CUBAN EXILES PLANS TO ASSASSINATE CUBAN LEADERS
Agency: SSCIA
Originator: FBI
Document date: 07/14/1964
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : SSCIA

RECORD NUMBER : 157-10002-10206

RECORDS SERIES :

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AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

i44 USC 2107 Notel.

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DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR : FBI

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TITLE :

CUBAN EXILES PLANS TO ASSASSINATE CUBAN LEADERS

DATE: 07/14/64

PAGES : 3

SUBJECTS :

CUBA

ASSASSINATION

CASTRO

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : U

RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED

CURRENT STATUS : P

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 09/30/93

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FROM MIAMI. 140430

PLANS OF CUBAN EXILES TO ASSASSINATE SELECTED CUBAN GOVERNMENT

LEADERS..

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IS-CUBA. BUFILE 105-131629.

JOSE "PEPIN" BOSCH, PRESIDENT OF BARCARDI RUM CO., MIAMI,

FLA., STATED ON JULY 13, 1964, HE IS FREQUENTLY ASKED FOR

CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ANTI CASTRO ACTIVITIES. APPROXIMATELY 2-3.

MONTHS AGO TWO CUBANS, IDENTITIES UNKNOWN, CAME TO BOSCH AND

ASKED IF HE WAS INTERESTED IN INVESTING $150,000. THEY SAID

THE "MAFIA" WAS WILLING TO BET THAT AMOUNT THAT FIDEL CASTRO

WOULD BE KILLED WITHIN 90 DAYS OF THE PLACING OF THE BET.

BOSCH CLAIMED HE DOES NOT RECALL ADDITIONAL DETAILS, BUT TOLD

CUBANS HE WOULD HAVE TO CONSIDER THE MATTER. BOSCH EXPLAINED

TO AGENTS THAT HE WOULD HAVE NO PART IN MURDER BUT SINCE HE

HAS

YS-BEEN AN ICLOSE CONTACT WOTH GIA] ON HEARING OF THIS 5)

MATTER HE ADVISED THEN HE SAID HE WAS TOLD BY CIA THEY WERE (5)

NOT INTERESTED.

BOSCH CANNOT RECALL FOR CERTAIN IF HE WAS

EVER RECONTACTED BY THE TWO UNKNOWN CUBANS BUT MAY HAVE BEEN.

HE SAID HE WOULD NOT RECOGNIZE A PHOTO OF THEM AND HAS NO WAY

TO DETERMINE THEIR IDENTITY.

BOSCH DOES NOT KNOW OF ANYONE IN THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY

CONNECTED WITH ANY PORTION OF HOODLUM ELEMENT OR CONNECTED

WITH ST. LOUIS. BOSCH DID NOT CONTRIBUTE ANY MONEY OR CONTRACT

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TO DO SO FOR ANY ASSASSINATION PLAN. BOSCH DID NOT MEET WITH

ELISEO GOMEZ FERNANDEZ CUBAN EXILE IN SHIPPING BUSINESS IN

APRIL AND DID NOT AGREE TO ADVANCE $100,000 FOR ASSASSINATION

PLAN. BOSCH DID NOT COMMIT HIMSELF TO FURNISH $50,000. BOSCH

DENIED SAYING THAT HE BELIEVED CASTRO SHOULD BE ELIMINATED AND

THAT CASTRO'S ELIMINATION IS WELL WORTH $150,000. BOSCH KNOWS

TEOFILO BABUN SELMAN, CUBAN EXILE, AND OWNER OF ANTILLEAN MARINE

SHIPPING CO. HE DOES NOT KNOW BABUN'S ASSOCIATES IN THE COMPANY-

ELISEO GOMEZ FERNANDEZ AND OSCAR FERNANDEZ VEIGA. BABUN WAS

NOT ONE OF THE TWO CUBANS WHO CALLED ON HIM REGARDING PLAN AND

BOSCH CANNOT RECALL FOR CERTAIN IF HE MENTIONED THIS PLAN TO

BABUN.

BOSCH KNOWS JULIO LOBO, CUBAN SUGAR MAGNATE, BUT DID NOT

AND WOULD NOT ASK LOBO FOR ANYTHING. BOSCH THOROUGHLY DETESTS

LOBO AND WOULD NOT ENTER ANYTHING OF WHICH LOBO IS A PART.

BOSCH STATED HE DOES NOT KNOW BYRON CAMERON, FT. LAUDERDALE

BUSINESSMAN.

HERBERT F. JENNE, FT. LAUDERDALE BUSINESSMAN AND PARTNER

OF BYRON CAMERON, SAID ON JULY 13, 1964, THAT CAMERON AND THEIR

OTHER PARTNER, WILLIAMS. GRAY, FORMER ATLANTA BUSINESSMAN, ARE

EN ROUTE TO MIAMI FORM MAZATLAN, MEXICO, ON BOARD SHIP RECENTLY

PURCHASED THERE. DESCRIBED GRAY AS APPROXIMATELY 30 YEARS OLD

AND FORMER OPERATOR OF GRAY MANUFACTURING CO., ATLANTA, GA. •

GRAY INVESTED $50,000 IN FIRM OF F.A. JOHNSON, INC., FT. LAUDERDALE,

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WHICH IS BUSINESS WHICH OPERATES THE MOTOR

VESSEL CAYMAN HOPE

AND WILL OPERATE NEWLY PURCHASED VESSEL. JENNE HAS NO INFORMATION

CONCERNING ANY PLOT OR PLAN TO ASSASSINATE CASTRO. HE KNOWS

OF NO CONNECTION BETWEEN CAMERON AND ANY OF HOODLUM ELEMENT.

STATED CAMERON ONCE OPERATED APPLIANCE BUSINESS IN JACKSONVILLE;

ILL., BUT SOLD OUT TO MAN NAMED MERLIN NAUSLEY. JENNE HAS NO

INFORMATION THAT CAMERON INVOLVED IN ANTI CASTRO ACTIVITIES.

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