November 29, 1976

Terrorist activities during 1976 included:

March 4 - Exile organizations claim responsibility for the bombing of Soviet embassies in Sam Jose, Costa Rica, and Bogota, Colombia, plus the machinegunning of a Soviet container ship. No loss of life but seven persons injured.

April 8 - Two Cuban fishing boats machinegunned off the Cuban coast. One fisherman killed.

April 22 - Cuban Embassy in Portugal bombed. Two staff members killed.

June L Cuban UN Mission in New York City bombed.

July 9 - Luggage being loaded on Cubana Airliner in Kingston, Jamaica explodes. No injuries.

July 10 - British West Indies Company in Barbados bombed because it supplies Cubana Airlines.

July 23 - One man killed in attempt to kidnap Mexican consul in Merida.

July 24 - Three members of Omega 7 arrested for planting bomb at the Academy of Music in Manhattan to protest a pro-Castro rally to be held there.

August 9 - Two Cuban staff members of Embassy in Buenos Aires are reported kidnapped. Exile sources say they defected.

August 18 - Cubana Airline office in Panama City blown up.

Sept. 2 - Guyanese Consulate in Trinidad bombed to protest Guyanese support of Angola-bound Cuban troops.

Sept. 17 - Soviet ship in harbor at Elizabeth, N.J.,

bombed. Bomb planted in Manhattan Music Academy.

Sept. 21 - Former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier and an American research assistant killed in a car bomb explosion.

Oct. 2 - Cuban Secret Army claims responsibility for bomb placed in New York Criminal Court to protest handling of Omega 7 members.

Oct. 6 - Cubana Airliner sabotaged enroute to Cuba from Barbados. 73 persons killed.

,Nov. 8 - Cubana Airline office in Madrid bombed.

Bombings authorities believe were carried out by Castro-trained terrorists include:

June 25 - FALN claims responsibility for placement of 20 bombs in the New York City area. Several persons injured.

July 13 - Incendiary devices found in four New York retail stores to protest presence of Puerto Rican delegation at Democratic Convention.

Sept. 11 - U.S. Information Library, Chilean Embassy and Varig Airline of Brazil offices in Rome are bombed on third anniversary of the overthrow of the Marxist government of Salvador Allende in Chile.

Sept. 22 - FALN claims credit for bombing of New York Hilton' stairway because of presence of Puerto Rican Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon.

Sept. 27 - Avis office in Rome bombed for reprisal by group noting Avis owned by ITT which allegedly participated in the overthrow of the Allende government.

Oct. 28 - Nine bombs explode in New York City, Chicago and Washington, D.C. FALN claims responsibility