Be eee ee ee emu of the(Chinese ciecus) in San ‘Suan, Nayagued, and - Ponce a) isd Puerto *eo( 2) FELIX ZABALA 2285,) who had been furnished by the interviewing Agents a Spanish cony of the Advice of Rights .form which he said he understood and signed, was presented a reading of the statutes having to do with foreign govern- ment agents and the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938. The Advice of Rights form was furnished to(FELIX ZABALA MAS) sjcs3 prior to the aforementioned discussion of his travel outside of Puerto Rico in the last six months. (2ABALA ZAS sterniyd $ J advised that he nad been asked to tell the truth in all the above matters ani that any discrepancy in his account co ? possibly be a vislation of his cur ent (Federal probation) $7) which extends tof(danuary 29,\ 1978 S) Je this point , (FELIX ZABALA MAS advised the inter- Cs2 NMiewing Agents that he had no idea. how. the FBI haa qotten - , all the facts about him and that the FBI seams te Know everything about him. He stated that a and that anything political that he vould do ‘would be against PIDEL CASTRO, Ai this point, (/ZADAL2. MrSJstated. that he hadl $2 waited for a long tine for this moment and that. he “Gi now willing to tel] the interviewing Agents eve exything. Ganny, ie $3) i MAS stated tnat\the following accounts are Galy known by 2: himself and nis Sciend, ANTONIO VECIANA. He stated that SD VECIANA recently had some problems with a United States Government assassination committee which was lcoking into the assassination of JOHN PITZGERALD KENNEDY. He stated that VECIANA had to appear on approximately three occasions in washington, D. C. , the last of which was around December 1G, _. 1976. {ZARALA [sta-+ Led that approximatelv one month beforef{s SOHN FLO RENNEDY_was shot in Dalias, Texas, VECIANA and ant individual who (ZAR ALA |felt was associated with United eateds) Central Intelligence” Agency (CIA), ~ ‘ISHOP meta size . y LEE HARV Ral Dallas, Texas. etated that]fe VECIANA since 1961.” HeSdded thatfwistte OTe, os had handled an assassination attempt_adainss VIDEL CAS Tey while CASTRO was in Chile in 1971, Gabaiayrated that & ¢ went tQ Bolivia to work for the United States Ge-rernmentl arounce™ . 1967. (He stated tnat )wece ssn [ane he E]went to Chile in “17 “fae 4 4 i *. \ ew ae he att CA ta he la ed a AR Ll nn Me ca le ee me DoclId: 32177781 Page 11
"4 Berta, SSauta tes Rate * ¥ {} w a + Inve Getradoh Hed ares aaa Agua rs oS we to set up an operation to kill CASTRO. (ie | ‘stated that) to a7) expedite this, false Venezuelan passpor were made, the necessary guns were brought in in the diplomatic pouches, hand grenades were picked up in Bolivia, and a United States ‘diplomatic car carried that paraphenalia from Bolivia to | Chiie. |)ZABALAYstated that )the plan was prepared in itiami (S) Florida,"and &@¢ that time VECIANA{was still working oe { | } Be mee yen 3 the United States Embassy in Bolivia. 4 added tha e and ek VECTIANA rented the room in Santiago, C stayed there Lo fe tL for two or three days. ZasaiaXstated that SOMINGUE AS Chil and MA (Cuban exffes not further 2 ified) - thereaft cook aver that room and enrolled in an approximate iy Cub six, monn 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 RODRIGUE% and when FIDEL CASTRO made his appearance before members of the press, he would be shot by one of these individuals. | ZABALA Ss). added that\a high official in the Chilean government securea the necessary. press permits for-these individuals to come in. the proximity of CASTRO when he arrived in Chile in 1971. =\= sedis He stated that (the operation was not successful as DOMING n{S) and RODRIGUEZ tailed, 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 stated that he mist go to thé hospital as his appendix was bothering him. The other individual stated that soneone in a CASTRO’sS vicinity identified him and thereafter, tha potential assassin left Chile and was later seen in Bolivia. aa AS TE RAR ERLE Talon ee Sa ate cette vere letter for the benefit of FIDEL CASTRO in Cuba in which he Signed the nickname of his (VECIANA’s) secretary, MARGARIT? (MARGARITA is - 1 San3duan; Puer RECO sovernmernt in Hate Re Secretary whitr he was’in Cuba and while he was in Puerto Rico From 156], to 1957, and associated with Alpha 66). That letter contained information concerning ANTONIO VECIANA's connection with the Unitad States Central Intelligence Agency and his attempt to kill BAS STRO in Chile in 1971. [asauaWstated that, KO, who is currently a resident of PR ; an employee of the United States no bA ¥, Puerto Rico. She was VECIANA's cy (2AUALA reported that] ANTONIC VECIANA prepared a ( 5) 2 OO cae OF gna itil ne Fi LAO RN ard ta ce A me ie de PE Ar Ml et a ON at ae nee the information in the letter was known to no otner indivictarl's | 325 «SECRET ceeeee ane toed f DoclId: 327177781 Page 12
