Cryptonym: AMOTEX-9
Jan. 1968 - Oscar Angulo Reyes, radio announcer at WMIE, listened to the tape of the anonymous voice claiming credit for the bombings in Miami of 1/25/68, and he and his wife tentatively identified the voice as Orlando Bosch. "Angulo is of highly operational interest to the CIA and CIA has requested his name be protected."
104-10192-10232: MEMO: NEW CUBAN EXILE ORGANZATION KNOWN AS PODER CUBANO (CUBAN POWER)
Undated, Memo from Deputy Director for Plans to Director of the FBI: "1. A member of a group of Cuban emigres trained in the techniques of information collection which has provided useful reports since 1961 has provided us with the following information. This information was obtained during a conversation with Orlando Bosch Avila, General Coordinator of the Movimiento Insurreccional de Recuperacion Revolucionaria (Insurrectional Movement for Revolutionary Recovery - MIRR): a. According to source, Bosch said the MIRR delegation in New York was in contact with a new Cuban exile organization known as Poder Cubano ('Cuban Power') which has the objective of halting the sending of parcels to Cuba. It is allegedly responsible for the explosion of parcels in New York on 9 December 1967 and in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on 4 December 1967. Source reported that Bosch said that the FBI searched two safehouses of the MIRR on 14 December 1967 looking for explosives but found nothing because they had been moved. b. From this conversation, source learned that the top leaders of the MIRR are running 'Cuban Power' which is responsible for sending the parcel that exploded in a Havana, Cuba, Post Office on 8 January 1968. Parcels were reportedly also sent to 'traitors among the exiles', and it was claimed that within seven to eight days 'they' would stage a job with explosives of such grand proportions that it would sound all over the world. (It is not known whether this job would be committed by 'Cuban Power', the MIRR, or both). 2. A search of the files of this Office revealed no pertinent identifiable information regarding 'Cuban Power.'...SOURCE: AMOTEX-9 (formerly AMTAUP-2)..."
104-10271-10142: TELEPOUCH: TYPIC/AMOT/OPERATIONAL "CUBAN POWER" AND THE MIRR
02/14/68, Telepouch from COS, JMWAVE to Chief WH Division: "We are telepouching the following information to keep Headquarters informed in case any questions arise. A. On 9 February 1968, AMOTEX-9 received a phone call from Orlando Bosch Avila, head of the Movimiento Insurreccional de Recuperacion Revolucionaria/MIRR, who asked him to wait for Jorge Gonzalez, aka 'Domrillo', who would contact AMOTEX-9 at Freedom House. B. When Gonzalez arrived he arrived he asked AMOTEX-9 to go that afternoon or night to the home of Adela Valle, 3900 NW 59th Place, Miami Springs, Florida and to pick up some explosives and Bengal lights which Valle had in her home. Gonzalez said that the materials were needed for some very important work which they/presumably the MIRR were going to do which involved a totally new system invented by them. Gonzalez said that nobody must see the contents of the parcel except AMOTEX-9. C. Gonzalez also said that some people had been placing bombs around the Miami area and that Cuban Power had been blamed for it. For this reason 'they' had to put an end to that business. D. AMOTEX-9 requested that we handle the above information very carefully so that he would not be blown with the MIRR and subsequently with other exile groups...4. According to AMOTEX-9 the police told Valle that they had a tip to the effect that explosives were cached in her house. AMOTEX-9 told this to Bosch on 10 February and Bosch said it was very strange about the tip since only a few people knew of the package. Bosch later that day told AMOTEX-9 he had removed the package from the Valle house."
9/22/76, cable from Caracas to Director: "Bosch feeding misinformation to Oscar Angulo because Angulo is known as an informer to law enforcement authorities. Bosch said Angulo was the 'Mister X' who furnished info on Bosch during his trial in Miami. Informant said Frank Castro could give him name of other CORU member suspected of being an informant." Two weeks, Frank Castro told Caracas that Angulo is the only CORU informant. Denies CORU plans to kill informants." Also see 124-90094-10036, page 36: Frank Castro was formerly known as MM-770-S.
June 1976 - CORU was formed, bringing together several major anti-Castro groups and delegates, including from AC (Accion Cubana) Orlando Bosch and Gaspar Jiminez aka Gasparito; Movimento Nacionalista Cubano, Jose Dionisio Suarez Esquivel and Juan B. Pulido; FLNC, Oscar Angulo, Gustavo Castillo, Frank Castro; Brigade 2506, Roberto Carballo and Armando Lopez Estrada; Movimento 27 de Abril, Juan Perez Franco. At page 5: "Suarez Esquivel stated that he had been responsible for carrying out a lot of attempts upon life, sabotage actions, and executions in the U.S., but he had never used the MNC as the vehicle claiming credit, or responsibility. Bosch interjected that Suarez Esquivel had instead used organization Zero as the claimer of credit for these type of actions and Suarez Esquival responded by saying 'yes'." At page 6: Suarez Esquival "stated that the Zero group would take care of executions of such 'traitors'."
124-10221-10270 (2018 release)
3/9/77, Deputy Director of DISIP, Rafael Rivas Vasquez advised that "a map was marked up at the meeting, showing the various divisions of responsibility. For example, Posada's group was assigned all of South America and the Caribbean was designated a target of opportunity for all groups...(AUSA Eugene) Propper...speculated that North America may have been divided in two by a horizontal line. If so, the territory north of the line may have been assigned to the Novo brothers, who worked primarily out of New Jersey...the Brigade 2506 may have been assigned North America south of Washington, DC. Subsequent to that meeting, said Rivas, Posada's group had carried out a number of operations. These were: bombing of the Air Panama office in Bogota (carried out by Luis Posada, Hernan Ricardo and Oleg Gueton Rodriguez; bombing of the Cuban office in Panama (Ricardo and Gueton); bombing of the Guyanan consulate in Trinidad (Ricardo and Gueton); bombing of the BWIA facility (which also services Cubana) in Barbados (Ricardo and Freddy Lugo); and, finally, the bombing of the Cubana airliner on October 6 (Ricardo and Lugo)...(in the meeting on) what to do with Hernan Ricardo and Freddy Lugo, none of the other countries, including Cuba, wanted to try the two. In effect, he said, Venezuela got stuck with them." Rivas thought Bosch may have been involved, but probably not responsible for it - he's not "dumb enough to come to Venezuela to raise money and also complicate things for himself by the bombing."