INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION CABLE: RUMORS OF CONFLICT BETWEEN FIDEL AND RAUL CASTRO AND ARRESTS OF ARMY OFFICERS
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Document date: 03/24/1966
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RUMORS OF CONFLICT BETWEEN FIDEL AND RAUL

CASTRO AND ARRESTS OF ARMY OFFICERS

PATACO. UNITED STATES (23 MARCH 1966)

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FIELD REPORT NO.

APPRAISAL, A CUBAN ENGINEER, SPECIALIZING IN AGRONOMY, WHO IS NOW RETIRED BU

PREVIOUSLY WAS IN THE SUGAR-REFINING BUSINESS.

SOURCE RELIABLY

CONVEYS INFORMATION REPORTED TO HIM.

WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE

ARREST MENTIONED IN PARAGRAPH 2, WHICH WAS WITNESSED BY A FRIEND,

SOURCE DID NOT IDENTIFY HIS INFORMANTS.

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1. RUMORS OF INTENSIFIED CONFLICT BETWEEN PREMIER FIDEL CASTRO

RUZ AND HIS BROTHER RAUL, WHO IS MINISTER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMED

FORCES (FAR), HAVE CIRCULATED INCREASINGLY SINCE THE ARREST OF

ROLANDO CUBELA SECADES. IT IS SAID THAT SINCE THE CUBAN-CHINESE CON-

FLICT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THB TWO HAVE REACHED SUCH A POINT THAT

DIRECT CONTROL OF THE FAR BY FIDEL, IS CONSIDERED CERTAIN. RAUL IS

SAID TO HAVE REQUESTED MINESTER OF THE INTERIOR RAMIRO VALDES

HENENDEZ TO RESIGN BUT THE LATTER REPLIED THAT ONLY FIDEL COULD RE-

MOVE HIM. :

2. IN DAYLIGHT HOURS IN THE MARIANAO SECTION OF HAVANA ON 3

TA BAR TE AUTONOLE ETE SO DERER E MOTORCYSLE POCEMEN

Saces within the Latanla!

18, 0'8C. D8Cl, 799 and 188. INa IranRaledOn Os JUMBiaSIOn el UDIES IA ADY MAnDES lO da UnAUlhOTIed DerSOn la probiblted by laT.

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TO OVERTAKE AXOTHER AUTUXOBILE CARRYING FIVE FAR OFFICERS. THE

LATTER WERE DISARKED BY NEMBERS OF THE G-2 AND WERE THEN CARRIED OF?

UNDER ARREST IN TWO CARS.

3. BY 8 XARCE HOST OF THE PRISONERS WHO WERE IN THE G-2 PRISON

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AT VILLA "MARISTA" WERE TRASSFERRED TO LA CABAÑA. (HEADQUARTERS

CONTENT: ACCORDING TO T9/O0-X-323/03689-66, A CUBAN REFUGEE WHO

ARRIVED IN THE UNITED STATES BY AIR ON 23 FEBRUARY REPORTED THAT ON

6 FEBRUARY ABOUT 300 CUBAN ARMY OFICERS WERE ARRESTED IN SANTA CLARA

AND CAXAGUEY. THEY ALLICEDLY WERE A PART OF A PEIPING-BACKED CON-

,SPIRACY TO GAIN CONTROL OF THE ARUY AND TO FORCE CASTRO TO RESIGN.

THE REFUGEE SAID THESE PRISONERS WERE BEING HELD BY THE DEPARTMENT

OF STATE SECURITY AT LA CABAÑA AND VILLA MARITIMA IN HAVANA. FIDEL

REPORTEDLY PLAYED TO MAKE AN EXAUPLE OF THE GROUP AND ALLEGEDLY

WOLLID SOON EXECUTE A MAJORITY OF THEM. NO INFORMATION CONCERNING

THE ARRESTS HAD BEEN YADE PUBLIC, AND NO RUMORS WERE CIRCULATING IN

HAVANA ABOUT TRE MATTER.)

4. HEADQUARIERS COVIVENT: THERE IS NO CONFIRMATION FROM CON-

TROLLED SOURCES OF ANY RECENT DISAGREENENTS INVOLVING THE CASTRO

BROTHERS AND RAMIRO VALDES. ALTHOUGY SOURCE DID NOT SUGGEST ANY REAS

SONS FOR TKE RESORTED DISAGREESENTS, RAUL CASTRO AND CUBELA HAVE IN

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THE PAST BELY REGARDED AS VIOLENT ENESTES. IF THERELES A DISAGREE-

Extintit

MENT BETYEEN THE CASTRO BROTHERS IT MAY BE OVER THE

HARSHNESS OF THE

PUNISFLENT TO BE METED QUI TO CUBELA AND HIS GROUP.

VALDES, AS

FIDEL CASTRO'S LAN, MAY HAVE AROUSED RAUL'S ENMITY.

5. FIELD DISSEM: CINCLANT, CINCSO.

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