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Q. After the Congo, but before the airline bombing in 1976, the airplane bombing in 1976, would you tell me of any other incidents in which you have participated either directly or indirectly in the use of demolitions?
A. Training. I have trained people.
Q. No, I am talking about the use of demolitions in an offensive way or with the intent that
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they have some real effect on people or things?
A. Yes, yes.
Q. You told me one. Please, sir, what are the others?
A. Rodriguez' Market. That was the couple of communist , you know, that were running the market.
Q. When was that, please, sir?
A. I don't recall the dates, William.
Q. Well, give me, if you can, approximately?
A. I don't recall the dates on that now. You know, it was in the 60's.
Q. Sometime in the 60's?
A. Sometime in the 60's.
Q. Where, please, sir?
A That market was located in Hialeah.
Q. What did you do with regard to the Rodriguez' Market, Mr. Morales?
A. I assisted the bomber.
Q. In what way?
A. In the confection of the explosive device.
Q. I didn't hear the word that you used -- in the what of the explosive device?
A. Confection, manufacture, put it together.
Q. Who was the bomber?
A. He is dead.
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Q. Who was he, please, sir?
A. Ramon Cubenas Conde.
Q. Say the last name, please?
A. Cubenas, C-u-b-e-n-a-s.
Q. What is the matronimic last name?
A. Conde, C-o-n-d-e.
Q. What kind of explosive was used?
A. Pentolite.
Q. Was anybody physically injured?
A. Nope.
Q. Just property destruction?
A. Yes.
Q. Subsequently to your return or departure from the Congo, after the Rodriguez' Market, what was the next incident of your participation in any way at all of any demolition or preparation of explosives?
A. 1966. There were about five or six more bombings.
Q. Where, please, sir?
A. In the Miami area.
Q. What was the nature of your participation in them?
A. 1966, 1967. Some of them, I put the explosives together, and some of them were placed by me.
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There was a time when they started trading with the enemy, and they became part of a hit list. Whoever was trading with the Castro government was being bombed.
It's part of, you know, Miami history.
Q. Can you remember any specific places that were bombed in which you had the participation that you just described?
A. Bacu -- something like that.
Q. B-a-c-u?
A. Something along those lines.
Q. What was that?
A. I believe that that was located in Coral Way.
Q. What kind of a place was it?
A. Well, you see, I'm wrong on that, because than was 1968, because the day that, you know, that my little job there in Flagler was foiled, you know, by a second group, that night, I believe that we hit about four different places, which don't even ask me the names of the places, because they are forgotten.
Q. But, they were all places where you placed or detonated explosive devices?
A. Or drive and somebody will step out of the car, you know, and place it. Usually, I was the one,
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you know, stripping the -- the Ore Verde freighter.
I built up the bomb, which goes part of the --
Q. I'm sorry -- you did what to the bomb, sir?
A. I built it up, but I didn't place it. It was somebody else. It was given to somebody else.
Q. To whom was it given?
A. Huh?
Q. To whom was it given?
A. Alanis was the last name of the kid who actually jumped in the water to attach.
Didn't go off, by the way.
Q. Who had him do it?
A. Huh?
Q. Who had him do it?
A. Huh?
Q. Who had him do it?
A. We, at that time, I belonged to an organization by the name of ESA, Ejercito Secreto Anticomunista.
We burned down the FORDC.
Q. What is that?
A. That was a place on 1st Street between 9th and 8th Avenue that was used by local Castro symphatizers to gather, and that place became a nuisance, so it was burned down to the ground.
Q. Now, when you use the word, the term, "we," are you talking about the other members of this group,
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ESA?
A. That is right.
Q. Then, insofar as the Ore Verde was concerned --
A. The Ore Verde was not -- it was a helping hand that we lent to somebody, and I built up the bomb, you know, and gave it to them.
It's part of the museum here. It was a masterpiece.
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