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DAILY SUMMARY

6 December 1963

This summary of significant information has not been coordinated

outside the Office of Current Intelligence. It does not represent a

complete coverage of all current reports received, nor does time

permit the complete evaluation of all reports which are included.

CONTENTS

MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS:

An intercepted Cuban military message of 5 December indi-

cated that the Cuban armed forces are giving courses in

chemical warfare defense. (Page 1)

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:

Moscow press reports the OAS meeting on Cuban arms ship-

ments. (Page 1)

CUBAN INTERNAL SITUATION:

Apparitions of

Santa Barbara have been reported from Oriente

Province. (Page 1)

The Portuguese ambassador in Havana reports his impressions

of the reactions to President Kennedy's assassination. (Page 2)

Two government soldiers were killed in southern (Ortente

Province when a dice game, involving military and civiliar

personnel, was uncovered and fired upon by troops from Unitzl

1948.) (Page 3)

Dolores Ibarruri,, secretary general of the Spanish Communist

Party, arrived in Havana from Hoscow on 5 December, accord-

ing to press reports.

(Page 3)

CUBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT:

Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, minister of INRA, has expressed

serious dissatisfaction

situation and revealed that he disagrees with Castro's

emphasis on "ultimate aims" in place of current "tactics."

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with Cuba's current agricultural

Rodriguez: also informed the British ambassador that he had

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CUBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - cont'd

opposed the Second Agrarian Reform Law and is willing to

use "doctrinally unwelcome" measures to increase production.

(Page 3)

Cuba is taking further steps to improve its fishing industry,

including several construction projects in the Chuyima ship-

yards in the Almendares River

the launching of 18 fishing

boats, and the sending of an Official mission)to Spain) in

connection with the fishing industry.4 (Page 4)

INSURGENCY AND CIVIL UNREST:

Counterrevolutionary elements apparently attacked an obser-

vation post on Cayo de Cristo on a recent undetermined date.

(Page 4)

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Inspected co terre slutonary was arrested on 3 December

CUBAN FOREIGN SERVICE:

The Cuban ambassador to the USSR is in Havana for a short

"vacation." (Page 5)

CUBAN AIR FLIGHT CONNECTIONS:

The soviet-made AN-12 transport plane being ferried to Cuba

reached Recife, Brazil, on 5 December, and left there for

its last stop before it is scheduled to arrive in Cuba on

7 December.

(Page 5)

SHIPPING SUPPORT FOR CUBA:

The US Embassy in Beirut believes that Lebanon may act to

curtail the use of its ships in the Cuban trade.

This

would result in a significant decline in Cuban shipping

in free world bottoms. (Page 5)

CUBAN - CHINESE COMMUNIST RELATIONS:

Wang Yu-ping has been named the new Chinese Communist am-

bassador to Cuba.

He is a senior diplonat, but not as high

ranking an individual as the recently appointed Chinese

Communist ambassadors to Algeria and the UAR. (Page 5)

BLOC ECONOMIC RELATIONS:

A Bulgarian arms negotiator has returned from Havana to Sofia.

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BLOC RELATIONS:

A four-man Soviet delegation to revise social science cur-

riculum at Havana University has

arrived in Havana.

(Page 6)

NON-BLOC COMMERCIAL RELATIONS:

The US consul in Antwerp has been informed by the Varmi

Company of Brussels that it will not sell construction

equipment to Cuba; there have been reports that such a

sale, perhaps totaling $1 million, was being negotiated.

Meanwhile, a Cuban group, which had probably planned to

complete negotiations on

the sale, was delayed because

of lack of visas. (Page 6)

The US Embassy in Tokyo sees. little hope of inducing the

Japanese Government to interfere with the implementation

of a contract under which Japanese private firms have re-

portedly agreed to purchase 325,000 tons of Cuban sugar.

(Page 7)

The director of a Spanish optical firm has gone to Havana

to negotiate the sale of movie projectors; he is being

sponsored by CILASA. (Page 7)

NON-BLOC RELATIONS:

A Cuban good-will mission was received by the Moroccan

acting foreign minister; the US Embassy believes this

may presage the official re-establishment of diplomatic

relations. (Page 7)

The Swiss ambassador believes that Frank Emmick's trial

will be held shortly after the completion of the current

OAs investigation of Venezuelan charges against Cuba;

Emmick's preliminary hearing has been completed and the

ambassador 1g trying to find a Cuban lawyer to defend him.

