Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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TOP SECRETNOFORNCOPY NO. 107.SC NO. 00546/6325 November 1963# DAILY# SUMMARY![CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA seal]CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCYTHIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS CODE WORD MATERIAL![GROUP I Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification]NOFORNTOP SECRET
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# TOP SECRET DINARDAILY SUMMARY25 November 1963This summary of significant information has not been coordinated outside the Office of Current Intelligence. It does not represent a complete coverage of all current reports received, nor does time permit the complete evaluation of all reports which are included.CONTENTS## FIDEL CASTRO'S SPEECH:Castro's two-hour speech on 23 November was what he termed an "objective analysis" of the implications of President Kennedy's assassination. The speech reflected an apprehension that US policy toward Cuba may now become even tougher. He said the President's death was "serious and bad news" and sought to insinuate that "ultrareactionaries" in the US are exploiting the assassination--and may have been responsible for it--as part of their campaign for a more "aggressive" US policy against Cuba. (Page 1)## MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS:The Cuban defensive military alert, ordered immediately after the news of President Kennedy's death, remains in effect. (Page 2)## OTHER CUBAN REACTIONS TO THE ASSASSINATION:The charge of the Cuban Embassy in Chile says there is no doubt that CIA or "other Yankees" assassinated the President and that therefore a third world war will start. (Page 2)The Cuban UN ambassador issued a statement early on 23 October expressing "profound displeasure" with which Cuba received news of the President's death. (Page 3)Foreign Minister Roa asked his (UN) mission for "all the data you have on Lyndon B. Johnson" and the reply was sent immediately. (Page 3)iTOP SECRET DINAR
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# TOP SECRET DINAROTHER CUBAN REACTIONS TO THE ASSASSINATION - cont'dThe Cuban(Foreign Ministry) instructed a number of Cuban(diplomatic missions abroad) on 22 November not to make "any statements."(Page 3)Che Guevara, in a 24 November speech, warned Cubans that "everything indicates that in the next months and years world peace will be threatened" as never before. (Page 3)CUBAN SUPPORT FOR EXTERNAL SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES:The Venezuelan Government plans to hold a press conference on 26 November revealing the Cuban origin of the arms cache found in Venezuela early this month. (Page 3)iiTOP SECRET DINAR
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# TOP SECRET DINARFIDEL CASTRO'S SPEECH:Fidel Castro's two-hour speech on 23 November was what he termed an "objective analysis" of the implications of President Kennedy's assassination. The speech reflected an apprehension that US policy toward him may now become even tougher. He said the President's death was "serious and bad news" which could lead from "a bad situation to a worse situation." He pointed out that President Kennedy's alleged promise not to invade Cuba had been strongly attacked by those "ultrareactionaries" in the United States who, he said, are now using the assassination to create a climate of "anti-Soviet, anti-Cuban hysteria" designed to pressure the new President toward a Cuban policy "highly prejudicial to the interests of peace and of mankind."Castro began his speech by stating that he "and the immense majority of human beings" react with "repudiation" to the assassination, which is not "a correct method of struggle." While the death of the imperialist system would make Cubans happy, "the death of a man, even if that man were our enemy, cannot make us happy...we must not confuse the systems with the men." He said, "we always cease our belligerency at death; we always bow with respect at death, even if it has to do with an enemy."Castro declared that the assassination can only benefit "those ultrarightist and ultrareactionary sectors, among which President Kennedy could not be counted." These "most reactionary forces are now breaking loose within the United States," he declared. President Kennedy was a strong president who was able to control these pressures, but the new US president, because of the circumstances inherent in his assumption of the presidency, will not have the same strength and authority, Castro said.Castro then read a series of US news dispatches referring to the Castro-Communist affiliations of the accused assassin. He said this was all part of the "reactionary" effort to create a climate of "anti-Soviet, anti-Cuban hysteria" in the United States. This climate of hysteria, he said, is designed to face the new President with an irresistible pressure toward a "more aggressive policy."Castro then devoted considerable time in an attempt to throw doubt on the guilt of the accused assassin and to insinuate that Oswald, whether guilty or innocent, was actually a tool of the extreme rightists. "Is he really guilty? Is he a scapegoat? Is he a psychopath? Or is he perhaps a tool of the most reactionary US circles? Who is this man?-1-TOP SECRET DINAR
