tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771414744737767002024-03-05T06:34:37.223-08:00Orlando Bosch (1963 - 1968)Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-33925420200781475502012-02-17T13:25:00.002-08:002012-02-17T13:30:30.941-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCwFp_rDeAVbzM4vJR4DH9ctdSaClLSBNO-N1C-CtRm0bVodyvl-llNmGRBN1vuOPnem6zuEIp3436YY_6NeOKeaVogcpDNvIiy_-2TaMCgPgjWLQOdTEG_vkScaAenSl_3J-9iNKnCYI/s1600/jail+sentences.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 130px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCwFp_rDeAVbzM4vJR4DH9ctdSaClLSBNO-N1C-CtRm0bVodyvl-llNmGRBN1vuOPnem6zuEIp3436YY_6NeOKeaVogcpDNvIiy_-2TaMCgPgjWLQOdTEG_vkScaAenSl_3J-9iNKnCYI/s200/jail+sentences.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710220104681180690" border="0" /></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FWRSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xHsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4931%2C2435057"><span style="font-style: italic;">St. Petersburg Times</span>, December 14, 1968, "Bosch, Eight Others Get Jail Sentences" by United Press International</a><br /><br />MIAMI - Dr. Orlando Bosch. alleged Cuba Power leader, and eight other exiles were sentenced yesterday to a total of 48 years in jail for conspiring to blow up foreign ships trading with the Fidel Castro regime.<br /><br />Federal Judge William O. Mehrtens gave the defendants, including one woman, a tongue-lashing for what he called "perfectly stupid" activities after he handed out the tough sentences which actually amount to 39 1/2 years in jail because some are concurrent.<br /><br />Bosch, a 43-year-old baby doctor, drew the heaviest sentence - a total of 18 years on a five-count indictment. He will not serve more than 10 years, however, because the other eight years are to be served concurrently.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />Relatives wept in the corridor after the sentencing. Mrs. Bosch denounced the penalty and said her husband was fighting for "the same thing American soldiers are fighting for in Vietnam."<br /><br />"I am proud of my husband," she said.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 United Press International</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-78406577604440808002012-02-17T13:04:00.004-08:002012-02-17T13:10:48.537-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp83kL2snYYpNbAkyNFJ-cgs0CFNqY4jPoBu2PXrNNzeEyf1S4RtC3CEZlBXK0kXgqEizedj861SPP0nUJMZzHRYtZ_oVZNCH-v2ehRSFffRZlX3FgD6CK6CkuZN2M6lrd8AKGpsb-CIA/s1600/exiles+guilty.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 127px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp83kL2snYYpNbAkyNFJ-cgs0CFNqY4jPoBu2PXrNNzeEyf1S4RtC3CEZlBXK0kXgqEizedj861SPP0nUJMZzHRYtZ_oVZNCH-v2ehRSFffRZlX3FgD6CK6CkuZN2M6lrd8AKGpsb-CIA/s200/exiles+guilty.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710214316157179554" border="0" /></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Nm8eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nskEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3504%2C3607342"><span style="font-style: italic;">Daytona Beach Morning Journal</span>, November 16, 1968, "Cuban Exiles Guilty of Blasting Ships" by The Associated Press</a><br /><br />MIAMI - Nine Cuban exiles, including former Havana pediatrician Orlando Bosch were found guilty in federal court Friday of conspiring to blast ships of foreign countries which trade with Cuba.<br /><br />In addition, Bosch was adjudged guilty on three counts of sending telegrams to the heads of state of Spain, Mexico and England, threatening that the mysterious Cuban Power organization would bomb their ships.<br /><br />Bosch and two other refugees - Barbaro Balan and Jose Diaz Morejon - were convicted of firing on the Polish Freighter Polanika while it was in the Port of Miami.<br /><br />Bosch, frequently afoul of United States neutrality laws in previous plots against Fidel Castro's Cuban government, could be sentenced to a total of 28 years in federal prison.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />Asst. U.S. Atty. Donald Bierman during the trial described Bosch as "a man with a clear contempt for the U.S. system of justice."<br /><br />The defense, however, contended the nine Cuban refugees were brought to trial for the sole purpose of prosecuting Bosch. Lawyer Melvyn Greenspahn charged the government would not be satisfied "until they put him away."<br /><br />In a statement after the trial, Bierman praised his key witness, Ricardo Morales [Navarrete], an exile who infiltrated Cuba Power and reported on its activities.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />"His conduct was patriotic and motivated by a desire to stop what he believed was a fraud upon the Cuba people perpetrated by the leaders of Cuban Power. He believed that the activity of Cuba Power in relation to foreign shipping was nothing more than a wanton destruction of the property of our allies Britain, Spain and Japan, which in no way served to hinder or even inconvenience the government of Fidel Castro," Bierman said.<br /><br />Morales testified that he supplied Bosch with fake dynamite furnished him by the FBI. He reportedly was placed under guard for protection from fellow exiles after having testified.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Associated Press</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-25525206511816259682012-02-17T12:23:00.002-08:002012-02-17T12:26:34.374-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_C5GisbRo_3ThX_ftFUYf8x0nvrYHYvmhsez7G8aZrdMv1PgAoZEEJYhWg0rOQuFzY86wh06Kd9-ogz0vhBm3_EjQLVSlVowRk09nPDkch_fXheo19kICfMC7_1M8J9xopJYG4fpycLA/s1600/bosch+names.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 92px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_C5GisbRo_3ThX_ftFUYf8x0nvrYHYvmhsez7G8aZrdMv1PgAoZEEJYhWg0rOQuFzY86wh06Kd9-ogz0vhBm3_EjQLVSlVowRk09nPDkch_fXheo19kICfMC7_1M8J9xopJYG4fpycLA/s320/bosch+names.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710203497644854834" border="0" /></a><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0UE0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=5ukFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1213%2C5640610"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Miami News</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">, November 14, 1968, "Bosch Names Cuban Power Leader" by Ian Glass</span><br /></a><br />Ernesto, the mysterious head of the secret Cuba Power Organization and the man who took the credit for its bombings, was identified yesterday.<br /><br />"His name is Pablo Vega," a reluctant Dr. Orlando Bosch said in federal court here.<br /><br />Bosch said he originally met Ernesto on Aguila Key in the Bahamas two years ago. He described him as about 5-feet, 4-inches, dark, muscular.<br /><br />He believed Ernesto who, he said, was military chief of Cuban Power, had left the country after the shelling of the Polish liner Polanica Sept. 16. He did not know where he was now.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />Bosch also said it was Ernesto that fired the 57 mm recoilless rifle at the Polanica, although it was agreed another of the defendants, Jose Diaz Morejon, would take the blame.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />Government attorneys Donald Bierman and Theodore Klein showed earlier that, over the last six months, Morales had been supplying Bosch with phony dynamite supplied by the FBI.<br /><br />Bosch admitted he had accepted the dynamite, but only to be sent to insurgents in Cuba. He paid $300 for three shipments.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />The case is expected to go to the jury late today [or] tomorrow.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Miami News</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-67948385710194942082012-02-17T11:38:00.001-08:002012-02-17T11:42:09.639-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFUl37ieLgK0iEfiH95D3zvmTyP6tS5OCv6NaotIvTEwI3tdH-4mIEJelT3i6et300GYU88bs-VIDKz3Z_0aFkcJ1eX0-yCqmvAYXgTCnBjKJbLVdBDqOn_-usb3fBRmcHyJ8q4qbWyss/s1600/phony+dynamite.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 153px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFUl37ieLgK0iEfiH95D3zvmTyP6tS5OCv6NaotIvTEwI3tdH-4mIEJelT3i6et300GYU88bs-VIDKz3Z_0aFkcJ1eX0-yCqmvAYXgTCnBjKJbLVdBDqOn_-usb3fBRmcHyJ8q4qbWyss/s200/phony+dynamite.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710192143037333650" border="0" /></a><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MG8eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nskEAAAAIBAJ&pg=958%2C1952603"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Daytona Beach Morning Journal</span>, November 8, 1968, "Phony Dynamite, Says Witness on Exile Duds" by The Associated Press</span></a><br /><br />MIAMI - A Cuban exile testified Thursday that he infiltrated Cuban Power, a secret terrorist group, and supplied it with phony dynamite he obtained from the FBI.<br /><br />The witness, 29-year-old Ricardo Morales Navarrete, said Orlando Bosch, one of nine exiles on trial in Federal Court, kept complaining that ship blasting attempts with his explosives had been duds.<br /><br />The nine were charged with conspiring to bomb ships from countries dealing with the Fidel Castro regime.<br /><br />Morales, who described himself as an arms expert, also testified that at Bosch's request, he assembled a 59 millimeter recoilless rifle to be fired on a Polish vessel.