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THIS IS AN INPORMATION REPORT, MCI FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE

S-E-C-R-E-T

REPORT NO.

CS DB-312/01409-68

DATE DISTR.

28 June 1968

COUNTRY Cuba

DOI

Late April 1968

SUBJECT

Prison Break at El Principe Prison

in Havana

Aco , Canada, Ottawa (25 June 1968)

FIELD NO.

SOURCE An official Canadian service: from officials in Havana.

101°

In late April 1968

there was a successful prison

break at the El Principe Prison in Havana.

A grOUP Of

prisoners escaped by digging a tunnel to the courtyard of

a neighboring hospital.

After the escape, ex-jajor

Rolando Cubela Secades, who was convicted in March

for plotting to assassinate fidel Castro, was transierrea

crom aL Principe

to a prison in Oriente Province.

?.

It was rumored

October 1959, was one of the escapees.

2522d that Huber Slatos, Imprisoned Sding

However, according

to the wife of a prisoner in La Cabana Prison in Havana,

Matos and 20 other political prisoners were still in Gal-

lery 23 of that prison.

Although none of them wore prison

unitorms, it is said that the authorities stopped being.

severe with them on this count.

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