“p of Alpha 66. 5. The Agency files CONTAIN NO INDICATION THAT ANY CIA NW 66000 Docld:32272147 Page 2 SECRET 11110409 officers officers even used the Name Moris Bishop AS AN AliAS, NOR THAT ANYONE NAMEL Morris Bishop WAS WER employed by the Agency. 6. The thee Attempts by VeciANA ”
“NA was, attempting to use ZABALA poten- tially to get Agency financial support for his organization. SECRET 2 NW 65924 Docld:32354592 Page 3 ( SEC KET VECTANA suggested that $50,000 would be needed to get his activities off the ground. Lucy indicated to VECIANA that he would look”
“ANA was attempting to use ZABALA poten- tially to get Agency financial support for his organization. SECRET 2 : NW 65987 Docld:32413735 Page 2 104-10181-10183 : SECRET VECTANA suggested that $50,000 would be needed to get his activities off the ground. Lue indicated to VECIANA th”
“ANA was attempting to use ZABALA poten- tially to get Agency financial support for his organization. SECRET 2 NW 65990 Docld:32394065 Page 3 SECRET VECIANA suggested that $50,000 would be needed to get his activities off the ground. Lucy indicated to VECIANA that he would look in”
“cer in contact with Veciana never used alias of Morris Bishop, Blair, or Kail. 1/21/77 LA/COG/021-77 RE: Jack Anderson column Agency identifies Mr. X as Veciana. Indicates Veciana was first contacted by agency personnel in Dec 1960 when he asked COS in Havana, James A. Noel, to h”
“ro. Doe en ca (Vegeane files T fele 201-31.29667 Din, 1885-31 - 3/15/28- 78 04.21219). According t o the CIA: "Officer bertoneel to come, Hjerted no bateret, offered Kem on acilit this matter. There has bea econtactod Agency relationship with livecoman." The Committee's ressentit”
“s ever acted upon by CIA. Registered in ISR in Nov 62 and terminated without prejudice in July 1966. April 1966, John..R. Lucy, using alias John Livingston, met Veciana in NYC. MEeting arranged by retired naval officer James Cogswell, who had informed chief/ WH division, that he ”
“ember 1960, Julij, 1962 and April 1966 for assisten plots against Contro. Doe en ca (Vegeane files T fele 201-31.29667 Din, 1885-31 - 3/15/28- 78 04.21219). According to the CIA: "Officer bertoneel to come, Hjerted no bateret, offered Kem on acilit this matter. There has bea econ”
“cer in contact with Veciana never used alias of Morris Bishop, Blair, or Kail. 1/21/77 LA/COG/021-77 RE: Jack Anderson column Agency identifies Mr. X as Veciana. Indicates Veciana was first contacted by agency personnel in Dec 1960 when he asked COS in Havana, James A. Noel, to h”
“-2- 6 1 nd 3. GOTTLIEB apparently has current information on the activities of the persons he mentioned; for example, he wen knew that Juan A. PAULA was involved in the jewelry business :. . (PAULA and Antonio Felix GENOVA Corzo, a WH/Miami proprietary. % employee recent”
“e t, S .E ., W ashington, D .C . 20003 20 .prison; William Morgan, executed; and Antonio Veciana, escaped 21 to the United States. Had these men succeeded, their efforts 22 would have been tied to the U.S. only indirectly, if at all." 23 Let me show you the passage I am r”
“272440 Page 12 SECRET 11111549 Letter OGC 74-0019 1/4/74 RE: US V. Antonio Veciana and Ariel Pomeres In response to 12/19/73 request of atty Paul J. Curran, US Atty, NY, for any exculpatory evidence relevant to case. Negative results for any info from CIA within framework of case”
“onal operations. NW 66000 Docld:32271295 Page 7 footnotes for VECIANA Gupton section of Doug Gupton, House Select Committee on ASSASSINATIONS, Λ 170. Staff interview 8/28/78, JFK Document No. 002101 171. Ibid, 172. Ibid. 173. Ibid. 174. Ibid, p. 2. 175. Ibid. 176. Ibid. 177. Ibid”
“14-00000 -2-7 6 € 3. GOTTLIEB apparently has current information on the activities of the persons he mentioned; for example, he knew that Juan A. PAULA was involved in the jewelry business (PAULA and Antonio Felix GENOVA Corzo, a WH/Miami proprietary? employee recently pu”
“told Cogswell he would meet him the next day. 4/20/66 met with Cogswell at his hotel room. Discussed Cuban refugees with whom Cogswell remain in contact; dis- cussions with Frank O'Brien. (Waidley had spoken to O'Brien earlier that day - \frac{}{}4/20). i Noted Cogswell's willing”
