CubaBrief: 28 years ago TODAY the FBI smashed Cuba’s WASP Network – the largest Cuban spy ring ever caught on U.S. soil.

28 years ago today the FBI smashed Cuba’s WASP Network — the largest Cuban spy ring ever caught on U.S. soil. They weren’t “heroes.” They infiltrated U.S. military bases, planned to assassinate a CIA officer with a mail bomb, and provided information that helped Castro’s MiGs murder four Americans flying an unarmed humanitarian mission: Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre Jr., Mario de la Peña, and Pablo Morales.

Gerardo Hernández, the spymaster, got two life sentences for conspiracy to murder.

 

Venezuelan journalist Casto Ocando in the short documentary the Havana Cartel (2023) provides an overview of Havana’s involvement in drug trafficking and terrorism over the past six decades. It is also available in Spanish.

Cuba carried out a campaign of narco-terrorism promoted by Moscow, against Western democracies, through Jan Sejna, a former high-level Czech official who described in “detail his meetings with Raul Castro, usually four times a year from 1961 until 1968, when Mr. Sejna defected to the United States.

Drug trafficking was always a major item on the agenda. Cuba and Czechoslovakia worked together to establish drug-trafficking networks throughout Latin America and to infiltrate those already in existence. The United States was the main target. Jan Sejna was the secretary of the Czech Defense Council and assisted in the planning of this activity and monitored its implementation.”

The idea was to increase the capacity of narcotics networks to flood the U.S., and poison its soft underbelly.

Cuba was first added to U.S. State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism on March 1, 1982.

This came less than three months after the State Department acknowledged that Havana was utilizing a narcotics ring to transport both weaponry and funds to the Colombian M19 terrorist group, which was then fighting to destabilize Colombia’s democratic government.

The February 1991 Frontline documentary “Cuba and Cocaine” revealed the links of current Cuban dictator Raul Castro to cocaine trafficking into the United States.

A full transcript of the program is available online, and above is the video.

A declassified CIA report from 1984 reveals the extensive and direct involvement of the highest levels of the Castro regime in drug trafficking.

Furthermore there are interviews with individuals that witnessed first hand the links of the highest levels of the Cuban government with drug trafficking. This includes Fidel Castro’s bodyguard who wrote a tell all memoir, “The Double Life of Fidel Castro.”

Havana has been effective in flooding the zone with disinformation for decades, and in the case of the WASP network turned the spies who did not flip into “heroes.”

Netflix’s Wasp Network airbrushed Hernández’s murder-conspiracy conviction and distorted the Brothers to the Rescue story.

The studio later settled a lawsuit over those distortions with Brothers to the Rescue founder Jose Basulto.

However the Castro regime’s spy operation against the United States never ended. In 2024, former U.S. ambassador Victor Manuel Rocha was sentenced to 15 years for serving as a Cuban agent for decades.

Same regime. Same methods. Same denials.

Notes from the Cuban Exile offers a more detailed assessment 28 years later.

Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter, September 12, 2026

Cuban spies in the United States caught planning acts of terror in the US.

Havana’s WASP spy network infiltrated the United States to gather information on military installations and personnel, sow division among Cuban exiles, locate places to store weapons and explosives, and terrorize then assassinate a CIA agent living in Florida with a mail bomb. They helped kill four in the February 24, 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shoot down.

On September 12, 1998, the FBI dismantled the largest Cuban spy ring ever discovered in the United States. Ten people were charged with being Cuban spies.

The ten members of the WASP network captured were: GERARDO HERNANDEZ, 31 (alias Manuel Viramontes), the spymaster; FERNANDO GONZALEZ, 33 (alias Ruben Campa), and RAMON LABANINO, 30 (alias Luis Medina), another Cuban intelligence officer.

The remaining seven were mid-level or junior agents who passed their reports to one of these three senior agents. Included were ANTONIO GUERRERO, 39, who observed aircraft landings at the Boca Chica Naval Air Station from his job as a sheet-metal worker there; ALEJANDRO ALONSO, 39, a boat pilot; and RENE GONZALEZ, 42, a skilled aircraft pilot and the only U.S. born among these seven. Both joined the Democracy Movement to report on its nonviolent activities against the Castro regime.

Two married couples, all American citizens, also worked in the spy network: NILO and LINDA HERNANDEZ, ages 44 and 41 respectively, and JOSEPH and AMARYLIS SANTOS, both 39.

