Originator: CIA
From: CIA
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 12/28/1976
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10290-10052

RECORD SERIES: HO

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 105-285030-20

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: CIA

FROM:

CIA

TO:

DIRECTOR. FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 12/28/1976

PAGES: 3

SUBJECT:

OBA, ASSOC, CORU, TRA, CONSPR, BOMBING

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

•Secret

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

05/26/1998

UPDATE DATE:

Redact

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (1)(B)

COMMENTS:

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ACCORDING TO LAN OFFICIAL COSTA RICAN SERVICE, EULALIO (S

FRANCISCO (FRANKS CA SIRO PAZ, WHO WAS IN COSTA RICA FROM

13 TO 18 DECEMBER 1976, SAID HE IS THE CHIEF OF OPERATIONS OF THE

COORDINATION OF UNITED REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATIONS (CORU) BUT DENIED

THAT HE WAS IN COSTA RICA TO UNDERTAKE TERRORIST ACTS.

CASTRO SAID

CORU MÃO MADE A PACT WITH PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDREI FERT OF

VENEZUELA NOT TO UNDERTAKE TERRORIST ACIS IN COSTA RICA, NICARAGUA,

GUATEMALA, OR VENEZUELA IN RETURN FOR THOSE COUNTRIES ALLOWING

ORLANDO VE O S CHRAVILA, HEAD OF THE CORU, TO PASS SAFELY THROUGH

THEIR TERRITORIES IN MARCH 1976.

3. AN OFFICER OF THE COSTA RICAN SERVICE ASKED CASTRO ABOUT

IWO BOMBS THAI WERE SET OFF IN SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA, ON 24 AUGUST

1976• CASTRO ADMITTED THE BOMBS WERE PLACED BY A CORU COMMANDO

UNIT DISPAICHED FROM PUERTO RICO, ADDING THAT CORU ACTIONS WERE NOT

WELL COORDINATED AT THAT EARLY DATE AND THIS LACK OF COORDINATION

CAUSED AN ERROR TÓ BE MADE. CASTRO SAID THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN.

40 ON BEING ASKED IF PANAMA WAS INCLUDED IN THE AGREEMENT

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