Post by Admin on Sept 27, 2014 20:07:56 GMT
Antonio Veciana Blanch (born 1928) is a Cuban exile who was head of Alpha 66 and involved in several assassination attempts on Fidel Castro.
From mid-1960 until mid-1973 Veciana was involved in anti-Fidel Castro activities under the direction of an American named "Maurice Bishop". After the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961, Bishop directed Veciana to help organise an assassination attempt on Castro in Havana.
In 1976 Veciana told the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) that at one meeting with Bishop in Dallas in late-August or September 1963 he had arrived to see Bishop talking with Lee Harvey Oswald. Veciana said that several months after the assassination Bishop had offered to pay a relative of Veciana who worked in the Cuban Intelligence Directorate in Mexico City to say publicly that he had met Oswald there.
From mid-1960 until mid-1973 Veciana was involved in anti-Fidel Castro activities under the direction of an American named "Maurice Bishop". After the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961, Bishop directed Veciana to help organise an assassination attempt on Castro in Havana.
In 1976 Veciana told the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) that at one meeting with Bishop in Dallas in late-August or September 1963 he had arrived to see Bishop talking with Lee Harvey Oswald. Veciana said that several months after the assassination Bishop had offered to pay a relative of Veciana who worked in the Cuban Intelligence Directorate in Mexico City to say publicly that he had met Oswald there.