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# TOP SECRET DINARFIDEL CASTRO'S SPEECH - cont'dWhy did he go into action precisely when circumstances were least favorable for a left-wing fanatic to assassinate the US President?" Castro stated that his investigation of the "reports, statements, and publicity" on the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in the United States failed to indicate that there was any chapter in Dallas or New Orleans and that "we never in our life heard of him (Oswald)." Castro then referred to US press reports on Oswald's attempt last summer to "infiltrate" the anti-Castro Student Revolutionary Directorate in the US and to DRE statements that Oswald was thought at that time to be "an agent of the FBI or the CIA." "They (the DRE leaders) must know, because they have many dealings with them, what FBI and CIA agents look like," Castro stated.Castro then declared that, while Oswald may or may not be guilty, it is nevertheless possible that he was "an agent for the CIA or the FBI, as those people suspected" and could have been "a tool of the most reactionary sectors which may have been hatching a sinister plan, which may have plotted the assassination of Kennedy because they disagreed with his international policy." "What is behind all this? What sinister maneuver are they hatching behind all this? Who can be re- sponsible for the assassination of President Kennedy? And who benefits from the assassination...except the worst reaction- aries?" Castro warned that it is not possible at this point to answer these questions, "but we do say that it is suspect, that we must be cautious and vigilant and alert." Castro closed with the usual expressions of confidence that the Cubans will be ready to meet any new crisis with resolution. (CIA FBIS 06, 24 November, OFFICIAL USE ONLY)MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS:The Cuban defensive military alert, ordered immediately after the news of President Kennedy's death, remains in effect, but no unusual Cuban military activity has been noted. (NSA, various internal military intercepts, 22-24 November, SECRET KIMBO)OTHER CUBAN REACTIONS TO THE ASSASSINATION:A clandestine source reports that the chargé of the Cuban Embassy in Santiago de Chile said that there is no doubt that the CIA or "other Yankees" assassinated the President and that, as a result, a third world war will start. He also emphasized the need for Cuba to prepare for a possible US invasion. (CIA Santiago de Chile, TDCS 3/565,826, 23 November, SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM)-2-TOP SECRET DINAR
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# TOP SECRET DINAROTHER CUBAN REACTIONS TO THE ASSASSINATION - cont'dCarlos Lechuga, Cuban UN ambassador, issued a statement early on 23 November stating: "Despite the antagonisms existing between the Government of the United States and the Cuban Revolution, we have received with profound displeasure the news of the tragic death of President Kennedy. All civilized men are always saddened by happenings such as this. Our delegation before the United Nations desires to express that this is the sentiment of the people and the Government of Cuba." (UPI New York, 23 November, UNCLASSIFIED)Cuban (Foreign Minister Roa) dispatched a message to Carlos Lechuga shortly after President Kennedy's assassination asking (Lechuga) to "please send me at once all the data that you have on Lyndon B. Johnson including his political connections, etc." (Lechuga) replied immediately: "biographical data on Lyndon Johnson are in cable (24) of Prensa Latina and in UPI dispatch 169 and supplements." He also referred to "Who is Who" which he had sent the (Foreign Ministry) earlier and said he will cable additional information later. (NSA 3/0(CUD/T1382-63 and -T1381-63, 23 November, TOP SECRET DINAR)The Cuban (Foreign Ministry) dispatched a (circular) message late on 22 November to a number of Cuban (diplomatic missions) abroad stating only "do not make any statements." This was probably an attempt to prevent any comments on President