Of course, the main argument is always "there is no evidence". Don't you folks have the imagination to wonder... Why?
Why exactly are the limo blueprints hidden and nobody, I repeat nobody knows their whereabouts?
Back to Veciana: Maurice Bishop (aka Not-So-Secret Santa) was able to supply him with any resource he desired (much like ABC, PBS, Kochs, Haags, Sturdivan, etc.) during a decade. If Antonio had said:
[Veciana:] "An aircraft carrier".
[Bishop:] "Which class? Don't you rather have two?"
(I am, of course, exaggerating for effect)
How about the meeting in Caracas where a TV station (I happen to know the owners of Venevision, the Cisneros, fierce anticommunists) provided the cameras to hide the weapons and kill Fidel in Santiago de Chile during Allende's inauguration? The Cisneros are Cubans closely affiliated with powerful people. So the CIA knew nothing? Boy, what a bunch of incompetent keystone kops!
Even if it was not the CIA (let's say that some other rich/powerful source was Veciana's benefactor). Can you look us in the eye and claim that the CIA was completely ignorant about such well provisioned man and movement (Alpha 66)? In the most closely watched corridor (Miami - Habana) in the planet?
https://goo.gl/D4AFbE [Click in HSCA.mp4, then fast forward to minute 1:00"]
In the videoclip above you can see John McCone, head of the CIA acknowledged before Congress having an agent using the cover name "Maurice Bishop", but then recanted. That detail was kept secret for a long time (thanks again, Oliver Stone!). Hardway and Lopez were furious. Even G. Robert Blakey has changed his tune today, veering his accusing finger from the mob to the CIA.
"The job of a spy is to lie, and then lie some some more"
-Ramon
JFK Numbers
ps: Tracy: I posted something specially for you, Chez McAdams, in the thread where you kiss his ring.
Veciana says in his book that Bishop provided no funds/money at all to his group. Evidence (in the book and elsewhere) indicates that he, Veciana, had enormous problems funding operations for it. In fact, Alpha 66 splintered into several factions early on due to internal divisions and financial problems.
Many of the exiles, especially the wealthier ones, refused to give money to Alpha 66 because they viewed it as a leftist/socialist organization. This was because the military leader of the group - Eloy Menoyo - joined Castro's government briefly after the revolution. They didn't trust him.
So your claim that Alpha 66 got whatever they want from Bishop is belied by Veciana's own account that he, Bishop, never provided money for their operations.
It is apparently true - based on Veciana's account - that when his group needed munitions or arms that they were always supplied with them. So if he's being truthful - doubtful in my opinion - then someone or some group was providing those resources to his group.
Just to add: Alpha 66 operated from overseas; their home base during this period was in Puerto Rico and the British Isles. Not Miami.
As to McCone: Nowhere in his testimony did McCone "acknowledge[] before Congress having an agent using the cover name "Maurice Bishop". McCone testified that he remembers hearing about a CIA employee named Maurice Bishop. Nothing about an "agent using the cover name."
Here is his relevant testimony:
Nothing here about Bishop being a cover name. In fact, he says here that it was the name of an employee and not a pseudonym.
Source:
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1212#relPageId=54&tab=page