Agency: FBI
Originator: CIA
From: CIA
Document date: 10/29/1976
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_NUMBER: 124-10220-10017

RECORD_SERIES:

HO

AGENCY FILE_ NUMBER: 2-2173-2ND NR 208

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 54027 Date:

08-29-2017

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: CIA

FROM:

CIA

TO:

TITLE:

DATE: 10/29/1976

PAGES: 4

SUBJECT:

CUBANA AIRLINES, CRASH, SUSP, "EL CONDOR", ASSOC WITH OBA

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

NEW

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REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

12/05/1996

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RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (1)(B)

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SUBJECT COMMENTS BY CUBAN OFFICIALS ON 6 OCTOBER CRASH OF

CUBANA AIRLINER AND ASSASSINATION OF ORLANDO LETELTER, CA

FORMER CHILEAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES

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FIELD NO.

SOURCE

ECUADOR, QUITO (27 OCTOBER 1976)

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CONFEDERATION OF ECUADOREAN WORKERS (CTE). -HE-IS A

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ALTHOUGH HE BELIEVES THAT THE CIA PRESENTLY IS INVOLVED IN MANY

PLOTS AND ACTIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, ITS POLICY DOES NOT

INCLUDE PERPETUATING SUCH VIOLENT ACTIONS ON U.S. TERRITORY.

ESCANDEL SAID THAT THE CIA IS UNABLE TO CONTROL THE CURRENT

CHILEAN GOVERNMENT AND THAT LETELIER'S ASSASSINATION IS AN

EXAMPLE OF THIS LACK OF CONTROL.

3. (HEADQUARTERS COMMENT:

CHVC-7528, TDFIRDB-315/10783-76,

28 OCTOBER 1975, FROM A SOURCE WHOSE RELIABILITY HAS NOT BEEN

ESTABLISHED, REPORTED A CUBAN DIPLOMAT'S COMMENTS THAT,

ACCORDING TO A MESSAGE FROM THE CUBAN FOREIGN MINISTRY, THE

CUBAN GOVERNMENT BELIEVES THAT THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

THROUGH ITS INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES IS INVOLVED IN THE CRASH OF

THE CUBAN PLANE AND ALSO IN THE ASSASSINATION OF LETELIER. A

SOURCE WHOSE RELIABILITY HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED REPORTED THAT

A CUBAN DIPLOMAT IN JAMAICA MADE ESSENTIALLY THE SAME COMMENTS.

HE ALSO SAID THAT THE VENEZUELAN ARRESTED IN TRINIDAD FOR

INVOLVEMENT IN THE PLANE CRASH CONFESSED TO BEING A MEMBER OF

"EL CONDOR," A CUBAN EXILE GROUP, AND TO BEING ASSOCIATED WITH

ORLANDO BO SCH, A CUBAN EXILE LEADER. ACCORDING TO THE CUBAN

DIPLOMAT, THE VENEZUELAN CONFESSED THAT "EL CONDOR"' WAS RESTONSIBLE

FOR THE 6 OCTOBER BOMBING, THE 9 JULY 1976 ATTEMPT TO BOMB A

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CUBANA PLANE IN KINGSTON, JAMAICA, AND THE ASSASSINATION OF

LETELIER. HE ALLEGEDLY RECEIVED U.S. $40,000 TO CARRY OUT HIS

TASKS. IN HIS COMMENTS THE CUBAN DIPLOMAT DID NOT SPECIFY

WHETHER OR NOT THIS MONEY COVERED ONLY ONE OR A SERIES OF ACTS.)

4. (HEADQUARTERS COMMENT: ACCORDING TO A SOURCE WHOSE

RELIABILITY HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED, A CUBAN OFFICIAL IN

ARGENTINA SAID IN LATE OCTOBER THAT IT WAS CERTAIN THAT THE CIA

AND AGENTS OF THE CHILEAN NATIONAL DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE

(DINA) WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 6 OCTOBER PLANE CRASH, THE

KILLING OF LETELIER AND THE 1974 ASSASSINATION OF GENERAL CARLOS

PRAIS, FORMER COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE CHILEAN ARMED

FORCES.)

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