ftowtozss-oom] wt FPR, . aranrsstete e ee mee ‘e SECRET 31 May 1063 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD NO, .9/f SULJECTs Two Letters from Cuba, le At ny neeting with Dr, Miro on 19 May, he brought me copics of two lottera recently received from Cuba. The first of these ig dated 29 April 1962 written te him and Mrs. Miro fron the Besause of the Littor saroasm in the it is rather interesting, Following ig a hasty translation’ of this lottert o 22 88 @ 8» @ I write te you again for myself and for my fanily wishing you tho best of health and congratulations for the happy surgie oal operation to which was submitted El Chamace «= Preaumably a relative or friend of theirs, oe eo oo oe it is a pity that you cannot see the beautiful spectacle whioh Havana offers now all garlonded with innumerable Cuban flags. You might think it was before 1950. I mean red flags, This is really something that kindles the patriotic Love, but patriotic Ruesian love, The hye of Porucheo Appears not to sound well and they are revising it, sinoe almost never ig it played and ie boing re~ placed by tho beautiful and heavy international hysn which fa the real hymn of all the ®workers of the world.” At all hours constantly it is heard. This is a marvel, "we are in the beat possible situation" with abundance of ateel, much steel, whioh they are sending to us in &"generoue and disinterested® Hanner, the great Russian nation "chanpion of Ppeace,*® which arms itself and conducts nuclear tests to proserve the world from war to which it wants to oarry the "Yankee Imperialist ,? Therefore, Russia, at the end of last year, “broke the wz « SECRET
1 4gO0000 ian cts stan CErs t «J asbet tes voluntary promiso of not conducting nuclear teste" and now it Sppobes tho inspection which 4s "another case of a scheme for ospionage,"” and at the sane time protestea the American teste aa also docs THE SOCIALIST CUNAN GOVERNHENT, "guoh a lover of liea® Wiioh oowratulates the Soviet Union when it conducts teste. This, I repeat, is s charming place. We have ®auch abundance” that of what is left over wo are sending to Russia and other Socialiate countries, which aro such frionds of ours and go much havo assistod and sacrificed for us, foods, grains, oandins, shoes, and so forth, and they sond ug very nuoh steel whioh seess to be . very rood and at the sane time indieated that the hyman organi an may have muoh energy. Hore wo are all "go happy and contented® that nobody haa the idea of writing in a magzezine or newapaper er talking by radio or tolovision soncthing/voula indicate a oriticiaon oF conscor of the magnificent and unimprovable and without equal regime, cinco there is "nothing to be the cause of 16,9 This ie a hunaniam really and a very exemplary case for ali Anerica, "aince human rights aro fully respoated with guch an exquisite and dolicato treatuent ef the prisoners," the relatives being able to ave thom frequontly although "they cannot take them foodstuffs" because "Lt ls not necessary in view of the abundanes which exists in all the country." The worker 1a better than he has"never secon himself before,” ainoe now for love of the country (not to mointain tho imitatora of fuesia) they work earning lesa, giving extra hours free, aucrifieoing daya without pay, trying to holp the production becone greater and the consumption leas, be= cause now 1t ie really true that they eat"parejo" (parejo means en equal torma, just clike. This implies that everybody hag SECHET nothing);
14-00000 6 oe oe Her gt, I do not understand how you canmot become anthustastio with = this paradise of Fidel and of the oonrades whioh have succeeded ‘fn making Cuba what could not be obtained in as miny yoarg of Republioan life, These are "oertainly a douooruey in wiioh the people are the owners of ovorything and who aro in tho power and command," And all this is dene easily in popular asseuwblies in which Fidel sasye what and the others (doesn't make any difference what the number) raise the hand or the fingor. In this way, it is vory clear that/tho = peoplo who ara in charge and "desire,# Naturally, everything hero is dono voluntarily in suoh way that it cannot be said that they aro obligad to attend, since we are a free country of Amerion., Yt wuld be a calumny to say that here the Russians are in command