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COPY NO. 107.

SC NO. 00546/63

25 November 1963

DAILY

SUMMARY

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DAILY SUMMARY

25 November 1963

This summary of significant information has not been coordinated

outside the Office of Current Intelligence. It does not representa

complete coverage of all current reports received, nor does time

permit the complete evaluation of all reports which are included.

CONTENTS

FIDEL CASTRO'S SPEECH:

Castro's two-hour speech on 23 November was what he termed

an "objective analysis" of the implications of President

Kennedy's assassination.

The speech reflected an appre-

hension that US policy toward Cuba may now become even

tougher.

He said the President's death was "serious and

bad news" and sought to insinuate that "ultrareactionaries"

in the US are exploiting the assassination-and may have

been responsible

for it--as part of their campaign for a

more "aggressive" US policy against Cuba. (Page 1)

MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS:

The Cuban defensive military alert,

ordered immediately

after the news of President Kennedy's death, remains in

effect. (Page 2)

OTHER CUBAN REACTIONS TO THE ASSASSINATION:

The chargé of the Cuban Embassy in Chile says there is no

doubt that CIA or "other Yankees" assassinated the Presi-

dent and that therefore a third world war will start.

(Page 2)

The Cuban UN ambassador issued a statement early on 23

October expressing "profound displeasure" with which Cuba

received news of the President's death. (Page 3)

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Foreign Minister Roa)asked his UNmission for "all the

data you have on Lyndon B. Johnson" and the reply was

sent immediately. (Page 3)

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OTHER CUBAN REACTIONS TO THE ASSASSINATION - cont'd

the cuban foreign Ministry, instructed a number o

uban diplomatic missions abroad)on 22 November no

to make "any statements. " 2y(Page 3)

Che Guevara, in a 24 November speech, warned Cubans that

"everything indicates that in the next months and years

world peace will be threatened" as

never before. (Page 3)

CUBAN SUPPORT FOR EXTERNAL SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES:

The Venezuelan Government plans to hold a press confer-

ence on 26 November revealing the Cuban origin of the arm

• found. in Venezuela

early this month.

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FIDEL CASTRO'S SPEECH:

Fidel Castro's two-hour speech on 23 November was what

he termed an "objective analysis" of the implications of

President Kennedy's assassination.

The speech reflected an

apprehension that US policy toward him may now become even

tougher.

He said the President's death was "serious and bad

news" which could lead

ation." He pointed out that President Kennedy's alleged

promise not to invade Cuba had been strongly attacked by those

"ultrareactionaries" in the United States who, he said

now using the assassination to create a climate of "anti-

Soviet, anti-Cuban hysteria" designed to pressure the new

President toward a Cuban policy "highly prejudicial to the

interests of peace and of mankind."

Castro began his speech by stating that he "and the

immense majority of human beings" react with "repudiation" to

the assassination, which is not "a correct method of struggle."

while the death of the imperialist system would make Cubans

happy, "the death of a man, even if that man were our enemy,

cannot make us happy...we must not confuse the systems with

the men."

He said,"we always cease our belligerency at death;

we always bow with respect at death, even if it has to do

with an enemy."

Castro declared that the assassination can only benefit

"those ultrarightist and ultrareactionary sectors, among which

President Kennedy could not be counted."

These "most reaction-

ary forces are now breaking loose within the United States,"

he declared. President Kennedy was a strong president who

was able to control these pressures, but the new Us president,

because of the circumstances inherent in his assumption of

the presidency, will not have the same strength and authority,

Castro said.

Castro then read a series of US news dispatches referring

to the Castro-Communist affiliations of the accused assassin.

this was all part of the "reactionary" effort to

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create a climate of "anti-Soviet, anti-Cuban

hysteria" in

the United states:

This climate

of hysteria, he said, 1s

designed to face the new President with an irresistible pres-

sure toward a "more aggressive policy."

Castro then devoted considerable time in an attempt to

throw doubt on the guilt of the accused assassin and to in-

sinuate that Oswald, whether guilty or innocent, was actually

a tool of the extreme rightists.

"Is he really guilty"

Is

he a scapegoat?

Is he a psychopath? Or is he perhaps a tool

of the most reactionary Us circles?

Who is

this man?

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FIDEL CASTRO'S SPEECH - cont'd

Why did he go into action precisely when circumstances were

least favorable for a left-wing fanatic to assassinate the

US President?"