<br /><br />Judge William O. Mehrtens admitted his testimony over the objection of defense attorney Melvyn Greenspahn who pointed out it came from a paid informer.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />Morales testified he first saw the [recoilless] rifle in the apartment of Aimee Miranda, one of the defendants, and that he put it in shooting condition. He said he also equipped it with sights fashioned from a coat hanger.<br /><br />Morales, speaking with a strong accent, also testified that at his first meeting with Bosch, on Jan. 20, Bosch told him "a suitcase full of money has arrived from Cuba for Cuban Power."<br /><br />[...]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Associated Press</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-90883607996166451012012-02-17T10:46:00.002-08:002012-02-17T10:50:46.127-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTFfC4K3dbN0z4fiMLMT84LvOHRUtinPc0AwJNKiT542evvUwKQ8ZqeaBXoaqrMBbY7kiV_6HlfO7_j8KAXKxxzMxMV3H2z-DlSih_SASKAdkq3wX9Pb37P4RJM4PXOaqHqCL432QhKQc/s1600/suspects+fast.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTFfC4K3dbN0z4fiMLMT84LvOHRUtinPc0AwJNKiT542evvUwKQ8ZqeaBXoaqrMBbY7kiV_6HlfO7_j8KAXKxxzMxMV3H2z-DlSih_SASKAdkq3wX9Pb37P4RJM4PXOaqHqCL432QhKQc/s320/suspects+fast.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710178889009840866" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2zo0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=besFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5735%2C4840572"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Miami News</span>, October 11, 1968, "8 Exile Suspects Fast in Jail" by Louise Blanchard</span> </a><br /><br />A spokesman for eight Cuban exiles, jailed yesterday in connection with the terrorist damage to foreign ships, said today they have begun a limited hunger strike.<br /><br />A ninth exile, [Aimee Miranda Cruz], also arrested and charged with conspiring to damage ships doing business with Fidel Castro's Cuba, was released.<br /><br />Marcelino Garcia, speaking for the "Alianza Movimiento Insurreccional de Recuperacion Revolucionaria Comandos L," said Dr. Orlando Bosch had smuggled a letter out of the Dade County Jail.<br /><br />The letter Garcia produced said all had been arrested on false charges. It accused the CIA and the FBI of "tenacious persecution" of members of the organization.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />Garcia, secretary general of the "Alianza M.I.R.R., Comandos L.," issued a press release at a meeting last night denouncing "all the governments of the free world."<br /><br />The statement declared hat the arrest of Dr. Bosch and the others "confirms the conjecture" that the government of the United States is interested in "sustaining Fidel Castro."<br /><br />The press release said, as did the Bosch letter, that members of the organization had been "persecuted and watched" by federal authorities, that the accusations were "political in nature" and that the arrests were intended to "paralyze all our forces for the liberation of our nation."<br /><br />[...]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Miami News</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-34622557589662132532012-02-17T10:13:00.003-08:002012-02-17T10:27:57.251-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRMkFpCuYguELIuaPkLo-ur1nFOukBq9Nt8zZ7VLZKxBKhSz98NQGt3hU6bLhYuOpShYZU1h6SsXAYqmHO74SH0ZSVXS2AcfsFx_K4cH-LeAQ6eZbBbQ04zqCJL0BTFAXC6XD6tKRHKbI/s1600/terror+plotters.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRMkFpCuYguELIuaPkLo-ur1nFOukBq9Nt8zZ7VLZKxBKhSz98NQGt3hU6bLhYuOpShYZU1h6SsXAYqmHO74SH0ZSVXS2AcfsFx_K4cH-LeAQ6eZbBbQ04zqCJL0BTFAXC6XD6tKRHKbI/s320/terror+plotters.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710172596563866850" border="0" /></a><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lechAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BmYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7251%2C2422361"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Herald-Tribune</span>, October 12, 1968, "Nine Cuban Exiles Jailed As Terror Plotters" by The Associated Press</span></a><br /><br />MIAMI - Nine Cuban exiles were jailed here Friday on federal charges of plotting terro attacks on ships and planes of Spain, Mexico and Great Britain as part of a nationwide anti-Castro vendetta by the group calling itself Cuban Power.<br /><br />The man indicted as the leader, Dr. Orlando Bosch, seemed triumphant after his arrest by FBI agents. While being taken to jail under $50,000 bond, Bosch raised his handcuffed arms and made "V's" with fingers of each hand as he shouted: "Victory for Cuban liberation."<br /><br />Bosch and two of the nine were chraged in the Sept. 16 cannonading of a Polish freighter in Miami. The attack became an international incident.<br /><br />The indictment also identified Bosch as the mysterious "Ernesto," the voice of Cuban Power who announced attacks sometimes before the occurred.<br /><br />Bosch was charged separately with cabling threats to Harold Wilson, prime minister of Great Britain, Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, president of Mexico, and Gen. Francisco Franco, head of state in Spain.<br /><br />All nine of those arrested Friday by FBI agents were charged with conspiracy to violate the neutrality of the United States by making war against another nation from U.S. soil.<br /><br />In announcing the arrests, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said, "Cuban Power is a militant anti-Castro organization which has publicly claimed responsibility for various acts of violence against property of those nations which have continued to carry on trading with Cuba."<br /><br />Some of the targets included consulates, offices of government airlines and companies which shipped mercy packages to families in Cuba.<br /><br />The indictment, returned secretly in Miami Thursday by a federal grand jury, said all nine of those indicted had conspired with the Cuban Power group. Among the attacks claimed by Cuban Power were bombings of a cargo plane at Miami Airport, a British freighter at sea near Key West, and a Japanese freighter at Tampa, Fla.<br /><br />A tenth man identified in the indictment, but neither charged nor listed as a coconspirator, was Ricardo Morales Navarrete. Morales had been arrested earlier by Miami police in connection with one of the 39 bombings that struck the city's Cuban colony.<br /><br />Morales' testimony to the grand jury was reportedly the key to breaking the facade of the secret group.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Associated Press</span><br /><br />[<a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=71XFh8zZwT8C&dat=19681011&printsec=frontpage">More from <span style="font-style: italic;">The Miami News</span>, Oct. 11, 1968</a>]Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-54908986752035517602012-02-08T11:35:00.000-08:002012-02-08T11:36:35.689-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg44nvnV9Eh1TxDItptCsxW9mRqG81sHR4u_LGoZZxiAh4bDMwuOQaG5KtWHoCk5b9If1rgptKJ_dMBoN3y7NQViUBMSh3MmF7TnPv7EzZfJIt7IWl4m_bBVRZWWnKkJa7jWbVMtlV3Xc0/s1600/dynamite+found.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 137px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg44nvnV9Eh1TxDItptCsxW9mRqG81sHR4u_LGoZZxiAh4bDMwuOQaG5KtWHoCk5b9If1rgptKJ_dMBoN3y7NQViUBMSh3MmF7TnPv7EzZfJIt7IWl4m_bBVRZWWnKkJa7jWbVMtlV3Xc0/s320/dynamite+found.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706850975974216914" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2Do0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=besFAAAAIBAJ&pg=995%2C3067992"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Miami News</span>, October 8, 1968, "Dynamite Found Near Dante's Office" by The Miami News</span></a><br /><br />Twenty-four sticks of dynamite, with detonation caps and primer cord, were found outside the Miami campaign headquarters of Rep. Dante Fascell yesterday but the explosives had not been rigged as a bomb.<br /><br />Dick Nellius, press assistant to Fascell, a Democrat who is running for re-election, said the 50-pound box of dynamite was found in bushes outside a building at 2901 S. Bayshore Dr., where the Fascell forces have offices on the ground floor.<br /><br />Nellius said the explosives were found by someone connected with Alliance Machinery Corp., which owns the building and has offices on the upper floor. The dynamite was removed by the Metro Bomb Squad.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Miami News</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-30275361020003434132012-02-08T09:39:00.000-08:002012-02-08T09:42:57.108-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNwECGBGtQNQtv-U4WvYJcC5tks9FBsTfnnC35Vh0205MAnn_NmbC8_9svb3BrvMnw2LJO0b2qnFBh05lqtFDzJQggzbsHQtfsN07-Xt94p_cmKEfSlSu_XpdFN9HiTTxu68_3wRy-PZE/s1600/dante+urges.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 341px; height: 111px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNwECGBGtQNQtv-U4WvYJcC5tks9FBsTfnnC35Vh0205MAnn_NmbC8_9svb3BrvMnw2LJO0b2qnFBh05lqtFDzJQggzbsHQtfsN07-Xt94p_cmKEfSlSu_XpdFN9HiTTxu68_3wRy-PZE/s320/dante+urges.