Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, NY
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 03/13/1968
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Date:

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Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10221-10389

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 97-4474-1ST NR 381

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, NY

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE:

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

03/13/1968

8

MIRR; CUBAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT, ATTACK, CUBAN

SHIP, CANADIAN HARBOR

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 07/01/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

INC LHM, MEMO, NOTE

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328PM. URGENT 3-13-65

SECRETL

JAM

VIA TELETYPE

TO DIRECTOR 97-A194

MIAMI

I RAR IS

AND

NEWARX105-16824

1968

ENCODE

ATT DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE

ANGPHERED

MIAMI VIA WASHINGTON

FROM NEW YORK 105-39412 3P

14

Mr. Tolson.

Mr.

• DeLoach

Mr. Mohr.

Mr. Bishop

Mr. Casper

Mr. Callahan

Mr. Conrad

YIr. Felt.

Mi. Gale.

Mr. Rosen

Mr. Sulliva

Mr. Tavel

Mr. Trotter

Tele. Room

Miss Holmes

Miss Gandy

Classified by

16 BOR/CL

Declassify on:/CADR 9/26/85

CUBAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT; IS-CUBAS: NM-CUBA

ON MARCH THIRTEEN, NINETEEN SIXTYEIGHT, A CONFIDENTIAL D N

SOURCE, WHO HAS FURNISHED RELIABLE INFORMATION IN THE PAST,

STATED HE VAS CONTACTED ON MARCH THIRTEEN, NINETEEN

SIXTYEIGHI, AND REQUESTED BY IGNACIO NOVO,

SECRETARY

GENERAL OF THE CUBAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT (CNM), AN ANTI-

OTHE

EXCr

FEk.:.

CASTRO ORGANIZATION, TO OBTAIN STREET MAPS OF OTTAWA AND

WEHT

ST• JOHNS, CANADA, NOVO SAID THAI, PLANS WERE BEING

KATI

PORMULATED TO MAKE AN ATTACK ON A CUBAN SHIP IN ONE

OF THE CANADIAN HARBORS IN RETALIATION FOR THE THREE

SHOWN

LASSIFIED

CONTAINED

CUBANS WHOSE LIFEBOAT WAS RAMNED ON FEBRUARY TEN 44 4-

NINETEEN SIXTYEIGHI, BY THE CUBAN FREIGHTER, JULY

TWENTYSIX, OFF THE COAST OF VIRGINIA (A NU)

NOT RECORDED

199 MAR 20 1968

THE

SAME CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE STATED THAT HE

-CONTACTED GUILLERMO

• NOVO, BROTHER OF IGNACIO NOVO, ON

SE MARCH THIRTEEN, NINETEEN SIXTYEIGHT, AND STATED THAT IN

¿RESPONSE TO THE REQUEST OF IGNACIO NOVO, HE WAS ABLE TO

SOBTAIN A STREET MAP OF THE CITY: OF OTTAWA, BUT WAS UNABLE

FIND ANY MAP OF THE CITY OF ST• JOHNS• GUILLERMO NOVO

TOLD THESOURCE TO CONTINUE HIS EFFORTS TO OBTAIN THE STREET (RU)

RELAYED 78E ONEMM

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MAP OF ST. JOHNS AND ALSO A MAP OF THE CITY OF MONTREAL.

GUILLERMO NOVO INFORMED THE SOURCE THAT THIS PLAN OF

RETALIATION AGAINST THECUBAN GOVERNMENT WAS A JOINT EFFORT

BY THE CNM AND THE MOVIMIENTO INSURRECCIONAL DE

RECUPERACION REVOLUCIONARIA (MIRR)• GUILLERMO NOVO

SAID THAT THE MIRR WOULD SUPPLY THE MANPOWER IN CARRYING

OUT THIS ATTACK AND

I SAID THAT SOME MEN. WOULD GO BY

AUTOMOBILE TO CANADA, BUT THAT THE INDIVIDUAL WHO WOULD

SET THE EXPLOVIVE WOULD BE FLOWN TO CAÑADA FROM

"DOWN THERE"' WHICH THE SOURCE INTERPRETED TO MEAN

FROM THE AREA OF MIAMI, FLORIDA. QUILLERMO NOVO FURTHER

INFORMED THESOURCE THAT THEY WOULD HOLD A MEETING ON

MARCH SEVENTEEN, NINETEEN SIXTYEIGHT, AND FORMULATE THEIR

PLAN FOR THIS ATTACK AGAINST A CUBAN BOAT IN ONE OF THE

CANADIAN HARBORS• THE SOURCE WAS ALSO TOLD BY GUILLERMO

NOVO THAT THEY MAY HAVE TO CALL ON

HIN TO AIR FREIGHT

THE EXPLOVIVE PACKAGE INTO CANADA AFTER

THeY HAVe

MADE THEIR FINAL PLANS. (* 4)

ADMINISTRATIVE

RE BUREAU TEL, MARCH TWELVE, SIXTYEIGHT.

