Cuba briefs US officials on detained exiles

Posted on Saturday, 05.10.14

Cuba briefs US officials on detained exiles
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HAVANA -- U.S. diplomats confirmed on Saturday that Cuban officials have
given them some information about four Florida residents who were
arrested on suspicion of preparing attacks against military
installations on the island.

The U.S. Interests Section issued a statement confirming the May 8
meeting with representatives of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It said, "The Cubans provided some information about the allegations
which we are now reviewing."

Cuba's Interior Ministry has identified the men as Jose Ortega Amador,
Obdulio Rodriguez Gonzalez, Raibel Pacheco Santos and Felix Monzon
Alvarez. It said they were detained in late April for planning
"terrorist actions" masterminded from Florida.

The Interior Ministry said the men were detained on April 26 for
plotting to attack military installations, but released few specific
details.

None of the four are well-known within the exile community in South
Florida, but Cuba claimed they were acting on orders from others with a
history of militancy, singling out Santiago Alvarez Fernandez Magrina,
Osvaldo Mitat and Manuel Alzugaray in Miami.

Santiago Alvarez and Mitat pleaded guilty in 2006 in the United States
to conspiracy after an informant tipped the FBI that a large cache of
weapons, including machine guns and a grenade launcher, was being moved
from apartments Alvarez owned.

Alvarez, however, denied involvement in any plot and said he did not
know the detained men.

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