CABLE RE HIJACKING OF CAPTAIN ALONZO CAMPOS ESCALANTE OF MEXICAN FISHING BOAT"AMIGO".
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 10/17/1968
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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MEXICO CITY 7793: (BEING RELAYED TEGUCIGALPA)

REUTERS REPORT OF: 25 OCTOBER FROM BELIZE SAYS

POLICE HOLDING 13 AMERICANS' WHO SET UP ARMED CAMP ON TINY

ISLAND OF SHAG BOQUE CAY SOUTHEAST OF BELIZE. CAPTAIN

ALONZO CAMPOS ESCALANTE OF MEXICAN FISHING BOAT "AMIGO"

TOLD POLICE BOAT HAD BEEN HIJACKED BY AMERICANS.

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ORDERED BOAT TO HEAD FOR BRITISH HONDURAN WATERS WHERE

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RENDEZVOUS WITH ANOTHER BOAT WAS PLANNED. NAMES OF FIVE OF

13 AMERICANS ARE CHARLES ORR CONNELL AGE 30, ROBERT CURTIS

AGE 31 OF POMPANO BEACH FLORIDA, HERBERT JOHN FENDERN AGE

26 OF VERO BEACH FLORIDA, FRANK: BONELLI AGE 44 AND MAX

GORMAN BOTH FROM MIAMI. POLICE CONFISCATED RIFLES, CARBINES

AMMO AND ANTI-COVMIE LITERATURE.

2. NAME OF SECOND BOAT NOT PROVIDED.

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INDEX FIVE AMERICANS WHO PLANNED SET UP BASE FOR

OPS AGAINST CUBA, FILE 108 120-11.

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Ref describes theft of "El Amigow and involvement

of Max GORMAN, Robert F. CURTIS and others who

planning set up base for ops against Cuba and

→ to go to Guatemala and clean out anti-Guat

guerrillas

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