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706821673547871842" border="0" /></a><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wUE0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=YOsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6983%2C3074866"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Miami News</span>, September 24, 1968, "Dante Urges U.S. Act in Exile Bombings" by Ian Glass</span></a><br /><br />Congressman Dante Fascell today urged U.S. Attorney General [Ramsey] Clark to order an investigation of Cuban terrorist bomber groups here "and bring these criminals to justice."<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />Fascell's telegram said: "Recent terrorist activities in Miami and other parts of our nation perpetrated by a small group of Cuban extremists are endangering Cuban and American lives and property.<br /><br />"The vast majority of Cuban exiles have proven to be exemplary guests in our nation. However, this militant minority is violating not only our local laws with attacks on foreign ships and bombing of grocery stores, but also is violating a host of federal laws.<br /><br />"For those reasons, I seriously urge a prompt and thorough investigation by the FBI, immigration authorities and other federal agencies to bring these criminals to justice.<br /><br />"While I fully support the legitimate effort of the Cuban exiles to free their homeland, we cannot allow a terrorist minority to jeopardize lives and blatantly violate our laws in the name of patriotism."<br /><br />[...]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Miami News</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-45291627436288524592012-02-08T08:54:00.000-08:002012-02-08T09:11:30.615-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxRncogBJMi1Xm3LoqJPw-xJ5_WLrKm3tYN4IWz5vjdpoAM8Jvvex-eIGKUhpCpZ8nOK4INCvbBIcvxUmHFslbmNGPq8DmYhQlYps5jZzwURa7VjfuNeeJKK0Jdr6XbWp2bl2B0wfekHQ/s1600/one+bomb.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 199px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxRncogBJMi1Xm3LoqJPw-xJ5_WLrKm3tYN4IWz5vjdpoAM8Jvvex-eIGKUhpCpZ8nOK4INCvbBIcvxUmHFslbmNGPq8DmYhQlYps5jZzwURa7VjfuNeeJKK0Jdr6XbWp2bl2B0wfekHQ/s200/one+bomb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706810658524986754" border="0" /></a><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wEE0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=YOsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3227%2C2687597"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Miami News</span>, September 23, 1968, "One Bomb Is One Too Many," Editorial by The Miami News</span></a><br /><br />We think Cuban exiles can find better ways to settle differences than by blowing up buildings or firing rifles at foreign ships.<br /><br />And we find it difficult to believe that law enforcement agencies can't find the culprits responsible for some 38 bombings in Dade County since Jan. 1.<br /><br />More reasonable members of the Cuban community deplore the lawless attacks, many of which are perpetrated by a Cuban Power group, or exiles who claim to be banded together to forcefully demonstrate their displeasure with local affairs.<br /><br />Miami is overrun with agents of the U.S. government, representing the CIA and the FBI. These are in addition to the local police forces and it seems most unusual that only a handful of suspects have been turned up in recent explosions. (None of these have been accused of bombings, but rather are charged with illegal possession of explosives.)<br /><br />We're not experts in making bombs, but it is rather common knowledge that the explosive material used in many of the bombings is made exclusively for the U.S. military. It would seem that the CIA, FBI and the military intelligence agencies, with their vast resources, could at least plug the leak in the explosives, and maybe even discover who is using them for these non-military purposes.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Miami News</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-76426785968769426682012-01-27T10:18:00.000-08:002012-01-27T10:27:35.171-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjQW18SMy0E43kxNwHf0cjnOjjIFCJl5Qq8T7PKzR0px3OPtMKAVzBBHQNDW5Ucc_GNIGIm_6ptKdKOIvTleJjVe78In27FtZ5bBfzZ4PDXdGvzi4GkldqnaSP_GvPBX-fJHV42IaQP44/s1600/reign+of+terror.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 449px; height: 70px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjQW18SMy0E43kxNwHf0cjnOjjIFCJl5Qq8T7PKzR0px3OPtMKAVzBBHQNDW5Ucc_GNIGIm_6ptKdKOIvTleJjVe78In27FtZ5bBfzZ4PDXdGvzi4GkldqnaSP_GvPBX-fJHV42IaQP44/s320/reign+of+terror.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702379967601443714" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wEE0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=YOsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5498,2632262"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Miami News</span>, September 23, 1968, "Cuban Exiles Living with 'Reign of Terror'" by Terry Johnson King</span></a><br /><br />[...]<br /><br />Miami's Cubans are living with a reign of terror that, so far, has been largely confined to their own neighborhoods and businesses. Almost daily now, incidents are reported locally as anti-Castro factions drown their sorrows and vent their frustrations in dynamite and C-4 plastic explosives.<br /><br />It has been an escalating war. It started with smoke bombs and tear gas being tossed into festive gatherings among Cubans, set off by malcontents who said the exiles had no business having parties while their country was in the hands of Communists.<br /><br />From there it grew. Dynamite was tossed into stores that sent drugs to Cuba - they were "trading with the enemy" when they sent badly-needed supplies of penicilin and antibiotics to the aged and infirm in that country.<br /><br />Then it was C-4 plastic bombs - a sophisticated weapon, and too sophisticated, it turned out, for the clumsy terrorists. It was a long time before they could figure out how to make the things go off.<br /><br />And finally into such advanced warfare as sniping of a Polish ship in Miami's harbor last week; and the increase in bombings of commercial establishments which do not "cooperate" with the terrorists.<br /><br />Miami Police Chief Walter Headley says much of the bombing is done for extortion. Merchants are asked to contribute to the counter-revolutionary causes. If they don't, they quickly learn the consequences. Cuban sources say extortion has nothing to do with it - it is simply a "philosophical' method of keeping the community in line, supposedly so it can fight the tyranny of Castro.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />Also fanning the flames of near civil war that brews in Cuban neighborhoods are the extreme right-wing exile publications. Chief of these is a newspaper, "Patria," which is commonly supposed to exist on money from Batista.<br /><br />In addition there are bulletins, magazines, other papers, newsletters - published here, in California, New York and Mexico - which deify the terroristic strikes against non-cooperators, either here or elsewhere.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Miami News</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-39219724869587560602012-01-23T22:28:00.000-08:002012-01-23T22:31:05.254-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYAchGUeJCiHMLBzI_k97xU8-MZrxTQqLZdG6dlWs72C5XCXVveAVzHvR_0hpr9ypJSWJD8SHK_o2siRjkaFMacQf4BxbYQKipeo5veawitfkq1kA9i9d9HIriCha6I8SeKN0XT6xM_ts/s1600/cuban+power+names.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 136px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYAchGUeJCiHMLBzI_k97xU8-MZrxTQqLZdG6dlWs72C5XCXVveAVzHvR_0hpr9ypJSWJD8SHK_o2siRjkaFMacQf4BxbYQKipeo5veawitfkq1kA9i9d9HIriCha6I8SeKN0XT6xM_ts/s200/cuban+power+names.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701082179404761234" border="0" /></a><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=k1dQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RFcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7048%2C4017909"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Evening Independent</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">, September 20, 1968, "Cuban Power Names Head" by The Associated Press</span></a><br /><br />MIAMI - A blackhooded figure identified as "Ernesto," mastermind of the mysterious exile terrorist band, Cuban Power, announced the appointment today of anti-Castro militant Orlando Bosch as the group's spokesman.<br /><br />The announcement was made at a midnight news conference to which reporters were taken blindfolded. They were driven around aimlessly through streets for 30 minutes before being led into a room where the hooded "Ernesto" sat. After the session, newsmen were blindfolded again and driven away.<br /><br />Ernesto said Cuban Power has been bombing ships and planes of countries dealing with Cuba but disclaimed any part in an epidemic of explosions in Miami, New York, Los Angeles and other cities.<br /><br />Ernesto told his news conference that he would now "go to some country in this hemisphere to fulfill a certain mission."<br /><br />Bosch is the leader of a group called the [Insurrectional Movement of Revolutionary Recovery] - MIRR. He has a long record of U.S. arrests for anti-Communist activity, but no convictions.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Associated Press</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-55604899884983833252012-01-18T08:36:00.000-08:002012-01-18T09:23:42.997-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJlQNDWCKhdd86RSCZHwn4blKx1VqbnqwJrW8_cxUXnoPud7My-PKnwjOICj1WDjlHJxw3F0nAkb4rvmnCRGnY7I0ipjeJ3EEJhT1ZotO4_k4-7TEQb0MYwPOgMtD1UDCwxc0x_O5e0NY/s1600/blast+dents+freighter.