“s i n Spanis h but at the time, hay he did n't know who Veciana was or why Senator S chweiker's offi ce had 187. sent him to the meeting. 184 185 Phillips also testified that he had never used the 188 name Frigault and had never used a Belgian passport. Phillips was shown the ske”
“-Between named Robert A. Pratchett. Have collected about $30,000. (Info also in memo to FBI 11/6/62) LOOSE DOCUMENTS:. b ☐ LAPA 22452 IN 005443 8/17/73 Veciana arrested 7/24/63 for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into US. Veciana was contract employee of USAID from 1970 to July 197”
“IA) with no reference to be made to their association 2 SECREF NW 65924 Docld:32347290 Page 3 SECRET with CIA (HSCA declining to include them in the arrangement for the first two agents above). And two U.S. citizens whose work with CIA is of no interest to HSCA (although the reas”
“VLONAE Chief, CI/OA 2? LUG *362 Deputy Director of Security (106) C-101331 #279 089 1. Reference is made to your memorandum dated 27 July 19 2 wherein Provisional Operational Approval interest. only. was indicated for possible use of Subject as an agent in Mexico by IFW unde”
“with no reference to be made to their association 2 SECRET NW 65924 Docld:32401214 Page 3 : -SECRET with CIA (HSCA declining to include them in the arrangement for the first two agents above). And two U.S. citizens whose work with CIA is of no interest to HSCA (although the reaso”
“IA) with no reference to be made to their association 2 SECRET NW 65924 Docld:32364464 Page 3 SECRET with CIA (HSCA declining to include them in the arrangement for the first two agents above). And two U.S. citizens whose work with CIA is of no interest to HSCA (although the reas”
“000 Docld:32273118 Page 10 ANTONIO VECIANA BLANCH DCD MATERIALS 00 A (S) 3235956 9/7/62 RE: Alpha 66 11111543 Need assistance, but will go ahead with plans whether they receive assistance from US govt or not. Go-Between named Robert A. Pratchett. Have collected about $30,000. (In”
“t if he (Merola) vere to see this Vermillion that Merola would become a suspected CIA agent as well. 2. Merola said that he was passing this information to us in case we did indeed have a man in San Salvador by the name of Vermillion. Marola has been a contact of the Miami Field ”
“8. He said he never used the name Maurice Bishop. 182 of anyone in the CIA who used the n ame 186 He said he did not know 183 Maurice Bishop. He said he had seen Antonio Veciana only twice in his life, the the second tim e that very mor ning of his hearing before the Committee wh”
“in-q rvernomem —hboveing to-ted in aedrrote to high zone d’ stri et 0 At’onta. After ipreecntinvinedentie a ondes business andrveebkvlf-e night tohe the ent-nytey. He cyl he prederp? h tono **.eg:e11 fitire t - 09 :e11 no any fitire transactions n he rented, tybe bs utely su”
“FUTURE HANDLING. IN VIEW OFBFREE HAND GIVEN CIA CIA r 24- INTEL SERVice 2 GSMIN T HE SE OPS BY PRESIDENT AND emretete, SUCH DISCOVERY COULD DAMAGE CIA US.Govr 0 Cxos AND ALL E 5 RELATIONS. FOR FOREGOING REASONS, ALTHOUGH CIA officer OFFICER CIA OfficeR. officeR. Cuban Cub”
“SECRET s..wet. Director Central Intelligence Agency (oxo@) ____ This letter is classified "Serret" because it BOTE: contains information so classified by CIA-U) cs TLX •939 STACIA seeks to pass a summary of information concerning subject the BfV im Germany and has reque”
“5. Information on the background of the Cuban is fairly extensive, but it is inconclusive. He is known to have been a member of anti-. Castro organizations lathis country. There are al. reports that his mother was imprisoned in Cuba at one time. There are other ■ episodes in ”
“by the SB employee. Neither does he know of . the extent of contacts by this couple with other Agency employees except social contacts. 9 8. (TheOffice of Security has been running this operation for JK -over two years, in an effort to obtain conclusive proof of its intelli-.”
