14-00000 ‘af the FND met With Mike ON in Yew York, tha Committees he! should bo DP Gpered @ proposal Cor 6: reomont for a lean Haaranteoing sale the pay-tont to Group Boof the money lomt to the fin. (7) ohn Planning and ereauticn of the financial grosrens Le a comley tack and a vory urvent sno. vo foonst have mich tia avalle able for 1¢, Therefore tera in t.0 obliration of 11 those inter= ested to cerry out their best efforts to Lring 1¢ about without more delays (8) Our umtorteking ts historic, politically ant materially. im-ense, snd imnense also are the regpons! bt Litios Sagumed by the men and orrandzationa wiien havo dacided to anys Guba aru tho reat of the eastern Homlz phere froa the Communist threat. All should be planned and executed sorefully and prodantly, but the reanonasibtle Directors of thig crusade shoul4 ronorber that rapidity ig inilge penetble for triumph and es tho Latin Baid, "de minina non curat — priator,"" lle The 16th of June 1960, She FHARK SiMe eelovnledzed Pooeipt of the above copied “onorarda and of many otnuera rola<- tive to the statutes or tho 2UD, the reculationa or its: come .tilssiong, the Protrana of tie Bare, etce Thia ie what Mie BRENDES: pays § . _ "Permit me to acknowledrs recefnt of the various nemrende whio:. you have sent ™8e I desire to assure fou that they nat only give cause for thinking, but ave very useful tc me, altheusch umes doubtedly they will serve as “ases for sone future acticn." 12. In the first days of Jsly 1959 tho ixceative Commi tteo Ro ote posed of Die MANLUL As DE VALGua, President, Jobe Te UAL, “ceretary, # 10 @
| an Justus CAMEL, “AN 2 0 a Silwg. ant ALR SLIAN: hg ADAG with the PUSROSG, avons otherg, of discuss ins and pro- parin> tho (frat budget of sxoonsua of tne Frente. 13.6 The writer fs unsware if aot that point they took into eosount (the Nembers of thu .xocutive Comittee) the observa- ticns and sugrestionsa e-ntalned in the memoranda reproduced abovo (that they imew about bceawe they had recelvud their corrospondin;, copies), but from that cecasion on and deapite having gone throush the orisinel orrenizin, stages ( in the month of August and duly constituted thore was Pane ti. ning alreaty in Miamt the various co-wissions of the ‘rente), the ayston of subsidies provisionally accepted ea a part of the relations no less provisicnal between the frente and Croup By tile syaten ecquired the Oneracter of untcuchablo permanence. lye The moral, political snd miiitary propa:anda and asticn Gcnsequencos o” the aboveenanticned system cf aubdaiiios neod not be recalled here. Very scon the eacnomle gontre) oxercised by the Bender Group, tnanks te thie system, was extended Blowly but inexorably to all and wach one of the functicnal activities of the Frente, sald group particinpatin:, with or withcut the aereomont of the Executive of the ikD, even into the mogt mine ute dotaile of tho adain! Straticn, pro: ranainc, properanda,. and military acticns or these activitiose It 1s rittin, to ize thet : wmdy ona oC the functicnal ean: tastone of the Pata Caleyy me Frente, dwwithout doubt te its specific character, that of _ Plannin; , Was frood from all participation or interference both on the pert c° the henter Uroun as vell as by the ryeeutive Cormittes itself. sith reapcct to the reat of the Comission, » 12 «
14-00000 anil especially to the militar; ana pornem! Litery orceantana (Coneral : ‘tafa, recraitine centers, security, ete. ), 1t te surficlent to say -that they cere go absorbed end deortyod of - ‘guthority Ly the mentiened : somder Sroup that almoet on the eve of the l?th of April 1961 they had practically ‘isappeared. (15. The interference in the control whieh ag a Logical oon~ Sequonce of tho aubsidy azystem wes suffored by the Executive Comalttes and the funotd onal Crrans of the TD, frequently prg=w voked violent oppeaition and rests stance which badly Prosenteg oF presented on secondary and tranat tery bases, (that ta to a7, forretting the rande- ontal cause or those oroblera, thet 3a tho inacmlssable nature of our relations with Sroup 8) pr o-6. ‘duced no other results than that of croating friction, dirri~ culties and crises, genorating in turn, new and eroacer inter~- ference and a more fronclad end not always justified ecuntrol. . 16. Upcn the croati.n last March parallelled with the iecatlve Comittee of the FED, the Cuban Hevelats: nary Council which. lator was to absorb gata Committaa, nothing wea done or nothin: waa attezpted or succocded in neinr done to revive the abnormal atatus reigning in our relations with ‘ “Poup Tig whieh, we do not tire in Pepsatine it, did not always coincide with the character, the dimensions, and the ‘isnity of the common and ALetoric liberation undortalking. . 17s The frustrated invesicn of April 17th onded in o nesza@ tive way the first atace of the montioned rolatt: ‘Nanip, ovening encther. which becange of the events and woll-knowm declerations, introduced into those Telaticnaniva one sinrle Hodifleation, that Frelatine to the official dmerin- on the part of the » }2 .