Kennedy's assassination until the official Cuban line could be established. (NSA 3/0/CUD/T1380-63, 23 November, TOP SECRET DINAR)Che Guevara, in a speech on 24 November, expressed apprehensions similar to those stated by Fidel Castro the night before. Guevara blamed President Kennedy's assassination and the killing of Oswald on reactionary forces in the United States and warned Cubans that a new, tougher policy against Cuba will be forthcoming from the United States. "Everything indicates that in the next months and years world peace will be threatened by the most unscrupulous, ferocious, and warlike monopolistic oligarchy--and with the most murderous potential --that the history of humanity has every known," Guevara said. (CIA FBIS, 25 November, OFFICIAL USE ONLY)CUBAN SUPPORT OF EXTERNAL SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES:A Venezuelan Government press conference tying the arms cache found in Venezuela earlier this month to Cuba is scheduled for Tuesday, 26 November, according to the US Embassy in Caracas. This is to be followed by a report to the OAS, probably on 2 December. (Am Emb Caracas 601, 24 November, CONFIDENTIAL)
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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992TOP SECRETNOFORNChief, Adm StaffOCI for VMCOPY NO. 107SC NO. 00550/6329 November 1963# DAILY# SUMMARY![CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY seal: An eagle holding arrows and an olive branch, surrounded by stars and a shield.]CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCYTHIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS CODE WORD MATERIAL![GROUP I Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification]NOFORNTOP SECRET
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# TOP SECRET DINARDAILY SUMMARY29 November 1963This summary of significant information has not been coordinated outside the Office of Current Intelligence. It does not represent a complete coverage of all current reports received, nor does time permit the complete evaluation of all reports which are included.CONTENTS## CASTRO'S SPEECH:In his 27 November address, Castro first sought to exonerate his regime of complicity in the death of President Kennedy and then provided a decidedly optimistic assessment of Cuba's economic situation. (Page 1)## MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS:An unsuccessful combing operation was affected on the Isle of Pines for two persons who apparently escaped from the military prison there. (Page 3)## CUBAN INTERNAL SITUATION:The Cuban Government may have instituted new controls on fishermen by eliminating night fishing along the north coast and by restricting fishermen to three and one half miles from the coast, according to two clandestine sources. (Page 3)## INSURGENCY AND CIVIL UNREST:Three incidents of sabotage have been noted in recent intercepted messages--two in Matanzas Province and the third in Oriente. (Page 4)A LCB operation against an insurgent band in Las Villas Province ended on 29 November without results. (Page 4)Department of State Security (DSE) officials in Camaguey Province have been alerted to a possible clandestine escape attempt during the night of 28-29 November; militiamen have been instructed to mobilize at Playa Santa Lucia. (Page 4)iTOP SECRET DINAR
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# TOP SECRET DINARCUBAN EXILE AND REFUGEE ACTIVITIES:Comandos L is considering an attack against a Soviet vessel in Cuban waters in the near future or when the seas become more quiet. (Page 4)Cubanos Libres may be planning to hijack a ship in a raid that would be staged from Miami. (Page 5)A small group of Cuban refugees may have attempted to infiltrate Cuba about 27 November, according to a prominent exile activist. (Page 5)BLOC RELATIONS:The Albanian ambassador spoke to a near-empty hall in Havana on 26 November at a celebration marking his country's national holiday; the audience was composed chiefly of Chinese embassy personnel, students, and journalists. The Cuban Government was represented by an official of the foreign cultural council. (Page 5)NON-BLOC RELATIONS:A three-man "good-will" mission is en route to Morocco to smooth Rabat's ruffled feelings over presence of Cuban troops in Algeria. (Page 6)The director of the Cuban petroleum enterprise is scheduled to travel to Georgetown aboard the BAHIA DE TANAMO; an untested source in Georgetown reports that Cuba will supply fuel oil for the British Guiana Electricity Corporation. (Page 6)Cuba may establish diplomatic relations with Somalia and is attempting to improve its relations with Tanganyika and Ghana, according to intercepted communications. (Page 7)Two representatives of the Cuban National Association of Small Farmers are planning to attend a seminar in Chile. (Page 7)NON-BLOC COMMERCIAL RELATIONS:Cuba is continuing negotiations for the purchase of large amounts of construction equipment, probably from the Varmi company of Brussels. (Page 7)ii# TOP SECRET DINAR