(Page 8)

The government of Trinidad gave a "chilly reception" to a

visiting Cuban official and turned down a suggestion for

trade talks, at least for the present. "(Page 8)

CUBAN SUPPORT OF EXTERNAL SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES:

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Venezuelan charges that Cuba has been shipping arms to

South America.

(Page 8)

Havana Radio announced yesterday that pro-Castro guerrillas

in the Dominican Republic have established "six operational

zones"; Cuban exiles in Miami feel that the failure of pro-

Castro

terrorists in Venezuela may force him to turn to

terrorism in the Dominican Republic. (Page 9)

Cuba is reportedly making preparations to recognize a Vene-

zuelan government-in-exile, according to information re-

ceived by an official West

German service from a fairly

reliable source with contacts

1ºa Havana. (Page 9)

The OAS Investigating Committee which is looking into the

Cuban arms cache discovered in Venezuela does not intend

to limit its investigation to the cache, but has expressed

interest in looking into other evidence of Cuban activities

directed against Venezuela.

The Venezuelan Government has

agreed to furnish all possible evidence on its complaint.

(Page 10)

On 5 December an American woman told a minister in New York

that her boy friend had left that day for an unknown desti-

nation in Central America from which he planned to fly in

a pro-Castro Venezuelan coup on Saturday. (Page 10)

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¡MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS:

(USN-856, 2X/ SL/CUM/1407-63, 6 December, SECRET SABRE)

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:

Noscow has given rather standard treatment to the OAS

meeting which heard the Venezuelan Government charge Castro

with illegal arms shipments.

On 4 December, TASS correspond-

ent.: Leonid Shokin reported

that "the weavers of plots against

revolutionary Cuba

are still at it...accusing it of delivery

¡of arms to Venezuela for 'subversive purposes'."..

Shokin found

"certain US circles are the most interester in this, as is

evident from the fact that representatives of the US State

Department declared at the meeting that the United States

'would

'firmly support' additional economic and diplomatic

sanctions by the OAS against Cuba." He thought it unexcep-

tional that

"these provocative attempts were not supported by

the largest Latin American countries" and warned that "such

attempts to interfere in Cuban internal affairs are fraught

with extremely harmful consequences for the cause of peace."

(CIA/FBIS, Moscow, 4 December, UNCLASSIFIED)

CUBAN INTERNAL SITUATION:

Several weeks

ago there were CAS reports that the storm-

tossed peasants of Oriente looked on Hurricane Flora as the

vengeance of God--a God, who in the tradition of the old

Testament's stern and sometimes vengeful Jehovah, had loosed

his fury on a people first seduced and now impressed by an

alien regime.

Now a report from the US Naval Base at Guan-

tanamo Bay provides yet another insight into the frame of mind

of the Cuban populace.

While the incidents pictured in this

report do not necessarily reflect anything other than a com-

bination of religious fervor and superstition, they are signifi-

cant to the extent that they reflect the unrest--and, perhaps

a growing feeling of hopelessness and despair--current among

the Cubans.

In any case, there are prevalent locally tales of St.

¡Barbara's appearing several times to prophesy a change in the

regime or admonish errant youths to mend their ways. /Barbara,

i virgin daughter of the heathen Diosorus, was beheaded by her

father near Heliopolis in 235 A.D. for embracing Christianity.

A fearful thunderclap is alleged

to have greeted her execution.

Symbolized by a windmill-like tower with three windows, the

white he vat absent tros home,

type ôf fortress in which her father was wont to confine her

while he was absent from home, Barbara is the patroness of

artillerymen and miners.

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/In the Church's calendar, her feast is marked on 4 Decem-

ber.

- Apart from her significance in the Christian ritual,

Barbara figures prominently in a neo-pagan cult known as

the Santeria. Devotees of Santeria regard themselves as

Catholics and believe that the names of the Catholic saints

are translations into Spanish of the Nigerian names of African

gods.

Catholicism is viewed as the Spanish tribal version of

Santeria. The association between Catholicism and Santeria

is based on a largely superficial similarity between Catholic

saints and the pantheon of African spirit gods. Saint Barbara

is thought to be Shango, the God of War!?

