oe SE FFA ARTERIES EE ET ea St RN I A kN |= - fAlmacen Espanol . would ($1,200.00 Serom hisfpresentatio _ Beach, Florida, between(October 5 and 10,) 1976. He stated x! 1 Fi } ~ cashiers check via Gspasas Advertising, Incorporated) to CS) : “S “FIGUEROA jand that the first check, which. should not have been© § J “4 eposited in light of the second check, was placed in an 7 a Sunknown bank and when it finally reached Puerto Rico there were insufficient funds to cover it. (ZABALA)stated that both CS) checks were made out to( Communications Arts .\S$ (FELIX ZABALA advised that (his brother, PEPE (JosE GSD) LUIS ZABALA), his sist@r ELVIRA,\and he, paid an organization which handles the vaperwork £ Cubans who wish to visit outside Cuba, fAlvacen Espanola pproximatelv ($1,200.00 Jro LSI ‘secure the financial aspect of {nis mother and sister's ‘4 ‘leaving Cuba. Hse stated that his brother, PEPE,)filed the © SO ecessary appligations regardingfhis mother and sister to Din Miami. He stated that approximately half C49 of the money went into an account in(Kingston, Jamaica, )to S render secure that(his sister.and motherJwould not bea financiai burden to the( Jamaican Government jand that they C$. = ave money to leavé that country. He added that @EPE, 2 himseif had nothing to do with(his mother's. and 2 9_). sister eaving Cuba other than sending the necessarv NO, application papers to(Almacen Espanol jin Miami, Florida. He $20). added that he went tof Jamaica on (Decéiber 21, 1976,)to help $O his sister and his motherJand that after they landed from € Cuba he took ther to(the Sheraton HoteljJand later on A oR Ss} United States Embassy to secure the necessary visas. The interviewing Agents questioned @aBALA jabout his C$) recent source of income and he stated that he earned aynroxi- ee mately($3,009.90 /From af(prize fight]|which wa held Jin Gayam nos Puerto Rico,jon(Seotemhe¥ 10, 19767] between ESTEBAN DE JESUS \ZE DL! and (HECTOR JULIO MEDINA.) He added that he earned approximately § ) SpE the (Chinese Circus jin Miami¢ ¢ ) that he got approximately ($2,000.00 fon or about (Decembe 18,\C¢ | (tight as a reeru.t of his selling hftSfrights and Gontract)to “th f ighter, HECTOR CULIO MEDINA, | ZABAL stated, wever, that he Zo J | had to pay this money back tofpromotét DON KING Jand antalones (5 J Santiago as his_fighter )backed out of the deal°and it fell -” - ' through. (ZABALA Jadvis@d that between February oB) and (larch gal 1977, he earned approximately($3,800.00 from the (performances “SECRET soto 2 a a PL. DoclId: 32177781 Page 70
. ” . . . * . rs a a ee <1) vw SECRET “of rs Re ctrdus}in & Juan, Mayaguez , and vones DCS? Puerto Rico. FELIX 2ABALA nZone had been’ furnished by the LSD interviewing Agents a Spanish copy of the Advice of Rights -form which he said he understood and Siqned, was presented a reading of the statutes naving <0 GO with foreign govern~ ment agents and the Foreian Agent Registration Act of 1938. The Advice of Rights form was furnished to (FELIX ZABALA mac L S sJ prior to the aforementioned discussion of his travel outside of Puerto Rico .in the last six months. / ZAPALA Was sternly C CS) advised that he iad been asked to tell The truth in all the above matters ani that any discrepancy in his account could ‘possibly be a violation of his oo te t(Pederal probatio: \CSO which extends to (January 29,)1978, pet this spojnt, Genin ZABALA wigdadvisea the int ter~- CS) Miewing Agents that he had no idéa how.tHe FBI had gotten - all the facts about him and that the PBI seems to know everything about him. He stated that he is nét a Communist and that: anything political that he would do would be acains PIDEL CASTRO. A: this point, (2anann M-S)stated that he had Ex waited for a Tons time for thiS moment and that. he is Willing to tell «he interviewing Agents evervthind. GABALA aD) MAS Istated that) she following accounts arefonlv known by himself and hiS “riend;)ANTONIO VECIANA. He “stated that(S) VECIANA recently had s3me problems with a United States Government assassination committee which was look <ing into the assassination of JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY. He stated that VECIANA had to appear on aporoximately three occasions in Washington, D. C., the last of which was around December 0, 1976. [ZAPALA|stated that approximately one month cw JOHN F ENNEDY was shot in Dallas, Texas, VECIANA and an individual whof2Zi.cALA]felt was associated with United States (S) Central Intell gence Agency (CIA), "Mr. BISHOP," met w LEE HARVEY OSWALD in Dallas, Texas. [ZABALA stated tha -"Mr. BISHOP" knev VECIANA since -196T7 (ite dded that vhad handled an assassination attempt against FIDEL CASTRO while CASTRO was_in Chile in 1971. CzauaLaYstated that) vecrana(S (Ss) \ went to Bolivia jc work for the United States Go overnmént, around 1967. {He stated that). VEcra NA [and Eas BJvens to. Chile in T9713 (Ss) SECRET | - DoclId: 32177781 Page 71
