RESPONSES OF DANIEL JAMES TO WRITTEN QUESTIONS OF SENATOR DENTON.

Q. The FALN, you have stated, was organized by the DGI through a Puerto Rican DGI agent named Filiberto Inocencio Ojeda Rios.

Has it at any time been a "legitimate" independence movement or has it always been a pawn of the Cuban DGI engendered and nurtured to carry out Cuban directives?

Does the FALN operate in the continental United States only, or does it also conduct operations in Puerto Rico ?

A. The FALN, to my knowledge, having been founded by the DGI agent Filiberto Inocencio Ojeda Rios, has never been a "legitimate" independence group although advocacy of Puerto Rican independence is, of course, central to its professed program. I an not certain that it can be characterized today as a "pawn" of the DGI; it may, that is, enjoy a certain amount of autonomy, perhaps choosing its own hits, for example.

The FALN does not appear to be exclusively operational Stateside, and has been known to organize or Join in organizing terrorist attempts in Puerto Rico. On Oct. 27, 1975, for example, it engaged in "a simultaneously-coordinated attack against Yanki government and monopoly capitalist institutions in New York, Washington, D. C., Chicago, and Puerto Rico," according to P. R. terrorist sources.

I understand that in the past two years or so it has engaged in terrorist acts on the island but I have not been able to identify the occasions, thus far.

Q. In your statement, it was said that, as part of the Plan Bravo, the DGI "are going to incite Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and blacks, . . . especially blacks. "

Are you aware of specific incidences where this has occurred?

A. The most glaring instance of the incitation of U. S. blacks by the DGI is, of course, the Mariel boatlift and its aftermath in the case of Miami and Dade County where the overwhelming majority of "Marielitos" settled. That has given rise to much friction between the Cuban and black communities there.

Also, the Cuban Interests Section chief in Washington, D. C., Ramon Sanchez Parodi, reportedly a DGI operative, seeks as deliberate policy to cultivate the Black Caucus in Congress for the purpose of opposing U. S. policies.

Q. Besides the company in Panama mentioned in your statement, are you aware of other ways in which Cuba, through American businessmen, or otherwise, circumvents the trade embargo?

A. The U. S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control issued, on Apr. 9, 1982. a "partial list of designated nationals" consisting of 30 companies registered in Panama and 4 in Florida charged with being Cuban commercial fronts that have been violating the U. S. trade embargo against Cuba. Included are Comercial Muralla, Havanatur, and American Airways Charter, which I have previously indicated as Cuban business fronts.

Q. Could you explain whether the hierarchy of the Cuban foreign service has been co-opted by the DGI -- to what extent?

Please describe how the DGI and other Cuban intelligence services use diplomatic cover to gather intelligence .

Do you have any personal knowledge that any former diplomats or diplomatic personnel in Washington like Teofilo Acosta (former Cuban Interest Section - 1^st Secretary) or Richard Escartin (Cuban Interest Section) have DGI connections? Any Cubans with the United Nations? Any Cubans in the Cuban Mission to the United Nations? Please give specifics.

How many Cuban diplomats, embassy personnel, mission employees or UN employees have been expelled from the United States for intelligence activities since 1959?

A. The DGI, Americas Dept. And INCAP, all Cuban intelligence services, use Cuban diplomatic cover for their work as a matter of course, probably wherever Cuba maintains diplomatic relations. Among the more notorious examples is that of the Cuban Consul in Coats Rica, Julian Lopez, and several of his aides who, as Americas Dept. operatives, supervised the airlift of an estimated 30 planeloads of Cuban arms to the Sandinistas during their revolution in 1978-79; Lopez, presumably still working for the Americas Dept., is now Cuban Ambassador to Nicaragua, and it is reasonable to assume that he supervises the activities of his country's numerous intelligence agents in that country. He also supervises their activities in other Central American countries, for example, Costa Rica, where several DGI and/or Americas Dept. agents entering from Nicaragua have been spotted.

The Cuban Embassy in Panama, with 50 persons is the second largest in that country; an estimated half or thereabouts of that number are DGI or Americas Dept. agents. The Cuban Ambassador himself is reported to belong to Cuban intelligence, and a former Cuban Ambassador to Venezuela is said to be the top DCI agent in Panama but does not operate under cover of the local embassy.

Concerning Cuban intelligence agents who may be in the UN Mission or Interests Section in Washington, I have already mentioned their names in print (see two articles of mine accompanying my testimony as exhibits); I know of no others. Your last question, on how many Cuban diplomats, etc., have been expelled from the U. S. for intelligence activities, should be directed to the State Dept.