“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 ”
“LATERALLY. THIS CABLE CAME AS BLOW TO AMBASSADOR SINCE HE READS INTO IT IDEA THAT CUBA DOES NOT WANT CLOSE ACCR EMBASSY 3. NO ONE IN ACCR EMBASSY KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO CHE GUEVARA. SECRET”
“bearded prime minister — who L ca / pui and understands English well — turn- jot DIDN’T HELP: Castro admitted he had heard d around flamboyantly and; raising his % of the assassination threat but gave vague rea vat called to me in a friendly way: Lz1 sons for not reporting it ”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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 ”
“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”
“LArc NET., 'iru15 L Dc : educate our young companeros. This doesn’t mean we which diplomatic relations with the United States do not feel solidarity toward nations that arc struggling would pose! The Swiss Ambassador representing the' and suffering, like the Venezuelan people”
“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”
“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”
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“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-”
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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”
“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.”
“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”
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“The only things that filled many otherwise empty woi May for permission to go to Cuba : /. 82 5680 7 $ City, from Prague, Czechoslovakia, windows were pictures and photographs of Fidel to interview the island’s prime 6 dnior from Madrid, Spain. So I flew to Castro and propagand”
“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, ”
“Washington has yet to come coups called to his office, the repre- : ‘policy policy toward Cuba wa was pro ated up with a viable policy toward Fidel ntative stressed that "the spirit as s and signed by President Kenne and signed " v on Cet. I Castro to put a stop to his subverti”
“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”
“4-00000 CONTINUATION of DISPATCH OSNA 26195 SECHKT was not brought out. It seemed to sO that subject Is riding an emotional high for Cuba and Castro. His face lit up and he bocamo relatively excited when telling us how Castro mixes and talks with the "common people," and”
“: REPROD UCTION PROHIBITED.S. "Havana (AP) Pri me Minister Fidel Castro sa id Saturday night:5 0. s. leaders would be in danger if they helped in any attempt to do away with leaders of Cuba.' NW 65924 Docld:32353327 Page 3 2 SECRET C002666 62 PAGE COPY NO. 186 of SECRET "Bitterly”
“. FYI: Presume Hqs is aware of AP story dateli ned Hava Sep t 63. At reception at B razilian Emb Fid el CASTRO is Quoted: We ar e prepared to fight them and answer in kind. U nited States leaders s hould think ( reflect?) tha t if they are aid ing ter rorist plans to eliminate th”
“Cuba would have It's just beginning. : to await further discussions with them dence, as I said in an interview with the Canadian news media in the sound So throughout the areas of high dis ’indirectly, and. also some tangible evi judgment of the Canadian people. pute, includ”
“ders Imper il ed by Aid to Rebels." The story fol lowed u nder the HA RKER by-line: REPR ODU CTION P ROHIBITED.S. "Havana (AP) Prime Minister Fidel Castro sa id Saturday night:50.s. leaders would be in danger if they he lped in any attempt to do away with leaders of Cuba.' NW 659”
“from Cuba. Cordoso said: "I am glad you had the chance meeting the Prime Minister. You were very ■ fortunate." 3of American President Kennedy. I agreed and asked when my longer interview Could you tell me if there is any truth at all “I thought the’ visits might be something”
“AND THE LAWYERS. 5. REGARDING FIDEL CASTRO, RICO CALAN SAYS THAT No ONE KNOWS WHETHER CASTRO IS A COMMUNIST OR WHAT KIND OF COMMUNIST IS MIGHT BE. IE IS A GRAr REVOLUTIONARY LEADER AND A GREAT TACTICIAN, BUT KE cANOT PLAY T ROLE OF LIBERATOR OF LATIN - AMERICA FOR RE IS TOO D”
“" HA RKER by-line: The story followed under th e "Havana (AP) Prime Minister - Fid el Cast ro said S aturday night: 'U.S. leaders would be in danger if they helped in any attempt to do away with leaders of Cuba.' NW 65990 Docld:32397036 Page 5 2 SECRET "Bitterly denouncing what h”
“14-00000 assigned at that time to rebellion in the local forces. 1 Remember that before the Drigedc camps were set up there were infiltration camps provided especially to assist this internal rebellion. « Q. - Some international circles claim that Russia is abandon 9 ing”
“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”
“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 ”
“ats discus very recent vi Indicated luat he would to willing ling to ở discuss with Latin concerning American diplomats, many of whom he has been associated with over a period of years, material provided by the activities of the Cuban Intelligence Service (CULS) which present a t”
“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”
“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”
“judgment of the Canadian people. pute, including South Africa and others I ence on our part that they are willing I’m familiar—and even more familiar that I don’t have time to mention we’re > restore basic human rights in Cuba, ' today than I was two days ago after probing as b”
“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”
“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”
“views on the slaying of the.| i U.S. President.I Mt exactly how it was reported to me — = E bu ‘Maybe I’ll try to do it.’ thr g To shed more light on the most | “This was less than 2 months before the I dramatic event of , the 20th | thi U.S. President was assassinated. | ”
“- 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-”
“solution. -Speaking for Chile, Ambassador Schweitzer endorsed the ssority measures c? the regional system and expressed support for the U.S. draft resolution. He welcomed the authorization that the U.S. draft resolution gave to the Secretary-Coneral to dispatch a observer cor”
“Nations, told his superiors he had that normal relations could be restored proved guilty. It is hoped that tlie inves- word that Castro wanted an accommoda- “on the basis of mutual respect for sover- tigations to come will proceed on the tion. John Kennedy got the message and e”
“eriled by Aid to Rebels." HARKER by-line: The story followed under the "Havana (AP) Prime Minister - Fidel Castro said Saturday night: 'U.S. leaders would be in danger if they helped in any attempt to do away with leaders of Cuba.' NW 65990 Docld:32397036 Page 5 2 SECRET "Bitterl”
“Picayune, on Monday, 9 September-page-7, under a three-column head- line: "CASTRO Blasts R ai ds o n Cuba. Says U.S. Leaders Imperiled by Aid to Rebels." The story followed under the HARKER by-line: "Havana (AP) Prime Minister Fidel Castro said Saturday night: 'U.S. leaders would”
“.haj,- -1 ). - Th 5 n t. ‘ % SECRET 050 with the Vatican, to the point where it had an Ambassador..-to the Vatican and had celebrated some months ago some distinction." accorded, by the Pope to the Papal Nuncio in Havana by lighting up the churches at government expe”
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“jaunant on La Rampa, and was there © ares the evening of July 15 when there • 0 0% D r00bHWG •Hsudden sound of cheers in the street. ‘v.-v people hurried from the restaurant, and I in the generalofdirection —here were shouts ..uro had. indeed, of the crowd. "Fidel! Fidel!”
“to TELEGRAM soger RMATION REPORT TELEGRAMi ■ . CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ‘ This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C Secs 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of wh”
“14-00000 SECRET -3- The consul has no” told m3 that Duvalier wishes to speak with me. I told him that I would be glad to speak with him when he wished and when the interview would be kept secret. X think that this interview could be useful, for I have 9 found that the Ha”