SUBJECT: EL MUNDO EXPOSURE.
Originator: CIA
From: JOHN F. SULLIVAN, JR. /M. W. RENICK
To: CHIEF, SECURITY ANALYSIS GROUP
Document date: 04/08/1977
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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8 April 1977

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Security Analysis GIoup

FROM

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John F. Sullivan, Jr./Michael W. Renick

SUBJECT

El Mundo Exposure.

1. Reference is made to the attached cable from

Caracas regarding an article that appeared in the 4 March

attached

19// edition of the Caracas Daily, El Mundo.

This article

accused eight Venezuelan news media personalities of being

CIA agents and named seven other individuals as "CIA spies."

2. Office of Security indices have been searched in

the names cited in the article and file reviews conducted

as appropriate with the following results:

Name Cited in El Mundo

Rafael POLEO

Felix MARTINEZ Suarez

SANCA Results and Comments

Probably identical with

Rafael David FOLEO Isava

(OS#287 626),

a former

placement asset, Venezuela.

Editor, El Mur 2o, 1963-1965.

POA granted in January 1963.

Files cancelec in July 1976.1

Probably identical with

Felix Antonio MARTINEZ Suarez

(05#24? 302), Director of EL

Mundo in April 1961 when a

POA was granted and subse-

quently updated in July 1973)

for use by WH/ 3/V as Propa-

ganda Placemert (PP) asset..

Named as. CIA ty De ARMAS

(OS#591 865) in Havana press

conference, Af ril 1976.

Files

canceled as of December 1976)

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Name Cited in El Mundo

Salfador ROMANI

Sofia (IMBER) RANGEL

Carlos RANGEL

Ramon KOESLING

SANCA Results and Comments

Probably identical to Salvador

ROMANI-ORUE Garcia (OS#223 776)

on whom an OA was granted in

November 1960 for use by WH/4/

Cuba as a PP agent in Cuba and

Caracas, Venezuela.

Files

canceled January 1967. Employed

•by several newspapers 1953-1960

including El Mundo as reporter.

Listed on PRQ one Dr. Manuel

ARTIME as Relative/Friend/

Correspondent in United States.

Named as. CIA by. De ARMAS (OS#

591 865) in Havana press

conference in April 1976.

Probably identical with Sofia

Imber de RANGEL (OS#910 348)

on whom WH/3/V requested name

checks in February I973, for

use as TV asset in Caracas.

Files canceled in October (1974.

Probably identical to Carlos

Enrique RANGEL Guevara

(OS#:

910 350), husband of Sofia

Imber de

RANGEL above.

WH/3/V

requested name checks in

February 1973 for his use as

a TV asset.

Files canceled .

in October 1974.

Probably identical to Ramon

Emilio KOESLING Salas (OS#'

255 668) on whom an OA was

granted in January 1962 for

use by WH/1/V as a PP agent in

Caracas; interest was canceled

in March 1963 apparently

because of a drinking problem.

WH/ 3/Venezuela requested name

checks in September 1968 for

his use as an unwitting press

placement.

Files canceled in

April 1969.

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Name Cited in El Mundo

Omar LARES

Rolando BLANCO

Orlando

BOSCH

SANCA Results and Comments

No Office of Security traces.

Probably identical to Rolando

BLANCO Bolanos (OS#223 744)

on whom an OA was granted in

October 1960 for use by

WH/ 4/Cuba.as a PP agent in

Cuba and Caracas, Venezuela.

There is no indication if and

when interest was canceled

but the Office of Security

file was retired in 1966.

Possibly identifiable with

Orlando BOSCH Avila (OS#25?

971) on whom a POA was granted

in September 1962 for PM Ops

use by WH/4 in the Florida

area. Files canceled in

November 1962.

