Incident Date:
April 08, 1967 08:00
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Ottawa, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators: Cuban Nationalist Movement (anti-Castro)
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Projectile (rockets, mortars, RPGs))
Organization Type: Rightist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Diplomatic(Diplomats/Families/Individuals (outside of embassy))
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "04/08/1967: A home-made device set off a three and a half inch rocket launcher (""bazooka"") in front of the Cuban Embassy in Ottawa around 8:00 a.m. The missile tore away a chunk of sidewalk and every front window was shattered. No one was injured. A metal rocket housing found intact bore the scratched Spanish inscription: ""Asociacion Nationalista Cubana."" Army explosives experts defused a second rocket found live and unexploded in the street. It appeared that the rockets and timing mechanism had been left in a suitcase on a car rack of a rented car parked on the street. The Cuban Nationalist Movement in Miami, Florida, which opposes Fidel Castro's regime, claimed responsibility. The head of the association said the job was done in Canada because of an ""insulting and provocative attitude"" to the positions of Cubans ""enslaved by International Communism."""
References: 1) "Kellett, A., Beanlands, B., Deacon, J., Jeffrey, H., & Lapalme, C. (1991). Terrorism in Canada 1960-1989, User Report no. 1990-16. Ottawa: Solicitor General Canada, National Security Coordination Centre, Police and Security Branch. p. 172; 369."
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