CASTRO PLOT TO MURDER REAGAN – by R.
H. Boyce, Scripps-Howard News Service – Thursday, March 12, 1981.
WASHINGTON – The National Security
Agency has alerted the CIA, White House and State Department to a
Latin American newspaper report saying Cuban President Fidel Castro
is plotting the assassination of President Reagan, Scripps-Howard
News Service has learned.
The NSA, which monitors published and
broadcast information around the globe, does not make such ‘alert’
messages available to the press. But SHNS obtained a copy, which was
marked “for official use only.”
It included the text of the newspaper
report as well as a garbled message about the news story directed to
the head of Castro’s controlled news agency, Presna Latina.
Without revealing its sources, the news
report, published yesterday in the Caracas, Venezuela, newspaper El
Mundo, asserted the assassination plot called for the slaying to be
carried out by Illich Ramirez Sancho, an international terrorists
known as Carlos the Jackal.
Carlos is said to have organized the
massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich,
West Germany, and has been involved in dozens of terrorists acts.
U.S. officials said the NSA’s actions
in alerting the U.S. intelligence community “suggests that while
they are not necessarily ready to believe the report of an assination
plot, nevertheless they (NSA) find it at least worthy of looking
into.”
The Caracas newspaper story said the
assassination plan, “was discussed in a meeting of the
International Trust of Crime in Cojimar, an exclusive beach club east
of Havana, with the participants of Montonero and Tupamaro thugs,
Illich Ramirez, Ramiro Valdez, Cuban Police Minister Carlos Rafael
Rodriguez and Fidel Castro.
No identification was found of Ramiro
Valdez. Montonero “thugs” are terrorists operating primarily in
Argentina while Tumpumaros thugs operate in Uruguay.
The article said Palestine Liberation
Organization chief Yasir Arafat also paraticiapted in the plan.
Presna Latina (Latin Press) often has
been used by Castro for political ends. The Pressa Latina
correspondent in Caracas, at 9:47 a.m. EST yesterday, began
transmitting the El Mundo article by cable to Prensa Latina
headquarters in Havana. NSA monitored it. At the close of the text,
Prensa Latina Caracas began adding what appears to be commentary on
the El Mundo report. It reads:
“Everything seems to indicate that
Fidel Castro is planning the assassination of U.S. Persident Ronald
Reagan in the same way that he previously ordered the assassination
of John F. Kennedy and whose participation the high-ranking U.S.
government circles hit…”
There the Prensa Latina cable
transmission stopped. Had it been ordered broken off by the Venezuela
government, say U.S. officials, the NSA would have added the words:
“transmission interrupted,” to show Venezuela’s action. There
was no such NSA notation. Officials provided no explanation of why
the transmission ended in mid-sentence.
END OF STORY
[Research Notes: This is a classic
Black Propaganda operation, stemming from leaked NSA documents, but
attributed to Castro’s “controlled” agent-reporter in Caracas,
and is carefully labeled as coming from the enemy, even though it
really doesn’t. The whole story is a hoax, and not a funny one. It
is a continuation of the Black Prop Op that was set in motion BEFORE
11/22/63, the purpose of which was to try to blame and make it appear
there was evidence to indicate that Fidel Castro was behind the
assassination of JFK. I wonder if these docs were among the few that
NSA released under the JFK Act?
While I’m roaming around Fort Meade,
maybe I’ll check out their records and see if I come up with
anything. I know how to get around security, I’ll rent a third rate
car and deliver a $14 pizza to somebody inside. Security at the gate
will never come up with the bucks and let me in. If it doesn’t
work, maybe Gus and his friends will come over and bail me out. –
BK, on the lose, underground and roaming around.]
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