Washineter Gevernment oy tie ToveLhitiongr: enti: astro eetivities, ani Opened tho lo.teal RO DEy (dete: mined by the unp; scedonted Cullure in uhtet wilateral directi- 1 by the Bandor | HGap resulted with the subsily srstem and absolute eontrol af Svarytiing rolated to the strasclo) that the ree letiLonghip between Cuba~inearng amd the Covernment of raphe inston would be revived in a loyal ant intullizent manner. II, Beok.-round (17 April 1961 up to the present: tims). le The change referred to in the previoug Paracraph 17 Was breasht about throu -h repeated and nudlto decleraticng by Prestdent J, e Xennedy, shortity alter the disanter or Playa SLron, and by the orrleial viaita of re Jose Miro Cardona, Prosident cr the Cuban : Pevolutd onary council, to the Chief of State himsolr, Historie avents or international importanee Cancelled in this Way the firet condttton ca’ basis for secroay, which from Hay 1960 gont: olled our relations with tho United “tates, The declaraticna OF President Kennedy, as well as the visits made by Dr. Ulro to the 'hite 4o0use@s and the System of least aa a be sinning or trial of a de facte Peoornition of the hevolutionary ‘ouncil. {t 4s evident that tho tracte and cone plete defeat of the Cuban-American effort of 17 April, aupple= menting and controlling the will or Men, bas coused tha Kagnineton Govornnont to berin, even ofstetally Or goml-offic= lally, the raviaton er rooti ication of the unaccentablo unl laters) Syston of -elaticng Still orxistin: >etweon sal! Coverne Pent and Oursolvas,. Currently, or Chrounhout the Seven sontha whie:. sopare 2e = 12 «
14-00000 d cmos tclerable aa before that dobnele, ato today from the catastrvvia of Playa Clron, e~oent Cor the modifications rentlicned fbeve, the rujations between Washing ton and ourselves continue bein: as mien op Move untluteral and ine» “The peroonal offartes Oarrled out by Tr. Miro Cardona have for the PUrpoae of seuloving ae total or partial rovigion of thuac relations aeve becn us0luag. “n the other hand, the claim for reao. nltion badly presented by - factors outalde of the Council are founded on an abaord formula of Inexistent Constituticnality, hes contributed without any doabt tn atrencthenine the necative attitade of the Viite Heuuas or ot least in delaying indefinitely the study «ff such an ure eontly needed rovision,. 3. The motives of the 4orth American policy in hts matter are very woll imcun, transparent and ancient, and it is- not worth the trouble to relate tuenm in this “deeununt, Ippoge ite them -- the regult of new errora born of ol} orrory a arise the inalienable rights of Cabo~ine-arms, and ths renreg= sentatives of Cubaein-arag ; “ave tne obligation or Claintnge the ezistence and tie respact of thease rishta.e As we Sell sea later, tnore does not exist in intornation law, tn has tery or in the procodures thomselvos of the foreign ralationg ot tha United Statea, a sinsle arcumont which juriditeally oY Yeuson- ably justifies the @vpe@ren€ motives or real “tives enuhich Vashington reata Lte Dilicy in relation to the Council and the rovelution. Not evan that repressnted by the L=eponetrable Secrecy which necessarily si uld gurround whateva: refors to the preparation and execution of atratery and military tactioa, -~ ly -
