EFFORTS TO SPLIT THE REGIME MARCH - JUNE 1962, STUDY OF THE LOCI OF POWER CONCLUDED.
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Document date: 01/01/1962
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EFFORTS TO SPLIT THE REGIME

March - June 1962

Study of the Loci of Power Concluded

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EFFORTS TO SPLIT THE REGIME

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March - June 1962: Study of the locl of Power Concluded:

A. Power Groups in Cuba

1. 26th of July Movement

2. The Popular Socialist Party, Communist

(Partido Popular Socialista - PSP)

3. The Revolutionary Director (Directorio

Revolucianario - DR)

B.

Key Leaders

1. 26th.of July:

a. Fidel Castro

bi Raul Castro.

c. Ernesto "Che" Guevsra

d. Osvaldo Dorticos, President

e. Raul Roa, Foreign Minister

1. Ramiro Valdes, Minister of Interior

2. PSP - Communist Leaders

a. Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, President of

the National Institute of Agrarian Reform

(Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria - INRA)

b.

Blas Roca, Member of the Executive Board

Integrated Revolutionary Organizations

(Organizaciones Revolucionarias Integrades -

ORI)

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3.

Lazaro Pena, Secretary General of the Cuban

Bevolutionary Labor Council (Central de

Trabajadores de Cuba Revolucionaria - CTC-R)

d.

Manual Luzardo Garcia, Minister of Internal

Commerce

Antonio Nunez Jiminez, Executive Director

01 National Agrarian Reform Institute (INRA)

Severo Aguirre Cristo, a national leader of

the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations

(ORI)

8. Llonel Soto. ___, Director General of Schools

of Revolutionary Instruction

Important Men not Clearly Aligned to the 26th of

July or Communist Power

a. ..

Regino Boti, Minister of National Economy

b. Armando Hart Davalos, Minister of Education

c. Alfredo Yabur Maluf, Minister of Justice

d. Carlos Lechuga Hevia, Ambassador to UN

e. Faure Chomon

1: Raul Pruztlles, Cuban Delegate to the UN

8. (Ambassador), Garcia Inchsustegud, unt11

recently head of the Cuban delegation to the

UN

Rolando Cubela Secades, Ex-President of

University Students

1. UI. Rene Vallejo, Castro's personal physician

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C.

Governmental Structure:

• 1. Present Ruling Political Group: Integrated

Revolutionary Organizations (Organizaclones

Revolucionarias Integradas - ORI)

2. Future Ruling Political Group: United Party

of the Socialist Revolution (Partido Unido de la

Revoluciona Socialista - PURS)

3.

Numerical Representations of Power Groups on

Ministerial Levels:

8, 26th of July Movenent - 8

b. PSP - Connunist - 2

c. Revolutionary Directorate - 3

d. Fidel Castro Appointment.

(1) Raul Roa, Foreign Minister

(2) Rolando Diaz Astarain, Minister of Finance

D. The Implications to the Power Alignments of Escalante'e

Purge:

1. The purge of Anibal Escalante Dellunde, Executive

Secretary of the PSP from the position of

in the ORI did not create a "split'

between "new" and "old" communists.

2.

Castro's reasons for purging Escalante were Almost

Certainly Aimed at:

8.

Reassuring those 26th of July leaders

who

had fought for the revolution but not for

communism.

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b. Putting the brakes on the PSP's grab

for power.

c.

Castigating Escalante for personal

"sectarianism"

E. A New Vlew on Splitting the Regime:

1.. Castro's purgo of Escalante surfaced his

concern for the balance between the non-comnunist

elements of the 26th of July Movement and the

"unaligned" government leader and the PSP - "old"

and "new".

2.. To split Castro from the PSP would be difficult

and of questionable value:.

a. The PSP to gain its final objective would

take any insult and turn the other cheek.

It had embraced Fidel and would not let go

under any circunstances. To rise against

Castro now would not be opportune, and

would probably be fatal.

b.

Fidel was now totally dependent on the

Soviet Union

c.

The only hope was not to split Fidel from

PSP but to identify, at every opportunity,

him and his government-with comnunism, fOr

only the non-communist element of the 26th

of July Movement and the "unaligned leaders

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of the government could effectively be

split.

from the government.

d.

