Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DIRECTOR, FBI
To: SAC, MM
Document date: 10/16/1976
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10213-10337

RECORD SERIES: HO

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 2-2173-69

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

DIRECTOR. FBI

TO: SAC. MM

TITLE:

DATE: 10/16/1976

PAGES: 6

SUBJECT:

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

07/28/1995

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

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MIAMI, OCTOBER 13, 1976.

ON OCTOBER 13, 1976, FOLLOWING A IBLEPHONED

SUMIONS, LEGAI PROCEEDED TO DISIP HEADQUARTER S

CARACAS, VENEZUELA, AND NET WITH GENERAL RAUL

GIMENEZ GAINZA, DIRECTOR, ORLANDO GARCIA VA QUEZ,

MINISTER COUNSELLOR, RAFAEL RIVAS VASQUEZ, DEPUTY

DIRECTOR, AND RICARDO MORALES NAVARRETE,

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LEGAT WAS INFORMED THAT THE REASON FOR THE

REQUESTED MEETING WAS TO PROVIDE HIM WITH THE RESULTS

OF PRELIMINARY INQUIRIES MADE BY DISIP INTO THE PRE

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BARBADOS ON OCTOBER 6.

1976.

GARCIA RELATED IT IS

BELIEVED BY DISIP THAT THE KEY MALEFACIOR IS FRANK

CASTRO, WHO IS PRESENTLY IHOUGHI TO BE IN MIAMI,

FLORIDA, BUT IS PREPARED TO LEAVE FOR SANTO DOMINGO,

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC IN THE NEAR FUTURE. HE SAID IT IS

CASTRO AND NOT ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA WHO REALLY CONTROLS

ANTI-CASTRO ACIIVITIES IN THE HEMISPHERE.. HE

SAID IT IS TRUE THAT BOSCH RECEIVED A TELEPHONE

CALL FROM ONE OF THE SUSPECTED SABOTEURS FROM BARBADOS,

AND IT IS ON THE BASIS OF THAT TELEPHONE CALL THAT

VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRES PEREZ HAS DECIDED

THAT BOSCH SHOULD BE DEPORTED TO THE

UNITED STATES

WHERE A VARRANT FOR HIS ARRESTS OUTSTANDING. (g)

GARCIA STATED THAT ANOTHER KEY FIGURE IN IHE

OPERATION IS LUIS POSADA OF CARACAS U4O HAS BEEN

ARRESTED AND IS BEING. HELD BY DISIP FOR QUESTIONING.

HE SAID THE TWO SUSPECIS ARRESTED IN TRINIDAD AND

OTHERS ALLEGEDLY INVOLVED IN THE ATTACK ON THE

AIRCRAFT ARD ALL EMPLOYEES OR ASSOCIATES OF POSADA.

GARCIA STATED FURTHER THAI ONE OF IYE SUSPECTS UNDER

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ARREST IN IRINIDAD, HERNAN RICARDO LOZANO ,.

WAS PART

OF THE DISIP SPECIAL SERVICES APPARATUS WHEN IT WAS

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF POSADA, BEFORE POSADA'S

RESIGNATION FROM DISIP IN 1973.(8)

HE SAID A VENEZUELAN NAMED ALFREDO GUTIERREZ

WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN IN BARBADOS WITH HERNAN

RICARDO LOZANO IN JULY, 1976, AT THE TIME OF THE

BOMBINGS DIRECIED AGAINST THE BRITISH WEST INDIES

AIRLINES THERE. HE STATED THAT THE PRESENT WHERE-

ABOUTS OF GUTIERREZ WAS NOT KNOWN. (3)

GARCIA REVEALED THAT INVESTIGATION HAD DISCLOSED

THAI ANOTHER VENEZUELAN, OLEG

GUETON RODRIGUEZ DE LA

SERRA TRETISCOEFS TOGETHER WITH HERNAN RICARDO LOZANO,

WAS IN FORI OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD, ON AUGUST 38, 1975.

HE SAID THE IWO SHARED ROOM 993 AT THE TRINIDAD HILTON

HOTEL AND CHECKED OUT OF THE ROTEL AFTER ONE DAY.

BOMBING OF THE GUYANESE CONSULATE IN PORT OF SPAIN

OCCURRED ON

• SEPTEMBER 1, 1976. (5)

GARCIA SAID THE ANTI-CASTRO GROUP APFEARED TO

HAVE CONTACTS ESTABLISHED IN IRINIDAD, BARBADOS AND (5)

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GUYANA, AND THE DIVERSITY OF ITS MEMBERS WAS PUZZLING..

HE POINTED OUT THAT SOME OF THE PERSONS ALLEGED TO

HAVE FORMED PART OF THE GROUP ARE DEFINITELY LEFTISTS

AND WOULD NOT ORDINARILY BE THOUGHT TO BE INVOLVED

•IN ACTIONS AGAINST CUBA. HE MENTIONED AS AN EXAMPLE,

FREDDY LUGO, ONE OF THE SUSPECTS UNDER ARREST IN

TRINIDADO CARCIA STATED THAT LUGO HAS LONG SEEN

KNOWN

FOR HIS LEFTIST SENTIMENTS AND THAT LUGO HAD

PRESENTED A PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION IN CARACAS IN

1975 THAT WAS BLATANTLY ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT. (&>.

GARCIA SIATED THAT INCONGRUETIES SUCH AS THIS

LED DESIP TO THE SUSPICION THAT THE GROUP WAS

SUPPORTED AND DIRECIED BY AS YET UNIDENTIFIED

INDIVIDUALS IN VENEZUELA, AND POSSIBLY ABROAD, WHOSE

GOAL IT IS TO DISCREDII DISIP AND THE ADMINISTRATION

OF PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRES PEREZ BY MAKING IT APPEAR

THE VENEZUELAN GOVERIMENT IS DIRECTING ATTACKS AGAINST

THE CASTRO GOVERNMENT, AND THAT IT HAS, IN EFFECT,

"DECLARED WAS ON CUBA."' (5)

DISIP OFFICIALS ASKED LEGAT TO RELAY THEIR

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REQUEST TO FBIHQ THAT FRANK CASTRO BE LOCATED IN

MIAMI, FLORIDA, AND INTERVIEWED FULLY REGARDING HIS

SUSPECTED KNOWLEDGE OF THE CUBAN AIRLINES CRASH

AND OF THE IDENTITIES OF THE PERSONS INVOLVED. E?,

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