CABLE RE: AMSIGH-2 RECEIVED TELEGRAM FROM AMECRU-1 EVENING 22 FEBRUARY
Originator: CIA
From: WH/MIAMI
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 02/24/1970
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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J. AMSIGH-2 RECEIVED TELEGRAM FROM AMECRU-!

EVENING 22 FEBRUARY ADVISING THAT CUBANS HAD SPECIFIED

$6B,000 EACH FOR APRIPE-2 AND JORGE VILLAVERDE. ALSO,

THAT NO FIGURE WAS SET FOR AMCALL-! BUT EVENTUAL PRICE

WOULD BE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN SEB, BBO, AlD THAT

- LETTER WITH DETAILS WAS FOLLOWING.

2. MOTHER AMPANIC-7 TELEPHONED AMECRU-I PER PARA

2 REF B. AMECRU-LTOLD HER THAT SINCE LOWESI ACCEPTABLE

FIGURE-GIVEN IN TWO OTHER CASES WAS $60, 000, HE COULD NOT

NIGOTIATE AMPANIC-T CASE AT $50, 093. HE COMMENTED THAT

HE HAD NOT PREVIOUSLY SEEN CUBANS LESS INTERESTED IN NEGOTIATIONS.

3. FYI: AMPANIC-Y MOTHER IS UPSET THAI 570, 880

FIGURE WAS NOT INMEDIATELY ACCEPTED BY RUROCK. HOWEVER,

BINIARIS HAS BEEN INSTRUCIED TO CONTINUE DEALING WITH

HER. ON BASIS THAT S5B, DBD IS CEILIG UNLESS AND UNTIL

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VE ADVISED TO CONTRARY, IF AMECRU-I BEGINS PRESSING HER

ON $6B,008, BIHJARIS WILL SUGGEST SHE REITERATE PLEA TO

MEGOTIATE AT S58, 889.

4. WE, OF COURSE, HAVE NO VAY KHOWING WHAT

ENSUED CONVERSATION BETWEEN AMPANIC-T MOTHER AND

AMECRU-I BEYOND WHAT SHE TOLD BINIARIS; ESPECIALLY

WHETHER AMECRU-! SPECIFIED $GO, BEG TO HER AT OUTSET

OF CONVERSATION OR IF THEY CONNIVED TO PRESENT WHAT WHE

MAY HAVE IHOUGHT AN ACCEPTABLE FICURE. • HER EMOTIONAL.

INVOLVEMEHT MAY WELL HAVE PREVENTED HER PUSHING S5D, BOD

FIGURE WITH ANY ENTHUSIASM. GREATESI DIFFICULTY INVOLVED

ASSESSING THIS

IS THAI WE DO NOT KNOW FIGURE SPECIFIED

BY CUBANS; 520, 880 REDUCTION OF ORIGINAL $78, 000 QUOTATION

MAY REPRESEHT LARGE SLICE IF NOT ALL OF AMECRU-L'S CAKE.

IF SO, HE PROBABLY WILL SETTLE FOR LITTLE LESS THAT

$60,000.

S. 'FILE: 19-6-13613; 281-861863; 281-276080;

201-314480. GP-1

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