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~ 2? . DAILY SUMMARY 9 December 1963 This summary of significant information has not been coordinated outside the Office of Current Intelligence. It does not representa complete coverage of all current reports received, nor does time permit the complete evaluation of all reports which are included. CONTENTS MILITARY _DEVELOPMENTS: Three independent clandestine sources have reported on the unloading of military equipment from the Soviet vessel METALLURG BAIKOV in Havana harbor on 19 or 20 November. (Page 1) Soviet "coastal defense rockets" now belong to Cuban Army artillery forces, according to a recent speech by Raul Castro; however, Soviets still appear to be involved in . the communications net which serves the cruise missile ~ system. (Page 1) FIDEL CASTRO'S SPEECH: In a 6-7 December speech devoted mainly to education, Cas- tro digressed to discuss the situation resulting from Vene- zuela'ts charge that the arms cache discovered on a Vene- zuelan beach last month had come from Cuba. Castro implied that the arms had been planted by CIA and are being used as a pretext for new action by the "imperialists and their lackeys" against Cuba. He expressed confidence that what- ever the result, the Cuban revolution will not be defeated. (Page 2) CUBAN INTERNAL SITUATION: , Faure Chomon Mediavilla is replacing Omar Fernandez as } transportation minister; Major Jesus Montane Oropesa will be new communications minister. (Page 3) Heavy rainfall has apparently caused damages to military facilities in Pinar del Rio Province and hampered travel in Oriente Province. (Page 4) HW 55355 Docld:32401327 Page 2
van HW 355355 THE PRESIDENT'S ASSASSINATION: A Spanish-language daily in New York claims Madrid police are holding a self-confessed plotter against the late Presi- dent. (Page 4) INSURGENCY AND CIVIL UNREST: A fire on a farm near Cardenas, Matanzas Province, has de- stroyed one acre of henequen. (Page 4) An attempt has been made to shoot the chief of the PURS in Velasco, Camaguey Province. (Page 5) A militiaman arrested in Guantanamo on 3 December for sus- pected counterrevolutionary activities has been freed. (Page 5) The DSE unit at Ciego de Avila has captured one insurgent and reports the surrender of another; a resident of Jucaro has been arrested for cashing an out-of-circulation 50- dollar bill. (Page 5) Thirty-two people attempting to flee Cuba were captured by Cuban security forces on 8 December; this may be related to an earlier report which stated that an undetermined number of residents of Las Villas Province fled the country from an unknown point of embarkation. (Page 6) Several minor incidents of sabotage have been discovered on CUBANA aircraft. (Page 6) . A DRE leader in Mexico City announced that 126 Cuban mili- tiamen were killed in a clash with guerrillas near Sancti Spiritus, Las Villas Province. © (Page 6) CUBAN AIR FLIGHT CONNECTIONS: ‘Spain has approved regularl scheduled Havana-Madrid iitents by CUBANA airlines, (Page 7) SHIPPING SUPPORT FOR CUBA: The Argentine Government and the owners of the SS ANAMAR are determined that it will not take a cargo of Soviet - purchased coffee to Cuba. (Page 7) ii DoclId:3240135277 Page 3
HW 55355 | | DEVELOPMENTS : The| informed his government on 5 December that several have been impressed by the Cuban.claim that the weapons found in Venezuela last month had actually been planted there by the US. Apparently unaware that elaborate efforts had been made to erase all indications of the ‘Cuban origin of the weapons, they wonder > why Cuba would permit evidence of its involvement in send- \ ing arms to-Latin American guerrillas to be traceable to ‘Gaba. (Page 7) . The dispatched an urgent message to-his on 6 December express isgivings as to the attitudes of members of the special ommittee appointed. to investigate Venezuela ' s charges against the . Castro. regime. (Page 8) me In relatio on “of he Venezuelan arms cache, the to the has been instructed not to show "sympathy or excessive understanding in rela- tion to Cuba." (Page 9) SOVIET-CUBAN RELATIONS: A clandestine source has reported, possibly as a current rumor, that Fidel Castro visited Moscow around 15 November; there’ is no current evidence that he made any public. appear- ances in Cuba around that date. (Page 9) BLOC ECONOMIC RELATIONS: Five Polish merchantmen have been assigned to Cuban run. (Page 10) The Soviet-made AN-12 transport has landed in Cuba. (Page 10) NON-BLOC RELATIONS: The Moroccan foreign minister has received a Cuban "good- will" mission for the second time; local expectation is that formal relations will be re-established shortly. (Page 11) The President of Dahomey declined an invitation to attend the 1 January anniversary celebration in Cuba. (Page 11) Lii DoclId: 3240135277 Page 4