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 162px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJlQNDWCKhdd86RSCZHwn4blKx1VqbnqwJrW8_cxUXnoPud7My-PKnwjOICj1WDjlHJxw3F0nAkb4rvmnCRGnY7I0ipjeJ3EEJhT1ZotO4_k4-7TEQb0MYwPOgMtD1UDCwxc0x_O5e0NY/s200/blast+dents+freighter.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699023554495287986" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MN0yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oVoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6556%2C4443429"><span style="font-style: italic;">St. Petersburg Times</span>, September 17, 1968, "A Little Cannon Blast Dents Docked Freighter" by Times Wire Services</a></span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><br />MIAMI - A freighter from Poland was shelled by a small cannon while docked in Miami yesterday and the leader of a secret terrorist group, Cuban Power, promptly claimed responsibility.<br /><br />The Coast Guard said the hull of the 407-foot freighter, Polanica, was hit about seven feet above the waterline by a missile that caused a dent the size of a pie plate. Nobody was hurt.<br /><br />Several hours after the shelling, a telephone caller who said he was the mysterious "Ernesto" of Cuban Power, said his group had fired the shell "as the only response from freedom loving people to the atrocious invasion of Czechoslovakia by the imperialist Communists."<br /><br />"I've just arrived from Mexico and I personally fired the shot," the caller told a Spanish-language radio station in Miami (WFAB).<br /><br />In another mysterious phone call, "Cuban Power" claimed the weapon employed was a <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.lonesentry.com/manuals/recoilless-weapons/index.html">57-millimeter recoilless rifle</a>.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 St. Petersburg Times</span><br /><br />[More from <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=u0E0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=YOsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3332%2C27321"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Miami News</span></a>]Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-89338106367838879782012-01-18T08:30:00.000-08:002012-01-18T09:25:29.420-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigVAhpIOV5N8LRwlgN4JLrO1DxEgFAKf_Gnp_Vv3rpcI859Lx77EIrKE7Y3Y8ny4olhH4Jpg3mIduGm5232oL10USDZRmEP2SPvBgD_nUC9NnT9fpQaIywUMOXnCdIj_aRSBV7qNSSMco/s1600/british+ship+bombing.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 264px; height: 111px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigVAhpIOV5N8LRwlgN4JLrO1DxEgFAKf_Gnp_Vv3rpcI859Lx77EIrKE7Y3Y8ny4olhH4Jpg3mIduGm5232oL10USDZRmEP2SPvBgD_nUC9NnT9fpQaIywUMOXnCdIj_aRSBV7qNSSMco/s200/british+ship+bombing.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699010960804009602" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=H58yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2-kFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6033%2C3730642"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Miami News</span>, August 9, 1968, "Cuba Group Claims Bombing of British Cargo Ship"</a></span><br /><br />A British cargo ship here was blasted by an explosion yesterday afternoon, and Cuban exiles immediately took credit for the incident. The 210-foot Caribbean Venture, out of Newcastle, England, was tied to Pier 3 at the time.<br /><br />Miami Fire Chief Henry Christen said the blast which injured none of the crew - may have been caused by a plastics explosive called C-4.<br /><br />Later, a spokesman for the Cuban exile organization that calls itself "Cuban Power" phones news media and claimed it had mined the ship. The mine, he said, was supposed to go off ofter the ship had gone to sea, but exploded prematurely.<br /><br />The blast ripped a hole in the hull causing the ship to take on water and settle six feet, but the Coast Guard said there was no danger of its sinking.<br /><br />Cuban exiles here are bitter at Britain's continued trading with Fidel Castro's government.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Miami News </span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-84597031260800732372011-12-20T12:56:00.000-08:002011-12-20T13:03:47.136-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRZkhKwDOegTcCIhcQnd-OKDxz7FA8sURGa8s4A46aHXy1ooZqm-17o06df4oZ5VIis1G1pKvi4KwJ-rdTnzmd057iWpeA-NgS9hOFd21L3zwTV3MZCGELFgkLb_i42rmVAzd7LD3XnZ0/s1600/ultimatum.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 191px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRZkhKwDOegTcCIhcQnd-OKDxz7FA8sURGa8s4A46aHXy1ooZqm-17o06df4oZ5VIis1G1pKvi4KwJ-rdTnzmd057iWpeA-NgS9hOFd21L3zwTV3MZCGELFgkLb_i42rmVAzd7LD3XnZ0/s200/ultimatum.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688318477630423442" border="0" /></a><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vqVPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rQUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5896%2C1445315"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Ocala Star-</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Banner</span>, June 7, 1968, "Anti-Castro Organization Issues Trading Ultimatum" by The Associated Press</span></a>.<br /><br />MIAMI - Cuban Power, the secret anti-Castro terrorist band, announced today it has issued an ultimatum to several nations to stop trading with Cuba or have their ships and planes blown up.<br /><br />The exile organization said it sent the ultimatum by cablegram to Spain, Generalissimo Franco, Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz and British Prime Minister Harold Wilson.<br /><br />The Cuban Power bulletin, signed "Ernesto" said its representatives in Washington had delivered the same ultimatum by telephone to the ambassadors of Japan and some other countries.<br /><br />Last week Cuban Power claimed responsibility for the bombing of the Japanese freighter Asaka Maru docked at Tampa, Fla. and the British vessel Greenwood south of Key West, Fla. The FBI said it is investigating the explosions which damaged both ships.<br /><br />Cuban Power said it cabled the Spanish and Mexican heads of state a "war ultimatum to your government to suspend all trade with the Communist Cuban regime. Otherwise you will be the only one responsible for Spanish and Mexican planes and ships being dynamited."<br /><br />Cuba Power said they cabled Wilson that dynamite of the Greenwood on May 5 "is the initial punishment by the heroic Cuban people against the British government which trades with the Castro tyranny."<br /><br />The cablegram added, "You will have to pay with much British blood if trade with Cuba continues."<br /><br />The news bulletin said the Japanese ambassador has been warned that "<span style="font-weight: bold;">forces of Cuban Power in any part of the world are ready to light the airs and seas with explosives until Cuba is free</span>." In the case of Mexico, Ernesto said, "it is more for its (diplomatic) relations with Cuba than its trade."<br /><br />Cuban Power said its communications to the nations "are of a military nature and with the format of an ultimatum."<br /><br />There has been a chain of Latin-flavored bombing incidents in the Miami area over a six month period. Cuban Power has claimed responsibility.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Associated Press</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-73784038166297314882011-12-20T11:40:00.000-08:002011-12-20T11:55:26.897-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwCddSaU15-3dJNwjmZFeoylcOgG2ZE9KPqB9Wo_0wy5s2FiyUMzhk3xGwuTiEmLTatipItbfeksEyQ_nb3Jp-rwbSitCwjhRaGxjAvPNReoICUQQLecBJ4cMAdSMKQ5XuTbeabEdRHs8/s1600/ship+bombings.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 152px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwCddSaU15-3dJNwjmZFeoylcOgG2ZE9KPqB9Wo_0wy5s2FiyUMzhk3xGwuTiEmLTatipItbfeksEyQ_nb3Jp-rwbSitCwjhRaGxjAvPNReoICUQQLecBJ4cMAdSMKQ5XuTbeabEdRHs8/s200/ship+bombings.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688301241128076834" border="0" /></a><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YZYzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xukFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6350,3482"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Miami News</span>, June 1, 1968, "Cubans Claim Ship Bombings"</span></a><br /><br />Cuban Power, an exile terrorist organization based in Miami, claimed today it waas responsible for bombing a Japanese freighter yesterday at a Tampa dock and a British ship off Key West.<br /><br />A spokesman, identified only as Ernesto, added that "other ships are going to explode." He said Cuban Power is warring against trade with Cuba. "Explosives were placed about the vessel Asaka Maru many days before the explosion occurred," he claimed.<br /><br />The Asaka Maru was rocked by an explosion in a stern compartment that houses the ship's steering mechanism. The freighter, docked at a phosphate terminal at the Tampa port, would have sunk had it been at sea at the time of the explosion, officials said.<br /><br />No injuries were reported and damage was estimated at $100,000. Hillsborough County Deputy Fred Crane said witnesses reported smelling something similar to gunsmoke after the explosion. "The odor of gunpowder indicates some sort of bomb was responsible," said Crane.