CABLE RE AMFAUNA.
Originator: CIA
From: JMWAVE
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 08/02/1963
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SUPDATA: SOURCE AMMALF-2. SUBJ-SOURCE IS UNIDENTIFIED.

AMFAUNA-I RECEIVED À MESSAGE RECENTLY WHICH MENTIONED

POSSIBLE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE FIDEL INVOLVING 5 MEN.

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REPORT CLASS SECRET CONTROLLED DISSEM

SUBJ: ASSASSINATION OF FIDEL CASTRO RUZ PLANNED

DOI: 23 JULY 1963

PADA: UNITED STATES, MIAMI (1 AUG 63)

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THIS, IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.

1. ON 23 JULY 1963 AN UNIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUAL SAID HE WAS

RAISING MONEY FOR THE PURCHASE OF MORE DYNAMITE TO USE IN THE

ASSASSINATION OF FIDEL CASTRO RUZ. HE SAID HE WAS ONE OF SIX

MEN PLANNING TO KILL FIDEL CASTRO RUZ. THE LEADER IS (RENGO) 06

(FALL), FORMERLY AN OFFICIAL OF THE CASTRO GOVERNMENT. (RENGO)06

BELIEVES HE WILL DIE OF CANCER WITHIN A YEAR. THE MEN HAVE SECURED

A SAND TRUCK AND HAVE FILLED IT WITH SCRAP IRON AND DYNAMITE

COVERED BY BOARDS WHICH ARE COVERED BY SAND.

2. ORIGINALLY THE MEN. PLANNED TO PLACE THE SAND TRUCK ON A

SIDE STREET RUNNING INTO THE MAIN STREET ALONG WHICH IT WAS

KNOWN THAT FIDEL WOULD DRIVE TO THE ZÓ JULY CEREMONIES. HOWEVER

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SINCE WOMEN AND CHILDREN WOULD BE KILLED WHEN THE TRUCK WAS

DRIVEN FROM THE SIDE STREET THROUGH THRONGS OF ONLOOKERS AND INTO

THE PATH OF FIDEL'S CAR, THAT PLAN WAS DROPPED. AT AN UNSPECIFIED

FUTURE TIME (RENGO PLANS TO STAY WITH THE TRUCK AND TRIGGER THE

EXPLOSION WHEN FIDEL CASTRO GOES BY. THE OTHER FIVE PERSONS

WILL CLOSE IN AND SHOOT FIDEL CASTRO RUZ IF HE IS NOT KILLED BY

THE EXPLOSION.

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