“800,000 Cubans "voted with their feet” and fled their me
;1961: A 1,300-man Cuban Brigade, armed and homeland. Some 600,000 of them settled in the United oth
, trained by the U.S. in Florida, Guatemala and Nica States. They and their children now total 750,000. Most of eas
ra”
“fled their
: 1961: A 1,300-man Cuban Brigade, armed and homeland. Some 600,000 of them settled in the United
trained by the U.S. in Florida, Guatemala and Nica- States. They and their children now total 750,000. Most of
! ragua, landed at the Bay of Pigs on Cuba's south them l”
“in
There
has
Cuba as well as a larger number of sympathizers.
been one abortive invasion attempt.
These efforts have been weakened, however, by rivalries
between the more prominent exiles for leadership of
any for-
mal anti-Castro movement established, and their
failure to
agr”
“"flandly nation." I Oa the other hand, the Department
for a foreign nation—Israel? 1of State has its case. Many officials are
ji only slightly less enthusiastic than Cuban
How many senators and conga salon :. /exiles to see the end of Castro’s Com-
REMINDER : We still
would t”
“number of sympathizers.
been one abortive invasion attempt.
These efforts have been weakene
d,
howev
er, by rivalries
between the more prominent exiles for leadership of
any for-
mal anti-Castro movement established, and their
failure to
agree on any program.
by the fact that m”
“‘tives" based in the United States. - -:
contributed substantially to Israel’s war: today ! Time :s 7 tt. :. As to this latter clai, those who know
best. They are furious when they, as1 .Fidel Castro also know that he needs no
Cuban, 1 y to do the same for the libera- !
: excus”
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"Lconbnued from preceding Dego)
EXILES vs. a former Chilean Ambassador in Washington, DC, on Sep-
tember 21.
CASTRO— • Kidnaping two Cuban officials in Argentina
• Attempting to kidnap a Cuban consul in Mexico
Who are these terrorists? What mot”
“of Cuban refugees busily
training and preparing hopefully for a
return to their native land. Because
they had as yet been unable to find the
leader they wanted — a national leader
to be both anti-Castro and anti-Batista
it was impossible to make specific
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CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL
INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA
"Sector Profesional
(Professional Section)
ENRIQUE HUERTAS
"Corporaciones Economicas
(Economic Branch)
Dr. TULIO DIAZ RIVERA
MANUEL ANTONIO DE VARONA
SERGIO CARBO
RICARDO LORIE
ANTONIO MACEO
It
ANTO”
“Similarly, isn't
sensitivity that you spoke about.## isnAtzreaiiy the Cuban population
sensitized in such fashion as to come up with a comparably provocative and
zud dialogue-ending remark.))
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It seems a little bit less. One of the problems is that of Cubed
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[continued from preceding page)
Su
EXILES vs. a former Chilean Ambassador in Washington, D.C., on Sep-
tember 21.
66
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CASTRO— • Kidnaping two Cuban officials in Argentina.
• Attempting to kidnap a Cuban consul in Mexico.
Who are these terr”
“advised that reaction among the Cuban exiles
is "very bad against the United States". He explained that the
Cuban exiles allege that President KENNEDY has made promises
to help them in their fight against CASTRO but is now opposing
them and consequently they feel that the U. ”
“possible in the i
F • plan to use Cuban exiles in paramilitary war atmosphere in Miami." . 1
am against Castro while U.S. maintained an economic In the early UUtits, the overthrow of Castro scorned to the 1
»' blockade to shake the island’s economy. The attacks Cubans in exile”
“choose between the
Red Cuban market and the Latin American market.
Some examples follow: article by L. Rojas Ospina in "Excelsior", Mexico, Sep. 4,
1965; in Brazil, a speech by Congressman Flaviano Riberiro dated Sep.' 4, 1965, and
an article by Gustavo Corcao published in "D”
“secret “Operation Mongoose”— other places in the United States seems very possible in the •
a plan to use Cuban exiles in paramilitary war atmosphere in Miami." On
against Castro while U.S. maintained an economic In the early 1960s, the overthrow of Castro seemed to the Fif
•
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EDITORIALS: -
Cor-unist Mart Fail In Cuba".- We echo reports by recent refugee arrivals concerning
Gnetro’s purchare of defective farming equipment. There purchases indicate why Castro-
Communism is failing in Cuba thanks to the attitude of crooked merchants that ”
“at this was a means of increasing his
prestige with Americans he became a friend of the US. (4)
1
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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”
“Fear".- At last, the Old Guard has
spoken out through Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, following the devastating "purge" that it
underwent in the hands of Fidel Castro. But fear of a second, bloody phase, of the
purge has kept Carlos Rafael Rodriguez from openly attacking Fidel Castro”
“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-”
“humanitarian reasons, accepted Castro’s parley to evacuate the spirit-•
ually wounded. We also comment on the statement of a Washington official who said that i
"the fear that the U.S. may alter its relations with Cuba is unfounded (and) there is
no prospect for a change in ou”
“vicious anti-Americanism and his of the once defeated but still wickedly
plundering of American properties in ways unrepentant imperialists.
