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The Hidden Castro Assassination Plots

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[xlvii] On 7/17/62, the Cubans persuade another new prisoner, Juan Falcon "Esteban" of MRR, to confess on TV to the elaborate Operation Patty plan to kill Raul and Fidel and others: Memorandum for the Record by Chris Hopkins of the JFK-LAD Task Force, circa 1977, LA Division Work File/NARA Record Number: 104-10308-10156. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=396452

Also see memo from JMWAVE to Director, 7/18/62, LA Division Work File/NARA Record Number: 104-10308-10215. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=387906

Also see David Kaiser, The Road to Dallas, p. 109.

[xlviii] By the end of 1961, Veciana went into voluntary exile in the US, worked as a sabotage man known as "Victor" for Manono Ray's MRP, and was sought out by case officer Calvin Hicks as AMSHALE-1: Chronological notes on Antonio Veciana Blanch, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (staff notes)/ NARA Record Number: 180-10145-10331.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=18273&relPageId=7

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=18273&relPageId=11

Voluntary exile in the US and role as sabotage man: Memorandum for the Record, Chris Hopkins, May 1977, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 34/NARA Record Number: 104-10102-10176.

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=30983&relPageId=2

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=30983&relPageId=3

As to who Veciana's handlers were in 60-61, one memo in Veciana's security file says that Bohemia magazine identified "Harold Bishop" as one of the handlers of Veciana's lieutenant Jose Pujols. From REDACTED to Priority Director, 11/23/76, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 46/NARA Record Number: 1993.08.05.15:03:32:960028.

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=1165867

Other sources say that Veciana's handlers were "Maurice Bishop" and "(fnu) Melton". Fonzi, The Last Investigation, p. 129. For Veciana's identification of CIA officer David Atlee Phillips as "Maurice Bishop", see Bill Kelly's article on his blog Countercoup: click here

Veciana said that Maurice Bishop suggested to him in January 1961 that he contact "Smith", "Sam Kail", and a CIA officer. HSCA Report, Volume 10, p. 38.

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=156042

The HSCA reported that Fonzi's interviews revealed that Bishop suggested that Veciana contact Sam Kail, Ewing Smith, or vice-consul Joe D'Acosta. HSCA investigation of anti-Castro exiles that could have participated in assassination, 12/8/77, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (staff notes)/NARA Record Number: 180-10141-10365

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=111947&relPageId=10

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