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[326]'Phey are. on the Pan “Ara night flight to Caracas; three
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[329]paranoid: ‘they are,” says Branch.-“Our friends in
[330]* Washingtoa- used ‘to. ‘be simple’ Journalists. and policy ~
[331]- analysts, 'Now they” are three-pay-vhone men. That
[332]means you can’t call thera without using three pay
[333]~phones. You call them up and all they'll say is ‘phone
[334]number ore.’ “Then they go to pay phone number one
[335]and you, call them again. Then they ask you “for the
[337]* :number of another pay phone ne near yours, and they call
[340]“What do you talk about?”
[341]-*“Things ‘like p pay phones and letter bombs and wheth-
[342].er the Feds. ‘can be trusted. The last time I called they
[343]told me we would be walkirig into four nests, of known
[344]killers: the ‘Cuban exiles in Venezuela, the Venezuelan
[345]“secret polica, the C. LA. ond the Chilean- secret police.”
[347]‘How. two mild- mannered reporters.
[348]- trail of a Washington bomber,
[349]~Jandéd in Caracas and ran afoul of the .
[350]*:.." Venezuelan secret service, warring © -
[351]“Cuban terrorists, the Miami police, the State
[352]Department, the C.I.A., the F.BJ.. -
[353]and the most dangerous man alive —all
[354]~ this, and their mothers didn’t know
[355]-adamn thing about it * ..- ..
[357]* satil we get rid of it
[359]on the
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[363]“us.”
[365]-is. always that the situation is-toa complicated for |
[366]words. “Tell me,” Rothchild says gravely, “did you fell .
[367]your mother you were going to Veneruea?” _- a
[368]_ Branch squirms at the cruel question. He wants to;
[369]appear as knowledgesble and confident as possible, be-
[370]cause he haa dragged Rothchild into this adventure on
[371]less than a day’s notice. “No, I didn’t tei! her,” he.ad- -
[372]mits. “It's too complicated. But I think we'l! only have —
[373]one point of denger.” . ne a
[374]"When's the point of danger?™ -
[375]: “Well, we may get into the prison | and get o our an-
[376]" swers,” Branch replies, “or we may get them from peo -
[377]ple in the Venezuelan government. Either way, we'll
[378]know who did the murders and who paid the killers _
[379]anc what other murders they've done. That's what we
[380]hope, anyway. If we get that information, we'll be hot
[381]We'll have to phoze it out of
[383]"Rothchild does not -t took yeassured. Hea does not iike “4
[384]the way Branch reels off the life histories of all the -",
[385]- OLA, Cubans he has known, especially since the point -
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[399]Orlando Letelier lying in the middle of Massachusetts
[400]t Avenue, his legs blown off at tha thigh, his torso pul-~
[401]2 verized, detectives all around. On ‘the curb nearby sat.”
[402]his passenger Ronni Mofitt, her eyes frozen, holding |
[403]her throat, The bomb in Letelier’s car had blown’a
[404]stiver of metal through Ronni Moffitt’s carotid artery,
[405]and she was drowning in her own blood. Her husband
[406]sat nearby," suffering from shock, watching ‘his wife
[407]. die. She was twenty-five. ‘The killers were the kind of
[408]’: people who would machine-gun a whole crowd of people -
[410]in a public square just to hit their mark. They ~
[411]‘- wouldn’t care about the others. Ronni Moffitt could just ~
[413]as easily have been half the people Branch knew in
[414]-Washiagton. The next day Jerry Ford rede right over -
[415]the bloody spots in the roxd- on his way to a reception
[416]for the presicent of Liberia; he.never said a word
[417]about Washington's first gangiand-style political as”
[419]sassination. Unwise to. talk about it, especially if the © .
[420]ment as Inclin drifts back ta her seat. Jesus Christ, —
[422]force behind the murders is most likely the govern---
[423]ment of: {Chile . The ‘military junta there’ overthrew
[424]- Salvador “Allende with a- big bedst from the CLA,
[425]which is ‘still thick 23 thieves with the geherals. Le-:
[426]telier™ was ‘ambassador to the United States ‘under “AK.
[427]lende, then. foreiga affairs minister, interior minister _
[429]“substarice for sabotage i in, the war, against Castro, and”
[430]thousands of Cubans were trained ia its use. Branch”
[432]. The three work out « way to mike contact in Caracas.
[434]‘are two young Latin men in the back with neatly |:
[436]guess.” Itis Hilda | n, a reporter for The Alieai ,
[437]News, standing in the aiste, looking down al us, She a
[438]is a specialist on Latin terrorism in Miami, .
[439]“Looks like it,” says Hranch, shrugging, So muck for
[440]the secret trip. Yet he is inctined to trust Trelin, even ©
[441]thoggh he an! Pothchitd had met her only that day, -
[442]while going thruugh clips at the morgue of the Neves.
[444]Braceh is embarrassed at being a Jittle reserved.
[445]Inclan ia candid, her face cheerful and open, .
[446]\Inclin‘leans over und whispers, “Listen, I think you :
[447]“Should be careful. There’s something strenge going on.
[448]This Right is crawling with cops and Prosecutors: from, .
[453]. Branch and Rothchild: turn their. heads in unison,
[454]and their necks sink down into their shoulders. There .:2
[456]trimmed beards, unisex hairdos and brightly colored +
[457]shirts, There aré several men in the front who do not ~~
[458]look like ordinary passengers. Rothehild decides there
[459]might not be any ordinary passengers...
[460]-- “What are they doing here?" Branch aaks ‘buntly,
[461]“Who knows?" says Inclan. “I know these guys from
[463]Miami, They give me tips-sometimes. But now they -j. -
[465]“aren't giving me the time of day. I don’t understand
[466]them, so I'm going to act just like they are. I don't:
[467]“think you should_ let them jn on what you're up. to, :
[469]either.” wae Depth? os
[470]i “Those cops ‘ara ~ Cubans, aren't they?” Branch asks. |
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[475]“Inclin nods. Branch worries. Cubans on the Miami
[476]“police force are a strange lot, he has heard. The tops
[477]want to infiltrate Cuban terrorist groups and .drug-
[478]- running organizations, but sometimes it turns out that
[479]the terrorists and drug runnera are infiltrating the |
[481]cops. - Saye: : aa ele
[482]Branch ana Rothehild “exchange signs of bewilders :
[484]Orlando Erte clier's bombed car, Washington x
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[489]John,” Branch mutters. “f figured we'd & in for some
[490]scrapes, but { never thought it would start before we
[491]even pot there.” Then he’s all business. “I've got to
[492]give you a quick briefing on cur maia man while we
[493]{ have the chance. We may not, have as much leisure
[494]time as we expected,” :
[496], : Branch pulls down their dinner trays and spreads out
[497]a pile of notes and news clippings. Then he pulls out a
[498]police mug shot. “Meet Orlundo Bosch,” he suys.
[500]Rothchild stares incredulously at a porcine Cuban
[501]man with a thin moustache and thick lips. “He looks ;
[502]like the headmaster of a military school.” .
[504]. “I know,” Branch says, “but he’s a kil'er. He's also. xtabs
[505]a pediatrician. This whole thing’s like that—yin and = John Kothehitt Hilda inetan
[507]‘ a yang, Boston Strangler and Mad Hatter ail mixed up.” © .-.- :- fae a Z
[508]* | -Branch eyes the mass of clippings and notes, wonder- - Miami harbor. ‘he got ten} years, but he w was Srcled
[510]"ing where to begia. “It would take all night to go fn 1972. That brings us to his international period.” ~ 3
[511]throug what I've heard about Bosch, so i'l get you. Branch picks up one particular clip and holds it in ‘
[512]“up to Letelier' as quick ay I can ‘for now, The’ back: ., readiness. “Bosch went underground two years after -
[513]as ground is simple: Bosch. has- been a political terrorist— ‘his parole and the pace of Miami bombings escalated. -
[514]. + -What they call an action man—ever since the Inte For- _ So did terrorist bombings against, Castro’s embassies».
[515]-, ties in Cuba. He worked for Castro, then forthe CLA. alt over’ the ‘world. Then, in 1974, important Cubana -
[516]and then he denounced the C.LA: He has been an anti- started getting. knocked off in gangland-style murders. *°
[517]-“. Castro outlaw since the mid-Sixties, always telling the A lot of groups, including Bosch’s, took eredit for .
[518]Miami Cubans not to ‘trust the [on é <A. in theif war “them. The word wag that C.LA. stooges were being -
[519].« ‘against Castro. Now most of the hard-line Cubans bé- eliminated. Bosch bécame a phantom, Mysterious fig- °
[520]*. lieve hicw Bosch is the patriarch of Cuban terrorism.” urea with names like Ernesto would pop up ia the Mi- ;
[521]‘-:. > Branch pauises,-then ‘flips briskly through the clip- ami press to speak for him. Here's a Aliami News clip
[522]pings. “Bosch got arrested andindicted pretty regular. from this period. It's headlined ‘Hosch Declares War .
[523]., ly all through the Sixties. He usually got o%. The wit- | on Castro.” Hilda wrote it. She's the last American rer
[524]7 - nesses against him tended to sweat a lot and forget porter to interview Bosch. Shortly after it came out,
[525]C . '' things on the stand, if they even showed up. In gen- Bosch slipped out of the country.” = 2.5
[526]. ~ eral, Bosch had a threefold operation: first, political While Rothchild-studies the clips, Branch continues, ~
[527]7 tervor against Castro sympathizers; second, ordinary “He got arrested in Venezuela about two years aga
[528]".  erimes like extortion from rich people and companies The Justice Department decided not to ask for his re- ~
[529]_ to finance the political terror; and third, ati kinds of " turn to the United States despite all he's weated for.
[530]wars and ‘feuds with his terrorist rivals, Firaily, Bosch That’s weird. Then the Veneznelans turned him loose.
[532]— got-nailed in 1968 for shelling a @ Polish freighter in and he left with a-bunch of Chilean bodyguards and a
[533]- = - big pile of money. I heard all kinds of stories about ~
[535]Tlosch being down in Chile with the Pinochet junta |
[536]” there, bargaining. Now the stories jump to February - a
[537]of last year, when Bosch got arrested in Costa Rica.
[538]_ Yight before Kissinger visited..The rumor is that he.
[539]‘wag plotting to assassinate Kissinger. Bosch got out ”
[540]“of Costa Rica ‘soinehow, and pretty soon there was-a":
[541]‘secret nfeeting in the Dominican Republic of all the ~
[542]major Cuban terrorist: groups, which the Dominicans ~
[543]- allowed; of course. There 1 was a negotiated truce, and
[544]. the terrorists united unde? Bosch in an umbrella group |
[545]‘called TORU, supposedly with the “Support of several.
[546].) juntas’ ‘in Latin America." --"- es . ze
[547]®Now in the last month there haa been the. Letelier:
[548]3° murder,” Branch continues grimly. “The terrorists
[549]4 showed that they were not sfraid to kill ia the United.
[550]. States, right-in the capital. They have even thréstened —
[551]. to kill one of the-F.RE. agents on the Letelier case.
[552]And his fiancée. The anonymous threats show they -
[553]“have collected a lot of intelligence about the agent's | *
[554]life. The F.B.L. is upset. Then, two weeks after Letelier
[555]‘was killed, terrorists blew sp a Cuban plane near Rar- :!
[556].bados, killing seventy-three people. Castro blame! the ©
[557]CALA, and canceled the satrskyjacking treaty. The ~
[558]< tervorlats loved ft: Castro and the Americans rettiag — 3
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[578]mead at each other. Then Basch got ear. al in Vene-
[579]snela again, along with a whole bunch of Cuban exiles,
[580]Stories have Been seeping out in the Venezuelan press
[581]Nnking Kosch with both Letel:er and the Cutan plane.
[582]{ I picked up similar stories in Miazni, My sources there
[584]tell me the Cubana in jail are almost Vil formar CL AL -
[586]men, 2.5.1 informants and a few veterans of the Ven-
[587]ezuvian secret police, the DISTP. Some people say
[588]nist? has tortured the hell cut of these guys, bat
[589]her peopla say DISIP Is in bed with them—holding
[590]theas under protective custody till the heat blowy over.
[591]Te’s the biggest damn mess you ever say.”
[592]a ae errs 3
[593]: “You folks wouldn™ t mind telling | me who you are and’
[594]what you're up ta, would you?" =: .
[595]Rotkchild amd Branch look up at the man standing
[596]. in the aisle. He wears a leisure suit with a flashy shirt |
[597]~ opened to his sternum, showing a Tok of tan and some |
[598]tifted chest hair. © .+
[600]1 “Well.” says Branch, “I'm ‘not | sure. “What are “you~ .
[601]‘doing? We're just thinking about  Facetracks and Cu- * they want to talk.to us?” -
[603]bans and stuff like that.” - at. woe
[604]"Corse on now. You can téll ime,” the man urges,
[605]“Don't tell him anything,” says Hilda Inclaa from
[606]behind. She is laughing as if it were a + game, but her
[607]eres signala warning. - .. + wee
[609]: 7. Branch is way off-balance. “I'L take the fifth. tay"
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[613]“don't we start with you?”
[615]- "Okay,'Yaays the man, smiling. “rn piay it your way.)
[617]fiend: My name’s George Yoss, I'm an assistant
[618]state's attorney out of Miami.” He flashes an ID card.
[620]nch and Kothchild can’t believe it. He seems more
[622]1 lixe a condominium salesman who wishes he could ba a
[623]gof pro. “{s that right, Hilda?” Branch asks. .