According to one of these tales, a

woman dressed in

martyr's red stopped a bus outside Guantanamo City on 25 No-

vember, stepped inside and berated the Castro regime.

The

woman is alleged to have said that the Cuban people could

not live forever in such misery and to have predicted that

Castro would be taken from them sometime between 4 and 7 De-

cember.

A militiaman passenger told her that she would be

arrested when the bus

arrived in the city.

When it had, she'd

disappeared.

Continuing on to Caimanera, the bus stopped in

the town square with the same woman sitting on one of the

seats inside the vehicle.

and

The militia again was summoned

again the woman was nowhere to be seen.

On 26 November the same woman allegedly appeared outside

a school in Caimanera and admonished several children not to

thrown stones at a nearby shack. The children fled into the

school and the woman followed. Challenged by a teacher, the

woman said she was Santa Barbara and vanished. The next day.

neither the teacher nor the children would return to the

school,

though it subsequently has been reopened. (COMNAVBASE

GIMO, 01731/T1/JFK/3, 4 December, CONFIDENTIAL)

Fidel Castro was "frightened, if not terrified," by the

possible consequences of President Kennedy's murder, according

to the Portuguese ambassador in (Havana).' Cabling bis government 24

on 27 November.

dent's death--"they were sent to take up positions around

Havana and the northern coast of the island." He found it sur-

prising that Castro "jumped into the arena to denounce insinu-

that the assassination will be the spring which will unleash

passions and violent and blind hysteria of the American people

against Cuba and Russia and provide the excuse which up to now

was lacking.... There is talk again about the coincidence of

rumors concerning a crisis at the end of the year...." Finally,

he ambassador noted that "the assassination did not cause a

great deal: öf

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Province on 3 December when members of Unit 1948) at an uniden-

tried location within the,first Army) area, uncovered and fired

on a dice game, which apparently included personnel from their

own unit. A 3

December message from military unit 1948 to South 24

sierra Maestra Sector Headquarters) stated that

"when the players

attempted to flee, the soldiers commenced firing without orders,

causing the death of one unnamed player and the chief of organ-

Ization and personnel of Unit 1948)24 The message added that the

bodies and the "civilian and military prisoners" were being sent

to sector headquarters. (USN 835, 2/LRI/CUMy R196-63, 5 December,

SECRET KIMBO)

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Dolores Ibarruri, "La Pasionaria" of Spanish Civil War fame

and secretary general

of the Spanish Communist Party, arrived in

Havana from Moscow on 5 December, according to press reports.

Ibarruri, who resides in Moscow, was invited to Cuba by Castro

during his visit to the Soviet Union. (The New York Times,

6 December, UNCLASSIFIED)

CUBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT:

Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, minister of INRA, has expressed

serious dissatisfaction with Cuba's current agricultural situa-

tion and revealed that he disagrees with Castro's emphasis on

"ultimate aims" in place of current "tactics."

In a long talk

with the British ambassador in early November, Rodriguez agreed

"with surprising enthusiasm" that the two main problems facing

Cuban agriculture were the lack of competent personnel to run

the appropriated farms, and the lack of consumer goods which

are necessary to stimulate production, especially by the remain-

ing private farmers. Rodriguez had advised Castro that there

were not sufficient

agricultural experts to run the state farms

which had been previously organized, and he had counseled against

taking over medium-size farms (as the Second Agrarian Reform Law

did) until

sufficiently trained and experienced personnel were

available; he commented on Soviet complaints about the low edu-

cational level of Cubans sent to the USSR for agricultural

training.

Rodriguez said that despite his advice, Castro had

gone ahead with the Second Agrarian Reform Law for two "polit-

ical" reasons: to push ahead with the progress of Cuba's

Socialist economy, and to destroy the support for counterrevo-

lutionaries which

Castro believed existed among the "rural

bourgeois."

Rodriguez thought it ironical that US pressure on

Cuba (presumably he meant aid to counterrevolutionaries) had

forced Cuba to seize lands faster than it would otherwise have

done. He also stated his belief that the seizure of medium-

size farms would lead to a drop for several years in many

branches of Cuban agriculture, particularly in market gardening

and dairy farming.

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Rodriguez also agreed with the British

ambassador that the

second problem

facing Cuban agriculture was the lack of consumer

goods which were necessary to stimulate production.

