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14-00000 on .— SECRET CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY e ROUTINE Intelligence Information Cable ' COUNTRY CUBA TOCS DB-315/00929-66 DATEOF 8 MARCH 1966 DisTR. 24 MARCH 1966 INFO, sunrect : RUMORS OF CONFLICT BETWEEN FIDEL AND RAUL : CASTRO AND ARRESTS OF ARMY OFFICERS | PLACER ‘ DATEACQ. UNITED STATES (23 MARCH 1966) REF IN ’ SOURCE FIELD REPORT NO, AND : APPRAISAL, A CUBAN ENGINEER, SPECIALIZING IN AGRONOMY, WHO IS NOW RETIRED BUT 4 PREVIOUSLY WAS IN THE SUGAR-REFINING' BUSINESS, SOURCE RELIABLY é CONVEYS INFORMATION REPORTED TO HIM. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE ARREST MENTIONED IN PARAGRAPH 2, WHICH WAS WITNESSED BY A FRIEND, SOURCE DID NOT IDENTIFY HIS INFORMANTS. MURR rte dark RUZ AND HIS BROTHER RAUL, WHO IS MINISTER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES (FAR), HAVE CIRCULATED INCREASINGLY SINCE THE ARREST OF t | i | 4 | __ 1. RUMORS OF INTENSIFIED CONFLICT BETWEEN PREMIER FIDEL CASTRO ROLANDO CUBELA SECADES. IT IS SAID THAT SINCE THE CUBAN-CHINESE CON- FLICT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO HAVE REACHED SUCH A POINT THAT DIRECT CONTROL OF THE FAR BY FIDEL IS CONSIDERED CERTAIN. RAUL IS i SAID TO HAVE REQUESTED MINESTER OF THE INTERIOR RAMIRO VALDSS : MENENDEZ TO RESIGN BUT THE LATTER REPLIED THAT ONLY FIDEL COULD RE- j MOVE HIM. 2. IN DAYLIGHT HOURS IN-THE MARIANAO SECTION OF HAVANA ON 3 SEC RET CONTROLLED DISSEM i SYATE/INR DIA ARMY/ACSE NAVY AIR JCS secpee psa nic AX usa oct ONE oce oan sx bes ar FBI CIA/NUCC REPCINCLANT INS RUT She ata ae tome cetera ne . : : Te mee cea tem ow oar ee Seren Batre Sy
14-00000 o er . MPO t-te (80) H CONTROLLED DYSSEV TN (ements i et ti Te ets TS PSPS ; - oo, ; . TDCS DB- PAGE 2 " SECRET . 315/00929-66 TO OVERTAKE ANOTHER AUTCNOBIV.E CARRYING FIVE FAR OFFICERS, THE LATTER WERE DISARVED BY MEMBERS OF THE G-2 AND WERE THEN CARRIED OFF . i «UNDER ARREST IN TWO CARS, 3. BY 8 MARCE MOST OF THE PRISONERS WHO WERE IN THE G-2 PRISON AT VILLA "MARISTA" WERE TRANSFERRED TO LA CABANA. (HEADQUARTERS COMMENT: ACCCRDING TO 7D/00-K-323/03689-66, A CUBAN REFUGEE WHO ARRIVED IN THE UNITED STATES BY AIR ON 23 FEBRUARY REPORTED THAT ON 6 FEBRUARY ABOUT 300 CUBAN ARMY OFFICERS WERE ARRESTED IN SANTA CLARA Qo "AND CaMaGUuEY. THEY ALLESEDLY WERE A PART OF A PEIPING-BACKED CON- .- PIRACY 70 GAIN CONTROL OF THE ARMY AND TO FORCE CASTRO TO RESIGN, ji THE REFUGEE SAID THESE PRISONERS WERE BEING HELD BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE SECURITY AT LA CABANA AND VILLA MARITIMA IX HAVANA, FIDEL _ REPORTEDLY PLANNED TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF THE GROUP AND ALLEGEDLY | WOULD SOON EXECUTE A MAJORITY OF THEM, NO INFORMATION CONCERNING HAVANA ABOUT THE MATTER, ) . ". ROLLED SOURCES OF ANY RECENT DISAGREEMENTS INVOLVING THE CASTRO BROTHERS AND RAMIRO VALDES, ALTRKOUGH SOURCE DID NOT SUGGEST ANY REAY SONS FOR THE REPORTED DISACREEMENTS, RAUL CASTRO AND CUBELA HAVE IN ek bo. : THE PAST BEEN REGARDED AS VIOLENT ENEMIES. IF THERE TS, A DISAGREE- Eatiat ‘2 ae MENT BETWEEN THE CASTRO BROTHERS IT MAY BE OVER THE HARSHNESS OF THE ~ PUNISHMENT TO BE METED OUT TO CUBELA AND HIS GROUP. VALDES, AS © ; i i i ! i §. FIELD DISSEM: CINCLANT ESO (END OF MESSAGE) * THE. ARRESTS HAD BEEN MADE PUBLIC, AND NO RUMORS WERE CIRCULATING IN 4. HEADQUARTERS COMMENT: THERE IS NO CONFIRMATION FROM CON~ J FIDEL CASTRO'S MAN, MAY HAVE AROUSED RAUL'S ENMITY. 7 i