+ sa f6s-s1aJS) os hed ORLANDO BOSCH,.CORU, REINOL RODRIGUEZ, FRANK CASTRO, ANTONIC 4 VECIANA, and other members of anti-CASTRO groups. In response 8 to VECIANA's letter to PIDEL castro, (CARLOS and CARBONELENCS) eae _ felt that VECIANA's secretary disliked VECIANA and they " “recuested that(2ABALA \:ell the seerntzary thet tay wii CS) j broadcast the information presented in, “her" letter over _ : Radio Havana_in ahout a week's time. (ZABALA stated)that CS 4 inasmuch. as(he was responsible for forwarding \the supposed. SJ i letter from VECIANA's secretary, the Cubans believed that 7 : “ABALA Jgreatly disliked VECIANA also. (CGABALA stated that] no cs) | ; such broadcast was ever made according to ANTONIO VECTIANA. ) | | _ (ZABALA reported that) in the course of the above OS i ‘mentioned Contact with (CARLOS and CARBONELL,\ the latter C$ y stated that they would get in contact with him through Gis C5) | ep eenEn DENCE tS OemNETS aanety at sister, AMALIA.) They asked(ZABALA \it he needed any money and J $_) } he replied negatively \- eset eee} 4 . . (ZABALA nai} oported thatvhe returged to(amaica) C43 4 around {November a) 1 76, and stayed at the Sheraton Hotel Cs 4 During Nis first evening there, a strancse voice telephoned d his room and advised him to go outside. He went doyn and i stood by the hotel swimming pool and then saw(CARiOs . supra CS") i -and was again taxen by (CARLOS and JUAN CARBONELL\t the ZS a hotel where he previously met these individuals. (ZABALA €$ 7 stated that)}the cide from the(Sheraton Hotettin Gingscon,C$ eo Janaica,\to the other hotel takes approximately thirty minutesby car and this hotel is located near. the sea. Up L entering this hotel ,(ZABALA was introduged to("The General." cs3 (At one time during the inferview with("The Genéral"\the latter was refered to as W@ORGE.) ZABALA stated that he C$ also carried a bisinessman's attache. case which(ZABALA CS Mt i! i ‘ 3 4 : suspected could carry(a gun. ZABALA stated that during thes) . a ‘course of. this contact the entire conversation Was taped ond S$ t a tape player) in the room. (ZABALA escribed(the "General")25 i ‘as a white nf€le, five feet seven inches tall, weighing 160 7 ‘ ‘pounds, approximately 36 vears of age, and from(Cien Fuegos, J } Cuba. ZABALA statod \that “The General,)' looked like a: weli (¢ i built, firm militar tyne. Cie stated that )this individpal sh. : had dark hair with slight traces of grey on the side. (nc rare : "General" Jhad dark eyes and no other distinguishing physical ! sparsewonnentent AS a , ee SECRET DoclId: 327177781 Page 44
aaa rnc AR Et op we * oy oe - Ona pane. TOR-sEgRe— _ 7 - 7 sz (5-s14 Yb) rs en ee Canara stated that\in the course of th Cuban individuals wanted to know about the bomb on a Cuban Plane which had recently destroyed the plane and sent it Plunging into the sea, They wanted him to invite REINOL RODRIGUEZ, FRANK .CASTRO, and "BEBO" (Last nama possibly FRANCO, and the owner of a Soertcing goods store which is jocated at Flagler and 18th Avenue, Miami, Florida) to amaica|for. reasons of placing bombs against pro-Cuban ane schools’ in(Zamaisa) The Cuban individuals could then C$) arrange for the (Jamaican wuthoricies to arrest Rnopricurs,CS 3 CASTRO, and "BERD" and later these could be given over to the Cubans. In addition te the above, the Cubans wanted an "up date" on pictures of about thirty individuals. Thess individuals were all current Suspected anti-CASTRQ_tvpe > persons and incliniedg ENRIQUE NUNEZ. On November 95) 1976,C5 “according to (ZABALA,) they gave him $500.00 for plane tickets CS} and expenses. They wanted him to go-to Venezuela to find out about the above mentioned Cuban plane bombing. a FELIX, ZABALA_MAS Jadvised that (November 259,31976,C$. he returned to Jamaica jand this time went to place whichC4 is known as the (hittIe Pub," in the city of Echo RiosT) C$ (ZABALA stated that approximately 9:00. p.m. that evenin (Cos) three men came in_to the ("Little Pub." (He stated that these CS_} individuals were (the ‘General," CARLOSTVand a third Cuban whom he had not }¥ev usly met. He deSCribed this individual as'a white male, six feet three inches tall, weiching 220 pounds, having Short, dark hair, approximately 38 years of age, and having heavy prescription glasses; . This latter individual inforred(ZABALA \that he had been working, in the C5) Cuban Fmbassy in Chile during 7K) DoclId: 32177781 Page 45 is contact. the three C 5 3 4 zs i] i } . | 7] . j