However

Rodriguez said that Cuba was in a vicious circle:

not have incentive to produce because there were

goods available, yet such goods could not be obtained until

A got such so

farmers did

few consumer

farm production had been raised. Rodriguez' main concern

seemed to be the scarcity of many consumer goods; in fact, he

admitted that he was willing to undertake temporary expediencies

which might help raise production, even though they might be

"doctrinally unwelcome." Rodriguez referred the ambassador to

Lenin's New Economic Policy, and made no attempt to disguise his

disagreement with Castro's insistence on "ultimate aims" instead

of current "tactics."

(British Embassy Havana, 13 November,

CONFIDENTIAL NO FOREIGN DISSEM)

Cuba is taking further steps to improve its fishing industry.

A Havana radiobroadcast reported the completion of several con-

struction projects in the Chuyima shipyards in the Almendares

River in Havana, including a pier 307 meters in length, a concrete

esplanade measuring 17,000 square meters with a capacity of 24

ships, two launching ramps, and the dredging of the Almendares

River in front of the pier, pending partial completion, as well

as several minor jobs.

It also reported that the shipyard has

launched 18 Lambda-75-class ships; 14 more are expected to be

launched by January. 24According to a 29 November intercepted

message, an official mission in connection

industry was

expected to arrive in (adrid) la early December.

(CIA FBIS

2X/0/Cu)/T3523-63,

5 December, SECRET SABRE)

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INSURGENCY AND CIVIL UNREST:

Counterrevolutionary, elements apparently attacked the Selva

Marina) observation post at Cayo de Cristo) on a recent undetermined

date.

A partially garbled message from (Central Army Headquarters) 24

in (Santa Clara informed Havana) that personnel in the observation

post lolocated on a cat.off Isabela de Sague) "

"repelled the aggres-

sion and caused the flight of the attackers

place by air,

land, and sea, nothing more than some footprints

were observed."

Because of

the garbles at the beginning of the

message it is

impossible to determine the time and nature of the

attack.

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≥4.

An unidentified military unit informed First Army Sector

E Headquarters at Mayari Arriba that a suspected counterrevolu-

militia-

Moya on 3 December.

Moya was identified as being implicated

in the counterrevolution and as an informer.

(USN 835, 2X/

LB (CUT$75-63, 5 Deceinber, SECRET SABRE)

CUBAN FOREIGN SERVICE:

Carlos Olivares, Cuba's ambassador to the USsR,

arrived

oy plane yesterday in

Havana for what Prensa Latina

described

as a

"short vacation." (CIA/FBIS, Havana, 5 December, UN-

CLASSIFIED)

CUBAN AIR FLIGHT CONNECTIONS:

Intercepted(civil aviation communications indicate that

the Soviet-made AN-12 transport aircraft being ferried to Cuba

from the Soviet Union is adhering to its schedule.

It arrived

at the Brazilian airport of Recife from Conakry on

5 December

and left there the next day for Belem, Brazil.

It is scheduled

to leave Belem on 7. December for Havana.

The intercepts also

indicated that Jamaica has granted permission for the plane

to use Kingston as a reserve

landing point in the event of

necessity. (USA-51, 2/J8/RUT/R894-63, 6 December, SECRET

KIMBO)

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SHIPPING SUPPORT FOR CUBA:

The US Embassy in Beirut believes that Lebanon may act

to curtail the use of its ships in the Cuban trade.

This would

result in a significant decline in Cuban shipping in free world

bottoms because Lebanese companies provided ten of the thirty-

two free world ships which called at Cuba in October. The

Lebanese foreign minister planned to ask the cabinet for a pro-

visional measure whereby he would be able to demand that all

ships carrying Lebanese flag must call at Lebanon periodically

and report their destinations.

He believed this would cut

the Cuban traffic quickly by 60 percent. Because

Us aid to

Lebanon is almost nonexistent, the US Embassy believes that

this Lebanese action would be prompted by motives of princi-

discussed by the us congress.

CONFIDENTIAL)

CUBAN - CHINESE COMMUNIST RELATIONS:

A Havana Prensa Latina broadcast of 6 December announced

that President Dorticos has assented to the appointment of Wang

Yu-ping as Chinese Communist ambassador to Cuba.

This is the

first information indicating that Ambassador Shen Chien, who

has served in Cuba since December 1960, is about to be replaced.