14-00000 - forced and imponatrable socrocy. go iistetenly invoked by eau cineton on relasine o¢ Hoteiog . we ‘awe or delaying the ravinton «o ou cstatuel releti: na fog = pope The legor ebtelned . Bee aesses validity a.atnot sald revistone thanks to the recocniti.n of the hav, dutfenary Council of the aatherity, power and privileses of a de feoto “overncont in anyaffoete, prejudices or chstructs the aintenance co: that Var from it, t cuarantees secrecy fully because sudh roco;niticn sonctifies in a rigore ous asnnor the responsibt} {ties cf any vovern~ont, alther doe faato cr de Jure, and above all, the recoynition establiaies ‘and lecsalisea on honorable, fair and just foundations and free cf whims or faprovigatiens the participaticn, whatever may be its deproo, of the Cubans, rapresented by thoir pelitieal and allitery ehiefa, in the prevaration and exseuition of the war ocnducted at tho ecat of thelr own and herole sacrifices -in order te re-cunquer the Irndcpendence of the Patria and to pave the Continent == all the Continent -= of the mortal Comaunist dancere he Keither doos it appear necessary to enlar,e on con= Siderationa about the vory Lipo: tant eecnoale aspect of the . BOluticns «= honorable, fair, just and f:ee8 of whims and im provisaticns «= whieh reco nition sives to the samo. It is not possible t- cite any kind or reason capable of fustifying the eacnonie vvatem maintained by the TSovernmant ctf’ svahine ton for the financing af the war in Cubs, that ia tc say that of providing rcrasieusly and ronercusly, of course, enormous amounts cr money in releticn to whieh the Cubans have neo other Picht or obifvation than those of accepting withcut ‘ebate the
14-00000 wut witch ties nite! tates "ay dow ~ @) rourle+e Gravee | vide bien. “nm the other hand, tuere gould be listod indefins | coe ebly the reeaorne -- moral, pol'tigal, heners Caben oouncmig | | capacity, efiicioncy, red naiullity, ete, @« chien repitre dimeratively end without dolay the rovial: Mol the progont econonle Bupsort: ayatom and their Inelusflan anacne the poworgs oF attributes of a de facto Vovar: rent, ait: riging to the FevelutLlonary Counchl fo contrset the nocesaary loan which a Lborated Cuba wotld return relistously and liquidating and terminating the sibelity ayaten «- implyins not gavin: reached - - one's: | AS g finarclal or morai incapacity = Wiigh, If it was inevitable a yeotr onl a half aro for the Teescnd indleated: above, today lacks completely a reason for e7istonec, of ther Morel er eccnente, | Tite Fevision of thy awAation: betyeen the United Sikes and the Guven Cavehati mary Kzanedd, m~ Pro -pod Formula. de The only forrula aucgeptible of ecorrectinre tie evila- roforred to and, vo may ada, of avotdiny other -rentar onen, tea that offered by IntarnaticnaL Law and hiatery and in a Gcncre*e vase, of the “nited States throuch irrefutable diplo} matloe precsdent by neang of vhieh-the Covemmgat of heoanington ourht to grant tre - “evoLlutlh: “nervy Council of Cuta all the pree Toyatives of a de fact» Covernment and aa @ Fe@ult of thig- Peco miition that «f ftz bollirverencs in a var undertaken with the Comanist rergi-e of Castro and the exercise c&. adequate authority to direct military and politital affalresof! tho Cubans in the war with the abovaqmontionad Terimos » 16
14-00000 om fe The dectrine of reso: mitten eo. de facte Covern-enta Pas beon sanctified for sors than a contury and a tals (it wag born in connection with the ‘ndependenoe of thw . -anish Colentos in Latin Amertea) by the wruetion of intornati-ral law, ant besides by historic precedence in the forei:n reletiona ef the United Statease i-eferrin- ‘to the later, wa offar bolow the cfflelal Version of tie “Procedent whieh, besides being exe tromely important, . fits to an oxtracrdinary de;ree the Cuben case, that is the one witch refers to the de fucto recomition by the United States Governzent Cand these of other countries) of the C¥oohoslovak Nattonal Council in July 1916, 3e It should be recalled for the purpoaas of measuring and woighing properly the importance of that recorniticn and its cor: ect application to the case of thecubean hovolutionary Counell the following wellelmown circumstances? , (a) The National