PLANNED AIR STRIKE AGAINST HABANA ON 16 FEBRUARY 1965 BY MIRR
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Document date: 02/16/1965
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SUSJ: PLANNED AIR STRIKE AGAINST HABANA BY THE MIRR CN 16 FEBRUARY

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16 FEBRUARY 1965

PADA: UNITED STATES, MIAMI (16 FEBRUARY 1965)

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SOURCE: A MIAMI BUSINESSMAN WHO WAS A RESIDENT OF HASANA FOR

SEVERAL YEARS. THE SCURCE HAS CONTACTS WHO RECOGNIZE HIM AS A

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DISTR. 16 FEBRUARY 1965

16 FEBRUARY 1965

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PLANNED AIR STRIKE AGAINST HABANA ON 16 FEBRUARY 1965

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FIELD REPORT NO. UFG 6710

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

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

THIS INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED FROM FRANK FIORINI.

1. AT ABOUT 1:DD AM ON-16 FEBRUARY 1965, FRANK FIORINI SAID

THAT THE MOVIMIENTO INSURRECCIONAL DE RECUPERACION REVOLUCIONARIA

(MIRR, INSURRECTIONAL MOVEMENT FOR REVOLUTIONARY RECOVERY, WAS

PLANNING ANOTHER AIR STRIKE OVER CUBA ON 16 FEBRUARY. BILL JOHNSON,

AN AMERICAN PILOT WHO ARRANGES THE SUPPORT ASPECTS FOR SUCH STRIKES

AGAINST CUBA, TOLD FIORIN THAT HE AND MIKE RAFFERTY HAD HAD A

HEATED ARGUMENT WITH ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA, MIRR LEADER, AT ABOUT

11:45 PM ON 15 FEBRUARY BECAUSE BOSCH WANTED HIS PILOT TO BOMB

THE CITY OF HABANA: JOHNSON AND RAFFERTY TRIED TO ADVISE BOSCH

is material contains information atecting the Natlonal Defense of the Unlted States within the menning of the Esplonage Laws. TIt

,U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unsuthorized person is probibited by la

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AGAINST SUCH AN OPERATION BUT BOSCH REFUSED TO BE DISSUADED AND

•INSTRUCTED HIS PILOT TO MAKE THE MISSION. THE PILOT, AN UNIDENTI-

FIED AMERICAN WHO MADE THE PREVIOUS TWO RAIDS, AGREED TO MAKE THE

MISSION FOR A LARGE SUM OF MONEY. HE WAS TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY

AN UNIDENTIFIED CUBAN PILOT-

2. FIORINI SAID THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION OF BOMBING SOME

ANTI-AIRCRAFT UNITS NEAR CERTAIN UNIDENTIFIED TANKS BUT BOSCH

ALLEGEDLY INSTRUCTED THE PILOT TO FORGET ABOUT THEM AND HIT ANY-

THING HE COULD:

3. FIORINI SAID THAT BOSCH HAS A B-25 HIDDEN IN THE NORTHERN

PART OF FLORIDA NEAR AN UNIDENTIFIED SUGAR MILL. THE AIRCRAFT

WAS PURCHASED IN TEXAS AND IS IN GOOD CONDITION.

4. (FIELD COMMENT: THE MIRR ANNOUNCED ON 13 FEBRUARY THAT ONE

OF ITS TWIN-ENGINE PLANES BOMBED AND STRAFED THE BAHIA HONDA

SUGAR CENTRAL ON CUBA'S NORTH COAST OF PINAR DEL RIO PROVINCE IN

THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF 13 FEBRUARY. ON 16 FESRUARY THE MIRR

ANNOUNCED THAT THE B-26 WAS OVER CUBA FOR 21 MINUTES ON THE RAID

AND DID NOT DRAW ANY GROUND FIRE. NAPALM BOMBS OF I@D POUNDS EACH,

• A ZOQ-POUND HIGH EXPLOSIVE BOMB AND PHOSPHOROUS INCENDIARY DEVICES

WERE ALLEGEDLY DROPPED. THERE HAS BEEN NO ANNOUNCEMENT FROM CUBA

INDICATING THAT SUCH A RAID TOOK PLACE. HOWEVER, HABANA RADIO

DID NOT ANNOUNCE CONFIRMATION OF THE MIRR'S 17 JANUARY STRIKE

AGAINST THE NIAGARA SUGAR MILL UNTIL TWO DAYS LATER.)

5. FIELD DISSEM: •CINCLANT, CINCSO, COMKWESTFOR, MIAMI REPS

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