Originator: CIA
From: CIA
Document date: 12/21/1976
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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124-10280-10077

2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_NUMBER: 124-10280-10077

RECORD SERIES: HO

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 109-12-228-2459

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: CIA

FROM:

CIA

TO:

TITLE:

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

DATE: 12/21/1976

PAGES: 14

SUBJECT:

OBA, CUBAN EXILE LEADER, ARREST, ASSOC, VENEZUELA, BOMBING,

CUBANA AIRLINER

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

06/08/1998

UPDATE DATE:

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RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6.(1)(B)

COMMENTS:

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EDITIONS

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INTELLIGENCE

Intelligence Information Cable

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SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED

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OPERATIONS

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Officer, Exempt from General Declassification Schedule of E.O. 11652 Exemption

Category 5B (1),

Impossible to Determine Date of Automatic Declassification.

FURTHER DISSEMINATION AND USE OF THIS INFORMATION SUBJECT TO

CONTROLS STATED AT BEGINNING AND END OF REPORT.

THIS IS AN

INDRPMATIQIO REFORETO ANALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE

SECRET

DECLASSIFICATION AND/OA,

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RELEASE GRACIA INFORMATION

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REPORT CLASS-SECRET WARNING

OTICE-SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE

SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED NÖT TO TO FOREIGN NATIONALS--

NOT RELEASABLE TO CONTRACTORS OR CONTRACTOR/ CONSULTANTS

1079. MARCHES

COUNTRY: VENEZUELA

ALL FBI INFORMATION CONTAINEI

HEREIN IS UNGLASSISIED ARE DEC

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:17 DECEMBER 1976 DATE 3-21-94 BYSpImECHER

SUBJECT: APPRAISAL OF THE CURRENT SECURITY SITUATION

iN VENEZUELA

IN

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ACO

SOURCE :

VENEZUEL A CARAC AS FIELD NO. [VO 1368 NONAL A USA

THIS IS A FIELD APPRAiSAL.

IT PRESENTS THE VIEWS OF THIS

FAZENCY"S SENIOR DEFICER ON THE SCENE. IT IS AN INTERPRE

TATION BASED ON PREVIOUSLY REPORTED INFORMATION. PREPARED

PRIMARILY FOR INTERNAL AGENCY USE, IT IS DISSEMINATED IN THE

BELIEF THAT IT MAY BE USEFUL TO INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS IN

THEIR OWN ASSESSMENT OF THE SITUATION.

SUMMARY: THERE IS NO CURRENT INFORMATION TO INDICATE THAT ANY

TYPE OF PUBLIC DISTURBANCE, TERRORIST ACT, OR GUERRILLA-TYPE OPERA.

TION

IS BEING PLANNED TO TAKE PLACE DURING THE SCHEDULED 26

956

1970-

JAN25 1077 T

JANUARY 1977 VISIT OF VICE PRESIDENT NELSON

ROCKEFELLER

VENEZUELA, WHILE NO SUCH ACTIVILIES ARE ANTICIPATED.

194-12-22

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VEC SECRET

FURTHER DISSEMINATION AND USE OF THIS INFORMATION SUBJECT TO

(classification)

CONTROLS: STATED AT BEGINNING AND END OF REPORT.

EVENTS OF THE PASTETEN MONTHS POINT TO A SOMEWHAT DETERIORATED

SECURITY SITUATION AND INCREASED POSSIBILITY THAT SOME ISOLATED,

UNANTIGIPATED, INCIDENT COULD OCCUR, THE POTENTIAL FOR ACTS OF

LN TERNAT IONAL TERRORISM CLEARLY EXISTS IN, VENEZUELA TODAY, THE

B'ANDERA ROJA (BRI, THE ARMED FORCES OF NATIONAL LIBERATION & FALND,

AND THE: ORGANIZATION OF REVOLUTIONARIES .CORD, ALL INDIGENOUS TERRORIST

OR ANI ZATI ONS, ARE STILL PRESENT.. AND ACTIVE WITHIN THE COUNTRY.

THE POSSIBILITY OF VIOLENCE INTIATED EITHER BY CUBAN EXILE GROUPS

OR THOSE IN SYMPATHY WITH THE CURRENT CUBAN GOVERNMENT AS A RESULT

OF THE CIRCUMSTANGES SURROUNDING THE 6 OCTOBER BOMBING OF A CUBANA

AIRLINER, CANNOT BE DISCOUNTED. ALSO, THE REPORTED PRESENCE IN

VENEZUEL AÓF INDIV CLOSELY CLOSELY TO THE VENEZUELAN- BORN.

INTERNAT TONAL TERR OR IST. IL ICH MGAR LO S"

AR AM IR EZV/SANCHEZ MUST BE

venes

CONSIDERED. THE VENEZUELAIN GOVERNMENT, HOWEVER, IS WELL AWARE

OF THESE POTENTIAL DANGERS AND IS MONITORING THE SITUATIONS.

NONETHELESS, IT MUST BE REMEMBERED THAT RECENT DIFFICULTIES. HAVE

SERVED TO DISRUPT, AND THUS WEAKEN, THE VENEZUELAN SECURITY SERVICES,

PARTICULARLY THE DIRECTORATE FOR THE SERVICES OF INTELLIGENCE AND

PREVENTION (DISIPS. ADDITIONALIY, THE VENEZUELAN SERVICES CAN BE

EXPECTED TO

BE MUCH L'S EFFICIENT AS A RESULT I

BEING UNDERSTAFFED

SECRET

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