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1. REUTERS DISPATCH DATELINED RAVANA 26 MARCH REPORTED

WIDESPREAD PURGE UNDERVAY OF MILITARY OFFICERS, HIGH OFFICIALS

CUBAN GOVT AND LEADERS CONKUNIST PARTY. FIDEL CASTRO ALSO REVEALED

THAT SEVERAL CUBAN LABOR UNION LENDERS ARE UNDER ARREST ON EMBEZZLE-

MENT CHARGES. IN ADDITION REUTERS SOURCES STATED THAT SEVERAL

HIGHLY PLACED OFFICIALS FOULD SOON FALL IN THE CLEANUP AND THAT

"FULL INVESTIGATION OF OFFICIALS' MORAL AND POLITICAL PRACTICES

ALREADY UNDERWAY IN GOVT MINISTRIES". THE MINISTRIES OF FOREIGN

AFFAIRS AND FOREIGN TRADE WILL BE MOST AFFECTED BY THE PURGE. ON

15 MARCH, THE FOREIGN TRADS MINISTRY IN A SPECIAL MEETING "APPROVED

THE PURGE" AND ADOPTED A COMPLETE CHECK ON MEMBERS WORKING ABROAD.

NEW RESTRICTIONS ALREADY IMPOSED FORBID THE BRINGING INTO CUBA

RATIONED OR HARD-TO-GET DURABLE GOODS.

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2. QUOTING AN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE, REUTERS REPORTED

THAT BAJOR EFIGENIO AMEIJIRAS, DEPUTY MINISTER OF THE ARMED FORCES

AND MENBER OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE CUBAN COUMUNIST PARTY,

HAS BEEN DISMISSED FROM HIS OFFICES AND IS TO STAND TRIAL BEFORE

A COURT MARTIAL. THE CONHUNIQUE ALSO ANNOUNCED "THE ARREST OF

SEVERAL DOZEN OTHER OFFICIALS" ON CHARGES OF INDULGING "LA DOLCE

VITA". AN ELABORATION OF THIS CHARGE WAS MADE BY CASTRO IN HIS

13 MARCH SPEECH SHEREIN HE ATTACKED MEMBERS OF CUBAN MISSIONS

ABROAD WHO SPENT SEVERAL MONTHS IN "VAPORS OF PARTIES AND COOD

BRANDY AND IN COMPANY OF PRETTY YOUNG GIRLS." CASTRO ADDED THAT

THOSE GUILTY OF "PLAYBOY BEHAVIOR" WOULD BE DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY

OR SENT TO WORK ON THE FARM.

3. BACKGROUND: THE PURGE HAS BEEN PRECEDED BY THE TRIAL

GUCRFNVLSANEE ON 7 MARCH BY A REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL OF SEVEN CUBANS

FOR COMPLICITY IN A PLOT TO OVERTHROW FIDEL CASTRO. THE ACCUSED

•ALLEGEDLY HAD THE SUPPORT OF SOME CUBAN EXILE LEADERS NOW RESIDING

IN THB U.S. TO OF THE SEVEN, ROLANDO CUBELA AND RAMON GUIN, HELD

TRE RANK OF MAJOR, HIGHEST RANK IN THE ARMED SERVICES. THE STATE

PROSECUTOR REQUESTED DEATH FOR CUBELA AND THREE OTRERS.

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4. MAJOR CUBELA WAS A POPULAR AND PROMINENT UNIVERSITY

STUDENT LEADER, AN ARDENT REVOLUTIONARY AND ONE OF THE EARLY COHOETS

OF CASTRO DURING THE BATISTA REGINE. CUBELA WAS ALSO A CLOSE

FRIEND OF CASTRO AND UNTIL THE ARREST RANKED RIGH AMONG THE LEADERS

OF THE REGIKE. HIS ARREST AND ABJECT CONFESSION AT THE PUBLIC

TRIAL CONDUCTED IN STALINIST FASHION TRIGGERED OFF A SERIES OF

STUDENT REACTIONS. THE TRIAL IN EFFECT BICKFIRED AGAINST THE REGIME.

•. 5. UPI REPORTS ANT OTHER INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICES,

INCLUDING ACCOUNTS OF REFUGEES WHO DEPARTED RECENTLY FROM CUBA,

TESTIFIED TO THE FACT THAT ANTI-GOVT' STUDENT AGITATIONS OCCURRED.

