“SSING INTEL DEBRIEFING. SECRET NW 65990 Docld:32373793 Page 4 CLASSIFIED MESSAGE 7. IN 30453 PAGE 24 SECRET 5. INTEL DEBRIEFING HIGHLIGHTS FOLL: A CASTRO TRIP MOSCOW: TRIP MADE PRIMARILY TO GAIN USSR ECONOMIC AID, SECONDARILY TO SHOW PSP "OLD GUARD" THEY NO LONGER NECESSARY IN CA”
“ct on Cuba, undermining the power and prestige of the hierarchy of the Castro regime. CONSIDERATIONS Brazil and Mexico are the Castro regime's prestige neighbors. Brazil is nominated due to its own past history of a Communist attempt at armed over - throw of the people's governme”
“14-00000 - 0 - NII AGGRESSION l-The Cubans consider as a Y ngezt er- p. + "t, -F*4-- Cube, by the United States, the mencure taken by the Int.r-Amteloin Defense Board preventing the Cuban delegate on the board to visit 1.3. brscs. (ciudid TEuditto, Radio Caribe, Oct. 13, ”
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“against the dissemination ■ of this propaganda. But it is doubtful that today Castro can do much more and that he constitutes a real menace to the .security of other countries, if only because he lacks the •. necessary funds. I tend to share the opinion of the Ambassador -to”
“1 4-00000 "HORIA.,,, UNIDAD nVrUGrONA"IAM (W.P.U.L.) November 18. 1965: "What Can Castro Cet From The Russians?”.- An analysis of Fi del’s new stand, whereby he abandons neutrality between the USSR and Red China, Manatrat* 5.A4 wr-viurryektiricng2 In return for his "pled”
“.fact, that Juliao’s Peasant Leagues have received not only money but also shipments of small arms from Cuba. These Brazilian Communist leaders also said that the reason Juliao sent his family to Cuba was his fear that they might be endangered in the civil war he expects to er”
“004 lo 7 2_______ _ TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAM CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY This material contain information effecting the National Defense: off the United Statu, within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the - transmission .or \r”
“14-00000 File Ntnited States Senate A-1 eDMMrrrca ON fummo June 9, 1964 Mr. Manuel Artime Buesa Moviniento de Recuperacion Revolucionaria 2212 Northeast 2nd Court Mlamt 37, Florida Dear Mr. Artime: This is to acknowledge and to thank you for your thoughtfulness in w”
“in Panama last January failed to upset constitutional processes there. The April re volt in which President Goulart of Brazil was over- thrown was also a severe defeat for Havana. These reverses may have produced a feeling in Havana that a breathing spell is necessary. In a”
“14-00000 1 TDCS PAGE OF - PAGES (classification) (dissevn controls) CUBAN OFFICIAL, AND BETWEEN THAT OFFICIAL AND THE SOURCE, ARE SUCH AS TO PERMIT THE BELIEF THAT HE WAS SPEAKING FRANKLY.) 2. ACCORDING TO JOAQUIN ALVAREZ REMENTOL, CUBAN VICE- MINISTER OF FOREIGN TRA”
“14-00000 — #72 0908 3007 LUITIONSES 1 TV TDCS PAGE OF ? PAGES - felassifratinal. fdissemn controls) NOT HAVE FAR-REACHING RPERCUSSIONS ON THE POLITICAL RELATIONS e? BETWEEN CUBA AND THE USSR, AS NUMEROUS DIFFERENCES OF VIEWS HAVE EXISTED FOR SOME TIME AND ARE WEL”
“TIME-PICAYUNE, New Orleans, Monday, 9 September 1963, page 7, Columns 5 -7 "Castro Blasts Raids on Cuba. Says U.S. Leaders Imperiled by Aid to Rebels." This item was introduced by an editor's note referring to the fact that Castro had turned up at a Brazilian .Embassy rec”
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“Torrado, Frosident, Ernesto ("Che") Cuovara Sarna, Minister of Industries, Raul Ron Garcia, Minister of Foreign Relations, Francisco Wilfredo Blas Rlooa Calderio, Secretary- general of the Partido Socialists Popular (PSP - Cuban Communist Farty), Regino loti Leon, Minister ”
“essistance within ita means to Latin American insurgents. The attention given in the Cuban press to developments in Venezuela in recent weeks strongly suggests a more than academic interest in developments there. Canadian Ambassador Kidd, speculating on the “Trotaky-like dedic”
“THERE MAY EVEN BE A FEW IMPROVEMENTS. THE SOVIETS WILL CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN ES SENTIAL ECONOMIC AID TO CUBA. THE RECENT PURGE AND ARRESTS SHOULD SECRET " 9”
“at this was a means of increasing his prestige with Americans he became a friend of the US. (4) 1 J. Penetration of the Anti-Castro Movement Castro has bragged that his capture in Cuba last August of an arms-laden plane containing a group of anti-Castro militants was due to his h”
“1 4-00000 «ft “the. Aus Stilus hl ■ear ‘vie . a te a eni 9 B1 5. I"nA: 9 4. X , ‘ iy z 1 le 3657 ° •* €0 4 24 >09 29 20os CUBA-USSR APRIL 28, 1963 CASTRO IN USSR. LEFT TO RIGHT, LEONOV, N, USSR; KHRUSHCHEV, N., USSR; CASTRO, F., CUBA; BREZHNE”
“hoodlia*e-cevudaabemmrw f ^ } ^ re st * * * * * 0*5i / k. other considerations which should be kept in mind, -1.e., that hit-and-run raids provide a pretext for Castro to turn the screws of repression Harder. on the Cuban people and to place the blame for his own failure on e”
“etreles unteh rooter a recenogitatien with Prime Kintater Pidel Castro’s regime. PACIO CUBAN-COSTA RICAN RAPPROCHEMENT Panama City ACAN in Spanish 0036 CNT Mar 76 PA (Text] San Jose, Conta Rica, 22 -(ACAN-EFE)..Con ta Rican Foreign Minister Consalo J. Facto this afternoon r”
“datelined Hava Sept 63. At reception at Brazilian Emb Fidel CASTRO is Quoted: We are prepared to fi ght them and answer in kind. United States leaders should think (reflect?) that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate the Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.”
