Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DIRECTOR, FBI
To: SAC, MM
Document date: 10/8/76
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JEK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_ NUMBER: 124-10206-10374

RECORD _SERIES:

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AGENCY FILE_ NUMBER: 2-2173-1

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

DIRECTOR. FBI

TO: SAC. MM

TITLE:

DATE: 10/08/1976

PAGES: 9

SUBJECT:

CUBANA AIRLINES, BOMBING, ACA, SUSP, BKG, TRA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

ORIGINAL

Secret

CLASSIFICATION:

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

05/11/1998

UPDATE DATE:

Redact

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (1)(C)

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

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0 8820007 00T-76

IM GARACAS (205)

IA DIRECTOR IMMEDIAT

NRS 163-30, 164=08

BI

SEGRET

INSUBS; SUSPECTED BOMBING OF CIBANA AIRLIES DE & NEAR BARBAROS, WEST

IND LES, OCTOBER 6, 1976, MM GUBA- WEST INTES.

REGARTEL OCTOBER ?, 107S, BUTEL OCTOBER &, 1976,

BY TELETYPE 10/8/76,

HERNAN RICARDO LOZANO LESA NEWS PHOTOS RAPE AND SEE-LANE RE-

PORTER AFFILIATED WITH THE MAGAZINE "VISION," AND HE IS ALSO EMPLOYED

ASIAN INDUSTRIAL INVESTIGATOR BY INVESTIGACIONES COMERCIALES E IN-

DUSTRIALES, COA. (ICI), AN INDUSTRIAL SECURITY FIRM OPERATED BY LUIS

POSADA, FORMER HEAD OF COUNTERINTELLIGENCE DIVISION, CARACAS,

VEN EZ UEL AS

rital

POSADA, A CUBAN EXILE WHO IS NOW A VENEZUELAN CITIZEN, IS STRONGLY

ANTI-CASTRO AND WAS SUSPECTED OF HAVING BEEN THE MAIN SUPPORTER OF

ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA DURING BOSCH'S PRESENCE IN VENEZUSLA PRIOR TO HIS

ARREST UN NOVEMBER 19, 1975. LEGAT BECAME ACQUAINIED WITH POSADA IN

THE COURSE OF OFFICIAL BUSINESS DURING PERIOD POSADA WAS AN OFFICIAL

OF DISIP. (5)

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HERNAN RICARDO LOZANO FIRST BECAME KNOWN TO LEGAT IN APPROXIMATELY

JUNE, 1974, WHEN HE CONTACTED LEGAI FOR ASSISTANCE IN EXPEDITING THE

PROCESSING OF A VISA TO THE VOS. THAT HAD BEEN REQUESTED FOR THE MINOR

SON OF THE THEN DIRECTOR OF DISIP, DRO PEDRO ARTURO TORRES AGUDO.

LEGAT WAS LED TO BELIEVE RICARDO WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF DISIP AND

ASSISTANCE WAS PROVIDED THAT RESULTED IN IHE PROMPT ISSUANCE OF A

VISA TO THE TORRES AGUDO CHILD](E)

RICARDO RECONIACIED LEGAT A FEW WEEKS LATER TO EXPRESS HIS

APPRECIAI ION FOR ASSISTANCE PREVIOUSLY RENDERED, AND LEGAT THEN BE-

CAME

(S)

AWARE RICARDO [WAS MERELY AN AUXILIARY MEMBER OF DISIP, AND THAI

HE WAS ACTUALLY IN THE PERSONAL SERVICE OF LUIS POSADA. RICARDO RE-

VEALED HE WAS ALSO A NEWSPAPER REPORTER AND PHOTOGRAPHER AFFILIATED.

WITH THE MAGAZINE "VISION," AND INDICATED HE DEVOTED MOST OF HIS TIME

RESEARCHING NEWS ARTICLES INTENDED TO DISCREDII THE CASTRO GOVERN

MENT. HE CLAIMED PARTIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE THAT

APPEARED IN A CARACAS NEWSPAPER ABOUT THAI TIME, REVEALING THE

PRESENCE OF CUBAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS IN CUBAN EMBASSY IN CARACAS.

RICARDO CONTACTED LEGAI APPROXIMAIELY FOUR TIMES AFTER IHE

INITIAL VISIT, AND ON TWO OCCASIONS FURNISHED PHOTOGRAPHS AND BIOGRAPHIC

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DATA ON MEMBERS

PE THE CUBAN EMBASSY WHICH WERE OBVIOUSLY OBTAINED

FROM DISIP FILES.

DURING ONE VISII, RICARDO SUGGESTED LEGAT MIGHT

WISH TO MAKE SOME SUGGEST IONS REGARDING COURSES OF ACTION THAT MIGHT

BE TAKEN AGAINST THE CUBAN EMBASSY IN CARACAS BY AN ANTI-CASTRO GROUP

OF WHICH HE FORMED PART. LEGAT INFORMED RICARDO SUCH WAS NOT PART

OF THE FUNCIION OF THE LEGAL ATTACHE'S OFFICE, AND THAT IN ANY EVENT,

LEGAT PERSONALLY ABHORRED TERRORIST ACTIVITIES REGARDLESS OF WHOM

THEY MIGHT BE DIRECTED AGAINST. LEGAT POINTED OUT IO RICARDO IHAI

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WAS DOING EVERYTHING IT COULD TO PREVENI DISRUP -

TIVE AND TERRORIST ACTIONS BY ANTI-CASTRO GROUPS IN THE US. RICARDO

DID NOT AGAIN REPEAT THE SUGGESTION.

