Antonio Veciana interview

[@Imtahotep]

Whatever. Veciana DID confirm David Atlee Philips as Maurice Bishop on camera at the 2014 AARC Conference. Game over.

[@randallanthony1794]

if hes telling the truth.hes strung people along for decades.saome of his stories arent true so beware

[@randallanthony1794]

I think he is lying

[@alviandoughty82]

This is the father of one of my favorite teachers I had in school. Mr Veciana was the coolest teacher at our school and he told the best stories. Still find that crazy

[@brianbaird1503]

Antonio Veciana Blanch (born 1928) is a Cuban exile who was head of Alpha 66 and involved in several assassination attempts on Fidel Castro. He is the father of journalist Ana Veciana-Suarez. At the time of the 1959 Cuban Revolution Veciana was employed as an accountant by Julio Lobo, and well known as the President of the professional accountants' association. 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 initial contact with Bishop, Veciana took a 2-3 week course in psychological warfare and sabotage. After the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961, Bishop directed Veciana to help organise an assassination attempt on Castro in Havana from an apartment rented in the name of Veciana's mother-in-law. Veciana left Cuba the day before the October 1961 attempt, his wife and children having already left some months earlier. The attempt, which involved a bazooka, failed. Veciana settled in Miami with his family, and after Bishop contacted him there, at Bishop's direction Veciana founded Alpha 66 in mid-1962, becoming its civilian chief and principal fundraiser, and recruiting its military chief from another Cuban exile organization. Alpha 66 became one of the most active Cuban exile groups, acquiring guns and boats and launching commando raids on Cuba. From August 1968 to June 1972 Veciana was active in Bolivia. Formally a banking adviser to the Central Bank of Bolivia on contracts financed by the U.S. Agency for International Development, his office was located in the passport division of the American Embassy, and his primary activity was organising anti-Communist and anti-Castro activities. This included another assassination attempt on Castro in Chile in 1971 involving a plan to put a gun inside a television camera. Veciana's recruiting of Cuban associates who prepared a plan to blame Russian agents for the assassination led to a falling-out with Bishop and the eventual termination of their relationship. When Bishop broke off the relationship in 1973, he paid Veciana $253,000 in recognition of his services; Veciana had previously refused payment. In 1974 Veciana was convicted of conspiracy to supply narcotics; he served 27 months, still professing his innocence after his release. 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. In September 1979 Veciana survived an assassination attempt in which he was shot in the head. Veciana was briefly employed as treasurer by Maurice Ferré's 2004 campaign for mayor of Miami-Dade. He resigned after a few days, as he did not meet the state requirement of being a registered voter. In 2013 Veciana gave interviews saying that he believed that the assassination of John F. Kennedy was carried out by senior military and intelligence officials.

[@davidpallin772]

And I would believe this, more than anything else.

[@elliaddy2]

Thanks for posting this.

[@7071t6]

I find it funny, that most languages other than english in translation, its ten times more words are spoken compared to the translation lol :)

[@hamzah938]

See "Wynne Johnson Full Video" - Gonna make your day baby! - - - -> Two 15 year old teenagers have a 'close encounter' with Lee Harvey Oswald & David A. Phillips on 09/07/1963 - WOW - - - WOW - - - WOW (!)

[@mgclark46]

LHO, DAP and Antonio Veciana

[@louf7178]

Excruciatingly long.

[@reedmathis4623]

wow amazing

[@MrJimmorgan100]

I cant read the script because it blends in with his shirt.

[@bhayago]

Wtf that cut at 9:27??

[@ryan1gr]

About the idiom, as many old school cuban exiles, they never speak very well english, they understand it but speak little and bad english, or never speak it at all...

[@ronniebishop2496]

ryan1gr So the CIA didn't like it that Kennedy, didn't go to war with Russia? I know the joint chiefs felt that way. What a bunch of psycho's. Go ahead blow the whole world up and get it over with. So Johnson killed Kennedy and started a ground war in Vietnam. Now they're happy. Oh I wonder if their happy today?

[@ryan1gr]

Yes, I agreed with you...

[@ronniebishop2496]

***** We'll here's what I've heard. Joe Kennedy who was a long time bootlegger and mob associate. He made a deal with the mob if they would get the union to back Kennedy when he became president he would get Cuba back so they could reopen their casinos. Which Castro did not let to continue. He closed them down. Everything was geared at killing Castro. When the Bay of Pigs failed lots of people were upset with Kennedy. Including the mob and CIA. Who had worked together before and was then. Also Bobby Kennedy started prosecution of mob figures like never before. Double Cross. Book by Chuck Giancana sums it up.

[@randallanthony1794]

well they were only here in US because of castro thery arent americans at heart the later generations are probably different.the ones that werent revolutionaries embraced america.

[@jorgecordova5122]

Remember Carlos Muñiz Varela

[@Imtahotep]

@randallanthony1794 why?

[@hamzah938]

You came to America for a better life. Too stupid to learn our language? Recent interviews reveal his English is still horrible. Tell me why?

[@AnimalFarmDance]

no hes too stupid to overthrow castro, then he blames JFK. send this guy back to cuba , he's not a real american, and since he hates JFK for his own problems, he's a traitor

[@KarlKrogmann]

Your language skills could use a little remedial kick in the ass too.

[@randallanthony1794]

he not an american really these revolutionaries were the worst of them.they never embraced america,later generations may have.thats the problem with unresticted immigration or too many at one time from anywhere.they dont have time to assimmilate