<br /><br />The FBI was investigating the case today.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Miami News</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-35405254324604802162011-12-19T19:02:00.000-08:002011-12-19T19:07:30.061-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1T_ST3BlGICrV4qolPeaQqt1mnPukz4nHtn-l28JM4TSNKwM_eWS9YuoOiiynUKgNpRemO95c78jUofo7dsqAAAFm_xW-zaXInDxiFwxza5GLOf1Y5TrqRcExHZic02Uc3iOSoEL5Fec/s1600/hijack+cuban+ship.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 78px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1T_ST3BlGICrV4qolPeaQqt1mnPukz4nHtn-l28JM4TSNKwM_eWS9YuoOiiynUKgNpRemO95c78jUofo7dsqAAAFm_xW-zaXInDxiFwxza5GLOf1Y5TrqRcExHZic02Uc3iOSoEL5Fec/s200/hijack+cuban+ship.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688041798306186642" border="0" /></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jEE0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=BeoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=668%2C48227"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Miami News</span>, March 1, 1968, "Plot to Hijack Cuban Ship Fails" by Bob M. Gassaway</a>.<br /><br />A Cuban exile said today his group dispatched a heavily armed war party to hijack the Communist ship that rammed its own lifeboat carrying three crewmen fleeing to asylum in the United States. The effort was called "Operation Pueblo."<br /><br />Dr. Orlando Bosch said U.S. government agents arrested four of the raiders and seized one arms-laden boat for violating federal laws. Later, another member of the group said six men in a second boat returned to Miami without attacking the ship.<br /><br />Bosch said the 10 men were sent yesterday to hijack the Cuban freighter 26 de Julio which rammed the lifeboat 10 miles off the Virginia Coast Tuesday when three men called "traitor crewmen" by the Fidel Castro government attempted to flee the vessel.<br /><br />The raiders, Bosch said, "knew where the ship was going and the way it was taking. They could very well have attacked the 26 de Julio if the U.S. government had not interfered."<br /><br />Fred L. Patton, supervising U.S. customs agent in Miami, confirmed the four men named by Bosch were arrested in a boat carrying arms. Patton said, "they made no statement" about their intentions. The four were jailed on charges of illegal arms exportation.<br /><br />Patton said the boat was seized off Miami Beach at government cut, an entrance to Biscayne Bay from the Atlantic Ocean.<br /><br />Bosch told the Associated Press the hijackers "carried weapons and grenades and a 20-millimeter cannon. You can say we assume the responsibility. We were going to hijack the 26 de Julio." He said the boats departed from the Florida Keys.<br /><br />Bosch, who is secretary general of an exile alliance called the Insurrectional Recovery Movement - Commandos L, identified the quartet as Jorge Gonzalez, Barbaro Balan, Marcos Rodriguez and Andres Garcia. The four were held at the Dade County jail.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Miami News</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-57337370141457923752011-12-19T17:30:00.000-08:002012-01-16T21:55:21.006-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU3FcKuBzBm17cDnrXlCdE5fKZm2BpYyVDmKWkUotmlzA_nHIEBh5Dp-95iHXJSEQbSrHbPuqrERacSCGx0pqFcv0ru7yMO4UrtQwegBEh7_hwVGUOggEruflUctNbjPBvrncl13NDCNI/s1600/Morales+fingerprint.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU3FcKuBzBm17cDnrXlCdE5fKZm2BpYyVDmKWkUotmlzA_nHIEBh5Dp-95iHXJSEQbSrHbPuqrERacSCGx0pqFcv0ru7yMO4UrtQwegBEh7_hwVGUOggEruflUctNbjPBvrncl13NDCNI/s200/Morales+fingerprint.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688019048609918162" border="0" /></a><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DStmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JuoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3540%2C2863555"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Miami News</span>, February 14, 1968, "Fingerprint Test Leads to Arrest" by Milt Sosin and Bob Wilcox</span></a>.<br /><br />A Cuban exile was arrested early today by a Miami police intelligence squad and charged with one of a series of bombings attributed to the "Cuban Power" terrorist organization.<br /><br />Police identified him as Ricardo Morales Navarette [or Navarrete], 29, and said he was arrested at a house at 921 SW 5th St. in Miami's "Little Havana" section where he lived with his wife and three children.<br /><br />Sgt. Everett Kay of the Miami criminal intelligence division said Morales is a member of the Cuban Power organization and that two hand-written Cuban Power handbills and a pencil-type military detonator were found in his house.<br /><br />Morales told newsmen at police headquarters that he knew nothing of any bombings. "The only thing I know about Cuban Power is what I have read in newspapers," he added.<br /><br />Morales was asleep when Lt. Havard Swilley, head of the Miami intelligence unit and Sgts. Kay, Eugene McCracken and John Weaver knocked on the door at 6:15 a.m. They had staked out his house last night for several hours but Morales had not returned while they were there, and the officers returned this morning.<br /><br />Morales was specifically charged with "placing [a] bomb in a place of business at 3526 W. Flagler St. This was one of three Miami establishments bombed on the early morning of Jan. 25.<br /><br />A plastic explosive known as "C-4" was used in all three bombings. Police sources said that in the Flagler Street bombing, in which a policeman was injured, a second charge was found in an envelope at the scene.<br /><br />The envelope was subjected to a process developed by Robert Worsham of the Metro Crime Laboratory which utilizes traces of body chemicals left on surfaces to bring out fingerprints.<br /><br />Workable prints came out and experts of the Miami police fingerprint division headed by Joe Musial went through records of exiles who are fingerprinted as part of their immigration processing - to find matching prints. Police said Morales' prints matched those on the envelope.<br /><br />Three days before the bombings of the three business places, <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rwsdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B5cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4941%2C1910125">a Mexican airplane was damaged by a blast at Miami International Airport</a>.<br /><br />Bombing of the plane brought the FBI into the investigation, and the Metro intelligence unit also participated and cooperated with Miami police.<br /><br />Following the bombing of the plane, a "communique" was issued by an organization styling itself Cuban Power. It claimed responsibility for the plane bombing and warned that similar measures would be taken against all persons and businesses engaged in sending packages of medicine, food and clothing to Castro Cuba.<br /><br />At police headquarters today, the stocky, black-haired Morales said, "I am not connected with any bombing. If my mother was in Cuba I would send her things. This is a humanitarian thing. I couldn't be against that."<br /><br />Morales left Cuba in 1959, he sid, because he was against communism. He came to the United States, but in 1964, he said, he fought in the anti-Communist Fifth Congolese Brigade in Africa. He said he held the rank of captain and was in a paratrop unit whose job was to rescue captives from rebel forces.<br /><br />Police said Morales has been under surveillance for two weeks. Other suspects are being watched and further arrests are expected. Morales said he has worked as a salesman but presently is unemployed and had planned to look for a job today. He was held in county jail pending the setting of bond.<br /><br />In the Jan. 25 bombings, two of the targets were the Flagler Street office and store of Servicios Especializados, operated by Jose Valdez, and All Cargo Transport, 1707 Coral Way. Both specialized in shipments of food and medicines to Cuba.<br /><br />At the Flagler Street address, Miami Police Sgt. Russell Leasburg was injured by the explosion of a detonator set in the envelope of C-4 which did not go off.<br /><br />On the early morning of the same day - Jan. 25 - a paint and body shop at 333 SW 17th Ave., was blasted. The owner, Jesse Tobar, said he had no connections with Cubans.<br /><br />There was a pause in the bombings, then, on Feb. 1, <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SCNVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iT0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=5014%2C27361">a bomb</a> believed to have been fashioned from an artillery simulator awakened the family of Rafael Reyes Spindola, Mexican consul-general in Miami, at their home, 912 SW 74th Ave. Reyes Spindola went outside to find that his auto had been damaged.<br /><br /><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CStmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JuoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2630%2C1883189">Last Friday came the latest bombing</a>. Explosives were set off at the base of the garage at the home of the British Consul in Miami, Francis J. Pelly, 4400 Anderson Rd., Coral Gables, while Pelly, his wife and 15-year-old daughter were sleeping in the house.<br /><br />One auto was wrecked and a second badly damaged.