U.S. tried to block (Miami Cuban) exile attack on ship

U.S. tried to block exile attack on ship
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16303952.htm
Newly released documents reveal that the Nixon
administration feared Cuban exiles would attack
a Soviet tanker in 1970

Posted on Sat, Dec. 23, 2006

WASHINGTON - The Nixon administration scrambled the Coast Guard and ordered extensive surveillance in the Florida Straits in 1970 to avert an alleged Cuban exile plan to attack a Soviet tanker, according to U.S. documents released by the State Department.

For five days, the U.S. military looked for the vessels which, according to an FBI report, had been hired by Miami exiles to attack the tanker, the documents show. But no vessels were ever spotted.

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On Aug. 4 1970, the documents indicate, the Soviet chargé d'affaires in Washington, Yuli M. Vorontsov, requested a meeting with Henry Kissinger, then Nixon's assistant for national security affairs, and noted Moscow's ''anxiety'' over the increase of ''hostile activity toward Cuba'' and Cuban exile organizations' ``sabotage and subversive activities.''
On Aug. 5, an FBI report said that Cuban exiles in Miami had hired two boats to attack a Soviet tanker bound for the island.

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The documents do not identify the Cuban-American organizations behind the alleged plan. An Oct. 10 National Security Council memo does say one group, Alpha 66, had conducted three or four ''infiltration'' raids into Cuba since that May, and that exile groups were becoming more active in Central America.

Alpha 66 is still an active anti Castro terrorist group in Miami, whose leader, Rodolfo Frometa, boasts of recent and ongoing terrorist ops against Cuba. When their co operatives and those who aid and abet them are arrested in Cuba the Miami-Cuban hard liners mewl about how "dissidents" are arrested for "simply disagreeing with the Cuban system of government".

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