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OCR Page 1 of 68But a newer angle was almost being developed in those last
frantic days. One of the Committee's best field investigators,
Gaeton Fonzi was pursuing the last phase of the C.I.A. assas-
sination plots against Castro. These were code named AM/LASH.
In September of 1963, the Agency made one last attempt to
kill Castro, this time alone, without Mafia help. They used
a man close to him, Rolando Cubela. Cubela had become dis-
enchanted with Castro's brand of dictatorial communism. The
Agency learned of this and agreed to supply him with weapons,
including a telescopic rifle and a poison fountain pen. This
was combined with an effort to encourage the more radical anti-
Castro groups to attack Soviet ships in Cuban ports.
This is significant because by late 1963, Kennedy's offic-
ial and unofficial policy was a softer line toward Cuba. Secretly
he was moving toward reconciliation.
55 Neither he nor any other
high official sanctioned these efforts. The Agency was acting
on its own.
One of the men recruited in these clandestine enterprises
was Antonio Veciano founder of the radical group Alpha 66.
Veciana was tutored by the C.I.A. in guerilla methods, psychol-
ogical warfare, organization of cells, counterfeiting Cuban
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currency, maritime sabotage, and political assassination.
In
nearly all these efforts, Veciana says that his C.I.A. contact
and mentor was a man named Maurice Bishop. Bishop-a code name-
recruited him in Havana in 1960 and the two stayed in contact
through various South America intrigues until 1973. 57
Veciana stated that the genesis of his entire relationship
with the Agency, and the specific acts he committed, were with
Bishop. Bishop told him that it was his intention to cause
trouble between Kennedy and the Russians, to negate the pledge
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