4 q | felt that VECIANA's secretary dislike mentioned Gontact with(CARLOS and CARBONEL PReleased under the. John” F. -Fennedy. Assassination ’ Records. ‘SoFkection | Act” or Aga? C44 USE: AA0E Hot DATE: li- ‘14- (2047 © ote can . : : : ; 5 ORLANDO BOSCH , CORU, REINOL RODRIGUEZ, FRANK. CASTRO, ANTONIO VECIANA, and other members of anti- ~CASTRO groups. In resp . to VECTANA' s letter to FIDEL CASTRO, , (CARLOS and CARE reales) VECIANA and they requested that ZABALB tell. the secretary that they willC sy broadcast the information presented in "her". sisted) thet Rajio. Havana,in about a week's time. CZABALA stated) thatl Shey inasmuch as(he was responsible for forwarding \the supposed 5) etter from VECIANA's secretary, the Cubans believed that’ Cintaty greatly disliked VECIANA also. (ZABALA stated that\no CSJ such broadcast: was ever made according to ANTONIO VECIANA. , the latter(_S Stated that they would get in contact with Him through(his Cs) sister, AMALTA.) They asked ZABALA Jif he needed any money ‘and$.J he replied negatively. - (@apaLa reported that] in the ONELE of the above- Cs J IL, ((2ABALA MAS reported that\he returned tof Jamaica aa around(November s) i976, and stayed at the(Sheraton Hotel SCSI During his first evening there, a trange voice telephoned his room and advised him to go outside. He went down. and stood by the hotel swimni ing pool and then saw CARLOS J an a CSD and was again taken by(CARLOS and JUAN CARBONELL/] to th hotel where he previously. met these individuals. ( ZABALA s 4 stated that)ihe ride from the Gheraton Hotel Jin(kingston, fs] Jamaica’,\tc the osther hotel] takes approximately thirty minutes"by car and this hotel is lecated near the sea. Up entering this hotel ,( ZABALA was introduced to (the gered 2 Cs) (At one time during the. interview with ("The General" the € latter was referred to as(JORGE.) ZABADA stated thatlhe O ah 380 carried a businessman Ss attache case which( ZABALA \CS spected could carry gun. ZABALA stated tha® ADALA \ the tsa cours se of this contac -he entire conversation/was taped onc $ a tape prayer lin the room. (20BALA escribed(tie ‘General so as a white male, five feet seven inches tall, weighing L ay pounds, approximately 36 9 years of age, and from Cien buccos LS Cuba. ZABALA stated |that® fene General," \looked “Like a well 28 bullt, firm military type. He stated that this individual had dark hair with slight traces of grey Gn the side. (The aa) "General" \had dark eyes and no other dastinguishing physica characteristics. : Doeld: 32313052 Page 52
; Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44, USC 2107: | DATE: 11-14-2017 wee ee PS ED ZABALA stated that Jin the course of this contact the three CS)» uban individuals wanted to know about the bomb ona 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 name possibly FRANCO, and the owner of a sporting goods store which is located. at Flagler and 18th Avenue, Miami, Florida) to-. .~ - Jamaica )for reasons of. placing bombs against pro-Cuban Cs). Schools in (amaica.) The Cuban individuals could then CS). . arrange for the Gamaican\authorities to.arrest RODRIGUEZ CS _} CASTRO, and "“EEBS" and. Tater these could be given over to the Cubans. =n addition to the above, the Cubans wanted an "up date” on pictures of about thirty individuals. These _.individuals were all current suspected anti-CASTRQ type persons and included ENRIQUE NUNEZ. on(Wovenbex 9) 1376 C5) according to( ZABALA,S they gave him $5002500 for plane tickets and .expenses. .They wanted him to go to Venezuela to find out about the above mentioned Cuban plane bombing. s3 CERLTE, sapaLa MAS/ advised that (November 29, }1976, CSI he returned to(Jamaica)afhd this time went toa place whichCsJ is known as the (Little Pub, "in the city of (Ocho Rios.) C$ (4ABALA stated that Japproxima @élv 9:00 u.m, that evening CS) three men came in to the ("Littie Pub," He stated that thage CS) individuals were(the "General," CARLOS,)and a third Cuban 2) _whom he had not previously met. He déscribed this individual as a white male, six feet three inches tall, weighing 220 pounds, having short, dark hair, approximately 38 years of age, and having heavy prescription glasses. This latter individual inforned( ZABALA that he had been working in theCS_) Cuban Embassy in Chile during 1971. ; a AS op . Doeld: 32313052 Page 53