[624]°Yeah, but he’s being a bad boy tonight,” she re-
[626]+ plies | “Tell, h ind his own business, whatever
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[632]> “Okay says Yoss, “f'm going io give yeu one more y
[634]“cbance. Lk know you" reo Journalist Why don't we start
[636]a, Branch looks down “and” ‘notices that his hands have -
[637]lheea’ covering up ‘the news clippings unconsciously,
[638]“These gave mé away, . teh?” he says weakly. “I'll tell
[640]ate give me the name of your. hotel and Ill call you
[641]yget our feet on the ground? We can talk this
[643]: is a strange’ country and you guys could- find yourselves |
[644]» on the next pline out ll give you one more chance.”
[645]“E think I'l lay low for the moment,” . Branch’ says: -
[646]-Yoas makes a few more thrusts, then saunters ‘off. -
[648]. the sly,” Beaoch says. “That sure didn’t work out. This
[649]. filgtt's Nike a goddamn convention! Tell’ me; “Hilda,”
[650]Nose of the Cuban cops is named Rat! Dias, I hope?”
[651];+.°Phat’s Dinz right behind you,” she replies. 7
[652]220% shit!” says Branch, He turns slowly ia his seat
[653]“and-Snds himself _ataring at one of the’ handsome
[655]wheees .
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[658]Don You rauat be Taylor Branch,” Ral ‘Diaz say with)
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[663]> 2 separate. The only way we can do that is to stay kind
[665]ce“What makes you think we can gel into the prison {o ,
[667]a ‘tough spot. The Castro government wants him, and
[669]‘down here personally. He's a Cuban named Ricardo ~
[671]syed what You've got ma a ‘Tittle paranoid. Why don’ t know what he's doing now, but he might be a grod
[673]Sista, He is still kidding, but there is an edge to it.
[675]~. -*Y ‘ca may need me down here. You never know. This _
[676]makes fun of all-the people who do. Ricardo f aa old
[678]. operator, even though he’s only in his Jate thirties. He
[680] eMaybe I was too set on getting into ‘the country on .
[681]“cathe an FLL. informant. He's. the guy wha got Basch
[683]=" loose. Morales’ cdr was diown up. He survived Sut —
[685]v.47, He's a survivor i( there ever was one.”
[686]“So he must hate Rosch, then,” says Rothehild,
[688]SUL Sit iat steed SRS
[690]“And you're Radi.” bre mn gives him a Emp hand-
[691]shake and stumps gown in his seat Hilda Insan shakes dj
[692]her head and walks off.” : :
[694]“Who's Raul?” asks Rothehila. ;
[696]“He's Rolando Martinez’ son-in-law, One of the Wa-
[697]terctte Sey Depiat ait of Lime with him ia Miami.” 4
[699]“What's so had about that?” asks Rothch:ic. . “ 4
[701]“I don't know, H's just that he probably hoows who i
[702]my. Cubsn contacts are, antl I don’t know what the hell”
[703]he's up ts. You see, sanic cf the people who have been
[704]telling me about the terrorists are right-wingers ond a
[706]ai
[707]it
[709]i+ some of them are left-winyers. I don't care about any: |
[711]*. thing except the Letelier murder, but I think it would - i
[712]be healthy for us if we could keep the two groups, u
[714]of incognita.” Aas
[715]“You're doing great 30 far,” Rothchild Say. His .
[716]mind has been wandering over the -Rosch briefing.
[718]see Bosch and his friends?” he asks. “And why. would
[720]Stake yee
[722]- “Its a long shot,” Branch answers. “But Bosch £ isin”
[724]> Bosch knows that would mean curtains for him. He
[725]- also knows that he could get killed any day in Vene~
[726]-'zuela by either his friends or his enemies. He may fig=
[727]-ure that-his best chance to survive is to come ta the,
[728]". United States. What we hope ja that he wants t> get"
[729]" some of his story out in the American press ty feree
[730]the government lo turn the screws and get him back in
[731]the States. That's what I hear from some of our Vene- _
[732]zuelan contacts. I don't know if it’s true, but they are |
[733]- pretty high up. Now even if we can't talk to Bases and
[734]‘the other prisoners directly, we might get stut jadi”
[735]rectly from the Venezuelans.” ca
[736]- “What happens if alt the Venezuelan contacts ‘te
[737]‘out to be flaky?” tne roa
[738]* “Then we'll just have tor poke e around,” 7° says Branch.’
[739]““T have a lot of names. There's only one guy 1 know -
[741]-" Morales. I interviewed him back in 1974, just before
[742]_ he came to- Venezuela. People in Miami tell me he's *
[743]“Avay up high “ia the DISIP, the secret police. ‘I don't
[745]"fallback if nothing clsé works out.” 7°
[746]; Rothchild is encdaraged. At least’ ‘Branch, kn
[748]reat person. “What's he like?" “20 Yoo :
[749]“He's ‘one of the most cynical people I've" ever. met,
[750]” Branch replies, “but I liked him anyway. He doesn't -
[752]“have any illusions about the business he’s in, and he ©
[754]orked for Castro's secret police. Then he worked far-
[755]he C.LA. as an explosives expert. He fought for tt
[756]_ Agency ii in the Cango in the mid-Sixtiés, and then be
[758]~~.
[760]‘convicted in: 2969. Sniall world, isn't it? Ho surfzced
[761]~ In cotirt with eversthing on tape. Then all hell broxe
[763]‘bh amed Nosch for, trying to kill him. Morales himself
[764]was indicted for first-degree murder, but he Set ot.
[766]“Well, yes," says Branch ce ed
[767]: qeWetete Le a
[769]fiat eT ESE
[772]14-0000
[776]like Rosch and Morales have tried hand
[777]encug’ to kill each ether.” Branch hesie
[778], fates and then decides net to tell Hoth.
[779]child that sume of the old CLA, Cubans
[780]in Miami believe Lusch and Morales
[781]have patched things up. Branch does not
[782]believe it and it would inske things too
[783]gnarled, “It's amazing that the Venssue
[784]lans woul havea guy dike Morales high
[785]up in their security apparatus,” he says
[786]absentmindally?~1 mean he'a a Cuban,
[787]and he haa worked fur Castro, the C.LA.,
[788]and the F.B.0, and he's a veteran ft
[789]gangland-type warfare, It's Hike finding
[790]a West German high up in tha CLA, and
[791]then discovering that he has also worked
[792]for the KGU and the Shah of fran, But
[793]from what I hear, that’s a pretty com-
[795]cmon background to have down here. af
[797]» There are Cubans all over Latin Amat-
[798]- tea”
[799]Branch besins packing up the news
[800]- “clips. “f'm paranoid as hell about this
[801]. » plane,’ * he says. “We're suppoced to get
[802]-a'call at the hotel around midnight. .
[803]*. That ‘gives us an bour to get through
[804]“customs and_ get settled. I want to
[805]V hustle away from ‘these ‘Buys aed. make
[807]{sure we’ re on time.”
[808]“¢
[810]“A Greeting from Rémulo
[811], Rothchild and Incién notica a huddle
[812]. ‘of shady five-footers lurking In a dark
[813]‘corner beside tho airport entrance,
[814]~ They must be o Venezuelan tour group,
[815]_ Rothchild thinks, waiting for a burgain
[816]* Aight out of the country, I'm net going
[817]. to get paranoid about-everythiny I see.
[818]«But the group stares at the pasaen-
[819]. gers; their suits blend so well into the
[820]shadows that all you see are their mir-
[821]- tor sunglasses. They look like s dis-
[822]‘play of Foster Grants at the back of
[823]an untighted drugstore. . .
[824]Vv They stop lovking only” whoa “tke
[825]* Miami assistant state's attornesa and
[826]cops; the sama ones who have been :
[828]: _ bugging Branch on the plane, go over |
[830]-alid give some of the men in the shad-
[831]‘ows warm, Latin’ embraces. fnclan
[833]: thinks it is a meeting between the di-
[835]. Fam. Jaw-enforéement contingent and
[837]. the Venezuelan ‘secret “police, She
[838]*. éatches up fn the line and. say3.sha has
[840](
[842]/ += recognized one of the people in the po-
[844]“Vice “huddle as Ricardo Morales, th:
[846]“mysterious Cuban who is supposed to~
[848]“be Branch's fallback contact in. Cara- -
[849]_-€83, Branch is stunned. First he is read- ©
[850]ing clips about Cubans and ceps,: and
[851]rthe Cubans snd cops start fingering
[852]‘Shim on tho airplane. Now Morales.
[854]. “Give me your papers. and follow
[856]Tme!" & Toice dooms suddenly, It be
[857]‘Tongs tos man in o turtleneck sweater
[858]“ond leather jacket. A flunky moves next
[859]to each reporter in the line, There Ie
[861]. hothing to do but hand over the pas»
[862]* ports and follow.
[864]-- Turtleneck and his gag herd the te
[865]porters into 9 special room at the back
[866]of the sirport. He disappears irite an-
[867]othes oitice, leaving them alone with an
[868]olf ran seatal behind a desk, Thera
[869]- $s furious typing coming from the adja.
[870]fent teor) fate which Turtieneck has
[871]disappeared. Ms Aunkies keep ronnlng -
[873]back and forth from one scum ta the
[874]other.
[876]Ta about ten minules, Turtlene-k roe
[877]turns and hamds each of the reporters a
[878]citacidn—on tripheate, Rothchild, trans-
[879]lating for Branch, doesn’t remember
[880]the lepal definition of the word cita.
[881]cidn, He dors, however, recognize a
[882]word farther down in the docu:wnt—
[883]edserl, Caccel means fail The reporters
[884]are being sammoned to atiend some
[885]hind of inecting In a sinister-sounding
[886]room, D-034, in a building somewhere
[887]in Caracns at nine asm. the following
[888]day. The letterhead belunzs to DISIP.
[890]Turtleneck keeps saying it ia all rou-
[891]tine—just siga the c.faciun and every
[892]boy can get a good night's sleep. While
[894]- Rothchild struggles to understand the
[896]fine print, Inclin tells him she thinks it
[897]might be a mistake to acknowledge the
[899]‘stimmons, It mizht conceivably be con-
[900]-strued as an admission of something,
[901]- and the reporters don’t know what it is
[903]-for, Inclin devides to try an offensive
[905]to get information, She whips out her.
[906]“ notebook as if to write a traffic ticket
[908]ond asks Turtleneck what his name is.
[910]_ He dcesn't answer. She repeats the
[912]question and. finally he mumbles, “Ine
[914]* spector Romulo,” 1
[916]“That's all there is to it?”
[918]“Yeah. Just Romulo.”
[920]“Who ordered you to do this?”
[922]“{ don’t know, I can’t say, It's fust a
[923]procedure.” o
[925]“Why is this happening to us?”
[927]“Jt is so because it is so,”
[929]Inclin writes that down,
[931]Beanch, whose rudimentary knowl.
[932]edge of Spanish often led him to offend
[933]the Cuban community in Miami—swhere
[934]he would mean to say “ivhat a grand
[935]wedding this is” and end up saying
[936]“what tremendous tits you Save’—is
[937]getting a headache trying to keep up
[939]Uwith the conversation.“ “Isn't there,
[940]‘ somebody who speaks English here?” -
[941]* he keeps‘asking.
[943]“+> “That's all’ right,” says Rothchild,
[944]“The guy isn’t saying a damn thing in .,
[945]‘Spanish, either.” Inclan agrees. ° -
[947]* The reporters get nowhere. Police
[949]- keep’ circling, .and an evasive Rémulo
[951]Keeps cracking his knuckles, pacing
[952]Back and forth oetween rooms, thrust-
[954]ing pens into the reporters’ hands hike .
[955]“over his head. “I think we are in more
[957]‘8 door-to-door calesmau pushing maga-
[958]izide subscriptions, Inclan asks him if
[959]“they will go to jail for’ not signing.
[960]Romulo says, “No, you won't go ta jail
[961]-for that, and I don't care what you do,
[962]” My orders were to hand you this cei
[964]tacién, and that Ihave ‘dofe. The rest.
[966]is entirely.up to you.”
[968]Inclin decides te accept the summons
[969]but not to sign it, based on Rémulo's
[970]assertion that it ‘rémains in. force no
[971]mattéé¢ what. Brinch and Rothebild go
[973]along after » brief huddle. Rémulo js
[974]definitely peeved. He hands. each of
[975]them a summons in an envelope and
[976]tells them to leave.
[978]“I don’t understand how they picked
[979]us out,” says Inclan ja the cab, “Es
[980]pecially you, John. You're not even
[981]coming as 8 reporter. They couldn't
[984]or .ogical explanation [a that some-
[986]ons on the plane tipped off the Vere
[987]auelans. But why?
[989]Eranch thrashea areuad in hia spy
[990]world for answers, Nothing seems to
[991]fit, The theee of then thevrize all the
[992]way ta the hotel, and they can only
[993]aetllo, hike Alexander Haig, on a sinis-
[994]ter force, Uranch is stili sure that the
[995]summens wil be Infied ay scon.as he
[996]can talk te his friendly contacts In
[997]Veneruela, Kothchild keeps looking out
[998]the window for a tail,
[1000]A Visit to a Small Motel
[1002]The taxi drops them off ut the Anauco
[1003]Hiltcn, where Inct.in is staying. Branch
[1004]offers to carry Inclin's bags. The lobby,
[1005]amazingly, is filled with the same
[1006]DISIP lu.kers; they have managed to
[1007]move their whote scene intact. They
[1008]nre leaning ayainst walls and sitting
[1009]on the couches. Branch lovks towanl
[1010]the elevator in time to see the Miami .