WALL SCRIBBLINGS ON UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS THREATENED CASTRO, ONE

READING: "ONE HEAD PAYS FOR ANOTHER," ANOTHER READ "OUT WITH FIDEL."

6. BECAUSE OF THE STRONG OPPOSITION TO THE TRIAL, CASTRO

REQUESTED THE STATE PROSECUTOR NOT TO INPOSE THE DEATH SENTENCES.

IN ORDER PLACATE ADVERSE PUBLIC OPINION THE TRIAL PROCEEDINGS WERE

GIVEN WIDE COVERAGE ON BOTH RADIO AND TELEVISION CIRCUITS. AS A

RESULT, CURELA AND OTHERS GRANTED CLEMENCY. AND SENTENCED TO LENGTHY

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7. THE CUBELA TRIAL WAS USED AS A PEG, I.E., GUILT BY

ASSOCIATION IN THE DISMISSAL AND CHARGES LEVIED AGAINST MAJOR

AMEI JEIRAS WHOSE LOYALTY TO THE REVOLUTION IS "UNDISPUTED" BY

CASTRO, HOWEVER, AMEIJEIRAS WAS STRIPPED OF HIS MILITARY RANK

AND CHARGED WITH THE CRIME OF BEING A PINYBOY, LIVING THE CAY LIFE.

8. AMEIJEIRAS WAS ONE OF CASTRO'S FIRSI PEVOLUTIONARY

FOLLOWERS, HE HAD BEEN WITH CASTRO SINCE 1956, WAS ONE OF THE

SURVIVORS OF THE GRANA EXPEDITION, FOUGHT IN THE SIERRA MAESTRA

IN 1957-58 AND HAD HELD HIGH OFFICE SINCE 1959. IN OCT 1965 HE WAS

NAME TO THE HUNDRED MAN CENTRAL CONMITTEE OF THE CUBAN COMMUNIST

PARTY.

9. RUMORS ARE CIRCULATING THAT BLAS ROCA CALDERIO,

MEMBER OF THE SECRETARIAT OF THE CP AND CHAIRMAN OF THE CONSTITU-

TIONAL STUDIES COSMITTEE, WILL SHORTIY BE BROUGHT TO TRIAL.

SIMILARLY, THE CHARGES OF HALPRACTICES AGAINST THE MINISTRY OF

FOREIGN AFFAIRS IMPUGN'S THE LOYALTY OF FOREIGN MINISTER RAUL ROA

GARCIA HINSELF. ANOTHER MINISTER UNDER SUSPICION, I.E., GUILI BY

ASSOCIATION, IS PAURE CHOLON, MINISTER OF TRANSPORTATION. THE

ENTIRE MEMBERSHIP OF THE 100-JAN CENTRAL CONNITTEE CREATED IN LATE

1965, MAY NOT BE SPARED AS THE PURGE GATHERS NOMENTUM.

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10. THE UNDERLYING CAUSE FOR THE "SHONTRIAL" OF CUBELA,

THE ARREST OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF DEFENSE AND THE OUILANDISH

HARGES BROUGHT AGAINST MEMBERS OF THE CP AND MINISTERIAL OFFICIALS

ARISES FROSS THE IRREVERSIBLE FAILURES OF THE GOVT IN THE HANDLING

OF DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL PROBLESS. THE SCARCITY OF BASIC

FOOD PRODUCTS HAS WORSENED. RICE, ROOT CROPS, MILK, SEAT CONTINUE

TO BE RATIONED SEVERELY, AND THE AVAILABILITY TO THE CONSUNER IS

• NOW BELOW THE 1957-59 LEVEL, DESPITE SEVEN YEARS OF "CONNUNIST

PLANNING", THERE ARE SERIOUS SHORTAGES OF SEDICINE, TEXTILES AND

HOUSING. THE LATTER HAS DETERIORITED IN URBAN AREAS TO A LEVEL

FAR BELONY PRE-VAR STAYDARDS. SIMILARLY, CASTRO REPORTED THAT THE

SUGAR CROP THIS YEAR WILL FALL FAR BELON MIE SIX MILLION TONS

HARVESTED IN 1965. SINCE SUGAR ACCOUNTS FOR SOME 80% OF TOTAL

FOREIGN TRADE EARNINGS, 1966 INCOME FROM SUGAR SALES, FACED WITH

DEPRESSED WORLD MARKET PRICES, WILL NOT IN ANY WAY MEET THE COST

OF BASIC IMPORTS, ESSENTIAL FOR SUSTAIVING THE NATIONAL ECONOMY.

