WELLS FARGO SUSPECT LINKED TO CUBANS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000403130004-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 3, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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r WASHINGTON TIMES
ARTICLE APPS P 3 September 1985
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Puerto Rico's terrorist movement.
Mr. Ojeft Rios. 45, has i entified
by those sources as the "father of the
FALN;' or Armed Forces Liberation
Movement, for many years the only
Puerto Rican terrorist group operating in
"enemy territory" - as the island's ter-
rorists consider the continental United
States. He is still wanted in Puerto Rico
for jumping $2,000 bail, following his
arrest in connection with several bomb-
ings in 1970.
He founded and led the very first of
Puerto Rico's modern terrorist organiza-
tions, the Independent Armed
Revolutionary Movement (MIRA), in
1967, which led to the formation of the
FALN.
MIRA members received training and
arms in Cuba, and became operational in
early 1969, when they bombed a police
station, a bank and other enterprises in
Puerto Rico. The group bombed 35 tar-
gets in New York alone during 1970, in
addition to many others on the island
itself. It was finally broken up by the
police, and Mr. Ojeda Rios was arrested.
After jumping bail, he went to New
York and was assigned to the DGI unit
attached to Cuba's United Nations Mis-
sion. It was then that he formed the
FALN, out of a nucleus of old MIRA com.
rades.
In 1979, Mr. Ojeda Rios joined with
other Puerto Rican terrorist leaders in.
unifying, under a single command, the
island's five principle terrorist groups
then in existence. This established the
now familiar Cuban policy of insisting on
the unity of contending revolutionary
factions, later carried out successfully in
Nicaragua and El Salvador. as a basic
condition for Havana's support.
Under the unified command came the
FALN, People's Revolutionary Comman-
dos (CRP), the Voluntary Organization of
the Puerto Rican Revolution (OVRP), the
Armed Forces of the Puerto Rican Rev-
olution (FARP), And the Macheteros, or
Boricua Popular Army (after Puerto
Rico's original Indian name, Borinquen).
It is the Macheteros which have claimed
responsibility for the Wells Fargo rob-
bery, but it is clear from Mr. Ojeda Rios'
involvement that behind them stands the
DGI.
The Macheteros and other members
of the unified terrorist command were
put under a Cuban organism, the Coordi-
nating Revolutionary Junta (JCR), based
in Havana. The JCR, in turn, had been set.
up by the DGI and the Cuban Communist
Party's Americas Department, which
sponsors and directs national liberation
movements throughout Latin America.
Mr. Ojeda Rios was placed in charge
of the Coordinating Revolutionary Jun-
ta's Eastern Caribbean section. A master
of disguise, in that capacity he was able
to slip in and out of Puerto Rico over the
;?oars, undetected until his capture last
week.
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