MEMORANDUM: SUBJECTS - A: JACK ANDERSON 20 JANUARY 1997 COLUMN TITLED "CIA TIED TO FALSE OSWALD STORY". B: IDENTIFICATION OF THE MR. X IN THE ANDERSON COLUMN
Originator: CIA
From: CHIEF, LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
To: DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS
Document date: 1977-01-21 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Assassination Records Collection Act of

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21 JAN 1977

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MENORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Operations

FROM

:

Raymond A. Harrer

Chief, -Latin America Division

SUBJECTS

: A..

Jack Anderson 20 January 1977 Column

Titled "CIA Tied to False Oswald Story"

B. Identification of the Mr. X in the

Anderson Column

The attached column, citing the testimony of a Mr. X,

alleges that a ClA agent tried to link Oswald to Cuban intelli-

gence officers in Mexico.

There is, of course, no substance to

the column's allegations.

The column identifies the source as

Mr. X because of attempts on his life, but

subsequently gives

chough information on Mr. X to establish his identity.

According to the Anderson column, Mr. X was first met

by his ClA contact in Havana before

relations with U.S./Cuha were

severed.

Mr. X had helped to organize bank accountants to cm-

bezzle Cuban government funds to finance anti-Castro causes.

Mr. X was reportedly recruited by a Morris Bishop (ClA contact),

to plan an

attempt on Castro's life. The plan has to fire a

bazooka from

a nearby apartment building while Castro vas deliver-

ing one

of his marathon specches.

According to the Anderson

column,

the plot was discovered by Castro's police and Mr.

escaped

to Miami.

Nr. X also reportedly tried

Castro in Chile in 1971 in league with the l'enezuelan Luis Posada

Carriles,

who is now being detained in Caracas for the 6 October

Cubana airline hombing:

The Anderson column ends with

$253,000 in cash by Morris Bishop when he was

terminated.

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3.

¡on the above description of drof, it is reasonably

¿clear that dr.

" Is intonio Carlos VICHANd Blanch 1211-312906).

VICtINd, an assistant bank manager and past president of a public

iccountants association in Havana,

first contacted ClA in Havana

18 December 1900 shen he ashed the cos, at that time Dames a dochos

to help in an assassination plot against Castro. VECTANA asked

for visas for con relativos of the four men assigned to kill lastro,

and also requested four Ml rifles with adapters

for grenades plus

grenades.

The cos did not encourage VECIll and subsequently

checked with an Embassy officer who reported that VECIANA had made

similar "wild-eyed" proposals to him.

On 23 Novenher 1901 the

Miami News published a report of an unsuccessful attempt by Antonio

VECTANA to kill Castro.

VECIANA reportedly had arranged to

assassinate Castro and Cuban President Osvaldo Dorricos on 5 October

in Havana, but the bazooka he was using failed to fire.

There has been no Agency relationship with VECIANA. A

POA, which

was granted for his use in para-military affairs in

January 1962,

expired in November 1962.

VECIANA was born on

4 October 1955 in Havana.

He was a member of the People's Revo-

lutionary Movement,

an

was one of the

anti-Castro group in Cuba during 1960-01, and

founders of Alpha-66.

A certified public accountant

hy trade, VECIANA was with A.I.D.

in la Pas in 1968-72.

VECIANN

was registered in ISR to the U.S. Army in November 1962 and he

was terminated without prejudice in

July 1966.

23 July 1962

VECTANA was interviewed, at. his request, by Mr. Harry Real from

the DCD New York office.

VECIANA asked

Real to arrange a mecting

with a senior CIA officer to discuss. Alpha-do's plans to assassinate

Castro and to request Cil's assistance (U.S.$100,000; 10,000 Cuban

pesos: 48 hand grenades).

There is no indication that this request

was ever acted upon by CIA.

"5. On April 1906 a LA Division officer, John R. Lucy, using

the aliasl

John Livingston, met VICIANA in New

lork City.

necting was arranged by retired naval officer, James Cogsvell,

who hid informed Chief

#Division that he had

information of value

concerning Cuba.

for, the mceting,

he was

He immediately launched

a discussion of the Cuhan political situation and noted

his strong

fecling

that the only solution was

the assassination of Castro.

31ucg advised VEClANA that he was in no position to movide him wirl

sistance or encournce him in an assassination attempt and was onl

tially to get'

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VIllAN suggested that 550, 000 would he needed to gor his

nould look 1y0 the

CIR.ILA to be

contacted in luerto Rico.

". There is no indication in the file that and leency officer

in contact with VI.ClAVA ever used in alias Morris Bishop.

no Morris Bishop listed in true name in the DIO rolls.

There las

never any contractual relationship with VECIANA and he was not

paid CIA funds.

7. On 11 January 1977 a sanitized copy of VECIANA's 201 file

was made available to staffers from the Senate Select Committee on

Intelligence.

