Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LEG, BUE
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 8/5/77
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note) .

DATE: 11-11-2017

JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_NUMBER: 124-10221-10273

RECORD_SERIES: HO

AGENCY FILE_ NUMBER: CR 185-789-1525

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

LEG. BUE

TO: DIRECTOR. FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 08/05/1977

PAGES: 7

SUBJECT:

OBA, TRA, INTV, HERNANDEZ, ROLANDO OTERO, VENEZUELAN

GOVERNMENT, MEETING, LETELIER ASSA

DOCUMENT TYPE:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

ORIGINAL

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

08/17/1998

UPDATE DATE:

STATUS

Redact

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

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UNBUE 157-35

•RICA OF LUIS ANDRES PASCUAL ALLENDE. IT IS NOTED IHAI IN

INTERVIEWS WIIH BUAGENIS, OTERO RECENILY DISCLOSED THAI HE WAS

PROVIDED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS OF ALLENDE AND HIS GIRLFRIEND, AND THAT

ON THE BACK OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS THERE WAS A BLUE CIRCULAR SHAPED

STAMP WITH THE WORDS"DIRECCION INTELLIGENCIA NACIONAL ANTI COMMUN-

ISTA." HOWEVER, OTERO ALSO ADVISED THAT HE BURNED THESE

PHOTOGRAPHS. IT IS NOTED THAT DINA IS AN ABBREVIATION FOR IHE

DIRECCION DE INTELIGENCIA NACIONAL AND IN FACT THE DINA SYMBOL

IS A BLUE CIRCULAR EMBLEM SURROUNDING A SPIKED GLOVE SHAPED IN

THE FORM OF A FISI. IF OTERO DID NOT DESIROY THESE PHOTOGRAPHS

AND TURNED THEM OVER TO DISIP, THEY WOULD BE SEVERELY INCRIMINATING

AGAINST DINA IF THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENI WOULD MAKE THEM

AVAILABLE.

THE SECOND TOPIC AND PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT WOULD BE

INFORMATION IN THE POSSESSION OF THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT

CONCERNING THE JUNE, 1976, CORU ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING HELD IN THE

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. AS PREVIOUSLY NOTED, IHE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF

DISIP HAD PREVIOUSLY ADVISED CARACAS EMBASSY OFFICIALS AND AUSA

PROPPER THAT DISIP HAD AN INFORMANT WHO AITENDED THIS MEETING IN

THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, PRESUMABLY FORMER DISIP OFFICER LUIS

A(4)

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•FOSADA. IT HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED THAI ONE OF THE POSSIBLE

MOT IVES

FOR THE ASSASSINATION OF LETELIER AND THE MOTIVE SUGGESTED

BY DINA FOR LETELIER'S ASSASSINATION, WAS REVENGE AGAINSI THE

CHILEAN GOVERNMENT BY CUBAN EXILES FOR IHE DELIVERY OF ROLANDO OTERO

HERNANDEZ TO THE FBI, WHICH WAS VIEWED AS A BETRAYAL OF THE •

CUBAN EXILE CAUSE, WFO REPORI OF SA LO CARTER CORNICKS JR.

DATED JUNE 29% 1977, CONTAINS AN EXCELLENT REPORT ON THE JUNE,

1975, CORU ORGANIZAT IONAL MEETING IN IHE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, AS

PROVIDED BY MM

1337-S. POINIS OF EXTREME INTERESI, WHICH SUGGEST

THE POSSIBILITY THAI LETELIER'S ASSASSINATION MAY HAVE BEEN

CONCEIVED AT THE JUNE, 1976, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC MEETING, WITH THE

MOTIVATION OF REVENGE AGAINSI THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT, ARE SUGGESTED

IN PROPOSALS MADE BY JOSE DIONISIOXSUAREZ KES QUIVEL JHAI A MILITARY

COORDINATION GROUP MADE UP OF IHE MILITARY DIRECTOR OF EACH CUBAN

EX ILE GROUP REPRESENTED AI THE JUNE, 1976, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

MEETING BE ESTABLISHED. SUAREZ ESQUIVEL'S PROPOSAL WAS APPROVED

AND THE FIRST MEETING OF THE MILITARY COORDINATION GROUP WAS TO TAKE

RACE ON JUNE 27, 1976, IN ELORIDA AI A LOCATION TO BE SELECIED BY

ARMANDELA OPEZ ESTRADA OF THE 2506 BRIGADE. CUBAN NATIONALISTENU

SECRET

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BUE 157-35

CHILEAN GOVERNMENT MAY HUE BEEN THE MOTIVAIING FACTOR IN BOSCH'S

o.

PROPOSAL. LATER ON AT IHE JUNE, 1976, MEETING, BOSCH AVILA DISCUSSED

TWO COUNTRIES WHICH WERE NOT FRIENDLY WITH COMMUNIST CUBA, I. E.

CHILE AND COSTA RICA. HOWEVER, BOSCH STATED THAI ACTIONS WOULD BE

TAKEN AGAINST THESE COUNTRIES BECAUSE OF TREAIMENT TO CUBAN EXILES

BY CHILE AND COSIA RICA• BOSCH THEN SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED THAT OTERO

HERNANDEZ HAD BEEN RETURNED BY CHILE TO THE UNIED STATES. MM 1337-S

COMMENTED THAT IT IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT BOSCH HAD BEEN JAILED IN

COSTA RICA DURING FEBRUARY, 19760 LEGAI, BUENOS, AIRES, NOTES THAT

IF BOSCH CARRIEDOUI HIS STATEMENT OF TAKING ACTION AGAINST CHILE, THE

LETEL IER ASSASSINATION CERTAINLY COULD BE PLACED IN THIS CATEGORY.

II IS ALSO INTERESTING TO NOTE THAI AFTER THE LETELIER ASSASSINATION,

AN ATTEMPI WAS MADE AGAINST THE LIFE OF HUBER

AFTER MATOS HAD RETURNED TO THAI COUNTRY FROM A VISIT TO CHILE ANY

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WHICH THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT MIGHT BE WILLING

TO FURNISH CONCERNING THE JUNE, 1976, MEETING, ESPECIALLY IN THE AREAS

OUTLINED ABOVE, WOULD BE OF, EXTREME VALUE. SU)

ADDITIONALLY, ALL INFORMATION IN BOSCH AVILA'S POSSESSION

CONCERNING CAPTIONED MATTER AND 'THE JUNE, 1976, MEETING WOULD BEV

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