Originator: FBI
From: LEG, CAR
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 02/24/1977
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK Assassination System

Date:

Identification Form

Agency Information

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124-10294-10222

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AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

105-165503-1ST NR 51

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM: LEG, CAR

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 02/24/1977

PAGES:

4

SUBJECTS :

FS, OBA, TERRORIST ACT, RMN, RES, MED, ESPIONAGE

ACT, ASSA, ATTEMPT, INTEL OFFICIER

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1A; 1B

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/16/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA, INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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DECLASSICICATION AUTHORITY DERIVED FROL

FBI AUTOMATIC DECLASSIEICATIEN CUIDE

DATE 00-16-2023

BY: 3043/98142

COMMUNICATICIG

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR,

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION

IN THIS DOCUMENT. EXCEPT For the brickeTs

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ATTENT ION: FOREIGN LIAISON UNIT

RICARDO MORALES NAVARRETE, REGISTRATION MATTER - VENEZUELA

RECARTEL FEBRUARY 23, 1977.

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ON FEBRUARY 23, 1977, CIA STATION, CARACAS,

AD VI SED AS FOLLOWS

IN LATE NOVEMBER, 1976, AT A MEETING AT THE DIRECTORATE OF

INTELLIGENCE AND PREVENTIVE SERVICES (DISIP HEADQUARTERS IN CARACAS,"

RICARDO MORALES NAVARRETE SUGGESTED TO GENERAL PAUL GIMENEZ GAINZA,

CHIEF OF DISIR

AND ORLANDO GARCIA,

MINISTER COUNSELLOR, DISIP, INAT

CIA LIAISON OFFICER

NEYLE THER IAULT

BE ASSASSINATED IN ORDER TO (U)

"TAKE THE HEAT OFF

DR. ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA, WHO HAS BEEN CHARGED

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WITH COMPLICITY IN THE BOMBING OF A CUBAN AIRLINER OFF BARBAĐ®

GENERAL GIMENEZ AND GARCIA WERE BOTH DUMSFOUNDED AT THE LEGST

AND

STATED APSOLUTE DISAPPROVAL.

CLASSIFIED BY 5608 STA/KSR

DECLASSIFYON: 25X

IN

DECEMBER, WHEN A SHOT WAS

FIRED

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AT THE(JFK)

THERIAULT

RESIDENCE, NARROWLY MISSING

(THER IAULT.**

HE WAS

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PAGE TWO CAR 97-2 SEC

SUBSEQUENTLY REASSIGNED

TO ANOTHER POST FOR HIS OWN SAFETY

CIA, CARACAS,

CANNOT STATE DEFINITELY THAT THE SHOT WAS FIRED

BY MORALES OR SOMEONE ACTING FOR HIM, BUT THIS IS NOT BEYOND THE

REALM OF POSSIBILITY.

CIA, CARACAS,

SEL IEVES THAT THE ONLY PURPOSE THE ASSASSINATION

OF TH ERIALLI

WOULD HAVE SERVED WOULD HAVE BEEN TO STRAIN PELATIONS

BETWEEN VENEZUELA AND THE UNITED STATES, AND MOST CERTAINLY WOULD

NOT HAVE AIDED THE ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA CAUSE IN ANY WAY.

A [CIA SOURCE HAS ADVISED THAI AT A RECENT PARTY AI THE

RESIDENCE OF ORLANDO GARCIA, MORALES, WHILE QUITE INTOXICATED

ASKED IF SEEING IHE CUBAN FLAG AND HEARING THE CUBAN NATIONAL

ANTHEM DID NOT EMOTIONALLY AFFECT SOURCE. SOURCE ANSWERED IN

THE

AFFIRMATIVE, AND MORALES THEN STATED

TO THE EFFECT THAT HE "COULD

LIVE WITH BRESHNEV," REFERRING TO THE SOVIET PREMIER. MORALES IS

NOT RPT NOT CURRENTLY ON THE ROLLS OF OFFICIAL DISIP EMPLOYEES,

HAS VACATED HIS APARIMENT AT THE ANAUCO HILTON, LEAVING

AN UNPAID

BILL OF BS. 15,000, WHICH WAS PAID BY ORLANDO GARCIA, AND HAS

TAKEN UP RESIDENCE IN AN APARIMENT, THE COST OF WHICH IS PROHIBITIVE

ON ONLY THE SALARY PAID BY DISIP. THE POSSIBILITY EXISTS I HAT

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MORALES CONTINUES TO BE PAID BY DISIP, POSSIBLY AS A CONTRACT EM

PLOYEE, BUT HIS STANDARD OF LIVING CERTAINLY INDICATES ANOTHER

SUBSTANTIAL SOURCE OF INCOME, IF HE IS, IN FACT, PAYING HIS CURRENI.

neto

BILLS.

pete

[CÍA, CARACAS, BELIEVES THAT IN VIEW OF THE FOREGOING,

THE

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VITUPEROUS ATTACKS MORALES HAS MADE AGAINST THE CIA AND THE FBI,

THE POSSIBILITY CERTAINLY EXISTS THAT HE IS MENTALLY UNSTABLE,

AND

MAY VERY LIKELY BE A CASTRO DOUBLE AGENT. (P

LEGAT FEELS VERY STRONGLY THAT ANY CONTACT WITH MORALES BE

VERY CIRCUMSPECT, AND ANY INFORMATION FURNISHED BY HIM OR ATTRIBUTED

TO MIM, BE CAREFULLY ANALYZED BEFORE BEING ACCEPTED AS FACT. A (U).

CLASSITYID Y 5A7S, XEDS 2, INDEFINITE.

ADMINISTRATIVE: FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE BUREAU, ORLANDO

GARCIA IS CURRENTLY CONFINED TO BED AT HIS RESIDENCE DUE TO VERY

SERIOUS LIVER PROBLEMS. HE HAS BEEN ADVISED BY HIS DOCTOR THAT IF

HE DOES NOT STOP DRINKING IT WILL KILL HIM IN SHORT ORDER. DU)

GARCIA IS MORALES' PROTECIOR IN DISIP, AND SHOULD HE EXPIRE

OR BECOME INCAPACITATED, MORALES WOULD MOST CERTAINLY LOSE HIS

INFLUENCE WITH GENERAL GIMENEZ GAINZA AND BE COMPLETELY SEPARATED

@ (4)

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FROM DISIP. GENE (4)

BUREAU IS REQUESTED TO ADVISE MIAMI AND OTHER INTERESTED

OFFICES.

65K (0)

LOGAT IT SELLON GOEY MI COURSE A STAR CARICASES

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@c-gen.ino.

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