CABLE-PLANNED AIR STRIKE AGAINST HAVANA BY THE MIRR ON 16 FEBRUARY.
Agency: CIA
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From: JMWAVE
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 02/16/1965
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SUSU: PLANNCO AIR STRIKE AGAINST HABANA BY THE MOM CS 16 FEBRUARY

1965

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16 FEBRUARY 1965

PAÕA: UTICO STATES, MIAND (16 FEBRUARY 1965)

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COUNTRY CUBA

DATE OF 16 FEBRUARY 1965

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16 FEBRUARY 1905

SUBJECT

PLANNED AIR

STRIKE AGAINST HABANA

ON 16 FEBRUARY 1965

BY. THE MIRR

DATE ACO. UNITED STATES, MIAMI (16 FEERUARY 1965)

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

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

THIS INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED FOCH FRANK FIORINI.

1. AT AGOUT 1:554S AM ON. 1Ó FEBRUARY 1955, FRANK FIORINI SAID

THAT. THE MOVIMIENTO INSURRECCIONAL DE RECUPERACION REVOLUCHONARIA

MURR, INSUPRECTIONAL MOVEMENT FOR REVOLUTIONARY RECOVERT) WAS

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

AL AMERICAN PILOT WHO ARRANGES THE SUPPORT ASPECTS. FOR SUCH STRINGS

AGAINST CUBA, TOLD FIORINI THAT HE AND MIKE RAFFERTY HAD MAD'E

HEATED ARGUMENT WITH ORLANDO COSCH AVILA, MIRR LEADER, AT ASCUT

11:45 PM ON 15 FERRUARY BECAUSE COSCH WANTED HIS PILOT TO SONS

THE CITY OF HABANA. JOHNSON AND RAFFERTY TRIED TO ACVISE BOSCH

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AGAINST SUCH AN OPERATION BUT BOSCH REFUSED: TO BE DISSUADED 1140

INSTRUCTED HIS PILOT TO MAKE THE MISSION.

THE PILOT, AN CHIDINTI-

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

MISSION FOR A LARGE SUM OF MONEY. HE WAS TO BE ACCOMPANIEO 58

AN UNIDENTIFIED CUBAN PILOT.

2. FIORINI SAID THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION OF BOMBING SOME

ANTI-AIRCRAFT UNITS NEAR CERTAIN UNIDENTIFIED TANKS BUT BOSCH

ALLEGEDLY INSTRUCTEO THE PILOT TO FORGET ABOUT THEM AND HIT AH!-

THING HE COULD.

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

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 CRE

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

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

THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF 13 FEBRUARY. CN 15 FESRUARY THE MIPP

ANNOUNCEO THAT THE 3-26 WAS OVER CUBA FOR 2I MINUTES CN THE RAID

AND DID NOT DRAW ANY GROUND FIRE. NAPALM BOMBS OF IRIS POLNOS EACH,

A 200-POUND HIGH EXPLOSIVE BOMB AND PHOSPHOROUS INCENDIARY DEVICES

WERE ALLEGEDLY DROPPED. THERE HAS BEEN NO ANNOUNGEMENT FROM CUBA

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

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

AGAINST THE NIAGARA SUGAR MILL UNTIL TWO DAYS LATER.)

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