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Miami News</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-7859786406912195712011-12-19T16:37:00.000-08:002011-12-19T16:43:29.849-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzHf86i3CdkQXlw4siI-nHiDeO0wILBIKkdNy0IvxqGiccNp8VvCItOwPsbuJTwziJ9HQO13oKQ4tpiWznIwU4bYJ30i_otGiqdr_93wncQ4QNYNEyZEPP2wduFPqNnvBlki0d-KuftY/s1600/2000+parcels.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 118px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzHf86i3CdkQXlw4siI-nHiDeO0wILBIKkdNy0IvxqGiccNp8VvCItOwPsbuJTwziJ9HQO13oKQ4tpiWznIwU4bYJ30i_otGiqdr_93wncQ4QNYNEyZEPP2wduFPqNnvBlki0d-KuftY/s200/2000+parcels.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688004707531969586" border="0" /></a><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iYY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=b-sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4031%2C2130185"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Miami News</span>, January 25, 1968, "Many As 2,000 Parcels Go to Cuba Monthly" by Dick Holland</span></a>.<br /><br />Between 1,000 and 2,000 packages a month are sent by Cuban exiles to relatives in their homeland, U.S. officials here said today. The volume of shipments surges tremendously before such holidays as Christmas, they said.<br /><br />U.S. Customs Officer Joe Boyett said two or three private companies here specialize in shipping the parcels to Cuba. None go directly to Cuba; they all are routed by way of Mexico, Spain or Canada.<br /><br />"Most of the packages get through," said Boyett. "But the length of time varies considerably - and the problem is all on the other end."<br /><br />At Miami International Airport, where a package-bearing Mexican airplane was bombed last Saturday, there is no problem in finding a plane to take them out, Boyett said. Both Pan American Airways and the Dutch KLM Airline frequently carry such packages, he said. "But getting the stuff actually, physically into Cuba is sometimes a problem.<br /><br />"Only Cubana Airlines, the official Cuban government line, can pick up the packages and fly them into Cuba. And the capacity of Cubana is very limited."<br /><br />Exile sources here said a package frequently reaches a relative in the homeland in two weeks. But, it was learned today, the packages often pile up at some place such as Merida, Mex., for three months before they are picked up and flown into Cuba. This was confirmed by Boyett.<br /><br />One U.S. official said it evidently depends on someone in Havana making arbitrary decisions. Cuban officials inspect every package arriving from the U.S. "All of a sudden, they will say that no inspectors are available," the official said.<br /><br />Customs processes the great majority of the packages sent from here. For some time, the U.S. Post Office has not accepted anything for Cuba except medicines and regular letters.<br /><br />Postmaster Eugene Dunlap in Miami said such mail also has been seriously delayed at intervals, and he has contacted the Department in Washington about it. So far, Dunlap said, there has been no change in instructions.<br /><br />Restrictions imposed by Customs limit such packages to $100 in declared value, with a limit of a single package at a time from any one individual or organization. "These shipments are all 'gift' shipments," said Boyett. "That is, food, medicines, sundries, clothing things that you'd normally consider as gifts."<br /><br />Canned foods, aspirin and shoes turn up in most of the packages, he said. And just before Christmas, there were many baby toys and other children's gifts. The parcels may be sent only from individuals or charitable institutions and organizations, Boyett said. And the same restrictions apply to the addressees.<br /><br />U.S. officials said they were surprised by the bombings, apparently directed at the package shipments, because the great majority of exiles here have always been sympathetic to the package shipments.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Miami News</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-10350479935115021732011-12-15T08:24:00.000-08:002011-12-15T08:42:28.215-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs_scbqdo7XJm_FH9FIteDzEuKl8exouUrRujP10eKlJ8cefdfk-mISiq7yFzj1sSNKKsRGu5-ETg89Mp78WGXTnDSdgmdPm0azGe8RIEgGmRr6wMEQtzncvlxuJaNgOqnXyaP2RzReDY/s1600/carry+wars.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 176px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs_scbqdo7XJm_FH9FIteDzEuKl8exouUrRujP10eKlJ8cefdfk-mISiq7yFzj1sSNKKsRGu5-ETg89Mp78WGXTnDSdgmdPm0azGe8RIEgGmRr6wMEQtzncvlxuJaNgOqnXyaP2RzReDY/s200/carry+wars.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686396166102290658" border="0" /></a><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iYY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=b-sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1146%2C2129322"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Miami News</span>, January 25, 1968, "Exiles Can't Carry Wars to Our City, Gerstein Says" by Ian Glass</span></a>.<br /><br />State Attorney Richard Gerstein said today of the bombing of the three Cuban businesses: "These militant anti-Castro organizations are going to have to learn that if they are going live here, they cannot conduct their inter-fraternity wars in our streets. Stringent steps are going to have to be taken to apprehend and prosecute."<br /><br />Gerstein said that, if the violence continues, law enforcement agencies will have to infiltrate the exile groups. "That is the only way to weed out the guilty," he said.<br /><br />Ironically, Gerstein this morning had appeared on a panel in the courthouse which had discussed the upsurge of violence and ways to combat crime. The panel was sponsored by the Florida State Committee on Law Enforcement.<br /><br />Also on the panel was Miami Police Chief Walter Headly, who confessed that, at that time, he had no knowledge of the bombings, and said he was surprised at the Cuban violence.<br /><br />"So far, the refugees' crime record has been lower generally than other segments of the population. Most complaints we have about them are mostly irritation: they move several families into a house and the neighbors get mad. They play their radios loud and congregate in the street, things like that."<br /><br />Headley, who recently stepped up the war on crime here with additional dog patrols, would not comment on what plans he had for curbing Cuban violence until he knew all the facts of the bombings.<br /><br />Miami Mayor Stephen P. Clark termed the incidents "most unfortunate. This is no way to conduct any type of movement in our community. Violence like this in future will be met in an appropriate manner by our police agencies."<br /><br />The bombings were loudly denounced by the city's Negro leaders, who pointed out ironically that most violence in the streets is attributed to Negroes.<br /><br />Typical reaction was that of City Commissioner M. Athalie Range, who said: "It's the Cubans you're going to have to watch in future for violence. Negroes talk a lot but they don't march around with protest signs - and they don't resort to bombings."<br /><br />The Rev. Theodore Gibson said "I can understand the anguish of Cubans and their feelings towards Castro, but they do not have the right to take the law into their own hands.<br /><br />"I hope these people recognize that incidents like these do not help their cause."<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Miami News</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-15699579535269485802011-12-15T06:55:00.000-08:002011-12-15T07:25:03.607-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpxzXF4VIlI0xa-qbfaMcOoSat2BqBNsvXne-rrvjk96t8oLijFHM8nSJFEbRR-K6IdtRwYD_qW5Y_VnCD_PxCtdxZtdwDi5qGxW02e3lKh_KUIcLRBY5MscvCObYLsiAtxIHoKdeSggo/s1600/war+cry.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 124px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpxzXF4VIlI0xa-qbfaMcOoSat2BqBNsvXne-rrvjk96t8oLijFHM8nSJFEbRR-K6IdtRwYD_qW5Y_VnCD_PxCtdxZtdwDi5qGxW02e3lKh_KUIcLRBY5MscvCObYLsiAtxIHoKdeSggo/s200/war+cry.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686370082532558066" border="0" /></a><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iYY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=b-sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6045%2C2118676"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Miami News</span>, January 25, 1968, "'Cuban Power' Is War Cry of Exile Terror Group" by Milt Sosin</span></a>.<br /><br />"El Poder Cubano!"<br /><br />The words stirred a furor today in Miami's Cuban Community as bombs damaged two agencies shipping food packages to Cuba and a garage with no apparent Cuban connections.<br /><br />The words mean "Cuban Power," a terror organization which claimed responsibility for the bombing of an airplane at Miami International Airport last Saturday and warned, in its "Communique No. 1" of its intent to move against any business dealing with Castro Cuba.<br /><br />Along SW 8th Street and on Flagler Street and in the side streets between the two where many thousands of Miami's Cuban exiles live, it was [freely] predicted in the food markets and at the street front coffee counters that "Communique No. 2" would be issued today and would claim "credit" for the bombings early today.<br /><br />And it was just as freely predicted that the bombings would increase. The big question was: "Who is Ernesto?"