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# TOP SECRET DINARCUBAN SUPPORT OF EXTERNAL SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES:The Venezuelan Government has announced the discovery of a large cache of weapons of Cuban origin; this provides the best evidence in recent years of major Cuban support for Latin American subversives. Havana radio immediately denied the charge. (Page 8)iiiTOP SECRET DINAR
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# TOP SECRET DINAR## CASTRO'S SPEECH:Fidel's 27 November speech to the students at Havana University evidently had been scheduled some weeks ago, before the assassination of President Kennedy, and was intended as a fairly sweeping review of the country's economic situation, post-Hurricane Flora salvage operations and, lastly, the regime's plans for changes in the educational system. In fact, it was the third time in a week that Castro has addressed himself publicly and at length to the death of the late President and to imputations that the Castro regime was involved in any way. On 24 November Castro had displayed considerable apprehension that already strained US-Cuban relations would worsen markedly as a consequence of the assassination. We do not have an adequate text of Castro's seemingly impromptu remarks of 26 November to a group of high school students; but that speech apparently went little beyond his statement on the Sunday following Mr. Kennedy's death. The address of 27 November obviously was a carefully prepared refutation of charges of complicity between Castro's regime and Oswald.Whatever the Cuban leader's intent, textual analysis of the speech neither proves nor disproves that he had advance knowledge of the plot. He is determined to indict unnamed "reactionaries" in the United States with conspiring to murder the President, using Oswald as their innocent dupe, and to frame Cuba in order to provoke punitive action by the US Government against the revolution. To this end, he presented a considerable body of "evidence"--much of it admittedly speculative--based on what is generally known about Oswald, the "normal" behavior pattern of paranoiacs, the weapon the killer used, the technical difficulties presented by the use of a telescopic sight, the 36-hour Dallas police interrogation of the alleged killer and, finally, Oswald's death at the hands of Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas police headquarters. Castro rehearsed the details of Oswald's 27 September application at the Cuban consulate in Mexico City for a Cuban visa and protested the 23 November arrest of two employees of the consulate by Mexican authorities. (Castro's remarks were followed up on 28 November by the delivery of a formal protest by the Cuban Foreign Ministry to the Mexican Government--which rejected it.) Oswald's Dallas television interview in July, his attempts to infiltrate the pro-Castro Fair Play for Cuba Committee, and his street brawl with anti-Castro refugees in New Orleans--all were intended by those behind Oswald to mislead public opinion, according to Castro. And, finally, the decision of the Dallas police to "close" the Oswald case with the shooting of Sunday, 24 November, "demonstrates that the persons guilty of the death of Kennedy needed and urgently had to eliminate the accused at any cost...so that he would not talk...."-1-TOP SECRET DINAR
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# TOP SECRET DINARCASTRO'S SPEECH - cont'dBut, says the Cuban premier, the "shot has backfired." Alluding to statements made earlier in the week by physicians at Parkland Hospital, Castro claims that no one in a position to do so has said whether one or two bullets were used to kill the late President. He declared "they cannot establish which are the entry and exit wounds," implying that more than one assassin was involved and that the President was struck both from in front and behind.In sum, while Castro obviously was well briefed and went to some length to select "evidence" proving the guilt of domestic reactionaries in the United States (conversely clearing himself of any involvement), nothing he said indicates advance knowledge of the crime or encompasses more factual data than can be presumed to have been gleaned from the press.The balance of the 27 November speech, the part which Castro told his listeners comprised the address he originally intended to deliver, was