pemess rye erase Ae eet ree Seperr Ramerere)| We eit naan ce ll a ARE ec ee Ei ce See ee a vee iin a AE a LV Aa le AT el Oe 88 a to rm ne Ean Ht nn Se na TE TR ee ek OOP A eS enh re eae ~ leaving Cuba. H2 stated thatfAis brother, PEPE, fileg che CS Rinacen 2 applications regarding (his mother and sistor}to CS}. “4 : af ay ~ SECRE Hl , | | - { cashiers check via Espasas Advertising, Incorporatedy) to Co Goan that the first check, which should not Rave meen (5) epositéada in light of the second check, was placed in an - 1 ar : rs = ~ 1. a = gore UI MEMOY yiy Oa rit ~ oa ers Mn: if fine! i 2 reached Puex LO RS. co mine ere were insufficient “fun ids to cover it. C2ABALA stated that both C$) checks were mace out =O Communications Arts ) ‘FELIX ZABALA \advised that (his brother, PEPE (sosr C$) LUIS ZABADA), his sist@r ELVIRA nad he, paid. an organization which handles the vaperwork for~Cubans who wish to visit outside Cuba,lAlwacen Espanol, approximately (1, 200. De. § CS) secure the financial aspect offnis mother and sister's $*) lmacen Espanol Vin Miami. He sta ed that approximate “hare ZS3 the money went to an account in ston, Jamaica,) to S render secure that (his sister and Faas ooo RE not be a ‘financial burden to the ffiamaican Gov ernment and that they CS); . would have money to leavé that country. e :-added that(BEPE, Zs) ELVIRA,\or himself had ncthing to do witht his mother's and C59) istef’s lleaving Cuba pther than sending the. necessarv applicatton pape:s to(Almacen Es: nel)in Miami, Flgrida. He Cs} added that he went to Jamaica\on(Decenber 21, forests help 28} his sister and his mo her Jand that afte they landed fromC $- uba he took then to(the Sheraton Hotel jand later on to the ¢57 United States Embassy to secure the necessary visas. ean ne Cnn The interviewing Agents questioned (ZABALA)about nis C$) recent source of income and he stated that hé@ earnéd apvroxi- mately($3, 909.90 )From af(prize fight Which. w (held)in(@@ayamon, Jc3 Puerto Ricos on(jeptember 10, 1976 between ESTEBAN DE JESUS and (HECTOR JULIO MEDINA,) He added that he earned apgse ana tee s $1,200. OOvE rom hi: -s (presentation)of the(Chinese Circug Jin Miamic’¢ Beach, Florida, between(October-5 and 10].1976. He statea ZS that he got approximately $2,00C, 00 Jon or about (Decembe 18, $3 ighter, NECTOR CULIO MEDINA, Z2ABALA |stated, howeve that hel $ J ad to pay this money back to(promoter DON KING Jana Pantalones 284 Santiago as his fighter bac ked out of the deal and it fell - through. (ZABALA advised that between(February 9) and@larch 6 Cs 1977, he earned epproximately(@3, 800. 00. jJfrom the(performan ces 5) mY - oi! . j tote, we | “SECRET -~ Gian as a re‘t:lt of his Selling his @cights and contract\to~the $3 £ DoclId: 327177781 Page 40
=! Se ey ae "e ” to. “86 “Dy os — Soeur vos Se * Sane are Rapa Real oe s . - of the «Ges nese » ccc ban Juan, Mayaguez ‘and Ponce co OS Puerto a i ABALA sans) vn had been furnished by the cso 4 interviewing Aqents a Spafish copy of the Advice of Ri ghts , _. form which he sai LLNS Te ee MRE he understood and signed, was presonted 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 coCERLIX ZABALA uas C43 prior to the aforementioned discussion of his_travel outside E of Puerto Rico in the last six months. ( ZABALA Was storniv ZS) j advised that he iad been asked to tell fhe truth in all the ; above matters ani that any discrepancy his account could | j possibly be a violation of his current Fe deral probation) C CS) which extends to Ganuary 29 sites ¢ Bat this point, (PELIX ZABALA MAgJaavised the inter- Co) . _Miewing Agents that he had no idea how. the FBI had gotten: ' all the facts about him and that the FBI seers to know everything about him. He stated that he not a Communist and: that anything political that he would ao would be agains FIDEL CASTRO. At this point, pat he vould do ws that he “haac $s.) waited for a long time for this moment and that. he is now — willing to tell <he interviewing Agents everything. (ZABALA a, . MAS stated that):he following accounts are (nlv known by hiriself and his friend,)ANTONIO VECIANA. He stated tha >) VECIANA recently had some problems with’a United States Government assassination committee which was looking into the assassination of JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY. He stated that. . VECIANA had to appear on approximately three ogcasions in Washington, nf C., the last of which was around December 106, de ik ee tae ae a ee 1976. | ZABAL stated that approximately one month before(S JOHN FP. KENNEDY was shot in Dallas, Texas, VECIANA and an individual who @ABALA [felt was associated with United states(S) Central Intelligence’ Agency (CIA), "Mr. BISHOP," met w LEE HARVEY CSWALD in Dallas, Texas. f2anpLaystated tha “Mr. BISHOP” knew VECIANA since 1961. (He added tha had handled an assassination attempt_against FIDEL CKSTRo “while CASTRO was in Chile in 1971. ZABALAK stated that vrectana (3) went to Bolivia({?o werk for the Unit@d States Governnoer: around . 1967, Cte stated that). vec IANA fra he}went to Chile in 14971 (6). Oe nn eee S LoS . SECRET \ - . - a ee oe ee ee es ten we omens guste Pr a Ce ne 2 ee Pc Cr er ee oe ooo Ser DoclId: 32177781 Page 41