Cseohoalovak Counoil represented g People, a nation, but not an Independent and aovereion atato because thy soahoolovak Ter: itcry formed an old and traditional ar tue Austro-Mungarian Empire in 1914, (b) That people or nation as a part of the politicale reorpraphie of the said imptre had fought uwnler the flage of the latter ani allfed to the fla, of the Cormans since 191, and only «a tho end vas nearing in 1919, tho Czechoe @lovake resident in Italy, “ame, Russia, otce, created @ Supremo Nati-nal Ceune!i eni presonted to the world thelr indeoandont asplraticna end with desortiny; unita of the Austrian armisa orranized restments of ycluntears whieh “=
Were utilized vy the o.vermaenta ov Cha cntante, (c) Neverthelons, auch adverse a@al cuts tandin--ag 4 yo cuss lancom, italy, ‘TANCO, Wiited States and creat oritain rronta thetr Pees ts on of d@ Cecto Sovernaunt to the Hoti- nal Cgoe!: ‘alovak Counetle . . (4d) The obtainin; 5 ‘thie roco; nition vas nit an oasy uniertaking and it is proc! gely said triumph the pedestal on which rests the slory of that giant who waa nenod TAGLAS CARRIES. AASAL CA, Fathor of the Crechoslovak | atnorland. (oe) The recomition of tho Hatderel Council wileh Kagaryk hoaded adnpted, ‘ne will ba observed Later, the widest character ands in some cases, (ag tha Uritish reco nition note shows, ‘a magstorplecs cf ita kind) they foresaw all the oventualities, possibilities capable cf insuring ‘tia eald Council the fit] overatae of ite rights an: obli- cations as ade facts COVermcnte ~ ie we reproduce Cur tecer on tha Spanteh veraten of tho offictal text of the Sovernnont cf the Untted States (trans@— lated from itsoiworth Digest, Volume Ly Paces 203: and following) which sumiarizoa the preceduare of rovdmmition ranted (Hay 13 to Septerber 3, 1913) to the Jati-nal Ceeohcslovair Council by Italy, Prances United Jtates and Great-Urdtain, . REXYZAZRSE “renalatten of pares Ll, 12, 13, Ui, ant 1S of extracts ; mit reproJiced hore DAY XR AAXK PG Secogniticn by the United “tates are! oftnar Powers of the Netlonal Czechoslovak Coune!] and a de raeto Covornmant _ docs net represent one oln-lo caso in diplomatio Ltators of €:.086 sountries which keen @ vary bient relationsits on the ~ 18 »
14-00000 Pocornitten elatned. Ry fiss ey Le ibd Oary Geouncil of Ca! pe A prpoer varaliol with tuta erde thay have in ofrcet with the Foou:mition of the Hoth nal Pollen Goailttee Neadat by GAR VWI ORE arid lator by AO ok aod Tarsiy tue Last montia of the Firat Sorld vars of the igaltic Countrion at tho propur times and of the free “rench directod by Oeale GHAHLCS Db GAUL after the surrenier of France in 1940. IV. Phas far Rin dmkleatin of a2 Jrneioke snd Uosula of de In the preceding heart the oricin and developmant of cur relations with tho ‘evornmont of Gabe are explained and the principle and nopleation and nletorie precedon ce af de facto reoo:mition whton autiurize ard fustitied the clain for this reco;nition for the Hovoluttonary Counei1 ef Cuba and in. this way the normalization ef aucn relationuhipe There cnly remaing for us to point cut in; eneral ter-a a ponaible pian for application of said princltples, practices and prseodonse to the concrote case of Cubaeinesrns, reprusonted by the Favolu- tionary Council and allicd until now to the United ¢ :Catea, thanka to an agreencnt wilch for acme time only functicns at the will of one of the two partlea, 7 . 2e The possible plans for translating into reality the application of the sause of Guba for de facto. rocorntttan and its far reaching erfocts are and can bo numerous, Takins into - aoco:nt imown Procedence, It aonoara advisable in tne firat place to facilitate ant otinilate the deelston of the Uslie Covernmant, obtaining from one or sore friently cc:m Plos, porhaps Pouru, Cuatemala, Nicare,ua, StGe, that they be those
