CABLE RE MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRATA CRISTIANO (MDC) ISSUING DOSMENT.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: HAVANA
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 04/13/1960
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1• MOVIMIENTO DENOCRATA CRISTIANO (MOC) ISSUING STATEMENT TO. PRESS

13 APRIL SIGNED BY MOC PRESIDENT JOSE IGNACIO RASCO ANO PARTY SECRETARY

ENRIQUE VILLAREAL:

STATEMENT CALLS FOR ELECTIONS; REVISIONS IN IMPLEMENTATION

AGRARIAN REFORM, DEPLORES COMMIE INFILTRATION. AND. CONSTITUTES STRONG

CONDEMNATION. CURRENT REGIME.

'2. RASCO AND VILLAREAL MOI IN HIDING AND WILL REMAIN THERE UNTIL

15 APRIL WHEN THEY WILL ENTER ECUADORAN EMBASSY IF APPEARS STATEMENT

PRECIPITATE CASTRO RETALIATION WHICH THEY NOW CALCULATE WILL SURELY

BE FORTHCOMING.: THEY HOPE TO OBTAIN SAFE PASSAGE IN TIME TO ATTENO

CARACAS DEMOCRATRE CONFERENCE 18-25 APRIL.

3. ABOVE FROM AMPALM-I AND # WHO REPORT MOC ACTION TAKEN NOL

IN VIEW GROWING OPPOSITION CASTRO REGIME AND POSSIBILITY. FURTHER DELAY IN

• ISSUING MOC DECLARATION WOULD CAUSE LOSS OF INITIATIVE MOC. ALSO STATE

RASCO SCARED AND FEELS MUST. ACT NOW OR NEVER.

1. STATION WILL CONFIRM APPEARANCE DECLARATION LOCAL PRESS BY CABLE

AND AIRMAIL CLIPS ALL MAJOR STATIONS, FEEL DECLARATION PROBABLY SUBSTANTIALLY

SAME AS MANIFESTO HOS WITH REF. FILED: 13:230Z

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