JFK Assassination System \ , Identification Form Date: 4/14/201 | Agency Information v9.1 : Doeld:32313055 Page 1 FBI AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER:  124-10325-10304 RECORD SERIES: SJ AGENCY FILENUMBER: SEE TITLE , Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: SJ TO: HO TITLE: [Restricted] DATE: 05/25/1977 “PAGES: 35 _ SUBJECTS : ; ANTONIO VECIANA DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 09/21/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS: INC FD-302 11 eee
~ FEDERAL “BUREAU. GF GNVESTI HGATION | Do ate of trenseriptic on On n(Gay oS ior" fa contrat. ource, ‘whe. has. 7 provided: relifable formatiTén in the past] iwas interviewed by Special. Agents.of the Pedera Bureau of Thvestigation agd he ‘advised that.. So Giak 18, 197 he bade a telephone call ferom OST | Puerto’ Rico]|to the Cuban: Embagsy in Mexico City, Mexico analsJ asked for The Viee Counsel, {Source used a previously¢ SJ arranged | statement concerning the status of a visa to Signal) _ the Embassy that he would be traveling to Mexico City. Source Gtated th 1atJthe secretary: who. handled. the. call. -in ‘the. Cuban ‘Embassy (appeared not. tc recognize the. signal’ ‘and chs) saps S) told him that the Vice. Couse il Was not in the. “Embassy. : oo 2 a nee oe “on( Giay 19, 197% (Ene sourca)tre aveled from San Juan C9) Puerto fis Miami, Florida, vie stern Airlines Flight 2 Number nee e Jarrived in Miami at approximately n CS) and was me by his “business partner, TTONTO, VEGE NAL Con advised VECIANA. that. helwas going toGlexico: City Jeo: meet C Cuban - Intelligence. Service. (CUIS) Agents(and VECTIANA see 50 him\copies of VReplica' and-"La Verdad" newspapers to furnish to “the CUIS. (Source -and MECIANA Straveled to the "Replicat(& newspaper office in. Miami and(there the source (met an nai Gituer $9 by the name of ALDEREGUIA, who VECIANA had: eaFlier)re orted C$) % to the source\to be working for. Cuban Intelligence. C8) cj wource advis€d that VECIANA now states thet\ALDERECUTy is Cs currently working fox the Panamanian urce}net wi ‘Intelligence * met, whith MAX Feaere CS source’ ox Vhile at. the "Replica" office, (the. source and ROGER REDONDO, who. according rons source). are both . Cs3 » employees of "Replica" newspaper, fs. Tos , oN > ep wp eee i INPORWETION CONTAINED a i 2 eS, _ 7 ; i BERETH TS vin CLASSIFIED BICEFE . sifs , 8072205 °° WHERE SHOW 1 OTHERWISE. : ro ie Sales eam pacar nmi nt its seed “ Exempt: from GDS , Citesend= ; ‘and 4, Date of de Lcation-. pefini . ite, an ne . CLASSI =0 BY. SCF ie 4 De mmado, Puerto Rico AL : File g IWS-* : Dole dictoted: neither recommenda its conienis ore nol to. be distribu
Y “SECRET. 0 2 PSG od white | at the “Replica” ‘newspaper: office. > Cine source C53. “was to1d Jena at one BERNARDO VELEZ,. who is: reportedly "one of: 0-5 c: * JIMMY CARTER's- ceopie, "told MAX. ‘LRSNTK ‘thet he*had been told - © in Wa ashington that -—ALDEREGUIA was working. for: the Cuban ‘Govern- “ment ,,CSourgs stated that)it appeared that ROGER REDONDO had €  gold( VEC ana about ALDEREGUIA's connection with. the Panamaian co) . Goverrnmen Source stated that )REDONDO’ was at one time a- “s¢aptain in? an anti-Batista organization known. as the Segunda — we ‘Frente (Sécond-Front). (Source learned that \ALDEREGUIA is” ae) oo o. almost. always. present at the "Replica' “Rewspaper | office in 7 os Miami ; Florida. oa _ oo S Concrana requested ‘that ‘the scurce \tell the CUIS in n CSO Gltexico | City that members of the Coordinacién de. OrganizacionesC evolucionarias Unidas (Coordination of United Revolutionary > -Organizations) (CORU) frequently come to "The Little Havana!’ Welfare Office in Miami and-that it’ is believed ‘that CORU’ gets money from that office. (Source stated that\one as ' VILLAVERDE is currently in charge of that officé. CUECIANA C s3 ., Stated that\CORU members LEDO, CASTILLO, GASPAR JIMENEZ and “OROZCO ‘have been seen at that office. (WecTaNa requestedd S$} that the source also |jtell the CUIS that he had heard that -JALDEREGUIA is currently working for the Panamanian Government. ‘In addition, VECIANA asked the source to advise (UIS thatCS \ “recently ORLANDO ‘BOSCH was interviewed on a radio’ program and he was encouraging actiagn against the Venezuelan Govern- "ment. Gource was to further advise the CUIS that BOSCH, who Cs \ desired a speedy trial in Vénezuela, had gotten word to CORU that if he did not get a trial soon that CORU would take action: ’ and place a bomb sgainst some Venezuelan property. This | '. bomb. would be. designed to cause very.little damage and no injury to anyone. If the Venezuelan Government did not act with dispatch regerding a speedy trial for BOSCH, a second --. bomb would be placed by CORU which would cause considerable ; ‘damage to Venezuelan property. Gource stated that VECIANAC 9 ‘) felt that)in light of the BOSCH trial matter, the Cubans might attempt to get the Venezuelan Government to expedite that trial. CE gtone otis tetas ut tees bade that eit thel Mae de Sac e a e