<br /><br />Communique No. 1 was signed in behalf of El Poder Cubano by "Ernesto."<br /><br />Investigators had many candidates in mind for the leadership, but there was no clear cut indication of his identity. There were too many possibilities.<br /><br />Felipe Rivero, leader of the militant anti-Castro Cuban Nationalist Association, who was released last Oct. 30 on $10,000 bond after spending 171 days in Dade County jail pending appeal from an Immigration Service order excluding him from the United States, was told by a newsman today that it had been suggested that he was the leader of El Poder Cubano.<br /><br />"No. I am not Ernesto," the 43-year-old Rivero said.<br /><br />"If our organization had been in back of these bombings, I would not have hidden behind any name like that. I would have said we had placed the bombs and told why - just as we did when we attacked the Castro embassy in Ottowa and the warehouse in Montreal filled with material stolen by Castro.<br /><br />"These people who are bombing those places to stop packages from going to Cuba are accomplishing only one thing - depriving a lot of old ladies and babies in Cuba of food, medicine and clothing.<br /><br />"They are not hurting the Castro economy one bit. The place to strike at Fidel Castro is in the economy that provides him with dollars - not take away food and medicine from old ladies and babies.<br /><br />Rivero said that although Cuban Power claimed to have been born in Havana, he did not believe this was true. "This group came to life in Miami," he said. "Somebody liked the sound of the words "Black Power' so they adopted Cuban Power.<br /><br />He and other Cubans said they did not believe the organization was very large. It was pointed out that they must be in possession of funds to purchase the C-4 plastic explosive.<br /><br />Rivero said there has been for a long time an active black market for the plastic explosive, possession of which supposedly is limited to military authorities.<br /><br />Several other leaders of military-type anti-Castro organizations were queried about possible affiliation with Cuban Power. All denied such ties.<br /><br />"It's going to be a tough one to infiltrate," said the chief of one intelligence organization which exercises surveillance on underground organizations."<br /><br /><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iYY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=b-sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2562%2C2143224"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Grim Score: 70 Bombings in 12 Years</span><br /></a><br />Dade County has been a happy hunting ground for bombers during the past 12 years. Tom Brodie, the sheriff's bomb expert, said 70 bombs have been set off here during that period. There have been seven since Jan. 1, including the three last night. Last year there were 21 blasts.<br /><br />The first bombing involving Cuba politics was in 1959 when two training planes were damaged by explosives. The planes had been bought by the Cuban government before Fidel Castro seized power. After the Castro takeover the planes, still on the ground here, were bombed.<br /><br />Over the years, bombs here have hit schools, synagogues, stores and homes. Explosives have been used in labor disputes and to wreck cars in gang wars.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Miami News</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-41311739726877755742011-12-15T06:24:00.000-08:002011-12-20T12:00:37.539-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVgPqbD1Ef6c2ifN-94VOsDoPp9vwEj09Bq8xsaN6iC-2n9KMBbaU2kHOvn8U8Lux-r32weHYygykhAibJzAKPTK_WpMQjdg2YwB6mjR0LUiAecVQAzVED19-Q15sHtym3Ls3drnEWFBc/s1600/aiplane+damaged.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 169px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVgPqbD1Ef6c2ifN-94VOsDoPp9vwEj09Bq8xsaN6iC-2n9KMBbaU2kHOvn8U8Lux-r32weHYygykhAibJzAKPTK_WpMQjdg2YwB6mjR0LUiAecVQAzVED19-Q15sHtym3Ls3drnEWFBc/s200/aiplane+damaged.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686362885575333890" border="0" /></a><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rwsdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B5cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4941%2C1910125"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Daily News</span>, January 21, 1968, "Cuba-Bound Airplane Damaged by Explosion" by The Associated Press</span></a>.<br /><br />MIAMI - A converted B25 loaded with food, clothing and medicine for Cuba was damaged by an explosion at Miami International Airport Saturday. A Cuban revolutionary group claimed it planted the bomb to keep the goods away from Fidel Castro.<br /><br />One of the engines was destroyed and part of the wing was damaged, but no one was injured. A piece of cowling landed 75 yards from the plane.<br /><br />A man who declined to give his name told the Associated Press by telephone that the bomb was planted by a secret organization called Cuban Power, made up of several revolutionary groups with headquarters in Cuba.<br /><br />The spokesman also called prior to the blast and warned "something is going to happen." He said Cuban Power has representatives in exile to carry on commando tactics against Fidel Castro and that his organization aims to overthrow the Communist regime.<br /><br />He said the freight operation carrying packages to Cuba transfers them at Merida, Mexico, to a DC4 Mexican plane for the final leg of the journey.<br /><br />The caller said a middleman in Mexico who handles such goods has to pay Castro $3 for each package sent to Cuba. The caller also said clothing, shoes, automobile tires, spare parts and other items [go] to Cuba, from the United States, Mexico, Spain, Canada and other countries in approximately 5,000 packages weekly with a value of $11 million annually. And he charged Castro confiscates any goods that would help his administration's economy.<br /><br />John Puccerella, ramp supervisor at Miami, said the plane was registered to Ramon [Masso] of Merida, Mexico, and was loaded when the explosion occurred.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Associated Press</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-88981117898041150832011-12-09T09:40:00.000-08:002011-12-09T09:48:00.697-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRAfgAYtb5MTudDmxS5MsWvAkLUCe0q-oWDUDk6qIuY9qcaFm0g3fODWnNcnbKfwR7fD0i1Fol0sLQ5QUsfKyGIQwG8kfXz98NU7JlGLUqwKVtaX3n1_NrYQdCO3rLPnsRcQ9UiFPp9QM/s1600/bomb+rips.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 118px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRAfgAYtb5MTudDmxS5MsWvAkLUCe0q-oWDUDk6qIuY9qcaFm0g3fODWnNcnbKfwR7fD0i1Fol0sLQ5QUsfKyGIQwG8kfXz98NU7JlGLUqwKVtaX3n1_NrYQdCO3rLPnsRcQ9UiFPp9QM/s200/bomb+rips.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684186294433932530" border="0" /></a><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hYY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=b-sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2523%2C1119730"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Miami News</span>, January 20, 1968, "Bomb Rips Plane Here; Cargo Bound For Cuba" by Bob Wilcox</span></a>.<br /><br />An explosion - apparently a bomb - severely damaged an engine of a converted B25 bomber loaded with CARE packages for Cuba today while the aircraft was parked at Miami airport.<br /><br />The blast at 3 a.m. did not injure anyone. The twin-engine plane was in a parking area to the NW corner of the airport.<br /><br />R. Napoles, a customs agent, said the plane was fully loaded with medicines, food and clothing that was to have been flown to Merida, Mexico, and then on to Cuba. The loading was completed late yesterday afternoon and the aircraft was to have taken off today. Napoles said that blast looked like a bomb job to him.<br /><br />The FBI took over the investigation and would not make a statement. Other officers, however, speculated that the bombing may have been connected with one of Miami's many anti-Castro Cuban groups.<br /><br />John Puccerella, ramp supervisor, said he understood the explosion was at 3 a.m. but the damaged plane was not discovered until about 8 a.m. Whatever caused the explosion, it blew out the rear end of the engine mounted in the left wing of the plane. Pieces of twisted metal were scattered nearby.<br /><br />The plane is registered to Ramon Masso of Merida. Jorge Erales was listed as the pilot and Pastor Coello as co-pilot. Both are from Merida. The aircraft arrived here yesterday from Mexico.<br /><br />B25s were first produced in World War II as medium bombers but soon were dropped [to] light bombers when the heavier planes rolled off the assembly lines.<br /><br />Gen. James H. Doolittle, then a lieutenant colonel, led a flight of 16 B25s in a raid on Tokyo, Nagoya and Kobe. The planes took off from the deck of the aircraft Carrier Hornet on April 18, 1942, when the ship was 688 miles from Tokyo.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 The Miami News</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-29005010487272757902011-11-23T12:49:00.000-08:002011-11-23T12:50:46.308-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn3AdnwzkZCiWf1HsHXdiGp6rsrckMwn29NPt3WHR_cANf2sn2Z1GEjxTktTawWQdzvaRYU4DB5mjwoq-hRpTQwWIqTpP7n8rRBttkUUBNYEa355x3JKKocg-3KT_JmFtFZyqozLyX7ZY/s1600/case+dropped.