By CATHERINE WILSON
                                      Associated Press Writer

                                      MIAMI -- (AP) -- A former Cuban operative testified Tuesday
                                      at the trial of five accused Cuban spies that he plotted
                                      bombings in Cuba with a Miami exile supported by a
                                      politically powerful group.

                                      The Cuban American National Foundation has repeatedly
                                      denied any role in a 1997 bombing wave that killed one
                                      Italian tourist and injured 11 other people.

                                      Manny Vazquez, a foundation attorney who watched the
                                      videotaped testimony of Percy Francisco Alvarado Godoy,
                                      denounced it as lies.

                                      Alvarado, whose testimony in Cuba helped convict two
                                      Salvadorans in the hotel bombings, was videotaped in
                                      Havana last October as a defense witness for the five
                                      admitted Cuban agents on trial in Miami.

                                      He said his Miami-based contact was Alfredo Domingo
                                      Otero, who won the dismissal of charges in Puerto Rico that
                                      he helped plot the assassination of Cuban President Fidel
                                      Castro in Venezuela in 1997.

                                      Alvarado said he accepted bomb parts in his native
                                      Guatemala but did not follow orders to plant them. He said
                                      Otero later told him that foundation president Francisco
                                      ``Pepe'' Hernandez ``was very upset'' that the bombs had not
                                      been set.

                                      At later meetings with Otero in Miami, Alvarado said he was
                                      offered an extra dlrs 15,000 to plant the bombs on top of the
                                      previous offer of dlrs 5,000 per bomb.

                                      He said his Miami contacts also wanted him to get
                                      information about a Cuban submarine base and power plant
                                      and distribute counterfeit pesos in Cuba. He said he was
                                      told there was dlrs 30,000 in fake Cuban money and he
                                      turned what he was given over to Cuban authorities.

                                      Alvarado said he worked for Cuban counterintelligence for 22
                                      years, including 10 years when he traveled monthly between
                                      the United State to Cuba as a courier delivering food,
                                      clothing and medicine from exiles to their relatives.

                                      He said he received no pay, no training and no military rank,
                                      unlike the defendants.

                                      ``This is the type of witness that the defense wants the jury
                                      to believe, and it's totally unbelievable,'' Vazquez said of
                                      Alvarado. ``What I know is the foundation had nothing to do
                                      with this guy.''

                                      In an unrelated matter, U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard
                                      refused to allow the defense to use a Justice Department
                                      summary of terrorist acts by Cuban exile Orlando Bosch in
                                      defense of Fernando Gonzalez, who was assigned to tail
                                      Bosch in 1994.

                                      Bosch was convicted in a 1968 bazooka attack on a
                                      Cuba-bound freighter in Miami and was blamed by Cuba for
                                      the 1976 explosion of a Cuban jetliner that killed 73 people.

                                      The defense contends the agents were legally justified in
                                      spying on militant exile groups because the United States
                                      was either unwilling or unable to prevent attacks by them on
                                      Cuban targets.

                                      The defendants also are charged with trying to infiltrate U.S.
                                      military bases but say they never got any U.S. secrets.