ke to set uo an operation to kill casTRO. (He stated that)to Cs) expedite this, false Venezuelan passports were made, the -— hecessary guns were brougnt in in the diplomatic pouches, ‘hand grenades were nicked up in Bolivia, and a United States diplomatic car carried that paraphenalia from Bolivia to i . Chile. (ZABALA stated that)the plan was prepared in Miami (S) Florida, and 4t that time VECIANALYas Still working for _ ie the United States Embassy in Bolivia, (He added that e and|(Q-° “i . VECIANA rented the room in Santiago, CAtle, and gtaved there ‘ , for two or three davs. (ZABALA stated chat) JUAN DOMINGUEZ € and MARCO RODRICUEZ (Cuban exTles not further identified) . thereafter took over that room and enrolled in an approximately six month 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 RODRIGUEZ and when FIDEL CASTRO made his appearance hefore members of the press, nadje hs be shot by one of these individuals. ZABALAKS) ‘ : ote lon ee aC 4 Man ae ee Semen « added thatja high official in the Chilean government secure “the neceSSary press permits for-these individuals to come in the proximity_of CASTRO when he arri-red in Chile in 1971. . [He stated that{the operation was not successful as ponrneur2(S) i: ' and RODRIGUEZ Tailed, by some means, to shoot CASTRO on the oe 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 the hospital as his appendix was bothering him. The other individual stated that someone in .CASTRO'’s vicinity identified him and thereafter, that potential assassin left Chile and was later seen in Bolivia. Es ce { 4 ia _ {arsata revortea that J ANTONIO VECIANA prepared a (s) letter for the benefit of FIDEL CASTRO in Cuba in which he Siaqned the nickname of his (VECIANA's) secretary, MARGARITA. (MARGARITA is HILDA CAO, who is currently a resident of San Juan, Puerto Rico, an employee of the United States Government in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. ‘She was VECTANA'’s _Secretary white he was in Cuba and while he was in Puerto Rico from 196] to 1967, and associated with Alpha 66). That letter contained information concerning ANTONIO VECIANA's connection with the United States Central Intelligence Agency and his attempt to kill CASTRO in Chile in 1971. Linbacageeates this) the information in the letter was known to no offer individGels < ‘ 2 at 2 te cee nes a vem ew we ete a a cevectomp om euty autre tare caw ns mt ae ne rere ie rere Bro eters owe ee TT a a 9 Pee ee ae pee Tare re rune ee nent: serctm om pay ates ™ on * aa at a DoclId: 327177781 Page 42
OMS Tee tein, Se BT a ret e 3 oo ea be oe Tagh BO TEE wee we : 5 . wot ya . (vice-consul of thé Cuban Embassy in Kingston, Jamaice, JUAN C2. 2 ‘ ‘ 7 . + and VECIANA had (requestea{ZABALA to transmit that letter to <3). is sister, AMALTA, inlc for personal delivery to FIDER & CASTRO. (ZABALA\stated that)the letter. inferred thats) _VECIANA's secrétary was diSsatisfied with VECIANA an that ‘VECIANA wanted a large amount of publicity due to his aopearanc2 Oofers a United States Government aroun which dealt with -the assassination of JOHN F. KENNEDY. This letter fas submitted to Cuba (via 2.3ALA's sister,fon or about (3) (September 111976. ( ZABALA stated that h&]then receive? als. cail(from his sister AMALIA,)in Cuba, andfshejstated that C$2 (she Jvanted to sé: him in Jamaica Jon October 28,).1976. He 2$ dded that he responded to(his Sister sjrecuest and was inC¢°) (Jamaica on October 287 )197 , and yas met there by(fhis sister CK) - _He stated that he was staying at (the Sheraton Hotef lin C$) va Kingston, Jamaica, and on his first night there he met a LS uban by the nam® of (CARLOS?) He added that (CARLOS, ZABALA's \0 SD . sister) and he, went: to a large.hotel (one or two level 25°) |: cabana style) possibly outside(Kingston, Jamaica.| (@A58zA CS) described(CARLOS)as a white male, five feet six “tnéhes tall ZS) weighing.180 pounds (over weight), having dark eyes, dark hair, with grey streaks in the sides. COARLOS Was further € $_) described as being approximately 40 vears old“and that he wore no glasses or hac! no other destinquishing physical character estes. 7 oa . . sere ge af ntti nn tt 8 Ea pe — (CARLOS \descr ibed himself to(ZABALA Jas a person who was high C$ up in the Cuban government Intelligence. CCARLOS carried with ¢ £3 him at all times a businessman's attache case which contained a pistol. ZABALH \did not see the(pistol]jat any timé <) In addition to: meeting (CARLOS } supra ,(ZABALA het Ls) the driver of the automobile whic took(ZABALA, ZABALATs C$ sister, ) and GarteSeo the hotel. This individual was the €$) ARBONELL. ZABALA described (CARBONELL jas. being. a white male,@$J weighing 170 pourttS, 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 4 4 \ : Upon arriving at at hotel ,(ZMBALAJwas questioned C5) by{CARLOS and JUAN CARBSONELL)in the presencé of(his sister CS, - AMALIA,\and they wanted to know current information concerning (¥) DoclId: 327177781 Page 43