Rolando Cubela person
also: Cubela, Pubella, Cubelo, A.M. Lash, Major Rolando Cubela Siquez, Cabela, Kubela, Rolando Cubela
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Claims (7)
Manuel R. Tineo financed_via
Rolando Cubela book_quoted
“with several sums of money handed over. Manuel R. Time independently contacted Kubela in late 1964 and received CIA money to fund the Kubela plot. In March 1966, Castro's security services arrested A.M. Lash, who was sentenced to 25 years i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 14:54
CIA recruited
Rolando Cubela book_quoted
“Over the months there, there were repeated indications that he may be a defector. Cubela in Spain, as the Cuban military attache, could travel freely and met with other CIA officers in Helsinki during the Mongoose period. He became a CIA ag…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 10:07
CIA supplied_arms_to
Rolando Cubela book_quoted
“Desmond Fitzgerald's interpreter. Fitzgerald's field report and San Halpern agreed that they avoided any mention of the actual operation. Nevertheless, Rolando Cubala demanded equipment support and the CIA provided it. Scientists at Langley…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 13:30
CIA recruited
Rolando Cubela host_asserted
“the Cubela guy. So CIA men who knew Cubela's armed exploits targeted him for recruitment under the code name Amlash. Let's see. Helms sent an up-and-coming CIA direct officer, Nestor Sanchez, to Brazil to take over the handling of Cubela be…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras Part 2 @ 46:05
Desmond Fitzgerald spied_on
Rolando Cubela documented
“The effort with Kubela would also involve a CIA asset falsely posing as a representative of the Attorney General of the United States, Robert Kennedy. Des Fitzgerald, this is a quote, Des Fitzgerald, posing as a personal representative of B…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 49:44
Nestor Sanchez spied_on
Rolando Cubela documented
“November 22, 1963, Fitzgerald and case officer Nestor Sanchez again rendezvoused with Kubela in Paris. The CIA men pledged that Shackley's station would deliver Kubela's weapons, including high-powered rifles that they could use to kill Cas…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 50:12
CIA supplied_arms_to
Rolando Cubela documented
“November 22, 1963, Fitzgerald and case officer Nestor Sanchez again rendezvoused with Kubela in Paris. The CIA men pledged that Shackley's station would deliver Kubela's weapons, including high-powered rifles that they could use to kill Cas…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 50:12
Mentions (22)
▶ 44:52
in a Havana nightclub. Two men in the crowd pulled out pistols and shot Colonel Antonio Blanco Rico, the chief of the Cuban military intelligence services, dead. One of the gunmen, Rolando Cubela, C-U-B-E-L-A, was a medical student at the U…
▶ 45:22
And Pubella had not liked what Cuba, he didn't like the fact that Castro had to reach out to the Soviet Union. They always anticipated staying tethered to the United States.…
▶ 45:38
Cuba, a lot of the people that was with Castro, they still envisioned themselves tethered to the United States. So when Castro got cut off by the United States because he wouldn't bend to their will, not because he was communist at that tim…
▶ 46:05
the Cubela guy. So CIA men who knew Cubela's armed exploits targeted him for recruitment under the code name Amlash. Let's see. Helms sent an up-and-coming CIA direct officer, Nestor Sanchez, to Brazil to take over the handling of Cubela be…
▶ 46:36
He continued to have personal access to Castro, though. Sanchez was handling a poison pen to Kubela in a CIA safe house in Paris on November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated. Sanchez, who would go on to hold senior positions in the C…
▶ 47:05
When Jenkins returned from Vietnam to the Cuba program in 64, he was cleared into the AMLASH operation. Sanchez, he explained, was replaced as Cubela's contact by a guy by the name of Artime, A-R-T-I-M-E. He was anti-Castro as well. In the …
▶ 47:47
Graphic Interpretation Center supported Jenkins on the plan to assassinate Castro at the DuPont Beach estate east of Havana. Castro was known to go there, and they had pre-positioned a high-powered rifle that was going to be used in the att…
▶ 9:37
From Miami, Ted Shackley's foreign intelligence chief, Nestor Sanchez, spent a good deal of time traveling Latin America and chatting up Cuban officers in different countries. The Pentagon intelligence provided all of his information. One o…
▶ 10:07
Over the months there, there were repeated indications that he may be a defector. Cubela in Spain, as the Cuban military attache, could travel freely and met with other CIA officers in Helsinki during the Mongoose period. He became a CIA ag…
▶ 10:37
Fitzgerald's ambition to trigger a coup. Returning to Langley, the Cuban chief assigned Sanchez as case officer to A.M. Lash, whom he met in Brazil in September 1963, which is interesting because that's when the CIA was there doing their co…
▶ 11:04
which was music to CIA's ears. But even though they didn't like communism, they were still loyal to Fidel Castro. The Cuban went on to Paris. Although he told the CIA that he wished to get away from politics and wanted nothing more to do wi…
▶ 12:02
He was able to talk to Cabela of cutting ties. Instead, Cabela turned the conversation into getting rid of people. Only in that way could a coup ever succeed. Sanchez later maintained that Fidel himself was not mentioned. But A.M. Lash prov…
▶ 12:25
feared the U.S. would walk away from the plot like they had done with the Brigade 2506. He wanted assurances from a senior U.S. official. A.M. Lash specified Robert Kennedy. He also wanted weapons, high-powered rifles with telescopic sights…
▶ 13:30
Desmond Fitzgerald's interpreter. Fitzgerald's field report and San Halpern agreed that they avoided any mention of the actual operation. Nevertheless, Rolando Cubala demanded equipment support and the CIA provided it. Scientists at Langley…
▶ 13:58
Cabela, again, on November 22nd. Only hours later, JFK was killed. At the moment of Kennedy's murder, Desmond Fitzgerald sat in a Georgetown City Tavern club at lunch with a foreign diplomat who fed the agency gossip. When the Cuban task fo…
▶ 14:27
He knows there's no connection. San Halpern drove Fitzgerald back to Langley afterwards. The chief discussed Kubela at the time. That moment marked the effective end of the CIA's assassination plots, though the Kubela affair dragged on. The…
▶ 14:54
with several sums of money handed over. Manuel R. Time independently contacted Kubela in late 1964 and received CIA money to fund the Kubela plot. In March 1966, Castro's security services arrested A.M. Lash, who was sentenced to 25 years i…
▶ 21:49
Pre-occupied with strikes, raids, and condemnations of those he worked for, Shackley never pauses to explain how his Cuba operations, any more than all of the other failures, could bring down Castro. Official support only encouraged the Cub…
▶ 49:14
And by extension, the Soviet Union, the CIA, was meeting with one of its assets that was still inside of Cuba, Rolando Cubela, whose code name in the CIA is Amlash, A-M-L-A-S-H. Cubela was a hero of the fight against the previous Cuban dict…
▶ 49:44
The effort with Kubela would also involve a CIA asset falsely posing as a representative of the Attorney General of the United States, Robert Kennedy. Des Fitzgerald, this is a quote, Des Fitzgerald, posing as a personal representative of B…
▶ 50:12
November 22, 1963, Fitzgerald and case officer Nestor Sanchez again rendezvoused with Kubela in Paris. The CIA men pledged that Shackley's station would deliver Kubela's weapons, including high-powered rifles that they could use to kill Cas…
▶ 50:42
For Amlash, the two CIA men represented, or excuse me, presented Kubela with a ballpoint pen rigged to contain poison. Surely Kubela protested the agency could come up with something better than that. He refused to take the pen. A CIA inter…