devoted to a somewhat rambling assessment of Cuba's economic health. It can be summed up for the most part with the quote: "Things are progressing in our country and they are going well, despite the obstacles, despite the hurricane...." As he has done before, Castro blamed the sloth and ineptitude of the Cuban bourgeousie for the "mismanagement, lack of concern for expenditures, by lack of concern not only for the quantity but also the quality of what we produced" immediately after the fall of Batista. He reviewed the "tremendous ideological battle...it was a battle between ideas and theories..." within the regime during its first two years in power, said that the government officials had become too "argumentative," and admitted that for a time the regime had been incapable of compensating for the loss of trade with the non-Communist world. Today, he boasted, Cuba "can trade with any country in the world; we can offer an advantageous exchange because we no longer have to sell sugar to Japan, England, Spain, France and most of the countries with which we traded, take their dollars and use them to pay the Yankee imperialists." Instead, Cuba can plow back into its internal development revenue derived from foreign trade, and develop to the maximum the use of those natural resources which are in demand.Attempts to bar Cuba from the world sugar trade, he said, have resulted only in increasing the price of sugar so that the Cubans --though exporting less--are able to realize proportionately greater profits from what they do sell and more than break even. "We have been able to get wonderful prices, and we have sold sugar for 1965 for approximately 10 cents. We have made sales for 1966 at approximately 10 cents." Though the Cuban sugar growers will be affected in some measure for several years by the attempts of nonbloc states to juggle sugar prices, "we shall be in a position 1970 or-717 to resist any price decrease in the sugar produced In the cpaltalist world." By then, "we shall be in a position to surpass the 10-million-ton figure in sugar production...."
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# TOP SECRET DINARCASTRO'S SPEECH - cont'dReturning to the post-hurricane economic dislocation, Castro promised that by 15 December of this year full food rations would be restored and in many cases allotments increased. He called for greatly increased mechanization of agriculture and the use of the latest methods of cultivation, appealed for more food production and the recovery of arable land lost through neglect and erosion. He demanded an end to public "vice," such as official bribe-taking, theft, pilferage, etc. In the field of social welfare, Castro praised medical students for "volunteering" to serve in out-of-the-way country posts for minimum terms of two years and prophesied that "as the number of graduate doctors increases, the need for the establishment of socialized medicine once felt as a social need will not be quite as great."Castro concluded by appealing to Cuban youth to participate "in the great task of opening new frontiers in every field...you are in a revolution that will never end." (CIA FBIS 07 and adds, 28 November, OFFICIAL USE ONLY)## MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS:Military headquarters on the Isle of Pines informed Armed Forces headquarters in Havana that two persons who had escaped, probably from the military prison, had not yet been recaptured. The 27 November intercepted message reported that an unsuccessful combing operation had been effected in an area indicated by two peasants who reportedly saw the escapees. (See Daily Summary of 26 November for information on other personnel being sought on the Isle of Pines.) (USN 856, 2X/SL/CUM/T405-63, 27 November, SECRET SABRE)## CUBAN INTERNAL SITUATION:The Cuban Government may have instituted new controls on fishermen, by eliminating night fishing along the north coast and by restricting fishermen to three and one half miles from the coast. A Florida law enforcement officer was informed by the former administrator of a fishing cooperative at Isabela de Sagua that on 12 November it was rumored that no night fishing would be allowed on the north coast of Cuba after 17 November. Reportedly, those who were fishing at sunset were to anchor their boats or risk being fired upon. Another source received information thirdhand from an unidentified fisherman that in late November, Cuban fishermen were ordered by the Cuban general staff to do their fishing between three and three and one half miles from the coast. No confirmation has yet been received of these reported changes in fishing regulations. (CIA TDCSDB-3/658,077, 27 November, SECRET/CONTROLLED DISSEM)