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Chier, Contact tiviston oe @h March 1961 _ Atta: Buygort- Branch’ (Crovey) te doe ay _ Chief, Vasbingtan Office . Drterview with AKEC Comal ttee 2. At the request of Mr. Asheraft for leicht, wi Division, - Frank Sheridan interviewed the comzittee for APEC at the Washington ? Field Office sa 24 March 1961. ‘hey consisted ef Abel Mestre. Victor Pedruso, Silvio Emabria, teelie Pantin, Carlos Garcia del Tran, and Paul Sellmen. Hestre stated thet the orgmization vad founded about Jime 1960 in Mies es a clandestine spolitical group with the objective to ovurlorov Coatro, to uiite the warlous Cuvem exile Quinn ax to or pete laws tug the effective reconstruction of Cuba. Hamporanip 1s comprised of. individual businesses rather than representatives of lavge - organi sat ions + 2. The committee had been gesting with various Uited States officials in veshington, D. Co, to express ite vicws. Ite mnbers aro worrled over Cestro propaganda, which, - although wntrue, has becn accepted as fact, 1.00, twenty thousand Killings by Beatista and the elain that Castro? B wee @ social revoluiion rather then a political ; One. ‘they palated out that the Qaen ecomony vos fonserly proeporiag with en enlerging middle class, so that the term social revolution hes bown used uy Castro primarily. wo prose ielist coesuxes.. La aldition, later legislation vas in effect which sctually pot employers et @ disadventepe with exployces, caspared to the other countries of Latin Anerica. ‘The problem facing Cuban labor wes prinarily the ‘sceaponal GOe Crop COREY. how the pecyle have less pay, leas oormmodities @ratisble, no claims against enyone and merely vork for a Castro-Conruniat governnent. The farmer hag not been helped dy agrarien refom, tnt hes been obliged to enter cooperatives or to ‘pell his craps et controlled prices, which are paid when end how the government pleasce Thia ie merely en imitation of viet Castro - promised. . 3. ‘fhe coemites feels thet sspporters of the revolution ectually were seeking Lonccty in govermpat mil the Lioerty outlined in the - 1940 constitution. In this regard, the orabars feel that the Comanists may try for e eecénd round in any government renlecing Castro. Such on toterin regione mugt develop caretul seams to promote true democratic elections. This govrurmueest may include covert Comamists uto would be a coustam threst. for thia reason, it waa exmhestzed end re-emmuasized thut the exile leatars be Bost carefully screened vy the United states befure their retuni to Ciba.
14-00000 us Lo a 7 oo 4. A major concert hes been unification of the various exiled factions. Thia has mw started, but the ccamittes fools that. wusinesasen such as they represent abould be proportionately represeated They beliave that so lefists of any sbeie should bs included in the provis governsst. luainens representatives 6f the econaai¢e elagses: should. perticigate for the first dime in‘ Cuban politics and. . but 46 o GQumamist epriagbosrd against the United States. They urged. ‘that the United States do vhst they, the businessman, failed to do in. Cuba ~ to. take the offmsive. ‘Developaats in Guba have followed the clascic Qaammist techniques, so thet it axmuld not be difficult to - anticipate future uores. United Btates ta must be overhauled. It should be lesw pessive eml nore ‘effectively agsressive. To. date, orogagreda hes bee the Caxmaniste’ anst effective wearan sal the. United States bas lost to the point that it ts threatened by 6 serious loos. of reayect in tation Aaerioae  Altianigh it bas long been the basia idéal, sodel, som Letios ere beginning to wonisr whether they ero right about the United Btaseo end whathor they stoaid gvitoh ofdes. Fidel Castro won hia revoluticu »y proyagenia sai not by amt. 7 be gha grinary vorvy Of the vomittse scam to be the leftist ; oriemation of leaders vbo-bavu taken over the in exile a@uring recent days. Syey enhasised thet Qde coeds a democratic govornseat end Gey fees 2 tyranny ‘ef the rictt or the left. The Waited States aust realise that some of the exile leatars partici pated fneton goverment emi edhe try to continues Saco eS oe 2
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