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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY Cuba
REPORT NO. CSDB-312/01203-66
SUBJECT Cancellation of Plans of Cuban Emigrés to Assassinate Fidel Castro Ruz
DATE DISTR. 4 May 1966
NO. PAGES 2
REFERENCES
DATE OF INFO. 15 to 17 March 1966
PLACE & DATE ACQ. United States, Miami (22 to 24 March 1966)
FIELD REPORT NO. UFG-8148
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
SOURCE: A Cuban émigré with excellent contacts in the Movimiento Revolucionario del Pueblo (MRP, Revolutionary Movement of the People). He has been an accurate reporter on this organization and on general émigré political developments since about mid-1962.
Field Comment: There have been a series of alleged plots to assassinate Fidel Castro Ruz, planned by various émigrés and émigré groups in Miami. Three plots which have been reported are those planned by Herminio Diaz Garcia, Reinaldo Padron, and Jose Prince and "Tito" Pelaez. However, a recent report from an independent source reported that Padron had canceled his plan to assassinate Castro.
1. On 15 March 1966 Jose Prince and "Tito" Pelaez said that they had met "major obstacles" in their plan to assassinate Fidel Castro Ruz, and that unless "some practical plan presented itself within one month" they would try to sell some of their equipment and use the proceeds to pay unspecified debts.
2. On 17 March, Herminio Diaz Garcia said that he was forced to cancel his plan to assassinate Castro because of the arrest in Cuba of Efigenio Ameijeiras Delgado, who was his friend and his contact in Cuba for his assassination plan.
1. Field Comment. TDCSDB-315/00206-66, from the same source, reported that Prince and Pelaez said that the plan to assassinate Castro, and the financial arrangements therefor, were complete, except for some minor last-minute expenses.
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FBI # 2
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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
WHC/FI
1
WHC/SI
1
WE/5/R
1
UFG-8148
WHC/RR
1
WHC/WAVE
1
WE/MADR
1
NP (AMRAZZ-1)
WHC/RE
3
WHC/CA
1
CSDB-312/01203-
WHC/CICS
1
CI/OPS/WH
2
66
WHC/MO
1
WH/PACY(CINCSO)
1
COORDINATING
TOTALS IE 2, CI 4, FI 3, CA 1, DO/H 1, WE 1 (1)
LIAISON *
RELEASING
WHC 9 (1), WH (1)
FC, WVE
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