CABLES RE: MIRR INTENTION TO BOMB HABANA. 2. USE OF AMERICAN PILOTS IN MIRR AIR STRIKES
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: JMWAVE
To: IW
Document date: 02/24/1965
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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COUNTRY: CUBA

SUBJ: 1. INSISTENCE OF ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA THAT THE MIRR SOMS THE

CITY OF HASANA.

2.. USE OF AMERICAN PILOTS IN MIRR AIR STRIKES

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SouRcE A MIAMI SUSINESSMAN IO WAS A RESIDENT OF HAGANA FOR SEVERAL

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COUNTRY CUBA

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1. MIRR: INTENTION TO BOMB HABANA

USE OF AMERICAN PILOTS IN MIRR AIR STRIKES

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DATE ACQ. UNITED STATES, MIAMI (22 FEBRUARY 1965)

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FIELD REPORT NO. URG 6747.

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

THE SOURCE HAS CONTACTS WHO RECOGNIZE HIM AS A CHANNEL TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE.

THIS INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED FROM BILL MOLISON.

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ON 2,8 FEBRUARY 1965, BILL VOHNSON, AN AMERICAN PILOI WHO

ARRANGES THE SUPPORT ASPECTS OF AIR STRIKES AGAINST CUBA SY ORLANDO

BOSCH AVILA'S MOVIMIENTO INSURRECCIONAL DE RECUPERACION REVOLUCION-

ARIA (MIRR, INSURRECTIONAL MOVEMENT FOR REVOLUTIONARY RECOVERY). SAID

THAT THE MIRE WAS MAKING 182-POUND "ASH CAN"• EOMES FOR SUBSEGUENT

RAIOS, "MORE THAN AMPLE TO BLOW UP THE OIL TANKS IN HAJANA:" JOHNSON

SAID THAT BOSCH STILL

INTENDS TO SOMB HABANA, BUT "IT WILL SE AGAINST

MY ADVICE". JOHNSON LATER ADMITTED THAT HIS OUN MOTIVATION IS PURELY

MERCENARY. (FIELD COMMENT: SEE DCSD8-315/89550-65: DATED 16

FEBRUARY 1965, FOR INFORMATION ON BOSCH'S INSISTENCE THAT THE CITY

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OF HABANA DE THE MIRR'S NENT TARGET. THIS MISSION WAS GIGINALLY

SCHEDULED FOR 16 FEBRUARY.)

2.

JOHNSON ALLEGED THAT THE FLANES OPERATING FOR THE MIRR ARE

LEAVING FROM THE UNITED STATES.. WHEN TAMPA WAS MENTINEO AS À POSSIBLE

DEPARTURE POINT. JOHNSON SAID: "YOU'RE GETTING CLOSE."'

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JOHNSON SAID HIS SMALL GALUP PRACTICES GODD SECURITY.

"WHEN WE GET A PLANE AND A PILOT, WE CENTRAÇT THEM FOR THREE OPERATIONS.

THE PLANES ARE FLOWN BY AMERICAN PILOTS SINCE "THE CUSIN PILOTS DON'T

HAVE THE GUTS."

4. JOHNSON CLAIMED THAT JACH GRIFFIN, THE AMERICAN PILOT WHO

CRASH-LANDED A B-25 EARLIER THAT MENING, HAD. TAKEN PART IN A PREVIOUS

RAID ON CUBA. HOWEVER, HE DID NOT ANOW IF THE DOWNED 5-25 HAD EVER BEEN

USED IN ANY, RAIDS. JOHNSON SAID HE DOES NOT KNOW DAN SHAW,

GRIFFIN'S CO-PILOT ABOARD THE DONNED 3-25.

5. JOHNSON INSISTED THAT THE RAID WHICH THE MIRR ANNOUNCEO AS

HAVING TAKEN PLACE ON SAHIA HONDA ON 13 FEBRUARY HAD TAMEN PLACE

IN SPITE OF. THE FACT THAT CUBA HAS NOT ACKNOWLEDGEO IT.

6. FIELD DISSEM: CINCLANT, CINESO, COMKWESTFOR, MIAMI REPS OF.

STATE, FBI, CUSTOMS, IONS, BORDER. PATROL, AND USCG.

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