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TITLE: Fidel Castro's Coming Visit to Moscow and Algiers
DATE 4/23/1963
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COMMENTS: National Security Files, Box 38: Cuba 4/21/63-4/30/63. Box 1.
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Fidel Castro's Coming Visit to Moscow and Algiers
ARRB 7/96
1. The initial report on Fidel Castro's forth-
coming visit to Moscow came from a usually reliable
source with excellent contacts in Cuban government circles
who obtained the information from a Cuban government of-
ficial who has been an intimate acquaintance for many
years and who has excellent high-level contacts through-
out the Cuban leadership. The usually reliable source
obtained the information on 25 March. The report was
disséminated to the intelligence community on 27 March
and reported in the Current Intelligence Bulletin dated
29 March.
2. The substance of the report was that, despite
his strong criticism of the Soviet Union, particularly
concerning its actions during the missile crisis, Fidel
Castro is not blinded to the need for Cuba to maintain
good diplomatic relations with the entire "socialist
camp." Castro was planning, according to the report,
to go to Moscow for the May Day celebrations. He was
planning, however, to remain in Moscow only three days.
It was his intention, according to the report, to tell
Khrushchev, in effect, that the USSR must assist Cuba
but must at the same time understand that Castro does not
intend to be a "docile satellite.".
was
3. Information from the same source and sub-source
disseminated to the intelligence community on 30
Märch indicating that Castro was intending to visit Algeria
on the same trip that took him to Moscow. This was re
ported in the Current Intelligence Bulletin on 1 April.
4. The substance of the second report was that
Castro "plans to visit Algeria in connection with" the
visit to Moscow and that Algeria and the USSR are the only
two countries he was planning to visit on that trip. The
Algerian visit was planned in view of the "special rela-
tionship" that is said to exist between Castro and Ben
Bella and also between Castro and Algerian Defense Minister
Boumedienne.
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