HAS NO-OBIEGTION AD 8 . i a 5 Bet PASSIFTDATION ANDIOR, (S) te . { RELEASE OF-CIA ai 1d, 4 \ 7 FSORRL BUPEAU OF wena “WN THIS BOCUMENT vi " Cgiabl fly Ne oe OMB Sg] WY . ~ . i. a ECREF en ' 8012 (GEuIx 2ABALA mas) also known, a C50, an } "rpas) & resic whe ak{ 3 x Urbanization Valencia, i Rio Piedr Puerts +h wes advised of ‘the ideatity of "Se CS J : intearv Aqeanis, and he ‘ugnished the following informa- : fEweion: ‘4 ' FRDIX ZABALA Jadvised that he was a member of Alpha 66 csJ from »965. HE is currently ja member of Circulo Cabapa ££ I @& large aM @¥i2ie social group }n( Puerto Rico,fTand bevona¢ ¢ this to NO othe Tees ated that he is not a member offFrente Liberacion C53 Nacional de Cuba {Cuban National Liberation } Front) or the ra x political or social.group in “Pues “to | 3 Uda } ted Revolutionary Organizations (coRu).\ ue | i 3 | i Coordination of Un Stated tnat on Apri , i977, he attended a meeting which rin concerned itself with human rights anc was presided over by ea one FRANKLIN DELANO LOPEZ who wae interested in sandina five ; fe 2 Cuban exile individu ls to Washington, D. C., ana present ‘2 E BAB case to the United States Department of State ta cell President ELErE CARTER how to desl with the Cubans.’ We stated that their main _ concern here was the volitical prisoners and the system of Communiem under CASTRO. (2 ABALA stated thatjha particivoated in€S\ | mo other Similar achivirtés. He stated that he does have a i val ” : + ne , att. re , Close relationship with a very political individual, ENRIQUE CS. ; NONEG | who is the editor of Replica Magazine ]in San Juan, | Puerta Rice. pr HE MHO Nuevo Vedado ~ ALA Je havised that his sister, and nis mother, A} Lat came £6 Puerto Rice ; 2TY Beceuber 23 for a vacation in Puerts aica.CsJ ’ aS a six month visa + which 0S yey and tha (Zhe is currently atten ating s_) anger in Puer€o Rice and is awaiting : Les through(her daughtez Jwho has ginceZ 9 ire a Cuban government OK to remain in | Hy 4 SY ra (233 ALAS expires 7. to stay three word from Cuban aut veturned ta Cuba a Puerto Rico. Upon res the Gubject's motner \w fmeigratrion and Bae sath extention off: 2 AMIAT, TA in Puerto Riso from(December 23; 1976] January an ‘t97F) at which time (ene). returned to eG) 7 Herma enn yeeros oe 09 3 reg , frets of: that GK from the Cuban qoyvernment, 1 then apply to the United States CS_) abiszation Servic c@® (USINS) for a4 three roWwisa Fo wisit Puerto Rico. GABALA Ts sd Yr, Puerto Rico ga So > shay & ane Paar) = SECR Vale T- Ped ESAT an ee ene spar (DS: (5A 71~ OYy AN eee DRAM. J ot the FSI. if, the reaperty of the FBt aad is losned LD caateg CEC Y, ~ “bees on: /CADR an : Ey ead DoclId: 3271777581 Page 3
(x) ° : 3 SD (sister's recent_trip to Puerto Rico was her Fst tring Sint $3 | | { | + FELIX, ZABALE stated enaaGniza is married to guutoncesan, £ 3 J | w who is a medfGal doctor who has a very good practicefin Calixto Garcia Hospital_in Havana, Cu ba. $3 ZABALA\sta ev] that(2Mar LATS husband is not a. volitical- typeC Se) person and he is not consice arad to_be a Communist. He , Stated that/JULIO CES MAS MART PIN Ms happy living under€ $3. the Cuban system of savernnent because_he is a doctor ae . therefore lives extremel?t weit Gapnatd)stated that the $3 latter's brother/ i. }S.currently living Cob 4 outside Havanafasfigne Cultural proyects oy tated that(/LUTS MAS MARTI who is approximately 50 years olg. currently having a severe arinking probler ZABRLA) believe 29°F that ho is working with the agricul ure projset in~the CS vicinity offMatanzas, Cuba. ZABALA \ter: aGun MARTIN = 3 Communist ant an anti-Batistite, ZABALA add ed that: his c to this country. ) He stated that he las Cuba. (CZABALA resorted that he went toe Sister and nis mother on December 21, ' in 1965 wmaicajand met tallsS co + and assisted ind $/) Kingston, Jamaica J and then to the United States Embassy there CSD Gina: travel bo Puerto Rico by helping them to a hotel in I Live in Cuba. (He 3s ated tha Oo secure a visa to visit. Puerto Ric He: stated that since L965 he had ouly talked to his, sister Br, the telephone e six months. A Jetated that he ra arely writes to any friends in Cuba. He stated that(his bro cher NCS) also known asfNino,lis cur ently(an athleti cCS2 works in a group own asthe Instituto $3 @3 Revolucionario Jin Gisver aoe tated that aEPrO: simately L. ZABALA, died on November 23 1954, in ie Peother, ‘JOS = AVA y 7 Cuba and tha is tuo, sisters, and himsel£ * PEPE, , | DOMENGO, we S Lod : 2 en RA A - ' a 4 On ERS in Cuban jails. Ue stated that ("PEPE " berv ed (four Years ya and “nane months \which began infMay of 1961. DG@INGO, )who G5 . ZRBALA Jtermed @ non~ Communist, Was in tail for(ig months) from §° Septe mber, 196], tc 1963. ZAPALA |stated that he himself was in jail coniv for (even aayS\whion pegan infMav, 1961. ZABALA Ss: added that the reason that the above individuals received terms had to do with their affiliation with a group which was going to plant. pemios (in or near the watervorks in favana, | cuba, CS J | gt in 1¢61, DoclId: 327177751 Page 4
