PLANNED AIR STRIKE AGAINST HABANA BY THE MIRR ON 16 FEBRUARY 1965.
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Document date: 02/16/1965
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PLANNED AIR STRIKE AGAINST HABANA ON 16 FEBRUARY 1965

BY THE MIRR

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APPRAISAL, A MIAMI BUSINESSMAN WHO WAS A RESIDENT OF HABANA FOR SEVERAL YEARS. THE

SOURCE HAS CONTACTS WHO RECOGNIZE HIM AS A CHANNEL TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE.

• THIS INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED FROM FRANK. FIORINI.

1. AT ABOUT 1 :DES AM ON 16 FEBRUARY 1965, FRANK FIORINI SAID

THAT THE MOVIMIENTO INSURRECCIONAL DE RECUPERACION REVOLUCIONARIA.

(MIRR, INSURRECTIONAL MOVEMENT FOR REVOLUTIONARY RECOVERY) WAS

PLANNING ANOTHER AIR STRIKE OVER CUBA ON 16 FEBRUARY. BILL JOHNSON,

AN AMERICAN PILOT WHO ARRANGE - THE SUPPORT ASPECTS FOR SUCH STRIKES

AGAINST CUBA, TOLD FIORINI. THAT HE AND MIKE RAFFERTY HAD HAD A.

HEATED ARGUMENT WITH ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA, MIRR LEADER, AT ABOUT

11:45 PM ON 15 FEBRUARY BECAUSE BOSCH WANTED HIS PILOT TO BOMB

THE CITY OF HABANA. JOHNSON AND RAFFERTY TRIED TO ADVISE BOSCH

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AGAINST SUCH AN OPERATION BUT BOSCH REFUSED TO BE DISSUADED INO

INSTRUCTED HIS PILOT TO MAKE THE MISSION. THE PILOT, AN UNIDENTI-

FIED AMERICAN WHO MADE THE PREVIOUS TWO RAIDS, AGREED TO MAKE THE

MISSION FOR A LARGE SUM OF MONEY. HE WAS TO BE ACCUMPANIED BY

AN UNIDENTIFIED CUBAN PILOT.

2. FIORINI SAID THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION OF BOMBING SOME:

ANTI-AIRCRAFT UNITS NEAR CERTAIN UNIDENTIFIED TANKS BUT BOSCH

ALLEGEDLY INSTRUCTED THE PILOT TO FORGET ABOUT THEM AND HIT ANY-

THING HE COULD.

• 3º FIORINI SAID THAT BOSCH HAS A S-25 HIDDEN IN THE NORTHERN

PART OF FLORIDA NEAR AN UNIDENTIFIED SUGAR MILL. THE AIRCRAFT

WAS PURCHASED IN TEXAS AND IS IN GOOD CONDITION.

4. &FIELD COMMENT: THE MIRR ANNOUNCED ON 13 FEBRUARY THAT ONE

OF ITS TWIN-ENGINE PLANES BOMBED AND STRAFED THE BAHIA HONDA

SUGAR CENTRAL ON CUBA'S NORTH COAST DE PINAR DEL RIO PROVINCE IN

THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF 13 FEBRUARY. ON 16 FEBRUARY THE MIRR

ANNOUNCED THAT THE B-25 WAS OVER CURA FOR ZI MINUTES ON THE RAID

MISO DID NOT DRAW ANY GROLIND FIRE. NAPALM BOMBS OF I8$ POLIOS: EACHO

A 286-POUND HIGH EXPLOSIVE BOMB AND PHOSPHOROUS. INCENDIARY LEVICES

WERE ALLEGEDLY DROPPED.: THERE HAS: DEEN NO ANNOUNCEMENT FREM CUBA:.

.. INDICATING THAT SUCH A RAIS TOCK PLACE. HOWEVER, HABANA PADIO

DID NOT ANNOUNCE CONFIPIATION OF THE MIRR'S 17 JANUARY STRIKE

AGAINST THE NIAGARA SUGAR MILL UNTIi TWO DAYS LATER.)

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