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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Miami, Florida
RE: CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL April 16, 1963
INTERNAL SECURITY CUBA
The April 9, 1963, issue of the "Miami News"
carried an article entitled, "Exiles Say Miro To Quit".
This article 
stated that informed exile Bources claim
that Dr. JOCE MIRO CARDONA would resign his post as head
of the Cuban 
Revolutionary Council. The article said
exile sources gave two possibilities for his resignation.
One faction 
believed that MIRO's recent trip to Washington
from which he 
returned Sunday (April. ?) was to pin down the
United States 
Government to a statement of positive policy
regarding Cuba. 
Another school of thought was that the
Council 
head was retiring from his post in protest of
Government curbing of hit-and-run raids on the Communist
island of 
Cuba.
The article went on to state that Dr. MIRO's
leadership in the Council, aimed at uniting all Cuban
exiles, 
has been burdened by problems since his appointment
in March 1961.
On April 10, 1963, MM T-1, a former Cuban
business executive, who is employed by the Cuban Revolutionary
Council and who 
is a close personal friend of Dr. MIRO CARDONA,
who has furnished 
some reliable information in the past,
advised 
that an all-night session of the Council was held
beginning 
April 9, and ending at about 6:00 A.M., on
April 10, during which time MIRO CARDONA presented his
resignation but the Council refused to accept his resignation
and MIRO 
CARDONA was persuaded to remain as President of the
Council.
MM T-1 said that MIRO's resignation consisted of
a 25-page statement which was in effect an indictment against
the 
administration of President JOHN F. KENNEDY of the United
States. 
In rejecting his resignation, the Council backed up
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MIRO but in the interest of both the United States and the
Cuban exiles, decided upon a public statement which reads
as follows:
"CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL
"The Cuban Revolutionary Council, having studied
the report 
of its 
President, Dr. Jose Miro Cardona, concerning
present relations 
with the United States Government, agrees:
"1.
Not to accept the resignation of Dr. Jose Miro Cardona,
and declare 
its 
full support for the basic plans contained
in his resignation
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"2. To affirm that there is a serious crisis, brought about
by the present 
policy of the government of this country.
"3.
To express the Council's hope of overcoming the present
crisis 
and calling 
upon all of America, including the United
States, for moral 
and material support in their fight to
regain their 
sovereignty and independence, and the strict
fulfilment of 
American treaties and agreements, as well
as the joint 
resolution of the U. S. Congress, calling for
effective 
action against Soviet intervention in America..
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To affirm that the Council has always insisted, and
still 
insists, 
upon the necessity of Cuban participation
in the process of 
liberating Cuba. The only procedure
which the 
Council would accept would be coordination of
forces, 
on a plane of complete respect for national dignity.
Cuba will never 
renounce her legitimate right to be in the
first line of 
combat.
"5. To reaffirm their unshakeable decision to continue the
fight 
against the Soviet-Castro regime, under any circumstances
whatsoever.
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"6. In these difficult times, the Cuban Revolutionary
Council urges all Cubans to close ranks to achieve the
national unity needed to hasten our march towards
Freedom.
"Miami, April 10, 1963.
"Movimiento Democrata Cristiano
(Christian Democratic Movement)
JOSE FERNANDEZ BADUE
"Movimiento de Recuperacion Revolucionaria
(Movement for Revolutionary Recovery)
CESAR BARO
"Agrupacion Montecristi
(Montecristi Group)
FRANCISCO CARRILLO
"Unidad Revolucionaria
(Revolutionary Union)
FERNANDO FERNANDEZ CABADA
"Rescate Democratico Revolucionario
(Revolutionary Democratic Recovery)
RAUL MENDEZ PIREZ
"Movimiento Revolucionary 30 de Noviembre
(30th of November Revolutionary Movement)
ORLANDO RODRIGUEZ
"Accion Revolucionaria Democratica
(Democratic Revolutionary Action)
GERARDO QUESADA
"Frente Obrero Revolucionario de Cuba (FORDC)
(Revolutionary Labor Front of Cuba
"Military Section
JOSE E. MONTEAGUDO
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"Sector Profesional
(Professional Section)
ENRIQUE HUERTAS
"Corporaciones Economicas
(Economic Branch)
Dr. TULIO DIAZ RIVERA
MANUEL ANTONIO DE VARONA
SERGIO CARBO
RICARDO LORIE
ANTONIO MACEO
ANTONIO SILIO, Secretary
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MM T-1 explained that when Dr, MIRO CARDONA returned
to Miami from a trip to Washington, D. C., on Sunday, where he
contacted high government officials, he came away with the
feeling that:
1) The United States has no plan to free Cuba
of Communism.
