Cryptonym: AMDESK-1
104-10177-10336 DISPATCH: TYPIC/OPERATIONAL PRQ PART 1- RICARDO ANIBAL MORALES NAVARRETE
201-285923 is identified as Ricardo Anibal Morales Navarette. Described as 5 foot, 9 inches, 165 pounds, and ruddy.
104-10177-10336 DISPATCH: TYPIC/OPERATIONAL PRQ PART 1- RICARDO ANIBAL MORALES NAVARRETE
Reported to be a member of Cubanos Libres; to have joined Comandos L on 7/25/63; and to be either a former or present member of Castro's intelligence service G-2 "trying to penetrate revolutionary groups".
104-10177-10309: CABLE: FYI: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAS ADVISED AMDESK/1
October 1968: AMDESK-1 (201-295923) is identified as FBI informant and will be prosecution witness against Orlando Bosch and other Cuban Power defendants for shelling a Polish ship in a Cuban harbor. For more, see: http://maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=74134&search=%22ortiz_faez%22#relPageId=17&tab=page (On 9/14/68, FBI informant Morales informed that the previous night Bosch told him that the bombing was effected by "my men in Puerto Rico"...report adds that "it is noted Morales previously furnished Bosch 300 pounds of simulated dynamite with Bureau approval.")
1993.07.22.11:49:55:500620 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA PROSECUTION OF CUBAN POWER MEMBERS HECTOR M. C
Morales was the principal prosecution witness at the trial of Orlando Bosch (AMDITTO-23)in Miami in 1968.
Biographic file for Luis Posada/AMCLEVE-15 states that in Sept. 1972 Morales told Posada that "he is affiliated with LNERGO (FBI)."
Joseph Trento, Prelude to Terror, p. 80
CHILBOM was the FBI's investigation into the assassination of former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier in 1976.
104-10178-10002: POSADA, LUIS CLEMENTE.
Circa October 1976: "Of interest is that much of the Caracas end of investigation of the airliner bombing and reporting is controlled by WKTANGO-1 group. Ricardo Morales Navarette is WKTANGO-1 deputy and has been serving as confidential informant for Legatt...WKTANGO-1 and Morales Navarette have also been included in Orlando Bosch (AMDITTO-23)/WKSCARLET-3 (Luis Posada) group...WKTANGO-1 and Morales Navarette are both considered trusted people who have been cooperative and instrumental in CORU successes and other activities..."
January 1977, memo to Mr. Gallagher: "MM-1550-KS, Bufile 134-10154, is identical with one Ricardo Morales, complete name Ricardo Anibal Morales Navarette, Key Source - Cuban...MM-1550-KS was operated as a paid source by the Miami division (of the FBI)...Navarette is currently residing in Venezuela. The file contains information re Navarette's possible involvement in the crash of a Cubana (airliner) and CHILBOM." of the Miami division of the FBI, paid and identified as MM1550-KS. Testified as a witness for the FBI against "anti-Castro Cuban terrorists". Cites his possible involvement in the crash of the Cubana airliner and CHILBOMB.
UPI article, "Mercenary, Informant Morales Dies of Bullet Wound", 12/23/82
In a sworn statement in 1980, Morales admitted that he provided explosives to anti-Castro terrorists who killed 73 people aboard a Cubana Airlines commercial airliner by blowing up in mid-air in October 1976. In December 1982, Morales was killed in a bar by a bullet to the brain. Police said it was likely that Morales knew the shooter. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19821223&id=K-ohAAAAIBAJ&sjid=T2gEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6830,4767688&hl=en