(ioatonietoseg] “ST 2 es w 7 . CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ‘This uneserial contains information affecting the Hational Defenss of the United States within the meantag of the Espionage Laws, Tite 38, UAG. Gers. 73 and 794, the tranamissin oF sevelation of which te any manner to 6m unauthorized person ts prohinted by law. S-E-C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSEM -_ orem 4 eeats '¢oetyt ee GE eB hy ope re het t { “+ @Ountny Cuba REPORT NO. — CS-311/02661-65 | ae SUBJECT FEY EZlectios at the University of DATE DISTR. 1 March 1965 i = ct NO. PAGES 1 fi f, Altar: ar DATE OF Early February 1965 : By a: PLACE & = DATE ACQ(2 February 1965) FIELD REPORT NO. TS SS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. SOURCE: A former high-level Cuban official who was once active in the revolutionary movement and a confidant of Fidel Castro. He has always been anti-Communist and is now strongly anti-Castro. He continues to maintain contact with many Cuban officials at all levels of government, Source has provided a limited mumber of Fv patsy SEpeoty tae ry dante patent. , ai reports which appear to have been accurate. “Bar Headouarters Comment. Source, who also has good contacts among leaders of the i Federacion Estudiantil Universitaria (FEU, University Student Federation), re- ported on 2 February 1965 that Jaime Crombet and Lazaro Mora would be elected president and vice-president, respectively, at the 8 ~ 10 February elections of FW officers at the University of Havana. The following comments by Source are reported in light of his experience and insight in Cuban stucent matters. ' 4 I t ; Jaime Crombet, newly elected president of the Federacion Estudiantil Universi- ' taris (FEU) at the University of Havana, has little influence over the University j atudents and will find it difficult to restrict them to the ideological frame~ i work which the Cuban régime tries to impose. Lazaro Mora, the new vice-president, | ! elthough younger than Crombet, is a member of the student “old guard;™ he worked ' with Rolando Cyubela Secades during the period when the latter was president of ' the FEU, from late 1959 to 1961. Mora still maintains close contact with Cubela, ; who apparently plans to retain his influence at the University with tne students ' through Mora and with the faculty through Luis Soto, Vice-Rector of the Univer- : sity. It is certain that Fidel Castro will not be able to control the students through Crombet as he has done through his predecessor, Jose Rebelloi Alanso, ® for the past two years. The fact that the students no longer react spontaneously will make Cronbet's task a difficult one. Crombet may be able to attract members - of the Union de Jovenes Comunistas (UJC, Union of Communist Youths), cf which he has been president, but Mora is considered the leader of the anti-Commnist groups ; at the University. A small Trotskyist group still exists, but it is insignificant.: é Resdavarters Comment. A Havana radio broadcast of 11 February 1965 announced i the results of the elections, namifg, among others, Crombet, Mora, [liana Valmana - as secretary of organization, and Francisco Derticos as deputy secretary of organization. . S~E~C-R-E-T ial eceaR Na aE edema WHG/FL.leweG/St Tae 7572 EE Wic/RE.|alazc/za_ tL iwe/2 PP (AMLASH~1) Wic/osl2\ct/ops/wH |2twe/3/r jaf) cs 322 Le Ta er sary, cb Bier as Gy, foment a4 PORM KO. “4. . OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS. £2