PLANNED AIR STRIKE AGAINST HABANA BY THE MIRR.
Originator: CIA
From: WAVE
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 1965-02-16 00:00:00
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SUSJ: PLANNED AIR STRIKE ACAINST HABABA BY THE MIRR CH 16 FEBRUARY

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DO1: 16 FEBRUARY 1965

PADA: UNITED STATES, MIAMI (16 FEBRUARY 1965)

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CENTRAL INTELLIOENCE AGENCY

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COUNTRY CUBA

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PLANNED AIR STRIKE AGAINST HABANA ON 16 FEBRUARY 15,5

BY THE MIRR

PLACE &

DATEACQ. UNITED STATES, MIAMI (26 FEBRUARY 1965)

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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 FRANK FIORINI.

1. AT ABOUT I SPI AM ON 16 FEBRUARY 1965, FRANK FIORINI SA1D

THAT THE MOVIMIENTO INSURRECCIONAL DE RECUPERACION REVOLUCICPARIA

MIRR, INSURRECTIONAL MOVEMENT FOR REVOLUTIONARY RECOVERY) LAS

PLANNING ANOTHER AIR STRIKE OVER CUE: ON 16 FEBRUARY, BILL MENSOli,

AM AMERICAN PILOT WHO ARRANGES THE SUPPORT ASPECTS FOR SUCH STRIKES

AGAINST CUBA, TOLD FIORINI THAT HE AND MIKE RAFFERTY HAD HAD A

HEATED ARGUMENT WITH ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA, MIRR LEADER, AT ABOU?

11:45 PM ON 15 FEBRUARY BECAUSE BOSCH WANTED HIS PILOT TO EC-19

THE CITY OF HABANA. JOHNSON AND RAFFERTY TRIED TO ADVISE SCH

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• AGAINST SUCH AN OPERATION BUT BOSCH REFUSED 1O BE DISSUADED AND

INSTRUCTED 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 BY

AN UNIDENTIFIED CUBAN PILOT.

ZÓ 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 HIT ANY-

THING HE COULD..

3a FIORINI SAID THAT BOSCH HAS A B-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. 8FIELO COMMENTS THE MIRR ANNOUNCED ON 13 FEBRUARY THAT ONE

OF ITS TWIN-ENGINE PLANES BOMBED AND STRAFED THE BAHIA HONDA

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

THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF 13 FEBRUARY. ON 16 FEBRUARY THE MIRR

ANNOUNCED THAT THE B-26 WAS OVER CUEA FOR 21 MINUTES ON THE RAID

AND DID NOT DRAW ANY GROUND FIRE. NAPALM BOMBS OF IDO POLNOS EACH,

A Z0P-POUIIE HIGH EXPLOSIVE BOMB AND DUASPHORGUS INCENDIARY DEVICES

WERE ALLEGEDLY DROFFED. THERE HAS BEIN NO ANNOUNCEMENT FROM CUBA

•INDICATING THAT SUCH A RAID TOOK FLACE. HOWEVER, HABANA RADIO

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

AGAINST THE NIAGARA SUGAR MILL UNTIL THO DAYS LATER.)

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