMMUNITY IN VENEESELA

FBIINFORMATION CONTAINED JEK)

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HAS APPROXIMATELY 48 POUNDS OF COA EXPLOSIVE. END SUMMARY!

1.

•SOURCE OF PARAGRAPHS 200% A VENEZUELAN BUSINESSMAN WHOSE

ACTIVITIES BRING HIM INTO CLOSE CONTACT WITH VARIOUS GOVERNMENT :..:

OFFICIALS, HIS RELIABILITY HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED, HE RECEIVED ::

THE INFORMATION FROM SOMEONE WHO SPOKE WITH ORLANDO BOSCHI..

2,. IN MID-NOVEMBER 1976 CUBAN EXILE LEADER ORLANDO 8:O S CHA

WHO IS CURRENTLY UNDER DETENTION IN VENEZUELA IN CONNECTION WITH

THE 6 OCTOBER BOMBING OF A CUBANA AIRLINER, SAID THAT THE. BOMBING

OF THE PLANE IN THE AIR HAD BEEN A MISTAKE: ACCORDING TO THE PLAN,

THE PLANE WAS TO HAVE BEEN DESTROYED WHILE ON THE GROUND IN TRINIDAD

AND NOT IN THE AIR, BOSCH SAID, BOSCH ADDED THÄT IT WAS NOT INTENDED

-THAT ANY ONE SHOULD BE KILLED AND AS IT TURNED OUT, THE INCIDENT HAS

BEEN COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE, BOSCH BLAMED THIS ON THE STUPIDITY OF

HERNAN RE CAR DO AND FREDDY LUGO, WHO ARE CURRENTLY UNDER

ARREST IN CONNECTION WITH THE INCIDENT. ISOURCE COMMENTIWHILE:

BOSCH DID NOT ACTUALLY ADMIT THAT HE WAS INVOLVED IN THE CUBANA

BOMBING, MIS STATEMENT CLEARLY INDICATES THAT HE HAD PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

OF THE INCIDENT,?

3, BOSCH SAID THAT VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRES PERÉ E

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CUBANA INCIDENT. FROM VENEZUELA, THIS, BOSCH SAID, IS NOT TRUE.

BOSCH FURTHER ASSERTED. THAT HE HAS HONORED HIS AGREEMENT WITH PEREZ

THAT HE WOULD NOT CARRY

OUT ANTI-CUBAN ACTIVITIES IN VENEZUELA IF

PEREZ LET HIM ENTER VENEZUELA WITHOUT DIFFICULTY, (SOURCE COMMENT!

BOSCH: IMPLIED THAT, WHILE HE DID PLAN THE OPERATION, SUCH PLANS WERE

NOT CARRIED OUT IN VENEZUELA,).

4: BOSCH SAID THAT SHORTLY AFTER THE CUBANA CRASH, ORLANDO

GAR:C-I A0 PRESIDENT: PEREZ! INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY ADVISER

HÄD: PLÄNNED TO GET BOSCH OUT OF VENEZUELA: PRESIDENT. PEREZ,

" BELIEVING BUSCH. HAD GONE BACK ON HIS AGREEMENT, ORDERED GARCIA TO

ARREST BOSCH, GARCIA DIDI HOWEVER, WARN

BOS CH OF HIS FORTHCOMING

'"DETENTION AND GAVE HIM AN HOUR, AND

•A HALF TO ARRANGE HIS AFFAIRS

BEFORE GARCIA ARRESTED HIM, BOSCH SAID THAT AT THE TIME HE DID NOT.

REALLY TAKE GARCIA'S WARNING SERIOUSLY ETEL@ COMMENT:

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A USUALLY RELIABLE SOURCE

REPORTED THAT GARCIA INTENDED TO ESCORT BUSCH TO THE COLOMBIAN BÖRDER,?

• 5, IN DISCUSSING OTHER TERRORIST ACTS WITH WHICH HIS NAME HAS

BEEN LINKED, BOSCH DENIED HAVING BEEN IN ANY WAY INVOLVED WITH THE

MURDER OF FORMER CHILEAN-F GRETON MINISTER ORLANDO LE TEL

LER.

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PHASE UAL ALLENDE, NEPHEW OF THE LATE CHILEAN PRESIDENT

SALVADOR ALL ENDE, IN COSTA RICA IN FEBRUARY ARE COMPLETELY

FALSE, UNFORTUNATELY,

BOSCH SAID, HE HAS BEEN UNABLE TO CONVINCE

PEREZ OF HIS INNOCENCE WITH REGARD TO PASCUAL, i SOURCE COMMENTI

IT: IS: INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT BOSCH STRONGLY DENISE HIS INVOLVEMENT

IN THE LETELIER CASE AND THE POSSIBLE ATTEMPT AGAINST PASCUAL,

WHILE AT. THE SAME TIME NOT DENYING HIS CONNECTION WITH THE CUBANA

...

AF.FAIR.),:

6, IN DISCUSSING HIS SUTURE, BOSCH SAID THAT HE EXPECTS THE

VENEZUELAN AUTHORITIES TO EVENTUALLY RELEASE HIM AS THE VENÉZUEL ANS

HAVE NO PROOF AGAINST HIM, BOSCH SAID THAT HE IS OLD AND TIRED AND

•¡WANTS TO GO BACK TO SERVE OUT HIS PRISON SENTENCE IN THE ÜNITED

STATES.

FURTHERMORE, BOSCH SÄID THAT HE FEARS FOR HIS LIFE AND MERELY WANTS

TO "RETIRE" IN PEACE,

7. SOURCE OF PARAGRAPHS 8-10:CA

VENEZUÉL AN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE

WHO HAS ACCESS TO OFFICIAL REPORTS

IS A USUALLY RELIAGLE REPORTER.

THIS INFORMATION IS NOT TO BE DISCUSSED WITH ANY FOREIGN OFFICIALS,

INCLUDING THOSE OF THE YENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT,

8, I! EARLY NOVEMBER: RICARDO ADMITTED PRIVATELY THAT HE WAS DIRECTLY

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HAD CARRIED CO4 EXPLOSIVE IN HIS POCKETS AND THAT LUGO CARRIED THE®

TIME PENGIL INSIDE HIS CAMERA, THE BOMB, RICARDO SAID, WAS PLACED

IN ONE OF THE PLANE'S LAVATORIES,

1095:

9, IN ADDITION TO THE &

OCTOBER BOMeING, RICARDO ADMITTED THAT

HE WAS INVOLVED IN AN ATTEMPTED BOMBING OF A CUBANA PLAÑE IN PANAMA

IN THE SUMMER ÓF 1976, AND ATTEMPT ON A CUBANA PLANE IN JAMAICA, AND

THE BOMBING OF THE: CUBAN GONSULATE IN GUYANA. ANOTHER BOMBING HAD:

BEEN PLANNED FOR HONG KONG. BUT RICARDO SAID THAT HE HAD BEEN UNABLE

TO MAKE THE TRIP,

•100 ACCORDING TO RICARDO, THE CUBAN EXILE COMMUNITY IN VENÉZUELA

HAS IMATELY 4D POUNDS OF SIA EXPLOSIVES AT ITS DISPOSAL,

INVESTIGATIONS CARRIED OUT BY VENEZUELAN AUTHORITIES TEND TO CONFIRM

THIS INFORMATION AÑD THE VENEZUELANS 'ARE ATTEMPTING TO LOCATE THE"

EXPLOSIVES

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