Co Boos (Source traveled from Miami, ‘Plorida, to (Mexico city, CS. an Mexico, ia Aeronaves| Airlines Flight 411. on May 49) 1977, Cs | - “ Jeaving Miami at 3 p.m. and arriving at{ Mexico Cityjat 5 p. mes {Source was\met by no one at, the airport~and went_to his room, ; #503 ).at rhe(# Diplomatico Hotel.-in\Mexico city ) At: 7:20 p.m Get source Jtook one taxi to the middle of town and then another the aSsigned meeting place with the CUIS..(Source stated ies (ae this was a maneuver to avoid easy detection of where he vw J, destined. fHe-stated that he\went to the Metro Swel olay) and CX ‘saw people across the street. (He stated that he | walked through iC $ a tunnel: and’ then returned to the center of the sidewalk where he was met by CARLOS ;(whom he had previously met.,) and another _ Cuban individual. (Source stated that \CARLOS. was wearing a ‘dark jacket, a blue T-shirt under the jacket, dark pants and ; carrying a mall handbag Gin which there was a gun. Source C Cs) 4 Stated..that |the.other..Cuban :-was-a white. male; approximately . 28 vears oid, weighing 150, 5'8" tall, and having black hair “(worn medium length and parted: on the “yight side which was combed down. This individual who was referred to as RAUL, had no sideburns, no mustache and was wearing white-rimmed glasses. He was dressed with-a light jacket, white shirt with a collar, and dark pants. RAUL, although’he did not smoke, often had a black cigsrette holder in his mouth He carried nothing in _ his hands. (Source believed “thad] CARLOS was the apparent "Reader CS) . of the two. : an ; cea (Sourge advised._that his sister from Cuba, AMALIA] nas) trave to(Mexico City |to be. with the CUIS during their-meet with source. Source wasjtold by CARLOS that they did not want sister Jinvolved in “his affairs with the CUIS and, therefore did not come to meet him as was previously arranged.]$") AYP SECRET Dochdy3@343055"> Page 6 5 <6":
«8a fos-sig (7. ane iene ep oN gpoRmt Oo AT a en ee OP Ss ge BLE, «. (Bource aa advised: a thet)RAUL 1 left. ‘CARLOS ros(ana ¢ ‘the fo soureeJ CS} and went o pick up an apparently rented car -a~short. distance _ tjthis car was a 1975 light green two- C§ S3- ed what appeared to beScar. rental papers in works, “Puerta Hieo" as part of- the : entering the .car,. CARLOS stated - Coa ° to. use..a: Cudan.. ‘Embassy. Car..for .these ‘« ent ecarion. Sourcestated that’ they) traveled in “the automicbi le sige e one and. onen,- > away. (Source stated th mae door Valiant. é re RAUL's pocket..." with “rental - firm’ Ss name. half hours and went_to a HotelfSan Miguel in Puebla: city, Je59, (Ge stated that they \traveled off of (Mexico City jon the: Bapressvey CS ~~~ “and. in{Puebl went off at(Retormna Aven: proceeded two ~' blocks and_then. ‘right=for tTWo blocks. Sourne stated that 325. the Hotel(San Miguel) appeared very. un down amd third class Cs He- stated. that)\.the--CUIS “had apparent] y rented two rooms (§ 2 one ‘the eae floor “and the: other -on the first floor Room #102. peace htbr nen sa ~ Upon entering the(San- Migueifiotel 1 {the- sour net CSD / ae “white. Cuban: nale/f who: was. imtroduced tue him. as}HECTOR . HEcTORC $3 was approximately "45 years: of age, 5'6". tall’, weighing 185 pounds, having. gark eyes amd slightly grey black hair, which was combed straignt back. HECTOR wore no glasses and had no and videotape sechiierne, (GARGS told HECTOR to be ja televisionC$-— Cc a ‘ i 4 i i - and videotape technicTan: ARLOS told sourcé thafJHECTOR came CS’ _ from Cuba and worked with e CUIS in.Cuba. fUpon entering the ground floor room; the» source noted an automatic pistol lying on ORV ¢ and ne. understood that this ‘pistol belonged to HECTOR. \ [~s7) — “Source advised that up to this point in conversation. — _ with RAUL, the latter had talked a lot about the good times that he recently had om a trip to the Soviet Union when he ‘accompanied FIDEL CASTR® there. He stated that the Cuban delegation. enjoyed many..big parties in Russia and there was an abundance of, beer, ‘vodka and Russian women. RAUL felt. that the Russian people. .toved FIDEL CASTRO. Source, stated that while. enroute to. the San Miguel Hotel, CARLOS advised i: the source that. ORSE sends his regards to the source. Source (> stated that JORGE. “Tie: General," who has previously met . with the Source. on receli. meets ts (S) QP. SECRET