the 1995 conference

Sun 09 Mar 2014, 9:02 am

http://cuban-exile.com/doc_026-050/doc0027-5.html

Reading through this transcript, there are several questions - first of all, is there actual audio recording of this conference, does anyone know? I'm good with audio (and I speak Spanish too), I don't know who transcribed this stuff but there's a lot of information missing in some key places, it would be nice to have the original audio.

I've been specifically checking into a fellow named Manuel Rodriguez who supposedly started a CRC chapter in Dallas in September of '63.

And here's Fabian Escalante talking about him:

I was telling you we have so much information. In 1979 Bercia told to one of our own informants in
Miami that he had been pushed by a select committee that he had given a fake name to the CIA
officer that was in charge of him. He had given the name of Maurice Bishop. But, truly the official that
had to deal with him was David Phillips.

A third information comes from Mr. Manuel Rodriguez. Manuel Rodriguez truly, we didn't know who
he was. We heard about Manuel Rodriguez when we started to do research on Oscar Berot on
account of what information was received from the __________ hotel. Oscar Berot is the second
surname of Manuel Rodriguez

and in our organization the index is always made by the first surname not by the second one. But when
we found out that Oscar Berot was Manuel Rodriguez, then we found another interesting information.
Manuel Rodriguez, Oscar Berot told one of our agents, first of all that he was in Dallas because he
was the officer 66 [Alpha-66] delegate in Dallas. And he was the delegate for office 66 in Dallas and if
anyone came to know that he and Bercian took part in the plot to kill Kennedy. They were going to be
killed. He was already living in Puerto Rico or a little after that he went to live in Puerto Rico. And
another information comes from a very close person of Bercian, I think... some of you have already
interviewed. This person told us that Phillips threatened Bercian in order for him to not reveal his true
identity. I'm not going to reveal his name, but I will only tell you that some of you have had interviews
with this person (don't talk about it) ?__________________ I cannot reveal this on account of an
ethics principle for the same cause, because some of you will not make such revelations.

These are the moments in which we have found in relation to Maurice Bishop and David Phillips of
course there was a very wide investigation made by ________________? where he also had had lots
of trucks and I think there's no doubt about both persons are the same. I'm going to tell you an
anecdote. This thing about using fake names is very complicated. The CIA in Havana has a book of
Cuban officials. And in that book I appear in two different books. I have my own name and I appear
with my fake name and I think that they already know that I am the same person, but when we
discovered that there were two different people. Those things happen.

This is pretty rich stuff, isn't it? Smile