[1011]alterneys and cops scurrying to get in-
[1012]side, frantically pushing buttons to get
[1014]“the door to close. They are as jittery |
[1016]- figure out why he's doing it. He sure
[1018]about seeing the reporters as the re
[1019]porters are about seeing the Venezue-
[1020]lan goons, And the most jittery of ‘all,
[1021]in the saiddle of the elevator, is Ricar-
[1022]do Morales himself. Morales is staring
[1024]. Ht the ceiling, trying to avoid eye con-
[1025]. tact, and Branch has the feeling that
[1027]Morales is scared, lt is the first time
[1028]ho hes seen fear on the face of this
[1029]hardened veteran of Congo wars and
[1030]Castro plots and murders, Seeing
[1032]. Morales scared makes Branch seared,
[1034]He warns Inclaa not to so anywhere or
[1036]arrives at his hotel, the Avila,
[1038]Back in a tad Branch is going
[1039]througa another run of Cuban polities.
[1040]“J don’t know, John,” he says. “Maybe
[1041]Morales is behind all this, but I can’t
[1043]do anything—Jjust to call him when he |
[1045]looked as if he’s in troudle. He could
[1046]havé been making some secret deal with
[1047]those cops. Something he knows adout
[1048]one of these bombings in Miami.
[1049]Morales might not hnow that we were
[1050]on the flight by accident. He. might
[1052]think we were tailing the cops.”
[1054]Rothchild is tryin. not to listen, The
[1056]‘only, sure contact ke thought Branch |
[1058]had has suddenly turned into a poten- {
[1059]tial enemy, Rothchild is petrified by j
[1060]the thought that Braach bas gotten in
[1062]trouble,” he says. “Look behind you."
[1063]‘This time there’ isa tail The other
[1064]ear is right on their buriper as they
[1065]wind up the back streets of Caracas,
[1066]“They aren't eveo pretending not to be
[1067]following,” Rothchild says, “I don't
[1069]. think that’s a good sign.’*
[1071]Brarich, overtthelmed, keeps looking
[1072]at the car behind them. “You know,”
[1073]he says with a smile, “this is the first
[1074]time I've ever been tailed.” Rothchihl
[1075]feels as ff he is being cranked through |
[1076]the roller of Graham Greene's type |
[1078]- writer.
[1080]vhave gotten us of our documents. " The
[1082]They reach the Hotet Avila, a Casa-
[1083]Ddlanca-type place at the top ot wohl, |
[1084]It ceems deserted uati! Kothehitd looks:
[1086]down from-a balcony near their room. ;
[1087]There are people pulling into the drive. i
[1088]way. ja small ar, wad they have i
[1090]7 r < - |
[1093]14-0000
[1095]Walkietalaies and revolver hulgee at
[1096]the wauts uf thelr plain dark’ suits,
[1097]They station themselves around the
[1098]hotel entrance and oven an the flower
[1099]bela. They have the place surrounded.
[1100]There hava been no -phone calls—or
[1102]at Teast that is the worl from the desk.
[1103]Branch paces nervously around the
[1104]toom, He thinks that something he al-
[1105]ready haovws about C.L.A, Cubans and
[1106]terrorisr: must bo the key to what's
[1107]happening, but he doesn't kaow what it
[1108]is, He tes everything he knows to
[1109]Rothchild, going ell the way back
[1111]* theough Prio and the preCastro stu.
[1113]- deat movement. Rothchild — thinks
[1114]~ Branch has lost his mind. It is fear, he
[1115]Ssures, Branch realizes that Rothchild
[1116]- ts Iving down on the bad pretending not
[1117]to be awake, that he has fallen into a
[1119]Then a call t comes through, but itis not
[1120]he contact Hranch awaits. It‘ts Taclan,
[1121]who has been denied a room at the Hil-
[1123]; ~toa (oven though she had a reserva.
[1125]tion) and she can't reach anybody at
[1126]the U.S, Embassy. She wonders what
[1127]the hell is going -on. Branch tells her
[1128]the situatiug at the Avils, but she de~
[1129]3+ cides to come over; there, ate. lots of
[1130]~ rooms and at least the reporters can
[1131]> show some solidarity. >
[1132]It takes a long time, too lony, for
[1133]Inclin to show up. Branch wanders
[1134]downstairs; Rothchild ‘waits by the
[1135]** phone for calls that never come. There
[1136]is &n uproar at the desk. The clerk is
[1137]telling Inclan there are no rodms avail-
[1138]. able even though the bank of keys is
[1139]behind him in full viaw. He holds chat
[1140]position for about five minutes;
[1141]retreats to “there is some problem with
[1142]you people, Tean’t give you a roum.”
[1144]He sezma scared, Everybody. seems. -
[1146]‘. "geared, ‘Denying % woman a room at
[1147]* threes am. in Venezuela is a serious
[1148]": violation of the chivalrié cate. The -
[1150]> stupor. It is fear, Branch figures, . ad
[1151]‘" guelans a chance to arrest them under
[1153]then--
[1155]Nem ia the lobby at al} tlines, Inclin
[1156]ecides she will sleep on a couch in the
[1157]Inbby, and ashe wonders if she should
[1159]Sho sets ber bags beside one couch,
[1160]and the belihop ditects her over to an
[1161]Bets one wis a gracious flourish: ae
[1162]could have been opening tne door to
[1163]the wedding suite.
[1165]After vaanly scouring the lubby for
[1166]pay phones, the reporters uxiee that
[1167]they have to make a more for the room
[1168]so they can talk near a phone, The
[1169]three make their way up the stairs like
[1170]Cary Grant tiptering between bed-
[1171]rooms. To their relief, no one stops
[1172]Inclaa,
[1174]Branch offers Inclan his bed, saying
[1175]he will sleep on the floor. Rothchild
[1176]doesn’t say anything, but Lis paranoia
[1177]tells him it is foolish to give the Vene
[1179]the pretext of immoral conduct, Roth-
[1180]child keeps opening the door because
[1181]of his paranoia; Branch keeps closing
[1183]sit because of his. He doesn’t want to be”
[1185]listened in on, Branch and Rothchild
[1186]are not communicating much with each
[1187]other by new. Each is worried that
[1189]: whatever he says the other nill think it
[1191]is crazy, .
[1192]Inchin tries to phone her editor fn
[1193]Miami, but it becomes clear after about
[1195]“an hour of excuses that the desk clerk
[1197]isn’t going to put through her call.
[1198]Local lines still seem to- be availzble,
[1199]but whom to call? Branch has his list
[1200]of connectivas, but these people are in
[1201]their own ‘delicate situatiuns and
[1202]Branch doesn't want to blow their cov-
[1203]ers by calling at four a.m. on what is
[1205]-eertainly a tapped line. Incl.in can’t gece
[1207]an answer atthe U.S. Embassy. Roth:
[1208]child has nobody to call, and that iy one
[1209]of his /prodlems, Since he is so uri-
[1210]connected with the story, he is sure
[1211]that the police will figure he is the
[1212]heavy—a deep-cover C.LA. man out of
[1214]‘three reporters talk. about it, but they - retirement from the Everglades,
[1216]~ ¢aa’t sit down or move around without
[1217]™ being followed, almost mimicked, by.
[1219]a Cops. ‘There are now at feast six” af .
[1221]By elimination, the reporters can
[1222]- think of only one person in Venezuela
[1223]that they could ‘tontact, Inchin’ has
[1225]fy 4 out, from her
[1226]As wo Hinton, what Avor Ricardo
[1227]Morales is ataying oa od she thinta
[1228]tha koows what his roam number fs.
[1229]Nez plan is to call him dicectly. It is
[1230]clearly a desperstien move. Inchan
[1231]tings up Morales at-the Ansscoe Hilton,
[1232]ppolugives for the hour and heyins to
[1233]explain her precicanest, Sut it is clear
[1234]things are net guing weil, Morstes ap-
[1235]parently is denying that he js Morales,
[1236]“You aren't Rica.do Murales?’ Inclan
[1237]asks incredulously. "You know me and
[1238]I know you. I tatzed to your nephew
[1239]in Miami yesterday. Has family is fine
[1240]and bs sends his warmest vevards,”
[1241]There is » pause ard Incidn begins
[1242]to scund Kxe a panelist on What's My
[1243]Line?, “You've never heard of a Blo-
[1244]tales? Who are you then? Your voice
[1245]sourda familiar. You're not a Venezue-
[1247]‘Yan. You sound Cubsa, Are you a
[1249]Cuban?” Morales says he 13 tired of
[1251]beings interrupted in his-sleep; he hangs
[1253]ip the phone, - +
[1254]An air of resignation has’ settled
[1256]over the room. It is almost morning ~
[1258]and the goons are still stand.az by the
[1260]bushes. The reporters ave under soins .
[1261]Kind of .house osrest’ and they feel |
[1262]caged, ‘Chey wonder why Morales has *
[1264]‘just denied beiry himself. Maybe all
[1266]'
[1268]this is Happening because they know
[1269]who he fs and Morales fears they will
[1270]ruin his cover identity. Or maybe
[1272]Morales doesn’t want Branch to reveal -
[1274]his background to anybedy in Vene-
[1275]zuela, The reporters kick this notion
[1276]around, but it doesn’t fit. 1 seems pre-
[1278]posterous thot the Venezueltansa don’t -
[1280]know about Borales’ previous lives,
[1281]which are talked about all the time in
[1282]the Miar:ai rumor mill.
[1284]Branch paces. around the room, trys
[1285]ing-to make: kis mind-catch up sith his
[1286]fears, He even asks. Iriclan-whether she
[1287]is guarding some secret’ that might
[1289]. have caused the troudic, Inclan says‘no
[1291]and politely doesn’t return the ovestion.
[1292]The reportecs already trust each other
[1294]‘instinctively, but the spy world threat- +
[1295]ens to swallow them up, too. They dee “
[1297]leep on her couch. Braneb tells Poth.
[1298]child the rumor about the rafpreche-
[1299]‘ment between Morales and Bosch, say:
[1301]ing he'd even. heard Bosch had been :
[1303]staying’ in Morales’ apartment. But it
[1304]doesn’t make any- sense. Nothing does.
[1306]* Branch babbles on until be finally runs
[1308]out of nervous energy. “Well, John,”
[1310]he says, smiling thinly as be sinks onte -.
[1312]the bed, “{ was right about one thin:
[1313]I told you it woulda’t bea boring wee
[1315]Morales Takes Over
[1317]visit ts the -
[1319]“It fa five-thirty am. and somebody Ia -]
[1320]pounding on the decor. Rothehild, a light |
[1321]steeper, Jumps out of bed. He opens the - i]
[1322]door Just a crack, and thea-the door is -
[1323]thrown back so hard it benga against - id
[1324]the wall like a gunshet A man in ao -
[1325]green suit with a long oalkietatkio - 4
[1326]hanging from his bett bursts past Roth- °
[1328]os ehald, throwing on all the fights
[1331]14-0000
[1333]“Pack ("he pets Un half a secoml he fs
[1334]ali the way acrows the room, “Pack!*
[1335]Branch sits op eteaizht in bed amt fa
[1336]the most plaintive voice Rothebild has
[1337]ever beard him Use, a mixture of recog.
[1338]nition, terror, disappointment, confue
[1339]{ sion and pleading, says Just one word:
[1344]“Ricardo?”
[1346]It is Morales all ‘sight. Hranch
[1347]watches him snatch back tho curtains
[1348]to check the balcony, then dact around
[1349]the chairs, “Pack! There is a rhythm
[1350]to his order. He is maving The a eat,
[1351]frenzied but in total contrel, Rothchilt
[1352]feela the enerxy coming off him in
[1353]waves, He sips into the bathroom to
[1354]piss just to get away from Morales,
[1355]but he is so scared that nothing comes,
[1357]More orders core cut in staccato
[1358]bursta—"Get those bays closed! Give
[1359]me your passports! Give me your air-
[1360]line tickets!" Branch ard Rothchild
[1361]are convinced that he wants to destroy
[1362]the documents befora ‘he kills them.
[1363]Morales leaves the room within -two
[1364]minutes, but his performance leaves so
[1365]much afterlife that Rothchild and
[1366]“Branch don't do anything once he has
[1367]left, They don't call. anybody, they don’t
[1368]> «sneak off the balcony; ‘they don’t even
[1370]say a word to each other.
[1374]Lie Both of them jump off the floor when”
[1376]‘"S the phone rings, then look dumbly at
[1377]each other, Branch picks up the re-
[1379]_ ceiver, grunts, and puts it down. “All
[1380]the guy said was, ‘He is waiting,” he
[1381]tells Rothchild. Hranch’s own voice
[1382]“sounds far off to him.
[1384]Iaclan has had~rough going down. :
[1386]stairs, maybe rougher than the other
[1387]two Because she ig alone and also be-
[1388]cause shé is not yet a U.S. citizen.
[1389]. Morales wahes her. up with the same
[1390]' staccato commands. She thinks maybe
[1391]i. he is going to take her away and have
[1392]i her deported back to Havana. She js so
[1393]seared that she Jocks herself in .the
[1394]‘ bathroom and doesn’t. come out until
[1395]she hears the other two repo:ters stum-
[1396]bling downstairs with their bags,
[1398]Morales twists the knife with a little
[1400]humiliation. “Pay your Dill!” he yells.
[1401]Branch doesn’t think he should have to
[1403]pay for the hospitality he has received, :
[1405]_ but he pulls out "his wallet without a
[1406]Second’s , Fiesitation, “Pick up your
[1408]bags! | Let's got” The reporters’ are’ -
[1410]hustled out of the lobby, past ® aquad-
[1412]ron of sunglasses, Morales is already
[1413]. cahead of thei ; barking. orders on-his_
[1415]walkietalkie, Te is still dark.