14-00000 which by grovious- avrooswnt with Veandapten firat erant their de facto reco nition te the Rovelutionary Coune!1 er Cubase 3e Tite exeaition of the vlan riuet be based, inevitably, in the eenridentlal comnunteation of the cane to the vavernment of the United States in omier thats, 1f Lts appreval its ovtained, to carry (it out. without. less of tlites and incase of net obe taining that approval, to adopt ‘the deelalons which are indi» Gatod loter OMe ; he Tho putting Lato execution. of the propoaed solutions, doth. te? the Sovernment of the United States and to the. other. friendly erAvornmenta, should neconsartiy be moderated by an ‘unaltersble rescluticn to achieve SUCCOBS, and in case of faile ure to adopt the decision of communicating to the pdéople ‘of Caba.and to the world the Juet and urgerit petition formulated, - The rcescnas of law, honor and atvantares on whieh it is basedg 7he imposathtlity of continuing to maintain a altuation which does not edjust itself to the princtples and jurtate inter= ‘Natlonel precedence, to tho atentty of Cuba and the preaont , -and future responsibility . of these wno direct and ‘carry out since more than a yoar ago the terrible strugrloe against the Castro tyranny; the nefetive result of tha pronosals made and finally the irrevocable declining of all responaihiltty and participsaticn in a program of strug;:lo whieh overlooks and offends the dignity of the Liveration var. - 5e The general outline of the modug oparandi to bo devele oped a6 goon az the de facts recogni tien of the Ruvolutiounary Council ia octained, have bosn explainod in Jecticn 3,5 rolative ae 20 @ ‘ gh em ha poe re Va Ditste anes hag fies pana obs ag TP peeey reatit citer tgp; to >. ae
14-00000 to the cass of the Cgecncalovnk Naticnal Couneile Tho hovo= Luttionary Council of Gaba, a8 u reailt, shodld otein roeecpe niticn as the suprome. orcan-af tho psople of Cubp-ineorms aeinst to tyranny of Castro, with the caterer, the privileges end the rights inherent toa a do facto Gove: resent end hence it will direct, either diractly or auscclated with the ‘Sovorne ment of the United Statos or with any other cvernnonts in the strugsle against the Castro rocime, the political and mi Litery Cuban effairea whlel concern ity to enjoy the privilives inhere en’ in ade facto Sovernment, in the order or ropresentation, power of making contracts, Lsesuance of passportas otces and “in this way ent withoat being concerned with tho imminént on: distant plans of the Gove:mment of Vashinyton, the present ‘and future evils will ‘be ‘correoted which originated through the intolerable trrogularity of the relations which totay . unite ua to that Governmant ari will permit to tho Cuban to develop hia proposals with full and responsible, ‘anitye 6. Tho difficulties and cbatasloa are not fersotten OF overlooked with Waich tho oxecution ef this plan nay encounter and neither are the efvorts cerriod. out by Pr. Jose “iro Cardona over locked or forrotten with a view to echioving the soenecessary and desired reco.nition. Upon oxanination and moasurins those obstaclos and diffleulties, it scens advisable to look slso at tho historic, personal and ecollectiva respon- sibilities which woien cn ell and each one cf the Cutans in: the strurcle arainst Castros the negative results of the uni~ lataral contrel exorcised in every way by the Kashincton | = 21