or the Chinose or the Czecha and that we are a “pox of the King," because they "live very badly here in very bad houses with old cars, scarce food, and while they are eaerifloing, the Cuban poopie are enjoying enviable cone fort and foods ,® Naturally, tho Cuban people know how to reocoge nize the self-denial and sacrifice of these*geoed friends of Cubal* ‘Now they say {in a very low voice) that there will be another axchange of money. It must be that the current money presents a danger of an opidenio for ite sturdinesa and they are sonoerned for the good of the people and will give other olean money. Now, when there is. such an abundance of soap, It also appeara that they are very happy with the week between tho i6th and 2and of thie month since there has been a denonstration of atheian, You are very such remembored and sincerely lovod by 2 3 AG6Y a e Ss * we ‘ye be
Bl Nogrito, \ SECRET * 8 *@ 8 @e 8 & 2 8. Tho other lottor in from a Cuban woman who ie a rela- tive of the Miro fanily nnd writes to hor daurhter, e*#® @# @ # 8 @ Yor do not know how sorry I am that you haven't boon here on Mother's Day itn ordor to havo been able to send you to oug - sugar cane and consider mysolf a happy nother, a real Mariana Grajales, who sends her children to aarry out their duty outting oano, During those aaya there are nothing mt mottees and watchworda and that ie all you hear listoning on the radio and telovision, I beltove that thoro won't be a sinrle Cuban loft who will not hear thia eall to his heart and carry out his duty, ha ha, The Guganoria (this moana the Worm Poople, the anti~Castro poople) is stirring up diaturbanooa noweusdays, You will gay that tia Governsont is making a point of ite huwneniem and dooan't want to terminate with it. They havo committed terrific acta, such as burning cane, farns, oooperativea, laboratorios, ras worka, really a torrifio amount; °° | Tn order to relax, they go to the novies where piotures of the fine tean are put on, such as the Czech film, "Muerte Aoaballo"® (Death on Horsoback}, where tho protagonist auffers an ancident aleng with his horse, hoe profara a hergae, and in order not to see him suffer decides to shoot him. Then the publio, Which goes for thin purpose, shouta, "kiil hin, give the caballe (horss) a shot,* (Note: This is a Joke among Cubans hocaune the Diotator Castro is valled El Caballo.) In another pictura, «- & wo SECRET
14-00000 tt ne er etre ~ Pen ET "Around the World in Lirhty Days, * they odme out to a table fula . an of noodies “lmperialigt vice) and the people gious, "Abusera, We @re hungry." L4e, Here nothing ta lacking, we ail eat arejo (alike) (wo all aro hungry alike), The Geg (Seoret Police) had to enter the movie houses and arrest many. ‘In one show, which presented *Pototo,* they were pProsenting a change of scene and kept on showing different Pictures with photographa of kept - Presidents of the Inporialist epoch and the hardest/eaying, "throw it out in the trash," When thoy show one of Fidel, he aays, "That one No, hang that one up." They arrested hin for the shouting Which took Place and how they gay that he 4a in asylum, Right now the Government hag seen itself obliged to dtotate that @ pergon who traitoriously abandons the country must leave his house 24 or 48 hours before taking the plane. That ig to say, when they come to oheok hia belongings, the polive cone and a Renber of the Committee of the Block and when they are aeing to seal the house, a POlicenan comes up and the samo mombor oF the Comittee. This is done in order that nothing ean he takon out, neither before nor aftorwards, What & sad and vile task, that of the persons who are on the Committee, This measure ig duc, they say, to a trick of the "nachazo" (suardiola). ‘the day before embarking, he broke the furniture, the redio, the rofrigorator, the television, eto., but a noighbor who heard hin denounced hin | and, upon taking the Plano thoy took hin off ana took hin te the house, thus proving the otvic act carried out by the neighboring "ohivata, * the naighboring informer (ciivata isa slang word for informer), Now they do not let hin loave again until he hag ren = & «ws SECRET
