Miami Herald
Nov. 23, 1974.
Mystery and secrecy continued to surround fugitive Cuban exile terrorist Dr. Orlando Bosch Friday.
He was released by his Venezuelan captors and flew to Curacao, the Associated Press reported. Meanwhile, United Press International quoted the chief of Venezuela’s political police saying Bosch never had been arrested.
But sources confirmed late Friday that Bosch was arrested early this week and was still “under the strictest security imaginable.”
The Pediatrician-turned terrorist, who was arrested in 1968 in Miami as head of Cuban Power after participating in the bazooka attack on a Polish freighter in Miami, skipped parole in June and is being sought by federal agents.
In photocopied letters Bosch’s present group, Accion Cubana, mailed to several Miami newspapers 10 days ago, the group claimed responsibility for the bombing of the Panamanian Embassy and of the Cuban Venezuelan Friendship Institute in October.
A Caracas source speculated that the Venezuelan government may be leaking misleading information regarding Bosch hoping his detention does not become an issue among Cuban exile extremists.
UPI quoted political police boss Gustavo Rodriguez as saying Bosch had never been arrested in Venezuela. But Rodriguez would not tell the UPI if his agents were looking for Bosch.
The AP quoted sources in New York saying that Bosch had been released after several powerful Cuban exiles in Caracas pleaded with President Carlos Andres Perez.
Federal agents are looking for Bosch to put him back in a federal penitentiary to serve the remaining four years of his nine year sentence. They also want to question him for his alleged claims of terrorist activities.