A MIAMI BUSINESSMAN WHO WAS A PRESIDENT OF HABANA FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: JMWAVE
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 02/24/1965
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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COUNTRY: CUBA

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DISTiL 24 FEBRUARY 1965

MIRR INTENTION TO BOMB HABANA

USÉ OF AMERICAN PILOTS IN MIRR AIR STRINES

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APPRAISALI A MIAMI BUSINESSMAN WHO WAS A PESIDENT OF INBANA FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

THE SCURCE HAS. CONTACTS MIO RECOGNIZE HIM AS A CHANEL TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE.

THIS. INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED FROM BILL JOHNSON.

- 1. ON 2$ FESRUARY 1965, BILL JCHNSCN, AN

ANERICAN PILOT WHO

APRANGES THE SUPPORT ASPECTS OF AIR STRIKES AGAINST CUBA BY ORLANDO

SOSCH AVILA'S MOVIMIENTO INSUPRECCIONAL DE RECUPORACION REVOLUCION-

ARIA (MIRR: INSURRECTIÓNAL OVOKENT FOR REVOLUTIGNANY REGOVERY). 5A10

THAT THE MIRR WAS MAKING 185-POUÑD "ASH CAN" SONSS FOR SUESEGUENT

RAIDS, '"MORE THAN AMPLE TO BLOW UP THE OIL TANKS IN HABANI." JOHNSON.

SAID THAT BOSCH STILL INTENDS TO COME HASANA, GUT "IT WILL BE AGAINST

MY ADVICE". JOHNSON LATER ADMITTED THAT HIS OWN MOFIVATION IS PURELY

MERCENARY, (FIELD COMMENT: SEE DCSDE-315/00550-05: DATED 16

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

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OF HABANA BE THE MIRR'S NEXT TARGET. THIS MISSION WAS ORIGiNALLY

SCHEDULED FOR 16 FEBRUARY.).

2. JOHNSON ALLEGED THAT THE PLANES: OPERATING FOR THE MIRR ARE

LEAVING FROM THE UNITED STATES. WHEN TAMPA WAS MENTIONED AS A POSSISLE

DEPARTURE POINT, JOHNSON SAID: "YOU'RE GETTING CLÖSE."

3• JOHNSON SAID HIS SMALL GROUP PRACTICES GODO SECURITY.

"WHEN WE GET A PLANE AND A PILOT, HE CONTRACT THE FOR THREE OPEPATIONS."

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

HAVE THE CUTS.".

4. JOHNSON CLAIMED THAT JACK GRIFFINE THE AMERICAN PILOT WHO:

CRASH-LANDED A B-45 EARLIER THAT MORNING, HAD TAKEN PART IN A PREVISUS

RAID ON CUBA. HOWEVER, HE DIO NOT KNOW IF THE DOWNED B-ES HAD EVER BEEN

USED IN ANY RAIDS.

JOHNSON SAID HE DOES NOT KNOW DAN SHAW,

GRIFFIN'S CO-PILOT ABOAPD THE DONED B-25.

5. JOHNSON INSISTED THAT THE PAID VICH THE MIRR ANNOUNCED AS

HAVING TAKEN PLACE ON BANIA MONDA ON 13 FEBRUARY HAD TANEN PLACE

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

6. FIELD DISSEM: CINCLANT, CUMCSO, CORNESTFOR, MIAMI REPS OF

STATE, FBI, CUSTOMS, LENS, BORDER PATPOL, AND USCO.

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