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Capitol Hill Blue
Freed Puerto Ricans were Cuban spies
Sunday, November 7, 1999
The Puerto Rican nationalists offered clemency by President
Clinton were members of two groups with ties to Cuban
intelligence agents, The Hartford Courant reported.
In a story in Sunday's editions, the newspaper said FBI files on
a Wells Fargo robbery in West Hartford document Cuba's support
for the Puerto Rican independence movement. The contents of the
files have not been disclosed until now, the Courant said.
The FBI monitored conversations and meetings between Cuban
intelligence agents and members of the group Los Macheteros,
Spanish for ``The Cane Cutters.''
``Numerous court-authorized interceptions of conversations ...
have determined that the Cubans support and direct the Macheteros
at a firsthand level,'' the FBI said in a confidential memo.
In addition to analyzing the FBI investigation of the 1983
armored car robbery, The Courant said it interviewed 50 sources,
including former Cuban agents, FBI agents and congressional
investigators.
In September, President Clinton freed 11 jailed nationalists,
members of Los Macheteros or the FALN, the Spanish acronym for
the Armed Forces of National Liberation.
The FALN has claimed responsibility for numerous bombings in the
United States; its 1975 bombing of Fraunces Tavern in New York
killed four and injured 63. Los Macheteros, with the exception of
the $7.1 million Wells Fargo robbery, attacked U.S. government
targets in Puerto Rico.
None of the prisoners offered clemency were directly involved in
violent acts, Clinton said, and he acted on human rights
activists' arguments that the prisoners had paid their debt by
serving an average 19 years in jail.
In its Wells Fargo investigation, the FBI learned that Machetero
leaders met regularly with their Cuban contacts in Mexico City,
but sometimes also met in Cuba.
About a third of the stolen cash went to the Cubans, sources told
the newspaper.
White House spokesman Jim Kennedy, asked whether Cuban support
for the nationalists was considered during deliberations on the
clemency offer, said decisions about clemency are confidential.
White House spokesman Mike Hammer, contacted by The Associated
Press, said nobody was available Saturday to comment on the
specifics of the report.
Filiberto Ojeda Rios, a wanted Macheteros leader who has been in
hiding in Puerto Rico for years, angrily denied any ties to Cuba
during an interview with Puerto Rican radio journalist Luis
Penchi.
``That is ridiculous, absurd,'' he said.
A spokesman for the Cuban Interests Section, which serves as
Havana's de facto embassy in Washington, also dismissed the link.
The office was closed Saturday.
``I have no information on that,'' said Luis M. Fernandez. ``In
my opinion, it is more science fiction than anything else.''
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