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14-00000 VISIT WITH MAWJEL RAY ND CARLOS piago i PUERTO Bio _DoaTeG TRE FIRST VEE OF JRE, 1862... ae “The puspose of this visit was te Atecuss. the posstbilicy ef @ Cubsa iaforastion bulletin in line with the euggest ion made some weeks earlier by S Javier Pascoe, This was else en opportunity to discuss ether activities upea which wo might peesibly colleborate, I spoke with Ray for two or threes hours following s day long alecussion with Diag. When I described for Ray the project of the Cuban information bulletin as Diageo and 1 conceived ef it, he was enthusiastic, %t should be rocaliod that 1 bed woved euey from! Pasoa’a carlier concept ton of the bulletin. end hed coms. to the conclusion thet such o bulletin would be most useful ead wniqae, 2 if 4¢ were based on material coming from inside Cuba, Ta ether , words, we would not wish merely to duplicate bulleting euch as.. "Druth about Cubs" which are prepared in exile and written by extles with their own particuler ‘slant. ve heve a model for the bind of bulletin I am discuseing ia our own Folotin Jnfermst ive whieh ia based on materials prepered entirely insids Speia, | both Diego eal Rey eccepted enthustastically this ceaception ef the bulletia aod beth assured me thet a regular flew of infornstion fort ttle The two possibilities wa ‘discussed were the group crowed the cng idine wis POLITICS ia Vencauele ane ‘she school os Costa Rica which trina, | eeee
14-00000 ‘- *~ 2 = Be % ‘  peodyaing woat of the information used im the bul tee! "with Ray. By early Septeaber, we should moc where: school and thought chat tt vould be a very god sponser, “Be apoke enthuafastically about the werk being done there end felt that this would be the aest euigable placa for the propsrat ica of the bulletin, 1 teld him thet we would wove ahead along these iimes and ace if we could interest the school in. this propeattton, He, tn cura, promised hie full eupport for’ the projec to wake avatleble the inforwctica at his “étzposat oa a‘reguler- basis, The project for the bulletin ts now in the hands, of Father Runes at the Costa Rican school, 1 have sent “hfe @ detailed outline of how we conceive of the bulletin, and have asked him to discuss it with Beexs Flores during Baeza Flores‘s stay at the echool in July. Ideally, I would thiek thet semeone from the school would want to meet with Carlos Diago and Faste Maso who is | presently ia Veasguela, These two young men would ba the’ nost likely people to produce the kind of bulletin deacs: i above,: ie might furthermere be useful to meet with Ray since , 7 ia the beginning. The question of where the bulletio locates t was left open, But ince aD woeful way of proceeding, I contime to feai er ti would best be located at tha school itself where the production of such a bulletin could be fitted in to the regular curricolat of. the eslool, project, te wa,
14-00000 our Servicio de Pronsa which he finds vary useful, Furtheracre, be effered his help im the diste {bution of ehe Draper beck ead of ‘ CUADERHOS im Cuba, For this purpose, ha suggested tha wa send copies of CUADERNOS, a hundred per month, regularly ‘e Cleneros whe lives at 347 North Best 36th Streat, Miong, ‘Plestas Cisnerce vould act under the instruct tons of Ray as the distributor Kee? in Cuba for CUADERNOS end other materials vbich we would produse, Rey also urged that we do vbatevar possible fa the Doriinican Republic, We spoke of the meny seeds of the intellectuals there, and of the rele which the Congress could play. He has agreed to send forward a list of names and sdresses of people whe should be vocelving our materials and with vhou we should be in contest. Wieh regard to his ou plans, he spoke of hie fatent ica” te start a lé-page nowspaper in the near future, Furthereore, he . 4s making active efforta to start up a redio station. He bases. . bie activities on the belief that an uprising ia Cuba is ‘possible ; if an alternative is offered te Fidel on the one band, and the Mised - | | extie group oa the other, My general improsaion of Ray was 4 “good a eee, He struck meas a woderate, intelligent man, A litele given to hyeteria end slogan-monger ing. Bis best quality seaus to be hie ekill as em organizer, He did not atrike ae as someone with gvest leedarship potential, at least in terns of mass appeal. Be. _ did soem to be @ practical and personally well-organized fallow | with whoa ops can work on a aystenetic basis, Bs : é hae Gime with ae elaborating hig conviacties that aa Gprteing ta Fee (~ Ney) > Gude to poostie provided « (third) alternative i. fina “ie ~ comprehension ia the Usited Stetes for his cause ‘end “the: deck et. we ‘ support for hie eerement, 1 ex aot in a position £6 enasee bow.’ \ mech of what be said is accurate, but ca the banks. of thes. few. + heures of conversstion wish his, =, I would tend to belleve wost of what he told ma. \ Le tye y one te _ f _ In closing, 1 ebould say thet nest of our Gell wail of. @ — ad 4 Laited and practical nature dealing primarily with the ‘ballet ia ( i % project ané vith the varies activities ubich be cea undertake
14-00000 wieh respect te the distribution of cur materiale. 2 did éiscuss with him briefly the idea of ruming a symposiua da CUADERNOS aseeseing the present state of the Cubem gevelutien, fee probsble development, ond the steps which sust be taken «; for the preperation of a now program for Cuba's developacat, * He personally believed that this would tbe a useful thiag for —~ CUADERNOS to undertake, end et no ties seexed anxlows to linie -* the coutritutors to such a syzposivua to these people who were | menbers of bis ow particular group. Throughout our talke, I found him free of these tendencies toward exe lusiveness which ene encounters so often in exiled groups, and on every question whether it concerns the bulletia eg the: eymposiua ie CUADERHOS, or our possible work in tha Doalaicanm Republic, . he egreed that objectivity wae the ealy beste upen vhich we een workend that the open approach wes best. X found that - he was an easy men to get along with and one who mekes an depression of elucerity, forthrightaess, deterainativa, aad eouething much more intangible which I would call personal elesnness, I intend to look ies waye of working further with ~~ bia fn the future, ' oO Oh ere a eRe Set agin ge ere cence FOO ie omer ER alias tow 4 rg! 1 s |