CABLE RE: DECISION OF ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA TO USE A CUBAN PILOT ON THE MIRR'S AIR STRIKE SCHEDULED FOR 16 FEBRUARY 1965
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Document date: 02/17/1965
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SUEJ: DECISION OF ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA TO USE A CUBAN PILOT ON

THE MIRR'S AIR STRIKE SCHEDULED FOR 16. FEBRUARY 1965

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• DISTR. 18 FEBRUARY 1965

17 FEBRAURY 5945

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DECISION OF

• ORLADO BOSCH AVILA TO USE A CUBAN

PILOT Of THE MIRR'S AIR STRIKE SCHEDULED FOR

16 FEBPUARY 1265 Cy

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UNITED STATES, MIAMI (17 FEBRUARY 1965)

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IN 82931

FIELD REPORT NO. UFG-6727

APPRAISAL: A MIAMI BUSINESSMANI WHO WAS A RESIDENT OF HABANA FOR SEVERAL YEARS. THE SOURCE

¡AS CONTACTS WHO RECOGNIZE HIM AS A CHANNEL TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE. THIS INFORMATION

WAS OBTAILED FROM FRA FIORINI.

TRA AT OUT CHANIA, EM I FELTY 1965 FRA FIORIN SAN

DE RESUPERACION REVOLUCIONARIA (MIRR) INSURRECTIONAL MOVEMENT FOR

REVOLUTIONARY RECOVERY AGREED TO LET THE CUBAN PILOT FLY THE

MISSION SCHEDULED FOR 16 FEGRUARY INSTEAD OF THE AMERICAN PILOT.

(FIELD COMMENT: THE SAME SOURCE REPORTED THAT BOSCH HAD SCHEDULED

AN AIR STRIKE AGAINST THE CITY OF HABANA FOR 15. FEBRUARY IN A B-25.

•AN AMERICAN PILOT WAS TO FLY THE AIRCRAFT BUT WAS TO BE ACCOMPANIED

SY. A CUBAN PILOT. THE CUEAN PILOT HAS BEEN TRAINING IN THE 8-25

AND APPARENTLY IS EXPERIENCEO ENCUGH TO MAKE THE TRIP TO CUBA.

This material contains information alfecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of she Espionaga

Title 18, U.S.C. Sece 793 and 79%, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorizid person

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HE HAS HAD PREVIOUS TRAININO IN A SEA FURY AND IN A

TWIN-ENGINE

SEAPLANÉ, PRESUMÁBLY A PBY. FIORINI SAID THE 5-25 WAS PURCHASED

IN TUCSON, ARIZONA, NOT IN TEXAS AS HE PREVIOUSLY STATED.

2. THE CUBAN PILOT IS THE SAME PERSON WHO WAS TO MAKE A

BOSCH-FINANCED RAID IN A SINGLE-ENGINE AIRCRAFT AGAINST AN UNSPECIFIED

TARGET. THE PLANE WAS TO LEAVE FROM THE KEY WEST AREA.

3. FIORINI SAID THAT EILLICOHNSON, AN AMERICAN PILOT WHO

HAS SEEN ARRANGING THE SUPPORT ASPECTS FOR SOSCH'S RAIDS, RECEIVED

AN UNIDENTIFIED SUM OF MONEY FROM BOSCH ON 17 FEBRUARY.

4. ACCORDING TO FIORINI, IF THE RAID HAD NOT TAKEN PLACE

ALREADY, IT WOULD PROBABLY DE MADE WITHIN 24 HOURS.

5. FIELD DISSEM: CINCLANT, CINCSO, CONNIVESTFOR, MIAMI REPS

OF STATE, FBI, BORDER PATROL, CUSTOMS, LENS, AND USCG

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