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THIS IS AN INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE
S-E-C-R-E-T
REPORT NO.
CS DB-312/01409-68
DATE DISTR.
28 June 1968
COUNTRY
Cuba
DOI
Late April 1968
SUBJECT
Prison Break at El Principe Prison
in Havana
for Mala
ACQ
SOURCE
201
Canada, Ottawa (25 June 1968)
FIELD NO.
An official Canadian service from officials in Havana.
1. In late April 1968 there was a successful prison
break at the El Principe Prison in Havana.. A group of
prisoners escaped by digging a tunnel to the courtyard of
a neighboring hospital. After the escape, ex-Major
Rolando Cubela Secades, who was convicted in March 1966
for plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro, was transferred
from El Principe to a prison in Oriente Province.
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2. It was rumored that Huber Matos, imprisoned since
October 1959, was one of the escapees. However, according
to the wife of a prisoner in La Cabana Prison in Havana,
Matos and 20 other political prisoners were still in Gal-
lery 23 of that prison. Although none of them wore prison
uniforms, it is said that the authorities stopped being.
severe with them on this count.
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