13-00000 os, Ve ao : . — wholly on documents foun3 in the grofect *hiee Segicstazg here is an : : eccouns of gn epizccde fa the Cutela uperation lea watchs there is no 4 . * dommentary evidence. Dr. Gunn hus a record $f nice contacts ang - Ip se eel : ‘ taetr dates; othervise, this momery is dram tres the recollections of those tnvolved. bmn . _ ye Sanchez says thet, while Cubela vas anxtous to ds away with , | ‘ Castro, Cubela was not willing to sacrifice hfs om live in exchange © ; for Castro's. What Cutela really wanted was a high-povered, silenced ‘ oo “3 | rifle with aa effective range of huzdreds or thousands of yards. : Cutela finaliy said that, as a doctor of medicine (watch ke was), he : ( hi was quite sure that ve could device secre tecnaical means of doing the ‘ ‘7 | é: C . _ Job that vould not autematically cacse hia to lose his owas life “in } . a the try. .°¢ . | ° ' it Samuel Halpern end Restor Sanchez approached Dr. Guna for . Jf ” assistance. Although nose of the participants specifically so stated, a { i .- it may be inferred that they vere seetizng 2 means of assassination : ‘ oe . of a sort that Cubela night reasonably have been expected to have eT ioe 4 e i se ‘ . devised himself. What they settled «pon was Black Leaf ko, a coumen, . us | fe - . easily-obtainable insecticide conteining about 40/nicotine sulphate. a i i Nicotine is a deadly poison that may be aduinistered orally, by injectioa, ee te or by absorpticn throvgh tre skin. It is likely that there also were’ . 7, discussions of means of aéafaistering the poison, because Guan was reacy . to move when asked. : ; . : ee ; — _ ris :' - Ghe plan reached the action stage wien Eslpern and Sancher contacted lett as, my EE mea otra 3 ey eta te TR, Gow ee aed Lag gs nd he = . . oa “3. og $e ae 18 on pa “- an wo tele eee . a (ge, BS tothe eS obese lgtee FS elew - easem RIE vee . eles - - | ee. att ad > cm 5 nev ee ef cine one, * -, ag, Te e on . é mile asttas te ean, Boo eon ea cea neue Narn Seo * wingman naan tee re ngs mise aera! vA neisiale a te ee oe tee oe Baw “Seu a oe no, kele Hig. et aT N Sg ONT! Se EE we race ETB Farts OLR. S Fite A as a - te ~ Nahe weet 6) ere Poor Atte et ata 04 hoa ti bope itor woe : . veer ro ue yn SOE Op Faves Petree ors. TH r.. peated rented Gb se ere oes a
13-00000 Guna egaia on the morning cf 2) November 195} end told him chat tte device for administering the poisen (a tall:cint pen rigged as a [ - "hypodermic syringe) bad to be ready in time for Sanchez to catch a . plane at noon the next day. Guna suys that he went femediately to the FI/D worzshop and spent the rest cf the dey acd xost of that night fabricating the device. Those in FI/D vho vorked with his : i i & . i knew what ke wes trying to raxe but not for vhom it was intended. ‘ ; i Eventually, efter seven or eight failures, he succeeded in converting ; , a Paper-Mate pen into a hypoderaic syringe that worked. He said that 1 . fw the needle was so fine that the victim vould hardly feel it wien it : “4 e oo was inserted--he compared it with the scratch froma shirt with © | | a too much starch. He delivered tke vorkable device to Sanchez the . | | t following moruing end retained tvo of the later prototypes. He states | i ; that they are still in his safe. He does not mov vhat happened to | i the device he gave Sanchez; he does not remember its having been jo: returned to him. He believes he vas told that Cubela refused to fox. fon. Becept the “gevice. Be says he vould not now be able to ditterentiate oa. ji ‘i the final pen from the earlier prototypes thet are in his safe. ; £ z 22 Hovenber 1963 * i a ¢ ; Nestor Sancher arrived in Paris oa the mcraing of 22 Noverber . ion 4 3 and met with Cubela late that efterroon. Sanckez states that he i . 4 “ Peel * . ” . te . . . ; ; . ~ 93 - =. “ft Th ai ate con 5 i & i oP eS oo ie De Cre ake ee a ee he pee eee ee er et ee Te
