Months later, prisoner Juan Falcon "Esteban" of the MRR made a similar TV confession about his role in the foiled assassination attempts of Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, and newspaper editor Carlos Rafael Rodriguez within Operation Patty and Operation Liberio. [xlvii]
IN THE AFTERMATH OF THESE FAILED OPERATIONS, DAVID MORALES MET LT. JACK MODESETT
By the end of 1961, Veciana went into voluntary exile in the US, worked as a sabotage man known as "Victor" for Manolo Ray's MRP, and was sought out by case officer Calvin Hicks as AMSHALE-1. [xlviii] After Hicks cut him loose in late 1962, Veciana was on the books as a military intelligence agent from 1962 to 1966. [xlix]
Luis Balbuena was now hiding out
under the shelter of the US Navy. On
February 19, 1962, using a New York
naval address, he ordered sniper rifles, machine guns and more to be delivered
to Lt. Jack Modesett, an officer at Guantanamo Naval Base. [l]
A subsequent memo explains that "Modesett and Commander Hal Feeney of ONI at Guantanamo have in the past loaned considerable assistance to counter-revolutionary groups operating on the base and in the general area surrounding the base". [li] William Kent and Rocky Farnsworth - high-ranking MWAVE officers - were coordinating this weapons deal. [lii]
On
May 13, 1962, Morales and Feeney's pal Modesett met at Guantanamo and really hit it off. The men spent some serious time discussing
ways to work together, including ways to use Balbuena. They also discussed how they might use a
"unilateral asset" called AMCRAIG-1. Was
he named after the military covert action chief that dreamed up NORTHWOODS?[liii]
[i] Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, p. 180
[ii] Reel 2, Folder L -- CIA Files on Luis Balbuena, 1960-1961.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=56271&relPageId=19 (Balbuena's background - Balbuena becomes Navy source "ISRM 2508", 1/10/61)
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=56271&relPageId=23 (Balbuena was of no operational interest to the CIA according to Joe Piccolo, 12/27/60)
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