[1417]The reporters are put into the back -
[1419]- of a car. Morales and a driver are up
[1420]front, Nobedy is talking much. Branch
[1421]_ | is wearing his‘ bes i
[1422]‘not Femember put
[1423]rales’ brutal prodding. Now ho thinks
[1424]maybe something deep in his uncon-
[1426]-acious had ordered him to-look his best ~
[1428]Rothchild is terrified that they are
[1429]traveling In a private car instead of
[1430]_ an official police car. His fear of being
[1431]‘officially detained is rapidiy. being re-
[1432]placed by a fear of being unofficially
[1433]| bumped off. He keeps looking back at
[1434]the car full of goons that is following
[1435]close behind as they careen down the
[1436]mountain at one hundred twenty ki-
[1437]lumeters anbour, - .. eee
[1438]. {The ear ts heading out of town now,
[1440]: valent cS
[1442]tee,
[1443]tthe populated areas and into those Crs
[1445]sits where raecutians aml accidents
[1446]take place, Branch ia desperately trys
[1447]ing toy make contact with Murales. He
[1448]mentions sane peeple from Miami wat
[1449]he and Morales had once Satheld ta to-
[1450]ether, But every tine Eranch diopa a
[1451]tame, Morales tutos the volume up on
[1452]the radi. He leaves it that way, bar
[1453]ing, until the questioner gives up aul
[1454]Bits bach in his seat. But desperation
[1455]ereates another question, ancther try,
[1456]which ends in another mambe bast
[1457]Branch gives up on the name-diopping
[1458]and even tries some spy-world sult
[1459]production, “Rip would not hie what
[1460]you are doing to us,” he aays. “Kip
[1461]would be ashamed.” Rip Robertson was
[1462]Moraies’ gun-toting case officer in the
[1463]Congo operations, Rothchild thinks ~
[1465]Branch is foulish to bring up the Congo «
[1467]and remind Morales how tittle he cares
[1468]for human Isfe, Morales says nothing.
[1469]He just, gives the radio knob anvther |
[1470]twist ~~.
[1471]. Inclan ts taking the- personal route
[1472]again, talking ‘about this nephew she
[1473]has ‘seen, mentioning ‘other relatives of
[1474]Morales who live in Miawi. Morales
[1475]isn't answering her, either. He is get-
[1476]- ting tired. of the radio. Now he just
[1477]~ deans. his” head over against the door to
[1478]set some steep.- Watching Morales-nod,
[1479]the fury turned off- like a ‘Tight, .
[1480]Branch’s mind is filled with memortes:-
[1481]of Miami Cubans telling stories of
[1482]legendary agents who would drop off
[1483]to sleep just before landing in Cuba on
[1484]a CLA. commando raid, He never quite
[1485]“believed the stories, hut he thinks
[1486]Morales’ nap is very effective theater,
[1487]Rothchild is also watching the nap,
[1488]Every time Morales neds, Rothchild
[1489]thinks he is ducking so that the bullets
[1490]from the car behind won't hit him,
[1491]Rothchild ducks, too.
[1492]‘After about twenty minutes of driv. |
[1493]ing, the road flattens out and the re-
[1494]porters can see the airport in the dis-
[1495]tance, Morales mentioned “nirport”
[1496]once back in the hotel lobby, but the
[1497]" reporters were never suré he intended
[1498]‘to take them there. If he were just.
[1499]planning to expel them,-it would seem"
[1501]* whether they will ever r get ‘ef
[1502]find en. what it in Nobuty, after all,
[1503]Lnows nPere the reporters ace, and the
[1504]only thing ua thers side, besiies some
[1505]vesticral compassion that might reaite
[1507]-pomewhere even in goons, is the rense
[1509]that world opinion would be on Mo-
[1510]Shark if they did net tortured or
[1512],
[1513]b.
[1514]opinion Was on the terrurists' backs
[1515]about the Cuban airline crash and
[1516]nbuvt Letcher and Mothet, They killed
[1517]them anyway, They didn’t give a damn,
[1519]The car pulls up at the airport. It is
[1520]less than eisht hours since the report-
[1521]era catered the country, and they have
[1522]tatked to nobody ecaxcept Morales, the
[1523]goons and each other. Their best guess
[1524]is that Morales plang to heop it that
[1526]Breakfast at Ricardo's . *
[1527]Morales marches the grcup through
[1528]part of the sirport lobby and then up
[1529]some back stairs, past the meteorolozy
[1530]room and into the tower section. They
[1531]arrive at a locked, knobless door with
[1532]a small pass-through window, and
[1533]Morales has to knock béfore it is
[1534]opened. from tho inside. They have
[1535]arrived at the goon control center,
[1536]There is a four-drawer cabinet where
[1537]“the DISIP ‘police file their guns and
[1538]bullet clips like memos. There is an
[1539]‘Old -couch,-a. few desks, and in an ad-
[1540]joining room some bunk- beds. All the
[1541]people from the night shift are still
[1542]there, including Romulo, in the same
[1543]turtleneck and the same Jeather jacket, |
[1544]The most impressive new lurker is a
[1546], character they call “EL Largo,” or “The
[1548]_ that he could afford to be more com--
[1550]municative, more curious about what
[1551]the reporters were doing, moré worried
[1552]about the kind of story they might
[1553]write about him. But, _Moralés asked,
[1554]nd - questions. Rothchild ~ ‘knew from
[1555]‘Braneh’s incessant’ briefings. that Mo--
[1556]“yales wore a lot-of hats: terrorist ag:
[1557]well as, informant, mercenary as ‘well |
[1558]as, cop, “bomber as welt a3 representa-
[1560]. tive of a government, It might be more.!
[1562]paranoia to think he‘ would kill them,
[1563]but alt last night's paranoia had come
[1564]true. -
[1566]The reporters know one thing: they’
[1567]have stumbled onto a story that is
[1568]big enough and sensitive enough that
[1569]top people in the Venezuelan DISIP
[1570]‘are interrupting their steep and risk-
[1571]ing diplomatic “repr
[1572]hell out of them. It isn’t routiné in
[1573], Venezuela, une of the few South Ameri-
[1574]“can countries left with any sense of
[1575]freedom of the press, There is ‘some.
[1576]thing big going on, and the reporters
[1577]don't now, (13. they | speed through
[1579]Netter ee = 2 te
[1581]Leng | One.”
[1583]It is clear now that the plan is not
[1584]torture, it is deportation, but the re
[1585]porters sense that the plan could easily
[1587]be changed. Morales is stalking be.
[1588]tween rooms, giving ‘orders and mah-
[1589]ing calls, and when he looks at the re-
[1590]porters he seéthes ‘with anger. Jnclin:
[1591]and Branch are directing more ques-
[1592]tions at him from the couch. He an-,
[1593]swers only with contemptuous looks. --
[1595]- No one is prepared for What happens
[1596]next. Morales walks out with a wide
[1597]grin on his face. He clasps hia hands:
[1598]together like a waiter and cheerfully
[1600]addresses the reporters: “Is anybody. |
[1601]‘hungry? Are you ready for some break< {
[1603]“fast?”
[1605]fed, But that’s just the ;
[1606]4
[1607]t
[1609]down the maze of corridors. They de-
[1610]* cide there is something oriental “about
[1611]recent developments, and they are con- 4
[1612]vineed Morales could show them. grent
[1613]courtesy one moment and yank ont
[1614]their. ‘toenails “the next. They follow
[1615]Morales down the corridors unti] they
[1616]‘come ta a small dining rvom that ap-
[1617]pears to be reserved for airport per- |
[1618]sonnel, Branch gives fleeting thought |
[1619]to the idea of making a scene, but:
[1620]he decides Morales would not ‘have,
[1621]drought them here unless he controlled;
[1622]the ares. Besides, Branch realizes, he: © >
[1623]does not have the courage to make a!
[1624]scene in front of Morales, who still has :
[1625]the reperters nearly paralyzed ; with
[1626]‘fright.
[1628]Morales lays his big walkie-talkie
[1629]down on the table and soaps for ay
[1631]The reporters follow Morales dumbly wi ene es
[1634]14-0000
[1636], : -
[1638]-_ wef ae gee . ss, cea. cee a .
[1640]at wilt you have” he ashe “aw from reality.” Me looks” aft and. “Wel what are ou dning in Veno-
[1641]sa pagan, rucla i was killed in Washington
[1643]waiter, “W>
[1646]. . ~& see reporters had fguret breakfast we don't think 20," anys Inclin. “1 Morales cemaunds,
[1647]was probably a ruse, 60 they think think pow ore.” “Hecause IT think the people who
[1648]about foud for the first time, 1¢ is a “No,” says storates, “You are a hune conspired ty bill hint are here. That's
[1650]struggle. Hothchiid's stomach fs file! dred miles from reality, and Jo orn aio what my sources say, and it has even
[1651]- with embalming fluid. He feel quensy hundred years from reatity., You under- been in home of the Venezuelan news-
[1653]looking at the mene. branch ashe only + stand the differonce?”: . papers.”
[1654]for coffee and an order of toast, Kuth- “LT don't know what I understand,” Morates looks disgusted. “You
[1656]child follows suit, Morales Jouks disap. shouldn't read the newspapers,” he says -
[1657]pointed and urges them to eat more | tightly. “They He. And you should in-
[1659]heartily fuclin orders eygs and Mo vestigate that murder in Washington
[1661]saya Inclan, “TE know something nbvut
[1662]you. Taylor says he tathed to you about
[1663]your background in Miami and you
[1665]tulkhed to him like a fried. He says instead of coming holfw ny around the:
[1667]rales looks pleased, He orders a sump-
[1668]' tucus breakfast | for himself, It arrives. you were nice and now you are . world”.
[1669]promptly. - --- "“L am not nice,” snaps Morales, Branch tries another ‘tack, “T don't.
[1670]ees “Well,” he asks grandly, “who do you “You know what I used to dv in Cuba understand what's behind this, Ricardo,
[1671].t. think will win your election, . Carter or = when I was 9 hid? I sent anonymous | You nren’t Jike you were the last time’ .
[1672]Ford?” = death wrentha to my friends, All the I saw you, in 1974. Don’t you remem- =
[1673]ber? It was at night in Miami Beach,
[1675]The reporters "exchange the look, time. Is that nice?”
[1676]familiar by now, that signals their | Branch dees not like ‘this subject. or and you brought your girl friend over
[1677]. “agreement that- absurdity has reached the faintly homicidal look “he sees be to the house I was staying in. And
[1678]uew heights, They mumble offhand an-° fore him. He decides to make another Fotingo Silva was there, And Tamayo .
[1679]. . SWers as Morales listens intently. - stab at levity. “Look, Ricatdo,” he says, was there. We talked almost all night °) - .
[1680]“You don’t really have much choice,” “I'm upset that pou and your men have about the Congo. Why have you
[1681]. ane ---de-yout™ he asks. “E niean, you have kept me from seeing anything about changed? Is there something . - .”
[1682]> a two guys who don't have any ideas and ~ the last-game of the Warld Series last _ Branch stops because of what he sees - .
[1684]don't have any backbone, right? And night.” ~~ on Morales’ face.
[1685]neither one of them can command any- “The World Series; ” ‘he says, his eyes > “You are lying!” he explodes, ‘ay have
[1687]ws “thing or stop anything, so it doesn’t opening wide, “Let me tell you about © ‘pever heard of Ricardo Morales! This
[1689]make any difference, right? At least the World Series. It is just hike the is the first time I have ever met you,
[1690]_— that's” what 1 Bet from Time muga- “world everywhere: the Reds are win- and it is the first time you have met |
[1691]zine.” -ing and the Yanks are losing!" Mo- me! Understand? I have never seen |
[1692]Ineldn tries to change the subject. rales breaks into laughter. Something you before in my life! 1£ you say dif- . i
[1693]She asks Morales about his position in snaps in the reporters and they laugh, ferent you are lying! And, bad things
[1694]thé DISIP and gets no response. She too, uncontrollably. Fear floats out of huppen to liars!"
[1695]mentions Morales’ nephew, whom she their mouths and they feel belter, Inchin comes to Branch’s rescue. “E
[1696]knows in Miami, and Morales parries the: Branch wades in to reestablish con- have seen your picture,” she says, “and |
[1697]remark, Suddenly a cloud comes acrosa tact. “Look, Ricardo,” he Says gamely, Vm sure who you are. if you're not |
[1698]his face. - ~ “Tcan't help thinking this is some kind = Morales, then what is your name?” 7
[1699]“What's the matter with you?” he . , “I don’t answer personal questions,”
[1700]demands. “Why aren’t you eating?” Ile 2 Ee tae rant to be straight wth : Morales says, smiling, trying to Touk
[1701]~peints down at the dry tuast, which der of Orlando Letelier. That's what [. ShY. “|
[1702]Branch and Rothchild have been pick- ., came dawn here for, and I want...” “I think maybe you figure there's a
[1703]little spy conspiracy here,” Branch ob- . ale
[1705]i
[1707]> — - ing at Tike wafilers at Communion, © “He's " ;
[1708]- “Aren't yon hungry?” - >” . Washinetnn ey who got blow up i in: serves, stabbing ‘in the dark: “But there
[1709]Branch neds yes; Rothehild nods no.” f think L saw thatin Time. » isn’t, John and I are old friends, but
[1710]“You tald me you hadn't gotten any ““That’s right. He was blown up right just met Hilda yesterday. She is | /
[1711]breakfast, so I-give you breakfast,” ' around’ the corner from my apart. interested in Bosch and his friends be- |
[1712]., Morales declares angrily, waving his . ment cause of the bombings in Miami and
[1713]arms, “If you are not hungry, you are “, et ** . 1 the Cuban plane. We are interested in
[1714]liars! What's the matter with you?” ~ pout. 7 at le) A them because of Letelier. The three of
[1715].. The reporters: are exasperated, “We toe a Tt tus just happened to come. down. here -
[1716]: ‘- on the same plane.” ~~
[1718]are afraid and confuséd,”. says. Incl:
[1720]++ “because nobody will tell us why this is | “Oh, really?” says Morales dubious. .
