CABLES RE: SUBJECT - PLANNED AIR STRIKE AGAINST HABANA ON 16 FEBRUARY 1965 BY THE MIRR
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Document date: 02/16/1965
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COUNTRY: CUSA

SUSU: PLANNED AIR STRIKE ACAINST HAS SY THE FURR GA 16 FESRUARY

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16 FEBRUARY 1965

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PLANAED AIR STRIKE AGALAST MASANA ON 16 FEBALARY 1965.

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DATE ACQ: UNITED STATES, MIAMI (16 FEBRUARY 1965)

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FIELD REPORT NO. UFG 6710

APPRAISAL A MIAMI BUSINESSMAN WHO WAS A RESIDENT OF HABANA FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

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SOUPCE MAS CONTACTS ANO RECOGNIZE MIM IS A CHANNEL TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE.

THIS INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED FROM ERASE FIORINI.

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ABOUT 1:45 AM CN 16 FEBRUARY 1905, FRANK FICRINI SAID

THAT THE NOVIMIENTO INSURRECCIONAL DE RECUPERACION REVOLUCIONARIA

(MIRR). INSURRECTIONAL MOVEMENT FOR REVOLUTICNARY RECOVERY

PLANNING ANOTHER ATR STATKE

STRIKE OVER CUSA ON 16 FESRUARY. SILU COLNSORS

AN AMERICAN PILOT WHO ARRINGES THE SUPPORT ASPECTS FOR, SUCH STRIKES

AGAINST CUSA, TOLD E FORINI CUST HE AND MAKE RAFFERTY AÃO MiS A

HEATED ARGUMENT WÍTH ORLANCOIBOSCH AVILA, MIRR LEACER, AT ABOUT

11:45 PM ON 15/ FEBRUARY BEÇAUSE BOSCH WANTED HIS FILOT TO 50M3

THE CITY OF HABANA. JOHNSON AND RAFFERTY TRIED •TO ADVISE SOSCH

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AGAINST SUCH-AN OPERATICN BUT BOSCH REFUSEO TO BE DISSUADED ANO

INSTRUCTO HIS PILOT TO MAKE THE MISSION. THE PILOT, AN UNIDENTI-

FIED AMERICAN WHO MADE THE PREVIOUS TWO RAIDS, AGREED TO MAKE THE

MISSION FOR A LARGE SUM OF MONEY. HE WAS TO BE ACCOMPANIED SY

AN UNIDENTIFIED CUSAN PILOT•

2. FIORINI SAID THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION OF BOMBING SOME

ANTI-AIRCRAFT UNITS NEAR CERTAIN UNIDENTIFIED TANKS BUT BOSCH

ALLEGEDLY INSTRUCTED THE PILOT TO FORGET ABOUT THEM AND HUT ANY-

THING HE COULD.

3. FIORINI SAID THAT BOSCH HAS A 3-25 HIDDEN. IN THE NORTHERN

PART OF FLORIDA NEAR AN UNIDENTIFIED SUGAR MILL.. THE AIRCRAFT

WAS PURCHASED IN TEXAS AND IS IN GOOD CONDITION.

4. (FIELD COMMENT: THE MIRR ANNOUNCED ON 13 FESRUARY THAT ONE

OF ITS TWIN-ENGINÉ PLANES BOMBED AND STRAFED THE SAHIA HONDA

SUGAR CENTRAL ON CUSA'S NORTH COAST OF PINAR DEL RIO PROVINCE IN

THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF 13 FEBRUARY. ON 1Ó FESRUARY THE MIRR

ANNOUNCED THAT THE B-26 WAS OVER CUBA FOR ZI MINUTES ON THE RAID

AND DID NOT DRAW ANY GROUND FIRE, NAPALM BONSS OF 'IDÓ POUNDS CACH,

A 20B-POUND HIGH EXPLOSIVE BOMB AND PHOSPHOROUS INCENDIARY CEVICES

WERE ALLEGEDLY DROPPED. THERE HAS BEEN NO ANNCUNCEMENT FROM CUBA

INDICATING THAT SUCH A RAID TOOK PLACE. HOWEVER, HASINA RADIO

DID NOT ANNOUNCE CONFIRMATION OF THE MIRR'S 17. JANUARY STRIKE

AGAINST THE NIAGARA SUGAR MILL UNTIL TWO DAYS LATER. >

5° FIELD DISSEM: CINCLANTA CINCSO, COMAWESTFOR, MIAMI REPS

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