14-00000 - Page 3 - teke until around 10 Jum, tefore tringing hor and the: -@.lePr ver. “He je slee | | qaite concerned shout the seryint, -o cld family retainer, -teso visa tae not yet, - been issued teenuse of sowe difficuities she fot into several youre ‘go -ithout being awsrs tt she was i‘ recking a Lnited Stctes? la.. Thie =stter ras bean eerered im an exchangu of cables -mj : recommend that @ do vhatewer .@ Gan “or the woman so 48 te eet the Varon: ‘omily's mind :t ense on this ;elnt, — & ering our conversation laren: ence a nunber of reinte which may be of | | walue in commeetion with our. fortksoalng propaganda jregpan, ewersl of ou | a walnerabilities l've referred to in one cf thse earlier p-wegraphs, and we should - . | é@ whatever ve ean to repair them, Anether reint of interest »ea varona's feeling === |. teward Franeieso ICGHA30, Thia..gentlesn used te be . writer of editertals for oe hoo : Ge 1s Mirira, and he hus alee werked for 3ohenia and station Chl. He wa \ ob ee tistaat one time, Varena haa 4 wery high regard fer hi= es 4 writer and ut : ves Peele ¢hat he can be useful if he writes-anenymously or umier aren names -He-ig: @- 0d ' ‘$Ret anxious to bring him out and il] undoubtedly plan on using him for propaganda ; _ writing if and when Ichase gets cut of Cuba, Concerning the usracas Conference | *. yh$eh just finished, verona told me that the apeech which Caldera (1 believe it \ ° | fe Rafeacl Caldera) mde at the closing seetion wen, in his ow words, "formidable®, : @ tremendous speech, This, for sow reason, has net, been pullicieed either in . atin imeriea or here in the United States, sceording te Varona. It would he”: ~ op. Ee, ‘ wery good for ue to do everything possible toe srrend the word of Caldera throughout pF the henisrhore, Verona alse seid: thet “dunrdo FRET von .lva of: Chile spoke": anne ‘ extremely well en the opening day but that his reverke were off-the-euff and there’ probably is no written reserd of what Frei had to say. imintvetin gene metervett syste ev art an metimbe arm anverie ws 82 tana = i ; 9, Before leaving Caragas, VYarona organized » nucleus of a proraginda outlet there. He expects to use Carsgas ago diatribution center rer ;repaganda“throughe out South Auerien and the Caribbean, He hed @ talk with rresident Retansourt there vhe arproved this setivity. Petancsourt teld Yarena henceforth to go direstly _ te the Minister of _TFOReUry » MAYORRE, o5, hig official conteat. - 20_. Yerena obviwusly hae o arent nang iveas on the .olitiesl field, tie hae & Fopresontative in Caracas, ag I have wentioned, snd he hopss within the near future ia heve bia own :o0,le in every aountry of the hantsphcrs «9 agit=prop bynes, Gio of! the ven that ho oxpeates to use for thie type Am@llo FIALLO, who Le now din Klos and eboe has been mentioned dn aomunlestiona to the "ield end in a ROROT ilnn fro cparit. Fialle ie « Cuban, 6 forver mmher of Aacian Cato) lon, feta extrentiy vall-ordented ,olitieslly and en cusellert epecker,. Clelle mide only cons mistake in ido pulitie rl enroer, aecording to Varona, That was in 1939, whan he sup: orted the idea of elections under the Katista regime. le has ainee Seen via light and is now seneidered quite reliable and valuable by Verena, whe plane to send him on co tour oF Latin A\meriea, . | 1 |pd tec Mae