The new Chinese Communist ambassador is

a 53-year-old senior

diplomat; since 1950 he has served three- to four-year terms as

Communist

ambassador in Rumania, Norway, and Cambodia. He is

married and has two children.

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While he is, of course, a member of the Chinese Communist

party, he is not

a ranking party member.

He appears to be

a lower ranking person than newly assigned Chinese Communist

ambassadors to such countries as the UAR and Algeria.

earliest biographic references to him have him as a member of

the Chinese Communist Army in 1931. He subsequently became

an army political commissar and rose to the rank of general.

to be generals.

tion that he speaks Spanish.

however, he has been stationed in Peiping and he could have

learned

the language then.

He accompanied Chinese Communist

chief of state Liu Shoa-chi on the latter's visit to Cambodia

last spring.

(CIA FBIS Havana,

6 December, OFFICIAL USE ONLY;

BACKGROUND DATA: SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM)

BLOC ECONOMIC RELATIONS:

L.P. kyuchukov, chief of the Engineering Directorate of

the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Trade, was to arrive in

Prague from Havana yesterday and fly on

Kyuchukov, who is thought to have negotiated Bulgarian arms

shipments to Cuba, was noted traveling between Havana and

Santiago de Cuba on 21 and 23 November--the third time he has

been in Cuba since November 1962. (DIRNSA, 2X/0/Q0C)/T2810-

63, 5 December, SECRET SABRE)

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BLOC RELATIONS:

A 4-man Soviet delegation, headed by USSR Deputy Min-

ister of Education Serafim Nikichev, arrived in Cuba on 5

December to spend a month "working on the curriculum of

Havana University's

School of Social Sciences." Nikichev

was accompanied

by "academicians" Aleksandr Smirnov,

Vassiliy

Rayike, and Maria Filipova.

the group was welcomed at Jose

Marti airport by the Rector and Deputy Rector of the univer-

sity,

Juan Mier Febles and Mariano Rodriguez Solveira, and

Professor Pedro Canas.

the school's protocol specialist' first tangible result of

The

delegation's trip to Cuba is the

the Soviet-Cuban educational exchange agreement signed in Mos-

cow two months ago.

That agreement provides for the loan

of Soviet academicians and educational administrators to

Cuban schools, the exchange of students and instructors be-

tween the two

countries, and the use of Soviet texts in Cuba.

(CIA/FBIS, Havana, 5 December, UNCLASSIFIED)

NON-BLOC COMMERCIAL RELATIONS:

The US consul in Antwerp has been informed by the Varmi

Company of Brussels

that it will not sell construction equipment

to Cuba; there have been reports that such a sale, perhaps total-

ling $1

million,, was being negotiated. (See Daily Summary of

7 and 13 November.)

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The director of Varmi confirmed to US officials that he

had been negotiating with a Spanish firm (probably CILASA)

for the sale of US-origin construction equipment; after being

informed that the material was destined for Cuba and having

been warned of the consequences of such a sale, the director

agreed on 2 December to stop negotiations.

The us consul

comments that it is not sure whether the knowledge of the

eventual sale to Cuba or the fact of Us intervention in the

matter caused Varmi to stop the arrangements.

Meanwhile, a source with access to CILASA's files re-

ported on 28 November that a Cuban comission headed by Rene

Narbona of the Cuban tractor importing agency would be unable

to arrive in Brussels on 30 November because of inability to

obtain visas.

This group had probably been scheduled to com-

plete negotiations for the purchase of the Varmi construction

equipment.

(Am ConGen Antwerp, 29, 3 December, CONFIDENTIAL;

CIA Madrid TDCS-3/566,653, 5 December, SECRET

NO FOREIGN DIS-

SEN)

The US Embassy in Tokyo, in receipt of a report that

private Japanese companies have contracted for 325,000 tons

of Cuban sugar for delivery between July 1964 and June 1965,

sees

little prospect of inducing the Japanese Government to

interfere with the transaction.

The Japanese Government would

have difficulty intervening because of the general world sugar

shortage, the unavallability

of sugar from other sources at

comparable prices, and the political problem which rising

sugar prices is causing the Ikeda administration. (Am Emb

Tokyo 1688, 5 December, CONFIDENTIAL)

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The director of the Spanish firm Empresa Nacional de

Optica, Vicente l. Cabanillas Gonzalez, left Madrid for Havana

од а 29

November: IBERIA Airlines flight.