[1722]ly. “I guess you are good friends now.”
[1724]happening ‘to us. I'am a reporter like .
[1725]all the other reporters down here. 1  E guess we "ve gone through some- .
[1726]> want to interview Orlanda Bosch Tike thing together,” says Rothchild. : -
[1727]Idid Gnee before..." : - L . . ° “Now you have something in com-
[1728]. “Never heard of him,” interrupts : ao mon,” he nods, “feigning tenderness,
[1729]- Morales. He gives us an exaggerated eee ee eer “Let's see, what else is there? Have
[1730]Ss . oo you all been married?” The reporters
[1732]shrug and a quizzical look.
[1733]nod. “How about divorced?” The re-
[1735]_ : Inclan shakes her head in despair.
[1736]a -- .“Oh, come or, You testified against him . porters nod again. “Once?” They nod
[1737]a _ Gight years ago in Miami and now he's an again,
[1738]the most famous prisoner in Latin - Morales holds up three fingers. “I
[1739]x . . America, He's in your jail.” . have been divorced’ three times,” he
[1740]“Did. he mnake Tints magazine?” asks says, “after four kids. I haven't” seen |
[1741]: Morales. . them in seven years.” This hangs in the
[1742]“Yes,” says Branch, air.
[1743]“L guess I missed it,” says Moraies, “Do you miss them?” asks Inclén, .
[1744]. He pauses, then turna to Inclin. “Yo a . “Not the children,” Morales says
[1745]should not be running around asking to -softly. “Just the wives sumetimes, I |
[1746]many questions,” he says sternly. “You . don’t miss much. You know I haven't
[1747]are a woman, Women should be at Hlept in two years.” The reporters give
[1748]home having babieo and making theit each other significant looks, like shrinks
[1749]men happy, Nothing else.” attending a primal-therapy session,
[1750]ginclan is rutied, “I can work as well “Hf you are going to kick us out of
[1751]a4 most other reporters,” she says. the country, you should at least Jet ust
[1752]Morales shakes his head vigorously, call our fami}ies,” Inelan saya. “My
[1753]“No you can’t, You are a hundned niles j editors are going lo be worried. We ;
[1756]cet t
[1758]C:
[1760], -
[1762]* have appointments’ and those people,
[1763]Hion’t have any idea where we are. Why
[1764]tan’t you tet us make at hast one
[1765]phone call?"
[1767]of Morales bas shed his melancholy and
[1769]alipped into a new persona, He is
[1771]caver, “You'ro right," he saya, “1H call
[1772]them. Anyowly you went, Tell me who
[1773]your appvintments are with.” Ho pulls
[1775]is startled by how fast Morales moves
[1776]and how fiercely he snaps the point
[1777]down, <
[1778]- The reporters glance knowingly at
[1779]- each other, They share a vision of
[1781]s. Morates hauling their contacts down to
[1782]2 DIS!P's welcom: 2 wagon, We're not that
[1784]. dumb, they think, were >
[1786] Inclan tells Morates to call her editor
[1788]‘lat The Miami News, a safe, serious .
[1790]call, Mor«es speils out the name letter
[1792]by ‘letter as he writes on his napkin -
[1794]‘y like a schoolboy taking down his home”
[1796]7 deadpans. .
[1798]* work.; He is putting a@ snow. He “
[1800]looks xt Branch. .
[1802]-'as if INL be able to make it this trip,”
[1803]Branch says. He's i in the DISIP Pris.
[1805]The’ reporters giggle, bul Morales
[1806]“T-e-1-] ~O-r-1- a-i-d-o
[1808]B-o-s-hi,.” °°
[1809]“You've spelled Bosch “wrong” says
[1811]Inclan, “It's Beo-g-e-h.” * .
[1812]“'m sorry,” says Morales,
[1814]+ Morales keeps writing. “You are a
[1815]. funny one," he says jovially. He looks
[1816]up. “Anybody else7”
[1818]“Yes,", says Branch,. He has been
[1819]: trying to think of one of his contacts
[1820]in Venezuela who weuld’ not he vul-
[1821]nerable to Morales but whose clout
[1822]might impress him, Any name is a risk,
[1823]but he decides to take one. , “Tell the
[1824]“governor of Caracas thut I won't be .
[1825]able to see him. His name is Diego
[1827]Arias. Do you know him?" - - .
[1829]-- Branch studies Morales for a reac-
[1831]“ tion, but there is rione.
[1833]” After breskfast, as the procession goes
[1834]by a pay phone, Inclin suddenly an-
[1836]-nounces; “I'd like ta make one call ‘to
[1838]the American Embassy.” She breaks
[1840]” step and marches toward it, the first
[1842]:: Sign of overt
[1844]resistance, Morales
[1845]freezes Branch and Rothchild with a-
[1846]-malicious glance and walks. with her,
[1847]shaking his head. Support goons appeat
[1848]irom around corners; They seem re-
[1849]* Jaxed. Morales fingers his walkie-talkie. '
[1850]* Taclan gets to the phone and starts
[1851]fumbling for Venezuelan change and
[1852]her phone numbers. Morales leans up
[1853]against the wall near the phone. He
[1854]Jooks amused. His body seems to twitch
[1856]“ Hittle under his suit, as if he might
[1858]need some exercise,
[1859]Branch and Rothchild keep ‘telling
[1861]* themselves that Inclan is making a
[1863]futile gesture, but they admire her.
[1864]“She's yet more guts than we do,”
[1865]_ whispers Rothchild.”
[1867]Branch and Rothchild watch her lift
[1868]the phone from the cradle, but they
[1869]don’t think she has the change or the
[1870]-number, She Is nervous, She looks
[1872]Morales in the face, which Is probably
[1874]ia inistake. He stares at her, shakes his
[1876]+ head, and hangs up the phone gently. -
[1878]2
[1879]rs
[1881]ws Mash, Branch blinks. He-
[1883]wey,
[1885]“Tell Orlando: Bosch it doesn't, look’.
[1887]Ar oa eee, Tee
[1888]- Aa hour later, Morales suddenly
[1889]Mobiizes his entire tice. Samo e? his
[1890]men crab the reporters’ suitcases and
[1891]- vanish, Others take of for unknown
[1892]dextinations, The rest fal! in arcund
[1893]the verertere and Morales leads them
[1894]briskly out the dvor.
[1896]Rothchild figures they have just
[1897]enough thine to make the ten am. fight
[1898]to Miami thet he had seen posted on a
[1899]board some time earlier, He senses an
[1900]end coming and feels sone relief, But
[1901]when the entourage emerges on the air-
[1902]port's main concuurse, Morales turns
[1903]toward the exit . into Caracas, not
[1904]towurd the planes. te
[1906]-“I thought you were putting us on
[1907]the plane,” says Branch. “Where are
[1908]we paing?” er
[1910]— i
[1911]“To the other. nirport, ” says Me
[1912]rales, His mind is elsewhere. - > >
[1913]“What happens if we make a fuss
[1914]‘ when you- put us on the plane?” In--
[1915].elin asks, “What then?” * ‘= -
[1916]Morales’ face is taut but breaks into
[1917]a tour-guide smile. “You will either
[1918]“~Jeave Venezuela. nice and - happy,:
[1919]or...” He pauses, “Or you will leave
[1920]nice anJ happy.” He delivers the last
[1921]line with a lilt, as if making a rhyme.
[1922]‘he reporters absorb the | menacing
[1923]smile and fall silent. - - “-
[1924]Several ‘cars screech up to the curb. °
[1925]Once loaded, they take off at the usual
[1926]torrid pace. Branch feels panie open-
[1927]ing trapdoors under his lungs and he
[1928]Jeans over to Rothchild. “Holy shit,
[1929]John,” he whispers, “I don’t think thera
[1930]és wnother airport ii in Caracas,” .
[1931]After racing a quarter mile down
[1932]the road, the cars turn abruptly into a
[1933]parking lot. The reporters are” baffled
[1934]‘by the mish and the short-trip but re-
[1935]“lieved to be stayitg near the airport,
[1936]“They figure they are headed for a
[1937]plane from a different. direction, but
[1938]Morales leads them ‘thréugh another
[1939]‘maze of corridors and into a new hold-
[1940]- Ing reom: It has a big waiting area -
[1941]with, two rooms partitioned off on the
[1942]side. The doors are metal with no.
[1943]handles. They lock from both sides.
[1945]- Morales vanishes, leaving K3smulo’
[1947]and Et Largo ia charge. Rémuolo's
[1948]fingertips do push-ups on his desk -
[1950]while he looks on, stonefaced. Roth- -
[1952]child gets the impression that Romulo
[1953]likes to stare at-blank walls more than
[1955]~ at people. El Largo, who seems to be a
[1956]notch absve Réinulo in the pecking
[1957]order, moves into one of the partitioned:
[1958]offices and stays almost continuously on
[1959]the phone. He reminds the reporters of
[1960]his presence from time to time by
[1961]loudly sucking phlegm up his long
[1962]spiny nose.
[1964]After about ten minutes, Branch
[1965]starts pacing away from Rémuloa
[1966]“Goldamn it,” Branch spurts, “ don’t
[1967]think we know enough about Morales
[1968]to make him do all this. He’s going to
[1969]n lot of trouble to seal us off from
[1970]Venezuela, but jit doesn't make sense
[1971]that he would do it just because we
[1972]know who he is.”
[1974]. “Why'not?” asks Inelan. ”
[1976]« “Because,” says Rothchild, “what we
[1978]Blready Know is going to come out any-
[1980]way if he kicks us out cf the country.”
[1981]“J think maybe Norales is more
[1983]fete Tt
[1985]i
[1987]we icied atout what we m: recht, find out
[1988]if we ever pet out of his clutches, d
[1989]says Hranch, “1 think ‘maybe it's the |
[1990]fact that ‘this terrorise: is organized
[1991]internationally, Hosch moves around on
[1992]illegal passports and has fancy fund-
[1993]FDISing’ dinners with supposecty respect~
[1994]able pecple in lots of countries, He's
[1995]supported by at least part of a lot of
[1996]governments, And this stu! locks cross
[1997]national—-Cubsns killing Chileans and
[1998]so forth. Now lock at how Venezuela
[1999]fits in, it's kind of an entrepét for ev-
[2000]erybody on all sides, The porernment is
[2001]in a real pickle. It bas to ect along
[2002]with the military juntas that have tak-
[2003]en over most of Latin America, and it
[2004]zlso has to ect along with Castro, This |
[2005]country is filled with left-wing Chilean |
[2006]exiles and right-wing Cuban -enles, +
[2007]Letelier is buried here, which is a tilt
[2008]td the left, but the pecple who helped
[2009]conspire to kill him might well be right ~
[2011]os mae
[2013]"fn the DISIP, which is full of Cubans
[2014]like Morales. President Pérez [Carlos
[2016]Andrés, of Venervela] has got his own-
[2017]little Watergate here, because his own -
[2018]government is tangled up with both
[2019]the terrorists and the ‘anti-terroyists. ©
[2021]’ This whole country is like a tinderbox,
[2023]The government is making little ges-‘
[2024]tures to both sides, trying to keep the
[2025]lid on. *- aoe
[2026]“Okay,” Branch continues, “Let's”
[2027]assume that Morales is not bootlercing
[2028]us out of the country on his own. That ;
[2029]seems stupid to me. Let’s assume that }
[2030]at Teast the people in the interior
[2031]ministry kiow what's going on. And
[2032]Jet’s assume they’re afraid we'll get
[2034]-into the country and find 2 story that
[2036]foes something like INTERNATIONAL
[2037]TERRORIST ORGANIZATION HEADQUAR-
[2038]TERED IN VENEZUELA. GPERATOES MOST-
[2039]LY CUBAN, EXILES “1Td CLA AND FSI TIES,
[2040]VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT PLAYING ROTH
[2042]-sivEs, And we go on to say that Basch
[2044]has brought a lot.of Latin ‘governments
[2045]around to his position, which is that it’s
[2046]better to trust each othe: than to trust
[2047]the C.LA. Now, what I’m saying is that |
[2049]* g story like that would realty screw up
[2051]the Venezuelaas, especially if it’s fleshed -
[2052]out, It's the last thing the government |
[2053]here needs right now.”
[2055]“So what side 13 Morales on?” asks -
[2056]Rothehild. aare 7 Ou
[2058]“I thi he’s on both “sides,” says,
[2059]Inclan. .
[2061]“I think so, 00,” says Braned, “just
[2062]like the ‘government. Morales is in the
[2063]underworld of both sides.”
[2065]Inclin thinks for a moment. “There's i
[2066]only, one big. problem,” she says, “If
[2067]they're so. afraid of a story, like that,
[2068]why do they let’ other reporters stay
[2069]‘and just throw us out? Why do they
[2070]pick on us?”
[2072]“] don’t know,” Branch sighs. “— 7
[2074]don’t know much about the correspon-
[2075]dents here, They’re getting some’ stuif
[2076]out, but my impression is that they
[2078]cover nine countries and just fy in for ts
[2080]the coups and earthquakes. That still
[2082]doesn’t make us so special, But maybe |
[2083]we are to Morales. We know him, He
[2084]knows Hilda knows a lot about Bosch
[2085]and Miami connections. He knows that
[2086]1 got pretty deeniv into the CLA.
[2087]Cubdans, Then he sees us with the prose i
[2088]iT
[2089]continues
[2092]14-0000
[2094]cutors, That may have been tvo much
[2095]for him ta: take chances with us I
[2096]don’t know, Maybe he thinks we're:
[2097]CA
[2099]Swords on the Runway
[2100]El Largo_picks up the three: passports
[2101]of Rormslo’s desk and points them
[2102]towanl the loched_dour lie a baton.
