CHIBAS CHECKED FIDEL SEND US A PLANT?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100770014-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 14
• Content Type: NSPR

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n 1 tpn was under way today to e ermire whet Fr
Bout ibas, one of the top men in the Fidel Castro hierarchy, is a 1
true defector or a 'plant."
Chibas arrived in Key West with his wife Tuesday aboard a 17-1
foot boat. Met by immigration and FBI agents, he v as whisked to
Miami and since has been kept hidden.
Usually when defectors from
Cuba reach Florida and make ap-
plication for political asylum,
granting of sanctuary is routine.
Ind most cases, they are paroled
after questioning by immigration
auihor}ties.
In almost all cases, immigra-
tion authorities make no secret of
the defectors' presence at immi-
on headquarters in the Jus-
t Building,a 3901 Biscayne
Blvd. and interdibws outside the
building often follow.
But in Chibas' case, secrecy
was clamped down after Chibas
left Key; West. ;
One official source said it
"would be safe to assume" that
Chibas it ;fit , al custody.
An ashrng
'
s interest
tony ~sai'
"?t flr as a ureau
Sri stemmed from the pos
sibility that he may not be actual-
ly a defector from the Castro
regime.
"In all cases of this kind," this
source said, "the true status-
-of-the person seeking asylum must'
primarily eng;,ged in in-
telligence oily oad.
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If Chibas is a delectol-, th
could use any inlarmatgiop h
vides to counter Castro moves.
One of the concerns of the FBI
is counter-intelligence' within the
country? and it is from this re
sponsibilty th the FBI's inter-
est in Chibaistems.
A possibility was alb advanced
in ington that [ibas might
ap efore the Sena_e Internal
Se. sub Con } C e wli c i
morAi-4go 'hard Maj.
Diaz Lan1, CaAro's Air
rbi - `&hief. s h' def eted and
fled to Miami.
J. G. Sourwide. the cemmittee's
coons, , sar we're interested
in interviewin ( r`lft t,a sit-
ua `ion4in jelled suffjcent-
ly yet.
"We really don't have
man's true background."
"If he is a bona fide defector.
heecomes the reomibility of !
the Central ire'ligence Agency,
which is also investigating this ~
case."
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