“m referring to Phillips as "Mr. Bishop," Gupton said: "Well, maybe I (176) did. I don't remember." ☑ He also said, however, that he never heard the name of Bishop while he was (177) stationed in Miami. (Thi When shown the sketch of (178) Bishop, he said it did not look like anyon”
“officer, possibly Richard Ouderkirk, now assigned to Guatemala, was given some information by an informant in 1972concerning reported activities in Spain by Robert Vesco. I suggested that the information be given informally to the Embassy's Economic Section chief, John. Oliv”
“14-00000 -------- trlreet vans to t' grAPrue (s to my ^^iJ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT nc .Gumi Memorandum MIM-006-74 TO 1 Chief, Domestic Collection Division DATE: 4 January 1974 ATTN : Support Branch/Oss (JGross) FROM : Chief, Miami Field Office 77 . SUBJECT: CIA Ope”
“estective agency and is also acting as public relationsedlicerii %Prto and bia group. To is bel loved to be the owner of a corporation secva e.o. : "Siterpriweo Many, lnc," the exact operations of which are mlmcvn. 3. Behilldecker suid that Jackson claimed to have excellent s”
“14-00000 (uil On, SUBJECT: Cuban Exiles Involved with DEA Page S S. Following a review of all information on the foregoing Subjects available at DEA Headquarters and at this Agency's Headquarters, we are of the opinion that there is no data or other evidence to suggest a”
“ally on the build up in Cuba but would not be exposed to operational information or exotic material. 14. COHEN is currently of interest to this Office in connection with an approach which was made to him by the Second Secretary of the Romanian Embassy in Washington. An FBI report”
“d States agency and that his comments concerning to that agency. SOURCE would be relayed CIA OFFICER noted that he was returning to New York City from iliami and said that, in the event he received any additional information concerning Cubela, he would forward it to the FBI. He f”
“e U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Spain, and was in contact with both Odon Alvarez de la CAMPA and Jose Luis NW 65990 Docld:32373858 Page 2 ( SECRET 2 GONZALEZ Callarretia, as noted in the press releace. The purpose of this contact was limited specifically to obtaining intelligence infor”
“14-00000 SECRET 3 August 1965 t MEMORANDUM FOR: C/WH/S ATTENTION Jonathan Hanke, C/WH/3-Bolivia SUBJECT t Eleodoro VENTOCILA Camara 1. On 29 July 1965 I discussed Subject with Major Lupton I2 of Detachment "A" of ACBI Headquarters. In response to my direct questions ”
“1978. He said he never used the name Maurice Bishop. 182 of anyone in the CIA who used the name 186 He said he did not know 183 Maurice Bishop. He said he had seen Antonio Veciana only twice in his life, the the second time that very morning of his hearing before the Committee wh”
“rad Louch vans Malone 1 Rosen Sullivan 1 Tavel Trotter RAM:djv Tele. Hoo Holmes.. i ane CIA OFFICERS 2 Paris (Enclosures 2) (See Note, Page 3) London (Enclosures 2) (See Note, Page 3) SCE NOTE, PASE litami-(Sed Note, Page 3) • 55199251902 NW 66000 Docld:32201939 Page 2 يد Page 32”
“CT: Viel Livingston WER-BELL IT 23 September 1959 RETURN TO CIA Background Use Only Do Not Reproduce 1. Subject phoned me on 9 September 1959 to say that he was in atlanta and to ask if anything had been done concerning our use of hin in the Jomirican Republic I told him that we ”
“: Chief, Miami Field Office SUBJECT: CIA Operative in El Salvador ☐ MIM-006-74 DATE: 4 January 1974 1. Joe Merola contacted the Miami Office on 21 December 1973 to explain that he recently had spoken with a friend of his in San Salvador, El Salvador. The friend, who allegedly wor”
“the request of MacVane, Ryan visited the El Salvador Desk to ascertain their objections to our source, known to us as a convicted felon. Desk objections steamed from a 1964 report which indicated that Merola had informed persons that he was a "CIA agent". Further conversa t”
“ked out of the assignment. He suggested another candidate who made several attempts without success. 12. Joe then indicated that Dr. Anthony Verona, one of the principal officers in the Cuban Exile Junta, had become dis- affected with the apparent ineffectual progress of the Junt”
“ked out of the assignment. He suggested another candidate who made several attempts without success. 12. Joe then indicated that Dr. Anthony Verona, one of the principal officers in the Cuban Exile Junta, had become dis- affected with the apparent ineffectual progress of the Junt”
“committee Chairman and Co-Chairman might be briefed, if abso- lutely necessary. 3. In addition to the attachment A summary, we also approve the use (with the full committee) of the case summary on our operations to assist the survival of the Betancourt government in Venezuela”
“■* 4 OPTIONAL FORA, NO. 10. o‘ 5010-106 .MAY IP42 EDITION / GSA GIN, MG. NO. 27i: Tolson UNITED STATES GO\ NMENT SECRET DeLoach Memorandum Mohr ----------- -- ------ Wick ________ Casper Callahan -------------- Conrad —_______ Felt CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO :Gale .”
“1 4-00000 • X Ar ( The testimony given in that trial is not inconsistent with the response given above. It is true that after Merola was released from prison he again volunteered information to the CIA. Merota was a voluntary source of foreign intelligence. ' I hope this ”
“SECRET 0 *. On November 13, 1959, CiA representatives were 2 . 7 . informed that awe, wore opposed to making, the defector availably n; to IICUA. On that same date we were told that CIA was informing * HICUA ite-was reversing its positionand that upon reconsideration --: it ”
“6 % MM 97-300 SECRET MIAMI AT MIAMI, FLORIDA Will report the decision rendered by the Department. ADMINISTRATIVE Information copies have been furnished the New York Office, inasmuch as the subject of this investigation was formerly employed as a secretary to ex-Venezu”