Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DIRECTOR, FBI
To: SAC, MM
Document date: 09/13/1968
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_ NUMBER: 124-10208-10306

RECORD SERIES:

HO

AGENCY FILE_ NUMBER: 45-10852-5:6

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Aet of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 53932 Date:

08-17-2017

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

DIRECTOR. FBI

TO:

SAC. MM

TITLE:

DATE: 09/13/1968

PAGES: 7

SUBJECT: SPANISH VESSEL "SS COROMOTO", DAMAGE, STERN SECTION, EXPLOSIONS

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

04/06/1998

UPDATE DATE:

Redact

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

INC TTY

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D.

VIA TELETYPE

SEP1 3 1968

ENCIPHERED

Mr. Tolson.

Mr. DeLoach..

WE Mohr...

sishop.

Jasper.

Mr. Callahan.

Mr. Conrad.

Mr. Felt...

Gale...

• Rosen

Ar.

Sullivan

Mr. Tavel

Mr. Trotter.

Tele. Room.

Miss Holmes

Miss Gandy.

NR---300

11/35AM EDI RGC

URGENT

9-13-68

TO

DIRECTOR, SAN JUAN, NEW ORLEANS, MOBILE, HOUSTON AND TAMPA

SẤN JUAN VIA WASHINGTON

-- CODE--

FROM MIAMI

5P

UNSUB; EXPLOSIONS ON SPANISH REGISTRY VESSEL SS

COROMOTO", SEPT • TWELVE, NINETEEN SIXTYEIGHT; CHS - FIRING

OR TAMPERING WITH VESSELS.

RE BUTEL TO MIAMI SEPT. THIRTEEN, SIXTYEIGHT.

AT EIGHT FIFTEEN AM, SEPT. THIRTEEN, OSCAR ANGULO

REYES, PSI - UNDER DEVELOPMENT, WHO HAS FURNISHED

RELIABLE INFORMATION IN THE PAST AND UHO IS WELL ACQUAINTED -

WITH MEMBERS OF THE MONTMENTO INSURRECCIONAL DE RECUPERACTON

REVOLUCIONARIA (MIRR), HEADED BY ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA, WHO -

HAS ORGANIZED AN AUXILIARY ACIION GROUP KNOWN AS CUBANSEP 17 1968

POWER, ADVISED THAT BOSCH HAD JUST TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED

END PAGE ONE

DECLASS GUE BY.?

SPEMAC/GCL

TELETYPED TO:

59-SEP 241968

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ANGULO: BOSCH, DIRECTED ANGULO'S ATTENTION TO FACT THAT

A NEWS RELEASE WAS THEN BEING ISSUED FROM MIAMI RADIO

STATIONS WIBA AND WAB RELATIVE TO AN ANNOUNCEMENT BY

"ERNESTO" OF CUBAN POWER CLAIMING RESPONSIBILITY FOR A

SPANISH SHIP BOMBING (* 4)

BOSCH THEN TOLD ANGULO THAT HIS CUBAN POWER WAS

RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BOMBING AND THAT THE BOMB WAS SUPPOSED

TO HAVE EXPLODED AT THE END OF FIVE DAYS BUT TROUBLE IN

THE BATTERIES OF THE TIME DELAY DEVICE CAUSED THE BOMB TO

EXPLODE LAST NIGHT. BOSCH ADDED THAT NEXT WEEK "ERNESTO"

WILL ANNOUNCE THE APPOINTMENT OF A CIVILIAN DELEGATE FOR

CUBAN POWER• BOSCH HAS PREVIOUSLY TOLD ANGULO THAT AS

SOON AS HIS GROUP SUCCEEDED IN SINKING A SHIP AT SEA

"ERNESTO" (MYTHICAL HEAD OF CUBAN POWERS WOULD ANNOUNCE

THE APPOINIMENT OF BOSCH AS THE CIVILIAN DELEGATE «*)(K)

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ANGULO, UPON INSTRUCTIONS WILL ATTEMPT TO PERSONALLY

CONTACT BOSCH AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TODAY AND ATTEMPT TO

OBTAIN MORE SPECIFIC INFORMATION LU)

& ANGULO WILL ALSO ATTEMPI TO CONTACT ANDRES JORGE

GONZALEZ GONZALEZ, BOSCH'S CHIEF BOMB EXPERT,

WHO REVEALED TO ANGULO ON NIGHT OF SEPT. TWELVE THAI.

•GONZALEZ HAD PLACED A BOMB ON A SMALL SPANISH FREIGHTER

AT HE SAME PLACE WHERE HE HAD PEACED

GEDLA BOMB ON THE

"LANCASTRIAN PRINCE "*

INDICATIONS ARE THAT THE BOMB WAS

PLACED ON "LANCASTRIAN PRINCE" AT NEW ORLEANS AND

POSSIBLY MOBILE.

#ON SEPT. TWO LAST, GONZALEZ'S SISTER TOLD ANGULO

THAT: HER BROTHER HAD LEFT THAT MORNING FOR AN OUT OF TOWN

OPERATION BUT DID NOT DISCLOSE HIS DESTINATION NOR DESCRIBE

NATURE OF THE OPERATION DAN)

GONZALEZ'S WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN:

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FROM SEPT • TWO UNTIL SEPT. TEN, SIXTYEIGHT, WHEN INTERVIEWED

BY FBI AGENT AT HIS MIAMI RESIDENCE WHEN HE DENIED HAVING

BEEN OUT OF TOWN.

US COAST GUARD, MIAMI, ADVISED THAI THE "SS COROMOTO"

DEPARTED BARCELONA, SPAIN, FOR SAN JUAN, POR., AND ARRIVED

SAN JUAN ABOUT SEPT • TEN LAST, WHERE IT REMAINED UNTIL

ITS DEPARTURE SEPT • TWELVE FOR DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.

MIAMI WILL IMMEDIATELY FURNISH SAN JUAN WITH PHOTOS

AND DESCRIPTIONS OF CUBAN POWER ACTION MEN.

SAN JUAN HAS PREVIOUSLY CONDUCTED INVESTIGATION

CONCERNING MEMBERS OF BOSCH'S MIRR ORGANIZATION IN

PUERTO RICO. MIAMI INFORMANTS HAVE PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED

NO INFORMATION CONCERNING ANY INTENTION BY BOSCH TO BOMB

SHIPS IN P.R• ALTHOUGH BOSCH IS DEFINITELY INVOLVED IN

SHIP BOMBINGS, HE IS ALSO KNOWN TO TAKE CREDIT, WHERE

POSSIBLE, FOR ACTS OF SABOTAGE BELIEVED NOT TO HAVE BEEN

COMMITTED BY HIS ORGANIZATION.

(4)

MIAMI WILL MAINTAIN CLOSE CONTACT WITHEANGULO YAND

OTHER INFORMANTS TO OBTAIN ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

NEW ORLEANS, MOBILE, HOUSTON AND TAMPA ADVISED SEP-

ARATELY.

END

R-RAAY

AFSKP

PAO FBI WASH DC

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