13-00000 ‘ showed the per/syringe to Cubela ant explaized how it worked. He is not : sure, but he believes that Cubele accepted che device but sald thet he be would ot take it to Cuba with hin, Sanches distinctly recells that — re Guetta didn't think much of the device. Cubela said that, as a doctor, — : . . , he knew all about Black Leaf 4O asd that we surely could.cone up - with something more sopaisticated thin that. It choula be noted thet 4 . ‘ Gunn and Sanches agree that the syringe was mos leaded. Cubela vas 8 a! expected to supply his own poison; ve merely suggested Black Leaf 4O 3 as an effective poison for use in the syringe. . | is Sanchez wrote a contact report of the meeting. It makes no . e Waa a wention of a pen or of poison. The folloving is a summary of the : oe contact report. Cubela said that ke vas returning to Cuta fully “ f : ; determined to pursue his plans to initiate a coup against Castro. i Senchez reiterated the assurances given Cubela by FitzGerald of full - k ‘ ! U.S. support if 2 real ccup against the Castro regime were successful. \ i 7 Cubela asked for the following items to be included in a cache inside ; ‘. Cuba: 20 hand grenades, tvo high-powered rifles with telescopic Co iS ae -. sights, and approximately 20 pounds of C-4 explosive and related Plo Pee t, tO. * x : equipment. Cubela suggested the best place for the cache was on - the finca (fara) managed by his friend, Guin (AMTRUIK/10). Since he re was returning to Cuba by way of Prague, he a2 not want to carry S/W ‘Or any other inacriminating naterials with his. As they were coning - 93a- ote we i ee ee Ee a RARER IP i021 PE MPP BAAN TOK, ° fo. C id * 3 <3 & . » 1 6 q 3 ‘ ' an se a oe ep steht, - 0 art eet otteem 26 cela a0 ate oh ae wee ae tea :
13-00000 : ——— fetus ata 7 a. i : f cut of the meeticg, Sanches end Cubela vere inforsed that Presideas f § Kennedy bad been essascinated. Cubela was visibly moved over the we ape wih bee di news. Ee asked, "Why do such things happea to good people?” ‘The contact report does not state the time nor the duratigqn of the Sancke2-Cubela neeting, but it fs Lively that at the very morent F : ‘President Kennedy was shot a CIA officer vas meeting vith a Cutan agent {n Paris and giving hie an assassination device for use egainst joc. Castro. Sanches states that be received an OPIM cable from Fitrlersld . that night or early the next zorning telling him that everything vas i f. off. We do not find such a cable in the AMIASH file. There is F C: - @ record in the file that Sanchez was due to arrive back in ‘ i — Washington at 1810 hours, 23 Hovenber. | . ‘ : . ' fhe AMLASH project was probably about as videly Inown withia . to. . : | the Clandestine Services as any other project of a similar nature. . +. °, However, ve can identify only four people who know of the just- i oe described episode involving s hypodermic syringe and Black Teaf bo. ; pened 7a Sanchez Inev all. of, the story, Halpern knew zost of it, andGunimev I at " ‘much of it. FitzGerald aid. not mention this aspect of the Cubela operation vhen he first briefed us on it. When we went back to ' him later with specific questions, he sald be remembered something about Black Leaf’+0, but nothing whatever about a device for administering it. Gunn said be had the impression that FitzGerald . yawn PTTL MTS e , REE arr ne a4 meee io Er TRET ENT Leap Ar soe SPORTS. ore 7 ~~ . ey : : Rea SPI Ect atlas ie long Ra a Oe eee eo hip noting tinea amine oie Dor et Coit a ar tea” en, WAG ee let Yies @ ae ee eb het here hs an inn oes ol ee Be ote tell ales lee See a oe tet Cay nomen die at Mee Stee ee me te ae