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THE BASHINGTON POST

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Jack Anderson and Les Whitten

CIA Tied to False Oswald Story

The Central Intelligeace Agency

traascripts thr the CIA would want lo

said. Sorris Bishop pald him a lump

asted one of tis cubaa operatries lo

fabricate this essence. Ferhaps ibe

$253.000 un cash 105 ple sessiness

delp fabricate

& story: fbout

Lee

CZA could bare srusbe to lie Ken-

Callgirl Trade Homen uto Lake

Qonald duruns the investis.

nedy's killer to ibe cauro government.

up the workl's otdes proferica. like

aske

In any ereat ide elA agent called

most other carper seekers u ho want lo

hold

tion, the Cuban bas told congressional

flats

tion

investigators

off the scheme. ast Mr. X "neser did

get abead in

life, are tanking for

talk to his cousin" arrerdine lo a sum.

"higher income and an indepradent.

la an cartier columa, te reported

mary of the literat. It should be

exciting llerik."

tron.

inser

that the same untarss claimed he had

stressed that the saurtien in no way

met the accused sosassin in Dallas in

implicates the CLAre the Keanedy kill-

These are the maljr motitaling lac-

In

cors" that keed niemen into precintu.

the company of a ClA agent three

that

lug.

moaths before Keanedy was killed.

The mystery mazess fust met his

lion. So concludes a schoierly study of

met

He Idenufted the witness oaly as

ClA contact

in Herana before the

callgirts and strengalkers unra-has

the 1 Mr. X because of attempts on his life.

United States brake of! relations with

just been completed al the laxpayers

mont But we have studied his detailed, coal-

Cuba Mr. X had beipril to organize a

expense

Ne Idential statemeats to confressional in-

group of bant sorrectanis, nio cai-

Two distinguished restarchers from

restigators

three

They

intervieued him

bezzled funds from the Castro regune

the University of Hashington. Dr. Jen-

limes.

iden

him

lo finance anti-Castro causes.

nifer James and jane Meyerduzz, were

closely. He gate them such specific in-

The agent, who Dirt the name Mor.

assigned to lind out aby somen be

rest

thre

formation that they concluded be was

ris Bishop, recrined Kr. & to plan an

come prostitutes Their findines will

a "credible" withers

attempt on C'astro's lie. The plotters

clost

He told of meeting his ClA contact

planned lo lire a broke

from

be published shortly in a 32-page docu.

ment. which has been boulested lo us

fOrT

in the lobby of a Dallas office hutiling

nearby apartment stir l'astro was de-

before it goes to press

a"Er In August 1953 This time he brougat

livering one of his Itschon sperhes.

another qus."

recounted Mr.

X. "The

The plot was dishiiered by Castro's

Not ont do unren bertine presti

lutes for lbe sume underlying motives

In th

guy never talked

police, and Mr. f'esaprd to Miami. He

in'A

Mr. X explained that be had trained

continued for a dures more years lo

tbat "some people serume 124) ers.

anol

RUV!

binsell. as an underground leader. lo

work with

Bishop 13 tse anti-Castro

according to the turned ladies from

memortze the charzcteristics of people

underground

Seattle, but the profession requires lit.

Sir he met.

He Immediately recognized

During Castro's let visit to Chile.

le schooling.

hims the

CLA ageat's

coranadion

aiter

Mr. I tried again la bock bim off.

For the pay, there are "virtually no

mert seeing Orwald on television following

The plotters include a Venezuelan se

other ocrupativas aradable" lo uomen

he & the Kennedy ascesiration.

curly agent named Luis Posada Car-

of modest stulls, the researchers role.

tbe

Not long afterward. the ClA contact

riles.

u ho

was supatred lo provide

They conclude that pakuraten aul

socir made a

cranee

request of Mr.

forged documents lay sag the blame on

flourish as long as there is a fon.

the l There had been a report that Oswald

the Sosiets. This plot we. fell through.

sumer demand.

As they put a "Ero

Nc bad met a Cubaa couple in Mexico.

Only a lew weeks es, the same Po

nomics is the pervisne theme di prus

Ial "You have a cousin working for ('uhan

sada vias indicted a l'enezuela

on

utution."

Ther Intelligence in Merico.

" the C'Ll azent

murder barges in escottion with

The study also dispels old ulses tale

has

said.

"Who don't you just ask him, say.

the crash of a Cliban Heiser.

about "fallen uomen."

- who scil ser ber

Yow ing we'll bribe hurt if he said is was

Mr. X sand he porked for the (1.1 un-

cause they hare mer. or have abrormal

Intel really bim that Oswald met.

til 1973 for expenses

Wben the rela-

sex drives or and fiana trio the biail-

said.

It isn't clear from the confidential

tonsbip was termicaird la lyr3. he

ness by "the iverdue of brutal pilips"

150.

• It isnt dour from the confidential

nonship was fernanaled in long he - mush

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