INFORMATION REPORT:PROCEEDINGS AT THE 22 APRIL 1963 MEETING OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL
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1. THE MEETIN: OF TRE CUISEDO REVOLUCIONARIO CUBANO (CRC,

CUBAN REVCLETIONARE iCE, WICH CONVENED EIRLY IN THE EVENING

OF 22 APRIL LASTE IT Z:UU S.M. ON 23 APRII.. ANTONIO MACEO

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SUGGESTED THAT THE CRC HAD FULFILLED ITS PUSCTIONS, AND THAT AT

THIS POINT THERE WAS NO REASON FOR ITS CONTINUED EXISTENCE.

3. MANUEL ANTONIO DE VARONA LOREDO REFLIED IN REBUTTAL TO

THIS SUGGESTION, STATING THAT IN THE PAST TKO DAYS HE HAD TALKED

TO CARLOS HEVIA DE LOS REYES GAVILAN, WHO HAS BEEN ASSOCINTED WITH

THE JUNTA REVOLUCIONARIA (JURE, REVOLUTIONARY JUNTA); RAFAEL GUAS

INCLAN, A BATISTIANO; LONBERTO DE LA CARIDAD DIA%, AFFILIATED WITH

THE PARTIDO REVOLUCIONARIO CUBANO EN EL EXILIO (PRCE, CUBAN

REVOLUTIONARY PARTY IN EXILE), WHICH IS A PICTION OF THE PAPTIDO

REVOLUCIONARIO CUBANO- AUTENTICO (PRC-A, CZA?: REVOLUTIONARY

PARTY - AUTHENTIC); JOSE ALVAREZ DIAZ, FORMER ADVISOR TO JOSE

MIRO CARDONA; AND CARLOS PRIO SOCARRAS, POPHER, PRESIDENT OF CUBA.

VARONA SAID THAT ALL OF THE ABOVE HAD ACREZO TO HIS PROPOSAL THAT

MACEO DETERMINE FROM OFFICIALS OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WHETHER THE

GOVERNMENT WOULD SUPPLY THE FUNDS NECESSARY FOR THE CONTINUANCE OF

THE CRC. VARONA ADDED THAT HE HAD TOLD THE ABOVE INDIVIDUALS THAT

IF THE CRC CONTINUED, THEY COULD BE PART OR IT. VARONA CONCLUDED

HIS REBUTTAL BY STATING THAT THE CRC SHOULD PUBLISH ITS REASONS

FOR CONTINUING OR LIQUIDATING ITSELF, BASED ON THE ANSWERS WHICH

MACEO WOULD GET FROM "THE U.S. OFFICIAL."

4. THE BULK OF THE MEETING WAS DEVOTED TO SPEECHES BY.

VARIOUS DELEGATES SUPPORTING THE RECOSMENDATIONS MADE BY VARONA.

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S.. FIELD COMMENT: THE 1:00 P.M. NEWS REPORI ON CHANNEL 4

IN NIAMI REPORTED. THAT NICEO HAD BEEN ELECTED INTERIM PRESIDENT

OF THE CRC. THIS REPORT WAS CHECKED WITH JOSE ANTONIO HERNANDEZ

AND MARCELO FERNANDEZ, THE SECRETARY TO MACEO; BOTH DENIED THE

ACCURACY OF THE NEWS REPORT AND STRESSED THE FACT THAT MACEO HAD

PRESIDED AT THE MEETING ONLY AS AN ACCOMMODATION.

6. FIELD DISSEM: STATE (MIAMI).

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