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Federal Bureau of Investigarish:

ENCERT FOR BRAHETS

Intelligence Division

Travel to Florida of an agent' for the Soviets

"in Bogota to report on Cuban Exile Activities

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Reference is made to our CIR-316/00990-74 dated 17

April 1974 and to your reply del July 1974.

Carlos Miguel KASSEL

(aIso known as GACEL) Castro(s)

in Miami, Florida from 11 August to 29 August 1974.

3(5) KASSEL] s natural cover for his stay in Miami and

contacts with Cuban exiles was that of "Asistente Internacional"

•to the Union de Trabajadores de Colombia (UTC) and "Jefe de

Redaccion" of "Justicia Social" published by the UTC in

in Miami can be fully justified within the context of his

functions as a UTC official.

4.

¿ Miami area:

The following were [KASSELs main contacts in the

Ignacio LEDON Iglesias, former Miami area

committee Secretary for Propaganda of the Partido Revolu-

cionario del Pueblo (PRP), left-winger, friend of Mario

RIVADULLA (see below) La

Mario RIVADULLA,

PRP official and radio person te

ality in Santo Domingo,

Dominican Republic.

RIVADULLA

arrived in Miami from Santo Domingo on 14 August.

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CIRA-0500-74

Classified by 061393.

Exempt from General Declassification

Schedule of .EO. 11652 Exemption Category 5B(2). Impossible

to determine date of automatic declassification.

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C.

Ramiro de LA FE, brother of Ernesto de LA FE

who had been recently released from jail in Cuba.

D.

Rolando, NASFERRER, Editor of "Libertad."

E. Alberto DAZ Masvidal, Editor'of "Miami Extra."

F. Max, LESNIK, Editor of "Replica."

G. Vicente RUBIERA, leader of Telephone Workers

Trade Union in Miami.

H. Santiago REY

Pernas, former Cuban Minister of

Interior.

I.

Alberto del RIO Chaviano, former, Brig. General

in the Cuban Army.

5.

(S)

Following are highlights of kAsSEls

report for

our representative who met him in Miami:

The Partido Revolucionario del Pueblo (PRP)

has ceased to exist for all practical purposes. According

to Ignacio LEDON,

responsibility for the disintegration of

the

PRP falls on its

as a "farsante."

leader Antonio SANTIAGO, whom KASSEY)

describes

Mario RIVADULLA, a member of the PRP Executive)

Committee who now lives in Santo Domingo, told KASSEL that

it is impossible to organize a political movement in exile

which would be capable of influencing in any way the develop-

ment of events in Cuba. RIVADULLA now believes that there

is no alternative but to await a spontaneous change of

events in Cuba and a possible overthrow or assassination of

Castro by the military:

c. [KASSEL attended a meeting of about 15 persons

on 16 August presided over by Rolando MASFERRER, Director

of the weekly "Libertad.". MASFERRER told the participants

that they should begin firing practice on a Florida farm to

prepare themselves for action

against Cuba before November,

because he (MAStERkER).

is sure that Castro wild be overthrown

by that time. MASFERRER pointed out that U.S. Security and

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Intelligence Services are aware of his plans and that he has

no difficulty in their implementation. Participants at

the meeting were then asked to contribute funds for the

purchase of weapons; the total cash raised exceeded $1,000.00.

[KASSEL

commented that it 1s his impression that the funds

raised were intended for MASFERRER's personal use rather

than the purchase of weapons.

D. KASseD discussed with Ramiro de LA FE the

possibility of founding a conspiratorial and secret political

movement to create a mechanism of penetrating Cuba for the

conditions which would result in

a military coup against Castro..

The movement would be

headed "in absentia" by Ernesto de LA FE, who had been

released from prison in Cuba two months ago.

The decision

to launch, this movement was made on 25 August in the apart-

ment of Ramiro de LA FE. Present at that time,

to KASSEL and Ramiro de LA FE, were Armando-MEDINA, Manuel

-CAVEDAS and Miguel A. ZERQUEIRA (Cubans) and Juan LÓPEZ

(naturalized American). The new movement was named-Movimiento

| Independente Radical de Cuba (MIRC) and Ramiro de LA FE

was

named its temporary leader until such time as Ernesto

de LA FE can leave Cuba. The MIRC will

Cuban armed forces to launch a coup against Castro and it

will also seek contact with anti-Communist groups in Brazil

and with the government of Chile.

already to have contact with Patricia-BERDUGO, a Chilean

supposedly working for the Chilean Intelligence Service in

Miami. During the meeting, Armando MEDINA said that he

nad once worked for ClA and that he participated in an

attack on a Spanish merchant vessel which was mistaken for

he slerra Maestra of the Cuban Merchant Fleet. KASSELS

as named|the Editor of the MIRC Manifesto Which will b

published in the Latin

, American press on lo October.

KASSEL met with Alberto DIAZ Nasvidal, Editor-

in-Chief of "Miami Extra," and offered his services

unpaid contributor of articles from Bogota.

The offer

was accepted.

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6. KASSEL's draft report to his Soviet contact in

Bogota is

a single-spaced nine-page paper

entitled "Composicion

Politica de la Emigracion Cubana en Miami, Florida.'

covers those groups with which KASSEL has become most

familiar:

the. PRP, the MIRC, Alfa 66, and several other

minor groups. Following are highlights of that report? (5)

A. IIn response to a specific requirement from

KASSEL's Soviet contact to determine if U.S. Government

agencies, including specifically the CIA, support any of

these groups, KAsSEL makes emphatically clear in his report

hat none of

the exile groups have the support of the U.s.

Government, although some groups falsely claim to have such

support.

He points. out that the U.S. Government not only

ignores the political exiles, but places high priority on

its relations with the USSR and 'is "disposed" to lift the

blockade of Cuba and reestablish relations with Havana.

In connection with the latter point, KASSEL reports on his

interview with Dr. Alberto DIAZ Masvidal, Director of the

Spanish edition of Miami Herald, who told

KASSEL that

reestablishment of U.S. - Cuban relations is now imminent.](s)

Regarding on-island operations of Cuban exile

groups, KASSEL/concludes that none of them have any operational

Regarding terrorism, KASSED reports that

i on ding

Dr. Orlando BOSCH, a fugitive from the U.s. who now saves

& in Venezuela under an assumed identity, and Antonio VECIANA,

a founding member of the PRP who is now in prison, have a

plan of attack against Cuban embassies and consulates and

against Soviet Bloc missions in Latin America, to be put

into effect when Venezuela,

Costa Rica, and other unidentified

countries reestablist relations with Cuba.

He also singles

out Jose de Jesus QINQAUMA, a Cuban political gangster who

last year planned an

Venezuela, and the

"rentack against a soviot Family in

Unido de Liberacion, which was

formed this month in Miami and which announced

the launching

of a terrorist campaign against Cuban and Soviet Bloc

diplomatic installations in the entire Western Hemisphere.

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IS IRASSELiS

If you wish, we will forward to you copies of

he does, we shall request that a Miami representative of

the Bureau participate in our representative

meetings

with KASSEL Slas the subject matter of [KASSELS reporting

is of direct interest to the Bureau.

FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS:

Phillips

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