INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION CABLE-PLANS OF THE JUNTA REVOLUTIONARY CUBANA (JURE) TO LAND EXPEDITIONS IN CUBA BEFORE END OF MARCH 1964.
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Document date: 02/12/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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PLAYS OF THE JUSTA REVOLUTIUNARY CORASA CUIRE)

TO LAND LXPEDITIOSS IS CUBA BEFURE AND OF MARCH

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DATEACQ. 10 FEBRUARY 1964

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FIELD REPORT NO.

APPENSAL, AN AVERICAN ENGINEER WHO LIVED IN CUBA AND LEFT THERE IN 1962;

WHO HAS CONTACTS IN JURE.

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1. THE JUATA REVOLUTIOVARY CUBANA (JURE, CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY

JUNTA) IS PREPARING TO LAND ONE OR TWO EXPEDITIONS IN CUBA

BEFORE THE END OF HARCH 1964 AND. JOIN THE MANY FORCES THAT ARE

DISCONTENTED IN THE CUBAN MILITIA. HANUEL RAY, LEADER OF JURS,

IS PLANNING TO LEAD ONE OF THE GROUPS HIMSELF.

2.. RAY THINKS HIS CHANCES OF SUCCESS ARE EXCELLENT AT THIS

TIME. THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF SABOTAGE GOING ON IN CUBA,

ESPECIALLY IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE COUNTPY, BECAUSE CUBANS

RESENT FIDEL CASTRO'S COMPLETE SELL-OUT TO THE RUSSIANS. RAY

BELLEVES THAT IT WILL TAKE TIME, ALTHOUGH HE IS NOT OVER-

OPTIMISTIC. RAY HAS SAID THAT THE CUBANS PUT CASTRO IN AND IT

IS UP TO THEM TO GET HIM OUT. THROTGE ITS VARIOUS AGENCIES,

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THE IS GETTING NEEP FROM THE SALE Di NUNDS IS THE UNITED STATES.

IT HAS SAID THAT SON WILL BUY A RIFLE MOR A CLBAN SOLDIER: (SOURCE

COULENT: JURE SEINS TO MANT TO GO IT ALONE, WITHOUT ANY OUTSIDE

INTERFERESCE.)

3. RAY IS A VERY CAPABLE VAY, HL: HAS EXTENSIVE PLANS FOR

THE CARRYING OUT OF AGRARIAN REFORMS, AHICH WOULD NOT HAKE HIM

POPULAR KITH TIE MORE CONSERVATIVE ELEMENTS, BUT HE IS EXTREKELY

ASTI-COMMUNIST IN HIS VIERS.

4. JUAN (GUANCHI) MELENDEZ, AN ENGINEER, WHO WAS RAY'S

MAN IN CUBA AND RAN THE NATIONAL CONXISSION OF AQUEDUCTS AND

SENERS (CONACA), IS ONE OF RAY'S PRINCIPAL LIEUTENANTS.

MELENDEZ PLANS TO GO TO CUBA AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

5. FIELD DISSEN:

CINCLANT, CINCSO.

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