[2103]“Vani,” is allhhe says.”
[2104]The mets} door is unlocked by El
[2105]ant onte again the DISIP cor-
[2106]te,e appeacs from nowhere. They es
[2107]cort tie reporters down ajothér stair-
[2108]ease and cut toward an immigration
[2109]stallin a large rovm that ls coinpletely.
[2110]isolated -It is a busy part-of the day‘at
[2111]+ a major airport, but the DISIP keeps
[2112]. finding these empty halls and’ empty
[2113]>, Yooms to stick the reporters in,
[2114]Something about approaching this
[2115]“immigratoa stall, which is not’ ‘attend-
[2116]* ed, and knowing ‘he. will pass through:
[2117]“it and get on aa airplane ahd not and -
[2118]:  Leteijer’s curderer starts to galvanize
[2119]Branch. There is a tiny- Passage te go~
[2120]“; through and: El Largo ‘is anctioning
[2121]“them: to walk on, but Branch is haying:
[2122]hesé visions of ‘the bombed ‘car outside ~
[2123]nis, apartment and he. is getting mad.
[2124]we The msdderrhe gets, the -slower he
[2125]+ ne Twslks, “We can’t just get. on this
[2126]. : > plane,” Ee says to Kothchild, “We have -
[2127]foe “to af least:do something.” He and Roth-
[2128]”- child, and. then Inclan. behind ‘them, g0-
[2129]*_ into a-stall ta complete stop, but
[2130]they are slowiig ‘it way down, Moraies
[2131]might have’ clamped down on this little
[2132]_ insurreetion in 2 second, But Eb Largo.
[2134]‘ : seems tuérely. agitated. He is getting in.
[2136]. - front of the reporters, pleading and
[2137]ves . 0) begging, pulling with his arms as if
[2138]* they are all eonttected by an invisible.
[2140]ae. 7 YOpe,
[2142]a vo In -compleie “exasperation, | he staita
[2143]Sputtering threats, “If you don’t move
[2144]through here, I am going to use ihe
[2145]forest!” Two | ‘guards go running down
[2146]tothe erd ef the room, apparently to go
[2148]and paratreoper boots. |
[2150]= Out of 's pictur window the. report.
[2151]ra. can See the plane being. gassed up.
[2153]aa ‘not Pan Aim. Inclan, finally ‘ex-
[2154]réssing some , ‘paranoia herself, Says,
[2156]- lane, But they wouldn't sac!
[2157]Venezuelan plan They don't: have that’
[2158]many of trem: "-,
[2160]thee ¢aa see the busloads. of tourists »
[2161]being ‘Aushed back cut from their vaca-
[2162]tions, The buses ara stopping at the
[2163]‘ back stairway of the plane. Then
[2164]. . Branch ftets his idea, “In here where
[2165]‘there is nobody to see us we can't do
[2166]much,” he tells Rothchild, “But out
[2167]“there, in front of all those tourists, we-
[2168]can get sone help Let's hall Rothchild
[2170]te
[2171]re oar rr
[2173]Tee ene teens
[2175]find the forte, which turns out to: be -
[2176]four young seldiers in green fatignes .
[2178]is VIASA, the Venezuelan airline,
[2180]and Branch baddie with Inclan. They
[2181]sh the plan ond agree, Then all
[2182]t.  @ abanlon their shultte, to the sare
[2183]prise of the herders, who have been
[2184]pushing all alung, Suddenty they see
[2186]‘their quarry running o:f in front of
[2188]therm. El Larco doesn’t catch on right
[2189]away, but he knows that ohatever the
[2190]reporters want to do, it must be thy
[2191]wrong thing. Sovhe starts running after
[2192]them, yelling. “Stop! Branch and
[2193]Rothchild h:t the double silass door with
[2194]Inclan ant EF} Largo and the acmy just
[2195]behind. They a3! pour out onto the run-
[2196]way to the curious looky -of hundreds
[2197]who arelined upto Jeet on the plane.
[2198]For the first: time since they landed.
[2199]in V. ‘enevuela, Inclén is visibly upset.
[2200]She Tashes out to the line of passen-
[2201]gers, screaming: in Spanish and English
[2202]that she is a woman reporter whose
[2203]dignity kas: been trampled on by the
[2204]secret-police. The polite,” who Are mass ©
[2205]ing Behind’her th greater wun
[2206]ever before, don't know ow to
[2207]- deal with. ‘this, ‘The’ pass don't
[2208]know whetherto Becept he: as a-lunatic -
[2209]traveler’ whom they don't want with:
[2210]them. on the plane; or. to bélieve, what.
[2211]she is saying, which’ would be unpleas-
[2212]ant, Most of them pretend that nothing
[2213]is. happening: and ¢o on up the ramp. "
[2214]Branch, ‘nieanwhile, has planted hini-
[2215]self on the stairs that lead to the front
[2216]cabin of the plane."He is sitting down
[2217]and his hands are clenched to the rails
[2218]like a Quahér chained to the White
[2220]House fence, Rothchild is sitting on the
[2221]steps just below Branch, and ‘they are- L
[2223]being’ surrounded by a brigade of reine:
[2224]forceméents; the sword’. company, Tlie
[2225]men in -brown uniforms have circled
[2226]them, and they pull the swords a few
[2229]the pear ale Behind them officials and”
[2230]police seem to be pouring out of the
[2231]doors ‘and official jeeps are screeching
[2233]ff, and Romulo has
[2235]The captain of-the aizplane, | a Vene-
[2236]aublan, comes down the same rarap on.
[2238]a which Branch and Rothchild. have been |
[2240]. bis a eupeine héld up a ee
[2241]Bers! fast’ memory of ¥e i
[2243]to the huddte of secret police, where the
[2245]“etirrent brainy of ‘the operation, Rémulo -
[2246]and El Largo, are standing: . The cap-
[2248]tain Proceeds to chew them out,. tell
[2250]- them: that they'are idiots to pull'a show
[2252]and that. he’ will: not take: pas -
[2253]Idaded by forte: The seciirity risk, “for
[2255]‘ene thing. LE these, people ; are that fan: :
[2256]gereus, then why should the
[2258]be flying
[2260]a‘une on his airplane? .-
[2261]Et Largo and Rémulo don't quite
[2263]‘know how to‘hand!a this sudden obsta- °
[2265]cle. They get a let’s-talk-this-one-over-
[2266]daddy loox on their faces and go into a
[2267]huddle with tke captain. They also de
[2268]fer to even higher authority, a beely
[2269]eop named Camargo, who is wearing a
[2270]short-sleeve shirt. Cantarzo arrives in
[2272]abbards ready” + atid e
[2274]: ly_line,
[2275]notes in and notes out, the DISIP
[2277]sand blackjacks.”
[2278]. ricans” ‘bp ‘the ramp. “He | .
[2279]- steps over Branch and goes - right. down |
[2281]- -1@ncoragement. He instantly calls for
[2283]- numbers in, his pocket and, as o di-
[2285]the mbtile of the acens, looking tike ths
[2286]frust I director of a ‘runaway cash .
[2287]There .ce now dusens of DISIP men
[2288]in plain clothes,-a few repr
[2289]from about four different military de-
[2290]tachments, frantic jeep drivers, airline
[2291]authorities, pilots and Zround-<rew pres
[2292]aennel, all crowding around to watch
[2293]or take pare in the action. Camaige
[2294]looks shy ward, thinking undec pressure,
[2295]and gets his idea. “Why don’t you Iet
[2296]me go with these people?” he asks the
[2297]pilot. “If I take them to Miamf, 1 guar-
[2298]antre there won't be any funny Bluff
[2299]on your. pisne,” Rothebild thinks this is
[2300]& Sits
[2302]retiirn B 3 »”
[2303]pull one-off. theniselves, ,
[2304]The pilot doen't think too much of
[2305]Camaryro's idea, “Do vou have a U.S.
[2306]visi?” he asks Camargo, “No. “Then,
[2307]ee you know What ey will do |
[2310]1
[2312]hi
[2313]that. sound
[2314]the captain re!
[2315]The
[2316]they have
[2317]a theatrical jetory:
[2318]at all these car3 and soldiers and dis-
[2319]tressed officisis—but they don’t Jike the
[2320]prospect uf lunch with Ricardo Morales,
[2321]Nobody seenis to be running to call the
[2322]American Embassy or ‘any other ont-
[2323]side help, so the Blan is a qualified’
[2325]‘The three of them head - back to the:
[2326]“passenger ine, where ‘people ‘are- still
[2327]loadirig, and start w: 2 phone nuri-
[2328]bers on little scraps of “_paper—the Ri
[2329]bers, i i
[2331]reporters are receivéd in this effort: tike
[2332]‘Salvation Army coilectors at the race-
[2333]track. Only a few of the passengers ac-
[2334]tually take the notes, but just to make
[2335]- gure, the DISIP people are picking
[2336]them off at the higher end of the line.
[2337]+ Some passengers even go out of their
[2338]way to hand over ‘the notes with an
[2340]- goons collecting just as fast as Inclan,
[2341]al ind Rothenild can scrawl. . >
[2343]It ‘is- row; with thé oplane about’ to. J
[2344]‘close its doors, that Branch comes up
[2345]with another plan: send one, leave two,
[2347]Branch still is hoping he can break the
[2348]Morales ‘logjain. and get out'into friend-
[2349]ly territory, where his ‘contacts are
[2350]waiting to help him, Inclin speaks the.
[2351]+ best Spanish ‘and seems the most adept
[2352]wat handling Inspectors and bureaucrats.
[2353]They. will stay and ‘Rothchild i is chosen
[2354]to leave. Branch reniinds -him, in front
[2355].of thé sword brigade; that he is an “ex-
[2356]pectant father,”: but Rothchild needs no
[2358]the captain and explains that he-wants
[2359]‘to get on the plane. The captain hesi-
[2360]tates, then agrees, and Rothchild runs
[2361]for the stairs, As he passes Branch and
[2362]Inclin, Branch sticks one page of phone
[2364]versionary tactic, clumstly sticks anoth-
[2365]er note in hid hand, vthia one in full
[2367]H
[2368]a
[2376]- «een ta dee ete 2.
[2377]*, + cos om sseentecienee
[2382]14-0000
[2384]view o1 the.cons. As th
[2385]-are frisking Rothchild: . iecond ‘note
[2386]is triumphantly confiscated. They don't
[2387]know chat it says “Joe Morgan” on it
[2388]The name 6f the xreat Cine:nnatl seco
[2389]end baseman will go somewhere into the
[2390]DISEP files,
[2391]Nalfway up ithe ramp. Rothehild
[2392]eeases trat the pressure has somehow
[2393]~ been reversed, that now the DISIP
[2395]wants to keep: him on the ground, Sev--_
[2397]eral cops are following him as if they
[2398]want to get ahead ind step him at the
[2399]door. He: seurries inside the plane and
[2401]rushes back to's : seat; ‘they ‘are still fol-.
[2402]lowing him, He Ka his seat belt-buckled ~
[2404]almost before his asahits the “cushion,
[2405]and the twa'cops reach out ' ‘as if to grab
[2406]- him, - sir minds and
[2407]abruptly leave the. sireraft. But they
[2408]quickly return, They ‘tell. Rothchild in a
[2410]+ Very friendly tone that his - Bra te
[2414]‘: down on the ground. want ‘ta:
[2416]- os “word with him and that he better uae
[2418]- ‘fat. as the plane entra
[2419]the stairs, when he. heai
[2421]3 The cops ate 2 not. throcgh yet- They
[2422]. return with another ploy: Rothebild has
[2423]+ wot filled out the necessary papers and
[2425]port. “Are you.sure thia.isa’ +) trick?”
[2427]Rothchild asks: “No,-no trick., Just, .°
[2429].@ procedural matter.” Kothchild tells -
[2430]them he-isn’t moving an inch until he
[2431]talks’ to thé captain,
[2433]a cours. --, Out’ his little window, Rothehild sees”
[2435]- further agitation‘on the runaway, They
[2437]. have -brought up -a car and they are.
[2439]on zto farce’ Branch and Inclin to
[2440]Lethe get‘ into it, Camargo is failing his. arms
[2441]- like a. giant windmill, ‘determined to’ ‘get
[2443]. all three reporters together—on or off
[2444]the plane. The reporters are equally
[2446]~ determined, to split up. Branch and --
[2448]Inclin keep telling Camargo that they
[2449]will’ not move from the runway until
[2450]‘the plane takes off. They want to stay
[2452]~ - in plaia view of all, the passengers, -
[2454]fearing’ “that the goons will grab Roth,
[2456]2 - ot about -how ‘incredible all the
[2458]"gre. crouched in the ‘shade, peettibe cig:
[2460]. . are spread gut in a semicircle like faus
[2461]: - in! the bleachers. wee H
[2463]- ticks ‘to get Bri ich and-
[2465]“sight, Will they move irito the airport, ‘
[2467]please? No. He goes off into a huddle
[2469]- . and comes back. Will they get in the
[2470]‘ .” car so they can get out of the hot sun?
[2471]7 . . No Will they get in the: -cat.if he prom-
[2472]"> ises they ‘can watch the plane, from
[2474]. .there? No. After one huddlé, ‘the-sn00d
[2476]“say @ prayer, refuse to move and wave
[2478]_. @stentatiously at the airplane. ‘The
[2479]goons shove. and menace but then go off
[2480]again, Rémule comes back with his gure
[2481]pulled, looking, like a crazed assassin.
