DECISION OF ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA TO USE CUPAN PILOT.
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From: WAVE
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 02/18/1965
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SUBJ: DECISION OF ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA TO USE A CUBAN PILOT ON

THE MIRR'S AIR STRIKE SCHEDULED FOR 16 FEBRUARY 1965

DOI: 17 FEBRUARY 1965

PADA: UNITED STATES, MIN1 (17 FEBRUARY 1965). UFG-6727

SOURCE: 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.

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DECISION OF ORLANDO BOSCH: AVILA TO USE A CUBAN :

PILOT ON THE MIRR'S AIR STRIKE SCHEDULED FOR

16 FEBRUARY 1965

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APPRAISALI A MIAMI BUSINESSMAN WHO WAS A RESIDENT OF MABANA FOR SEVERAL YEARS. THE SOURCE

HAS CONTACTS WHO RECOGNIZE HIM AS A CHANNEL TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE. THIS INFORMATION

WAS OETAINED FROM FRANK FIORINI.

— 1. AT ABOUT 4:88 P.M. ON 17 FEBRUARY 1965 FRANK FIORINE SAID

THAT ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA, LEADER OF THE MOVIMIENTO INSURRECCIONAL

DE RECUPERACION REVOLUCIONARIA (MIRR) INSURRECTIONAL MOVEMENT FOR

REVOLUTIONARY RECOVERY) AGREED TO LET THE CUBAN PILOT FLY THE

MISSION SCHEDULED FOR 16 FEBRUARY INSTEAD OF THE AMERICAN PILOT.

(FIELD COMMENT: THE SAME SOURCE REPORTED THAT BOSCH HAD SCHEDULED

AN AIR STRIKE AGAINST THE CITY OF HABANA FOR 16 FEBRUARY IN A B-25.

AN AMERICAN PILOT WAS TO FLY THE AIRCRAST BUT WAS TO DE ACCUMFANIEU

BY A CUBAN PILOT.) THE CUBAN PILOT HAS BEEN TRAINING IN THE 8-25

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HE HAS HAD PREVIOUS TRAININS IN A SEA FURY AND IN A TWIN-ENGINE

SEAPLANE, PRESUMABLY A PBY, FIORINI SAIU THE B-25 WAS PURCHASED

IN TUCSON, ARIZONA, NOT IN TEXAS AS HE PREVICUSLY STATED.

2. THE CUBAN PILOT IS THE SAME PERSON WHO WAS TO MAKE A

BOSCH-FINANCED RAID IN A SINGLE-ENGINE AIRCRAFT AGAINST AN UNSPECIFIED

TARGET. THE PLANE WAS TO LEAVE FROM THE KEY WEST AREA.

3. FIORINI SAID THAT BILL SCHIISON, AN AMERICAN PILOT WHO

HAS BEEN ARRANGING THE SUPPORT ASPECTS FOR BOSCH'S RAIDS, RECEIVED

AN UNIDENTIFIED SUM OF MONEY FROM BOSCH ON 17 FEBRUARY.

4. ACCORDING. TO FIORINI, IF THE RAID HAD NOT TAKEN PLACE

ALREADY, IT WOULO PROBABLY BE MADE WITHIN 24 HOURS.

5. FIELD DISSEMS CINCLANT, CINCSO, COMKWESTFOR, MIAMI REPS

OF STATE, FBI, BORDER PATROL, CUSTOMS, I&NS, AND USCO.

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