SEP 2 3 t09 \A) Separate Cover Atta chment ‘to Fee. No. 1 to -<= UFGA~ 23072 oF SECRET ° uear- cows DOG. MICRO. @ZRr. Unidad Revolucionaria Mcmorandun The following steps have been taken in the defection and subsequent publicity of Gilberto Alemany, Trade Counselor of the Cuban Embassy in Tokyo, Japan: 1, <A press conference was held on August 27th at 7 pem, in the Biscayne Room of the McAllister Hotel, which was attended by most of the menLers of the Miami area press, {approximately 50 persons in total) in rész;unse to Unidad Revolucionaria (UR) invitation, Mr, Alemany read a Statement prepared by him and by members of the UR, which was also mimevyraphed and distributed both in Englisn and Spanish to the persons prezent at the Conference, Photos of the event were taken, to be Inter . published in the UR publications, A recording of the proceedings was made. 2. Covérage by the press included the following items: a. A front-page article by Mary Louise Wilkinson in the Miaxci News of August 28th, (Both editions), . b, An article by Don Bohning in the Miami Herald of August 28th, ce A front-page story in the "Diario de las Americas" of August 29th by Benjamin de la Vega, d; An editorial in the Miami News of August 30th? e; An article by Humberto Medrano in the “Diario de la Anericas” of September Ist, £., A story in the "El Universal" of Caracas, Venezuela, of September lst, ; ge TV stations Channel 4 and Channel 7 broadcast filmed stories of the press conference on August 27th and 28th, ; h, Radio stations WRUL and Radio Americas taped interviews with Mr. Alemany on August 3lst, i; Radio program “La Voz de Cuba" also taped an interview e on 4ugust 31st? je AvlsP3 interviewed Mr. Alemany (Jose M. Illan) on September Ist for a cover story in that publication, ke The “Voice of America" taped an interview on September Qnd (Manolo do la Torre), Sie 1. Mr, Al Burt, Latin editor of the "Miami Herald", terviewed Mr: Alemany on September Qnd for a subsequent storys a . i i
14-00000 SECRET mz Radio Tropical of Caracas, Venezuela also broadcast the story on Septombor ist; . 3, Mr. Alemany's defection statement was sent to the following addresses: as On August 28 and 31, to the attached list of Japanese newspapers in Tokyo, ( be On August 31st, to 110 Japanese firms on the UR. blacklist. Co on September Ist, to the UR economic mailing list in — the United States and Canada, which includes sugar brokers, business ~ concerns, economic publications such as "Journal of Commerce", ete? d. On September 2nd, the Spanish version was sent ta 148 addresses in Spain, which includes’ Spanish firms, newspapers and government offices, e, To 100 Latin American newspapers and Japanese embassies, including the Japanese embassy in Washington. £ To 150 shipping firms in the United States and Canada? g3 To economic publications throughout Europe? h; To the members of the Japanese Trade Mission which toured Latin America during March, with personal letters from Dr; Cavada; i; The UR is currently completing the mailings to the other addresses on its blacklist in other countries. 43 The UR has prepared a summary of Alemany's original statement which is being sent to the addresses mot yet covered; (Copy attached) o 4 5, Dr? Rivas-Vasquez of the UR propaganda section contacted Mr, Martin Correa, Secretary General of the Venezuelan Dockworkers for further steps in that area, Rivas-Vasquez also spoke to Mr? Salvador Romani, of the Movimiento Anti-Comunista Femenino de Venezuela, and Mr, Carlos’ Andres Perez, former Venezuelan Cabinet member and future presidential candidate, Mrz Martin Correa also requested, and was granted, a private interview with Mr> Alemany on Saturday, August 28, which was 3 also attended by Dr, Seiglie, president of the UR, 6, Additional follow-up action is listed below: a; Mr? Enrique Lindner, the UR delegate in Washington, D. Coy was instructed to try to get Mr; Alemany's statement into a leading national magazine or publication, for which he was sent copies plus photostats of the confidential documents brought by Mr; Alemany during his press conference. -Mr,; Lindner was hopeful of arranging insertion of the statement in the magazine "U, ‘S, News and World Report." SECRET ok
14-00000 SEC RET b, The NBC television program, "The Today Show", was approached and offered an interviow with Mr, Alemany through Mr? Paul Cuningham, associnto producor of that program; e ce Mrz Alemany has drawn up a plan which includes the writing of porsonal letters by him to a number of directors of Japanese firms with which he dealt in Tokyo; “as Mr, Jose Alvarez Diaz, a trade specialist and Cubana economics professor at the University of Miami is preparing an analysis of MrJ.Alemany's defoction statomont, which he will ry to have published. in a leading economic publication? e, An attompt is boing made to arrange for a television panel show on one of the local stations, ~ wy tee asd pa eet de 4 a, SECRET 4 geen 4g we
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