RESPONSE TO FBI VERBAL REQUEST CONCERNING VECIANA'S RELATIONSHIP WITH CIA.
Originator: CIA
From: CIA
To: FBI
Document date: 01/01/0000
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SUBJECT: RESPONSE TO FBI, REQUEST CONCERNING VECIANA'S RELATIONSHIP

WITH CIA

1. WITH REGARD TO YOUR REPORT OF YOUR INTERVIEWS ON & AND 11

APRIL 1977 WITH FELIX ZA BAL A MAS AND TO YOUR ORAL QUESTIONS

TO US CONCERNING STATEMENTS MADE BY HIM ABOUT VECIANA IN

THOSE INTERVIEWS, THIS AGENCY HAS REVIEWED ITS FILE ON ANTONIO CARLOS

VEGIANA BLANCH. AS STATED TO YOU ORALLY AT OUR MEETING ON 13

APRIL 1977, THIS AGENCY HAS NEVER HAD A CONTRACTUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH

VECIANA. ACCORDING TO OUR RECORDS, VECIAN A CONTACTED

THIS AGENCY ON THREE OCCASIONS TO DISCUSS HIS PLANS TO ASSASSINATE.

FIDEL CASTRO. ON THESE OCCASIONS, OUR OFFICERS LISTENED TO

VECIANA BUT EXPRESSED NO INTEREST IN AND OFFERED NO ENCOURAGE-

MENT TO HIM AND NEVER RECONTACTED HIM ON THIS MATTER. THESE CONTACTS

SCURRED IN HAVANA IN DECEMBER, 1950, AND IN NEW YORK CITY IN JULY

1962 AND APRIL 1956. THERE ARE NO INDICATIONS IN THE FILE THAT:.

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IN CONTACT WITH VECIAN A WAS NAMED BISHOP, BLAIR OR KAIL:

ACCORDING TO OUR RECORDS, VECIANA •NEVER RECEIVED ANY FUNDS

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2. AGENCY OFFICERS WHO SERVED IN HAVANA REMEMBER THAT THERE

WAS A MAJOR OR COLONEL KALE ORKAIL IN THE MILITARY ATTACHES

OFFICE IN THE U.S. EMBASSY PRIOR TO THE BREAK IN RELATIONS. ALSO,

ONE OF OUR OFFICERS IN HAVANA WHO LEFT THERE IN THE SUMMER OF 1959

HAD THE FIRST NAME OF BLAIR.Y

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LA COMMENT: FBI OFFICIALS HAD PROVIDED COPIES OF THE DEBRIEFINGS OF

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