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Veciana and the Kennedy Connection
On the timeline · around publicized from 1976 ·
What happened
Antonio Veciana later made an explosive claim: that in 1963 he saw his CIA handler 'Maurice Bishop' meeting with Lee Harvey Oswald, months before Oswald allegedly shot President Kennedy. Investigators came to identify 'Bishop' as the veteran CIA officer David Atlee Phillips, who denied it.
Why it matters
The claim ties the Castro plots to the enduring mysteries of the Kennedy assassination — and to suspicions that the secret war on Cuba somehow rebounded on Dallas.
How we know
The account rests on Veciana's own testimony, which he maintained for decades but which Phillips and others disputed.