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Current Disposition of
OMEGA  7 MEMBERS


[REF:   binder part 7 ]


APPENDIX    1

CURRENT DISPOSITION OF OMEGA 7 MEMBERS


NAME               CONVICTED         SENTENCED

Eduardo Victor,   New York: 9/22/84;  Life plus 35 years

Arocena Perez aka Omar,  Miami: 2/12/85; 25 counts RICO, 23 counts weapons and explosives charges,  bombing related, first degree murder and attempted murder of two foreign diplomats.  Must serve 20-40 years before eligible for parole.  20 years to serve concurrently with above sentence.

Pedro Crispin Remon  New York: 6/26/84; Criminal contempt, failure to testify before a Federal grand jury. 5 years

     New York: 2/6/86;  Pled guilty to conspiracy to murder a foreign official and conspiracy to bomb and destroy property of a foreign government. 10 years plus a $20,000 fine

Andres Garcia   New York: 4/6/84; Criminal contempt, failure to testify before a Federal grand jury.  5 years

     New York: 2/6/86; Pled guilty to conspiracy to murder a foreign official and conspiracy to bomb and destroy property of a foreign government. 10 years plus a $20,000 fine.

Eduardo Losada  Fernandez  New York: 6/21/84;  5 years Criminal contempt, failure to testify before a Federal grand jury.

     New York: 2/6/86;  Pled guilty to conspiracy to murder a  foreign official and conspiracy to bomb and destroy property of a foreign government.  10 years plus a $20,000 fine.

Ramon Saul Sanchez   New York: 5/7/84;  9 years. Criminal contempt,  failure to testify before a Federal grand jury.

Eduardo Feliciano Ochoa   New York: 5/14/84;  6 years Criminal contempt, failure to testify before a Federal grand jury.

Alberto Perez   New York: 5/7/84;  4 years Criminal contempt, failure to testify before a Federal grand jury.

Jose Julio Garcia, Jr.  New York: 5/7/84  5 years. Criminal contempt, failure to testify before a Federl grand jury.  All suspended except 4 months Federal Probation in Newark, N.J.

Ernesto Gomez   Miami:  10/2/84; Conspiracy and explosives violations.  Out on bond.

Gerardo Necuze   Miami:  2/21/84; Conspiracy and explosives violations. Out on bond.

Jose Ignacio Gonzalez   Miami: 2/21/84;  Fugitive. Conspiracy and explosives violations.    As of  December, 1985, believed to be in Guatemala

Justo Manuel Rodriguez,   Miami:  2/21/84;  Conspiracy and explosives violations.   Out on bond.

NOTE:  Necuze, Gonzalez and Rodriguez entered into cooperative agreements with Federal prosecutors.  Necuze and Rodriguez testified against Arocena.  Gonzalez fled the country before testifying and remains a Federal fugitive.
 

Another factor which contributed to the success of Omega 7 was that law enforcement authorities were initially unable to develop any suspects in the Omega 7 bombings and murders.  This inability to develop suspects occurred because none of the members of Omega 7, with the exception of Ramon Sanchez, were known prior to Pedro Remon and Sanchez being stopped after the attack on the Cuban Consulate in Montreal, Canada, in late 1980.  Although all the Omega 7 members had been active in the various anti-Castro groups, none, other than Sanchez, had conducted any activity which would have drawn the attention of law enforcement officials.

Another factor contributing to the inability of law enforcement officials to develop suspects was the lack of cooperation of arrested Cuban militants.  When suspected militant Cuban exiles would be arrested on various charges, they would often refuse, usually out of fear of retaliation, to provide information the activities of other militant exiles.  Instead, the arrested Cubans would offer to provide information on the criminal activities of other nationalities, particularly Chileans in the aftermath of the Letelier assassination.  Overall, this lack of prior violent anti- Castro activity, coupled with the closed nature of the Cuban exile community to law enforcement officers investigating Omega 7 and the coordinated efforts by the CNM to impede investigations by claiming to be Omega 7, successfully obfuscated Omega 7 members from law enforcement officials and helped contribute to the success of the Omega 7 attacks.

The split between Remon and Arocena in late 1980 also complicated the investigation of Omega 7.  After the split and Arocena's relocation to Florida an entirely new group of individuals were recruited for Omega 7.  This complicated investigations because  the geographic area of operation for Omega 7 had shifted from northern New Jersey and the New York City area to Miami, Florida.  This change in geographic area of operation, coupled with an influx of new members, made the group appear larger and better organized than was originally believed.  It also provided Omega 7 with a new area of operation in which individual members were unknown and new recruits could be obtained from the previously untapped Cuban exile community in Florida.


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