LA.wL,Aiv1L 3CCKS uswalt9 CIA link By CHAUNCEY MABE with Maurice Bishop.; Veciana's , Book Editor • ,• own CIA contact, two months hole- ' ' • , . fore the assassination. South Florida has its own high- ly credentialed assassination ex- He Sylvialiving Odio,in Dallas, another also Cuban claimsio ex- pert, and he says Gerald Posner's have seen Oswald, this time in the Case Closed is "a dishonest book." . company of two anti-Castro Investigative journalist Gaeton From October 10. 1993 Fonzi wrote his first article criti- ban freedom fighters. Fort cal of the Warren Commission in Fonzi believes Bishop was ac- La uderdale Sun Sentinel. tually David Atlee Phillips, a 1965 when he was with Philadel- phia Magazine. Not long after- high-ranking CIA agent who As yet, I hnve not located ward, he moved to South Florida worked in Cuba, Mexico City Cat this "fellow Floridian." where he has been associated as the time Oswald allegedly visited the Soviet embassy there) editor and writer with Miami and :in magazine and Gold Coast Miami — where he was propa- magazine. ganda coordinator for the Bard In the 1970s, Fonzi worked for Pigs invasion. Phillips denied the three years as an investigator for allegation until his death. .." the House Select Committee "I personally think Gerald on Posner is afraid of me because lie Assassinations, specializing In possible Miami connections to thedoesn't says. know"He called what Ime know," two Fonziyears JFK killing. Although the committee went veryago interestingand said rny and information he wanted'io was on record as concluding that Ken- come down to do an interview. He nedy's death was the result of a conspiracy, Fonzi disliked what didn't follow up." he considered its slant toward or- Posner, says Fonzi, takes only ganized crime as the culprit. one side in the case, Ignoring evi- In response, he wrote an dence that undermines the theory 80,000-word article presenting that Oswald acted alone in shoot- his own evidence that first ap- ing Kennedy. peared in The Washingtonian • "He uses FBI reports magazine, and later, in a con- .the Warren Commissiondone that for

densed form, in Gold Coast. were later discredited by the "What I believe is most impor2 blblouse Select Committee," Fonzi tant is the confirmation that Os- wald was seen in the company of Committee'ssays. "And he validation ignores theof SylVia House a CIA agent in Dallas," says Odio as a witness." Fonzi, who lives in northeast •• Fonzi says Posner's other sins Dade County. 2 Antonio Veciana, founder of Al-, include Oswald building as a nut up desperate a portrait to at-of pha 66, the most violent of the "Win a place in history. Yet after anti-Castro Cuban exile groups, claims that'during a trip to Dal-he tently was arrested, denied Oswald shooting consis- the las he saw Lee(Harvey Oswald president. ' !.f - .,;

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