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# THE HEMISPHERE Artime-201CUBA"Something Is Moving""This is Radio Free Cuba the anti-Commurist voice of Cubs broadcasting on the 40-meter hand. Wowder milino-maan, rebel soldier, radio ham-strip topple the despot! Close ranks so that the fatherland, today blinded by Russian imperialism, becomes the numb of Communism in America. This is Radio Free Cuba transmitting from a point in Cahan territory."In Cuban exile communities from Miami to Caracas, the word was out: "Algo se mueve"-Something is moving. First came the faint, crackling anti-Castro broadcast last week frons Inside Cuba. Then 24 hours later came word of the biggest raid in months on Castro's fortress. The raiders identified themselves as members of the Move-ment for Revolutionary Recuperation, led by Manuel Artime, who headed the abortive Bay of Pigs landing.At 10:30 p.m., said an M.R.R. spokesman in Miami, Artime and a "strong force of commandos" had gone ashore at Puerto Pilón, 145 miles from Guantánamo on Cuba's southern coast. Linking up with a second force of guerrillas from the nearby Sierra Mnestra mountains, the exiles had captured the town and held it for three hours against Castro's militia, during that time declaring it a "free territory of Cuba." They then blew up the Cabo Cruz sugar mill and disappeared. Puerto Pilón, the exiles noted with satisfaction, was only a few miles from the spot where Castro himself originally landed in 1956, and the Sierra Maestra was his sanctuary in the early stages of the revolution.Within hours, Radio Havana was on the air railing about the attack. Castro dcried that the cries had seat ma laming party. The mill, he fumed, was bombarded from the sea by a pirate vewed of the Res type, which the IA operates irom hases located in Flornia, Ристо Rico and Central America." Nevertheless, he minutted damage to shore installations and cried that "70,-000 sacks of sugar" had been destroyed. Naturally, he blamed "a new criminal, vandalistic act by the United States Government." Two days later, Castro's internal radio reported two more landings one by Artine on the southern coast, and the other by Underground Leader Manolo Ray somewhere in the north. But exile groups in Miami would neither confirm nor deny the new raids.Recruits & Munitions. In Washington, the State Department blandly denied all "These attacks," said a spokesman, "are neither supported nor condoned by the Government." Perhaps not, but Miami was alive last week with exile activity. Once again, Cubans were turn-ing up at the old clapboard house on 2.3rd Street that served as a recruit-ing center for the Bay of Pigs opera-tion, getting physical exams, then mys-teriously dropping out of sight. Small groups of Cubans were training at iso-lated farms outside Miami. At Key Largo, a 28-ft. launch loaded with exile munitions caught fire, was popping while firemen were trying to douse the blaze.No one believes that a second frontal invasion is in the offing. The exiles agree that it would amount to suicide. What does seem to be in the works is an attempt at infiltration, sabotage and guerrilla warfare. Right now, three main groups are operating:-►The M.R.R., headed by Artime, re-portedly has the strong backing of Nicaragua's Tachito Somoza and other anti-Castroites in Central America. Artive, say exile sources, operates from camps stretching from Costa Rica north to Honduras. A U.S. hunter in the northeastern jungles of Costa Rica recently stumbled onto a camp with three large buildings and a landing strip that was in constant use by light eir-craft: "Cubans," said his guide, Artime does not have the kind of support inside Cuha to operate a major under-ground, is gearing his efforts to sabotage teams inside Cuba and commando Falls against 17 coustal targets.►The Junta Revolucionaria Cubana (Jure), led by Ray, a onetime Castro leader and a popular man inside Cuba, Ray gets his moral-and reportedly considerable material-support from Venezuela's former President Romulo Betancourt and Puerto Rico's Muñoz Marin, is said to operate training camps in both countries. He hus widely published May 20 as his deadline for returning to Cuba to revitalize the in-land's anti-Castro underground. Last week Ray resigned his job as a con-sultant to the Puerto Rican Pnning Board, and dropped out of sight. He n tough, shrew and a man of his word. "We are not worried," he says. "Castro is the man who must worry."► A cation of Alpha 66, the Revolutionary Movement of the People, the Second National Front of Escambray and one or two smaller outtia led by Eloy Gutiérrez Mezayo, a long-time guerrila leader who fought against Batista. Menoyo plans to infiltrate a small force into Cuba-probably into the central Escambray Mountains and start up a guerrilla network. Two weeks ago, Menoyo lett Miami. The exiles say he is in Cuba.Turn of the Screw. If the U.S. nor directly involved, some U.S. influence and support seem apparent. Washing-> [Figure: EXILE ARTIME Callers at a clapboard house.]> A man wearing a suit at a clapboard house.ton reportedly gave Artime the green light last July. Recruiting personnel and collecting arms would also be difficult without at least tacit U.S. approval. And then there is the U.S. economic embargo. The British and French deals fue leases, trucks and locomotives not-withstanding. Castro remains virtually cut off from free-world traulo: As another turn of the screw, Washington a week tightened controls on U.S. exports of food and drugs to Cuba. Both had been exempted from the general U.S. trade embargo. Now export-ors will need CGovernment approval for shipments.Brazil last werk finally took the action everyone had expected since the revolution that overthrew loftist President João Cioulart. Cuban agents, said the Brazilian government, had been engaging in "ollemive" propaganda "In-compatible with shummi wihi Chirine Han principles. Such interference in the Interiorul affairs of Brazil can no longer be tolerated." Diplomatic relations with Cuhu were therefore formally and off-ftotally savered.TIME, MAY 89, 1904> [Figure: EX LE RAY Trips to some isolated farms.]> Trips to some isolated farms. There is a man sitting on the ground. There are farms in the background.