TOP EXILE FIGHTER QUITS U.S. FOR BASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100160049-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 49
• Content Type: NSPR

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in - i rr; soon."
-W o- are not talking about pub-
1 clt) attacks against Communist
Cuba,-' Artime said.
-lk o are not planning to carry
out only hit-and-run raids. Out
program is designed to cause
permanent injury to the economi
of Communist Cuba."
,'rtime said his organization did
not plan, to harass shipping to
But there have been reports
circulating in Miami that Al-
time's MRR and possibly some
other organizations were prepar-
ing to operate out of a Centra'
American headquarters using .
mother ship'' and several ~mall-
et boats for their "war action"
against the Castro regime.
Although .-\rt,me did not di t lore
the location of has new hea(lquar
hers, there are reports in the exile
jenlony that Nicaragua and Costa
Rica are the most likely sties.
Artime denied %ignroubly re- I
pnrts circulating here and in
(Washington that he i, being sup-
ported and financed by Attorney
General Rol),r t Kennedy.
"I have tt issociauon with the
torney gear?el.- Artime asser--
"We hive worked for four
oaths in ijilir I.merica gather-
g support tit' `ands. Now we
re ready to t?' ijeh our complete
rogram."
Artime said ' :xine Latin gov?
rnments. sort., atelthy Latin
mericans.airne i+atthy Ameri-
ans anH -rte lztut Imliticai par-
es" have e,?:iFti pti r'de fnanc-
,c w^ai