MEMO: INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA
Agency: CIA
Originator: FBI
From: D/FBI KELLY, CLARENCE
To: DCI
Document date: 6/6/77
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : CIA

RECORD NUMBER : 104-10103-10172

RECORD

SERIES

JFK

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

: 80T01357A

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

AGENCY ORIGINATOR : FBI

FROM

: D/FBI KELLY, CLARENCE

TO

: DCI

TITLE : MEMO: INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

DATE

: 06/06/1977

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OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR

SECRET

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535

BY LIAISON

Date:

To:

From:

June 6, 1977

Director of Central Intelligence

Clarence M. Kelley, Director

Subject: - OCELOT;

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

CIA HAS NO OSLECTION TO

DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR

RELEASE OF THIS DOCURENT

This is to advise of pertinent developments in

a double agent operation, assigned the code name "Ocelot,"

which involves a meeting between our asset and Cuban

Intelligence Officers

(CIO's) in Mexico on May 19, 1977.

We learned, after debriefing the asset upon his return

from Mexico, that the format of the meeting had unex

pectedly involved a videotaped interview of our asset

by Cuban technicians concerning his knowledge and partici-

pation in 'anti-Castro Cuban exile activities.'

.:(S)

The asset developed in this operation first

became of investigative interest to the Federal Bureau of

Investigation (FBI) in November, 1976, when allegations

were received that he was

in contact with known CIO's in

Jamaica during October and November, 1976. Subsequent

investigation, coordinated closely with the Central

Intelligence Agency (CIA), confirmed an active relation-

ship with Cuban officials in Jamaica, Panama and Mexico.

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 neetings with CIO's in Jamaica, Panama

and Mexico.

In addition, asset furnished a typewritten

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, to

activate the scheduled meet at a pre-determined time

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 and Latin America, as had been done at

previous meetings. (S)

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Classified by 5182

Exempt from GDS,

Categories 2 and 3

Date of Declassification, Indefinite

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Re: Ocelot

The asset has advised that he

was transported

by automobile from the meet site in Mexico City to a

hotel room equipped with videotape equipment and occu-

pied by two Cuban technicians. The asset was then asked

questions by CIO's and his responses were recorded on

videotape.

They assured the asset that this tape would

be shown

to high Cuban officials, including Fidel Castro,

and that it would not be made puolic.

There is, however,

obvious propaganda value in this film which could be

utilized by the Cuban Government.

Asset was specifically

advised by CIO's that Premier Fidel Castro has a foreh-

coning television news interview with an unnamed U. S.

news commentator, and that they wanted Castro to see this

videotape prior to his interview. (S)

According to the

asset.

the interview began

with questions regarding his family life in Cuba before

tha Castro revolution, after which he was asked to comment

on the former Batista Regine in Cuba.

He was then asked

to nane the political movements of which he had been a

menber.

He told the

interviewer that in 1964 he had worked

with Alpha 66, a militant anti-Castro organization head-

quartered in Miani, Florida, in helping approximately

twenty-eight Cuban exiles and arms pass through Puerto Rico

to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, for use against Cuba

and that all but four of these Cuban exiles had returned

to Puerto Rico. The four who did not roturn are now in

Cuban jails. (5)

Asset was also asked about his participation in

an assassination attempt of Fidel Castro in Chile in 1971.

The asset stated

that he had participated in the attempt

with Antonio Veciana, a Cuban exile now residing in Miani.

When asked if Veciana had been employed by the cIA,

he

replied that he did not know, however, assumed that he

was, based on the fact that Veciana had used a car with

United States diplonatic license plates to transport the

necessary arms and aquipment from Bolivia, where Veciana

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was employed in the United States Embassy, to Chile. This

plan was aborted by other Cuban exile participants at the

last minute.

Asset had previously furnished this infor-

nation to CIO's during other meetings. (S)

Asset was also questioned about a 1951 assassi

nation attempt directed at Castro in Cuba, in which the

asset participated. Ile acknowledged that he, Veciana,

and Bernardo Pradreres had at that time tried to kill

Castro with a bazooka.

They waited in an apartment, which

was rented in Havana, Cuba, by Veciana's mother-in-law,

for Castro to appear at the nearby Cuban capitol. Pradreres

had hired two other individuals not known to the asset to

do the actual firing, but when Castro finally appeared the

bazooka failed to fire due to its deteriorated state fron

having been buried for an extended period of time.

The

Cuban authorities later discovered the bazooka, which had

been left in the apartment, and were then able to identify

all of the participants.

(S)

During the initial interview of asset on

April 3, 1977, he made availabla a photograph obtained

from Antonio Veciana, Which Veciana clained to depict

Lice. HaIvey Oswald in

attendance at an Alpha 66 meeting

in Dallas, Texas, in 1963.

Another photograph depicted

Veciana as a speaker at this meeting.

The asget had

made this information available to CIO's at previous

meetings. In the last segment of videotaping in Mexico,

the asset was confronted with enlarged photographs of

the alleged Alpha 66 meeting and was asked to point out

the individual similar in description to Oswald, after

which the videotaping was concluded.. The whole taping

process lasted approximately 90 minutes and consumed

almost three reels of videotape.

(S)

Photographs made available by the asset were

examined by FBI agents familiar with the Oswald investi-

gation and it was determined that Lee Harvey Oswald is

not depicted in these photographs: It is noted that

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Jack Anderson's column in the Washington Post on May 5,

1977, claims that Antonio Veciana has testified before

the Mouse Assassinations Committee that he was in con-

tact with Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas, in August,

1963. (U)

The above asset has furnished other sensitive

intelligence information, including the identities of

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

recently developed asset over the period of seven previous

meetings would necessarily cost their intelligence service

the public identification of several CIO's currently in

Jamaica and Mexico.

developments sinca 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 curtent

policy decisions.

This information is also being furnished to the

Secretary of State, the Assistant to the President for

National Security Affairs, and the Attorney General.

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