[ Full article ]

https://notesfromthecubanexilequarter.substack.com/p/wasp-network-disbanded-by-the-fbi-6ab

Miami Herald, May 13, 2024

History of Cuban spying and the harm done to the U.S. 

Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, an ex-career U.S. diplomat, was sentenced on, April 12, 2024, in Miami federal court to 15 years in prison for being a covert agent for the Cuban government.

By John Suarez

Updated May 21, 2024

Victor Manuel Rocha is the latest Cuban spy sentenced, but he’s far from the first captured. In all cases, the damage done is hard to gauge.

Rocha spent over 40 years spying for communist Cuba at the U.S. State Department, holding important postings in Latin America, and in the National Security Council. Later, he worked as a private consultant for the U.S. Southern Command in Doral, which oversees Cuba. The Associated Press reports that “Federal authorities have been conducting a confidential damage assessment that could take years to complete,” and when discovered, much of it will remain classified.

Rocha was sentenced in April to 15 years in federal prison and fined $500,000. Other spies have stolen U.S. intelligence that got Americans killed, and engaged in influence operations to downplay Havana’s threat to the U.S.

Spying for Havana were Ana Belen Montes, who spent 17 years at the Pentagon in the Defense Intelligence Agency; Walter Kendall Myers, a high ranking analyst at the State Department who spent 30 years spying with his wife Gwendolyn; and Marta Rita Velazquez, a legal officer at the Agency for International Development, who recruited Montes.”

Carlos Alvarez, a psychology professor at Florida International University, admitted in 2007 he spent nearly 30 years sharing information with the Cuban government about Miami’s exile community. He pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered Cuban agent and was sentenced to five years in prison. His wife Elsa pleaded guilty to concealing her husband’s actions and was sentenced to three years. Philip Agee, who worked at the Central Intelligence Agency, defected to Cuba in 1973 and outed 250 CIA officers and agents.

Philip Agee who worked at the Central Intelligence Agency defected to Cuba in 1973 and outed 250 CIA officers and agents.

In addition Castro’s spies, who pass themselves off as diplomats, operate in Havana’s embassy in Washington, and at Cuba’s United Nations Mission in New York City. The Cuban dictatorship also sends illegal agents to spy and conduct active measures in America.

Havana’s WASP spy network infiltrated the United States to gather information on military installations and personnel, sow division among Cuban exiles, locate places to store weapons and explosives, and terrorize then assassinate a CIA agent living in Florida with a mail bomb. They helped kill four in the Feb. 24, 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shootdown, and the network’s head Gerardo Hernandez was convicted of murder conspiracy.

These practices began in 1959. In 1961, the Soviet Defense Council gave Czechoslovakia orders to use Cuban intelligence to infiltrate existing drug operations in the U.S. and Latin America and to lay the groundwork for “recruiting” these independent activities. The former high-ranking Czech official Jan Sejna gave a detailed account of his meetings with Raul Castro, which he had on average four times a year between 1961 and 1968, the year Sejna defected to the U.S..

After the State Department determined in January 1982 that Havana had armed the M-19 terrorist group in exchange for drugs smuggling to the U.S., Cuba was added to the state terror sponsors list on March 1, 1982

Four high-ranking Cuban officials were indicted by a US grand jury for narcotics smuggling on November 5, 1982.

• Rene Rodriguez-Cruz, Cuban Communist Party Central Committee member and president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship With The Peoples.
• Aldo Santamaria-Cuadrado, a vice admiral in the Cuban navy and Cuban Communist Party Central Committee member.
• Fernando Ravelo-Renedo, Cuban ambassador to Colombia.
• Gonzalo Bassols-Suarez, former minister-counsel of the Cuban embassy in Bogota and Cuban Communist Party member.

Ana Belen Montes was recruited by Cuban intelligence agents in New York City in December 1984, and on September 30, 1985 she reported to work at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in the Pentagon.

Former Army counterintelligence special agent Reg Brown also came to the DIA in 1985. Chris Simmons, a career Counterintelligence Officer, in his 2023 book, Castro’s Nemesis describes how Brown conducted an assessment that revealed the “Castro regime still trafficked drugs” and that this involved the “organized and sustained involvement by many of Fidel’s highest ranking officials.”

A Cuban spy in the DIA warned Havana that their role in flooding the U.S. with cocaine would be discovered.

