CASTRO ACCUSES U.S. OF HOUNDING VESCO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000403640055-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2012
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: August 5, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

1 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/28 :CIA-RDP90-009658000403640055-8
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
5 August 1985
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CCas~ro A,~cuseS U.S. of Houndin Vesco
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By WIIZ.IA,[ x. Lo~~,`~ W,~
HAVANA-A ism C~mu_
news team of tiny with
ni.t a Mtltive capiWist? the Clw and with .loin
lino Cubban
It mi`ht seem p~ bnt there was ~, ar ae0.
Pi+esident Flil1 Castro teWng a
Vesoo v. care a '
pr's ~m+e~e 3~mdgy that fugi-
tlm early 18'JiOs? when the Seciai-
ti~e ' Robert Vesoo is bring
leged in a C~neisvon al-
bY'~he United Staten "as
ii hltwae~ea basst."
stole >~ miWOn from ultWl fund
Castro's remaNra about Vesoo
invetora. He has reportedly lived
in Cuba dnoe 1882.
owy life and ~ ~ th~t?m
mutual fund operator. who is `~ Newer a de'
charged with of sMiildling roves- Last Febivary. Castro said that
tan out d htmdi+ede at millions apt he did not know whether Veaoo
dollars. But the Cubm leader did was in Cuba, adding, "but he miry
acknowledge that Veroo probabler be, or he may pass through here
has bees living in Cuba, He also -sometime." In Sunday's press con-
densed recent reports that Vasco fereilce~ he went further.
was under house arrest. "The iMt time he came hen. he
The U.S. Department o[ Justice didn't have anywhere to go. be-
aaid Frids~y that Vesoo wan under cause he was being persecuted life
arrest is his Ravana home, con- a beast,.. Castro acid. "He nme
fiNi'mitlg a tdevidon repoet by NBC hen to ask fa medical care, and it
wan then that he wan authorised to
The Cuban leader was naked to receive this medical asdfRance.
comment on a And if he wants to live, let him live
~~_~ urLy a ranee here.
?awo~ we
a -~ei'e on WW give him the medigil services.
e a a ore n e t. We don't care about what he did in
~d the ev siorl netw~ork~'a anted in the~moneyathat ohs has,
~_ ~
whether it was 6100 ar :600 bil-
liml-wedon't care...
Castro said Friday's television
report Oil Veeco was aimed at
dive~ng attention from the 8a-
vana fae~eign debt ooMamce, He
said the TV crew hid among bushes
nest a home where Vesoo is acid to
live.
"It is probable that he fs living
there; I don't. know," Castro said, "I
don't know him; I don't know
where the person lives.
'Hew Dti Tied taew That'!'
"Now then. how did they ktbw
that? It was undoubtedly because
of the in ti~nuy. t~orfa.
to of the Central In
nc .
continued:
"N thew have come ua w[th a
trao,_an int~elli~[enoe opera-~
gather wit a ey ated
Cuban laws to a some
wrap t
.lll~.
"Ia it fair to harass a human
bei like that? And the boast so
mu l a out lumen ts. re
a man
war as he wen a beu4
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