te - . the Bender-Cerr group to raise the roint.) a having Sanehes join the SLrestorate, if I may cxll it thet, He did say that |. Sanches, Mike Rubio Fadilla, bas to-te handled ~ith kid gloves, For exazple, - Banshes should never sttend 4 meeting of Uubane snd thelr :merican advisors, we what I thought of kublo. In non@comaittal fashion 1 turned the question aruund an 6 Kay 1960 Page & Li, Varons told me th:t before leaving Cubs he -e8 able to org nice a enmplote wierground rovemant of -corle whe ere not cpenly identified with the A&etentice Meve-ent. ve Ts . 12. Comearnirg s site for a future Junta, Covernnent-in-exlle, ‘irectorlo er whet have you, Tarona doubte that Costa Lisa will te suitable. «elations . between “Pepe” Pirueres and Tresident -eheadi are rot aa good 18 they vould have te te for Pigueres to obtain the approval of Eehandi for such activities, lhere would be no problem in ‘olding = mosting or series of reetings of tiis group in San Jose, but as a permanent site, it is doubtful, ‘n Yaronate opinien. (1 @idn't bring up the concept of a goverment-in-exile or -ny of the attendant Yegal problems, so we didn't discuss this. In my view it would be better ‘or - 13. then I asked him then what vould be 0 better servianont site for the F - >. “@arecting bedy, he said that Kexiao would be goods but the United states would: aoe endoubtedly have to be the asin rasembly point for these people, —— be Varona raised the question of 3anches Arango. Ho leans in favor of @o@e Kr. Bender or Mr. Carr, for the resson tint to Sanches Arsnge thie would appear to be servitude on ce part ofthe Cubans towards the-Anerieans, And if at ory later date he had a difference of opinion with the other Cubans in the group, he might charge them with being lackeye of the Americans. with this in mind, Varona recommended that we talk to Sanches Arango separateiy before he §eins any Cuban group uncer our sponsorship. 15. When I gave VYarona the letter fron Junn Antonio Rubio Padilla, he asked te Yarona himself, At this, he aniled snd paused a long bir: ond then told ine ¢at iuble wag a fine man but that he had lest two ecne whe died of the sane dllnens, thot this has ade of hin, Lf not a bitter man, one wha retaing his 8 shea w witin ors oh nin wo oe ae ae & oS ‘ a. 8 fa ed 2a § Love 3 a a ae “$a - tay feud . fedcpends:: #3 t¢ as exbresse This fg hie minelpsl sharacéeia- ics  iGadbiesily, --- he is .wite eonservutive but free of any invelvenen’ with the lutieta regina, He's a man whe likes te work slone and whe ie nce& inalined to go along with the wil) of the majority in altunticus iike the present ane where -moabare of tho opposition te Castro are trying.eo organise despite interns] polities) differences. 36- In connection with hia ontry st Idlewild on 4 May, Varons asked Carr for some help ~hen Carr salle’ nina Inter in thy evening. Corr in turn referred hin to a gentlewn raned leon Dennen who Lives :t 77 bark Terrance cast and hos two tolephonos, ‘A Q-lihh and 1G Jobh72_ fMennen telephonac varona on the noroing of § May at Varona'a hotel and volunteered to help Varena-with nny problems he might have wth imigrstion and Neturaiigation. \fter 1 had explained to his "y . Mee Rae fet
i i i i carnations ae ene NN & key 1960 Page 5 thst the speeial troseture involved, Yarom saw no further need te talk te Demen, However, | suggested we check «ith Csrr te Sind out Low this san got inte our oeret: one , 17. The political -art of our diseuseion wa to have followed ¢ forast wileh “r. “reller snd [ worked cut tefere 1 left. It wag to include a reticrale for the cresert imited Ststes® cositien in cetin “zeriea and wee to Gover such it@se a@ his travel te .ashineten, tut the conversation culekly toek auch > tura that I sece a couple of on-the-spot shanges, “or one nine, vercna ia suite familiar with United itates! ¢) inking on cuba and is unhappy stout it. in the respects I have menticned earlier, but 1¢ least he's so;histieated enouch to vaderetand the whys and weerefores, (ne fairly inrertant point atten we did cover, however, @encerred the kerter-Carr group. teld varens very frankly chat certain activities were not eichir ey province but there ws a eroup that : wos .ware of,. heeded by Yr. Carr (wiowe name incidentally varona hod mentions: te me first}, that this group was comrletely reliable and vell-intentioned ami did have the proper