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# SECRETCOPTEarly in April of 1952, about a month after the Coup de Etat of General Fulgencio Batista, the deposed president, Dr. Carlo Prio Socarras entrusted to his ex-minister of Education and State, Dr. Aureliano Sanches Arango with the responsibility of organising a vast subversive movement, created to depose in turn Batista, and return to power the Cuban Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Cubano) if this were at all possible. The first stage taken by Dr. Sanches Arango were to give a political form to the movement, and to create favorable conditions for an uprising (putsch) at the precisely opportune moment, to be called "the zero hour." Immediately after Batista took over, the P.C found itself destitute of any kind of influence, since all former officials were dismissed by Batista. Hence Dr. Sanches Arango began to reconstruct the P.C, placing in the positions of comand some of the most sincere members of the party, most of whom had formerly been in secondary status in party affairs, and in Government affairs.While Dr. Antonio de Varona was again made President, men such as Fr. Arrocolio Acui, Dr. Armando Hernander and a few others, became the most prominent figures of the Party. Immediately, the P.C began a campaign of passive legal opposition to the administration of the Batista Government, whose every step received the condemnation and adverse criticies of the Propaganda Committee of the Party. In addition, three tires a week in the newspaper, Free Press (Prensa Libre), articles by Dr. Arrocolio Acui and Dr. Fondiallo pictured the present Government as a "do nothing" one, with policies, of lack of policies, contrary to the public interest. At the same time the articles were designed to restore to the party the faith which formerly it had enjoyed from the Cuban masses.In the meantime, Dr. Sanches Arango initiated the opposition by force in the Central American countries. Almost immediately he found out that the re-constructed FC was gaining no ground with the people and that he would have to create a new political formula to draw to the side of the opposition of insurrection, the general populace, by now disgusted not only with the Batista Government, but with the F.C as well. It was proposed that Dr. Roberto Agramonte, head of the Peoples Party (Partido del Pueblo Cubano), have an interview with Dr. Prio in Miami, but the former declined on the ground that his party wanted to remain neutral in the whole affair. However, Emilio M. Ochoa opposed openly the ideas of his chief (Dr. Agramonte) advocating an alliance of the two parties to make the opposition more effective. To this end he went to Guatemala to see Dr. Sanches Arango. While there, conferences were held in the home of Dr. Thul Caoguode, then Ambassador of Guatemala in Cuba, and nor Foreign Minister of the Government of Colonel Arbens. There warlike aspects of the movement wore discussed, also the merging of the two parties. On the return of Sr. Ochoa to Cuba, eventually the amalgamation was effected with equal administration on the part of both of the parties. This end was hastened by a surreptitious visit of Dr. Arango (Sanches) to his native soil (he was then a political refuge in Guatemala).From the moment Batista took over the power in Cuba, Guatemala placed itself unconditionally on the side of Dr. Prio and served as a base for the military preparation of the conspiracy. Immediately the Caribbean League (legion) at the time reduced to impotency, began to function again, to take a preponderantAtt. I to HPLA-275 SECRET58-6-4=200