LEGAT WAS SURPRISED BY APPEARANCE OF RICARDO AT AMERICAN EMBASSY

ON SEPTEMBER 3D, 1976. THE LAST DONIACT WITH RICARDO HAD BEEN EARLY

IN DECEMBER, 1975, WHEN RICARDO TELEPHONED LEGAT AND INVITED HIM TO

A LUNCH OF VENEZUELAN SPECIALIIES PREPARED DURING THE MOLIDAY SEASON.

LEGAT DECLINED INVITATION, CITING A PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENT

ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1976, RICARDO INFORMED LEGAT ME HAD A PHOTO-

GRAPHIC ASSIGNMENT FOR "VISION" MAGAZINE IN JAMAICA AND WAS IN NEED

OF A VISA TO THE US SINCE HE FLANNED A IWO-DAY STOPOVER IN PUERIO RICO.

HE SAID HE HAD FIRST CONTACTED A TRAVEL AGENCY IO MAKE ARRANGEMENIS (

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*PAEL SIN CAN 2°

CONSUL HE HAD NO REASON IO BELIEVE RICARDO WOULD NOT RETURN TO CARACAS.

THE VICE CONSUL INDICATED IN IMAI CASE A VISA WOULD BE ISSUED TO

RICARDO, AND HE WAS ASKED TO RETURN TO THE CONSULAR SECTION. UPON

TAKING LEAVE OF LEGAI, RICARDO INDICATED ME MIGHT ALSO VISIT NEW

YORK CITY BEFORE RET URNING TO

CARACAS, AND MENTIONED IN PASSING

THAI BESIDES JAMAICA, HE MIGHI ALSO BE VISITING BARBADOS IN CONNEC-

TION WITH HIS PICTORIAL ASSIGNMENT FOR "VISION." RICARDO WAS NOT

SEEN AFTER THAT

(u)

(S)

IN A CONVERSAI ION WITH AN OFFICIAL OF DISIPION OCTOBER 1, 1976,

LEGAT BROACHED THE SUBJECT OF RICARDO AND OF THE FAINT SUSPICION IHAT

RICARDO MAY HAVE BEEN SOMEHOW INVOLVED IN THE BOMBING OF THE GUYANESE

CONSULATE IN PORT-OF-SPAIN. LEGAT ADMITTED THERE WAS NO SUBSTANIIVE

EVIDENCE OF RICARDO"S IMPLICAT BUT THAT THE COINCIDENCE OF HIS

PRESENCE THERE AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME, COUPLED WITH HIS EMPLOYMENT

RELATIONSHIP WITH LUIS POSADA, HAD GIVEN LEGAT CAUSE TO WONDER.

[THE DISIP OFFICIAL RELATED DISIP HAD NO REASON TO BELIEVE: RICARDO WAS

THE CALIBER OF INDIVIDUAL THAI WOULD BE UTILIZED IN SUCH AN OPERATION,

AND THAI RICARDO WAS NOT KNOW TO BE INVOLVED IN SUCH ACTIVITIES, IN

PITE OF HIS ASSOCIATION WITH POSADAJ (S)

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SEGRET

FAGE EIGHT GAR Ze

SEGREI

ON OCTOBER 8, 1976, A SECOND CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE ADVISED HE HAD

BEEN INFORMED THAT CUBAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE OFFICERS HAD PROCEEDED

TO PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD, FROM CLBA ON OCTOBER 7, 1976, AND HAD

SUBJECTED THE TWO ARRESTED VENEZUELANS TO INTENSIVE INTERROGATIONS. (5)

RICARDO WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 9, 1954, AT CARACAS, VENEZUELA.

HE HOLDS VENEZUELAN PASSPORI NO. 850939, ISSUED ON MAY 14, 1975,

AT CARACAS.

HE

HAS VENEZUELAN IDENTITY CARD (CEDULA) NO.

V 3821587. BUEN

ADMINISTRATIVE

ADMINISTRAT IVE:

CON BE

FIELDALEUATSONL

CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE IS RICARDO MORALES

NAVARRETE, HEAD, COUNTERINTELLIGENCE DIVISION, DISIP, CARACAS,

VENEZUEL AO

THE SECOND

CONFIDENT IAL SOURCE IS ORLANDO GARCIA VASQUEZ,

SPECIAL ADVISOR TO DIRECIOR, DISIF, CARACAS, VENEZUELAY SI

THE DISIP OFFICIAL MENI IONED IS RICARDO MORALES NAVARRETE.

ADMNISTRATiVE TO FIELDE LEGATS ONLY.

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