This was not the end of the Havana Cartel. With the rise of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela in 1999, Havana played a major role in the formation of the Soles Cartel, and the dramatic increase in cocaine entering the U.S. over the next 25 years.

There is no doubt. Rocha and other Cuban spies like him harm the U.S. government and tens of thousands of innocents.

John Suarez is Executive Director for Center for a Free Cuba. 

This story was originally published May 13, 2024, 11:03 PM.

https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/article288182860.html

 

Yahoo! December 21, 2000

Alleged Cuba Spy Targeted CIA Agent

By Catherine Wilson, Associated Press Writer

MIAMI, 20 (AP) – Cuban spies once plotted to kill a CIA (news – web sites) employee with a mail bomb disguised as a book, according to decoded messages read Wednesday during the trial of five alleged Cuban agents.

The goal of Operation Parallel was to kill “CIA agent Jesus Cruza Flor” in Miami six years ago, according to the messages. He was to be threatened about his “nearing execution” before delivery of the bomb.

It was unclear how many of the five defendants are accused of taking part in the plot. Attorneys are under a gag order, CIA spokesman Anya Guilsher declined comment and the home phone number listed in the message for Cruza is assigned to a bank.

The trial includes some 1,300 pages of evidence from decoded messages that flowed between the Cuban government and Miami-based agents, according to prosecutors.

Some of the suspects are accused of trying to infiltrate military bases, including the U.S. Southern Command, which is responsible for Cuba, and the Boca Chica Naval Air Station near Key West.

Suspected ringleader Gerardo Hernandez faces a possible life sentence on murder conspiracy and espionage conspiracy charges. The first count stems from the 1996 incident in which Cuba shot down two planes from the Cuban exile group Brothers to the Rescue over international waters, killing four. The government accused Hernandez of providing Cuba with information about the flights.

He and the other four defendants were arrested in 1998. Five others secured plea bargains requiring them to cooperate, and four more are fugitives believed to be in Cuba.

Like Hernandez, two other defendants – Antonio Guerrero and Ramon Labanino – were charged with espionage conspiracy and could face life in prison. The other two, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez, no known relationship, face possible 10-year sentences on false-identity charges.

Attorneys for Hernandez, Labanino, Guerrero and Fernando Gonzalez have said the men worked for the Cuban government. But they said their clients did not commit espionage because they obtained no classified information.

The clandestine methods used to transmit the information they obtained were necessary because Cuba and the United States do not have diplomatic relations, according to the defense attorneys.

The trial began this month and is expected to stretch into March.

https://www.cubanet.org/htdocs/CNews/y00/dec00/21e2.htm

 

The Miami Herald, December 21, 2000

Papers: Spies planned sabotage

Files show orders to discredit pilots

BY GAIL EPSTEIN NIEVES

Even before Cuban MiGs shot down two Brothers to the Rescue planes in 1996,  killing four men, Fidel Castro’s intelligence bosses apparently targeted the Miami  pilot group for sabotage and dissension, according to court documents in the  Cuban spy trial.

Declassified communications from Cuban intelligence, read to jurors Wednesday,  showed that accused spy and pilot Rene Gonzalez — one of five men on trial —  was directed to burn the hangar and planes of the “counter-revolutionary  organization” and to make it look like an “accident, negligence or self damage.”

“Rumors will leak that [Brothers leader Jose] Basulto and his people caused the damage themselves to collect the insurance and get more money from their  contributors,” said the undated message, whose author was not revealed.

Operation Picada, or bite, as the anti-Brothers campaign was named, was one of  dozens of missions allegedly linked to the five alleged spies now on trial in federal  court. Picada also means nose dive.

Jurors also heard about orders from Cuban intelligence for someone to mail an  “alleged book bomb” — complete with “plastique,” or plastic explosives — to a  Miami-based CIA agent. Other missions sought to discredit the Cuban American National Foundation and Miami’s Cuban exile community at large.

The communications were contained on nearly 1,000 encrypted computer disks confiscated during FBI searches of the defendants’ South Florida apartments.  Further testimony about the messages is expected when the trial resumes Jan.  3.

Developers of Operation Picada also directed Gonzalez — a pilot for Brothers to  the Rescue and alleged double agent — to disable the group’s ground antennae  and transmission equipment “making it seem like negligence.” The orders were  directed to “Castor,” one of Gonzalez’s cover names, according to the
government.

