VICTOR ESPINOSA HERNANDEZ.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 04/27/1977
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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27 April 1977

SUBJECT : Victor Espinosa Hernandez

REFERENCE:

SSC Final Report (Book V), Pages 78, 79,

and 105 - (A Cuban Exile)

1. Subject arrived in the United States on 2 May 1960.

He was

granted a POA on 18 October 1960 for participation in operations

against the Cuban regime.

He was terminated on 20 March 1961 as a

malcontent.

in Jes Angetir

2. In July 1963, Subject was involved with the purchase and

caching of 2400 pounds of dynamite,

100 pounds of practice bombs and

other related material, and with plotting to bomb the Shell 011 Com-

pany and other Cuban targets. Since the FBI felt that the aerial at-

tack on Cuba had been effectively thwarted by seizure of the munitions

gary set a tre contras ne orient action

On 2 May 1965, Subject contacted an INS officer who, on the

basis of information in Subject's story which appeared to affect U.s.

security, notified the FBI.

On the same day (2 May 1965), Subject

was interviewed by the FBI and CIA was notified on 3 Nay 7965.

CIA

contacted Subject on 4 May in the New York. field office of the FBI.

The gist of Subject's story was that he was aware that AMLASH and

others. had been planning a coup which involved the assassination of

Castro and that CIA had been involved with AMLASH and others in the

plotting.

In a 9 June 1965 cable from Headquanters tol

15=2

DIRECTOR 17510, Headquarters advised the

stattons cnat

"it evident that security of our Cuban ops," some cases and our own

compartmentation not all that we would destre.

Stations concerned continue take such steps as feasible to improve se-

curity."

201-File

5. The Ageney does not have copies of the FBI reports cited in

Book V of the SSC Final Report.

6. The information supplied by subjects adds little, if anything,

to the overall SSC report.

It simply shows that the SSC was reviewing

every lead.

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