14-00000 3 * . oa Lo i sey S-E-C-R-E-T a i |. 5 NO FOREION DISSEM co po Se { a i : ; ATTITUDE TOWARD REGIME: (Cont'd) 7 i 5 In January 1962 a Cuban exile said that Subject had probably ; decided not to defect because of fear that he weuld be put in an {. immigration detention camp: (see Unit 23, Weaknesses), 3 April 1962: Fidel CASTRO sent one fnu CUBELA, possibly identical mon pore with Subject, to the interior te criticize local: militia for their : attempts to win public support. He stayed at the home cf one Eugeuio HERNANDEZ and putlicly reprimanded the chief of the Cama juani militia, Hernfndez, who is an employee of the Department of Sanitation in Camajuani, has a son, 4 classmate of Subject, who is a counter. ; revoluticrary. Wher Eernfndez told Subject about his scn's activities, Subject did not seem concerned, eae ane ene EE I RINE 1962: The US Army reported that Subject contrelled the students at the University of Havana. His icyalty te the Communist Party was uncertain, It had been said at times that he had conspired against : j ; Castro. It nad also been said that he spoke against the United States F to please Castro. 1962: He was reportedly involved in Plotting the overthre. of Fidel Castro with other members of the military and government, specifically, Felipe GUERRA Matos, Comandante Pedro MIRET Prieto, a Capitdn Lester RODRIGUEZ Pérez (as of 23 July 1963 director of Bo ferrous metallurgy, Metallurgical Branch of Consolidated Enterprises ; ‘ which is subordinate to the Ministry of Industry), Cezandante Faustino — PEREZ Hernféndez, Gustavo ARCOS y Berznes (Cuban Ambassaicr to Belgium and leader of this group), José Marfa de la AGUILERA y Pernandez del Nogsal (who was in June 1963 secretary general of the Cuban Confeder- ation of Labor), Capitdn Juan NUIRY y Sanchez and Comandante Jorge SERGUERA Riveri. 1962: During summer meetings with his friend Carlos TEPEDINO Gonzalez (now in exile in the United States) he reportedly said that ; . he could not go tack to his forner wife even if he wanted to bacause i . She had been too outspoken in her dislike fcr the Castro regime. He : also mentioned her desire to leave Cuba, This commen’ was tased on the supposition that Subject might be working against the Custro regime in Cuba on his return te that country. Continued 7 eae arate ena ce Re ea AAA eet Oo eetely pgp emer weieerpe mune! wt terete mnemeteti. wn oe : oo ; , a ‘ Secades, Cee i BE, ers (Lazard Rolardo Le, Unit & S-E-C-R-E-T HO FOREIGN DISSEM if i i pellloneanntassaiateneddiiet toned aR Pe { '
14-00000 ® * 7 ae S-¥-C-R-E-T one - “NO FOREIGN DISSEM ATTITUDE TOWARD REGIME: (Cont'd) 1963: In Paris in late 1963 a high-ranking official of the Cuban Interior Ministry said that Angel QUEVEDO Valdivia, an official of the FEU, and Subject, a former student leader, had resigned from the rebel | a army after difficulties with Rafl CASTRO. The difficulties occu-ced. , ‘ after Subject and QUEVEDO hai completed a senior army training course , cA og ‘ “».... and, instead of receiving the rank cf conandante which they bad held. | during the revolution, were told ty Rail Castro that they were being i i demoted to capitdn. Both then resigned. i t i ' i i t { : i ' i I i i i t _ CUBELA Secades, bee beh Se Le ol» (LAzarc)Roiando Unit 4 A oreme tae emma cae hanes Mp aak: Beet ee Sete = 5 SASSI Ee tS res neitctemenrman entero Bee a SHS I ath Aas DREGE Wet ee
14-00000 ote, ble winemaieeetieentic mimeo ye S-E-C-R-E-T Cr ae NO FOREIGN DISSEM REGIME'S ATTITUDE TOWARD SUBJECT: 2 & a ® 3 & 3 1959: Subject was recognized as a leader of the Revolutionary Directorate (Directorio Revoluctonario - DR) group that fought in the { Sierra del Escambray. oO I neta een te I . March 1959: On 25 March the Gaceta Oficial announced that os oe rest | i Subject had been promoted from comandante in the rebel army to en wt : comandante in the revolutionary army and that he had been appointed i to the post of Cuban military attachd to Spain by Fidel CASTRO. He ; left on or about 27 March to take up this position. It was reported i ; that there had been some friction between the members of the DR and an members of the 26th of July Movement. Members of the DR felt ‘that : Fidel Castro and the 26th of Jaly were not giving the DR enough ; , recopniiion for their work in the combat against Batista, There was - j also s: Yhought that this appointment of Subject to Spain was the i beginnins «if an attempt on the part of the Castros to separate the DR i leaders, Subject had been second in command of the DR, mg oo June 1959: An ex-DR leader was reported holding a position in the Cuban Government. On Subject's return from Spain he had been ro ; appointed to a position of Under Secretary in the Ministry of the ‘ Isiterior. ; September 1959: Armando HART Davalos proposed to Fidel Castro that the Ministry of Education appoint a commissioner to supervise : ‘ university activities. Castro said no on the grounds that it would ; be offensive to the students, that it would show direct government . | intervention, and that the university had historically been autonomous, : | As long as this continued the revolutionary authorities could not carry. out a university reform program. A practical approach was found when the DR nominated Subject as a candidate for the presidency cf the University Student Federation (Federacién Estudiantil Universitaria - FEU). Castro and other revolutionary leaders saw Subject as a 5 candidate who could be influenced and won over to the 26th of July : Movement. Castro showed no open indication that he supported cither ; Poole? * .