By Joe Crankshaw

The Chilean secret police attempted to recruit two accused Cuban terrorists to assassinate the nephew of Cile's deposed Marxist president Salvador Allende, a ranking South American intelligence official told U.S. authorities in February.

The intelligence official, Ricardo Morales of the Venezuelan secret police, told FBI contacts that Chile's secret police (DINA) sought the assassination of both Luis Pascal Allende and his companion Anne Marie Brussier, according to documents made available to The Herald.

Morales, himself a Cuban exile, said the DINA plot, which was never carried out, was reported to him by Rolando Otero, who currently faces trial in Miami on 39 felony charges related to nine terrorist bombings here.

AT THE TIME of Morales' report to the FBI, Otero was a fugitive from a Miami federal grand jury indictment related to the bombings. He was subsequently acquitted earlier this year at a federal trial in Jacksonville.

Morales quoted Otero as saving the DINA had attempted to recruit both Otero and Dr. Orlando Bosch for the assassination. Bosch was charged in Venezuela last week with first-degree murder in the sabotage of a Cuban airliner that claimed 72 lives.

Morales quoted Otero as saying DINA offered arms and funds to Cuban exile groups. Otero refused to do the "favor," left Chile and told the Latin American intelligence official on Feb. 15, then returned to Santiago. He was arrested two weeks later and held until he was handed over to the U.S. in May.

Dr. Bosch was arrested entering Costa Rica with a false passport on Feb. 19. He was charged with plotting to kill U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Luis Pascal Allende and Anne Marie Brassier.

No trial was held and Bosch was later deported. He returned to Santiago and apparently remained there until going to the

Caribbean area to organize CORU, a militant anti-Castro group which claimed credit for the bombing of a Cubana Airline plane last month.

Morales made the reports to the FBI in an exchange of intelligence with U.S. officials about exile terrorist plots.

An FBI spokesman in Washington said Monday the bureau would have no comment on the reported DINA plot.

Information of the alleged DINA-Cuban exile conspiracy against the surviving Allende family and government members was suppressed during the federal bombing trial of Otero in Jacksonville in September.

WHEN OTERO started to testify about his activities in Chile, government prosecutors objected that the information was immaterial to the bombing charges.

Otero was found innocent of federal charges that he placed bombs at Miami International Airport in October, and at the Miami FBI office, Social Security office, state unemployment service, two post offices, a bank, the Dade State Attorney's office and the Miami police department headquarters on December 3 and 4.

His trial on related state charges will begin Monday.

Otero remained in Florida until late December when he was told by an FBl informant that the FBI was preparing to have him indicted on the bombing charges.

Otero them went to the Dominican Republic, where he was arrested, then paroled to the custody of Admiral Cesar de Windt, father-in-law of Frank Castro, an Otero friend.

WHEN A MIAMI federal grand jury returned indictments against Otero in the bombings, Otero flew to Caracas, Venezuela.

Otero had $50 in his pocket when he landed in Caracas, according to information in FBI reports. He stayed with Morales, a former Cuban political police agent and anti-Castro exile working with the Venezuelan secret police.

Information contained in the reports alleges that Otero was told that if Venezuelan authorities moved to arrest him, he could receive asylum with the new Chilean ambassador.

While in Caracas, Otero allegedly told Morales that he had committed the bombings in Miami, except for the Miami police department explosion. He said he knew who placed that bomb. Morales sent the information to the FBI.

In early February, Otero fled to Santiago, Chile, and booked a room at the Emperador Hotel, according to the intelligence reports in the hands of investigators.

OTERO TOLD Morales - whom he believed would help in an exile plot against Castro later this year - that after arriving in Santiago, he went to DINA headquarters and identified himself and said he was a fugitive from the U.S.

It was at DINA headquarters that Otero was told the secret police supported the Cuban cause and would provide funds for them in return for a "favor."

The DINA spokesmen, Otero told the intelligence agent, wanted him to kill Luis Pascal Allende and a female companion, Anne Marie Bruasier, in Costa Rica before Feb. 22.

If Otero failed, he quoted DINA spokesmen as saying Bosch would serve as a backup.

Luis Allende is the nephew of the Chilean communist president. Salvador Allende, who committed suicide when right-wing elements overthrew his government in September 1973

ON FEB. 15, Otero relayed the request for a "favor" to the intelligence agent and returned to Santiago, where he was registered at the Emperador Hotel until March 8 when he disappeared.

Chilean authorities later said they had taken him into custody on April 27 and charged Otero with being an undesirable alien. They ordered him deported following a hearing May 27.

FBI agents, waiting for Otero aboard a Braniff Airline flight, took him into custody on the Miami federal grand jury indictment and returned him to this country for trial.

Dade Circuit Judge Lenore Nesbitt has said she will rule Wednesday on whether Otero must stand trial an .state charges arising from the 1975 bombings, or if the state charges constitute double jeopardy and are thus unconstitutional.

Otero spoke publicly only once. He asked Judge Nesbitt to require the jail to let him see a doctor so that he could get a tranquilizer prescription.