Originator: FBI
From: LEG, CAR
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 10/22/1976
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 2-2173-137

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

LEG. CAR

TO: DIRECTOR. FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 10/22/1976

PAGES: 3

SUBJECT:

CUBANA AIRLINER, BOMBING, SUSPECTS, OBA, LPO, ARRESTED

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

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OCTOBER 52 1975,

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ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA, AKA - FIGITIVE; PV; IS - CIBA BUFILE 195-141949;

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CHILBOM; PFO - MURDER; EID (BUFILE 185-789; CARFILE 174-8

•REBUTEL OCTOBER 21, 1976, CAPTIONED

"CHILBOM."

BY IELETYPE OF OCTOBER 16, 1976, LEGAT

REPORTED ARRESTS IN

VENEZUELA OF ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA, LUIS

'OSAD

CARRILES, AND OTHERS

IN CONNECTION WITH CUBANA AIRLINES

CRASH.

_BY SEPARATE TELETYPE

384=581

OCT OBER 16, 1976, LEGAT REPORTED HIS MEETING

WITH DISIP OFFICIAL S

ON OCI OBER 13, 1975, IN WHICH INFORMAI ID

DEDE-ZAPED BY DISIP IN-

VESTIGAI ION UP TO THAI I IME WASKPIOELOSE

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INFORMAI ION ALLEGING

CONFISCAT ION BY DISIP OF MATERIALS FRO

POLARA INES NINE ITTH POLITES TO ELATION NOI UNN

IN CUBANA CRASH BUT ALSO NIEHOUS KIDNAPING (BUFILE 105-297749;

OCT 28 1976

CARFILE 105-246), AND DEAR OF LETEL IER, FIRSI

APPEAR ED

IN

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PAGE IWO CAR 2-9

105-156, 174-81

CRET SECRET

OCT OBER 169 1976,

ISSUE OF CARACAS DAILY NEWSPAPER, "ULI IMAS NOTICIAS."

CONFIRMATION OF THAT PRESS REPORI HAS YET BEEN MAD

(u)

ONLY: SUBSTANTIAL ALLEGATION OF POSSIBLE IMPLICATION OF BOSCH

AND

POSSIBLY OTHERS

IN VENEZ LELA IN LETEL IER DEATH IS THAI REPORTED

CARACAS CIA STAI ION IN HUC 7514 OF OCTOBER 13, 1976, REFLECIING (S

THAT BOSCH WAS QUOTED TO HAVE SAID AT FUND-RAISING DINNER IN

CARACAS: "NOW IHAT OUR ORGANIZAT ION HAS COME OUT OF THE

LET EL IER

JOB LOOKING GOOD, WE ARE GOING IO TRY SOMETHING ELSE.

BLEGAT

[SOUR CE

AD

REPORTED THAT BOSCH CONTENDED IGNACIO NOVO SAMPOL AND

GUILLERMO NOVO SAMPOL WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OPERATION AGAINST

LETELIER, AND THAI THEY UNDERTOOK IHE ACI ION FOR CHILEAN SECRET

POLICE (DINA)

IN VIEW OF SENSITIVE CIRCUMSTANCES, LEGAI•S LIAISON CONTACIS

WITH LOGICAL SOURCES IN POSII IONS TO PROVIDE ACCIPALE INFORMAIION

IN LETELIER AND CUBANA CRASH MATTERS HAVE BEEN SOMEWHAT CURIAILED

DURING IHE PAST TWO WEEKS. EFFORTS WILL BE MADE AS SOON AS FELI

ADVISABLELDO RESUME REGULAR CONTACIS WITH THOSE SOURCES IN AN

ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE WHAT, IF ANY, LINKS THE VENEZUELAN ANTI-CASTRO

GROUP MAY HAVE IO THE LETEL IER DEATH.

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