INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION CABLE:REMARKS BY MAYOR CF HAVANA ON CUBAN INTERNAL SITUATION.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR INFO WAVE
Document date: 11/4/64
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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IN 16407

1. JOSE ALBECTO NARANJO, MAYOR OF HAVANA AND PRESIDENT OF THE CUBAN

JUNTA OF CONTROL, EXECUTION AND INSPECTION (JUCEI), IS ONE OF THE CUBAN

GUESTS AT: THE I NOVEMBER ALGERIAN INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATION. EN ROUTE

TO ALGIERS HE REMARKED THAT THERE "IS NOTHING OF ANYTHING IN CUBA AS

FAR AS CONSUMIR GOODS ARE CONCERNED. IN MAKING HIS POINT HE NOTED THAT

IF A WELL-STOCKED DEPARTMENT STORE LIKE PARIS' GALERIES LAFAYETTE COULO

BE PARACHUTCO INTO MAVANA'S CENTRAL PARK, NO AMERICAN-BACKED INVASION

WOULD BE NECESSARY AS CUBANS HOULO BE MORE CONCERNED WITH COMPCTING

FOR AVAILABLÉ GOODS THAN DEFENDINO THE COUNTRY.

Z. ARUS. IN ABUSDANCE ARE HOMEVER AVAILABLE NON IN CUBA ANO CUSAN

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CREICIALS ARE CONFIDENT THAT TMEY CAN MEET MICITARY INVASION WITH

OVERWHELMING FORCE.

3• FIDEL CASTRO RUZ IS A "NUT WHO MAKES DECISIONS ONE DAY AND

REVERSES THEM THE NEXT. THE SECOND MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE COUNTRY IS

PRESIDENT OSVALDO DORTICOS TORRADO WHO IS GREATLY RESPECTED BY CASTRO.

DESCRIBING HIMSELF AS INDEBTED TO RAUL CASTRO RUZ FOR HIS

POSITION, NARANJO SAID THAT IN SPITE OF HIS OWN AWARENESS OF THE SHORT-

COVINGS OF THE REGIME, HE CANNOT BETRAY RAUL. (FIELD COMMENT:

NARANJO GAINED RAUL CASTRO'S FAVOR DURING THE REVOLUTION BY HAVING

ARMS. AIRDROPPED TO RAUL'S FORCES: IN THE CUBAN: MOUNTAINS TO THE

•DESPAIR OF THE DIRECTORIO REVOLUCIONARIO, THE GROUP TO WHICH

NARANJO BELONGED.)

5. FIELD DISSEM: NONE.

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