Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HQ
To: MM
Document date: 06/13/1973
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: 124-90102-10190

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

CR 105-141949-66

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

HQ

TO:

MM

TITLE:

DATE:

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS:

06/13/1973

9

MAX LESNICK

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 08/13/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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Mr. V. H. Nasca

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ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA, aka

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ReMMa irtel 6/1/73.0

Kenirtel, ta part, reported that an informant

of your office has

turned over several electrica

detonators which were given to him by Ricardo Casanueva.

Casanueva indicated that the subject, who has in the

past, been involved in militant anti-Castro activities

had siven these detonators to hin for safe keeping. U

Informant also displayed to an Agent of your

office a box containing sode 20 electrical detonators

which were given to him about one year ago by one

Sergio Gonzalez who asked informant to hold these

detonators for him.

Informant reported that Gonzalez

obtained these detonators fron Ruelme Navarro who allegedly

at one time was of operational interest to CIA. (SUl

Miami will check its indices, logical sources

and informants, including the files of INS concerning

the following:

Ricardo Casanueva

Sergio Gonzalez

Rueine Navarro

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Me. Walters

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Me. Bames

Mr. Bowers

Me. Herington

Mr. Cormy

Mr. Muttzi

Me. Bardley

Mrs. Hogan

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ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA, aka

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For information, DuPont manufactures a variety of

electric blasting caps. Over the years, Dupont has changed

certain specifications relative to electric blasting caps

such as the type of shunt, type of paper band used to hold

et cetera. It would undoubtedly be impossible for DuPont

manufacture dummy electric blasting caps like those in

possession of MM 3142-PSI based on descriptive data set forth

in reairtel. If Bureau authority is subsequently granted for

the proposed substitution, one of instant electric blasting

caps should be made available to the Laboratory for examination

in order that complete specifications can be furnished a

DuPont official who personally handles Bureau requests for

material of the type desired. Süch a contact can establish

whether DuPont still manufactures similar blasting caps, cost

involved, et cetera. g)

Advise if one of the blasting caps can be obtained

12om 14 3242-P51 20r Submission to the Laboratory under concene

wich will not compromise informant shoula Sergio Gonzalez asi

incornanizzor instant blasting cap queine the perzod one oasians

cap was not, in his possession. If one blasting cap is shipped U

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Me. Callahan

Mr. Cloveland

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Me. Gobharde

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Mr. Miller, E. 8.

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Mr. Thompson:

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Mela dooms

Mr. Baise

Win. Bames

Ker. Bowers

Nir. Deringtoni

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Mr. Eariley

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Airtel to Miami

ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA, aka

IS - CUBA

105-141949

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to Laboratory for examination, the following shipping instructions

should be strictly followed:

Place blasting cap inside small,

sealed metal container packed in cotton. Place metal container

inside wooden shipping box with at least two inches of sawdust or

similar cushioning material separating metal container from inside

surfaces of wooden box.

Exterior of wooden box should be marked

"Detonating Puze-Class C Explosive-Handle Carefully." Shipment

must be made by Railway Express. Mark shipment to the attention

o1 Explosives Unit of Laboratory and advise Laboratory by separate

communication regarding date of shipment. $)(U)

Also furnish Laboratory scaled photographs depicting

descriptive data on blasting cap box. (U)

With regard to the Hercules and Atlas electric blasting

caps mentioned in reairtel, both manufacturers Ilkewise produce a

variety of electric blasting caps for use in construction-type

blasting operations. These manufacturers produce well over one

hundred different types of blasting caps when considering the

various lengtos of leg wires. Therefore, it would be remote that

any electrie blasting caps which were "stockpiled" by your office woul

to be exactly like blasting caps subsequently recovered in a

For your additional information, the Laboratory must

rely on the cooperative efforts of manufacturers on a confidential

basis to obtain dunny electric blasting caps possessing electrical

continuity and the visible appearance of live blasting caps.

Manufacturers must interrupt normal production line procedures to

manuracture dumy blasting caps of types necessary for use in

connection with the Laboratory's confidential substitution technique

In the event "stockpiling" of Hercules and Atlas electric

blasting caps is felt necessary, advise Bureau, attention Intelligence

Division

of number desired and justification for "stockpiling" such

1tems (P)U)

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For the additional information of Miami, any dumny

electrie blasting cap utilized in connection with the Laboratory's

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Airtel to Miami

ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA, aka

IS - CUBA

105-141949

identification; however, such marks

would be detectable only

through microscople examination.

