MEMO: MEETING WITH AMBANG-1

"14-00000 104-10275-10176 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 2 August 1963 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Meeting with AMBANG-1 1. I met with AMBANG-1 on 27 July 1963 in Miami. The following is a resume of the business transacted at that meeting. a. Request for High Explosives AMBANG-1 stated that in view of my outline of strategic targets inside Cuba during our last meeting which - took place in Washington on 21 June 1963, he had decided to attempt a sabotage opera on against the Havana power plant. He informed me that he has a man employed in the power plant in Havana who is capable of launching this operation. In this connection AMBANG-1 asked if we could make available twenty r pounds of high explosives as well as six to eight thermite grenades. AMBANG-1 asked if it were possible to have the twenty pounds broken into smaller lots. In our further discussion of this subject, it became apparent that A-1 would be willing to receive the materiel either in San Juan or inside Cuba, but that he definitely.preferred the latter if this were possible. Like in mist other instances during i our conversation, I"