[2482]Camargo soox yanks him back to the
[2484]carriers
[2486]he must return to an office in the.air- |
[2488]“” eouragini.each other and asking jokes :
[2490]_— changes and several goons éwing little
[2491]. ’ brown biackjacks. | ‘Branch aid - “Inctin
[2493]goon huddle, The plane starts taxiing _
[2495]prs Te
[2497]m the runway p and | Camarze ay,
[2498]~* You've won, Let's ga." The reporters
[2499]huddle and say not untl it's off the
[2500]fround, Camargo -loois furious and
[2501]barks a command to his walkietalhie
[2502]man, The plane stops irnmediately and
[2503]sits In the middle of the airstrip. Ca-
[2504]marge <o..trols the. tover, the reporters
[2505]conclude, The gaine, Played by inches
[2506]and bluifs, goes o2 for nearly'an hour.
[2508]Camargo Plays Hardball Teen .
[2509]Branch and Incléa are sprend-engled
[2510]axainst the back-doer cpenings of the
[2511]goon eas, facing each other, when the
[2512]jet finally takes off. They have held this
[2513]-position for the last Eiieen- minutes or
[2514]80 of the cat-and-mouse.game. The roat
[2515]- of the jet engines sets off ‘tremors in
[2516]‘Branch’s 's gut, and he is flucded with re-
[2517]lief. He feels tears welling upto. oT
[2519]“the front seat, Thee feats ff down the
[2520]runway with other cars following. °
[2522], “How Jong will it take the plane to
[2523]get to Miami? *.Inclin asks Camargo.
[2524]““A-little more than ‘three: hours,” says
[2525]“It ‘has to SP in Mara-
[2527]Camargo.
[2528]caibo.” -
[2530]+. Branch shivers and “gsks- Incl ta: + certifieate:
[2532]translate. the. Spanish to uiake sure he.
[2533]heard right.
[2535]“I thought you said it was a > direct
[2536]ni,” Inclin says. in dis. -
[2538]-sepines Camargo, “
[2540]The reporters digeass with renewed
[2541]horror the fact that Maracaibo is still
[2542]in Venezuela; they envision the DISIP
[2543]people paying a call oa Rothchild. Ca-.
[2545]\. | Varettes, “and several hundred gawkers -. ~
[2547]Rémuio-: vis: snow wearing - “his gua “os
[2549]eS Denes a oo
[2551]mar grins at them. His tps slant in.
[2553]one airection, and the upper row. of his
[2554]front tee{h ‘slants in the other, mating
[2556]an X. Branch thinks Camargo must -}-
[2558]file bis tecth, He inches away from
[2559]pamale until he is almost: fa Inelin’s |
[2561]Pp.
[2563]Three hours later, Camargo summons
[2564]the two reporters to his office after
[2565]more consultation with Central Ca-
[2566]‘pacas.:Only one thing bas changed, he
[2568]eeys gracious!y. Both their visas have -
[2569]been officiaily revoked; they are ore .
[2571]dered to leave at three-thirty, The re-
[2572]porters ask why, and Camargo sbrugs.
[2573]Without warning, the session is in-
[2574]téerrupied | when one of the younger -
[2575]gvons stroils in and hands Ci
[2577]Lt so
[2578]brand-new Jim Paimer baseball glove ~
[2579]and a box of-six baseballs, The Teport- .
[2581]Se wee Oe
[2583]ers‘are astonished” -”
[2585]- glove. He is ‘dbeadming: He
[2587]alks over toa corner when
[2588]_ there is a stack of framed: diplomas ca
[2589]the floor. He Rips through them and
[2590]hands Branch a diptoma from the U-S.
[2592]Army School of Special Warfare. It is -
[2594]signed by General Joseph W. Stilwell,
[2595]hen he hands’ Branch a:
[2596]Internationat Police --
[2597]Academy,’ a training school for “the
[2598]world’s policemen. It has closed aftér a -
[2599]dose of scandal, Branch wonders if all
[2600]the DISIP goons have been trained by |
[2601]“the Agency; he would like to meet their
[2604]Rothéhild has landed, in Miami: He -
[2606]goes straight’ to The Miami Ne
[2607]causes an ‘uproar with his ‘stor
[2608]editors there lave -béen. wortied .about™
[2610]” saya Camargo, . whe -
[2611]begins ‘to Pound his fist in the new
[2614]4
[2617]Inclin since shé missed Ner check-in -
[2619]call six hours BES. The managing edi- .
[2621]di
[2624]tor calls the Atierican Embassy ia Cas.
[2626]racas nad lifts’it off the ground with
[2627]i. The embassy promises ta investi-
[2628]Kale immediately. Rothchild begins to
[2629]reconsider his views on newspaper edi-
[2630]tors, ° :
[2631]‘Camargo comes Into the holding room
[2632]wearing the louk of a man who has just
[2633]accomplished something.
[2634]“Your visas have been officially con-
[2635]fiscated,” he announces.
[2636]The. reporters lock ot him blankly.
[2638]“What's new about that?” asks Inelda. .
[2640]“You have had them all day.”
[2641]“Now they ara permanently confis:
[2642]- cated.” says Camargo. He shows them
[2643]‘a new Verezuelan.seal stamped oa each
[2644]. one, Over ‘the seats, ‘someone has
[2645]. scrawled, “Visa fue revocada.”
[2647]Before the reporters have time to fig. ,
[2649]_ bre ont what this signifies, Camargo
[2650]gives the order to move out: He. says the
[2652]terialize, .: :
[2653]* Ielan -cxplais ns to Branch.
[2654].ia Dig. trouble, Even if Gamargo
[2656]_ _ deta, them go, ‘she-says, they coiild be
[2657]. stopped ten feet outside the airport-and —
[2658]‘ashed for their papers’ They could be
[2659]!*.+ slapped ia prison for the “revocnda™ on
[2660]: their_passports. For-the first titae. they
[2662]’ are not on solid legal ground.- Branch -
[2664]shakes his hend wearily and tells Inchin
[2666]_ they have lost around of hardball, = - -
[2668]tote, follow a triumphant Cémargo
[2670]; Phon -
[2671]- ‘On’ October 24, two days after the re-
[2672]porters left Caracas,” Deputy Interior
[2674]Minister Marce Tulio Beunicelli talked :
[2676]“with the press to clear up the matter.
[2677]Bninicelli.‘said| Hihia Taclan “bad ars
[2678]_ rived carrying documents that: “dit .
[2679]: conform “with national norms,” and”
[2681]- that “she was cordiaily, asked to leave
[2682]. the country decauss: itis necessary to
[2683]‘comply with ote. laws.” As for ‘Branch
[2685]+ and Rothchild, hie declited ‘that they
[2686]1, “expressed solidarity: with their col-
[2687]he . to Jeave the coun-
[2689]nid pant
[2690]: Froon, Fock... Something Rave Branch a
[2691]= Nei .
[2693]ou ne
[2694]. opposition from the Agency: ““1f you .
[2695]“t don’t help the, good people fight Castro,”
[2696]said one old C.LA. Cuban; “then we have
[2697]to help the bad ones doit. There's noth-
[2698]_- Ing left but terroriim.” Branch, was
[2699]* stunned by how rapidly the ant-CLA,
[2700]- pro-terrorist: trend: had . progressed in
[2701]ever the two yeara since he had left,
[2702]*, Miami CLA, loyalists’ were now in very
[2703]skort supply. The last. defectors were
[2704]. Cubans whose secret historiés stretched
[2705]{ back to the Fifties and Sixties, when
[2706]their anti-Communist, movement was in
[2707]¢ the American mainstream. The CLA.
[2708]*. trained the Cubans to work by steaith—
[2710]:. to Hie, smuggle weapons, move illegally ..
[2711]in and out of countries, make bombs
[2712]ete te tLe aoe It
[2714]* plang is late. “The goon aquads ma. -
[2716]t strike secretly against Castro tare
[2717]&. « Some'of them were “oticial” tere
[2718]rorists, who would stoically accept lung
[2719]jail sentences rather than reveal a
[2720]C.LA, secret, Now they were no longer
[2721]official.
[2723]Rothchild was back home in the Ev-
[2724]erglades, On Monday he ceceived the
[2725]first of several phone calls from a ran
[2726]identifying himself as 3 “consultant to
[2727]the government of Venezuela.” He
[2729]wantal to give: Rothchild some money,
[2731]to write about Rottichild’s background.
[2732]Very weird, thought -Rethchild. He be-
[2734]gan to worry. that’ his trip to Caracas"
[2736]would follow him.
[2738]Press-reports from’ Venezuela quoted .
[2740]interior ministry offciais in- Venezuela
[2742]ying that -Ricardo’ Morales “did
[2743]‘not cause the expulsion of the Ameri-
[2744]can journalists: ” In-an official state
[2745]ment on October 26 the ministry said
[2746]Morales “'does not even work for the
[2748]was working on the teriorist network.
[2749]It came by messenger -and read like
[2750]Sherlock Holmes: “The
[2751]-things—what ever jt i
[2752], the key tahim'is som
[2753]know, It seems that something ‘he once
[2754]told you or knows you know will click
[2755]with something’ you would be likely to
[2756]hear here; or, would reveal ‘something
[2757]-. here, that. ‘he didn't want ‘out,
[2759]» Branchiwvent to, see Ev;
[2761]* the’ assistant U.S. attorney in. "charge .
[2762]of the Letelier investigation. ‘Propper .
[2764]wanted to know aboat the ‘Veneauela
[2765]‘trip because he was thinking of going
[2766]. there himself. ‘Che leads pointed there,
[2767]he said. He asked questions about the
[2768]+ Cuban terrorists. Branch outlined what
[2770]‘he knew. He took a: ‘reading of Propper -
[2772]* and was satisfied that he wanted badly
[2773]to solve the case, Branch ofl erie
[2774]that - they were. both.
[2775]heads, His worries  Skyrocketed when
[2776]Propper asked to see a copy of Ths
[2777]_Miami News, which contained articles
[2778]“about Morales and the Venezuéla trip.
[2780]tha News ‘as, if it were a
[2782]Proppen
[2783]pléaded. Proppér miade a couple of un-
[2785]tice. Department and said he would get
[2787]these riéwspapers from the Library of .
[2789]Congress as soon a3 possible. * ~
[2790]Branch knew what it must be like to
[2791]call the police station in the middla of a
[2793]robbery and find its’ phone. disconnected.’
[2795]He recovered and offered, to do: any-
[2796]thing he could fo’ help, ¢ €ven' to 5 go back
[2797]to Venezuela. :
[2799]“I've only got one major reservation,”
[2800]he said, “and that is the informant
[2801]problem. You have to rely on the F.B.1.
[2802].and the CLA. to investigate, and the
[2803]fact is that most of-the suspects and
[2804]likely witnesses are old CLA. and
[2805]F.B.L, men of some sort.” -
[2807]: into the Agency through tte JLRP;
[2808]- before the Bay-of. Pigs. Ask the Agency
[2809]what it-has about Posada’s involvement \4~
[2810]¥ey to this.
[2812]“and Killed in Cuba, Now, if the Agency:
[2814], Successful -phone calls around the Jus- .
[2816]“position, then?” -
[2818]Pree anid it could he handled.’ Tho
[2819]FP. ople on the case would arrival *
[2820]their own mothers if they had to. The.
[2821]terrorists had threatened to kill an
[2823]F.BLL agent. The Ituresu had two hun- -
[2825]dred ayents on the case. It was the
[2826]biggest thing i, the FULT a
[2828]“What about the Agency?” asked
[2829]Branch, “Look, J don't think the C,1.A.
[2830]had anything to do with these murders,
[2831]but the terrorists are weing their old
[2832]GLA, connections in more ways than
[2833]one. The Agency js in a bind. It has
[2834]‘create! a-monster., The whole world of
[2835]seercts in Miami has -turned upside
[2837]down, But I'll bet those old pros over. :|
[2839]at the Agency aren't-about.to sacrifice :
[2841]thei? security and secrecy to help solve: qt ,
[2843]a murder.”
[2844]Propper said he was getting coopers
[2846]tion, reams of stuff in fact, Branch - .
[2848]asked |him to test it, “Ask thea’ for”
[2850]their file on Luis Posada," he said, “I +
[2852]know they've got one on him, Me came
[2854]with a bootleg sssassinatiun attempt =
[2856]against Castro‘in 1965.30
[2857]named-Herminio- Diaz. Diaz was caught °
[2859]doesn't have enything on that, they're -
[2860]just giving you a: lot of smoke.” (Po- 5,
[2861]sadi i3 the Cuban-detective from thé
[2863]DISIP-now held by the DISIP for the °
[2864]+ Cubana de Aviacién bombing.) ;]
[2866]Propper agiced, (On a later “visié, =
[2868]’ Bropper would -Say- he ways getting q
[2870]Agéncy cooperation but declined to give
[2871]Braneh'any details.) ‘
[2873]On November 4, the State Depart
[2874]ment responded to ‘Branch’ '3 request for
[2875]a position statement on the Venezuelan
[2876]expulsion, which the U.S. Embassy in
[2877]Caracas had been iayestigating. A”
[2878]State Department representative read a:
[2879]portion of a press briefing as follows:
[2881], ‘Q: What. did’ he (Branch)’ say and ;
[2882]* ‘What's’ the State Departinent going to:
[2884]do about it? ©
[2885]A: He described ‘the ‘dealings ‘he and \
[2887]two others had with the Venezuelan ”. :
[2889]sat Maiquetia Airport when *
[2891]. they arrived there. Jast. week. I'm not 2].
[2893]‘going to discuss details of what he said,
[2895]That would be’ for: shim ta do, i. he :
[2897]wishes, ‘Qur. Embassy has‘ ‘expreqsed oa
[2901]“Mr, Branch,” she said,
[2903]ing that was just read to you does not
[2905]constitute the department's public Posie
[2906]. tion. Itisa guideline.” oge “
[2908]- “What is a guideline?”