contacts ~ith car gevernment and thot he should “ave ne reservations bout working with trie grow, .t this sewe tine, I gnve Yaron ny own arerpency : telephone qumber, ME 869, in case he should have any problema with United States’ suthorities auch se INI, ind { alee dlacussed with hin & number of figures of importance in the Caribbean ,clitieal situiticn--intelligs-ce astters «hich an American officiel would Bava interest in, Tho subleate thet I "avoided" were paraniliter,; and the westion of conversion sf veses fer ¢ollers, foe Ucin't bring up the polnt sn‘ we talked about 30 .anr other things that 7 decidad te leave this one for the atte: tien of the lie.dermCarr froun, #e Lt locked Jite & good oprortunity for then to help Jarona out and thereby establish that .weh wore raprert. 18. Verona told ~e that In tha twelve houre er eo thet he'd now toon in Now York he had already received on agproach from “useblo ‘ujal, the -onner erief of the CTC unter Batista, Throveh 9 wan naned Alverto ur Lfred: Us, Yujal sent word that ne recopnized that any roturn to the ototue cua ues Batlete is new out of the -usation ad that he de willing to Vary abt ifs ce ues ond work in complete harmony with such ,eople ra Tony varona with tie aine.t wh eotive ef piddime cube of Fiten f.at-s, Vamena f@ noe going ta reject tifa ora:neal Gut of hand tut ie nolaa to acinly 14 very Oareruily -mi tvik te acne of hie Cuban eolleagues about it, in tris connection, it Le intoresting to note thyt ¥arona and perhaps other cubene may well be woftaning towards the ‘orcer "antouchable® groupe of fatisterog s@ in the onse of Yujod ond fehawo, the w@lter that L mentioned eloewera, 7 EP AMLLI TRY 19, ‘@ did not tleeues this eubjeot o& gresi lengtl, ag 1 had very carefully drawn a line Letween dhe sotivitdes im which | had a legati:.$e interest -@ a United Waleg! Coen ant offielal erni thoae wieieh ecuid best te nandiws in sone jumotion with iriv-te aroups, dee, the darreiien er ereup (nee pearagenyh LP) Rowever, Varona iid montion to ma tha: ne had, in Vereaucla, 4 frist tie wae a feo res ae eee oe so tment od, caper SOE a
_ 6 ge 6 wealthy omer of & finca ard that thie friend tad ;ronised hia tre use of the finea for such vareilit rr training sur: oses ag he mipnt have et eome later date. pe eonvereation did net rermit me to learn the wan's naze at the tise and I . - at gentien the point here sere. 28 a lead for ,cesible ister fellew-ap. en ro STATBERLED a 20, Varom toid - that be hed lined up a ham redio epereter in Carse*s, Venesuela snd that he wished te institute a radio schedule bet-een a mn in the Hieamt area and the one in ‘ergsmola te give him eommunication with hig group -' @ewn there. This patterr, wig established curing .the Datiste regius by the rebel -: writes, and it ie desiredle new, according to Varona, in view of the itresious _.  @emmmiestion fsellities betwen Carsess and the United States. i suggested . ¢het we aignt be able to help him eet up the American end of thie met. ~ ~ | i i ! - >... Qi, then I brought up the point of establishing staybehind camo with hie : people 4m Cubs to be im readiness in the-event of a break in Felations with ¢he -. United Stites, he was ulte enthusiastie. Re is going to come up with names of. | i 0. people whe could come to this country for three or four veeke for the necessary’ \ 3 “| ’ germs training and then co beek in to tork transnitters-receivers and/or to Mi 3 *: @raim ethers, I alse pronieed Yarena that we could meke radie transzitter= , peeeivere available to bins. a Co re 99. XY used the name “Robert Regere" with Verona, Since AKAIL-3 was also | dn tom, had seen me the preceding day and aleo knows 20 58 *Regers" thie lecked Like the best alla. ; ; _ ne Lo uh/b/Frop 4 eo sh/h/intes Bw Wi/g/iR 1 ~ oH/a/ehrono (Nano for the Record) . a ee Ordige & 1 = O/H/b t 2 ad jy Re ae