VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT ATTEMPTS TO TIE THE SOCIAL CHRISTIAN PARTY TO INDIVIDUALS LINKED TO THE BOMBING OF A CUBANA AIRLINER

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• Case Number: F-2018-01702
• Publication Date: October 19, 1976

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COI: MID-OCTOBER 1976
SUBJECT: VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT ATTEMPTS TO TIE THE SOCIAL
CHRISTIAN PARTY TO INDIVIDUALS LINKED TO THE BOMBING
OF A CUBANA AIRLINER
ACO: VENEZUELA, CARACAS (16 OCTOBER 1976) FIELD NO,
SOURCE: SEE BELOW.
SUMMARY( OFFICIALS OF THE DIRECTORATli FOR THE SERVICES OF
INTELLIGENCE AND PREVENTION (DISIP) HAVE BEEN ORDERED TO FULLY
INVESTIGATE THE VENEZUELAN CONNECTIONS Ti THE 6 OCTOBER 1976
BOMBING OF A CUBANA AIRLINER. UNOFIFICI;LLY, HOWEVER, DISIP
OFFICERS HAVE BEEN INSTRUCTED TO BUILD A CASE LINKING COPEI TO
THOSE INDIVIDUALS IMPLICATED IN THE INCIIENT. ON THE OTH:R
HAND, DISIP OFFICERS FEAR THAT INFORMATICN LINKING SOME uIZIP
NATION:.
OFFICIALS TO CUBAN EXILE ORLANDO BOS'cli MIGHT BECOME PUBLIC
KNOWLEDGE, EMBARRASSING THE GOVERNMENT AND FURTHER TAINTING
DISIP. END OF SUMMARY.
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1, SOURCE OF PARAGRAPHS 2.3t A VENEFJELAN ;AVERNMEN'
EmPLOTEE WHOSE POSITION GIVES Him ACCESS T) OFFICIAL REPORTS
ON vARIOUS SUBJECTS. HIS RELIABILITY HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISA.
THIS INFORmAT ION IS NOT TO BE DISCUSSED wITH ANY FOREIGN
OFFICIALS. INCLUDING THOSE oF THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT.
2, WHILE OFFICIALS OF THE DIRECTORATE FOR THE SERVICES 07
INTELLIGENCE AND PREVENTION (DISIP) HAVE nECEIVED OFFICIAL
INSTRUCTIONS TO CARRY OUT A COMPLETE INVE!,TIGATION OF ALL
vE!.E2uELANS CONNECTED WITH THE 6 OCTOBER :976 BOMBING OF A
CUBANA AIRLINER. UNOFFICIALLY DISIP OFFICURS HAVE BEEN ORDERED
TO CONCENTRATE THEIR INVESTIGATION ON mEMFERS OF THE SOCIAL
CHRISTIAN PARTY cCoPEI). DISIP OFFICIALS, THEREFORE,HAVE
DRAWN UP A LIST OF LOW TO MEDIUM-LEVEL OFFICIALS OF cOPEI
wHo!, :Isla INTENDS TO TIE TO LUIS POS. D A, A FORMER DISP
OFFICER WHO IS CURRENTLY UNDER DETENTION IN CONNECTION WITH
THE BOMBING. AS CURRENTLY PLANNED, DISIP WILL BEGIN PICKING
UP THESE COPEI LEADERS FOR QUESTIONING DUFING THE WEEK OF
18 OCTOBER. (SOURCE COmMENTI ALTHOUGH POSADA DOES HAVE COPEI
CONNECTIONS, MOST DISIP OFFICERS DO NOT BELIEVE THAT COPEI
PLAYED A ROLE IN POSADAIS ANTI-CUBAN ACTIVITIES. RATHER THEY
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BELIEVE THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS ATTEMP'ING TO ImPl..1:A-E
FOR POLITICAL REASONS,)
3, AT THE SAME TIME THAT IT IS wOHKING ON ITS CASE
AGAINST COPEI, DISIP OFFICIALS ARE COIXERNED THAT IN7cFmATIoN
CONNECTING DISIP OFFICIALS AND cuBAN 1xILE LEADER ORLAN.::
B 0 s C H. WILL BECOME PUBLIC. SUCH REVELATIONS, :151;
BELIEVE WOULD BE HIGHLY EMBARRASSING TO TH= GOvER\mE\T
PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRESAPEREE AHD DISASTEROuS ;-Om
WHICH HAS RECENTLY BEEN HURT By CHARGES OF MISTREATING PRISONERS
ACCUSED OF BEING INVOLVED IN THE KIDNAPPING OF WILLIAM 7. NIE.I:JS,
4. SOURCE OF PARAGRAPHS 5-81 A VI NE2UELAN WITH CLCSE
CONTACTS AMONG VENEZUELAN SECURITY oFrIcIALs. HIS RELIABT.T�Y
HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED.
