CABLE RE: RECENT REFUGEE INDICATE NUMEROUS ARRESTS MEDICAL DOCTORS
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: JMWAVE
Document date: 03/25/1966
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1. RECENT REFUGEE REPORTS INDICATE NUMEROUS ARRESTS MEDICAL

DOCTORS STELLING IN PART FROM ASILASH-1 PLOT. VIEN DEPLORABLE SITUATION

IN HOSPITALS AND LOWER HEALTH STANDARDS GENTRALLY DUR SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS,

FURTHER REDUCTION IN THEIR RANKS HAS CONSIDERABLE PROP POTENTIAL.

2. SUGGEST WAVE TIE IN THEME DOCTORS PURGE WITH SUBSTANTIAL

EVIDENCE OF INCREASED ILLNESS, HIGHER DEATH RATE PARTICULARLY IN

INFANTS AND CHILDREN, SHORTAGE OF MEDICINZS AND HOSPITAL, PACILITIES

WHICK CASTRO ATTEMPTING CONCEAL FROM CUBANS. POINT OUT CASTRO TAKING

GRAVE RISE IN REDUCING MEDICAL POTENTIAL BELOW PRESENT CRITICAL LEVEL.

COULD BE ARGUED THAT DOCTORS HAVE OPPOSED CASTRO ON PROFESSIONAL

GROUNDS FOR PERMITTING USE INFERIOR MEDICINES AND INCOMPETENT

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THREAT HIS POSITION AS POLITICAL LEADER.

3. DRAW PARALLEL ARRESTS CUBAN DOCTORS TO INPAMOUS 1953 "DOCTOR'S

PLOT" IN RUSSIA UNDER STALIN. THIS PARANOID CHARGE WAS REVERSED BX

STALIN'S SUCCESSORS INUEDIATELY FOLLOWING HIS DEATH MARCH 1953. IT

WAS STALIN'S PURPOSE IN CONCOTING "PLOT" TO CREATE ATMOSPHERE AND ERECT

EGADE IN ORDER INSTITUTE WIDESCALE PURGE IMAGINED ENEMIES AND FOIZ

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4. IN ADDITION TO USUAL PROP HANDLING OF ABOVE,

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