TDCS:INSISTENCE OF ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA THAT THE MIRR BOMB THE CITY OF HABANA.
Agency: CIA
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From: WAVE
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Document date: 02/24/1965
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SUPDATA: AMCLATTER-I WHO MET WITH FRANK FIORINI AND BILL JOHNSON

AT SOURCE'S HOUSE 14:38 2$ FEB 65. FIORINI TOLD SOURCE THAT JOHNSON

SAID HE SAW JACK GRIFFIN AFTER HIS RELEASE BY U.S. AUTHORITIES FOLL

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COUNTRY: CUBA

SUBJ: 1. INSISTENCE OF ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA THAT THE MIRR BOMB THE

CITY OF HABANA.

2.

•USE OF AMERICAN PILOTS IN MIRR AIR STRIKES

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- SUBJECT.

1. MIRR INTENTION TO BOMB HABANA

2. USE OF AMERICAN PILOTS IN MIRR AIR STRIKES

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DATE ACO, UNITED STATES, MIAMI (22 FEBRUARY 1965)

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MELD REPORT NO. UFG 6747

APPRAISAL A MIAMI BUSINESSMAN WHO WAS A RESIDENT OF HABASIA FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

THE SOURCE HAS CONTACTS WHO RECOGNIZE HIM AS A CHANNEL'TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE.

THIS INFORMATICH WAS OBTAINED FROM BILL JOHISON,

-''""'' ON Z$ FEBRUARY 1965, BILL JOHNSON, AN AMERICAN PILOT WHO

• ARRANGES THE SUPPORT ASPECTS OF AIR STRIKES AGAINST CUBA BY ORLANDO

BOSCH AVILA'S MOVIMIENTO I'ISURRECCIONAL DE RECUPERACION REVOLUCION-

ARIA (MIRR, INSURRECTIONAL MOVEMENT FOR REVOLUTIONARY RECOVERY), SAID

THAT THE MIRR WAS MAKING 184-POUNO "ASH CAM" GOMES FOR SUBSEQUENT

RAIDS, "MORE THAN AMPLE TO BLOW UP THE OIL TANKS IN MABAMA." JOHISCAL

SAID THAT BOSCH STILL INTENDS TO BOMB HABANA, BUT 'IT WILL BE AGAINST

8Ã6 ADVICL NOTGUN LATER ALMAITED THAT HIS CUN MOTIVATION IS PURELY

MERCENARY. FIELD COMMENT: SEE TIC SUB-315/881550-65, DATED 16

FEBRUARY 1965, FOR INFORMATION ON BOSCH'S INSISTENCE THAT THE CITY

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OF HABANA BE THE MIRR'S NEXT TARGET.. THIS MISSION WAS ORIGINALLY.

SCHEDULED FOR 16 FEBRUARY.)

2• JOHNSON ALLEGED THAT THE PLANES OPERATING FOR THE MIRR ARE

LEAVING FROM THE UNITED STATES. WHEN TAMPA WAS MENTIONED AS A POSSIBLE

DEPARTURE POINT, JOHNSON SAID: "YOU'RE GETTING CLOSE."

3. JOHNSON SAID HIS SMALL GROUP PRACTICES GOOD SECURITY. "

"WHEN WE GET A PLANE AND A PILOT, WE CONTRACT THEM FOR. THREE OPERATIONS."

THE PLANES ARE FLOWN BY AMERICAN PILOTS SINCE "THE CUBAN PILOTS DON'T

HAVE THE GUTS. "

?: 146 JOHNSON CLAIMED THAT JACK GRIFFIN, THE AMERICAN PILOT WHO

CRASH-LANDED A B-25 EARLIER THAT MORNING, HAD TAKEN PART IN A PREVIOUS

RAID ON CUBA. HOWEVER, HE DID NOT KNOW IF THE DOWNED B-25 HAD EVER BEEN

USED IN ANY RAIDS. JOHNSON SAID HE DOES NOT KNOW DAN SHAW,

GRIFFIN'S CO-PILOT ABOARD THE DOWNED B-25.

5. JOHNSON INSISTED THAT THE RAID WHICH THE MIRR ANNOUNCED AS

HAVING TAKEN PLACE ON BAHIA HONDA ON 13 FEBRUARY HAD TAKEN PLACE

IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT CUBA HAS NOT ACKNOWLEOGED IT.

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6. FIELD DISSEM: CINCLANT, CINCSO, COMKWESTFOR, MIAMI REPS OF

STATE, FBI, CUSTOMS, IGNS, BORDER PATROL, AND USCG.

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