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14-00000 Teach tocabetiedt «athens T demeeninastcaslecheteeh TaERInT a EL MnO 1 July 1959 Le certs reaonele del co-] a mandente Dias Lang, Veredero, Junio 29 de 1358, Dr. Meavel Urrutia vy Lied, Presidente de is Republica. Palscio Preaidencial. La Habena. Seftor Presidente: Por la presente ruegn a usted aceplar con carecter irrevocable, ia fenuncia al” cargo de Jefe de las Fuerzzs Atreas de Cuda, que he ve _ Bido ocupando hasta ¢] dia de hoy. Exporge & continua- ciog las razones que me oblr an a tomar esta determing- eida: . * 1) Al tomar posesién de raj ‘i€argo nuevamente en el dia. de hoy, unos micutos después a me hizo saber. a través del ‘eomandante Jusm Alneieda.! paue me encoatrabe subordi- Inada a él, puesta que por er “den expresa del comandante Pidel Castro. ef antedicho vo. thandante Juans Almeida te- ala que actuar come jele abd- solute de las Fuerias Aéregs. s: En esis iorma ae anuig mt sutoridad en dicho man- ido y ello se presta ¢ que se use ml Bombre para actos fe. aceplades al erdenadns por. tal fo cual es inadmisible pa; fa quien come ya, supe salem “pre cumplu con su deber plenitud y mas adn se exee [cs varlas veces en esle pum is, particlpeado personaimem ite en combate siempre que | tuve opertuntded y ne limb thodome a evar armas a la -Sterra y al Sezuode Freate Oriental Frank Pais. 3} Consizers que todas es as scciones ea mi contra, se deben unica y excluslvamen. fe a que-jempre me he ma iHifestade coctrario a fa ac ‘titud que permite a tos come iBlatas ecupsr posiciones pre- {Minentes dentrs del Ejér jtlta Rebelde y dentro de las: dependenciag del Goblerne i ‘También han ejercido, pre: siones loa elementos comtrj Sistas pera llevar a cabo aa Plan determinads de adoctri-: Hamiente en la Escuela que. funcions es ty fines “Et Cor Ujo”. ubleada en ta Intereee:: ciéa de la Autopista del Me-- diodia y la carretera central, : ademis todos tabemos hies. Sefor Presidente, quiénes, acm, dénds eslia y qué figi Persiguen, Rectha Sr. Presidente, el! festimonio ‘de ml considers; cioa ¥ respete. Pedro L. Diaz Lang, i 77 —eaetere ce SSRN ee | Cundte. UF. Ad Jefe de ia FAR j eSB LRASIT IO: i.
4 *° might cA ea ee aT Se no THE WASHINGTO!. .OST end TIMES HERALD ~ Cuba’s Air Chief Quits; | | ” Rum In South - old Tibetan god: - bring’ Tibet's case against ftslraise Tibet's case in the United! Capt. P. "s, . ‘ (Diaz Le thy tural 6) Wednesday, Jaly 1, 1959 . . f + His Arrest Is Ordered 3 4 HAVANA, June 30 (AP) commanded the air force injtator Pulgencio Batista’s re-| 4° : The commander of Fidel Cag. Diaz's absence, was named toigime. — oo ; we tvo's air force resigned today, ?8oceed him. Almeida said Diaz had been; * , . ® “teen i 28 whereabouts of Diaz| under investigation for crimes| + eharglug Communist infiltra|eoitg not be learned tonight.|“to which he must answer be- . .y ton of Cuba's armed forces. There wa. specutaticn be hadifore the revelutivnary tribu- “ His successor accused him of gone underground or ieft theinals.” being @ fraitor te Castro's country. Diaz's resignation was the} = Associated Press Photo Fevolution and ordered ms Auneida announced the orlarse by a government official] MAJ. PEDRO LUIS arres' : . ‘der for his predecessor's ar- a 3 Maj. Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz'rost after a conferetce with repeatedi dened Carre bas ve anita ale most '; tent bis resignation ta Presi-Castro and hic brotzer. Maj.| deat Manuel Urrutiv. Diaz had Raul Castro, commander injrenee uence in his govern . resumed his post yesterday chief of the armed forces. | after a month's absence whieh! Almeida accused Djaz of () ; yas attributed to typhoid desertion, (2) treason. 3) “rob-| office Monday he found Al-ltion of two other Americans, . jueries,” and (4) being in con-|meida had been made absolutela .Britich journalist, several Maj. Juan Almeida, whe had.tact with members of exdic-| hier of the air force. Cubans, and nearly 200 would- “i cuasider aii these actionsine mempers of an exmeditinn against me due only exclusive-|sry force against tne regime In a letter fo Urrutia, Diazltarge arms cache and sir-sea ndia B ars ‘Exile’ . Ways opposed acts that would|/Somoza, oBiclal sources re- sf bermit Communists to take;ported. . a prominent positions within the| The British subject t as bel army and withia depen.jidentified as Carl Joho®Svil- L f r D i iz Laina dencies of overnment,” Diaz's |$o! treela Journalls' jiaz’s|son, a freelance fo aI ~ 0 “ Gat BRA letter said. & i who has been im Hanava sev- ' Reuters “Furthermore, all of ug/eral weeks. . ] i The two Amerleans detained HI, India, June 30;from ,the Tibetan eapHal of|XDOW ¥ell, Mr. President, who ama may leave:Lhasa during ‘a revolt last/ India and scak political asy-’March aralnst the Chinese. they are, where they are and/With Huzhes were identified as! what objectives they follow.” |Efren Re#Pichatdo, an attor- Questioned earlier today gey. of Mami, and Joseph about rumors of Diaz's leavidg ardor of Les Angeles, whe his post, Premier Castro’s|¢laimed te is a motion-pieture press secretary said reports|producer. : iel-Nam, diplo-y’ An official Indian spokes. id here ;man said here today that the Indian Government does not @ 2. - matie sources Speculation that mayiment under the Dalai Lams . In-lfunctioning in India.” dia's refusal todar to\allow|’ The spokesman. was repiving| police raidon the swank Ha-jremainder were released with him to function,here as code & statement by the "Dalai pris home of a former L$. a wararg . of a°Tibetan/goveramenNa-jLama that wherever be and|Navy pilot last night frustrated! No charges have been exfle, : his government were, they a planted alr and sea invasion|placed acainst Hughes or any Observer? said the Dalal rere recognized ag the govern-lof \; i of th Lama ngé would have to fie, og govern-jof Nicaragua, official sources @ others, @ new/home if he wanted to tthe Dalat Lama plans te are not‘ true, 200 volurieers—moatly Nieara- The rad was on the home of] today Seized a load of arms aise axPlinghes, former At-land ammunition at a private Carimuntat Chinese overlords Nation’, observers here feltilanta. Ga. pilot and recently alrport. stopped a small plane, fore the United Nations. [thar Sotah Viet-Nam would be| advisor in tho Cuban rebel airlas It taxied.off and arrested The Datal Lama arrived in the logical country in which farce. three men described ag anti. india on April 2 after fleeing! he might sdek asylum. It led to the selrure of a Castro plotters, : said that on returning to hislinvasion plans-and the deten-| - ¢ ily to the fact that I have al-jof Nicaraguan President Luis{- ea, indian, © any separate srer™ that Diaz ‘had been dismissed! More than a dozen of the © In another development, ajguans—were ‘held while the * nt by the Tibetan people. [sald tonight. In Flozida, customs agents — ieee a cama : ey, at a anal ~ + * ke