>...In November 1962, the F.B.I. arrested three Cubans in New York and seized a cache of explosives and incendiary devices. The Cubans were charged with attempting to gather information about U.S. military installations and with stockpiling the explosives "for the purpose of injuring and destroying national defense materials, premises, and utilities." Among the contemplated targets were retail stores, oil refineries, and the New York subway system. The detainees included Roberto Santiesteban Casanova, an attache at the Cuban Mission. Because he had arrived recently, his official papers were being processed and the U.S. government asserted he still did not enjoy diplomatic immunity. A Cuban couple, Jose Gomez Abad and his wife Elisa Montero de Gomez Abad, were charged with complicity in the affair and ordered to leave the country. Both were attaches at the Mission, and as such did have diplomatic immunity from arrest.
In January 1968 Chafik Homero Saker Zenni (who also used the name Rolo Martinez; code name "Rolo"), First Secretary of the Cuban Mission, was barred from reentering the United States. In February 1969 Jesus Jimenez Escobar, Counselor of the Mission, was also refused reentry. Both men had been providing guidance and financial assistance to black extremist groups in the States.
In August 1969, Lazaro Eddy Espinosa Bonet, Third Secretary of the Mission, was ordered expelled because he had attempted to recruit several Cuban refugees for the purpose ‑ the United States said succinctly ‑ of gathering information about "the security of the office of the President." The fact was that, meeting clandestinely with Espinosa in New York, the refugees had been instructed to obtain all the information they could about President Nixon's home on Key Biscayne in Miami: photographs, floor plans, details of security, itineraries, and modes of travel used by the president when arriving and leaving. It is not known why D.G.I. wanted this information.
At the same time that Espinosa was expelled, the United States also barred Alberto Boza‑Hidalgo Gato (code name "Zabo"), who was in Cuba at the time, from reentering the country. Boza‑Hidalgo, First Secretary of the Cuban U.N. Mission, was charged with attempting to recruit for the purpose of gathering "material of an intelligence value" about a U.S. military installation.
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