- ° Subject of the 26th of July's candidate, Pedro Luis BOITEL; however, pee . dt. was said that he had made a Private deal with Subject to win con- : trol over the student body. US officials commented that this deal : . seemed unlikely since Subject had previously told intimates he would kill Castro if he, Subject, did not get out of Cuba soon. He said that he was disgusted with the regime. Another source gave the same account but said that it was Rail Castro rather than Fidel who - : i : approached Subject. Subject resigned from his post as Under Secretary a i bs i in the Interior Ministry to becone a candidate for FEU president and \ ‘ pe 4 was elected on 17 October 1959, ca eee en eee soe ‘ Continued . ee eee a CUBELA Secades, AT RO SUSY os a ae (Ldzaro)Rolando . Unit 5 . 8-E-C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSEM MODAL R GREE EME it SI aR ptte pees eaieeitin ace Bahk ES Rated Bit Mi ETO Fae Mae dere on ty et Peta Wh CREE cents eae — t q 4
14-00000 | Sch ne cere eerie anan cee aoa Sree iad Ad LON LOD ea tey + neeetmenimuntt ye oe venga aN eN S~-E-C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSEM REGIME'S ATITTUMR TOWED suR ICT: . a i December 1959: Subject and Rad] CASTRO vere reportedly surprised in the latter’s home in the Camp Colombia headquarters ‘making obvious homosexual advances toward one another, Subject later fell into disgrace with regime. It is not known whether thik was due to his unsatisfactory performance as 4 student leader or whether he had a falling cut with Radi Castro. It was supposedly common Z knowledge that Subject had obtained the FEU presidency through Rail Castro to whom he had sold out morally and politically, It was also said that he was picked for the FEU Post because Fidel thought he could be controlled, ca May 1960: As prastident of the FEU, Subject received the task {from the government) cf inciting and bruiting about the fact that the powers-that-be disapproved of Aureliano SANCHEZ Arango. The latter and 4 thousand-odd well-wishers who had gathered at the air~ port to greet him on his return from Caracas were set upon by a small but well-organized pro-Comamist Phalanx, The gcvernwent also used Subject and Angel QUEVEDO Valdiviu, then secretary general of the FEU, tu attuck (Manuel) Antonio de VARONA y,Loredo, Aureliano Sgnchez Arango aud (Rafael) Mario LLERENA Redeiguez for their participation in the Second Congress for Liberty and Democracy which was held’ in Caracas in early May. | Subject and Quevedo issued a statement to the effect that Varona, Sanchez and Lierena did not represent any element in Cuba. This was a.significant comment because (although it had been known that the three had tacitly opposed the revolutionary government's extremist trend) this was the first strong stand the three leaders made against the regime, May 1960: Subject denounced the (US?) Embassy “aviso" (umidentified) as irrefutable proof of US plans to cowmit aggression against Cuba, All governrent-aligned elements in the following days pointedly expressed their support for the FEU and the "thousand-times glorious" Comandante Cubela (Subject), its president. August 1960: Contacts among student circles in Havana stated that Subject was likely to be removed from the presidency of the FEU pone "because he had show reluctance to adhere to Communist orders. It was thought that he might be charged (presumably as an excuse to discharge him) with using 1,000 pesos given to the FE for the election of Miss Universe, for personal entertainment of friends in Varaderc, Cuba. Continued CUBELA Secades, (L4zaro)Rolando , Unit 5 - S-E-C-R-E-T HO FOREIGN DISSEM . i SR ee a RIOR UA DAES PORE eA th” ce
