INTERVIEW OF ANTONIO VECIANA
Originator: SSCIA
Document date: 03/16/1976
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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INTERVIEW OF ANTONIO VECIANA

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1V kore poing to the Inbassy,

ronever, almost until it was closed

dorn.

lle

says that on the 20th or 21st of necember 119001,

the

last time he was in the Embassy talking to Rax rail, he (Kail)

told him he was gi

going to the United States and he would come

back and talk

to him

later.

Kail said he was going to Texas

for Christmas.

That's why he always thought Bishop ardxkri had

told him to go to kail because he thought he perhaps they were

friends from

Texas.

(Do you think Bishop and Smith were friends also?) He doesn't

know.

Smith was a

young person, always well dressed.

prebty sure he was

He's

(Smith wasn't that the Ambassador?) Ohu no, he was the political

advisor.

Not Earl Smith, Ewing Smith.

He says lie docsn't want anything to come out in the paper, because

he's afraid it would cause a Tot of troutle won his family.

but ke would never never do that.

, the correspondent

and talk.

IVolsky works out of

an a office of Replica, just around the

corner from Veciana's house.

The magazine

is owned by Max

Lesnick,

Lesnick was a leader of the Second National Front

of Escambray and the key link wịth CIA agentaJack Stewarts

officially a political attache in the Embassy,

Aven before

Castro took over.

Also in the Replica office now is Reynaldo

Pico, good friend of Artime's and one of the original

Watergate group.]

Lesnick at Replica has urged him to talk to Volsky.

(Is Volsky working for CIA?) Volsky has always denied it.

But he was in Cuba and he was with the Voice of America.

Volsky also now receives money from Replica and AV says

he

doesn't understand that, sax what does he do for Replica?

All he remembers Volsky

ever writing for Replica was an interview

with the president of Portygal.

(Do you have any suspicions that Lesnick is being supported by

the CIA?) No,

he doesn't believe so. Lesnick is a hard worker

and good administrator.

1(A)

(Have you ever made any major arms deals?)

No. Maybe only 20 to 50

rifles, 40 or 50 pounds of dynamite, $40-50,000 at the most.

(Ever deal with Mitchel & WerBell?)

No. But he said that you're going

to ask him about Masfeerer now. (Why?)

Because there

was a lot

of business between Masferrer and Werbell.

They say that Masferrer

was & killed as a

result of his dealing with WerBell. He (AV)

personally thought Masferrer wasn't worth anything.

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