Originator: CIA
From: CIA
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 11/16/1976
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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124-10221-10286

2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10221-10286

RECORD SERIES: HO

AGENCY FILE_ NUMBER: CR 185-789-431

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: CIA

FROM:

CIA

TO: DIRECTOR. FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 11/16/1976

PAGES:

2

SUBJECT:

OBA, ASSA, LETELIER, ORLANDO, VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT, ARREST,

BOMBING

DOCUMENT TYPE:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

NEW

Secret

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

08/17/1998

Redact

UPDATE DATE:

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (1)(B)

COMMENTS:

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PAGER, 2-RUEAIIA 8118 SECRET

AVILA, SUBAN EXILE UNDER ARREST IN VENEZUELA FOR THE CUBANA AIRLINES

BOMBING, HAD TOLD HIM THAT THE NOVO BROTHERS HAD BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR

THE BOMBING OF THE AUTOMOBILE OF ORLANDO LE IEL I ER, FORMER"

CHILEAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES. MORALES DID NOT AMPLIFY HIS

INFORMATION. (HEADQUARTERS COMMENT: ACCORDING TO A NUMBER OF PRESS

непезлем

ARTICLES,

IGNACIO

ANOV O AND GUILLERMO

TO VO HAVE BEEN

CHARGED BY SEVERAL OF THEIR COMPATRIOTS IN VENEZUELA AS BEING

RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ASSASSINATION OF ORLANDO: LETELIER. IT IS

BELIEVED THAT YOUR BUREAU HAS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE NOVO

BROTHERS, IGNACIO AND GUILLERMO.)

3. (HEADQUARTERS COMMENT: FIRCI-382/03218-76 FROMA VENEZUELAN

GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE WHOSE RELIABILITY HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED AND (S)

WHOSE INFORMATION SHOULD NOT BE DISCUSSED WITH FOREIGN OFFICIALS,

INCLUDING THOSE OF THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT, REPORTED THAT SINCE HIS

ARREST ON 15 OCTOBER BOSCH HAD ADMITTED TO AN OFFICIAL OF DI SIP THAT

HE HAD CONTACT WITH THE NOVO BROTHERS IN MIAMI SHORTLY BEFORE

LETELIER 'S ASSASSINATIONO)

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