14-00000 I, March “- June 1962: Study of the Loci of Power Concluded: ‘A. “Power Groups in Cubs | a re oe 26th of July Movement Jt 2, The Popular Socialist Party, Communist _ (Partido Popular Socialists ~ PSP) | - 3, The Revolutionary Director (Directorio Revolucianario ~ DR) | | B. Key Leaders 4 - 2) 1, 26th-of July: a. Fidel Castro b. Raul Castro. c. Ernesto "Che" Guevera wo ; do Osvaldo Dorticos, President | “@. Raul Roa, Foreign Minister £. Ramiro Valdes, Minister of Interior — 2. PSP - Communist Leaders a. Cerlos Rafael Rodriguez, President of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria — INRA) b. Blss Roca, Member of the Executive Board of Integrated Revolutionary Organizations “4 a el. (Organizaciones Revolucionarias Integradss - “y - ORI). Par annennnences* tee. meee meres tneieee -maateeieie women “owe . oan Et Se SERRA
14-00000 Ste, Mew Be a. b. c. d. e. z. g. Lazaro Pena, Secretary General of the Cuban Revolutionary Labor Council (Central de Trabajadores de Cuba Revolucionaria - CTC-R) Manual Luzardo Garcia, Minister of Internal Commerce Antonio ‘Nunez siminez, ‘Executive ‘Director —of National Agrarian ‘Reform Institute CINRA) Severo Aguirre Cristo, a national leader of the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations (or) Lionel Soto _, ~Director General of Schools of Revolutionary Instruction 3. Important Men not Clearly Aligned: to the 26th of | July or Communist Power _Regino Boti, Minister of National Economy - Armando Hart Davalos, Minister of Education Alfredo Yabur Maluf, Minister of Justice Garlos Lechuga Hevia, Ambassador to UN Faure Chonon tre ¢ Raul Pruntiies, Cuban Delegate to the UN “pig “ (Ambassador). Garcia Inchsustegui, until recently head of the Cuban delegation to the UN Rolando Cubela Secades , Ex-President of | University Students Dr. Rene Vellejo, Castro's ‘personal physician . -2~
14-00000 Governmental Structure: . . lL. Present Ruling. Political Group: Integrated * Revolutionary Organizations (Organizaciones Revolucionarias Integradas - ORI) 2. Future Ruling Political Group: United Party . . of the Socialist Revolution. (Partido Unido de la | Revoluciona Socia}ista. ~ PURS) 3, Numerical Representations of Power Groups on Ministerial Levels: a, ‘26th of July Movement - 8 be PSP ~ Communist - 2 Cc. Revolutionary Directorate ~ 3 ad. . Fidel Castro Appointment --: (1) Raul Roa, Foreign Minister '(2) Rolando Diaz Astarain, Minister of Finance The Implications to the Power Alignments of Escalante's Purge :. | . | 1. The purge of Anibal Escalante Dellunde, Executive Secretary of the PSP from the position of in the ORI did not create a "split" between "new" and "old"! communists. 2. Castro's reasons for purging Escalante were Almcst Certainly Aimed at ~- Be ‘Reassuring those 26th of July leaders who had fought for the revolution but not for communism, ¢ -3~
14-00000 ord mae te i as Putting the brakes on the PSP's grab for power, . c. Castigating Escalante for personal a . _ "sectarianism", a os on . E A New View on Splitting the Regime: a 7 1. Castro's purge of Escalante surfaced his | concern for the belance between the hon-communist ; @lements of the 26th of July Movement and the "unaligned" government leader and the PSP - "ojiq" and "new", 2.. To split Castro from the PSP would be difficult and of questionable value: _ a. The PSP to -gain its final objective would take any insult and turn the other cheek. ae had embraced Fidel and would not let go under any circumstances. To rise against Castro now would not be opportune, and would probably be fatal, b. Fidel was now totally dependent on the Soviet Union ¢. The only hope was not to split Fidel from PSP but to identify, at every opportunity, him and his government -with communism, for only the non-communist element of the 26th of July Movement and the “unaligned leaders 4. % ee ae.
