Originator: CIA
From: CIA
Document date: 10/09/1976
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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RECORD NUMBER: 124-10280-10072

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ORIGINATOR: CIA

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DATE: 10/09/1976

PAGES: 4

SUBJECT: OBA, CUBAN EXILE EXTREMIST, ASSOC, VENEZUELA

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ORIGINAL

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PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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38 SEPTEMBER A UCTOBER 1976 DIE 21544655 MO

REACTION OF THE CUBAN EMBASS

CARAC AS TO RECENT Fierge

ERRORIST ALTACKS AGAINST CUBAN AIRCRAFY AND

INS RES

VENEZUELA CARAJAS LE DE OBER 1876) FIELD NO. INVIS89.

SOURCE SEE BELOW.

1, SOURCE OF PARAGRAPHS 2 AND 3: A VENEZUELAN

BUSINESSMAN

WITH CLOSE CONTACTS IN BUSINESS, GOVERNEST PRECISE A 102-228 - 25129

DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES. HIS RELIABILITY HAS

EN ESTABLISHED.

20 08 7 DOTOBER :976 PEDROTO

FERNANDEZ, SECOND.

OCT 22 1978

SECRETARY AT THE CUBAN EMBASSY IN CARACAS, VENEZUELA, SAID

THAT

THE CUBAN EMBASSY WAS AWARE THAT A BOMB WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE

CRASH OF THESCUBANA AIRLINE FLIGHT OFF THE COAST.

OF BARB'

ON 6 OCTOBER. THE CUBANS, GOMEZ SAID, DID NOT KNOW ON WHICH

LEG OF THE FLIGHT THE BOMB WAS PLACED. HOWEVER.

FIELD COMMENT: THE

#LANE WAS DOWNED WITH. THE LOSS OF 78 LIVES

5G NDV 1 0 1976

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INCLUDING FENCING TEAM WHICH HAD RECENTLY COMPLETED COMPETITION IN

VENEZUELA.)

•3, GOMEZ SAID THAI ON 3O SEPTEMBER THE CUBAN EMBASSY HAD.

INFORMED THE DIRECTORATE FOR THE SERVICES OF INTELLIGENGE AND

PREVENTION I DISIPS, THE VENEZUELAN CIVILIAN SECURITY SERVICE,

THAT A CUBAN EXILE NAMED SALVADOR O MANI WAS DESERVING

THE QUEAN FENCINO TEAM AT ITS CARACAS HOTEL ROMANT A GOMER SAIO.

IS A UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE AGENT.

ISOURCE COMMENTS

GOMEZ, IMPLIED THAT THE CUBAN EMBASSY IS LOOKING INTO THE POSSIBILITY

THAT ROMANI'S ACTIVITIES ARE INVOLVED WITH THE PLANE CRASH.)

FURTHERMORE, THE CUBANS TOLD DISIP THAT. THE TEAM WOULD DEFEND

ITSELF SHOULD ROMANI CAUSE TROUBLE. SHORTLY AFTER THE CUBANS

MADE THEIR FEELINGS KNOWN TO DISIP GOMEZ SAID THAT ROMANI'S

MOTIVITIES CEASED, SFIELD COMMENT INNERASSI

TDFIRD8-315/09683 = 76, 0F 128" SEPTEMBER.

i. THE SAME

SOURCE REPURTED THAT THE CUBAN EMBASSY HAD COMPLAINED TO

DISIP ABOUT ANTI-CUBAN GOVERNMENT ARTICLES APPEARING IN THE LOCAL

PRESS," IN THIS INSTANCE THE CUBANS INDICATED THEIR WILLINGNESS TO

RETALIATE AGAINST THE NEWSMAN INVOLVED IF DISIP DID NOT

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TAKE ACTIONS.

4. SOURCE OF PARAGRAPHS 5 AND 6: A FOREIGN DIPLOMAT WITH A

WIDE VARIETY UF CUNTAÇTS, HIS RELIABILITY HAS NOT BEEN

ESTABLISHED.

noto

5, DURING THE WEEK OF 4 OCTOBER LUIS

MARTINEZ

MONOCAL CUBAN FIRST SECRETARY, SAID THAT THE EMBASSY WAS

AWARE THAT CUBAN EXILE EXTREMIST ORLANDONE OS. CE WAS IN

VENEZUELA.

THE EMBASSY, HE SAID, WAS ATTEMPTING TO INVESTIGATE

BOSCH'S ACTIVITIES IN VENEZUELA AND TO DETERMINE WHETHER

HE WAS STILL IN THE COUNTRY, MARTINEZ SAID THAT THE EMBASSY HAD

RECEIVED UNCONFIRMED HEPORTS THAT BOSCH HAD MOVED OUT OF THE

CARACAS AREA AND WAS THEN IN THE VENEZUELAN INTERIOR,

(FIELD COMMENT: FOR AN EARLIER REPORT ON THE PRESENCE OF BOSCH

IN VENEZUELA, SEE [HVC 7498, TDFIRDB-315/09814-760. OF: 30

SEPTEMBER, FRUM A USUALLY RELIABLE SOURCE. Y

6. IN ADDITION TO AND IN CONNECTION WITH INVESTIGATIONS INTO -

THE POSSIBLE PRESENCE OF BOSCH IN VENEZUELA: CUBAN EMBASSY

OFFICIALS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE MACHINE-GUNNING OF THE CUBAN EMBASSY

IN CARACAS BY UNKNOWN ASSAILANTS ON THE EARLY MORNING OF & OCTOBER:

7, FIELD DISSEM: EMBASSY, FBI AT CARACAS: SENT TO

SECRET

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