INFORMATION REPORT: COMMENTS OF CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE ON SUCCESSION TO CASTRO AND PERSONALITIES IN CUBA WHO ARE CURRENTLY THE MOST INFLUENTIAL.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 10/7/64
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

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COUNTRY Cuba:

REPORT NO.

SUBJECT

Commens of Cuban Ambassador to

DATE DISTR.

France on Succession to Castro

and Personalities in Cuba Who Are NO. PAGES

Currently she Most Influcatlal

REFERENCES

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5 October 1964

• DATE OF

Late September 1964

INFO.

PLACE B

France, Parls

2 BY CABLE

DATE ACQ.. €29.

September

1964)

FIELD, REPORT NO.

(OFP- 14319

THIS IS UNEVALUATED

INfORMATION.

SOURCE GAADINGS ARE, DEFINITIVE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTÄTIVE

SOURCE: . Cuban businessman in exile who travels abroad frequently and has

good access to Cuban diplomatic installations.

His reporting has

been limited.

In late September 1954 Antonio Carrillo Carreras, Cuban

Ambassador to France, made the following comments about

suscession to Fidel Casiro Ruz, and the personalities who

are currently the most powerful political figures in Cuba:

a. In the event of the disappearance of Fidel Castro from

the scene, particularly through assassination, Raúl

CIStrO Ruz

will take over irmediately as leader in

accordance with an established plan.

Raul has the

support of the aruy as well as that of other top Cuban

leaders in Fidel's imediate group.

b.

In cerns of authority, after Fidel and Raul, President

Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado

and Industrles Minister Ernesto

"Che" Guevara Serna feilow in that order.

Dorticos, who

1s widely respocked in Cuba, now has specific responsibility

for guiding che econis.

Guevara, in spite of his foreign

birth, has popula: support and is generally considered a

Cuban.

Cuevars has nir failed as Minister of Industries.

The difflcult functirning of the economy is atcributable

simply to the fact, that many key industries continue to

use Ameriran equiprent for which replacement parts cannot

be acquired.

Newer piants generally use Sovlet and Czech

equipmont rod thoy are now

producing efficiently.

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c.

• Cella Sánchez Manduley, Secretary to the Council of

Ministers,

hes influence outside the power line-up

because of her intimate relationship wich Fidel.

Among other figures who are particularly influential

now 1s Emilio Aragonés Navarro, who is Dorticos!

homie de conflance.

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