July 14, 1976

By MIGUEL PEREZ

The Cuban National Liberation Front, the Miami-based secret exile organization that has claimed responsibility for bombings at Cuban embassies all over the world, said Tuesday that it should not be linked to recent acts of terrorism in Miami.

"Never has our movement taken credit for any type of activity in the United States and never will it do so, because never (will) the frustration caused by the betrayal of an old ally . . divert our sole and undivided objective of hitting our only enemy whenever and wherever possible," the organization claimed in a typewritten statement sent to The Herald.

The FLNC, known in South Florida for the black initials members of the organization have painted on Little Havana storefronts, said it should not be called "a local terrorist organization" by the news media

"WE ARE A patriotic movement respected and supported by the exiled communities in Europe, Latin America and the United States," the statement said. "And we are respected and supported not because of fear, but because we have maintained and defended the clean image and the high spirits of our cause above everything else, and never have we employed the coward and anti-patriotic tactics of extortion and terrorism against our people to gain recognition or economic support . . . "

In another letter sent to The Herald Tuesday, Cuban exile Dr. Orlando Bosch, a fugitive from U.S. authorities and leader of another anti-Castro group, Accion Cubana, urged his fellow Cubans to "denounce and work with authorities to surprise all those offenders and delinquents who use our name in negotiations that are not inspired by nobleness, dignity, morale and patriotic sentiments.

Bosch, who jumped federal parole and has been hiding in Latin America for the last two years after serving a prison term for shelling a Polish freighter docked in Miami, said he opposed acts of terrorism in the United States, "unless they are provoked by very special circumstances." He said he has always been opposed to terrorism in the United States, but "without denying that on a certain opportunity we participated in it many years ago."

BOSCH SAID his name has been used falsely by extortionists and in "acts of terrorism without any justification."

The FLNC statement apparently was inspired by the letter from Bosch. The two letters were mailed from Miami in similar envelopes, and both letters used the same label addressed to The Miami Herald.

"Our objectives have been established," said the FLNC statement. "We have attacked and will continue to attack military objectives in the island; their spy ships that have on several occasions fired upon and turned in fleeing refugees from the island; their embassies, which are extensions of the dictatorship in the world, and serve as centers for espionage and subversion in the democratic countries."

The FLNC's latest attack on Castro was in April, when a' crewman on a Cuban fishing boat was killed and four others were, brought to Miami by a Norwegian ship after their boat was attacked by FLNC commandos. The FLNC described the fishing ships as Castro's "espionage vessels."

AFTER THAT incident, three months ago, the FLNC released a statement charging that "enemy navigation will always be in danger and that our naval units, operating from several bases outside of the North American territory, will continue hitting all of those who persist in serving International "Communism."

In Bosch's letter, typewritten in Spanish, he lists several reasons opposing terrorism in U.S. territory:

Bosch is wanted by U.S. authorities for parole violating and questioning in a number of incidents, including the assassination of Cuban exile leader Jose Elias a La Torriente in his Coral Gabs home in 1974. He fled Miami shortly after the Torriente murder, and reports since then have placed him in several Latin American countries. He made news reports in March when he was arrested in Costa Rica while Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited that country. He later was deported to the Dominican Republic.

The letter he wrote this month is signed by Orlando Bosch, "Somewhere in America."