cal from hi Sister, AMAL in Cuba, and tated that ¢ 7 (she Daneel to sec him in(Js aica jon (Octeber 28,) 1976. 23, adfed that he responded todfhis’ alee Caguet 2 ang was in cee SECRET - fate” : - * SECKEY V and VECIANA froin transmit that letter to his sister, AMALTA, in]cu for” personal delivery to PIDEL( ASTRO. LZABALAYstated that}the letter inferred that S) “VECIANA'S secr ary was dissatisfied with VECIANA an nat ‘VECIANA wanted a large amount of publicity due to his appearance befora a United States Government group which . dealt with the assassination of JOHN F. KENNEDY. This letter was enber it to Cubalvia ZABALA's sister, en or about (S 1976, (ZABALA stated that hé receive (les Jamaica on Octobar 28,)1°767 and was mét there by (his WS ter.) He stated that he was “staying at(the Sheraton Hote inG Benton. C$ (Kingston, Jamaicasa on his first night there he met a DMEXIS sister) the name Cipsttatesl He. added that (CARLOS, ZABALATS CES sister,)and he, wencGto a large hotel {one or two level LC cabana“style) p ssibly Gcutside Sangston Jamaica ee) descerihed fCAPLOS & waite wale, five _ Weighing. 3.0-pouLds,. (6Ver weldghe ) Ray hair, with grey streaks inethessides. ae as being approximately 40 yeas ol and ‘that he wore no glagses or hac no other Caabar uishing physical characteristics. Ccarios escribed himself tofZABALA las a person who was: ‘hagh C$ up in the Cuban government intel igence. (CARLOS Jrarried with? $ him at all times businessman' Brac case which contained a pistol. ZABALI id not see che ( istol at any time (SJ In acdition to meeting(CARLOS , supra, : GaBAL ASmet C s_3 the driver of the gutomobile whieh took JABALA, ZABALA'S ce) sister) and CARLOS Veo. the hotel. This individual was the LSD vice~consul of the Cuban Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica, JUAN aN CARBONELL, zapnta Wescribed € CARBONELL Jas being a white nale @$9 weighing 170 pounds, five feet eleven inches tall, having black hair, dark eyes, and wearing glasses with dark plastic frames. No other distinguishing characteristics were noted by[ZABALA, S). Tam Upon arriving at the hotel, (ZABALA )was ques scionea OS by (CARLOS and JUmN¥EaRBONELLJin the présence of(his sister, C AMALIA, )and therm" fo KNOW current information concerning % %) DoclId: 32177781 Page 13
oo oo tt ee men onsets Aa ee en es ete Ee 10. no MOMS tA COE INS SEA AD NED COE AIRES OLE PETE ECARD AON 9 OU OOO OREN Smee mich swansea Tem NES A ee OS NY a such broadcast was ever made according to ANTONIO VECIAN ‘sours se Of this contact the entire conversation fwas taped 12 StUK we. ORLANDO BOSCH, CORU, REINOL RODRIGUEZ, FRANK CASTRO, ANTONIO VECIANA, and other members cf anti-CASTRO groups In response to VECIANA's letter to PIDEL CASTRO CARLOS and CARBONELL C$.) _felt that VECIANA's secretary a@isliks ECIANA and they requested tha ZABALA tell the secre'ary that they will CO C5) broadcast the Informaticn presented in_"her" letter ver Radio Havana,in about a week's time. (ZanaLa stated Cs.) inasmuch as (he was responsible for forwarding Jthe Sdprosea@ 5.) fetter from VECIANA's secretary, the Cubans Believed that ZABALA breatly disliked VECIANA also. (ZABALA stated that no C5 Cx {(i2nenta Leporte d that \in the course of the abov a> mentions contact with(CARLOS and CARBONELL,) the Latter C >. stated that thay would get in contact with him through (h: his CS 5 sister, AMALIA.) They asked BABALA Jif he needed any money and he replied negatively. (GABALA MAS reported that Jhe returned to Gamaica 65) around (Slovenber 81976, and stayed at thé Sheraton Hotel LS}: During his first evenina there, a strange voice telephoned his room and advised him to gO cutsids. He went ros) and stood by the hotel swimming pool and then saw CARLOS.) SUpRe 69) and was again taken by (Gantos and JUAN CARBONELL}) to the hotel where he praviously met these individeals- GABALA C a8 stated that)the ride from the(Sheraton Hotel {in Kingston, C Jamaica,)to® the other hotel takes approxim ely thirty M @xico Minutes by car and this aDA is located near the gea. Sn -oermaa ntering this hotel,( ZABALA Was introduced -to / (a it one time during the int@rview with (The Gehéra : latter was referred to as fJORGE.) ZABALA stated that She also carried a buginessman’s attache case which/ZABAT suspected could carry(ca gun. ZABALA stated on auring a tape plaver)in the room. CZABALA Wescribed(th the "General" ag a white méle, five feet Seven he all; wejigning 16 —— pounds, approximately 36 vears of age, and from/Cien Fueqos, C 5.) : iss ¥ g "Cuba. ZABALA stated \that (The General, "Jlocked Tike a well an built, firm milicarY tvpe. (He stated that)this individual had dark hair with slight traces of grey On the side. (The "“General")Jhad dark eyes and no other distinguishing nail eee ae : i DoclId: 327177781 Page 14