ee SECRET ane 20 October 1959. ‘evans 9OR Ta RECORD a 7 ‘Hs ghlights of Pape-Retorded Gonversation an Hand Betwoon . Cee Se Tree Ootoues’ mt Om Onidauthtied Cuban daring a Porton aed Ostober — ae . . - - rar 20 October the undersigned end) sot WH/3 — steed to the play-back of a tape, brought to Washingten from aod . ‘and given to Colonel King by Mr. Padley on 19 October, which was a recording of Mr. Pawley's cowreraations with two Gubans during the i - period 17-18 Octeber. fhe first conversation was with an unidentified . Qube, believed to be a member of a group of veslthy anti-CASTHO Cubans, a ’ members. of: which have talked te Mr, Paley recently about their “.: plane for sabotage of the coming sugar harvest as reported in UMJAW32 © - dated 2:Cctober. The second Cuban wae AMPACA-], a Cuban jJownalist = °°. /. . of operational interest to Station Habanay and & » separate memorendim Pano Ty, is subuitted on that sonversation. St a a mo 7 ‘the ‘unidentified: Cuban, who bad somewhat of an accent and ee poke indistinctly, was difficult to understand. He mentioned a. _ meoting "with some. of our prople who came up from Cuba” to discuss . ~ plans. He said his group had been contacted by 3 representative of - General Jose Bleutorio PEDRAZA, leader of Cuban revolutionary groups = _.. “4a the Dominican Republic, who wanted to know what action theiy gromp sg. _° hed taken and was teld that they had a plan "to start sabotage". ‘The - > Cuban: said. the PRDRAZA representative | eaid theix group (the PEDRAZA --.. group) had four. provinces organised in Cuba, mentioning Camaguey and .. ... . Santa Ohara s and: that. ‘they. had ‘two provinces yet te be organised wm oo 3. “the. ‘Cuban ‘paid his group needed two “things - owen moral backing ae BE ana nonayy. he pointed. out that Cu Gubang in Guba are afraid’ to start an = oF - ‘underground movement, and there was no way to raige funds, etc. Myr. . . .- Pawley gave him no encouragement on the money angle, saying that even 22!) . ££ there were Americans willing to rug the risk of becoming invelved - -. . | dn Cuban yevolutionary. activities by furnishing money for euch a. | ' . ‘movement, which he doubted, he felt that at the present time it would =. . be.like "putting money dowm.a rat-hole" for the following reasonas, =. .- (1) there is no. unity among the anti-CASTRO groups, and there are abo - |. least 10 that he knows of who are working absolutely independently of . « - one anothers and (2) CASTRO ie in control of the country and hag the ~~ . of a large number of Cubans, especially the van reeiee Mer, Pawley said he felt the Cuban economic situation was worsening © =. _. fast and that if 1t gets bad enough, a large number of Cubans wilh | _ tyrn on CASPROs but until that time comes 1t.would be | dangerous to - “7 to > organise a | Fewolutionary movenente co } . | SET
13-Q0000 ~ ot, Se ~ + ne en a> he “Wee Paley - asked the Guban if his group felt they had moral - gupport ef. the Us %. and the Cuban replied that:.they wanted U. S,. ‘moral. support: but whether they had it or net, they felt they were obhiged to carry through with their plans. Mr. Pawley said he didn't -. know what to tell him «= would have to think about it and see if any~ eo thing cevld be done. . He said, “having been connected with the U. 5, _ Government, I can't get. involved in revolutionary movements", Aleo. "~  gadd-he would hate to see the Dominican Goverment get involved, | ! which might. be difficult te avold with so many Cuban exiles there, mM Regret he understood "the Doniniean Government. hasn't” ; re or oceans « enna