[2910]“Inds a policy draft setting out what 4
[2912]the people. here are authorized to’say in
[2914]response to inquiries. What you have~
[2916]there is‘ what we would have said had
[2918]- we been asked. But it is not what we
[2920]have said publicly, We have no record
[2921]of being asked on the record, although
[2922]some reporters may have inquired pri-
[2923]vately, in which case we would have
[2924]responded according to the guideline.”
[2925]“So what is the State Department's |
[2927]a
[2929]ving’a guy -' -
[2931]u-'" ‘concern aver this incident to the appro- |
[2932]wt priate Government of Venezuel om-
[2934]there's been a big mistake. That brief. |
[2936]12."
[2938]i
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[2947]i ~The woman went on to say, in eo 7 agent “yeplied that he ~as bot “sore ‘
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[2949]steady ut an expression of concern. there, and eat furthermore the F_2L
[2950]That afternoon, Branch met with did wok have jurisdiction for such a ‘
[2952]. He outlined the restrictions oa
[2954]_ Propper and the senior F.BE agent on
[2955]the Letelier case. The agent a5 con-
[2956]incingly determined tv solve the mur.
[2957]uetched out“what he knew
[2958]ised. him strongly
[2959]“wi Veneruela, observing
[2960]. that the DISIP was perfectly capable
[2961]of cho 3
[2964]i
[2966]national ‘security. It added up to. catch.
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[3383]CONTROLS STATED AT BEGINNING ANO END OF REPORT.
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[3387]telessifeetion)
[3388]SPECIFIED CUBAN EXILES TO CARRY. ouT HIS PLANS Ta GAIN BOSCH'S RELEASE,
[3389]MORALES. DID. noT. EXPLALW. WHAT. TYPE oF FORCE WOULD |
[3391]BE USED To GAIN BOSCH'S RELEASE, MORALES 1$ AN UNSTABLE INDIVIDUAL AND -
[3393]‘IS. garage OF uSING FORCE 1 GAIN-HIS ENDS ¥¥° oe we a
[3395]FoR AN” EARLIER™ REPORT ON MORALE es SEE Hve+7 548,
[3397]VENEZUELA FOR MIAMI, FLORIDA, LATER THAT DAY.
[3399]A VENEZUE LAN Vita a WIDE
[3401]3s source CF PARAGRAPHS 4 AND 5% ;
[3402]HIS RELIAGILETY.
[3404]VARIETY oF CONTACTS AMONG VENE@us LAN SECURITY OFFICIALS.
[3406]HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED, ‘- ,
[3407]“THAT HE INTENDED to LEAVE
[3409]4, ON 3 FEGRUARY 1977 MORALES SAID
[3410]MORALES SAID THAT HE
[3412]‘a
[3414]EXPECTED to BE IN THE UNITED STATES FOR APPROXIMATELY ONE WEEK,
[3416](SOURCE COMMENT: THE REASON FOR HIS TRIP 1S NOT KNOWNA) --.
[3417]to RECEIVE HIS DISIP SALARY DESPITE AN
[3418](FIELD COMMENT?
[3420]TOF IRDB=32 t5//14.772° 76»
[3422]5. MORALES CONTINUES
[3423]EARLIER SCANDAL CONCERNING HIS DISIP status.
[3425]ANGTHER source. oF UNDETERMINED RELIABILITY oe
[3426]TIN A FASHIONABLE,
[3428]F MIDeNgVEM2 =R 2976 0.FR OM
[3430]HOaRLES wa RECENTLY REV TES
[3432]a
[3434]“AREA Gy WHICH IS -ALMOST EQUAL TO HIS DISIP
[3436] CARACAS, THE EMT
[3438]“SALARY, ; .
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[3441]TapAARNING xotidease EVSITIVE INTELLIGENCE
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[3465]SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS $ INVOLVED paGe 3 oF 3 paces
[3466]- SECRET FURTHER DISSEMINATION AND USE OF ‘THIS INFORMATION SUBJECT To.
[3467]CONTROLS STATED AT BEGINNING ANO END-OF REPORT.
[3468]telassification)
[3470]_ SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED--NoT RELEASABLE 10 FOREIGN NATIONALS® .
[3471]Nor RELEASASLE, TO CONTRACTORS Of CONTRACTHR/CONSUL TANTS=-DISSEMINATION
[3475]AND EXTRACTION oF INFORMATION CONTROLLED -BY “ORIGINATORS,
[3476]Ce assiries BY RE CORDED REP ORTIAG OFFICER, xDs-2, _
[3478]ADVANCE COPY TRANSIEETTED TO: STATE. DIA. ARMY. NAVY. AIR. JCS. NSAs SUS, TREASURY +
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[3511]1. The information provided below is taken from a Santo
[3512]Domingo Station liaison report transmitted to Headquarters under
[3513]HDCA-11074, dated 29 November 1976. The information dated 29
[3514]August 1976 was received by the liaison service from one of its
[3515]agents assigned to Miani, Florida. It is being sent to you for
[3516]information only. All information below was reportedly stated
[3517]in testimony at the trial of the Cuban terrorist Rolando Otero
[3518]in Jacksonville, Florida, and Antonio Gonzaléz had obtained -
[3519]immunity from ‘prosecition. » The declarations ‘he ‘made were cor-
[3520]roborated by Cubans Ciro Orizondo and Manuel Revuelta, former.
[3521]comirades of Otero in the Frente” de Liberacion Nacional Cubano
[3523](FLNC).
[3525]2. According to Antonio Gonzalez, ‘there have to be in.
[3526]Miami up to 500 pro-Castro agents operating; that in a supposed -
[3527]plot to kill Fidel Castro in Venezuela, there had been with him
[3528]and Rolando Otero, a Cuban aaned Ricardo ‘Morales and infiltrating
[3529]into the affair, he tried to frustrate the plan. Gonzalez also —
[3530]said that Morales, supposedly worked for the "CIAin the Congo"
[3531]and actually is an agent of the Government of Venezuela, ‘used
[3532]‘to investigate those Cubans who enter ard exit from Venezuela.
[3533]Gonzalez also sdid that in reality, Morales is a Castro-agent.
[3535]Distribution:
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[3592]_ FEESONS DEQFISMEING NAME T2ACES ARE CAUTIONED THAT THE DUCK
[3593]MENT FRO4 WHITH THIS EXTUATT VAS PREPARED CONTATNS AJIITIWAL = oy
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[3613]_PEVOLUTIONARY JIGANTZATION /OI8U7, GUSTAVO |
[3614]_ CASTILLE AND FQANK CAST29 £701-0742365/ DF.
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[3625]en COSSIER HAS BEEN EXTRACTED FROM ANUTHER CFFICIAL UO FILE. ; ; _
[3627]; a _ PERSCAS PERFGRMING NAME- TAACES ARE CAUTICAEO THAT THE COCU- eee ee
[3628]MEAT FROM WHICH THES EXTRACT BAS. PREPARED CCATAINS ADDETECNAL
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[3673](C, . CARACAS 33764 100 OLD
[3675]{ .
[3676]- Ye STATION LIAISON OFFICER MET nite SUBJECT OF 201-
[3677]0952786 AS PART OF ASSESSMENT OF SUBJECT'S KNOWLEDGE OF SOVIET
[3679]" PERSONNEL AND ACTIVITIES IN VENEZUELA, AND TO DETERMINE HER:
[3681]POTENTIAL AS POSSIBLE UNILATERAL SUPPORT ASSET
[3682]AGAINST SOVIET AND BLOC TARGETS,
[3684]2. “DURING DISUCSSIOKS, “SUBJECT MENTIONED THAT ON SEVERAL
[3685]QCCASIONS Ik PAST SHE HAD NOTED. ON SURVEILLANCE REPORTS OF
[3686]CUBAN EMBASSY THAT 4 VEFICLE BEARING LICENSE PLATE REGISTERED
[3687]TO MINISTRY OF INTERIOR ENTERED WITH SOME FREQUENCY, HOWVER,
[3688]ATTEMPTS TO IDENTIFY THE PERSON TO pwHOM VEHICLE ALLOCATED
[3689]-ALWAYS WERE RETURND TO HER wITH INSTRUCTIONS TO FORGET THE
[3690]ENTRY AND TO stop MAKING REFERENCES 10 IT IN HER REPORTS,
[3692]SHE FINALLY -WAS ADVISED THAT THE CAR wAS USED BY (AT. THAT TIME)
[3693]COMISARIO RICARDO M O.R AL E S NAVARETTE (201-0285923)4 AND
[3694]THAT SHE SHOULD REFRAIN FROM MAKING FURTHER INQUIRIES OR FORM
[3695]INCLUDING THAT CICENSE PLATE IN HER REPGRTS, SHORTLY c
[3696]“AFTERWARDS, SUBJECT mAS REMOVED FROM RESPONSIBILITY 07
[3697]MONITORING AND -ANALYZING CUBAN ACTIVITIES IN VENEZUELA AND.
[3698]RESTRICTED TO THE SOVIETS AND SOVIET ‘BLOC, :
[3702]~3o-- FILE: 201609527864" 201*0285923, Bay IMPDET.
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[3982]4 THaT, WITH PRESIDENT PEREZ/ BACKING, HE IS DECLARING WAR ON
[3983]fot CUBAN EXILES AND IF ANYTHING UNTOWARD HAPPENS, HE WILL 2 7
[3984]bo ; i Tax "31000 BATH FROM KEW YORK TO CARACAS." HE ALSO MENTIONED
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[4024]C.. AMBASSADOR MET FRESIOENT PEREZ FER aREAKFAST
[4026]MORNING 28 JULY. NOTHING WAS MENTIONED aSOUT CUBAN EXILE
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[4031]FORGER IES oF LE “OFROM BOSCH TQ 8RINS PRES SURE ON CUBAN EXILE
[4032]COMMUNITY: IN VENEZUELA waif REMAINS ALMEST TOTALLY ANTI-CASTROs
[4034]: It 18 INTERSTING To NOTE LETTERS PASSED SY cua aN AMBASSADOR TO
[4036]“P 0 | PRESIDENT PERCZ WERE TYPED» NOT HANDWRITTEN, - AND -ONE Y SIGNED BY
[4038]i BOSCH. IN ANY EVENT, AMBASSADOR STRONGLY BIS TRUSTS WKTANGO> LIN
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[4046]“MORNING, -AS CF NOW, AMBASSADOR, DOES NOT WANT 70 GIVE ANY
[4048]Fetes iat
[4050]INFORMHATION- To VENEZUELANS ON CUBAN EXILES EXCEPT ON ESTABLISHED oe
[4052]TERRORISTS AND ADVANCE NOTICE OF IMPENDING TERRORIST ACTIONS, LEAST poe -
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[4106]AT THIS POINT aLL wE HAVE 4S INFO PROVIDED IN REF Be
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[4114]Is. SOME suaT GF STRANGE Ltaroson. oR DOUBLE ~A5 EAT OPERATIONs
[4115]PROBABLY syacesten GY MORALES: MI MSELF aSTENSIALY TO MAKE dla,
[4116]it HAS ‘BEEN MENTIONED BEFORE, , Sos
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[4120]“HIMSELF, ust a TO: NASCARLET.
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[4126]r Taal he: vas cONNED Tre VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT, OA BKTANGO=2 "
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[4161]PAGE 22-22
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[4167]"THAN WKTANGO 92 -1S°UF GIVING A SECOND TRY TO THE RECRUITMENT -
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[4226]ON 26 APRIL L977 WKDIETSS5 REPORTED THAT Rieaspa
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[4234]EXILE ay THE Aave GF ROBERTO
[4235]SAYS THAT FARSTNS KORKED FOR BXHERALD AND UNDERTOOK
[4237]= TRIPS TO CUSA, HE SAID AT T[MES PARSONS
[4239]SEVERAL CLANDESTI
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[4242]RELPED GET PEGSLE CUT OF CUBA FOR A PRICE.
[4243]BEEN MISSING SINCE DECEMBER 1976. THE EXACT REASON FoR
[4246]FOLLORIAS ABE TRACES ON ROBERTO PARSONS?
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[4253]RANI REZ, SCRA 22 wey 19.30 IN “GUANTANAMO » P AR SONS WAS. A
[4254]TRIM 1965 THROUGH 1967 WHEN RE «AS TERMINATED
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[4345]PARSONS. ANOTHER CUBAN EXILE, IN MIAMI. FLORIDA. SOURCE SAID
[4347]THAT PARSONS HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE DECEMBER L976 AND THAT THE
[4349]REASON FOR HIS ALLEGED MURDER IS UNKNOWN. Y , .
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[4385]24 APRIL 1977 THAT HORALES HAS GONE INTO HIDING IN THE UNTTED “states
[4387]TO AVOID. A COURT APPEARANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTIGATION oF
[4389]THE DEATH OF FORMER CHILEAN OFFICIAL ORLANDO LE TELLIER. ¥
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[4392]3. AMONG THE CLOSE ASSOCIATES PARSONS LISTED IN HIS PR@ PART I~
[4393]COMPLETED IN JULY 1565 IS ANTONIO BUSTILLO PEREZ {201-O7SbLSb}5 A
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[4400]CATED THAT PARSONS WAS OF PREVIOUS OPERATIONAL INTEREST TO JMUAVE.
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[4451]IMMIGRATION AND. NATURALIZATION SERVICE//INTELLIGENCE DIVISION.¥
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[4453]. METHODS INVOLVED=-NOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS=-NOT ;
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[4465]ROBERTO PA RSON S. ANOTHER CUBAN EXILE. IN MIAMI, FLORIDA.
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