Rolando Cubela person
also: Amlash, A.M. Lash, Cabela, Cubela, Cubelo, Kubela, Major Rolando Cubela Siquez, Pubella, Rolando Cubela
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Claims (34)
Jennifer Fitzgerald met_with
Rolando Cubela documented
document
“Did you know that Mr Fitzgerald met with AMLASH in late October of 1963…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.81
Rolando Cubela proposed
Fidel Castro reported
document
“I believe this was related to the assassination an assassination plot against Castro…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.81
CIA dissolved
Rolando Cubela documented
document
“The CIA reaction to the information was to terminate the entire AMLASH operation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.84
Rolando Cubela met_with
CIA documented
document
“a person who knew about the meetings between AMLASH and the CIA case officers in the fall of 1963…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.85
CIA terminated
Rolando Cubela documented
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“indicating that the CIA terminated all contact with him…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.85
CIA supplied_arms_to
Rolando Cubela documented
document
“CIA Headquarters cables its Miami Station ordering a halt to an operation to supply weapons to AMLASH…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.110
FBI spied_on
Rolando Cubela documented
document
“The FBI learns some details of the CIA's AMLASH operation from one of the FBI's informants…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.111
Rolando Cubela targeted_for_regime_change
Fidel Castro documented
document
“AMLASH becomes more insistent that the assassination of Cuban leadership is a necessity…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.111
Special Group of the National Security Council proposed
Rolando Cubela documented
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“Following a June 1963 decision by a "Special Group of the National Security Council to increase covert operations against Cuba the CIA renewed contact with a high-level Cuban government official code-named AMLASH…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.9
Rolando Cubela proposed
Fidel Castro documented
document
“AMLASH proposed Castro's overthrow through an "inside job, with U.S support…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.9
Desmond Fitzgerald met_with
Rolando Cubela documented
document
“the head of SAS Desmond Fitzgerald met AMLASH on October 29 1963…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.9
United States funded
Rolando Cubela documented
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“Within weeks of this meeting the CIA escalated the level of its covert operations informing AMLASH the United States supported his coup…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.9
CIA supplied_arms_to
Rolando Cubela documented
document
“a CIA Case Officer told AMLASH he would be provided rifles with telescopic sights and explosives with which to carry out his plan…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.10
Rolando Cubela ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
document
“the CIA had endorsed AMLASH's proposal for a coup the first step to him being Castro's assassination…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.11
CIA funded
Rolando Cubela documented
document
“the CIA had endorsed AMLASH's proposal for a coup…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.11
Rolando Cubela met_with
AMWHIP documented
document
“Fitzgerald's recollection of this meeting is supported by a CIA memorandum of a conversation with AMWHIP a Cuban exile who had talked to AMLASH after this October 29 meeting…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.24
Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on
Rolando Cubela documented
document
“the FBI on October10 1963 received a report from an informant that a certain Cuban officialwas meetingwith the CIA The Cubanofficialidentifiedbyhis true namein that report is in fact AMLASH…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.23
Rolando Cubela lived_in
Cuba documented
document
“On November 19 AMLASH told a CIA officer that he planned to return to Cuba immediately.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.25
JMWAVE supplied_arms_to
Rolando Cubela documented
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“The documentary record reveals however that the JMWAVE station was tasked to supply the explosives rifles and telescopic sights to AMLASH…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.26
Rolando Cubela worked_for
CIA documented
document
“The fact that the CIA was involved with AMLASH would normally have been kept from the CI counterintelligence investigators…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.32
Rolando Cubela met_with
Jennifer Fitzgerald reported
document
“Well in this case I'm sure he would have gone and talked to Mr Fitzgerald about it…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.32
CIA funded
Rolando Cubela documented
document
“details of CIA plots with AMLASH to assassinate Castro would not have been routinely provided…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.33
Rolando Cubela ordered_assassination_of
Fulgencio Batista documented
document
“details of CIA plots with AMLASH to assassinate Castro…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.33
Jennifer Fitzgerald covered_up
Rolando Cubela documented
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“The Case Officer testified the contact report does not discuss the poison pen because Fitzgerald ordered him to omit that matter.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.33
CIA met_with
Rolando Cubela documented
document
“That report contained information which indicates that the FBI informant knew the date and location of one of the meeting s.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.80
Rolando Cubela member_of
CIA book_quoted
“But even as Kennedy was trying to promote peace with Cuba, 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. Cube…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilght of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 47:22
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
CIA supplied_arms_to
Rolando Cubela book_quoted
“He promised Kubela that the U.S. would support a rebellion against Castro. On November 22, 1963, Fitzgerald and case officer Nestor Sanchez again rendezvoused with Kubela in Paris. The CIA men pledged that Shackley Station would deliver Kub…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilght of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 48:18
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
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…