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 142px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn3AdnwzkZCiWf1HsHXdiGp6rsrckMwn29NPt3WHR_cANf2sn2Z1GEjxTktTawWQdzvaRYU4DB5mjwoq-hRpTQwWIqTpP7n8rRBttkUUBNYEa355x3JKKocg-3KT_JmFtFZyqozLyX7ZY/s200/case+dropped.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678296519073587394" border="0" /></a><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JXNQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=l1oDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5412,1184193"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">St. Petersburg Times</span>, January 3, 1968, "Cuban Bomb Case Is Dropped as Witness' Value Questioned" by United Press International</span></a>.<br /><br />MIAMI - Federal Judge C. Clyde Atkins dismissed yesterday bomb plot charges against Orlando Bosch and five other members of a militant Cuban exile organization because the government's chief witness destroyed the prosecution's case.<br /><br />Dismissal of the three-count indictment against the men, accused of "conspiring to bomb British, Canadian, Spanish and other ships carrying supplies to Cuba," came at the request of Assistant U.S. Attorney Donald Bierman as the case was called to trial.<br /><br />Bierman told the judge that the government's chief witness had had "conversations" with Bosch after the indictments were returned last July 19 and thus destroyed his value as a prosecution witness.<br /><br />The witness was later identified as Arthur Girteit, 25, a private pilot who was believed to be somewhere in Pennsylvania yesterday.<br /><br />The indictment said that last January, two Cubans and Girteit, were arrested at Tamiami Airport as they were about to board Girteit's twin-engine Piper Apache.<br /><br />Custom agents and deputy sheriffs made the arrest to climax a plot that began the previous December, according to Bierman.<br /><br />The plane, Bierman said, was loaded with three 100-pound bombs, three one-gallon jugs containing phosphorous and water - an incendiary mixture - an M1 rifle and 80 rounds of ammunition, a .45 caliber automatic pistol and 22 rounds of ammunition.<br /><br />After dismissal, Bosch told newsmen Girteit had contacted him by telephone in early August and told him he was willing to testify he had been acting as an undercover federal agent to get evidence against Bosch and other members of the Cuban Exile organization which Bosch heads.<br /><br />Bosch said he informed his attorney of the call and met and talked with Girteit on Aug. 4 at a Miami restaurant.<br /><br />The federal government also has conspiracy charges pending against Bosch in Georgia.<br /><br />Winning the dismissal yesterday besides Bosch were Marcos Rodriguez Ramos and Barbaro Balan Garcia, the two men arrested with the armed aircraft; Louis Bertot, Jose Antonio Mulet and Jose Diaz Morejon.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1968 United Press International</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-30720872027485694172011-11-23T12:45:00.000-08:002011-11-23T12:48:27.827-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2IiLrkxPBw9l29CTz5SxZCOFkTDE-TEOjyY7ZJqeNGjOCr3inqFCo165F7vanHxIZCmKwWiqj_DflARyALdmORAjoZ_miZjCk7SNNnCH-eWnAyJ6vxCEfXpvAYJvtA5SE53ZD73g8nMg/s1600/cubans+held.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 136px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2IiLrkxPBw9l29CTz5SxZCOFkTDE-TEOjyY7ZJqeNGjOCr3inqFCo165F7vanHxIZCmKwWiqj_DflARyALdmORAjoZ_miZjCk7SNNnCH-eWnAyJ6vxCEfXpvAYJvtA5SE53ZD73g8nMg/s200/cubans+held.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678295844361871602" border="0" /></a><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RCVIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XgANAAAAIBAJ&pg=1715%2C2056821"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Morning Record</span>, July 20, 1967, "Cubans Held in Plot to Bomb Ships" by The Associated Press</span></a>.<br /><br />MIAMI - A federal grand jury said Wednesday a group of Cuban exiles practiced bombing missions out of Miami and conspired to bomb British, Canadian and Spanish ships "of any others loaded with supplies for Cuba."<br /><br />Six other residents of Cuba, including Orlando Bosch, head of the revolutionary organization, Insurrectional Recovery Movement (MIRR), were named in an indictment charging they conspired to drop the bombs.<br /><br />A second count charged two exiles with conspiracy to export arms and a third that they conspired to export an airplane.<br /><br />Named with Bosch in the bombing conspiracy charge were Marcos Rodriguez Ramos, Barbaro Balan Garcia, Louis Bertot, Jose Antonio Mulet and Jose Diaz Morejon.<br /><br />The indictment, returned before U.S. District Judge C. Clyde Atkins, said that on Jan. 15, 1967, Rodriguez and Balan and an American pilot, Arthur Girteit, were arrested at Tamiami Airport as they were about to board Girteit's twin-engine Piper Apache.<br /><br />Customs agents and deputy sheriffs made the arrest to climax a plot that began last December, according to Donald I. Bierman assistant U.S. attorney.<br /><br />Bierman said that the plane was loaded with three 100-pound bombs, three one-gallon jugs containing phosphorous and water (an incendiary mixture), and M1 rifle and 80 rounds of ammunition.<br /><br />Bierman said the plot started when Rodriguez and Balan approached Girteit and asked him to fly the bombing missions. Girteit agreed, but notified customs and the agency went along with the plan.<br /><br />They flew several practice missions, Bierman said, and "when the night came for the real thing, they were arrested."<br /><br />Bosch was found innocent last year after a trial on a charge of threatening death to other Cuban exiles unless they gave him money to fight Fidel Castro.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1967 The Associated Press</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477141474473776700.post-17582545679898118172011-11-23T12:42:00.000-08:002011-11-23T12:45:30.047-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge8v6fK2QR4K1gjz6-5zH1JBCN5Dw5Tsl2A7IExC0puJl4skFx5R6LI4myvE3cVYcpDsndBWb5NNHbpc4QW1u-wnd2BYWdAjKc7r2BV14EITO6H1i2xRntOmiiPXSnx9KU3Ua_xgXhPOM/s1600/bosch+innocent.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 161px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge8v6fK2QR4K1gjz6-5zH1JBCN5Dw5Tsl2A7IExC0puJl4skFx5R6LI4myvE3cVYcpDsndBWb5NNHbpc4QW1u-wnd2BYWdAjKc7r2BV14EITO6H1i2xRntOmiiPXSnx9KU3Ua_xgXhPOM/s200/bosch+innocent.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678295174151754690" border="0" /></a><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Z5gzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eesFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4764%2C530325"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Miami News</span>, December 19, 1966, "Bosch, Aide Innocent of Extortion Charge" by Frank Murray</span></a>.<br /><br />Dr. Orlando Bosch and a top lieutenant have been found innocent here of charges they threatened death to other exiles if they did not contribute money to anti-Castro war funds.<br /><br />Bosch, 40, a former pediatrician, and Marcelino Garcia [Jimenez], 55, were acquitted after eight hours deliberation by an all-male federal court jury which had been locked up during the seven-day trial. The trial continued over the weekend and the verdict was returned late last night.<br /><br />Federal Judge Charles B. Fulton ordered the defendants discharged from bail.<br /><br />Both men went on the witness stand and denied government charges that they mailed three extortion letters, followed up by telephone calls and personal visits to raise $21,000.<br /><br />Bosch showed the jury a microphone and wires he said were found in the headquarters of the anti-Castro group he heads - Insurrectional Revolutionary Recovery Movement (MIRR). He said the office was bugged by federal officials.<br /><br />An FBI documents examiner from Washington testified that a typewriter from Dr. Bosch's office in a hospital here was used to type one of the extortion letters. The defense produced an expert who said the letter could have been typed on a different machine.<br /><br />One witness, Mrs. Roberto Mendoza, said Dr. Bosch was the mysterious voice who telephoned her many times, once threatening to burn her husband alive for working with the FBI.<br /><br />Mendoza's office in the Seybold Building was burned, the $200,000 home of architect Alberto Vadia in Coral Gables was sprayed with bullets in a midnight raid and an unexploded bomb was found there, the plush island home of Julio Iglesias in Fort Lauderdale was bombed. All of the attacks took place during the fall of 1964 when the extortion attempts were underway.<br /><br />There was never any question the extortion attempts were made, but the government was trying to prove Bosch and Garcia made them.<br /><br />Bosch said he frequently asked wealthy exiles to contribute to this program of attacks on Castro's Cuba. He said he never used threats, however.<br /><br />Bosch's attorney, Melvyn Greenspahn, had successfully argued against admission of possible identifications of Bosch by one witness and succeeded in showing that another had previously been unsure of her identification.<br /><br />MIRR has often claimed successful raids by air and boat on the Castro regime.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copyright (c) 1966 The Miami News</span>Mambi_Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549064503082026848noreply@blogger.com0