FBI information

reflects that BOSCH was sen-

tenced in 1968 to 10 years

imprisonment for shipbombings

and extortion but was paroled

in 1972. A warrant for his

arrest was issued in 1974

apparently for parole violation

( reinvolvement in terrorist

activities) but he fled the

United States. He was arrested

by Venezuelan authorities in

1976 for his alleged involve-

ment in the bombing of a Cubana

Airlines plane in October 1976.

BOSCH was of interest to the

•U. S. Senate Select Committee

on Intelligence (SSCI) in

December 1976 as a result of

the Committe's investigation

into the. Agency's present and

past relationships with members

of the Cuban exile movement.

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Name Cited in El Mundo

Ricard MORALES Navarette

Orlando GARCIA Vasquez

SANCA Results and Comments

Possible identifiable with

Ricardo MORALES Navarette

(p: 30 Monthly Intelligence

Report, 1 September 1968,

OS# 364

014) an alleged member

of a "Cuban Power" group who

was arrested in Miami in

February 1968 for allegedly

• placing a bomb in the office

of a firm shipping packages

to Cuba.

Named by De ARMAS

(OS#591 865) as CIA in Havana

press conference in April

1976.

Possible identifiable with

Orlando GARCIA Vazquez (OS#

224 866) on whomWH/4 requested

a Covert Security Approval in

September 1960. Interest was

canceled in July 1961. WH/1/

Venezuela requested name checks

•in October 1962 in connection

with his proposed use as a

semi-official liaison contact.

Caracas Station reportedly had

illaison-contact with him from

1960-1964.

Name checks were

again requested in November

- 1972 by WH/3/Venezuela in

connection with GARCIA's pro-

posed use as an informant.

Filed were canceled in November

$1973, The case was reinstated

in January 1274/ only to be

canceled again in November 1974.

Security file reflects GARCIA

became a U. S. citizen in 1945

but renounced his citizenship

in 1959 to accept an appointment

in the Ministry of State of Cuba.

He was alleged to be a Castro

agent in 1960 but a 1961 poly-

graph failed to substantiate

this charge. GARCIA did admit

assassinating a number of people

including two individuals in

Costa Rica (in 1953 or 1954).

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Name Cited in El Mundo

Antonio Ignacio BUSTILLOS

• Perzez

Luis POSADA Carriles

Freddy LUGO and

Hernan

RICARDO Lozano

SANCA Results and Comments

Possibly identifiable with

Antonio Ignacio de la Caridad

BUSTILLO Perzez (OS#756 656)

on whom name checks were requested

in September and October 1964

for his proposed use by WH/SA/

IOS as a unilateral asset.

Files canceled April 1965.

Possibly identifiable with

Luis Clemente

• POSADA Carriles

(OS#319 235) in whom. Domestic

Collection Division expressed

an interest in 1963.

Name

checks were requested in April

1965 for his proposed use by

WH/C/RR/OSOA. as a Training

Instructor; in February 1968

for his use by WH/3/Venezuela

(Vas a penetration agent and

again in January 1972, for his

use by WH/3/Vas an informant?

Carriles was implicated. in a

plot to assassinate Fidel

Castro in December 1965.

was awaiting trial as of January

1977 for alleged complicity in

the October 6, 19/6, Cubana

Airliner crast. POSADA waS

also

of interest to the U. S. Senate

Select Committee on Intelligence

(SSCI) in December 1976 fsee

BOSCH above).

'No Office of Security traces.

However, FBI report dated

15 December 1976 regarding

Orlando BOSCH Avila (see

Orlando BOSCH, OS#257 971)

indicates on Freddy LUGO and

Hernan RICARDC Lozano were

two Cuban exiles arrested in

Trinidad and sent to Venezuela

immediately after the crash of

the Cubana Airliner on 6 October

1976.

Both individuals were

also of interest to the U. S.

Senate Select Committee on

Intelligence in December 1976.

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SEGRET

3. In those cases above where a

security file exists,

there

is no evidence that any of the individuals are current,

active assets.

Consequently, no further action is

recommended.

Michael W. Renick

John F. Sullivan, Jr.

Security Analysis Group

Attachment

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