As reported earlier

(see Daily Summary, 11 October), Cabanillas is negotiating

through CILASA fOr

the sale of a large quantity of movie pro-

jectors to the General Administrator of University Inspection

In HavAna.

According to a CILASA employee with access

to

company files, Cabanillas' travel expenses are being paid by

CILASA.

Cabánillas had hoped to get a Cuban visa which would

not appear in his passport, as he hoped to visit the US later.

ie was unable to arrange this, however, and Iinally had to ac-

cept:the Cuban visa in his passport.

(Cla, hadrid, IN 74453,

5 December, SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM)

NON-BLOC RELATIONS:

A Cuban good-will mission was received by the Moroccan acting

foreign minister on

? December, according to information received by

the US Embassy in Rabat. The mission was probably composed of Antonic

Carrillo Carreras, Enrique Vian Audivert of the Ministry of Foreign

Trade, and DI. Enrique Rodriguez Leoches, Cuban ambassador to Moroc-

co.

(See Daily Summary of 29 November for recent Cuban-Moroccan

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NON-BLOC RELATIONS - cont'd

Despite the Moroccan announcement of its break in diplo-

matic relations with Cuba, the Cuban ambassador is still in

Rabat and attends functions he normally attended.

chancery offices are open and the Cuban flag is flying.

This situation has been a source of some embarrassment to

the Moroccan Foreign Ministry.

However, the US Embassy

believes that the reception of the Cuban delegation by the

Moroccan Government may presage the official re-establish-

ment of diplomatic relations.

An officer in the Spanish

Embassy in Rabat believes this is entirely possible; he be-

lieves the Soviets are using their influence to keep the

Cuban Embassy in Rabat.

The US Embassy also feels that the

Moroccan King may not feel he received sufficient benefit

to justify continuing the break in diplomatic relations with

cuba.

(Am. Emb Rabat 860, 4 December, CONFIDENTIAL)

The Swiss ambassador in Cuba was informed by the dep-

uty foreign minister that the preliminary hearing had been

completed for the US citizen Frank Emmick, who reportedly

will be charged with being a CIA agent. (See Daily Summary

of 5 December.) The ambassador believes that Emmick's trial

will be held shortly after the completion of the OAS inves-

tigation into charges by Venezuela of Cuban intervention in

Currently, the ambassador is trying to

find a Cuban lawyer to defend Emmick. He is considering

the

lawyer hired by the Canadian Embassy to defend the Cuban

pilots Lippert and Milne, an attorney who handles swiss Em-

bassy affairs, or a member of the Havana University Law

School faculty. (Am Emb Bern 363, 5 December, CONFIDENTIAL)

Prime Minister Williams of Trinidad. Tobago. gave a

"very chilly" reception on 4 December to a visiting Cuban

official, Robert Gerardo Sanchez, commercial officer in the

Cuban Consulate in Kingston.

A Foreign Ministry official In-

formed the US Embassy that. Williams was annoyed that Sanchez

had presumed on a scant acquaintance with him to visit Port-

of-spain, despite advice from the government of Trinidad

that such a visit would be inopportune.

Pate minister turnd do sanchez Buggestion for trade

talks, on the grounds of Cuba's involvement with Venezuela

and Trinidad, Tobago's, delicate and difficult relations

with Caracas. He did not, however, close the door on such

discussions at some appropriate time in the luture. The

government of Trinidad expects Sanchez to leave the country

soon. (An Emb, Port of Spain 223, 5 December, CONFIDENTIAL)

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In a message of 3 December, the (Chilean Embassy) in Ha-

vena reported to its Foreign Ministry Information it had re-

ceived from "reliable sources" in Cuba on Cuban efforts to

ship weapons to Venezuela and other Latin American countries.

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The Embassy)stated that "everything leads to the beliet

Guiana with "packages consigned as machinery consigned to an

to botto ta but a1a0c%

and British (sic) make and that the shipments have been made

from various Cuban ports. The (embassy) Eeport also expresse

the belief that Cuba not only sends arms

to various points in

South America, but also Cuban guerrilla leaders. (NSA 3/0/CLD/-

T1129-63, 5 December, TOP SECRET DINAR)

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Havana Radio announced yesterday that pro-Castro guer-

rillas have established "six operational zones" in the moun-

tains around Santiago and Puerto Plata in the Dominican

Republic.

