ANTONIO CARLOS VECIANA BLANCH
Originator: CIA
From: CHRIS HOPKINS, LAD/JFK TASK FORCE
To: THE RECORD
Document date: 05/01/1977
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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May 1977

MEMORANUDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: Antonio Carlos VECIANA Blanch (AMSHALE-1) 201-312966

dpob 1928,, Cuba

1. Information from review of VECIANA's

201 file:

a. HKHA 6958, 21 Oct 60:

1960 -

President of Association of Public

Accountants

1957-61

Employed as CPA and Manager of Banco

Financiero, Havana, Cuba, a loan

company owned by Julio_LOBO LAMEMBER-1,

former Agency contact.7

Formerly Chief of MRP (People's

Revolutionary Movement) in Havana area.

b. HAVA 7133 (IN 14488). 9 Dec 60:

On 7 Dec 60 VECIANA called on COS Havana with

Felix FERNANDEZ Yarzabal, former member of the

AMWAIL group, who at that time represented the

AMBANG movement in Sagua La Brande area. /AMWAIL

was Justo CARRILLO Hernandez' Montecristi Group7 AMRANG

/must have been Cuban Revolutionary Council.

Station had contact with CRC member Manuel RAY7.

VECIANA told the COS Havana of a plot against

Fidel CASTRO, et al., in which VECIANA was

involved. COS gave VECIANA no encouragement

whatsoever. VECIANA said he had previously spoken

with a State political officer (iden not given).

C.

7 Oct. VECIANA entered U.S. at Key West. Had

passport, no visa.

Came via small boat, received

$100 month refugee assistance.

d. WAVE 0311: (IN 44277). 29 Dec 61:

29 Dec 61 JMWAVE Station requested POA on VECIANA

for use as sabotage man for MRP.

His wife and

chitdren were living in Cuba. • His parents were

living in Spain. Wife: Sira Antonio MUINO, later

came to U.S.

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JUAN 0636 (IN 24738) I July 62:

VECIANA, principal of ALPHA 66 attended meeting

2 July 62 in home of Emilio FUENTES, Bayamon,

Puerto Rico. Purpose was to solicit funds

from 40 persons attending (above-average Cuban

exile professionals). VECIANA pitch was

demand

rather than request for funds with

inference repisals against any who failed

to fulfill this "duty." VECIANA said it was

necessary that they undertake an action program

outside of U.S. control. In this connection

the group was in contact with CIA through person

named "Joe" but group was not going to confide

in CIA and were taking precaution of avoiding

CIA penetration. VECIANA left P.R. 4 July

for fund raising junket to Chicago.

OOA (s) 3232106 (WH 765) 26 July 62:

VECIANA was interviewed by Harry REAL 23 July

62.

REAL was officer of New York Contact

Division. VECIANA said they needed Agency

help, but under no circumstances would the

Agency be identified with its activities.

VECIANA said they already had $50-60 thousand

dollars at their disposal scattered in different

places in the U.S. and P.R.

VECIANA's immediate

requirement was conversation with someone in

Agency sufficiently highly placed to make

commitment.

DBA 18681, 8 Aug 62:

VECIANA allegedly went into voluntary exile ca.

Dec 61 arriving in Key West via small boat from

Cuba.

On 5 July 62 he left P.R. for Chicago and

New York City to collect funds for Alpha 66

activities. VECIANA had been contacting Cuban

exile groups in P.R., Fla., Chicago, and

possibly NYCity to collect

$64,000 cash to

carry out plans.

Money w›s being placed in

Banco de Ponce, Santurce, P.R.

FBI informant said VECIANA indicated names of

following three individuals then in Cuba who

were expected to assist Alpha 66:

Vicente NOBLE

Guillermo RUIZ believed to be VECIANA's

cousin's husband Orestes

Guillermo RUIZ - DGI7.

Bernardo PARADELA

Informant said he knew all three as they had

been connected

in 1956 with SIM (Military

Intelligence Service) in the D.R. VECIANA said

PARADELA was then in jail in Cuba, but NOBLE

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and RUIZ were on the losse in Cuba, and were

cold blooded killers.

h. DIRECTOR 73652, 6 Sept 62:

Alpha 66 meeting conducted in San Juan on 30

Aug 62 by Geronimo ESTEVEZ attended by 200

Cuban exiles.

Meetings were held weekly. Had

plans to recruit young Cubans in Venezuela,

P.R. and Miami.:

I. DBA 25402, 22 Oct 62:

VECIANA was trying to obtain 2 boats from some

unknown Americans somewhere in TExas.

VECIANA 's

org (Alpha 66) centered in P.R., operated out

of unidentified islands in Bahamas, and had

representatives in Guatemala and sympathizers

in Miami.

J: Memo to FBI from CIA, 6. Nov 62:

• Reported that Alpha 66 officer Dr. Ramon PEREZ

Daple, assistant to Dr. Jose Luis GONZALEZ, both

of whom are Castro Cuban infiltrators.

k. DBA 28528, 1 Dec 62:

Large sums of money were allegedly donated to

VECIANA for Alpha 66 activities by Julio LOBO.

1. Memo for Record, 31 May 66:

VECIANA had roomate in Puerto Rico, Felix ZABALA,

who visited Cuba Nov 65 in regard to Camarioca

refugee departures. Has an identical twin brother

in Cuba.

Had sister in Cuba, at that time, who was

secretary to Ramiro VALDEZ, Cuban Minister of

Interior.

I. IMCOBRA 0490 (IN 63607) 2 Aug 68:

VECIANA told Cuban Affairs officer Miami 1 Aug 68

that Orestes Guillermo RUIZ Perez (DGI)

married

to VECIANA's cousin, was dissatisfied with Castro

regime and receptive to recruitment. VECIANA

reported same info. to Cuban Affairs officer in

64.

In 68 VECIANA served with AID in La Paz.

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(LAPAZ) 4964 (IN 97745)

Sited in m above

VECIANA appeared at State political section

23 sept 68 with same into. re RUIZ. / VECIANA

said Henry TAYLOR in Miami invited

VECIANA

to visit Cas La Paz. who would follow-up

RUIZ CaSe. 27,16-16

OGC 74-0019, 4 Jan 74:

Letter to U.S. attorney N.Y. from OGC, John

Greaney re Antonio VECIANA and Ariel POMERES

in re unlawful acts of boïh from 1 Nov 72

to Jan 74 re unlawful importing of cocaine

or other narcotics.

2. N.B. The Guillermo RUIZ married to VECIANA's cousin:

a. lived in the U.s. illegally in 57.

b. was assigned to Cuban Embassy, Mexico City, Sept 63

as diplomat. DGI activities,

was to penetrate

counter-revolutionary organizations.

fTew from Mexico City to Havana on 22 Nov 63.

c. Married to VECIANA's cousin.

d. Reported by VECIANA to support Alpha 66 activities

Chris Hopkins

LAD/JFK Task Force

N.B. VECIANA has allegedly been involved in

several assassination attempts against

Fidel CASTRO which for one reason or

another never came off.

They were not

connected with the Agency.

z/pV

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