Doc ID: 6598246 “ DaTE: 03/26/97 PAGE: 1 AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : NSA RECORD NUMBER : 144-10001-10093 RECORDS SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : FROM : TO : TITLE : 3/0/|__/71463-63:--| | COMMENT. ON CASTRO'S REACTION TO DEATH OF IR] i 2 ne DATE : 12/05/63 44USC2107(6\(1)(B) (iii) : REPORT : F- : 1B : 08/10/93 CR G COMMENTS : Released on 11-01-2017 under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2017 Note)
| Doc ID: 6598246 _ et, oleae IS 05 Dec 21552 P Dist: HCF ST 300 -_ wo Ge ee an mesin aeecne . 77" GUSC21076\aeND) ; ai) desir 0 Late Friday afternoon and through the night a large: tiovement sa of troops began. here, They were sent to take up positions . and reinforce strategic positions around Havana and the northern coast of the island because of the assassination of’ President KENNEDY. Saturday evening FIDEL CASTRO appeared on television and spoke about the death of KENNEDY and tried to refute ‘charges which had already appeared in'the United States that the | ‘assassin was a Marxist and a Communist Castroite. Alt hough it: was only the third time that I had witnessed a speech by FIDEL, I' got the immediate impression that on this occasion he was frightened, if not terrified. Other chiefs of mission, however, confirmed that impression and indicated surprise at this hasty jump into the arena to denouce insinuations which were merely from news and nongovernmental agencies,’ In fact, it is the general opinion in diplomatic circles that CASTRO feared; that the assassination would be the spring which would unleash ‘passions and violent and blind hysteria of the American people against Cuba and Russia and providé the excuse which up to now, was lacking to justify internationally an invasion of Cuba, There is talk again about the’coincidence of rumors. concerning a crisis at the end of the year (my letter ° FIDEL, emotional and. uneasy, tried through the same. telegrams of the’ Ametican news agencies to refute the accusa- tions. which were then appearing and to twist them so ‘that the assassination’:would appear as the work of the Ultra: ‘Reaction, of the® ‘extréme. ‘Yacists of the Pentagon,, who are fanatical supporters of war against Cuba and : the Soviet Heian: | 3/8 Yass. 63 THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS 2 PAGE (S) Released on 11-01-2017 under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2017 Note) I t . , : teat ; mo t % ” a Lf as yen we a aes BP Sy : a .
“ : ne _ Doc ID: 6598246 | : - a 3/0/[__]71463- 63° | “He | (B. val sketched) : the life of LEE OSWALD and showed with ‘these telegrams that after his trip to. ‘Russia O5WALD we seemed to be supported by forces of the Right and that even 7": counterrevolutionary circles suspected that he was an: agent we of the CIAcor the FBI. » This’ caused CASTRO to wonder whether ~ the assassin was. not the mere instrument of a monstrous plot of American militarists who, by eliminating KENNEDY, would put JOHNSON in a postion from. which. there-would be only one------ ~~» way out; to drain off anti- Cuba: hysteria by an action of declared war. "Be that as it may, CASTRO tried to: bring forward aay possible formal accusations against Cuba, ~ clamoring that: all people should demand that the death of KENNEDY should be: clarified and harping on the theme that: KENNEDY. was being ferociously attacked because of his weak policy against Cuba and Russia and therefore, his death could not be the’ work, of Leftists, since it would only benefit the intentions. of the Ultra Reaction and the Rightists. ZUSC2107(6)\G)eND) ; (iii) I must inform you that the assassination did not cause a great deal of consternation in counterrevolutimary circles in the interior, disillusioned as they were with the’ "weakness" of KENNEDY, especially after his speech: ‘in Miami, from which they expected measures or decisions t6 intervene in Cuba which would presage the forthcoming end of the Communist regime of FIDEL CASTRO. an ‘MS 974 - CN Bins TI --