THE CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE IS NY FIVE VIVE THREE EIGHT (XP(U)

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DASH S. THE ABOVE INFORMATION

SHOULD BE CLASSIFIED SECRET. X C

NY FIVE NINE THREE EIGHT - S ADVISED THAT HE WAS

REQUESTED BY BOTH NOVO BROTHERS TO ATTEND THE MEETING

TENIATIVELY SCHEDULED FOR MARCH SEVENTEEN, NEXT. THE

INFORMANT ADVISED THAT HE WOULD BE AVAILABLE TO ATTEND THE

MEETING AND ALSO AVAILABLE FOR ANY ASSISNMENT THEY WANTED

TO GIVE HIM• NY FIVE MINE THREE EIGHI-S STATED THAT FROM

CONVERSATION WITH GUILLERMO NOVO, ALTHOUGH NOVO DID NOT

SPECIFICIALLY STATE IT AS A FACT, HE RECEIVED

THE DEFINITE IMPRESSION THAT THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THIS

ATTACK AGAINST THE CUBAN FREIGHTER IS COMING FROM MIAMI

AND MOST PROBABLY FROM THE LEADERSHIP OF THE MIRR,

WHO ARE ANGRY OVER THE FACT THAT THEIR BOATS HAD BEEN

STOPPED AND FOUR OF THEIR MEMBERS ARRESTED 3Y US CUSTOMS

IN MIAMI LATE IN FEBRUARY, SIXTYEIGHT, CANU)

LIY FIVE NINE THREE EIGHT-S HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED

TO REMAIN CLOSE TO THIS SITUATION AND TO IMMEDIATELY

REPORT ALL DEVELOPNENTS AS SOON AS RECEIVED FRUALL

INFORMATION, AS RECEIVED, VILLE IMYEDIATELY FURNISHER

BUREAU AND INTERESTED OFFICES.

NO LHM BEING SUBMITED.

SUCOP.

END

EFH

FBI WASH DC

SALFTBG EID

SECRET

ORIG: MR. DELOACH FOR DIRECTOR

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Domestic Intelligence

ision

INFORMATIVE NOTE

Date _

_ 3/13/60

Attached concerns plans of

militant anti-Castro groups to

attack a Cuban ship in a Canadian

harbor. ((U)

Data in attached is being

disseminated to State Department,

central intelligence Agency,

military intelligence agencies,

Secret Service, Bureau of Customs,

Coast Guard, Federal Aviation

Agency, Innigration and Naturaliza-

tIon service, and Internal

security Division of the Depart-

VHN: lam

gist

SECRET

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SIDE FOR

CIASSIFICATION

ACTION:

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4/17/95

Classified by

Declassity or

1

Mr. Wannall

*Mr. Nasca

DECLASSIFIED BY 5668

Su/GAT

ON 412195

March 15,

1963

LsO GAT (JFK

MOVINIENTO NACIONALISTA CUBANO

dADR 926/85

(CUBAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT) (CNM)

ALL TAUS NATION CONTAINEO

HOTEL

ALO UNGGASS LYTED

WHERE SHOWN

OTHIRNY SP

The Cuban Nationalist Movement (CNI) is a militant

anti-Castro organization which during 1967 was engaged in

eltorts to bomb Cuban targets in Canada.

On March 13, 1968, a confidential source who has

furnished reliable information in the past advised that

Ignacio Novo, Secretary General of the CV, is Interested

in obtaining

street maps of Ottawa and St. Johns, Canada.

Novo said that plans were being fornulated to make an

attack on a Cuban ship in one of the Canadian harbors in

retaliation for the three Cubans whose lifeboat was ramned

on February 21, 1968, by the Cuban freighter "26th of July"

out the const ad Virginto (A) (u

the confidential source learned that the CHl was

able to obtain a street map of the city of Ottava, but was

unable to find any nap of the city of St. Johns. Efforts

to obtain the street map of St. Johns are continuing and

efforts are also being made to obtain a map of the elty of

Montreal.

tion against the Cuban Government was a Joint effort by the

CNN and the Moviniento Insurreccional de Recuperacion

Revolucionaria (MIRR), another militant anti-Castro organi-

zation.

Guillerno Novo, Ignacio's brother, said that the

MIRR would supply the manpower in carrying out this attack

and that soue men would go by automobile to Canada, but that

the individual who would set the explosive would be flown to

Canada from "down there" which the source interpreted to

mean fron the area of Miami, Florida. Guillerno Novo further

indicated that they would hold a meeting on March 17, 1968,

and formulate their plan for this attack

against a Cuban

boat in one of the Canadian harbors.Cx U

The foregoing information

has been furnished to

the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. (&>(V)

1) - 97-4474 (MIRR)

VEN: sed (19)

SEC

SEE NOTE PAGE TIO

«Tuded Iron autonatia

ongredies and

declassification

97-4474-

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ENCLOSURE

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SE

RET

NOVANLANTO NACLORALLOLA CUBANO -

(CUBAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT) (CNi)J3

NOTE:

Original to AAG Yeagley with Xerox copies to

New York, Newark and Miama,

Xerox copies are also being

separately turnished to sate, ciA, INS, Army, Navy, Air Force,

DiA, SeCret Service, Customs, Coast Guard and Federal Aviation

Agency -

The data has also separately been furnished Legat,

Ottawa, For referral to RCMP]()U)

Memorandum classified "Secret since unauthorized

disclosure of data contained therein could result in serious

damage to national defense interests by compromising informant

of continuing value.

stICRET

97-4474-155N12381

571-10388

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