fate. Rene = te Peewee ee 6 ary acetone aU Meh ily ei nan nee Beaty pmererarsny tae ee oe eta eo nent A ete aN bene See a afndy - . - . ; . “ . H , 7 . . to set up an operation to kill CASTRO. (He stated that] toC $) os expedite this, false Venezuelan: passports were made, the -hecessary guns were brought in in the diplomatic pouches, - oy . = ‘hand grenades were vicked up in Bolivia, and a United States ‘diplomatic car carried that parapnenalia from Bolivia to os Chiie. CZABALA Stated that}the plan was prepared in tiami .(S) Florida, and dt that time VECIANA fas still working for the United States Embassy in Bolivia:, [He added thatthe and\(S) VECIANA rented the room in Santiago, Chile, ‘and staved ther for two or three davs. CZABALA stated that JTUAN DOMINGUEZ © and MARCO RODRICUEZ (Cuban exTles not further identified) _ thereafter took over that room and enrolled in an approximately /six month course in photograph-end television in Santiago. The purpose of the endeavor was to place a gun inside one of the cameras which would be used by DOMINGUEZ or RODRIGUEZ and ot when FIDEL CASTRO made his appearance before members of the ; ress, he would be shot by one of these individuals. (apart &) “ (28802 thatja high cfficial in the Chilean government S@curea” oa she necesSary press permits for -these individuals to come in Om “the proximity of CASTRO when he.arri-red in. Chile in 1971. a Gile stated thatthe operation was not successful as DOMINGURZ ©) and RODRIGUEZ failed, by some means, to shoot CASTRO on the first day that he was presented before the members of the : press and that on the second day one of those. individuals OS Stated that he mast go to the hospital as his appendix was’ bothering him. The other individual stated that someone in CASTRO’s vicinity identified him and thereafter, th potential assassin left Chile and was later seen in Boliviag@) . {@ABALA reported that] ANTONIO VECIANA prepared a (S). letter for the banefit of FIDEL CASTRO in Cuba in which he Signed the nickname of his. (VECIANA.'s): secretary, MARGARITA. (MARGARITA is HILDA CAO, who is currently a resident of . a San Juan, Puerto Rico, an employee of the United States oS Government in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. ‘She was -VECIANA's 3 Secretary whitr ye was, in Cuba and while he was in Puerto Rico From 1961 to 1967, and associated with Aloha 66). That letter contained information concerning ANTONIO VECIANA's- connection : with the United States Central Intelligence Agency and his , | attempt to kill CASTRO in Chile in 1971. (ZABALA stated that \(S) vA. the information in the letter was known to no otfmer indiviadats OX) DoclId: 32177781 Page 72
We, AO ee A epee ae A ee ee a 2PM Le AIRS roche, ett eens ah + ied . Fs Sn  gGdy  gECRET | Geptenber 11,)1976. (ZABALA stated that hejthen received and VECIANA had Fequested WanaLal to transmit that letter tofS is sister, AMALTA, in feu a, for-personal: delivery to FIDEL CASTRO. [ZABSALA¥Btatef that)the letter inferred that VECIANA's secretary was dissatisfied with VECIANA and that ‘~VECIANA wanted a large amount of publicity due to his ~ i 1 . ~ ow . . aamnaeanna baAtaes len Vane rg an en QOOEAP SMD rm 2 L2tena ShALes Govern 4 STW WIrtah dealt with the assassination of JOHN F. KENNEDY. This letter was submitted to Cubafvia ZREALA's sister,ljon or about (S a Lo SS all from his sister?) MALIA,| in Cube,. an she) stated that ls (shejwanteD to sez him in(@asizica]on(octcber 23,) 1976. He aded that he responded toG:is Sister'sfrecuest and wes in OSD (Jamaica on October 28,)1976, and yas met there by fhis sister.] C$) He stated that he was staying at (the Sheraton Hotel in@ $.) ’ i (Kingston, Jamaica,Sang on his first night there he"met a 0 $J) veeecs} the nams of CARLOS.) He added that €ARLOS, ZABALA's CS) _sSister,|/and he, went to a large, hotel (one or. two level cabana style) possibly. cutside({Kingston, Jamaica. Z2ABALA CS described/ CARLOS Jas a white male, five feet six inches tall. oJ ‘weighing $80 pounds (over weight), having dark eyes, dark ; hair, with grey streaks in the sides. CARLOS \Was further CS O described as being approximately 40 years old“and that he wore 10 glasses or hac: no other destinguishing physical characteristics. - oe € CARL escribed himself to(ZABALA_As a person who was high CS.) up i he Cuban covernment Intelligence. (CARLOS Jcarried with ¢$_) him at all times a businessman's attache case which contained a pistol. (ZABALI\did not see the pistoljat any time}¥(.$ . In addition to meeting( CARLOS supra, ZABALADmet CS) the driver of the_automobile which took @ABALA, ZABALA's cs) sister, ana (CARLOS Jto the hotel. This individual was the € $) (vice-Gonsul ‘of th Cuban Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica, JUAN cs) ARBONELL. ZABALA described CARBONELL as being a white mele, weighing 170 pourds, five feet eleven inches tall, having black hair, dark eyes, and wearing glasses with dark plastic frames. fo gether distinguishing characteristics were noted by ZABALA.YS) : by Upon arriving at the hotel, ZABALA}was questionea € 5) (CA } ASAT RLOS and JUAN CARSONELL tin the presence of¢his sister, CS hr\and they wanted to Know current information concerning “mee SECRET DoclId: 32177781 Page 73