INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION CABLE: PLANS OF THE CUBAN REPRESENTATION IN EXILE (RECE) TO BLOW UP A CUBAN OR SOVIET VESSEL IN VERACRUZ, MEXICO
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 7/1/65
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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PLAN OF THE CUBAN REPRESEITATION IN EXILE

(RECE) TO BLOW UP A CUBAN OR SOVIST VESSEL

IN VERACRUZ, MEXICO

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APPRAISAL SEE BELOW.

DATE ACQ, UNITED STATES, MIAMI (18-29 JUNE 1965)

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1.: FIELD CONMENT:. IT WAS REPORTED IN TDCSDB-315/D2188-65,

DATED 18 JUNE 1965, THAT JORGE MAS CANOSA, AN OFFICIAL OF RECE,

HAD PROPOSED TO A DEMOLITIONS EXPERT THAT HE TRAVEL TO SPAIN,

MEXICO, AND OTHER LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES AT THE EXPENSE OF

RECE AND PLACE BOMBS IN COMMUNIST INSTALLATIONS IN THOSE COUNTRIES.:

• 2. SOURCE FOR PARAS. 3 - 5: A CUSAN REFUGEE WHO HAS MANY

CONTACTS AMONG CUBAN EXILE ACTIVISTS. PREVIOUS REPORTINE FADE THE

REFUGEE HAS PROVED TO BE FAIRLY, RELIASLE".:.

3. ON 15 JUNE 1965. JORGE MAS CANOSA OF THE CUBAN REPRESENTA-

TION IN EXILE (REPRESENTACION CUBANA EN EL EXILIO, RECE) SATO THAT

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RECE HAD BEEN APPROACHED BY CARABALLO (FNU) FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

FOR AN OPERATION INVOLVING THE BLOWING UP OF A SOVIET OR CUBAN

•VESSEL IN VERAGRUZ, MEXICO, CARABALLO SAIO THAT HE HAD ALL THE

CONTACTS NECESSARY TO ACCOMPLISH ANY DEMOLITION OPERATION IN

MEXICO AND THAT HE COULO DO THE JOB IN VERACRUZ FOR $3,08S.

CARABALLO WAS TOLO THAT RECE MIGHT USE HIM AND HIS CONTACTS,

BUT THAT SOMEONE ELSE WOULD BE SENT TO MEXICO WITH HIM TO PLACE THE

DEMOLITIONS ABOARD THE VESSEL.

# AS OF 28 JUNE, MAS CANOSA HAD IN HIS POSSESSION 125 POUNDS

OF PENTOLITE, WHICH HAD BEEN PURCHASED AT $3 PER POUND FROM JOSE

PEREZ ALAMA, '''''"'"''"':, AND HE HAD APPROACHED RAMON ESCARDA

RUBIO AND ANOTHER CUBAN, FROGMEN !.:! : ACQUAINTED WITH DEMOLITION

GEAR, TO PLACE THE CHARGES ON THE VESSEL. THE PLAN CALLS FOR

THREE SMALL CHARGES TO BE PLACED CLOSE TO THE MIDSHIPS CENTERLINS

OF THE UNDERWATER HULL. IF THE CHARGES GO OFF AS PLANNED, A

14-FOOT HOLE WILL BE BLOWN IN THE SHIP'S BOTTOM, IT IS HOPED

THAT THIS PROCEDURE WILL CAUSE LITTLE OR NO HARM TO THE SHIPIS

CREW.

5. AS OF 28 JUNE, RECE WAS ATTEMPTIN TO PROCURE A SHIPPING

SCHEDULE AND MAS CANOSA WAS IN TEXAS PORKING OUT DETAILS RECARDINS

THE OPERATION, HE WAS EXPECTEO BACK IN MIAMI ON 5-JULY.EEO EAT

6. SOURCE FOR PARA 7: À CUBAN REFUGEE WHO IS ASSOCIATED

WITH ACTIVISTS IN THE MIAMI AREA. SOURCE IS REGARDED AS RELIABLE,

AND PREVIOUS REPORTING FROM HIM HAS PROVED TO BE ACCURATE.

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%. ON 25 JUNE, LUIS POSADA, CARRILES SAID THAT HE HÃD RECSIVEO

$5OSOE FROM MAS CANOSA OF RECE TO COVER THE EXPENSES OF A OCMOLITION

• OPERATION IN MEXICO. POSADA SAID THAT HE WAS PLANNING TO PLACE

LIMPET MINES ON EITHER A CUBAN OR SOVIET VESSEL IN THE HARBOR OF •

VERACRUZ, MEXICO, AND THAT HE HAD IDS POUNDS OF C-4 EXPLOSIVES

AND SOME DETONATORS. POSADA SAIO THAT HE WAS PREPARING CERTAIN

PAPERS TO SHOW THAT HE IS A PUERTO RICAN AND EXPRESSED HOPE THAT

SUCH DOCUMENTATION WOULO ENABLE HIM TO OBTAIN A VISA FOR ENTRY

INTO MEXICO.

8. FIELD DISSEM: CINCLANT, CINGSO, COMKWESTFOR, MIAMI REPS

OF STATE, FBI, CUSTOMS, BORDER PATROL, I&NS, AND USCE. (ALSO SENT

[PANAMA CITY AND MEXICO CITY;)

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