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Pr eave ’ oo : ee hg gene fer ER ETE sscS pe ESSE TEM ST % = — . s ma : 6 May 1960 MENGLAWOUM PUR TRS ReooRS ee a SUBJECT: Meeting with Dr. Manuel Amtenle Varona on § May in liew York City, 2036 te 1315 houre co i. Yarena arrived the evening of & Mey and registered at the st. yorits =| Hetel. ‘fter severs) caauccesaful efforts to reach him there (because hie cleans . * wee lege), Z finally. got hin.:t about 2330 hours and.:cheduled.+ coetingwith hia for the next corning. 1 met him ia the lebby of the hotel, and we spent the bette ter pert of the next three hours in @ stroll around U.ntral ierk and at lunehe for the ‘iret heur or se Yarona unleaded a -munber-of- theugh:te on the curro7t political situstions most of these we are slresdy familiar with, but among the points thet he had te make were some which my be new ond wiieh «re covered belo. . 2. Yarona wag sheeked over the ‘enate Interns] Security Jubcomeitte’s ~ ‘choice of Col, UCGALDE Carrille to testify before thaa, Varons dese-ives this .. person as en sbeolute war opiuinal eho. has.no business sppesring before any offielal United states bedy. Se saya thet he might resign himself to the fact thet 4m our de-ceratio,-perlimantary ayeten of goverment such things oan happsn, there ia net ihe slightest rossibllity that the avorege Latin imeriean evull ever understand thet thie set4on doea act reprecent the thinking of the entire United States Goverrment. shen I tried to explain this in terms of our trediticnal separntion of rowers betwoen the :egislative and cxecutive -renches, the f<ot '  ¢hat we are in an eleetion soar, and other extenuating ¢iroumstances, /arona& - expressed amasenent that we have no more ef 6 sen.e of con on pursese here in ' this country than we apparently de, The Legialatave Rrench goes one direction and the Fuseutive Braneh goes another o.4 there appears to be Little ecordination between the two. 9, Varene wns alse cuite unherpe chor. the..spesial. rrosedure shich Innale @ration had given him vhen ha resahed aw Tork the night vefora, “Ne inougih that Le hed been hundled ino rether discourteous wy and could not understand why he was placed on porole «nd inetructed to ‘eep Im dgrstion end Seuurs lisvation informed of his «ddrese -& 111 tines, 1 explained thie seals) ,sreasure to hin and enphaaized the fact that le wee something that we laid on for cnly cortain gelost reople, that it wns oubting through mountains ef rod tepa ki rernitting wieltlors sah og Varena to move -raind the country oP even to leara it nnd rekurr ' without the normal adminietr tive diffteultdoa, Phie mollif led his, and iron that point on 1 would say that our coneorsation wae on © vary eordial planes 3 2k 4 & + H ‘ 3 : : 4 y
‘ @t the Con‘erence were of cany politdeal hues «nd that nothing of grest interest = |. -- ¢eck plage on the fleer iteslf but rather in private caucuses and erall uestings ~ | :. of Anterest to us cperstionally im sveseeding paragraphs. L Propognnda. ‘These are the following: wk Jattfpetinnd enalee a e x te na . . } . ce week * f we Fogee < | ; ' & Wevirg fast returned from the Con’erenee on Desoerzrcy and ‘recdan in Carae*e, Varona nad a number of thourhts on thet. «6 conai‘ered the U mference @ great auccess frosa the -tardroint ef the \iberal Jubang vio ha: epposed any se Fesolution approving the. Cestro regime, fe gaid there wa a strong wove sfeot to i Hi i : | | put ever such.» resolution bul that he, Janches irenge, Jose ignaeie vases snd a | i ! | i i oa en a a tet others were able to keep gush 4 resolution from beirg cassed, Tie -nin s;onsore ef this, ty the -ny, were menbers -f the left wing of «0 ‘ection iescer.tica af Yensauela, “e alse said that a nunbur of reorle of lib ral tendencice sttc: ded the useting with gross missonce;tions concer: ing tre nature of the Castro regine and that he and the cther Gubeng th: 1 sentioned were able te convert & number é of these, ‘mong them were ALiende (fnu) of Argentina -n@ several others vhose i nases he hag recorded. in other «orde, some good alasion ry work was done st the (Mee te gg es Wet ae ee Wa 2b ..Gonference, In terms of officis] resulta, there wag very little... he -tel:..6e- thet the agenda wag not terribly, well worked out, that the peorle in sttenance \ a Maas aamabeti behind the seenes, i411 menticn sone of the resulte of tre Conference which are; " Gq He culte naturally had a great derl toe say -bout the Cestro repins and he pointed out three ereng in wich Castro enjoypg a great vropagania advientage today, ayeae which we would be well sdvised-to keep in nind in planning our ows. @ Castro's conversion of former nilitery barracks inte echoole.. thie SE .. hae been & trem-ndous propaganda suceess for Cautro, He hee monsged te soM-pedal completely the frat thst be's built new barracks and that ¢he erry ie now bigger than it over has been. vl) Be The letent mistrust or outright. dislike of the United states in the : @inds of nest Latin Aserieans. Caoatro hag been able te play tiis theme =; - baehvard and vorwird, openly and tacitly, «ith eroat aussens, . : @e The apparent affinity of the tmited ststes! Senate for former suprorters - @P i.e Pa@iete reginse Tale has boon teughed on in an carlicr joregraptie te . : $ 6. Varona told ae that he planned to vo te Miami on 6 May and return te fiew York City on the sighthor the merning of. the ninth, uring these two or three daye in Vinni he wants to find sn apertient. He wiil raturn to New fork in tine for the -eeting of other Cuban oj, position te:corg, inaiwiing duste Carrillo, : faeeo and othore, and hae no intention at tuls time ef going te haghingtone 9. Me would like te tring hie ni fa. ama devehter Oo. the. tholes.ne goon ae. ' peastble but hepes he can “lier ihe daughter to Mintel primary sehool, whieh wili