“- Ku estava mais interessado uzopinilo publica do site no dinhicir. E . - nio estava.de acordo coin que se corfunlisse a finajilide da viagem (4) - tielos E-tados Unidos, mas nio e issoo que tem dito as propagandistas 0 antigo niinistro da Fazenda culinno Rufo Loiez Freqjuctde-”
“sounded the keynotes for Cuban subversion on July 26, 1960, when he said, "We promise to continue making Cuba the example that can convert the Cordillera of the Andes into the Sierra Maestra of the American continent." In his speech on 15 January 1963 Castro said that if "So”
“-2- CEDB-3/660,494 Communist and traitor, Artime mentioned that he resigned because Castro had not been honest with the businessmen by not telling them their property would be conf iscated. 3. The following excerpts from Artime’s book Traicion clearly outline Art ime‘s ideo”
“14-00000 S_CAal RY2AT TELEPOUCH- IHIEN06 WOULD LIKE 1) SEE SIN ACO-THEY WOULD WELCORE HI, THAT HE HAD LEFT CUBA TOO SOON are THAT HE WOULD 55 rg OF HIS COUNTRYMEN IF ME WoUL: RETURN AN D HE PROCESS MADE. A-5 THEN SAID THAT ACCORDING TO INFORMATION AVAICAOLE To HIM THE ECO”
“OSURE THE REAL REASON BEHIND inis S/BELIEVED TO BE GUEVARA'S PARTICIPATINA PLOT OVERTHROW CASTRO. 3. FIELD COMMENT: BECAUSE OF THE CLOSE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SOURCE OF THE INFORMATION IN PARAGRAPH 1 AND THE SOURCE OF THE INFORMATION IN PARAS 2 AND 4, THIS INFORMATION”
“Cuban'-American relations, though there have been continued charges abut Venezuela, and it is certainly true thaxa that the Cubans were encouraging the Venezuelan FALN. They certainly gave financial support not so much in the way of arms, I think, but money the army that’ssu”
“lutions.' What happens then? The trusts see that their € of installing the missiles. The convoy arrived by sea in interests are being a little compromised (just barely, .three weeks. The United States was able to find out . but still compromised); the Pentagon thinks the strat”
“FACT THAT MEXICO IS ONLY LA COUNTRY MAINTAINING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH CUBA AND % IS SERVING CASTRO WELL AS OPEN DOOR TO ENABLE CASTRO TO CHANNEL A REVOLUTION TO OTHER CENTRAL AND LAT IN AMERICAN COUNT IRES DOES NOT tl 2”
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“SECnE 10 stantly harassed and persecuted. Why aren‘ t we helping these %3 people? PI I1 Answer: There are many, madam, who are now helping. This: week we have sent some aid and arms inside, perhaps not as much as 4 1 we would like but went some. We also have to send not ”
“1 4-00000 -3- / January 17, 1966s NEWSCAST: 1) MEXICAN MEETS CUBAN CCM/UNISM, RETURNS HOME DISAPPOINTED. * 9 5 * * 0 mzsrgMMSN *, 1 2) CUBANS SNEAK OUT OF ISLAND, COAST GUARD PICKS THEM UP IN CAT SAL. EDITORIALS: "A summary of Castro's speech at the Tricontinental".- C”
“are of AP story datelined H ava Sept 63. At reception at Bra zilian Emb Fidel CASTRO is Q uoted: W e are prepared to fight them and answer in kind. United States leaders should think (reflect?) that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate the Cuban leaders, they themselve”
“NOT ARRY REVOLUTION TO OTHER COUNTRIES. SOVIETS INCLINED LEND AID NW 65924 Docld:32354288 Page 3 ت د PAGE TO ESTABLISHED REVOLUTIONS AS CASE CUBA, BUT NOT INTERVENE BEFORE PROOF WAS CASTRO REVOLUTION MADE WITH NORTHAMERICAN ARMS. CK APPEARED DISTURBED DISCUSSING SOVIET CHICOM PRO”
“given an opportunity to present the Cuban tragedy. He ssie that he (Firo) had told how Fidel had shot 31 people in September alone, and other details; had described how Ccemuniar: was gaining ground day by day; that in Cuba they have installed n powerful radio station broadca”
