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BTATIMEHTS OF MADOLA RAY, EXILÀ LEADÇA

THE PROPIC'S RIMDLUTIOMARY MOYEMINT

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lO: MANOLORAY, EXILE LEADER OF MOVIMIENTO REVOLUGIONARIO

DEL PUEBLO. (MRA - PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT) SAID IN

EARLY OCTOBER THAT HE WAS FIRMLY OPPOSE TO ANY INVASION OF CUBA,

. INSISTINO THAT CASTRO'S OVERTHROW WAS TO DE ACHIEVED BY INTERNAL

RESISTANCE AND THIS HAD ALREADY STÁRTED.

1:::2. THI MRO WAS ORGANIZEO THROUEHOUT THE ISLAND AND SUPPORTED

BY ALL CLASSES OF THE POPULATION. IT HAD MEMBERS IN ALL 33

TRADE UNIONS, THE G-2, MILITIA AND THROUSHOUT THE ADMINISTRATION.

RAY ESTIMATEO 8O PERSONT OF POPULATION HERE DSPOSED TO CASTRO,

THOUGH MAJORITY WERE NOT ACTIVELY SO, HE CUNSIDERED THE MRP AT

PRESENT ENJOYED MORE SUPPORT THAN THE ORIGINAL REVOLUTION HAD

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DISAMURATSN CONTROL

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TOOS - 3/490,978

HAD AGAINST BATISTA.

30 THE MRP. WAS PRESENTLY SHORT OF ARMS. AND EXPLOSIVES BUT THE

POSITION WAS IMPROVINÓ. (A MILITIA CAPTAIN WAS RECENTLY

SENTENCED TO 30 YEARS IN PRISON FOR PASSINE ARMS TO THE MR°).

NO HELP WHATSDEVER MAD BEEN RECEIVED 8Y THE INTERNAL RESISTANOE

FRONI THE "SOURCES IN THE UNITED STATES, WHO PROVIDED SUPPORT.

FOR THE INVASION". THESE-SOURCES WERE STILL THINKINO

INEFFECTUALLY IN TERMS OF A FURTHER INVASION.

4. THE GENERAL ATTITUDE OF THE RESISTANCE IN CUBA TOWAROS

THE EXILES HAS ONE OF. INDIFFERENCE MOUNTING TO CONTEMPT FOR

SPECIFIC MOVES SUCH AS: THE PROPOSEO PROMOTION OF A CUBAN COVT

IN EXILE: WHAT THE RESISTANCE VANTEO WAS FUNDS AND THE RETURN,

BY INFILTRATION, OF TRAINED EXILES, PARTICULARLY COMMUNICATION

EXPERTS.

"5.. ON THE TIMING OF CASTRO'S OVERTHRON, RAY SAID CASTRO WOULD

NOT LAST ANOTHER YEAR. HE ADDED THAT THE SITUATION IN CUBA

IMMEDIATELY AFTER CASTRO'S DONNFALL HOULD OF DANGEROUS AND COULO

DEVELOP INTO A. CIVIL WAR.

FIELO DISSEM, STATE. CINCLANT, CINCARIB.

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