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RE: JOSE. ELIAS TORRIENTE AJURIA against Bota Sama two days previously and that Cuban nationals were killed and wounded. On October 18, 1971, the raids issued 4 press statement claiming credit for the rai . On December 17, 1971, U. S. Marshal seized TORRIENTE's 150 £t. motor vessel at Fort Pierce, Florida _ under ‘Title 18, Section 1709, U. S.. Code. The Cuban exile community in Miami then severely criticized TORRIENTE for having failed in his plan to invade Cuba. On April 12, 1974, at 8:15 p.m, TORRIENTE was shot in the head while he was sitting in the living room of his home. The shot was fired from outside the house. Local police authorities conducted: a lorig, inten- sive investigation of this murder, with negative results, The police feel that the murder was related to TORRIENTE's misappropriation of funds. : -The Miami, Florida office of the: Federal Bureau of Investigation. rendered considerable assistance: to police authorities. by conducting out-of-state investigation and examinations of evidence at the FBI in Washington; DG.