65-514-624
Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 09/28/1979
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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09/28/1979

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ANTONIO VECIANA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/02/1998

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ANTONIO VECIANA BLANCH; EID, MIAMI FILE 174-1227 (A).

PROPOSED VISII OF CUBAN PREMIER, FIDEL CASTRO TO THE UNITED

STATES, OCTOBER 1979% PFO MATTER. CUP

RÈ MIAMI IL TO BUREAU, SEPTEMBERI27, 1979, CLASSIFIED

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THE FOLLOWING IS A TRANSGRIPI OF AN INTÉRVIEW OF ANTONIO

" VECIANA CONDUCIED ON SEPTEMBER 27, 1979 BY A TV CHANNEL 7 NEWS

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REPORTER, MIAMI, FLORIDA: (U)

VIC WALTER (VW):

"SEVRAL MONTHS AGO, CHANNEL 7 NWS

DID A REPORI STATING THAI ANTONTO VECIANA, FOUNDER OF. THE

MILITANI ANTI-CASTRO ORGANIZATION. ALPHA 66, WAS THE TARGET

OF AN ASSASSINAI ION AITEMPT POSSIBLY BY: PRO-CASTRO FORCS•

THE REPORT WAS LATER, CONFIRMED BY THE FEI•

, WHO HAD WARNED

VECIANA THAT HIS LIFE WAS IN DANGER.

LAST WEEK, THE DANGER

MATRIALIZED IN THE FORM OF TWO MEN IN A CAR WITH A 45 CALIBER

PISTOL. THEY TRIED TO GUN DOWN VOIANA: ON A MIAMI SIREET:

CORNER AS H DROVE HOME. A FRAGMENT OF ONE BULLET CAUGHT HIM

- JUST ABOVE HIS LTT TEMPLE. VECIANA SAYS HE KNOWS WHY THE

ATIMPT WAS MADE ON HIS LIFE.

IT IS BECAUSE SOMEONE

LAKED INFORMATION IO GASTRO AGENTS THAT H WAS BEHIND A

PLOT TO ASSASSINATE CASTRO UPON IHE CUBAN PRESIDENT'S

ANTICIPATED TRIP TO THE UNIID NATIONS IN NW YORK ON OCTOBER

5, 1979.

YOU SAY THE FBI HAS IMPLICATED YOU IN A PLOT TO

KILL FIDEL CASIRO: ON OCTOBER 5•

IS THAT IRUE?"

V. (VECIANA. " (UNINIELLIGIBLE) ANSWER THIS, THIS QUESTION CUT

VW. "YOU CAN'T ANSWER."

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Vo:"I HEARD, I HEARD IN MANY, IN MANY PLACES IN THE

UNINTELLIGIBLED SUPPOSEDLY I CUNINTELLIGIBL) PLOTS

AGAINST CASIRO. "' (U)

VW:"TO KILL CASTRO.: A PLOT"TO KILL CASTRO IN NEW YORK

ON OCTOBER 5?" (U)

V:"YER CUNINIELL IGIBLE IN HIS VISIT

I HEARD ABOUT." CU

VW: "DURING HIS VISIT " (U)

V.:"I HEARD ABOUI THAT. " (U)

VW:"BUT YOU CAN'T TELE. US IF YOU HAD ANY INVOLVEMENT." (U)

Vo:"NO. I CAN'T TELL YOU," ' CU

VW:" YOU TRIED TO KILL CASTRO, ONCE BEFORE, DID YOU, NOT?" ‹Ù›

-V. :"TWO TIMES." (U

VW:"TWO TIMS?",

(U)

V.: "TWO TIMES.

ONE IN CUBA, AND ANOTHER IN CHILE."

(UD

WW:"WHAT WILL YOU DO NOW, WHERE WILL YOU GO?"

V:" I THINK I'S BEST, THE BEST THING IS TO DISAPPEAR."(U)

VW: "UCIANA IS A FORMER CIA ÓPERATIVE AND FBI INFORMANI.

IN THE LAST FEW YEARS," HE HAS TESTIFID BEFORE THE HOUSE

ASSASSINATIONS COMMITTEE SINVESTIGATING THE JOHN F. KENNDY

ASSASSINATION AND A U. S. SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE

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PAGE FOUR MM 174-1227, MM (65-3346,

INVESTIGAIING ANTI-CASTRO, ACI IVITIES. VECIANA HAS NOW GONE

UNDERGROUND AND IT IS NOI KNOWN WIRE OR WHEN HE WILL SURFACE.

HE SAID HE HAS ASKED TH FBI, FOR PROTECIION, BUI SO FAR THEY

HAVE NOT RESPONDED TO HIS REQUEST. " MEANWHILE, THE STATE

DEPARIMENI REFUSES TO CONFIRM THAT FIDEL CASIRO IS, IN FACT

PLANNING-TO MAKE A VISIT TO NEW YORK CITY ON OCIOBER 5; HOW=

EVR, IN ANTICIPATION THAT HE WILL MAKE THAT TRIP, CÚBAN

EXILES BOTH HERE IN MIAMI AND NEW YORK ARE GEARING UP FOR

MASSIVE DEMONSTRATIONS. VIC WALTERS, CHANNEL 7 NEWS. Y

(U)

O& E BY BY REASON PEASON2, DR

SEPTEMDER 28, 119990

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