The Havana radiobroadcast credited the announcement

to "the first communiqué issued by the command."

Meanwhile,

press dispatches from Miami report that most Cuban exiles feel

that the Havana announcement is an attempt to cover up the

failure of Castro terrorists to stop Venezuela's presidential

Other exile sources predict that the

announcement and the setback in Venezuela meani. that the Castro

regime will launch a concerted terrorist campaign against the

military-installed provisional regime in Santo Domingo. Batista

Falla, leader of the Cuban exile Christian Democratic Movement

(MCD), said yesterday in Miami that the failure of terrorism

in Venezuela

"has put Castro in a difficult position and damages

his chances in the

rest of Latin America." He added that he

expects Castro to "make desperate attempts to picture terrorism

as

successful, despite its miserable failure In Venezuela."

All reporting by the Dominican Government indicates

that .

Its forces are in effective control of the areas of guerrilla

activity.

About 40 insurgents of the outlawed pro-Castro 14th

of June

Political Group (APCJ) are said to have been captured,

with only isolated bands yet to be apprehended. (UPI, Miami,

A-11, 6 December, UNCLASSIFIED and Background Information, SECRET)

Cuba is reportedly making preparations to recognize a

Venezuelan government-in-exile, according to an official West

German service from a fairly reliable source with contacts in

Havana.

reportealy,

the Cuban Foreign Ministry is consulting

the USSR and other bloc countries to induce them to recognize

this government-in-exile.

The cubans, according to the source,

do not expect the USSR and other countries to agree to this;

nevertheless, the attempt is being made.

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Although this is the first report on the possibility of

a Cuban-sponsored Venezuelan government-in-exile, the Cuban

radio and press have been emphasizing the slogan

that the

Betancourt government does not represent the people and that

the real representatives of the people are to be found in the

ranks of the Armed Forces of National Llberation (FALN). Ac-

cording to Cuban newspapers, Pedro Duno, a former professor

of the Central University of Venezuela,

join the "mission" of the FALN in Havana.

(CIA Munich TDCS-

3/566,731, 5 December, SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM)

The OAS Investigating Committee which is looking into

the Cuban arms cache discovered in Venezuela does not intend

to limit its investigation to the cache.

intention to expand its study to cover domestic political as-

intentio

The group has no

pects of the FALN or Communist Party activities; however, the

members expressed interest in looking into such

aspects as

Cuban broadcasts inciting to violence, possible transfer of

funds from Cuba, training of Venezuelans in Cuba in subversive

techniques, and

evidence of other clandestine arms shipments.

In addition to examining the arms cache, the committee also

voiced interest in hearing tapes of recent Cuban broadcasts,

examining transcripts of interrogations and documents seized

from captured terrorists, saboteurs, and guerrillas, talking

to Venezuelan authorities responsible for combating.

terrorism

and insurgency, and possibly interviewing some prisoners.

In

a meeting with

the committee, the Venezuelan foreign minister

placed emphasis on verification of the Cuban origin of the

arms cache, but also indicated his government would turnish

all possible evidence on the Venezuelan complaint that the

committee might want. (To Am Emb Caracas 485, 5 December,

An American woman told & Unitarian minister in New York

on 5 December that her "boy friend," a former RAF flyer and

soldier-of-fortune, has left for an unknown destination in

Central America from which he will fly in a pro-Castro coup

in Venezuela tomorrow®

Walter Kring,

minister tro ho 211

Souls Unitarian Church, told a USUN official yesterday that

he had been approached

by an American woman who asked him to

get her story "into the proper channels." The woman stated

that her friend left New York on 5 December by unknown means

for an unidentified location in Central America.

He told her

that he would fly to Venezuela on 7 December in connection with

a pro-Castro coup which she would read about in the Sunday

papers.

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Dr. Kring said that he was impressed by the woman's utter

sincerity and normal behavior.

He believed she was convinced

of the truth of her story and of the honesty of her friend..

the woman had apparently, at some earlier date, contacted the

FBI in connection with her friend's participation or knowledge

of a coup in honduras.

She later retracted her story because

she felt it seemed "too implausible and silly."

(USUN, New

York 2376, 5 December, CONFIDENTIAL BACKGROUND USE ONLY)

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