14-00000 ere, Vet furnished the house connlatolys;': nas @o you think of that? fut the conotructive work of the revolution oontinuos. What brazen people, Where everyones foea thoy are fiotehing with overy= thing. . Now thoy are going to leave only one novie house por city district. The rest will be dedioated to oducative talke for the people. They did mut know that the Caballo was fed up with hearing, the talks of the ont on Christmas Eve, Tis ie what he eaid inn tnlk in Montanzas: “fut of what atuff is that man made of 7 | Now thoy ara prohibiting that:the deetora put en certifie cates of doath that the death is due to cardiac oollapse,. Don't you see that this was a Yenkeo manouvor with tho medics wanting to show that hero everybody dies ot heart attacks? or the control task hooks, thoy aro going to take. away the quote of rioe for enlldron and that of noat for porsons older than 7 years and less than 65 yoara, To eat go much {a an ugly Imperialist custom, Yoaterday your aunt and I wont to the stores ond if you could geo how funny the oupleyess are making their tears, it makes no ¢tfferoneo to then to hava drunk before or aftorwarida a glasa of milk or juice and fay no, that they ars earrying out their duty of Soalsliat Morality. The stores are — terrible, Linoune are 600 to 1,000 persons, without exaggoration, to ret a pair of stockings at $2.80 without being wrapped up and hogar. For a fe. rvirdles that they took out, ao tren-ndous rugh | wage caused to sugh a4 extreme there were oven shota fired, To those wio receive scholarships, thoy are given troiandous homage, aw & = SECRET OS Marre tn, vgn cele det BF cas,
14-00000 Seuntl The Caballo (Castro) talked to thon, These are the only Cuban Mothers, the othors who have their dons prisoners were denying for Cuba real Liborty aro not Mothers, thoy are "bitehsa.® Thus they are told kuchilan, Consuelito Vidal, Vepero Drite and BKloiea Alvarez Guedes (those aro keeping sonpany together with M, Ortega, tho old grandfather of Patrifia, whioh makes one mad.) The students of Cuba have converted thonselves exclusively inte bribe takers for @ plate of food. It is shameful. Now, pot even ‘thie olassa, which was the purest, exists hore, ° Friday night, thoy showed by television an operation on the jung of a dog by an ominent Soviet wise man, with &® marveloug Russian instrumonte, only one in the world and what the Anerican dootors would have done iu four or five hours, these esinont peoplo did in five minutes, Now they did not present the prep- aration of the oporation, nor did one see them give the stitches, nor have they told that the dog died, Afterward, they televised am exposition of unique Soviet medical preduotea, Let them ask Boro that four injections of anesthesia weren't sufficient te your puor grandmother extract from him a molar and aftorwards they loft/wia with the whole mouth ulcerated, which single dogo of Russian pentolllin given by a dooter at the beginning of the year almost caused her , to be taken to tho cemetery. New all day long they are with the operntions, but ia it perhaps that the Cubana cannet forged of the many and great operations carried on by a Rodriguez Diaz, @ Vicente Banet, thoy will forget or they will not know the ige norant ones of 1961 but the othore no. | You know 4haé what @hey @a4d San Pedro (Saint Peter) said to Kennedy, "You take care of the dinner and I will take care of wo FT ws ° aeA a wok
J4-00000 To re eat sr mR Re de im oR ahAER ttiat tenet Meanie wf reed sepemns a tho wator.". ‘Now they are oarrying on a canpaigen about the drought | to make those inhboollee bel Leve that the lack of sono foods, auch as milk, is due to the drought. A lie. In Cuba for many years thore was @ drought, hut for that reason there waa no lack of milk, food, eto.. All this is lacking because of very bad adnin-. istration because everything ts taken away which is worth having for Russia, even the earth being carried via the dooks ef Regla in a Rugsian boat, It's a shame ald that ia happening in Cuba, and if some day these poople luave here, they are not even going to Lonvo any ground, fut I ecortainly boliove that they will ree main in the minda of the Cuban for all tho lite as the very bad thing that 1s this Communist rogine and how mistaken wore ali those who defended it; Greotings to Svoryone over thore, since I have no nore for today to toll you and send affectionate greotinga, S/ Antonia May 14, 1062 38 ® #8 # ae 8 « SECRET |