65-514-448
Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 10/5/78
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

4/14/201

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10324-10434

RECORD SERIES: SJ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : SEE TITLE

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

MM

TO: HQ

TITLE: [Restricted]

DATE: 10/05/1978

'PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS :

ANTONIO VECIANA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 09/02/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

v9.1

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"Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote) -

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SCENE SHORN OTBERNT SE.:

ANTONIO VECIANA BLANCH, FCI-CUBA (H) •

VECIANA PREPARED A PRESS RELEASE WHICH HE INTENDED TO

READ AT A PRESS CONFERENCE AT THE EVERGLADES HOTEL, MIAMI, AT:

10S0D A Mog OCTOBER 5, 1978:

THE PRESS RELEASE, IN BRIEF, VOICED VECIANA'S DISSATISFACTION

AND CONTEMPT FOR PRACTICES BY THE U.S. STATE DEPARIMENT, DEA,

FBI, AND CIAO SPECIFICALLY, VECIANA CLAIMED THAT MAURICE BISHOP:

OF THE CIA BACKED HIM UP ON TWO ATTEMPIS TO ASSASSINATE FIDEL

CASTRO, THE LATEST ATTEMPT BEING IN CHILE IN THE EARLY 1970°S.

VECIANA ALSO CLAIMED THAT THE FBI WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR SUSPENDING

HIS RECENT SUBPOENA: (ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO) TO TESTIFY BEFORE THE

SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS•

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CLASSIMEO BY. S668 sonic

REASON:

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DECLASSIFY ON: X(Y6

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (14 USC. 2107 Note).

DATE: 11-14-2017

PAGE TWO MM 202-25 SECRET

ADMINISTRATIVE

VECIANA MADE NO MENTION OF ANYTHING THAT WOULD DIRECTLY

JEOPARDIZE ANY CURRENT OPERATIONS.

IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT VECIANA DISCUSSED THE PRESS RELEASE

PRIOR TO ITS RELEASE WITH MM 4278-OA AND ASSURED HIM THAT KE

WOULD SAY NOTHING ABOUT HIS FRIEND FROM PUERTO RICO. [SI

FULL TEXT OF VECIANA'S PRESS RELEASE WILL FOLLOW.

GLASSIFIED BY 1357, XODS 2 AND 4, INDEFINITE.:

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