INSISTENCE OF ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA THAT THE MIRR BOMB THE CITY OF HABANA
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Document date: 02/24/1965
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COUNTRY: CUBA

SUBJ: 1: INSISTENCE OF ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA THAT THE MIRR BOMB: THE

CITY OF HABANA.

2. USE OF AMERICAN PILOTS IN MIRR AIR STRIKES

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SOURCE: A MIAMI BUSINESSMAN WHO WAS A RESIDENT OF HABANA FOR SEVERAL

YEARS. THE SOURCE HAS CONTACTS WHO RECOGNIZE HIM AS A CHANNEL. TO

U.S. INTELLIGENCE: THIS INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED FROM BILL JOHNSON.

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MIRR INTENTION TO BOMB HABANA

2. USE OF AMERICAN PILOTS IN MIRR AIR STRIKES

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APPRAISAL: A MIAMI BUSINESSMAN WHO WAS A RESIDENT OF HABANA FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

THE SOURCE HAS CONTACTS WHO RECOGNIZE HIM AS A CHANNEL TO U.S: INTELLIGENCE.

THIS INFORMATION: WAS OBTAINED FROM BILL JOHNSON.

-".1. ON 2D FEBRUARY 1965, BILL JOHNSON, AN AMERICAN PILOT WHO

ARRANGES THE SUPPORT ASPECTS OF AIR STRIKES AGAINST CUBA BY ORLANDO

BOSCH AVILA'S MOVIMIENTO INSURRECCIONAL DE RECUPERACION REVOLUCION-

ARIA (MIRR, INSURRECTIONAL MOVEMENT FOR REVOLUTIONARY RECOVERY, SAID

THAT THE MIRR WAS MAKING 180-POUND "ASH CAN" BOMBS FOR SUBSEQUENT

RAIDS, "MORE THAN AMPLE TO BLOW UP THE OIL TANKS IN HABANA." JOHNSON

SAID THÄT BOSCH STILL INTENDS TO BOMB HABANA, BUT "IT WILL BE AGAINST

MY ADVICE": JOHNSON LATER ADMITTED THAT HIS OWN MOTIVATION IS PURELY

MERCENARY. (FIELD COMMENT: SEE TDCSDB-315/DD550-65, DATED 16

FEBRUARY 1965, FOR INFORMATION ON BOSCH'S INSISTENCE THAT THE CITY

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OF HABANA BE THE MIRR'S NEXT TARGET• THIS MISSION WAS ORIGINALLY

SCHEDULED FOR 16 FEBRUARY.)

2. JOHNSON ALLEGED THAT THE PLANES OPERATING FOR THE MIRR ARE

LEAVING FROM THE UNITED STATES. WHEN TAMPA. WAS MENTIONED AS A POSSIBLE

DEPARTURE POINT, JOHNSON SAID: "YOU'RE GETTING CLOSE."

3. JOHNSON SAID HIS SMALL GROUP PRACTICES GOOD SECURITY, ".

"WHEN WE GET A PLANE AND A PILOT, WE CONTRACT THEM FOR THREE OPERATIONS."

THE PLANES ARE FLOWN BY AMERICAN PILOTS SINCE "THE CUBAN PILOTS DON'T

HAVE THE GUTS, "

4. JOHNSON CLÄIMED THAT JACK GRIFFIN, THE AMERICAN PILOT WHO

CRASH-LANDED A B-25 EARLIER THAT MORNING, HAD TAKEN PART IN A PREVIOUS

RAID ON CUBA. - HOWEVER, HE DID NOT KNOW IF THE DOWNED B-25 HAD EVER BEEN

USED IN ANY RAIDS.

JOHNSON SAID HE DOES NOT KNOW DAN SHAW,

GRIFFIN'S CO-PILOT: ABOARD THE DOWNED B-25.

5, JOHNSON INSISTED THAT THE RAID WHICH THE MIRR ANNOUNCED AS

HAVING TAKEN PLACE ON BAHIA HONDA ON 13 FEBRUARY HAD TAKEN PLACE

IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT CUBA HAS NOT ACKNOWLEDGED IT.

6. FIELD DISSEM: CINCLANT, CINCSO, COMKWESTFOR, MIAMI REPS OF

STATE, FBI, CUSTOMS, I&NS, BORDER PATROL, AND USCG.

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