ALLEGED PLOT TO ASSASSINATE COLONEL CESAR QUINTEROS, CHIEF OF GUATEMALAN SECURITY
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: FBI
To: CIA
Document date: 7/1/78
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination

Records Collection Act of 1992

(44 USC 2107 Note)

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CIR 318001395-78

SUBJECTS

ALLEGED PLOT TO ASSASSIÑATE COLONEL CESAR QUINTEROS, CHIEF

OF GUATEMALAN SECURITY

REFERENCES!

DIRECTOR FEI CABLE ON SAME SUBJECT DATED 23 JUNE 78

CIR 318102569078

1.

ON 23. JUNE 1979, COLONEL CESAR QUINTEROS HAS PROVIDED WITH

THE REF 8 EXCERPT OF INFORMATION ON THE ALLEGED PLOT TO ASSASSINAIZ

QUINTEROS WHICN MAS REPORTED TO THIS AGENCY IN REF A.

2.

COLONEL QUINTEROS MAD NOT BEEN PREVIOUSLN AWARE OF A PLOT

AGAINST MIM, BUT SPECULATED THAT IF THERE IS SUBSTANCE TO THE REPORTED

PLOT. JORGE

ZIMERI SAFIE, NOM IN FEDERAL CUSTODY IN MIAMI, FLORIDA,

COULD BE INVOLVED..

QUINTEROS MAD BEEN INVOLVED IN THE ZIMERI CASE BY

PROVIDING DOCUVENTATION REQUIRED FOR THE EXTRADITION OF ZIMERI FROM

QUATEMALA TO THE UNITED SIATES.

• 3.

SHOULD HIS MYDOTNESIS THAT ZIMERI IS INVOLVED BE CORRECT.

QUINTEROS SAID ME BELIEVED. THAT BOB ANDIOR GERRY MIMMINO (PHONETIC)O

BROTHERS BELIEVED SY QUINTEROS TO BE LIVINO IN EITHER MIAMI OR FORT

LAUDERDALEO FLORIDA, WOULLI DE DIRECTLY INVOLVED.

ACCORDING TO

QUINTEROS, DUE OF. THE BROÏMERS CHE COULD NOT REMEMBER WHICH) MAD LIVED

IN GUATEMALA FROY 1972-74 AND ON ONE OCCASION MAD ASSISTED ZIMERI BY

PILOTING. THE AIRCRAFT USED BY THE LATTER TO ESCAPE GUATEMALA.

• 4. - COLONEL OUINTEROS REQUESTED THAI ME BE ADVISEC WHETHER THE

MIAMING BROTHERS ARE CURRENTLY IN FLORIDA.

TED FOR.

QUINTERDS IS OF THE OPINION THAT ONE OR BOTM BROTHERS WILL

BE INVOLVED

IN THE PLOT TO MILL HIM.

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THIS AGENCY REQUESTS ANY INFORMATION ANICH MAY BE DEVELOPED

ON 1HE PRESENT AMEREABOUTS OF THE HIMMING BROTHERS AMICH MAY BE

APPROPRIATE FOR PASSAGE TO GUINTEROS.

CLASSIFIED BY AUTHENTICATING OFFICER.

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