197-10004-10158) Date:08/05/94 Page:1 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : SSCIA _ RECORD NUMBER : 157-10004-10158 RECORDS SERIES : NOTES AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : SSCIA FROM : TO : - TITLE : INTERVIEW OF ANTONIO VECIANA DATE : 03/16/76 PAGES : 8 a SUBJECTS : VECIANA, ANTONIO CUBAN OPERATION OPERATION MONGOOSE CASTRO DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : U “RESTRICTIONS : 1A, DONOR REST., REFERRED ». CURRENT STATUS : X DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 08/09/94 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : ope se EET mw mt Peet Ha ei) Nh Eh ED ED OUT aN YO enh HED HERD AH) eid et mel ML ARNE mE HHO aDs at sRtH HRD uD) ath end Eee nD uses uP Inte ne ans end fel won Meek led GON OTH HOA SHY ER HN HL OE GT GN SH only Go oom my ma md ums tow [R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED HY 50955: BDoctd: 32202047 Page 1
AV kept going to the Embassy, however, almost until it was closed down. He says that on the 20th cr 21st of Necember [1960], the last time he was in the Embassy talking to Rax Kail, he (Kail) -told him he was gx going to the United States and he would come back and talk to him later. Kail said he was going to Texas for Christmas. That's why he always thought Bishop xexxkxx had told him to go to Kail because he thought ke perhaps they were friends from Texas. (Do you think Bishop and Smith were friends alse?) He doesn't know. Smith was a young person, always well dressed. He's prebty sure he was CIA. (Smith wasn't zhxuk the Ambassador?) Ohm no, he was the political advisor. Not Earl Smith, Ewing Smith. . He says he docsn't want anything to come out in the paper, because he’safratd-it would cause a lot of troubte wxtén- his family. HWe"Said €véen the-Ny” Times has been nty ing To ti terview Tin i er EE RE, but he would never never do that. Voisky, the correspondent for the Times here fas been wanting him to cone to New York and talk. ” — ,Note: [Volsky works out of an a office of Replica, just around the “m==y corner from Veciana's house. The magazine is owned by Max of Escambray and ‘the key link with CIA agent officially a political attache in the Embassy, KNEN berTrore Castro took over. Also in the Replica office now is Reynaldo Pico, good friend of Artime's and one of the original —_ Watergate group. ] ; Lesnick at Replica has urged him to talk to Volsky. (Is Volsky working for CIA?) Velsky has always denied it. But he was in Cuba and he was with the Voice of America. Volsky also now receives money from Replica and AV says he doesn't understand that, wkx what does he do for Replica? All he remembers Volsky ever writing for Replica was an interview wieh the president of Portygal. Lesnick, Lesnick was a leader of the Second National Fraent ta H wid (Do you have any suspicions that Lesnick is being supported by the CIA?) No, he doesn't believe so. Lesnick is a hard worker and good administrator. eos (Have you ever made any major arms deals?) No. Maybe only 20 to 50 rifles, 40 or 50 pounds of dynamite, $40-50,000 at the most. . ” (Ever deal with Mitchel 8 WerBell?) No. But he said that you're going — to ask him about Masfeerer now. (Why?) Because there was a lot of business between Masferrer and WerBell. They say that Masferrer. was s killed as a result of his dealing with WerBell. He (AV) personaily thought Masferrer wasn't worth anything. HY 50955 DBocld: 322702047 Page 2