“that the U.S.S.R. has only been able to supply him ■ with weapons, bullets and cannons. We state the reasons why the U.S.S.R. will not be able to invest more in Cuba, and that, at the same time, the nations of this Hemisp- here will continue their economic boycott of Castro's ”
“1 4-00000 os "HAP. UCIDAD PEVELUGICIPIA" (V.R.U.L.) November 19, 17^ "Hou the Anti-Communict Fight. Goes".- A summary is made of the anti 3 Communist struggle in Asia, which is rynthetized in the Indonesian events. There, anti ,* I .4 Communism is gaining force day”
“frequently as the likely priority targets. There are also conflicting reports on the relative independence of Castro from the Soviet Union and indications that the publicized Sino Soviet disagreements are reflected in local Communist organisations throughout Latin America. m”
““Terei algumas duvidas a resprito de Marxismo c entente que algimias : __Ioo for reconliccudo jicky propria Fidel Castro. (7) gge interpretacocs foram equivocadas, e sera preciso-reve-lav? Nadtenho ■ TOC inmisjno collica a unilade de inn set ir e a guerra de classe. a menor duv”
“1 4-00000 "HABLA... UNIDAD REVOLUCIONARIA" (V.R.U.L.) October 29, 1965: "Russia Rebuffs Castro".- A comment on the news that Cuba and the USSR have signed an agreement to send 7 engineers and 50 technicians to the Caribbean Island. It is pointed out that, substantial ly, s”
“could be expanded to include a discussion of differences between Cuba and the United States. Those in attendance agreed that such a discussion would be timely, inasmuch as it appears that Fidel Castro is not completely satisfied with Cuba’s relations with the Soviet Union. (”
“SECRET EXCERPT FROM DRAFT NIE 85-63, 4 FEBRUARY 1963 33. There have been indications of disapproval of Castro-s policies on the part of those Latin American Communist parties which are committed to a more gradual and less violent approach to revolution. Castro has shown him”
“14-00000 -4- JANUARY 10. 1966: NEWSCAST! 1) RED CUBAN EMBASSY IN MEXICAN CAPITAL BOMBED. 2) THREE MORE CU-AN SEAMEN DEFECT SPAIN. EDITORIALS: "Sino-Soviet Differences Over N. Viet Nam".- Sino-Soviet differences over North Viet Nam have become evident lately. Nowadays, R”
“Castro, os culianos so puderam. c ft trozido femee opresido responder que nio necessitavam de ajuda e que nio tinham nenhum pedido a fazer. Pazos passou pela mesma experiencia no Funds Mo- Mg „ 00 povo cubonoo que, netario Internacional. O terceiro perito cubano. Dr. Ernesto B”
“1 4-00000 1■ 1 Vt:2/ Dr. MIRO said there was no way to determine the accuracy of the figures given of planes, guns, etc. received from the Soviet bloc (and Italy and Canada) but even if the figures were exaggerated 100 por cent, they would still be impressive. He adde”
“Sovletica, da Republica Popular da China e oficiais de que os Estados Unidos eram favoraveis a pirestar ajuda ao ■ los trises socialistas" nosso pais. Tambem por esta razio, durante nossa permanencia em Washington, quando troquei pontos de vista com o Suhsecretario de Estado ”
“sfirmeren los vaci- lanteo que, legicamente, quieren lo n eguro. Solo a las Embajadas acredi tadas en La Habaca se permitira importer lo que necesitar para 82 subsistorcia, previo registro er 10g E. U., y gecer a eus connacionales por la misma via, para registrarles minucio-”
“prepared to back insurrections provoked, by communist novenents--are very much taken into account by Costa Ric and are considered to be enough reason for cooling the possibility of a renewal of relations with Havana. i Facio also said that he did not share the opinion of the N”
“uncoordinated, continues. Spontaneous . : / - ■ acts of sabotage are common throughout the island. At great . - risk refugees still elude his security forces and sca patrols . ; to escape from Cuba. In this atmosphere, externally counted ■ raids against Cuban targets have add”