CASTRO HAS SOUGHT TO RELIEVE THE PRESSURE ON THE ECONOMY BY PER-

SITTING THE EXODUS OF SOME 400 REFUGEES PER MONTH REO ARE STREAMING

INTO THE U.S. OTHER FAILURES I: CLUDE THE FUNCTION OF THE GOC

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ADXIVISTRATIVE STRUCTURE WHICH HAS ALMOST COME TO A HALT. IN THE

INTEREST OF ECONOMY SOME 60,000 EMPLOYEES ARE BEING DISMISSED

FROX THEIR JOBS. IMPORTANT BUREAUS ARE DENUDED OF COMPETENT

STAFFS. ALSO, THE POLICY OF REPLACING EXPERIENCED FUNCTIONARIES

WITH UNQUALIFIED CP STALYARTS HAS ALSO BEEN EXTENDED INTO THE

ARMED SERVICES. COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBERS HAVE BEEN PLACED IN

CONNAID POSTS AND THEIR WORD TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER THOSE WHO ARE

TECHNICALLY COMPETENT BUT NOT PARTY MSMBERS.

11. PSYCH EXPLOITATION IN MEDIA:

A. EXPHASIZE POINT THAT SHOW TRIAL AND PURGES

DENONSTRATE THAT IN THE PATTERN OF ALL DICTATORS, CASTRO GRASPING

AT STRAWS, ROPING DIVERT PUBLIC ATTENTION FROL MOUNTING INTERNAL

DIFFICULTIES;

B. COMPARE CASTRO TO NARUNAH, SUKARNO AND OTHERS

AS LEADERS WHO HAVE BANKRUPTED THEIR NATIONAL ECONOMIES AND SOLD

OUT THEIR NATION TO COMMUNISH;

C. PORTRAY CASTRO IN STATE OF PANIC, HIS RECENT

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D. RAISE QUESTION WHO CAN NOM CONSIDER HIMSELF

SAFE WHEY CASTRO IS TURNING AGAINST HIS MOST LOYAL FRIENDS.

SIMILARLY, CASTRO HAS LASHED OUT AGAINST COMMUNIST CHINA AND

YUGOSLAVIA, HIS FORMER ALLIES;

E. SHOW THAT UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND PROFESSORS

WHO IN EARLY 1965 WERE "PURCED" ON TRUMPED. UP CHARGES OF HOSO-

SEXUALITY ARE BECOMING ASSERTIVE, SINILARLY, MILITARY OFFICERS,

FALSELY ACCUSED, WILL CERTAINLY RESPOND. THE STUDENTS WITH TRE

MILITARY ARE THE THO PONER GROUPS THAT CAN REVERSE THE TRENDS AS

EXSAPLIFIED TODAY IN INDONESIA;

E, LASTLY, AVOID ALL REFERENCES TO ALLECATIONS OF

GOC THAT KUBARK INVOLVED IN CUBELA PLOT.

12. ABOVE BACKGROUND AND INFO MAY BE PASSED TO LIAISON.

13. FOR KUTUBE EXPLOITATION:

A. STATIONS WITH CUBIN INSTALLATIONS AND/OR TRADE

MISSIONS ARE REQUESTED MAKE MAXIMUM EFFORT ESTABLISH DIRECT OR

INDIRECT CONTACTS WITH SELECTED CUBAN FORMAIN AND TRADE PERSONNEL

THEIR AREAS. PURPOSE TO EMPHASIZE TO THEM THAT THEIR DOICE VITA

AND COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO HAVANA

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AND THAT TIME HAS COME TO ENSURE THEIR FUTURE THROUGH COOPERATION

WITH ODYOKE, CONTACTS SHOULD BE GEARED TO RECRUITHENT IN PLACE

AND COOPERATION RATHER THAN DETECTION. SHORT OF THIS, HOWEVER,

SPECIFIC DEFECTION REQUESTS SHOULD ALSO RECEIVE RECEPTIVE EAR.

B. STATIONS REQUESTED CARLE SPECIFIC LEADS IN

ORDER ENABLE HQS GEAR RQUS, LIMITS OF CONNITMENT. RECENT DIP/

TRADE DEFECTORS SHOULD BE QUERIED FOR LEADS IN THIS CONTEXT.

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