This conclusion did not preclude the Task

Force from attempts to create suspicion,

hostility and friction between Castro and

the PSP.

• II. The Direction of Task Force Efforts to Split the Regime:

A. To identify those members of the 26th of July Movement

and other "unaligned" government leaders

who were for

the revolution but against connunism. To date, there

is reasonably good ividence indicating that the

following individuals do not approve of the communist

direction of the Cuban revolution and may in fact

be conspiring against the regime.

1. Major Pedro Miret Prieto, commanding artillery unit

2.

Ambassador Gustavo Arcos y Bergnes

3. Commander Sebastian Arcos, brother of Gustavo rnd

a commander in the Cuban havy. Hns been in Prague

for some time on a training mission

4. Orlando Ventura Reyes

Manuel Carbonell Duque

5.

6.

Major Faustino Perez, former minister charged with

the recovery of stolen properties

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7.

Onar Fernandez Canizares, Minister of Transporta-

tion.

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NOTE: [Ambassador Gustavo Arcos]is undoubtedly an

important member of this group of potential .con-

TFW has made an unsuccessful but sustained

recruit him in Brussels. lo Despite ou

failure to date, Arcos

remains in close and friendl

contact with Tri sources

Conspiring in Cuba today is dangerous business.

These are

fearful men and neither easily identified

or easily contacted within Cuba.

Each of the above men remain as high priority targets

within.

Our main efforts to contact them take two

directions: (1)

The identification of suitable

internediaries to them, and (2) the eventual use

of internal assets now in place.

8:

Major Rolando Cubela Secades, ex-president of

he Federation of University Students.. An M.D.,

recruited, trained and returned to Cuba alter

attending the World Youth Festival in Helsinki

12. June 1962;

9. Juanita Sastre younger siter of Fidel and

Raul - recruited, trained and returned to

cuba

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WIle of MaJor Raul Jalme Diaz Arguelles!

Reporting from Havana through AMSTRUT/1, the

wite of the Brazilian Ambassador to Russia, who

travels to Cuba for TTW from R10 where/shel ltves.

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Major Diaz is described as a "new" communist

by Juanita Castro

11. Raul Roa, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Effort

to contact and recruit in October 1962 failed.

Recruited and working for TIW is the brother

of Mrs. Raul Roa, He resides In Miani. TEW

is presently engaged in attempting to resettle

the parents of irs! Roal in the U.S. Tag departure.

of the parents from Cuba will leave Mrs. Rob is

the last member of her. large family in Cuba:

This move of her parents could cause a final

break between the Road, who are already 1n-

tensely. concerned with their situation with

Cuba. Raul Ros remains a high priority target.

12:

President Osvaldo. Dorticos. An attempt to

recrult President Dorticos in October 1962 lalled.

Dortiços was approached by a TFW asset in New

York during his last visit to the United Nations.

Our agent was "forcibly" removed from the

hotel wheredorticos was staying:

13.

Jose Llanusa, Director of Sports in Cuba and one

time "Mayor" of Havana. Efforts to recruit

Llanusa in May 1962 falled: however, a total of

ten (10) Cuban athlets defected during the same

period of the 9th Central American and Cartibean

games in Kingston, Jamaica.

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114. Major Jose Ricardo Rabel Nunez, Chief of Rural

Housing in Cuba refused to work in place but

will defect. Contact is maintained inside

Cuba. Rabel states he will fly out of Cuba

with a "fat one" (unidentified).

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15.

Alsred Daving Ferrer, a Spantarg hired to

recruit technicians for Cuban industry has

been

recruited. He has recently returned to

Cuba. He claims to be close to "Che" Guevara

and Minister of National Economy, Regino Botl.

Davina may serve as an excellent mechanism for

the Infiltration of TFW chosen technicians into

Cuba.

16:

Mrs. Carlos Lechuga, wife of Carlos Lechuga

Hevia, Cuban Ambassador. to the United Nations,

is expected to seek asylum and break with her

husband and Cuba.

toward the end of November

1962. Ler "defection" has been the object of

T7W efforts since August 1962?

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HMMA - 19325, dated 10 July 1962. Mexico City

Station, KAPOK, dispatch with attachment.

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