35 (FELIX ZABALA MAS Jstated that he doesn't know any C$_) individuals who are in FLINC or CORU. He stated. vean LINOT, RODRIGUEZ )is a goga friend of his and they have been : associatéd since[{ZARALA's affiliation with(Alpha 66 He C "Stated that he did not Sink thai( REINO RODRIGUEZ Nis stillC $4 a@ member of the latter organization. He stated that he has only belonged “(avs political group in Cuba and that he was a member of the(Movimiento Revolutionario Pueblo (MRP) anaC.s | that that group aced over 160 bombs in and around Havana, Cuba, protesting the.CASTRO qovernment. yhu! OL. C8 Ph Bob his relat ionshio with C$ 3 TANA.and he stated that YECIANA is like(hig CS own brotner. added that VECIANA is(his. son's Godfa and is curréntly a resident of Miami, Florida. Coanata JCS reported that VE ctapA(and himself were\in Alpha 66 and at@3 one time attempted(to Form an ‘Aipha 69 group in San Juan, Sz uerto Ricd.) Two other individuals, fac ing to ZAB ALLY were in on “this anterprige: TQNY CUE Sta \who iS possibl y auene now in Miami, “torida). /ZABRLA ronsidered VECTANA to not oniy L. be his friend, nen busines partner jand added that VEc ait eers resides at nivbes 8Sll Northwest 36 Ct, Miami, Florids, 323125 3312 ee COABALA stated At JVECIANA left Alpha 66 in 1966 and that m net $ is definitely anTi-castro and would personally like to kill CASTRO. He did not know VECIANA £0 oe affiliated with ane political groups at this time C2) BALA Steted that Jfour or Ls) Five veacs ago that VECIANA, an Sten UNFZ, and MANOLO RAY 4 went to Costa Rica and formed a revoluti snary warty (anti- CASTRO), which had the same idgenis of Alb ha 66. He added that this group which was known as Partide Ragolutionario Del Pueblo, lasted perhaps eight months .( &% Co R. el CERLix GABALA MAS revealed that on(October 28, e's re he left_Sen Juan, Puerto Rice, (and traveled “to Kingston) CGamaica, for the purpose of seeing Ain entertainment erakaecr PELIX SMLIVH.] about putting on tne/Chinese Circus. Review fromZ Taiwan.) He added that he met no one other than(PELIX SM fran G8? during” his stay in Jamaica. \ He insisted that he had mat mo ons ‘S) oy . - ! - “oe . a anttiia: 7 . Son INET IY iy it Beery TEN ere rae DoclId: 3271777581 Page 5
a . oh ; e - a : : ; - a : 7 ‘ 4 , : _~ a os o 7 - ne - > oy ; ge ——- ’ who could be a representative of any foreign government, articularly from Cuba. /FELIX 2ABALA MAS] reported that onC SD November 8, 1976 J0he travéled to Miami and-then on to CS7J “Kingston, Jamaica.) He stated that he went there to see the C$) proinoter, FELIX SMITA, jand discuss problems on how. to get lSJ money cut of Mamaica TE ZABALA\were to bring {th Chinese OS) Circus Review from Taiwan, toffamaica. ZABALA)\added that this was approximately Sie month prior to the popular a elections and therg is always a problem bringing -monev out ; of (Jamaica. ane again_stated that he had contacted no CS_). one other than/Fsnix suztH XS) (ZRBALA ady sed that he traveled to(Jamaica againC $ November 39, 1976, and returned to Puerte Rico via Miami ¢ D on (Decem 2, i976./ He stated that at that time he again £5. veces 2 SHITH. ZABAL ea taie a that he traveled aloneC > Montego Bay and anotner town, Coens Pios, in Jamaica, \and vibtted theat2re Where he could Séesibh: present thex<Chinese Circus.) We addéd that hea stayed in the Sheraton \Hotel when he was in/Kingston jon this occasion. He stated that he haaC 4 seen no family members or anyone wno could be possibly considered a vepresentative of a foreign j (public av He added that while in(Jamaica he traveled hyfpublic automobiles CS) which are used as\taxis or buses. cs) 5 vu r 5) ated gq it. d : it 4 4 ad ‘¢ 4 : i Fal ed that ne had ranted the (" Center Bar"\which if located infHato Rey, Puerto Rico, the pericd between December, ay and Juiy, 1976. He he JAV.GyuUp this vine of business in that he was not makin Financially. He added that at the moment he is not in financial straights and that he has been receiving current iS) income from his(premotien of the Taiwan Circus Group and two LS ‘professional prize fichters (both Cominicans ) LHECTOR JULIO MEDINA and ADRIANO MARRERO, also kneywn as Nane,| He ates , that the Jatter two individuals are der his 2) es » 033 | f is their(manager andCreceives approximately 33 perce a OF F any 2S purse for setting up their fights. SD . | a | f ZABALA MBS jadvis ap a £ § p fal t 1 Abed 0 ae Writ: ow ~ ZABALA )stated that he would like to go back ta Cuba C4 if CASTRO-Gnd the Communist sytem of government was out of : Cuba. He added that he personally believes in a system of oa Socialism and Democracy. C2APaLa eported that his family SD , . here doesnot Lihe st Orn of government and that I -_ Gs. brother, DONUNGO (ING) } dues ot like the current an © 7 sent Tem, (2nENL aS not sure iF Sister, AMALIA, \likes er alae a achee Ped oo ee SECRET vee 8 ee ee ae . sete: _ le a DoclId: 327177751 Page 6