(04-10215-40027 “ ieee ' : . Fe ee ee eee see, . : . r Ik, USC. Secs 73 and TOL the enaoiensn er revelation of which in eny manne? to an wnsutherized person is probibited by law. : rs cas DATE OF riACE & DATE ACQ. SOURCE: 2. 26 ” dmterssted in becoming acquainted with those Uraguayan student leaders who, in the name of the Movimiento Latinoamericano=}26, had actively _ Repudiated the March 1960 visit of President Sisenhower to Uruguay. -: the airport for personal political reasons and in order to demonstrate .. ' that Nerdone wag taking orders from no one and could act upon his own - authority, azart fron the Katdonal Council of Goverment. ve Uregnay/Guba a _ REPORT NO. = CS #3 /LL2, 928 Private Conversaticn between Cuban DATE DISTR. , 21 June 1960. - 1 . President DORTICOS and Group of - - _ Commnist and Student Leaders. NO. PAGES 2 - 30 May 1960 ie tet an ne Op: ae: CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY atecung the Mationa Defense of the United States within the menting of the Espionage Laws, Title ‘Ambassador GARCIA introduced some ef the group to DORTICOS, who asked — a | “ DORTTCOS said that, regardless of “Nardone's action; the true interest ates Students who. ix, Uruguay are the. same as. those: of Cuba, nazely, "the ; FIELD REPORT NO. ARE DEFINITIVE. — APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE, Ursgeayan official (B); from student (F) 3 who participated in the conversation. . Appraisal of Content: 3. 7 Osvaide DORTICOS, President of Cuba, leveled severe criticism against the U.S. and adwitted that his visit to Uruguay had not been welcomed in some circles of the Usuguayan Goverment, during a fifteen-minute conversation in which he participated with approximately txenty other. persons, most of whem were Uruguayan university students actively interested in Communism _ and in the Federacion Universitaria del Uruguay (Federation of University Students of Uregaay - FEUJ). This conversation tock place on 30 May 1960, immediate-y after DORTICOS. had speken at a conference and rally at the wi0nal University of Uruguay. This small gathering was arranged before the DORTICOS visit by Ambassador GARCIA Inchaustegui. During visits made by GARCIA to the University Law School he had told FEUU leaders that the Cuban Goverment was GARCIA, "Are we among really true cemrades?"®. GARCIA answered in the affirmative, whereupon DORTICOS explained that, in ‘spite of his having _ been received at the Montevideo aizport by Benito Nardone, President of the Uruguayan National Council of Goverrment, he was informed that in some high Levels ef the Uruguayan Goverment, his visit had not been welcome. He then said that Nardone had nevertheless met DORTICOS at - -.. DORTICOS and a ot Pidel CASTHO was to be in contact with the people, and of liberty” with the desire to emancirate themselves from‘. United States tyranny. He: referred to Fidel CASTRO: aS a former
14-00000 Fe Ae eR es cnn nen et RG © Aenea tet NNO ON Stk teeter TONS menaR costae envauumnntgurtsd meg iets es eon » (citi NERRN te ~ one ntnnintnse anette cnhrenantanen nach reete inet eh Hilbert neh ps se stemensn-sertmntgne ern vésvi wpe ett rem ot S-E-C-R-E-T . os bes - 2a: - GSe3/:L0, 92h: “university student and an idealist of proved valor, DORTICOS launched | * 5. 6. _ Alfredo Mario ERRANDONZA Fernandez, PEUU leader and active Cocswunist._ Te - countries have done. He said that tha: Ccban Gevernnent would pay the - Comandante Rolando CUSSLAS Secades, President of the Cuban Federation . DORTICOS. ‘These men were armed with metal bludgeons and firearms, and Be: ‘Source Cement. Some members of the group thought 4t umusual and inte a brief criticism of the United States, accusing the United States ~ ° of wanting to “monopolize Latin America." He referred to the Pentagon as "an cctopus with long tentacles which has sent agents inte all parts of the world”, including "mmgray, for the pussoce of underrining unity — among students. DCRTICOS. said that addivional United States agents have been sent to Uruguay since the visit. of President Eisenhower, . DORTICOS invited the students in tl2 grocp to visit Cuba as guests of himself and Fidel CASTRO, saying that this was an idea of CASTRO who is in sympathy with the Uruguayan students and who has expressed the - desire. to have Uraguayan students visit Cuba as students froa other expenses of such visits. He also offered to make a financial donation to the FEJU.1 - The group included the following: Dr. Kario GARCIA Inckaustegai, Cuban Ambassador to Uruguay. | of University Students.2 Raquel GONZALEZ, F=UU leader, and Communist leader among the university oe students. ‘ _ o a Jose BLANCO, active Cozsmunist leader, . o ; : Mi:ail Kovlerko, Communist with an active interest in the FEUU, although . not a student.- : . ; Igor MARTINEZ, Communist student in the University Law Schocl, who recently ; visited Cuba. SO , ‘ Raul PASTORINO, pro-Comunist interested in ‘student and labor matters. Carlos Mainardi. . Daring the general conference at the University unidentified members of the Uruguayan Communist Party “shock force" acted as’ bodyguards for were among those who took part in certain street fighting incidents during the DORTICOS visit. ; ; ° usioning that a visiting chief of state should offer money to @. Field Comment. CUBSLAS was in Fontevides texporardly on an ostensible . gcoGwiil mission and was active azonz pro-Comminist student and labor: -~ grocps while in Montevideo. Inasmuch as’ there .are conflicting reports from other sources concerning CUSZLAS' date of arrival at “ontevideo, source may have mistaken a member cf the DORTICOS group for CUBELAS. | SeBC-R-E~T