Any other type of identifying

marks would be detectable by an individual knowledgeable

concerning electric blasting caps. (P)U)

For information of Baltimore, Laboratory handles

directly with Atlas, DuPont and Hercules all arrangements for

the furnishing of material to be utilized in connection with

the substitution technique. E)U)

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FROM:

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SAC, MIAMI (105-2856) (P)

ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA, aka

IS - CUBA

DECLASSIFIED BY YEA

12-13-94

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Re Miami airtel to Bureau dated 4/27/73, with

IHM attached which indicated that BOSCH is making

preparations to resume terrorist activities in the

near cucure.

He has become associated with MAX LESNICK,

publisher of "Replica", Spanish-language newspaper in

Miami, who has, along with City Commissioner MANOLO

REBOSO, made charges recently to this office, other

agencies and individuals, alleging that RICARDO MORALES

NAVARRETE, head of the 'Cuban Mafia" operates under the

protection of the FBI and other agencies. An attempt

was made on the night of 5/25/73, to assassinate MORALES

and he identified one of his asailants as MANUEL CURA,

who is a known associate of LESNICK. MORALES, in 1968,

testified for the FBI in the bombing case against BOSCH

and 8 co-defendants, which resulted in their convictions.

BOSCH and several other members of his organization

have been feleased from prison and are back in Miami.

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MM/ 105-2856

It has been previously reported that MM 3142-

PSI on 4/6/73, turned over to SA GEORGE E. DAVIS, JR..

5 electrical detonators, which were given to him by

RICARDO

CASANUEVA, who explained to MM 3142-PSI that

his house might be searched by the FBI and requested

MM 3142-PSI to hold these detonators for him until

BOSCH needed them. CASANUEVA disclosed that BOSCH

had given these detonators to him for safe keeping. GU)

These detonators were deactivated by TOM

BRODIE, Crime Laboratory, Dade County Public Safety

Dapartment (DCPSD), and returned to MM 3142-PSI by

SA DAVIS •(SU)

On 5/30/73, MM 3142-PSI displayed to SA DAVIS

a box containing approximately 20 electrical detonators,

which had been given to him alut one year ago by

SERGIO GONZALEZ, who asked the PSI to hold these detonators

for hims

It is to be noted that the PSI is a construction

worker and would conceivably have justification for

possessing such items ((4)

MM 3142-PSI

said that GONZALEZ obtained these

deconators from RUELME

time of operational interest to CIA, Miami • (S) (4)

NAVARRO, who was allegedly at one

On 5/26/73, SERGIO GONZALEZ said that ORLANDO

BOSCH had talked to him about 5 days previously. GONZALEZ

related to the PSI that he considered BOSCH to be a good

leader, and he warned him to be careful. He related that

ARMANDO

FLEITES Of the anti-CASIRO organization Second

National\ Front of the Escambray, had sent BOSCH to

GONZALEZ• GONZALEZ indicated that BOSCH is planning

to do something big in the near future•(S) (U

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MM 105-2856

For the information of the Laboratory, it was

noted that these detonators were contained in a box

labeled as follows: (p (U)

"50-DuPont-50 - Explosives Department-

wilmington, Delaware. Electric blasting

caps, 8-toot copper wires - U. S. patent

Numbers 2 477458 - 2 348536 - 2 329343"•

Examination of these detonators reflects that

each had a copper colored cap 1 1/8 inch long, connected

to one red colored enamel wire and one gold colorad

enamel wire. (4 /(4)

Through the cooperation of MM 3142-PSI,

Miami is in a position to substitute dummy detonators for

the live detonators possessed by the PSI in anticipation

of the possibility that BOSCH will come to him as a source

Request of the Laboratory

It is requested that the FBI Laboratory immediately

instruct the Baltimore Office to immediately contact

DuPont at Wilmington, Delaware, in order to obtain a supply

of at least 50 dumny electrical detonators answering the

description of those above described. (XU)

It is also requested that a supply of dummy

detonators of several varieties, commonly used in the

construction business be obtained for the same purpose. ( (4)

It is requested that similar arrangements be made

to obtain a small supply of dunny electrical detonators

Erom the Hercules and Atlas Company «A (U)

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MM 105-2856

In view of the obvious preparations being

made by BOSCHl, it is requested that this matter be given

expedite attention.(RU

It is requested that arrangements be made,

if possible, to obtain these dumny detonators in a form

which will not reveal to outward appearances that they

are not live detonators. Also, if possible, they should

bear some indentation or other characteristic which

will identify them to this office as dummies.

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