104-10428-10209} co ERICA OMT Og, ng : * Digagt® ‘Date: ‘Sune 6, 1977 _. Intelligence Officers (CIO's) .in Mexico on May 19,. 1977, We learned, after debriefing: the @Sset upon his return) ~ £rom Mexico, that the format of the meeting had unex—- -» pectedly involved a videotaped interview of our asset’ . ‘ oye : f . } yo j eer Tee en a meee . , OFFICE OP THE DIRECTOR ; . SECRE®? _ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT oF JusticE oo oO FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, D.c, 20835 BY LIAISON. To: Director of Central Intelligence From: | Clarence M. Kelley, Director Subject: . (OCELO, | OS . mo INTERNAL SECURITY . CUBA THLE isto advise Of pertinent developments in) _ a double agent Operation, assigned the code name “Ocelot, "] Which involves a meeting between our asset and Cuban by Cuban technicians concerning his knowledge and partici-) _ pation in anti~Castro Cuban exile activities. (S)~ activate the scheduled meet at a pre~determined time u '. and place, The purpose of this meeting, according to : the asset, was for the Passage of additional information) . Concerning the activities Of Cuban exile groups in the United States ang Latin America, as had been done at) _ A successful interview of asset was effected On April 8; 1977, which resulted in establishing a double agent: | - Operation. At that point, the asset furnished details: ° Of seven previous meetings with CIO's in Jamaica, Panama’ - . and Mexico. In addition, asset furnished a typewritten G ~~ note containing instructions for his next meeting in -.? Mexico City, on May 19, 1977, which involved a coded telephone call to the Cuban Embassy, Mexico City, tol re - SECRE? - -i. Classified by 5182 . a Exempt from GDS, Categories 2 and 3. “. Date of Declassification, Indefinite oo
13-00000 a a pied by -two Cuban technicians. The asset was then as .. questions by CIO's and his responses were recorded on) . _ Videotape. They assured the asset that thig tape would) | coming television- news interview with an unnamed UU, S.) -/ news commentator, and that they wanted Castro to see this) _Viseotape prior to his interview. (sy 78° “With questions regarding his family life in Cuba before). SECRET . 3 bec Letter to the Director of Central Intelligance Rez Ocelot) = | | - Fatanowene 288¢t has advised that he was tranéported!) by automobile from the meet site in Mexico City to “ad hotel room equipped with videotape equipment and occu-) ked) alia’ that it’ would not be made public. ‘There is, however,) . ° .abvious propaganda value in this film which could be] _ utilized by the Cuban Government. Asset Was specificali + ¥ ‘advised by CIO's that Premier Fidel Castro has a forth->" . 4 _ LAecording to the asset, the interview began} ‘the Castro revolution, after which he was asked to comment) — ton the former Batista Regime in Cuba. we was then asked! - to name the political movéments of which he had heen a) imember. He told the interviewer that in 1964 he had worked) . with Alpha 66, a militant anti-Castro organization head-).— quartered in Miami, Florida, in helping approximately) . (twenty-eight Cuban exiles and arms pass through Puerto Rico) ” Ito Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, for use against Cuba] / and that all. but four of theseCuban_exiles_had returned) =, tO Puerto Rico. . {Cuban jails. (s) a The four who did not return are now in) sags tSSet was also asked about his participation in; an assassination attempt of Fidel Castro in Chile in 1973.) The asset stated. that he had participated in the attenrpt) with Antonio. Veciana, a Cuban exile now residing in Miami.) _ When asked if Veciana had been employed by the CIA, hej cxeplied that he dia not know, however, assumed that he) was, based on the fact that Veciana had used a car with) SSSESESY-axm8. and equipment from Bolivia, where Vecians SECRET ~ 2
13-00000 * Letter to the Director of Central Intelligence 'S during other meetings. (gs) mation to cro aSSet pe teemPe directed at Castro in cuba, ip which they \asset participated, He acknowledged that he, pecianay ' and Bernardo Pradreres had at that time tried to KilyD Castro with a bazcoke. They Waited-in an apartment, which) - ‘Was rented in Havana, Cuba, by Veciana's mother~in-law,, | _ £or Castre tO appear at the nearby Cuban capitol. Pradréras) | . Rad hired tyo other individuals hot known to the asset tal do the actual firing, but when Castro finally appeared the) bazooka - failed to fire due to its deteriorated State from having been buried for an extended periog Of time. The iCuban authorities later discovered the bazooka, which had, - /been deft in the apartment, and were then abla to identity - S11 of “he participants, _(s) | a uring the initial interviey of (Sse) on , oD a April 8,.1977, he nade Rich Vong gag Pnotosraph (obeatnea) _\ from Antonio Veciana, which Veciana Claimed) to gepi ot - bee alias peels in attendance at ao ee8 66 meeting — din pallas, Texas, in 1963, Another photograph depicteg | Veciana ag a Speaker at site pmeeting../tha_assée pant . ‘Gade this information available to CIO's at previous Meetings. In the last segment of Videotaping in Mexico, the individual Similar in description to Oswald, after | which the videotaping was concluded, . The whole taping Process lasted “pproximately 90 minutes and consumed _ Photographs made available by the assethware
13-00000_ — Letter to. the Director of Central Intelligence Re: (celoty- | _ | | : _ Jack Anderson's column in the Washington Post on May 6, £977, claims that Antonio Veclana has testified before the House Assassinations Committee that he was in con- . tact with Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas, in August, 1963. (UU). - - me os fhe above asset has furnished other sensitive) . fintel igence information, including the identities oft Oo previously unknown CIO's, and it is anticipated that he) Will be of future value to our foreign counterintelligence) | effort. . Any effort by the Cuban Government to exploit! _ ‘the propaganda value of information obtained from this) -- -- wecently developed asset over the period of seven previous) -/meatings. would necessarily cost their intelligence service) . _ ithe public identification of several CIO's currently in) . iJamaica and Mexico. You are being made aware of the above) .. developments since it is recognized that the Cuban Govern~ / . Ment may elect to publicize this videotape for propaganda) . ,purposes and that such an event could impact upon current) - spolicy decisions. (8)) ~~ 7 ee Des LP, 2°" this information is also being furnished to the Secretary of State, the Assistant to tha President for National Security Affairs, and.the Attorney General.) | SECRET eas