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ROLANDO ) MASFERRER ROJAS RE: ‘In October,. 1962, U. S. Customs seized an arms» shipment. belonging, | to MASFERRER that was designated for the Bahamas. In: August, 1963, MASFERRER recruited men and ~* obtained arms and explosives’ for an invasion of Haiti. He ~ . chartered a plane for the invasion, sent 120 men to the Florida.Keys and then abandoned his plans. The . 120 men in the. Keys returned to theit homes. - in October, 1966, MASFERRER formed another inva-- iti. In December, 1966, testified at a federal | In. january, 1967, " MASFERRER assembled an invasion © - force of seventy men in the Florida Keys. These men were. . . arrested - by U.S. Customs and arms were seized. _ ‘ _ a in February, 1967, MASFERRER and. five others were indicted for exporting ‘munitions of war. In November, 1967, they: were convicted and MASFERRER received a four year jail * sentence... ot . os ee 2? . 3 a . In 1973, MASFERRER returned to Miami, dzopped out 2 ‘of Cuban’ revolutionary activities and continued operating fe his newspaper "Libertad." ee “On. October 31, 1975, “MASFERRER » was blown ’ up by dynamite when: he turned on the ignition of his automobile. Some. members of MASFERRER's family admitted he had been en- . gaged in extortion of the "cuban Mafia" and narcotics dealers in Miami and that retaliation was taken against him.© The * police and the Cuban exile commmity concurred in this ‘infor- .Mation. The Miami office of the Federal, Bureau of Investiga- tion cooperated with local authorities by assisting in the crime scene search and conducting laboratory éxaminations of evidence in this matter. .