“Castor” also was requested to “inform us ahead of time” of who was flying Brothers planes and when, and to try to hide material in Brothers planes.

The documents mirror suspicions voiced previously by Basulto, who has  speculated that Brothers planes were “sabotaged” several times: cut cables in an  airplane’s control panel, a weight attached to the propeller of Basulto’s plane,  metal particles in the oil drum of another aircraft.

Basulto has said that Gonzalez was the first person at the Brothers’ Opa-locka  hangar after the 1996 tragedy. Gonzalez came to the United States in 1990 in a hijacked crop duster. He is accused of infiltrating exile groups and posing as an FBI informant.

Cuban intelligence bosses also tried to “discredit” the Cuban American National  Foundation with Operation Finado, or deceased, according to other documents  read to jurors.

CANF met in July 1998 to choose a successor to chairman Jorge Mas Canosa,  who had died. The communications show that U.S.-based Cuban agents were  directed to mail disparaging, anonymous flyers on possible candidates to some  40 people and media outlets.

“Who are you voting for as Chairman of the CANF?” the flyer was to start.

It listed disparaging accusations against Jorge Mas Santos, Dr. Alberto Hernandez, Pepe Hernandez, Diego Suarez and Domingo Moreira Jr., and ended,  “Who should you vote for? Vote for the Finado.”

The five co-defendants — accused members of the so-called Wasp Network —  were arrested Sept. 12, 1998, in the culmination of a major counterespionage  investigation.

Lead defendant Gerardo Hernandez faces the most serious charge: conspiracy to  murder the four Brothers fliers, allegedly by providing Cuban authorities the flight  plan of two Brothers planes while instructing other spies to shun the doomed  flight.

Though all of the accused spies acknowledge working on orders from Havana,  they deny ever obtaining classified information or intending to harm U.S. interests.

Rather, they say they worked from a defensive posture, trying to identify the  exiles presumably responsible for a series of bombings at tourist sites in Cuba  and to find out if the United States had plans to invade the island.

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/espionage/sabotage.htm

CBS News, September 14, 1998 MIAMI

10 Charged As Cuban Spies

Accused Of Infiltrating Exile Groups

(CBS)  Ten people were charged Monday in what prosecutors said is the largest Cuban spy ring ever uncovered in the United States since Fidel Castro came to power nearly 40 years ago.

CBS News Correspondent Byron Pitts reports that, according to the FBI, the spy ring had been under surveillance in south Florida for three years.The eight men and two women tried to penetrate U.S. military bases, infiltrate anti-Castro groups, and manipulate U.S. media and political groups, federal investigators said Monday.

One suspect was a civilian employee at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Key West, Fla. “Some of his activities included…reporting on combat readiness of our airplanes, daily activities, and physical descriptions of the building inside, including security areas,” said U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Scott. “This spy ring was cast by the Cuban government to strike at the very heart of our national security system and our very democratic process.”

The FBI said one of the group’s targets was the Miami-based U.S. Southern Command, which runs American military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean.The suspects were held without bond and face charges of espionage and acting as unregistered agents of the Cuban government. Prosecutors said the investigation is continuing, but would not say if more arrests were anticipated.

Charges against five of the suspects carry life sentences. Charges against the other five have maximum sentences of 15 years. Among those arrested was Rene Gonzalez, once a welcomed and award-winning member of the Miami-based Cuban exile group, Brothers to the Rescue. The group lost four members in 1996 when they were killed, shot down by a Cuban MIG fighter jet over international waters during a mercy mission between Florida and Cuba. There had been suspicion that spies played a role in the shooting. Investigators say Gonzalez posed as an informant for the FBI, but he was actually spying for the Cuban government.

Another suspect, Linda Hernandez, was said to be part of a husband-wife spy team. Both she and her husband are members of the Cuban military and longtime operatives, the FBI said. Her lawyer, Vincent Farina, said his client is a housewife, not a spy. “She had nothing to do with this whatsoever,” Farina said.

According to an FBI affidavit filed in support of the arrests, surveillance dating back to 1995 indicated all 10 members operated with code names and had escape plans and alibis.

FBI agent Raul Fernandez said in the affidavit that Manuel Viramontes, a Cuban military captain led the spy group and used computers with coded material on disk to communicate with other members.Viramontes had an apartment in Miami and it was there that the disks were found, investigators said.The disks provided a detailed overview of spy operations reminiscent of Cold War-era espionage, including references to agents as comrades.