% not even provided by Castro-dictated legiala - This is unfortunate. Although a return to
ton..... the old association between the two ”
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They certainly are quite active. For instance, the Colombian I mentioned-
1 still can’t think of his names— but his daughter was put in an Albanian
school. Poor girl, about eleven years old, and she didn't know word of
Albanian and most of the Albanians didn't know S”
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cld:32423434
C onsideram os que e l a n a lis is de la s in f o r We consider that the analysis of the informa
m aciones que ap o rtam o s, la s p u b licam en te- tions we offer, the publicly known, and the-
onocidas y las que las autoridades nor-- ones that the Ame”
“jail
or in a friendly embassy in Havana but said new leaders have been selected
and will resume sabotage activities shortly. Thought the underground could
restore tension in Cuba in 3-4 months. However, said outside help needed
to get rid of Castro. Claimed that prior to inva”
NOTES from CIA·p. 43·source: semanticDerived signal65%Cuba Cuban Exiles
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"HABLA.... UNIDAD FEVOLUCIONARIA" (W.R.U.L.)
November 1, 19658 "There will be no changer in the Blockade of Rod Cuba",- A comment
on the rumors that U.S. policy on Cuba will "soften". It is indicated that Washing
ton, for humanitarian reasons, accepted Castro’s p”
“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”
“the Castro-
communist regime in Cuba and in the Western Hemisphere and the
rest of the world.
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other hand, availed themselves of their Cuban purpet to present to the delegates a
.. view of the breach of Cuban-Chinese trade relations. The Chinese were made to appear
as the "villain" who wants starve the Cuban people of their rice rations.
JANUARY 8. 196”
“exiles, and all the
proposed aid and backing has progressed, no further than the
talking stage. SIERRA said it seems to him that everyone
is waiting for the United States Government to give the
"green light".
pop On September 12, 1963, MM T-3 advised that nearly
all top-politic”
“"purging" the Party.
MeNiSinet
- Decombor 31, 1965:
: NEWS:
1) Cuba Refused Credit By Mon-Communint Countries.
2) Cuban Refugee Peasant Charges That Rede Forced Him Out Of The Country To Seize
His Little Form. ‘ -
Editorials:.
"Cuban Women Forced to Hard Labor In Farms".”
“Fidel, de conseguir en America varios "Viet-Nam",quiera no
quiera Rusia.
Creo que la separation de Raul Castro y Vilma Espin de los cuadros
claves del comunismo cubano,puede traer echo consecuencia una revuelta
interna por pugna entre factores comristas cubanos,y tenemos que ”
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United States - - I have had a lot of arguments with them about it.
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CASTRO IN USSR. LEFT TO RIGHT, LEONOV, N, USSR; KHRUSHCHEV, N., USSR; CASTRO, F.,
CUBA; BREZHNE”
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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”
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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”
“be ready and anxious to work
with the Cuban people in pursuit of those progressive goals which, a few‘
short years ago,' stirred their hopes and the sympathy of many people
throughout the entire hemisphere.
"No Cuban need feel trapped between dependence on the broken prom
i”
“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”
“and executed in Cuba. The process that started at Punta del Este must be brought
to a successful end: the re-establishment of democracy in Cuba so that the Pearl of the
Antilles may rejoin the Inter-American system."
rxe******v**A
November 13. 1965: This program was entirely”
“the situation on the island and treat with Castro as if they
believed that all hope of liberation had expired. Can you tell
us something about the internal struggle against connuniso?
2A. — To think that all hope of liberation has expired in Cuba
,i
is to show a complete lac”
“- 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-”
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4o Cuba is an unwilling instrument of Soviet policy, subject to
the whims and moods of a foreign power.
3. Moscow will use Cuba as it sees fit and for its own purposes,
giving help and withdrawing it to suit' the Kremlin’s desires.
4. Castro has isolated his ”
“skilled in reading the new socialist 325 pages 6 x 9°
rhetoric, Professor Halperin guides the reader LATIN AMERICAN stubus/OUTCAL SCUNCE/HISTORY'
World ” £4.95 $10.95
through the maze of documents, speeches,
and propaganda which constitute the record
‘of the Castro regime du”
“Castro regime and the
Ecasino gambling flourished in expectation, never realized, of "
tthe country under the direc- , massive rebellion at the time
sllon and control of the U.S. "of a strike.,
i. €. organized crime underworld.. *-
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routed the m”
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CASTRO TRIP MOSCOW: TRIP MADE PRIMARILY TO GAIN USSR
ECONOMIC AID, SECONDARILY TO SHOW PSP "OLD GUARD" THEY NO LONGER
NECESSARY IN CA”
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SAUL LANDAU is editor and publisher of Studies on
the Left (See Appendix Page).
(SP T-16, 1962)
JOSEPH P. MORRAY described himself as a former
officer in Naval Intelligence, a lawyer and a former professor
in Havana. He said that when the revolution in”
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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”
“campaign, the studied:
broaldlown of the cconozy and confiscation of property, the initiation of
relations and trade with the Soviet inion, the forbidding of anti-communist
activity and the brcalzdown and reconstitution of the Arced Services and
police are all typical communi”
“which attempted to replace Spain and occupy the land of Cuba. He said a new stage
began in 1959 after the overthrow of the Batista dictatorial regime which was abetted
by the United States.j
The ambassador pointed cat that the U.S. imperialist government has continued carryin”
“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 ”