14-00000 e * , . . . oo 7 on S-F-C-R-E-T a, NO FOREIGN DISSEM REGIME 'S ATTITUDE TOWARD SUBJECT: ee December 1960: ‘The government-ccntroiled newspaper El Mundo \ : P announced that Subject had been named president of the newly a established Revolutionary Vigilante Committee in the University of . Havana, Similar committees were to be established throughout the : ‘ country, US officials called Subject Pidel CASTRO's “sharpshooter in the University of: Havana," . . secrete ane OGe MNES PE OE TU AB tone! pamee enweeptertigs March 1961: Subject was reportedly arrested in.an attempt to : flee Cuba but this was alleged tu be a trap with Subject 's - participation, It resulted in the arrest of several anti-Castroites, August 1961: Subject told an intimate friend prior to departure for a tour of the USSR, Europe and other countries, that he knew his . usefulness. ta the regime was over and that if he remained in Cuba . , “3 he would be liquidated in the very near future, He reportedly said he had had serious arguments with Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che" GUEVARA de la Serna over his successor as president of the FEU, He wanted to name his own successor and not accept their choice of Communist Ricardo ALARCON, secretary general of the FEU while Subject was president, . ; March 1962: Fidel Castro reportedly called in Subject and j i _ other arny commanders (José Mirfa de la AGUILERA, Felipe GUERRA Matos, { ' Juan NUIRY y Sanchez, Jorge SERCUERA Riveri and Pedro MIRET Priets) to ‘ j tell then that the Coumunists were trying to take over the Governzent ' ‘ | of Cuba. He asked the group to back him up and they agreed. Never- ‘ i theless, the source of this report stated that these leaders were ; thought to be planning to assassinate Pidel and Rafil Castro and "Che" H bo 1 Guevara and take over the government for themselves. They thought i : this plan would succeed because they were in charge ef regular ary | ' and ailitia troops. The source attributed the sabotage that was ; ‘ then current in Havana to the work of this group, . ‘ | April 1962: Fidel Castro sent ore fnu CUBELA, possibly identical : — with Subject, to the interior to criticize the local militia for their Augen SL attempts to win public support. He stayed at the hewe of one Eugenio ; * : HERNANDEZ and publicly reprimanded the chief of the Cama juani i militia, (See Unit 4, Attitude toward Regime.) , fae cpeeen me timietmnnie arin secon gee a von Continued CUBELA Secades, ; (I4zaro)Rolando of sil H Unit 5 ! : i 8-E-C-R-E-T . : NO FOREIGN DISSEM i LeAS s
fd aseinges Sterne amceen man cua caimanmarntim anced an natn ht 8 at cabe THD BB HINES BONS STEW nce 2 te Srmemmenaenesane ween severe rene te enw tte wt i te ne snr athena nee ente IAD 8-E-C-R-E-T —— NO FOREIGN DISSEM REGIME'S ATTITUDE TOWARD SUBJECT: - June 1962: lreported that one Captain Waldo MARTINEZ (possibly Walso de cesu MARTINEZ Ordoqui), a Cowninist, said that Subject was in charge of a tank unit composed of students in the University of Havana. This unit was located in the block between Calles 23 and 25 and J and L. (As early as January 1962 a high-level Cuban Minister in exile in the United States had reported that Subject was in charge of the University of Havana defenses to make the university a major center of resistance to any anti-govern- ment attack, Early March 1963: A Cuban Government employee with good contacts in military services reported on 25 April 1963 that Subject had been - reealled into active service from his post as a doctor in the . Municipal Children's Hospital, Late 1063: Subject reportedly resigned from the rebel arny after difficulties with Rafi Castre. The difficulties occurred after Subject had completed an aruy training course and instead of recelving the rank of comandante which he had held during the revyluticn he was told by Rail Castro that he was being demoted to capttan, (See Unit 4, Attitude tcward Regime.) Secades, (Lazaro) Rolando Unit 5 S-E-C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSEM 3 i * 8 4 ft sree 1 eh eae pean gteaabe rola Pee”
14-00000 Rance ny 8 » f fore amen OS a ae Oe ee Beha tivetnsths | NOS " $-E-C-R-E-T z ~ NO FOREIGN DISSEM : : . : i FINANCIAL STATUS: i ¢ F gy i. os Subject's financial status is unknown as of December. 1963. t 1 | : i : { i . ! ‘ i ; | ! 1 CUBELA Secades, [ - ; a Ldzaro)Rolando ; | Unit 6 : . S-E-C-R-E-T i 4 NO FOREIGN DISSEM . ; ae | ‘ ne . < ‘ Say “ se woe a ‘
ue eter the Sn ee ts i pov sane ps etanencs ees set em Berishgasa pagar «am TUE OM Wert UR UIE A PETER ET nr meget ety estes Ta tipped tere et tt te AE 2) S-E-C-R-E-T NaN "NO FOREIGN DISGEM EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Subject attended grammar school in the town of Placetas, Las Villas Province, and high school in “La Progresiva" Presbyterian Schoel in the City of Cardenas, Matanzas Province. He studied medicine at the University of Havana and graduated as a medical doctor in 1960. Subject took a course for rebel arny officers in a schcol located in Matanzas Province and graduated about July 1963. In late 1963 Subject was a student at the Alliance Fraugaise in Paris, France, presumably taking postgraduate medical studies a5 he had previously stated he would like to de. He returned to Cuba in December 1963. i i i t : CUBELA Secades , (Tezaro) Rolando Unit 7 S-E-C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSEM vt 4 !