May 1, 1986

POLICE AGENT IN PUERTO RICO DEATHS IS ASSASSINATED

(SAN JUAN, P.R.) A former police undercover agent, who eight years ago figured in the shooting deaths of two young radical advocates of  Puerto Rican  independence, was shot to death Tuesday night. A terrorist organization said it was responsible.

The former undercover agent, Alejandro Gonzalez Malave, was killed instantly by three shotgun blasts as he was entering the home
of his mother in the suburb of Bayamon. His mother, Carmen Gonzalez, was slightly injured.

The assassins had been parked in two autmobiles near the house and pulled up to the front immediately after Mr.Gonzalez Malave
drove into the carport, according to police accounts. The shots were fired from inside the car.

Several hours later, people identifying themselves as belonging to Volunteer Organization for the Revolution called newspapers and
news agencies assuming responsibility.

The organization was among the terrorist groups that said they were involved in the attack on a Navy bus on Dec. 3, 1979, in which
two Navy men were killed and 10 people injured. A group with the name had also said it was responsible for the Jan. 12, 1981, attack
on the Puerto Rico Air National Guard base in which six jet fighter planes were blown up at a loss of $40 million.

Threat to All Involved

In its calls to the news media, the organization said it would kill ''one by one'' all the policemen involved in the deaths in July 1978 of
Carlos Soto Arrivi, 18 years old, and Arnaldo Dario Rosado, 24, on the Cerro Maravilla mountaintop.

The two had gone to the mountain with Mr. Gonzalez Malave, who had infiltrated their team, reportedly to sabotage the retransmission tower of a commercial television station.

Alerted by Mr. Gonzalez Malave, the Police Department had staked out the area with a large contingent. The policemen at the scene
said the two young men ignored an order to surrender and were killed while trying to fight their way out.

At Senate hearings in 1983, however, witnesses said Mr. Soto and Mr. Rosado had surrendered and were slain by a police firing
squad while on their knees.

Ten of the police officers are now serving sentences of 6 to 30 years for perjury before the Federal grand jury that investigated the
case.

He Was Acquitted in Case

In February, Mr. Gonzalez Malave was acquitted of kidnapping a jitney driver whose car was used for the trip to the mountain. The
case has been known as the Cerro Maravilla case, after the mountain.

The Commonwealth Secretary of Justice, Hector Rivera Cruz, announced the appointment of a team with members from the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, the Commonwealth Justice Department and the police department to deal with the new crime.

The F.B.I. was called in because it had been investigating the Volunteer Organization since the Navy bus attack. The F.B.I. has said it
is one of the most dangerous terrorist organizations now operating in the United States.