“To say the least, folks, this operation was sophisticated,” Scott said. Two of those arrested were identified as U.S. citizens and one as a resident alien. The citizenship of the others was not released, but the FBI said some were agents who slipped in and out of the United States.

Congressional sources said the arrests made without incident Saturday were timed to avert an operation planned by the suspects. They provided no further details.

Part of the operation focused on infiltrating six exile groups, according to the FBI. The affidavit said two of the suspects set up a surveillance of the Southern Command, MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa and the Boca Chica Naval Air Station in Key West.

The two allegedly produced detailed reports, complete with photos, on the Southern Command and were assigned to report any “unusual exercises, maneuvers, and other activity related to combat readiness at the Naval air station.”

Copyright 1998 CBS Worldwide Corp.

https://web.archive.org/web/20101115151309/https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/09/14/national/main17486.shtml

 

Transcribed and translated excerpts from seized diskettes:

DAV-118 (E) RTF (AIRPORT.DIR)

WORK DIRECTIVES FOR OPERATION “AEROPUERTO”

1-. THE IDEA OF THE OPERATION:

SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING THE ESSENTIAL IDEA OF THE OPERATION WAS FOR A-32 TO JOIN WITH THE ILLEGAL CENTER THAT WAS BEING DIRECTED BY A-4 AND WAS FUNCTIONING IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA.

2-. OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES:

THE FUNDAMENTAL OBJECTIVE OF THE OPERATION IS TO ESTABLISH S/A A-32 IN KEY WEST FOR THE PURPOSE OF PENETRATING AND OBTAINING INFORMATION ON THE NAVAL AIR STATION LOCATED IN THAT CITY.

ALSO, TO MAKE CONTACTS WHICH CAN PROVIDE US WITH MILITARY, POLITICAL , BIOGRAPHICAL AND OPERATIONAL INFORMATION AS AS TO STUDY COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATIONS EXISTING IN THE AREA AND CARRY OUT STUDIES ON THE OPERATIONAL SITUATION OF ROADS, MAINLY IN KEY WEST.

3-. PARTICIPANTS

A-32 WILL BE THE MAIN PARTICIPANT AND HE WILL BE DIRECTLY UNDER I.O. A-4.

WORK DIRECTIVES FOR OPERATION “GIRÓN.”

1-. IDEA OF THE OPERATION

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DHo-101 (E) CMA (Disk 17).wpd

OPERATION “PICADA’

OBJECTIVES:

1.-) TRY TO IMPEDE THE CONSUMPTION OF INTENTIONS OF THE OPERATION P.A.L. (PAN, AMOR Y LIBERTAD) OF THE COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATION BROTHER’S TO THE RESCUE.

2.-) AFFECT AND DISCREDIT THE IMAGE OF SAID ORGANIZATION.

ACTIONS TO BE DEVELOPED:

1.-) PERFORM THE OPERATIONAL SITUATION STUDY OF THE HANGAR AT THE OPA LOCKA BASE WHERE THE ORGANIZATION KEEPS AND OPERATES THEIR PLANES.

2.-) THE POSSIBILITY OF BURNING DOWN THE WAREHOUSE OF THE COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATION, AND AFFECT THEIR PLANES, MAKING IT SEEM LIKE AN ACCIDENT, NEGLIGENCE OR SELF DAMAGE.

KEEPING IN MIND THAT THIS PLACE MAY BE SECURED AND THAT IN CASES LIKE THESE, INVESTIGATIONS ARE PERFORMED, RUMORS WILL LEAK THAT BASULTO AND HIS PEOPLE CAUSED THE DAMAGE THEMSELVES TO COLLECT THE INSURANCE AND GET MORE MONEY FROM THEIR CONTRIBUTORS.

3.-) ATTEMPT TO DISABLE THEIR EQUIPMENT AND TRANSMISSION ANTENNAE ON LAND, THE ONES THEY USE TO COMMUNICATE WITH DURING THEIR MISSIONS, MAKING IT SEEM LIKE NEGLIGENCE.

NOTE: THESE THREE POINTS WERE REQUESTED OF CASTOR VIA RADIO MESSAGE. IT HAS TO BE DETERMINED WHAT HE HAS BEEN ABLE TO OBTAIN.