Bae Ee ae nett ochakan emt id Nile ta 3 i SS vo - for-his November 29 anticipated meeting i ‘chim information tq. furnish_to ‘the Cubans. ZABALA said that. - bombing of the Air Cubana {Released under the John* F Kennedy. Assassinatisn | Records Cotlection ‘Act. of 1372. {4a Uae 210% Hal DATE: odie ‘14- 208d Pe oe : ; a ; wet . leas stated | thet) VECTANA had, (ia » preparation CID amaica, given VECIANA furnished(him with information ¢ concerning theCS Airliner stating that the infor- mation would appear to be good: and. was true, however, it was well’ Known within the anti- Castro Cuban Community ‘and he did not believe it_would harm anybody. /ZABALA said _ that VECIANA told him tnat ORLANDO GARCIA, who was an employee of the Government of Venezuela, and former CI ‘employee, had gone to Santo Domingo in 1976 and. met with - ORLANDO: BOSCH and FRANK CASTRO. VECIANA further advised that there was also present at the meeting a representative | from Brigade 2506, name unknown. VECIANA said that at this time, BOSCH, CASTRO, GARCIA and the revresentative from Brigade 2506 planned-a bombing of a Cubana airliner. At some time following this BOSCH went to Venezuela:to take command of the cperation. Upon arrival in Venezuela BOSCH ‘was met by "MONO" .,MORALES, a Cuban exile living in Venezuela. -. VECIANA said that MORALES was the individual who had testified in a Federal triai against BOSCH a few years prior to this time. MORALES is supposed to have told BOSCH that he wished for all vast 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 BOSCH. VECIANA said that BOSCH-still did not trust MORALES and instead went to the apartnient of ALFREDO AGUIAR, ancther Cuban exile in Caracas. BOSCH supposedly stayed at that apartment 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 $2,009 during this time in order to support the intended operation against the Cubana Airlines. BOSCH .was also in contact with a Cuban exile attorney while in Venezuela, name unknown, however, it was stated that BOSCH was arrested in Caracas at the home of this attorne following the bombing. VECIANA further(told ZABALA th at cs) when the bomb went off, it was such a tragedy that the CORU group was afraid to claim credit for it. VECTANA ' Docld: 32313052 Page 54
: ae 514 ow  Sether’ advised that the: Government ‘of ‘Venezuela “had | previously had knowledge of the pians for this “pombing ,-- a however, they also became very: nervous oe the bomb went - J - off with the plane in’the air. _VECIANA/told ZABALA that - the plan had been for the bomb .to go off while the plane © ‘was on. the runway in Barbados, avoiding serious lioss of © lives, however, the plane departed early and thus the bomb went. off while the plane was in ‘the air. a, ((CZABALA reiterated that VECIANA had given him this C8) information to furnish as he \VECTANA) stated that most of. ‘this information. had been hinted at in the newspapers and. information as wel] as utilizing this information to. cover for the fact that (ZABALA)had actually not/fgone to Venezuela) C63 as previously requested by the Cuban Inte igence Agents. : CZABALA said that he. furnished this. information C$) eeting and they, appeared very pleased with the information ZABALA said that\he also, (as previously directed by VECIA Oem told the Cuban Agents that VECIANA had been involved insont = ~ sort of testimony regarding the KENNEDY assassination ZABALA ‘ said that he did not furnishtiem: with any details othe: “than telling him that VECIANA had traveled to Washington using travel voucher issued under the name of Senator SCHWIEKER., (ZABAL LA said that)he did not know why VECIANA wanted this($ information given to the Cubans unless it was to further Csd ‘convince him that he (ZABALA) was furnishing them with good information] in the hopes that they woutd utilize the - previously furnished information and give VECIANA the. publicity. he desired on radio Havana. Following t e(No mber 29) 1977,.- meeting which was (52 taped by the Cubans,(ZABALA)said that hte was instructed toCs meét( CARLOS) in(Pa nama on (Januar 10,\ 1977, “being instructed cay to go to the(Panama Hilton Hotel and be standing in the C$ parking lot at 9 p.m. He was told that OG lst. would pick him up. (ZABALA \addea that he was given $700 Ja t thee conclusion of this meeting by the Cubans, which was ta - provide expenses for the trip he was suppgsed to have taken to(Venezuela)as well as the trip for thefNovember 2941977 ¢ ‘meeting. LZABALA)said at the conclusjon of the meeting he asked the Cubans to help in gettingfhis mother and sister Ci out of Cuba for a(Christmas vacation\in Puerto Rico and ($j ee that he felt that ZABALA]could impress the Cubans with this CS) ‘tGJene Cuban Intelligence Agents during the November 25,55 1976, Pal \ . DocId: 32313052 Page 55 4