CLOSED MEETING OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CUBA AT THE CUBAN EMBASSY IN KINGSTON ON 24 SEPTEMBER 1977
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Document date: 09/28/1977
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COUNTRY: "CUBA /JAMAICA

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SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1977

SUBJECT:.

CLOSED MEETING OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY

OF CUZA AT THE CUBAN EMBASS! IN KINGSTON ON

24 SEPTEMBER 1977

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SOURCE:

JAMAICA, KINGSTON 126 SEPTEMBER 1977 REPORT NO. HJK-733

A CUBAN OFFICIAL VISITING JAMAICA, HE WAS PRESENT

AT THE MEETING DESCRIBED BELOW, ALTHOUGH IT IS

BELIEVED THAT HE ACCURATELY REPORTS WHAT HE HAS

BEEN TOLD, HIS RELIABILITY HAS NOT BEEN DETERMINED.

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ON 24 SEPTEMBER 1977, ENRIQUEMONTERO

LEZCANO, MINISTER-COUNSELLOR OF THE CUBAN EMBASSY IN KINGSTON.

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ADDRESSED THE REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING OF THE MEMBERS OF THE

COMMUNIST PARTY OF CUBA SPCCI ASSIGNED TO JAMAICA, MONTERO

WAS ACTING IN THE PLACE OF THE CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO JAMAICA,

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FURTHER DISSEMINATION AND USE OF THIS INFORMATION SUBJECT TO

CONTROLS STATED AT BEGINNING AND END OF REPORT:

RAMON PE Z FERRO, WHU RETURNED TO CUBA ON VACATION ON

21 SEPTEMBER, THE MEETING TOOK PLACE AT THE EMBASSY.

2, MONTERO SAID THAT INTERNAL DIVISIONS WITHIN THE

RULING PEOPLE'S NATIONAL PARTY (PNPY OF JAMAICA HAD RESULTED

IN THE RESIGNATION OF D. K. DUNCAN AS PNP GENERAL

SECRETARY AND MINISTER OF MOBILIZATION. MONTERO SAID THAT

THE APPOINTMENT OF RALPH BROWN AS THE NEW PNP GENERAL

SECRETARY HAD BEEN GENERALLY WELL-RECEIVED WITHIN THE PNP.

MONTERO DESCRIBED BROWN AS A MATURE, EXPERIENCED PARTY

DEFICIAL WHO WOULD BE ABLE TO SERVE AS A "MODERATOR" BETWEEN

THE "RIGHTISTS, " "MODERATES" AND "LEFTISTS" OF THE PNP.

3, MONTERO COMPLAINED THAT THE JAMAICAN PRESS HAD

EXFLOITED BROWN'S RECENT

TRIP TO CUBA FOR ITS "CAMPAIGN OF

CONFUS ION", IN FAILING TO REPORT THE PURPOSE OF THE TRIP,

THE PRESS IMPLIED THAI THERE WERE UNKNOWN, SINISTER

MOTIVES BEHIND IT. MONTERO SAID THAT BROWN HAD GONE TO CUBA

MERELY IN ORDER TO ATTEND THE FIRST CONGRESS OF THE CUBAN

COMMITTEES FOR INE DEFENSE OF THE REVOLUTION CODES, TO BE

HELD 24-28 SEPTEMBER,

MONTERO SAID THAT APPROXIMATELY 25

FOREIGN COUNTRIES WERE TO SEND DELEGATES TO THIS CONGRESS.

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(FIELD COMMENT: ACCORDING TO THE PRESS, BROWN LEFT JAMAICA

ON 23 SEPTEMBER FOR A THREE-DAY VISIT TO CUBA, THE PURPOSE.

OF WHICH WAS NOT INDICATED. ON THE NIGHT OF 27 SEPTEMBER,

IT WAS REPORTED ON JAMAICAN TELEVISI ON THAT BROWN HAD MADE

A STATEMENT CONCERNING HIS TRIP FOLLOWING HIS RETURN THAT.

DAY TO JAMAICA.

HE SAID HE HAD GONE TO CUBA SOLELY IN

ORDER TO ATTEND THE COR CONGRESS, AND HE CRITICIZED THE

DISTORTED MANNER IN WICH THE JAMAICAN PRESS HAD REPORTED

ON HIS TRIP.

i1-4, MONTERO BRIEFLY ADDED THAT DR, TREVORMUNROE.

LEADER OF THE WORKERS' LIBERATION LEAGUE PULLI, TRAVELED TO

CUBA FROM JAMAICA ON 21 SEPTEMBER.

HE DID NOT INDICATE THE

PURPOSE OF MUNROE'S VISIT TO CUBA..

.. FINALLY, MONTERO SAID IT

WAS QUITE PROBABLE THAT BELARMINO CA STILL A MAS CUBAN

VICE MINISTER OF CULTURE, WOULD VISIT JAMAICA DURING

THE SECOND HALF OF OCTOBER.

5, MONTERO CALLED ON ALL POC MEMBERS TO BE ALERT FOR

ANY COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES BY CUBAN EXILES AND

TO MAINTAIN THE HIGHEST STANDARDS OF SECURITY,

HE SAID

THAT CUBAN EXILES RECENTLY SANK

K A CUSAN_BOAT OFF THE COAST.

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OF PERU, HE ALSO SAID THAT CUBAN EXILES SUCH AS NUD I A Z

LAN AND OTHERS HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN THE. ASSASSINATION OF

PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY.

MONTERO DID NOT ELABORATE:

6. FIELD DISSEM: EMBASSY AT KINGSTON (AMBASSADOR ONLY).

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