oe ee if OW | SE AL ve So ZABALA stated that )VECIANA had, ba preparation CL) oF for his NoVember 29 anticipated meeting in amaica, given ert him information to furnish to the Cubans. ZABALA said that . ‘VECIANA furnished (him with Vinformation concerning the (5° bombing of the Air Cubana Airliner’ stating that the infor- 5 mation would appear to be good and was true, however, it i was well known within the anti-Castro. Cuban Community and he did not believe it .would harm anybody. (GaBALA saidC SD that) VECTAR ra (gold “ninJehat ORLANDO GARCIA, who was an C$ employee of the JovePnment of Venezucin, an: id former Cd, employee, had gone to Santo Domingo in 1976 and met with | ORLANDO BOSCH ani FRANSN CASTRO. VECIANA further advised that there was also present at the meeting a representative from Brigade 25035, name unknown. VECIANA said that at this time, BOSCH, CASYHO, GARCIA and the representative from ; Brigade 2506 vlaaned a bombing of a Cubana airliner. At } some time folitowing this BOSCH went to Venezuela to take command of the operation. Upon arrival in Venezuela BOSCH 7 ‘was met by ‘'MONO"' MORALES, a Cuban exile living in, Venezuela. VECIANA said that MORALES was the individual who had ~ testified in a Federal trial against BOSCH a few years | prior to this time. MORALES is supposed to have told ‘ BOSCH that he wished for all past differences to be. forgotten | and. for them to unite in this act, as.all.good Cubans should try to get rid of CASTRO. At this time MORALES gave BOSCH ; a machine gun and offered a car. and driver as well as the use of an apartment that he (MORALES )._ ‘stated that. he had | arranged for BOSTH. VECIANA said’ that. BOSCH still did not trust MORALES ani instead went to the “apartment of ALFREDO | | ! tr 7 CIA iv it 4 1 See an ten ee paenireppanmnywetearere save TE eet Oat Tees knee onal AGUIAR, another Cuban exile in. Caracas... BOSCH supposedly stayed at that aoartment and during this time was in contact with an old Cuban revolutionary named "PEPE" as well as a former CIA operative named "RICO." RICO was described as being a Cuban exile also. RICO supposedly gave BOSCH $2,002 during this time: in‘ order. to: support the intended operation against the Cubana Airlines. BOSCH was also in contact with a Cuban exile attorney while in 1. Venezuela, name unknown, however, it was stated that BOSCH oe i] aa tte BRE Ea H * i 3 de at LF ‘| following the bombing. VECIANA further(told ZABALA}that C$3 “when the bomb went off, it was such a tragedy that7”the ~*~ CORU group was afraid to claim credit for it. VECIANA (A) SECRET | ‘was arrested in Caracas “at the home of this is = eh aad oe Sane te gle he at RE caries _ vnc ey ae DoclId: 327177781 Page 46
—,saf6s-s1FY ‘off with the plane in the air. VECIAN the plan had been for the bomb to go off while the plane -. lives, however, the plane departed early and thus the bomb ,° went off while the plane was in the mas - (ZABALA said that ‘previously furnished information and give VECIANA the ‘to(Venezuelatas well as the trip for the(November 29,)1977,,f ‘meeting. ( ZABALA {said at the conclusion of the meeting h $ - asked the Cubans to help in gettingfhis mother and sister CS) rrr ag ee gam .. further advised that the Government of Venezuela had Cf? | -.- previously had knowledge ‘of the plans for this: bombing, vy ’ however, they. also became air, VECLANACtOl the Aras went A told ZABAL ae was on the runway in Barbados, avoiding serious loss of wo 4 Bi oo CZABALA reiterated that VECIANA had given-him thigs). information to furnish as he Y( VECIANA) stated that most of ‘this infcermation had been hinted at in the newsnaners and that he felt that ZABALAJ could. impress the Cubans with thi€s7 information as well as utilizing this information to cover _- for the fact that ZABALA) had actually not{gone to Venezuel <9) as previously requested by the Cuban intelTigence Agents;¢ [2apaLs said that he furnished this information Ss). to) the CuBbén Intelligence Agents during the}November 29) 19765 ueeting and they appeared yery pleased with The information. ABALA said that) he also, (as previously directed by VECIANA, VS told. the Cuban £gents that”~VECIANA had been involved in some r sort of testimony regarding the KENNEDY assassination. [ZABALA " =) said that he did not furnishtwem with any details other than ~ telling him that VECIANA had traveled to Washington, using a travel voucher issued under the name of Senator SCHWIEEKER. phe did not know why VECIANA wanted this¢és) information giv®hi to the Cubans unless it was (to further @s_) convince him that he (ZABALA) was furnishing them with good information|in the hopes that they would utilize the publicity he desired on radio Havan Following the(Noyember 29,) 1977, meeting which was Cs: taped by t Cukans,f ZABALA \said that he was instructed to $7 ‘ moot (CARLOS Vin (canan’ on (January 10,51977, being instructed CS) fo to go to. the(Panama Hiltco® Hoteljard be standing in theC $) ; parking lot at & p.m. He was told that somebody would pyck him up. (ZABALA added that he was given(3700 at the conciusion of this meeting by the Cubans, which was to provide expenses for the trip he was supposed to have taken 3 | ») out of Cuba for a (Christmas vacationfin Puerto Rico anc(S ) SECRET DoclId: 3271777381 Page 47