177-10001-10061
2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
JFK Assassination System
Date:
8/26/201
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LBJ
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177-10001-10061
RECORD SERIES : NSF, COUNTRY FILE, CUBA, TDCS, VOL. 1, BOX 32
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ORIGINATOR:
CIA
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TITLE:
DATE:
PAGES:
12/13/1963
2
SUBJECTS:
CUBA
DOCUMENT TYPE:
REPORT
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RESTRICTIONS:
CURRENT STATUS:
DATE OF LAST REVIEW:
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COMMENTS:
Unclassified
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This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C Secs.
793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY
CUBA
REPORT NO. TDCS DB-3/658,469
SUBJECT
ALERT STATUS OF CUBAN DIPLOMATIC
MISSIONS, AS RESULT OF THE ASSAS-
SINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
DATE DISTR. 13 DECEMBER 1963
PRECEDENCE ROUTINE :
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
9 DECEMBER 1963
DATE ACQ. 9 DECEMBER 1963
APPRAISAL
REFERENCES
FIELD REPORT NO.
IN
79459
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
SOURCE A SENIOR CUBAN DIPLOMAT WHO IS AN ASTUTE OBSERVER AND HAS DEMON-
STRATED MATURITY, DISCERNMENT, AND RELIABILITY IN HIS PAST
REPORTING.
.1.
ABOUT 2 DAYS AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT
JOHN F. KENNEDY, CUBAN DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS ABROAD BEGAN TO
RECEIVE A SERIES OF MESSAGES PLACING THEM ON A SPECIAL ALERT
STATUS. THESE MESSAGES WERE OBVIOUSLY DUE TO APPREHENSION
BY THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT THAT THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING
**THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY MIGHT LEAD TO HOSTILE
ACTIVITY DIRECTED AGAINST THE MISSIONS. THE DIPLOMATIC
MISSIONS, AMONG OTHER THINGS, WERE EXHORTED TO EXERCISE
EXTREME VIGILANCE, TO MOUNT A NIGHT-AND-DAY WATCH OF MISSION
PREMISES, TO BE CERTAIN THAT THERE WERE "NO COMPROMISING
SECRET
STATE/INR DIA ARMY/ACSI NAVY
STATE/DIR
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NIC XXXXXXXX OCI
AIR
JCS SECDEF NSA
INS
ONE
OCR
ORR
BUNDY-SMITH
_ ALEXANDER
BELK
BENBECK
CHASE
D.NGEMAN
1 ARESTAL
JOHNSON
KILDUFF
_ KLEIN
KOMER
- SAUNDERS
SCHLESINGER
_ SMITH, WM. Y.
GROUP 1
Excluded from automatic
downgrading and
declassification
XXX 00 FBI
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DOCUMENTS ON THE PREMISES, It AND TO BE ON GUARD AGAINST HOSTILE
PROVOCATIONS.
2. ONE CHIEF OF MISSION, WHO, FOLLOWING HIS USUAL
PRACTICE, REQUESTED BY TELEPHONE PERMISSION TO ACCEPT A
LONG-STANDING INVITATION TO VISIT A COUNTRY FRIENDLY TO
CUBA, WAS TOLD THAT HE MUST FORMALLY SUBMIT HIS REQUEST
BY CABLE. HE DID SO ON 29 NOVEMBER, BUT IT WAS NOT UNTIL
6 DECEMBER THAT HE RECEIVED THE AUTHORITY TO QUIT HIS POST.
3°
AS OF 9 DECEMBER THERE HAD BEEN NO INDICATION FROM.
HAVANA THAT THE ALERT ORDER WAS TO BE CONSIDERED REVOKED.
4. FIELD DISSEM:
CINCLANT.
SECRET
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