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Released under the john r.

Kennedy Assassination

DATE:

11-14-2017

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ALL IRFORHATIOR CONTIN

HEREING ANCAASSIFIED

WHERE SHOWT

Ship in havama

By PAUL MESKIL

Last of a series

- At 3:10 p.m. on March 4, 1960,

a French munitions ship blew up

in Havana harbor, killing at least

75 people and Injuring more than

• 200.

The vessel, Le Couvre, exploded dur-

ing the unloading of 76 tons of ammu-

nition and grenades intended for. Fidel

¿ Castro's military and police forces. Cas-

!.tro

suspected

sabotage,

but

couldn't

prove it.

The United

States denied any

involvement in the incident.

A former CIA agent told The News

recently that Le Couvre was sabotaged

by

"CIA frogmon." He said an under-

water

demolition team slipped

into. the

water at night and attached a bomb to

the ship's hull, under the waterline. The

bomb, a detonator and a timing device

were in a waterproof container,

he said.

The ex-agent added that the frog-

men were Cubans working for the CIA.

"It was definitely

thing,

CIA-connected

" he said

Another source said the bomb was

supposed to go off around 3 a.m., when

the waterfront was deserted, but some-

thine

went wrong

with the timer and

the blast came 12 hours later, when the

area was

crowded

and harbor traffic.

with

dock

workers

Still another source, formerly con-

"The guns arrived in boxes sentifas

supermarket in Ciudad Trujillo (the Do-

Laboratory

Plan. & Eval.

Spec. Inv.

Training -

Legal Coun.

Telephone Rm.

Director Sec'y

minican

capital,

now

called

Santo

Domingo),"

said Frank

Nelson,

an

American who worked with Trujillo in a

plot to overthrow Castro.

"The Domini-

can

officers didn't need the guns. They

already had

enough

stuff for a

war.

They needed the moral support of the

U.S.

government, and this

was repre-:

sented by the arms shipments."

rebel

officers

assassinated

Trujillo on May 30, 1961. Whether they

ased the CIA guns has not been dis

closed. But similar weapons figured in

subsequent

attempts

to

exterminate

Francois (Papa Doc) Duvalier, the voo-

doo Hitler of Haiti.

On

the night of Aug. 26, 1963,

converted B-25 bomber left Florida/ with

an arms shipment for Gen. Leon. Can-

tava, a former Haitian Airy conmand-

er who

was planing

to

invade

his

homeland from the Dominican Republic

which shares

the

island of Hispaniola

with Haiti. The CIA plane swooped over

unlucky 13 were the

sons of Baitian

military

officers or officials no

been killed by Duvalier's thugs.

The leader, Gustel Villedrouin, was &

former

U.S. airman Whose Tater, Hai-

tian Army Col. Roger Villadrouin,

was

clubbed to death by Papa Doc's Tonton

Macoutes.

They chartered a boat in

Florida and

landed in

Haiti on

Aug. 5, 1064,

carry-

ing a variety of weapons

supplied by

CIA agents.

Although the invasion was

doomed to failure before it began,

the

13 young New Yorkers managed to hold

off hundreds of Duvalier 'soldiers, mili-

tiamen and Tonton Macoutes.

They were killed one by one,

anil

those who were left kept fighting. The

last three invaders ran out of ammuni-

26, then

threw stones

2t,

who gunned them down.'T

a flare-lit field near

military airport of Dajabon

Wooden crates rained down on para CLASSEDSy 5668 sept

chutes.

"contained

bazookas, M-1 rifles, .30-caliber

mortars REASON

1.3

chineguns, M-3 tommyguns,

pistols, grenades and ammunition.

The weapons were distributed among

210

Haitian

exiles

who comprised

Cantava's invasion army.

They crossed

the Massacre River, borderline between

the Dominican Republic and Haiti,

0t1

nested with the CIA and othe intelli

gence

agencies

the

Caribbean

area,

blamed

the big blast on Gen.

Rafael

Trujillo, then dictator of the Dominican

Republic.

Trupillo and his sinister intelligence

chief, Johnny

Abbes,

had many

confer-

ences

with

agents.

On

CIA officials

and

secret

one

occasion

in

1960,

Trujillo offered CIA agents Frank Stur-

gis and Pedro Diaz Lanz, former ehief

of Castro's Air Force, $1 million to lead

an invasion of Cuba,

from the Domini-

can Republic.

Dias Lanz

declined,

tell-

ing his

CIA bosses that he didn't want

to work for another dictator.

Plotting so kili Trujilio

While in the

confer

with

Dominican Republic to

Trajillo

in

1961.

Sturgis

also contacied Dominican military offi-

who were plotting.

to kill Trujillo.

guns and ommunition.

975g Plotter

the night of Sept. 22. Late the follow-

ing day, after a bloody battle with Hai-

tian troops, Cantava led the remants

o hisrchel band back across the river

Washington Star-News

Daily News (New York) _

The New York Times _

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The National Observer -

The Los Angeles Times ...

to their Dominican sanctuary.

A weck later, a small

group of Hai

tían refugees entered a

U.S. Army Sue

cial forces camp in North Carolina for

training in guerrilla warfare.

Most of

the Haitians were in their early 20s and

had atterided college

in

the

United

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States after service in the U.S. Army

or Air Force. All of them lived in New

York City.

They had been hand-picked by the

CIA for what became

one of the brav

est and

most

pitiful invasions in the

rapa pen

history of Caribbean carnage.

The invasion ferce consisted of only

13 men, eight of whom had heen trained

by the Green Berets. They belonged to

anz aati Davalier

called

Jeune

Hat (Yone faith. Nearly at of the

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