AMLACE 1 RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS ABOUT SUCCESSION IN THE EVENT OF CASTRO DEATH (29 SEPT 62)
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: CHIEF, TFW/FI
Document date: 10/01/1962
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

no: 1916-684

1 Oct 62

To: Chief, IFW/FI

Froms f. W. Flott

Subjoct:

MALACE 1 response to questions about succession in the event of Catro sea::

(29 Sept 62)

1. QUESTION: If Fidel anould aulderly lie or be killed, what kind of struggle

for power would ensue ant what element would win out?

2. ANSWER: "Even the gusanos say it would be useless to kill fidoli the thing

would go on. No one thinks Fidel's death would be usaful to the counter-revolution.

Maybe it would in the long run, but cortainly not in the short run. It Is hard to say

what would hagpen. Power is in the hands of a few peopie. Some small group farubita:

would form and take power strongly into its hands and hold the thing together.

would happen then is again hard to say; ever harier is it to proiict wnich eienent

would win out. But generally spercine, the bardudos land a small group of them, i

that) would win out, and not the communists.

In the latter connection, people in

Havana seen to think that Blas Roca and Lazaro Peng are nox longer powerful figures.

Of the old co munists, Carlos Rufael Rodriguez is the most prestigious.

& kiiner

Jimenoz could make a comebuck, ulthough he is not too imporiant st this time. the •

Minister of Labor, Martinez Sanchez, is vory important.

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