2)
If the United States ever does formulate any
plans, it will do so without consideration
for the Cuban exiles in the United States.
3) The United States policy is now one of
peaceful co-existence with Communist Cuba.
MM T-1 said that in his opinion, the Cuban exiles
are frustrated, confused, losing faith in the United States
and there is a growing feeling of abandonment of them by the
United States.
The April 10, 1963, issue of the "Miami Herald"
carried a headline article entitled, "Miro Resigns as Exile
Chief; Raps U. S. Policy". This article stated that MIRO
CARDONA resigned because the United States refused to allocate
fifty million dollars to train a Cuban invasion force, according
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to government sources.
The article said that exile leaders.
close to KIRO said he resigned not only because of disagree-
ment with United States policy, "but because he feels
Washington does not have any concrete plans to deal with
the dictator".
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The April 11, 1963, issue of the "Miami Herald"
carried an article entitled, "Cuban Exile Council Vows to
Continue the Freedom Fight". In this article it was
stated that the Cuban Revolutionary Council had vowed to
continue its fight against Castro-Communism whether the
United States likes it or not. The article said that Dr.
MIRO CARDONA denied reports from U. S. Government sources
that he offered his resignation to the Council because the
United States refused to allocate fifty million dollars to
train a Cuban invasion force. The article stated that an
informed source said that MIRO decided to quit "because
of the change in the U. S. Cuban policy".
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The April 16, 1963, issue of the "Miami Herald"
carried an article entitled "JFK Accepts Demand, Fidel Says".
This article by the UPI bearing a Havana dateline reported
that PIDEL CASTRO told Cubans on Thursday (April 11) that the
KENNEDY Administration has accepted one of his five demands
for an end to tension in the Caribbean. This article stated
that in a one hour and forty minute speech, CASTRO said that
Washington in forbidding exiles to carry on further armed
attacks on Cuba, has fulfilled one of "five points for peace"
advanced by him and endorsed by the Soviet Union. The article
then went on to state that PIDEL announced that there are
still four conditions to be fulfilled and that acceptance of
them is the only sensible thing the KENNEDY Administration
can do.
One of the five conditions, according to the article,
18 U. S. evacuation of the big Naval base at Guantanamc.
On the morning of April 15, 1963, Miami radio news
broadcasts announced MIRO CARDONA would again offer his
resignation to the Council on that same day.
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On April 15, 1963, MM T-1 advised that he was
positive that MIRO CARDONA did not intend to again tender
his resignation on Monday, April 15, 1963, but was
contemplating taking that action on the following Thursday,
April 18, 1963. MM T-1 said that the Council was meeting
on Thursday to take a definite attitude or tough line or
action and that it was entirely probable that all of the
members of the Council might resigh in protest to the present
policy of the United States with regard to the Cuban situation.
He said that the prezent feeling of the Council towards the
United States is basically "to hell with it".
MM T-1 expressed the personal feeling that U. S.
policy towards Cuba is presently in a vacuum and consequently
everything is at a standstill. The Cuban exiles in the
Miami area feel that the U. S. is abandoning their cause
and has now adopted a course of peaceful co-existence with
Communist Cuba.
On April 16, 1963, MM T-2, a Cuban exile who has
furnished some reliable information in the past and who is
associated with fellow Cubana" who belong to several different
organizations, advised that reaction among the Cuban exiles
is "very bad against the United States". He explained that the
Cuban exiles allege that President KENNEDY has made promises
to help them in their fight against CASTRO but is now opposing
them and consequently they feel that the U. S. is now committed
to a policy of peaceful co-existence with Communist Cuba.
The Cuban exiles are fearful as to the future, confused as to.
why the U. S. has changed its policy and the exiles feel that
they have been abandoned in their fight.
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