5. ON 14 OCTOBER DISIP DIRECTOR RLTIRED GENERAL RA.,L
GIMENEZ GAINEA SAID THAT PRESIOENT PEREZ HAD DRDERE:
To CARRY OUT AN EXTENSIVE INVESTIGATIoN OF THE vENEELJELAN
CONNECTION IN THE CuBANA INCIDENT. ALTHOUGH GImENtZ SAI T-AT
HE INTENDED TO CARRY OUT THE PRESIDEN /S ORDERS, HE RERSLY
FEARED THAT SUCH AN INVESTIGATION MIGHT LEAD To PRESIDENTIAL
APPOINTEES OR TO COPE! LEAJERS. IN E THER CASE. GImENti SA.S
SECHET:
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THAT HE FELT THERE COUL: EE DIFFUCTIE FOR THE PEREE
ADmINISTRATION.
6. :N THE FIRST INSTANCE. SIMENEE SAID He wAS PEriBO%ALLY
CO,NCERNED THAT OriLANDO GARCIA/FRESIDENT PEREE1
INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY ADVISER WHO AS BEEN ACTING AS DE FACTO
HEAD Or DISIP, MIGHT BE IMPLICATED. GIMENE2 QUICKLY ALDED,
HOWEVER. THAT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE LIKING GARCIA TO THE
BOMBING INCIDENT, BUT THAT HE IS KNOWN TO BE INVOLVED IN
UNSPECIFIED ANTI-CUBAN GOVERNMENT ACTIIITIES� GIMENE2 SAID
THAT AS AN ADDED PRECAUTION HE HAS ASS:GNED SPECIAL GUARDS FOr
BOSCH AND PoSADA, BOTH OF WHOM ARE CURiENTLY UNDER DISIP
DETENTION.
7. (FIELD COmmENT1 OR AN EARLIER REPORT ON BOSCH!S RECENT
ACTIVITIES IN VENE2UELA AND POSADA!S AND GARCIASIS CONNECTION wITH
HIM SEE
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REPORTER. IN NEWS BROADCASTS A LOCAL TELEVISION STATION (CHANNEL 2) HAS
REPORTED THAT SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS CURRENTLY HOLDING POSICNS
WITH DIS1P WERE SEEN ABOUT CARACAS.HIni BOSCH. THE STATION
INDICATED THAT IT WOULD REVEAL THE IDENTITIES OF THESE OFFiCiRS
AT A LATER DATE.)
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8. AS FOR A POSSIBLE COPEI CONNECTION WITH THE CUBAN EXILE
MOVEMENT IN VENEZuELA, GIMENEZ DENIED THAT HE G4 THE PEREZ
ADmiNISTRATION ARE ATTEMPTING TO IMPLICATE COPEI IN THE
INVESTIGATION FOR POLITICAL REASONS, TH.] FACT IS, GIMENEE SAID,
MANY PEOPLE WITH COPEI CONNECTIONS APPEAR TO BE INVOLVED IN
THE CASE AND THEY MAY HAVE HAD THE BkKI4G OF UNSPECIFIED
cOPEI LEADERS. (FIELD COMMENT: VARIOUS SOURCES HAVE
INDEPENDENTLY REPORTED THAT VENEZUELAN AJTHORITIES HAVE FOR
SOME TIME BEEN CONVINCED THAT POSADA1S P/VATE INVESTIGATION
COMPANY KNOWN AS COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIiL INVESTIGATIONS (ICI)
WAS BEING USED BY COPEI.)
9, SOURCE OF pARAGRAHS 10-11: AN AD PARTY ACTIVIST WITH GOOD ACCESS
TO HIGH LEVELS IN THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMNNT, HE IS A USUALLY RELIABLE
SOuRCE,
10. THE VENEEUELAN GOVERNMENT IS AwAF.E THAT GARCIA AND
posADA TRAVELLED TO COSTA RICA TOGETHER SHORTLY BEFORE Br:CH
CAME TO VENEZUELA FROM COSTA RICA IN SEPTEMBER. THE 0B,EcT
OF THEIR TRAVEL To COSTA RICA WAS To MEET WITH BOSCH,
11. THERE IS CONSIDERABLE CONCERN WITHIN THE VENEZUELAN
GOVERNMENT BECAUSE OF THE RELATIVE LARGEI NUMBER OF CUBAN EXILES
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SERvICES. FURTHERMORE, THERE Is GROWIN; ALARM WITHIN TH;
GOVERNMENT THAT THESE EXILES MAY HAVE GOTTEN VENEZUELA INT0 A
DIFFICULT SITUATION.
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