DECISION OF ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA TO USE A CUBAN PILOT ON THE MIRR'S AIR STRIKE SCHEDULED FOR 16 FEBRUARY 1965
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Document date: 02/18/1965
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DECISION OF ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA TO USE A CUBAN PILOT ON

THE MIRR'S AIR STRIKE SCHEDULED FOR 16 FEBRUARY 1965

DOl: 17 FEBRUARY 1965

PADA: UNITED STATES, MIAMI (17 FEBRUARY 1965). UFG-6727

SOURCE: 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.

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DECISION OF ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA TO USE A CUBAN

PILOT ON THE MIRR'S AIR STRIKE SCHEDULED FOR

16 FEBRUARY 1965

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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 4:D0 P.M. ON 17 FEBRUARY 1965 FRANK FIORINI SAID

THAT ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA, LEADER OF THE MOVIMIENTO INSURRECCIONAL

DE RECUPERACION REVOLUCIONARIA (MIRR) INSURRECTIONAL MOVEMENT FOR

REVOLUTIONARY RECOVERY AGREED TO LET THE CUBAN PILOT FLY THE

MISSION SCHEDULED FOR 16 FEBRUARY INSTEAD OF THE AMERICAN PILOT.

(FIELD COMMENT: THE SAME SOURCE REPORTED THAT BOSCH HAD SCHEDULED

AN AIR STRIKE AGAINST THE CITY OF HABANA FOR 16 FEBRUARY IN A B-25.

AN AMERICAN PILOT WAS TO FLY THE AIRCRAFT BUT WAS TO BE ACCOMPANIED

BY A CUBAN PILOT.): THE CUBAN PILOT HAS BEEN TRAINING IN THE B-25

AND APPARENTLY IS EXPERIENCED ENOUGH TO MAKE THE TRIP

TO CUBA.

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HE HAS HAD PREVIOUS TRAINING IN A SEA FURY AND IN A TWIN- ENGINE

SEAPLANE, PRESUMABLY A PBY, FIORINI SAID THE B-25 WAS PURCHASED

IN TUCSON, ARIZONA, NOT IN TEXAS AS HE PREVIOUSLY STATED.

2. THE CUBAN PILOT IS. THE SAME PERSON WHO WAS TO MAKE A

BOSCH-FINANCED RAID IN A SINGLE-ENGINE AIRCRAFT AGAINST AN UNSPECIFIED

TARGET. THE PLANE WAS TO LEAVE FROM THE KEY WEST AREA.

3. FIORINI SAID THAT BILL JOHNSON, AN AMERICAN PILOT WHO

HAS BEEN ARRANGING THE SUPPORT ASPECTS FOR BOSCH'S RAIDS, RECEIVED

AN UNIDENTIFIED SUM OF MONEY FROM BOSCH ON 17 FEBRUARY.

4. ACCORDING TO FIORINI, IF THE RAID HAD NOT TAKEN PLACE

ALREADY, IT WOULD PROBABLY BE MADE WITHIN 24 HOURS.

5. FIELD DISSEM: CINCLANT, CINGSO, COMKWESTFOR, MIAMI REPS

OF STATE, FBI, BORDER PATROL, CUSTOMS, I&NS, AND USCG.

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