Castro stated that his investigation of the

"reports, statements, and publicity" on the Fair Play for

Cuba Committee in the

United States failed to indicate that

there was any chapter in Dallas or New Orleans and that "we

never in our life heard of him (Oswald)."

Castro then re-

ferred to US press reports on Oswald's attempt last summer to

"infiltrate" the anti-Castro Student Revolutionary Directorate

in the US and to DRE statements that Oswald was

thought at

that time to be "an agent of the FBI or the CIA." "They

(the DRE leaders) must know, because they have many dealings

with them, what FBI and CIA agents look like," Castro stated.

Castro then declared that, while Oswald

may or may not

be guilty, it is nevertheless possible that he was "an agent

for the CIA or the FBI, as those people suspected" and could

have been "a tool of the most reactionary sectors which may

have beenhatching a sinister plan, which may have plotted

the assassination of Kennedy because they disagreed with his

international policy."

"What is behind all this? What sinister

maneuver are they hatching behind all this? Who can be re-

sponsible for the assassination of President Kennedy? And who

benefits from the assassination...except the worst reaction-

aries?" Castro warned that it is not possible at this point

to answer these questions, "but we do say that it is suspect,

that we must be cautious and vigilant and alert."

Castro

closed with the usual expressions of confidence that the

Cubans will be ready to meet any new crisis with resolution.

(CIA FBIS 06, 24 November, OFFICIAL USE ONLY)

MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS:

The Cuban defensive military alert, ordered immediately

after the news of President Kennedy's death, remains in

effect, but no unusual Cuban military activity has been noted.

(NSA, various internal military intercepts, 22-24 November,

SECRET KIMBO)

OTHER CUBAN REACTIONS TO THE ASSASSINATION:

A clandestine source reports that the chargé of the Cuban

Embassy in

Santiago de Chile said that there is no doubt that

the CIA or "other Yankees" assassinated the President and that,

as a result, a third world war will start. He also emphasized

the need for Cuba to prepare for a possible Us invasion.

(CIA

Santiago de Chile, TDCS 3/565,826, 23 November, SECRET NO FOREIGN

DISSEM)

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OTHER CUBAN REACTIONS TO THE ASSASSINATION - cont'a

Carlos Lechuga, Cuban UN ambassador, issued a statement

early on 23 November stating:

"Despite the antagonisms exist-

ing between the Government of the United States and the Cuban

Revolution, we have received with profound displeasure the

news of the tragic death of President Kennedy.

All civilized

men are always saddened by happenings such as this.

Our

delegation before the United Nations desires to express that

this is the sentiment of the people and the Government of

Cuba."

(UP] New York, l ovember, UNCLASSIFIED)

06 Cuban Foreign Minister Roa )dispatched a message to

Carlos Lechuga shortly after President Kennedy's assassination

asking Lechuga) to "please send me at once all the data that

you havelon Lyndon B. Johnson including his political connec-

tions, etc. "o(Lechuga) replied immediately: "biographical

data on Lyndon Johnson are in cable (24) of, Prensa Latina and

in UPI dispatch 169 and supplements."

to "Who is Who" which he had sent the foreign Ministry) earlier

and said he will cable additional information later.29 (NSA

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The Cuban Foreign Ministry dispatched a Circular message

late on 22 November to a number of Cuban diplomatic missions> 4

abroad stating only "do not make any statements."

probably an attempt to prevent any comments on President

Kennedy's assassination until the official Cuban line could

be established. (NSA 3/0/CUD/T1380-63, 23 November, TOP

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Che Guevara, in a speech on 24 November, expressed

apprehensions similar to those stated by Fidel Castro the

night before.

Guevara blamed President Kennedy's assassination

and the killing of Oswald on reactionary forces in the United

states and warned cubans that a new, tougher policy against

Cuba will be forthcoming from the United States.

"Everything

indicates that in the next months and years world peace will

be threatened by the most unscrupulous, ferocious, and warlike

monopolistic oligarchy--and with the most murderous potential

--that the history of

humanity has every known," Guevara said.

(CIA FBIS, 25 November, OFFICIAL USE ONLY)

CUBAN SUPPORT OF EXTERNAL SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES:

A Venezuelan Government press conference tying the arms

cache found in Venezuela earlier this month to Cuba is scheduled

Ior Tuesday, 26 November, according to the Us Embassy in caracas.

This is to

be followed by a report to the OAS, probably on

2 December. (Am Emb Caracas 601, 24 November, CONFIDENTIAL)

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