4.-) ANALYZE WITH CASTOR IF HE COULD INFORM US AHEAD OF TIME (DETERMINE PRECISE TIME) WHEN THE BROTHER’S TO THE RESCUE PLANES WILL BE TAKING OFF, WHO IS IN THEM AND IF THEY ARE GOING TO LAND AT A SPECIFIC PLACE. WHAT PERSONNEL KNOWS THIS INFORMATION BEFOREHAND. AT SOME POINT, CAN IT BE DETERMINED WHO PROVIDED THIS INFORMATION.

5.-) ACCORDING TO THE FEATURES OF THE PLANES, THEIR SECURITY SYSTEM, AS WELL AS THE HANGAR WHERE THEY ARE LOCATED, IF AT ANY SPECIFIC MOMENT HE COULD HIDE SOME TYPE OF MATERIAL AND KEEP IT THERE WITHOUT BEING DETECTED. WHAT SIZE WOULD THAT MATERIAL HAVE TO BE

OPERATION PARALLELO:

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS OPERATION IS TO DEVELOP A SERIES OF ACTIONS AGAINST CIA AGENT JESUS CRUZA FLOR.

THESE ACTIONS WOULD BE:

1.-) PHOTOGRAPH OR VIDEO TAPE HIS HOUSE, LOCATED AT:

1440 S. BAYSHORE DR.

MIAMI, FLORIDA 33131

TELEPHONE (305)358-0762

2.-) ONCE THE HOUSE IS PHOTOGRAPHED, MAKE VARIOUS THREATENING TELEPHONE CALLS (TWO OR THREE) CONCERNING HIS NEARING EXECUTION.

THESE CALLS WOULD BE AT DIFFERENT HOURS AND DIFFERENT DAYS. TRY TO USE THE EQUIPMENT (CALLED SCRAMBLER OR SOMETHING SIMILAR) TO CHANGE THE VOICE. PHONE BOOTHS SHOULD BE SELECTED THAT ALLOW A QUICK EXIT OUT OF THE AREA. KEEP IN MIND THAT THE MEASURES IS AGAINST A CIA AGENT AND HE COULD HAVE CALLER ID TO FIND OUT THE TELEPHONE NUMBER THAT IS CALLING AND THE ADDRESS WHERE IT IS LOCATED. ON THE OTHER HAND, KEEP IN MIND THE REST OF THE SECURITY MEASURES THAT SHOULD BE TAKEN IN THE BOOTH, SUCH AS FINGERPRINTS, HAIR, ODORS, SALIVA, DRESS, THAT THERE BE NO PERMANENT PERSONNEL IN THE AREA TO RECOGNIZE THE CALLER. DO NOT LEAVE THE CAR WHERE IT CAN BE OBSERVED, THE DURATION OF THE CALL. DO NOT RESPOND TO ANY QUESTIONS ASKED.

3.-) PREPARE AN ALLEGED BOOK-BOMB (BOOK, CABLE, BATTERIES, PLASTIQUE, ETC., AND SEND IT VIA EXPRESS MAIL. KEEP IN MIND TO WRAP THE BOOK IN A PROTECTIVE PAPER, WHICH IF THE ENVELOPE IS PASSED THROUGH THE X-RAY MACHINES, IMPEDES THE DETECTION OF WHAT IS INSIDE, AND THEREFORE IT WILL NOT BE ROUTED THROUGH THE MAIL.

KEEP IN MIND TO OBTAIN THE ENVELOPE, AS WELL AS THE POSTAGE, MANY DAYS IN ADVANCE AND SELECT A BUSY PLACE. USE A SPECIFIC CAMOUFLAGE.

STUDY THE MAILBOX WHERE THE PACKAGE WILL BE DEPOSITED, AS WELL AS THE TIME IT WILL BE DEPOSITED. ANALYZE HOW YOU WILL GET OUT OF THE AREA.

DURING THE ENTIRE PROCESS KEEP THE SECURITY MEASURES IN MIND, SUCH AS THE ONES MENTIONED BEFORE, GIVING SPECIAL ATTENTION TO FINGER PRINTS DURING THE ENTIRE PROCESS.

EVALUATE THE POSSIBILITY OF USING MANOLO TO MAKE THE CALL, THE TOPOS TO DEPOSIT THE ENVELOPE AND A-4 TO PREPARE THE BOOK-BOMB.

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FEBRUARY 1, 1994

CONTACT AGENDA WITH 0-4 “ESELIN”

Reviewed by: LS Salomon

Declassified by: KMDJr

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