14-00000 dovermnmens, made evident in the unparallellad disaster of Playa Girong:the impossibility that in the year 1SGl there should bs reproduced. the eruel farce of the Treaty of Paria whieh Ipnored the will cf the Pavan podole an beans sicned in their absunese a peace which ended thoir cum ‘wer of funiapendoncey and above all thincs to recall that it is Up! to tha CUDANG » and only the Cuvansy te claim their richto aince in intornational end internal politics the atrusgcle may he rou, ay but. the ‘posult, if tho atruczle is gonductod with courage and flreness, cannot be cthor then tho obtainment of ra-ognitian of the cuban Revolutionary Council with a eatezory ef a do ‘facto dellicerent Gove: npwonte DS , Ve Siumaryes le Cirounstences boyond ‘the will ahd possi dilitios of the. mombers o: the FRD brought about the. seceptance of the sy-tom of ‘puteidies. Upon agreeing with tha Vs 5. Government (ay. 19:.0, reprosented by the Beniter Assiciates (CIA)), the Gentle- monfs Unwritten Agreement, whese supreme objoot was and sone tinues being the overthrow of the Comunist tyranny imposed on tho Cuban poople by Fitel Castro and his SinosSoviet Allies, _ din order to re-scatabiish uncer the proteetion of the Constitue tion of 1949 the denocratio represontaiive resins end in this way save the Weatern Hemi sphore from ths imminont Corraunist dancore 2. The economic control cf the Sender Gro cup cn tho Frente, imposed fl: ally the total control by eald Green on all the activities rolated to the proparation and exucution af the Tha SpdOE Ny opt ay! wat eet Tegel Lovesmnnbercateliroaanese. omen depp cc
14-00000 nature than that sanctified liboratins: war in Guba. 3. Thilo total control maintal:ed and Incronaned oven after the initial orranigaclonnl sta; "OG, and tho Lgnorance ef tho participation of the Vronte in the pr oparation ary! ovocution of ‘the war provoltes frietion, protests, atffioulttoa and crave . 6risos and.¢ulminated in tho unprecedonted cataatrophs @«. atratecio, tactioal and in:elliconce += of Playe dtron. ‘Ibe The founiiora of tho rrénte always enéouracod the 1dea . of regularising the ‘roluttonehtp of the revolution @tth tho the United Statas and they, aa woll as thatr | SuCconsord, Directors of the Nevolati-nory Council, have att term tod, Oltiough without puecess, to bring about thea reviaton of said rolations. Se This reviuion doos not admit any other character or . by the reco.nitdon of the Cuban Pevoluticnery Coune!2 as the de facto bulligorent Government, amd honeo "clothed with adogiato author‘ ty | to direct tho military and political effaire «cf the Cubans.” -6— Such da facto reooriition would grant to the Couneil the cstepory cerrespondin;, to historic repponsibilities, naticnel dignity, hemispheric dimanss one and effcets of tha liberation etrugzle of Cuba end the dignity and authority of the puople of Cuba and of ita Chiefs, bonidas those claimed by the internate ienal obligeticns of the United Statea Ltaclf.. Te. The precedenss established by the de fecte reeornition of the Czechoslovak Naticneal Council, the Hationsl Polish Council, the Free French (de Taulle), etce, indicate the modua operand] te te followed in order to apres to and declare that ‘Of the Cuban Fevclutionary Council. = 23.
14-00000 “eis ae ify for tho mde Portans or’ Cuda and of the cauwe of demcermey in the woatorn ligetl aphars, the Washing son Covornagne- | ten add refuse to aecede to tits lecitinate and iuklolayable lain,. ‘the Council and the Srgantsatl: ia whitel Gompose it Should denounee the Unurl tton Pact which untleterally aid dre ropulerly has func tloned pinee May 1950 betwoon the revolution and the U. 3, Govornment, due to 9 considering tt projudicial to the dignity of Cuba and te the interesta or the continontal struscle acainst Comzuntem and of the cuban Fevelution and the varlod interosts of the United ! States, and to decline any parts efpation end responsi) ity of the rature Sarriod: out and Contracted unler tho said Pacts Meni, Florida - oo Sf November 2h, 1962 PEDRO MAK TINE FRAGA #00 F268 @ = 2h