74-90000 4d of the government could effectively be _ split, from. the government. ¢. This conclusion did not preclude the Task Force from attempts to create. suspicion, hostility and. friction between Castro and | "tthe PSP.” ns n The Direction of Task Fores Efforts to Split the Regime: ‘A. To identify those members of the 26th of July Movement and other "unaligned" government leaders who were for .;, the revolution but against communism. To date, there is reasonably ‘good evidence indicating that the following individuals do not approve of the communist direction of the Cuban revolution and may in fact be conspiring against the regime. 4. Major Pedro Miret Prieto, commanding artillery unit 2, Ambassador Gustavo Arcos ¥y Bergnes 3. Commander Sebastian Arcos, brother of Gustavo nnd | a commander in the Cuban havy. Has been in Prague for gome time ona training mission | 4. Orlando Ventura Reyes 5. Manuel Carbonell Duque 6. Major Faustino Perez, former minister charged with the recovery of stolen properties ° ow & ae
7. Omar Fernandez Canizares, Minister of Transporte-~_ tion. 06 d . NOTE; [| lis undoubtedly an. important member of this group’of potential .con- spirators, TFW has made an unsuccessful but sustained . effort to are in |E pite our a eontact with TPH sources Conspiring- in Cuba today is. dangerous business, - . . ° These are fearful men and neither easily identified Lo or easily contacted within Cuba. ‘Each of the above men’ remain as high priority targets | within. Our main efforts to contact them take two - directions: (1) The identification of suitable intermediaries to them, and (2) the eventual use of internal assets now in place. 8, Major Rolando Cubela Cubela Secades, ex-president of deration of: ‘University Students. An M.D., Rass trained and returned to Cuba after a _aftending ‘the World Youth Festival in Helsinki in June 1962, ce oe 9. . Juanita Castro, younger sister. of. Fidel and. ‘Raul om  Eecruited, ‘trained and returned to ex oo a Oe Raul Jaime Diaz Dias sreuslle :) - Ori Reporting from Havana through |AMSTRUT/1, the who travels to Cuba for TFW rool were] lives. - (0 Tp
14-00000 1 , , Major 3 Diaz is described as a "new"? communist _ 4. by Juanita Castro . oo | 11, Raul Roa, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Effort to contact and recruit in October 1962 failed. Recruited and working for TFW is | He resides in Miami.  TFW is. presently engaged in attempting to resettle the parents ess the U.S. The departure - _ of the parents from Cuba’ will leave Ps Ort Gitte eh am aan sensei Y doaelBnes ese a + a on ee, : | the. last member of her. large family in Cuba, ' . a : This move. of her par ts could cause a final - Co a a break between tie who are already in- | ; tensely. concerned with their situation with | - . ‘Cuba, Raul Roa remains a high priority target. 12; President Osvaldo. Dorticos, An attempt to * recruit President Dorticos in October 1962 failed. | Dorticos was approached by a TFW asset in New York during his last visit to the United Nations. Our agent was "forcibly" removed from the hotel whereDorticos was stoying. cheat ae ~- sre ae 13. Jose Lianusa, Director of Sports in Cuba and one time "Mayor" of Havana, Efforts to. recruit Llanusa in May 1962 tailed: however, a total of ten (10) Cuban athlets defected d during the. Same period of the ‘9th Central American and Carribean games in Kingston, Jomaica. t. ‘ -7-
14-00000 “3 BSP eee i | | f9-2 4d, Major Jose: Ricardo | Rabel “Rabel Nunez, chier of Rural Housing» in Cuba refused to work in place but will defect, Contact ‘is maintained inside Cuba. Rabel states he will fly out of Cubs _ with, a "fat one” ( (unidentified). Ob oa an ts 6 Us, hired to recruit technicians. for Cuban industry has been recruited, He has recently returned to Cuba. He claims to be close to "Cher Guevara and Minister of National Economy, Regino Boti.. ay serve aS an excellent mechanism for the infiltration of TFW chosen technicians into Cuba. | - 16. Mrs, Carlos Lechuga, wife of Carlos Lechuga ‘Hevia, Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations, is expected to seek asylum and break with her husband and Cuba. toward the end of November > .
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