MACHO PRIDE MAY HAVE KILLED MORALES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404380003-1
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 20, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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~..~~ MIAMI HERALD
20 JAA;JLRY 1983
STAT
Roger's On The Green may never were whipping the Cincinnati For the second time, Torres and
be ch::-ge,'
w v; ith the shooting. Bengals, 50-34, in a televised Morales separated. Torres left the
Based on hat I've got, it's prob- Monday night football game. Mo? bar area, telling Morales that he
a'?i? justifiable homicide," Metro-' rales stood at the bar, drinking wanted to listen to the band.
Dade Homicide Detective Steve with Nancy Lamazares Cid, the
Roadruck said Wednesday. widow of a drug traf- The final confrontation involved
Morales was going for the ficker, and with a man identified as Novo, Torres and Morales.
handgun in his ankle holster when_ Juan Fernandez. Morales was leaving the bar.
a single .32-caliber slug fired by a Torres turned to Novo and said
onetime Cuban policeman named The football game was on two something about Morales' depart
Orlando Torres ripped into the television screens above the corners tare, referring to him as a "mari-
back of his head, according to at- of the bar. Across the wood-and- con."
tornev Michael von Zamft, who glass paneled restaurant, a small
rep: esents Torres band played. Morales continued with Cid out
On the faded, yellow-and-rust According the parking lot, to his blood-red
striped the
near the low-rids bar, rding to witnesses state- Cadillac. Then he returned, alone;
rug meats to police, Morales, drink in to confront Torres. He had heard
Morales fell mortally wounded, hand, moved across the floor to a the comment.
Dodge City-style.. table where Torres and Roger
"it is an absolutely iustifiable Novo, the restaurant's operator, Did you call me maricon? he
shooting under the law," von' were seated. Morales apparently i asked Torres.
Zamft said. was acquainted with Novo. He had ! Torres said no. He looked at the
Detective Roadruck has turned: never met Torres, von Zamft said TV screen above the bar. He said
the results of his investigation, Wednesday. the comment referred to a player
over to prosecutor Sam. Rabin# - who had dropped the ball.
who will review the case and pass As Torres sat at the table, Mo. Morales turned to Novo. Did you
his findings on to Dade State At- rales crouched down. He rested his can me maricon? he asked.
torney Janet Reno. elbow on Torres' knee. Torres The restaurant operator an-
Reno could either file charges,: moved -his leg, spilling Morales' swered no.
send the case to the grand jury';; drink. Morales shoved Novo, who has
seek an inquest or refuse to prose Torres ordered a refill for Mo- had open-heart surgery. "He
cute. The investigation is not con- rales, who went back to the bar. ? doesn't just push," von Zamft said,-
plete, Rabin said, because several Cid, 38, the Widow of drug dealer. "He gave him a good shot." Novo
witnesses have not been, inter- German Lamazares, gestured... to
viewed. Torres, inviting him to the bar.- 4
Roadruck and other homicide When Torres walked to Cid, she STAT
investigators have said from the gave him a hug. "She was patting
beginning of their probe that Mo- him down, to see if he had a gun,"
;ties was shot during an everyday von Zamft said. Cid found no gun.
bar argument that turned deadly.
Fiends and associates insist that
oraiec, most recently a key in-
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'-'F Ss: R.SCH~ii_)T Operation Tick-Talks p investig~ Morales, who has been linked to
Lion. was shot in reprisal for past the CIA, the FBI, the Drug Enforce-
1ie had Survived two decades of exploits. ment Administration, the Israeli in.
tcrr;.r.st intrigue. of alliances and Cherries, a bar at Roger's On telligence agency MOSSAD and the
e:ra~?;::_? frorn the Congo to the The Green. was Morales' cecoRd Venezuelan secret police. then at-
C:_r:bbe:an that brought him into drinking stop the night of Dec. 20. tempted to embrace Torres. von
the orbit. and perhaps the payroll. He preferred Johnnie Calker Zan?'ft said. Tones told Morales
of at Icas tare' countries' spy Elack Label Scotch. A blood test that "they weren't that good
services. later showed he had a 0.17 alcohol friends, " the attorney said.
.-j,. when :tic:.rdo (1lonke,; j lever when he was snot, according Morales grabbed Tor. es' tie and
pulled i. Torres
1.:orales was fa-a!1}, shot at a Key' to Assistant Dade Medical Exam- protested. Morales
embraced him. "He didn't find a
biscwne -r=.3u,ant fact month. finer Dr. Leonard Bednarzvk. A ?
hc? was drunk and angry. looking blood-alcohol level of 0.10 makes gun, von Zamft said.
Morales was "very loud and bois-
for -even, e ^-cause somebody a person too drunk to drive under ?
terous, according to the attorney.
cal -d ; :m ^e-tcor,. Spanish slang Florida law.
fc. ror os;xuai. Morales. 43. ,arrived at Cherries "He was either drunk or on his
pride may have
f
ormant in the Miami olice drug
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staggered backward.
According to von Zamft, who
was present on Jan. 12 when Torres
gave a sworn statement to homicide
investigators, Morales moved into a
crouch, reaching toward his ankle,
where police later found a gun.
Torres produced a pistol and
fired once. The slug smashed into
the left rear of Morales' head. The
time was 11:41 p.m. on Dec. 20.
Morales died two days later at
Mercy Hospital.
Torres "fired either in self-de-
fense or in defense of others," von
Zamf t said.
Morales was once described by
his attorney, John Komorowski, as
a "real-life James Bond."
Attorney Doug Williams, who
questioned Morales for three weeks
during a deposition in the Tick-
Talks case, has recalled: "He told
me about murder as cavalierly as if
he were talking about a new pair of
shoes."
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