CABLE: DEGRIP-1 HAS RETURNED MEXI, WAS NOT ABLE DELIVER S/W MATERIALS
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: MEXICO CITY
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 2/10/64
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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'DEGRIP") HAS RETURNED MEXI. WAS NOT ASLE DELIVER SIY MATERIALS

TO ERNESTINA AS SHE OUT OF JOUL DURINA ENTIRE STAY D-I IN CUBA.

MATERIALS STORED IN SAFE PLACE, DI WILL ATTEMPT DELIVERY NEXT

TRIP. C/O WILL EXPLAIN DETAILS DURING COMINE TDY CONSULTATION

AT HOS.

DE! HAS MADE SEVERAL EXCELLENT CURAX ARMY CONTACTS, WENT HUNTING.

EN PINAR DEL SIO VITH COUNTER GUERRILLA DETACHMEHT HEADED BY DSE LO

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OFFICER WHO INTSRESTED DEVELOPING DEL AS COLLABORATORE hit Kind.

DETAILED DSSPIEFING WILL AVAIT RETURN C/O TO MEXI BUT GENERAL

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TENOR OF PRELISINARY DEBRIEFING 9 FEB AS FOLLOWS: CUBAN ECONOMY

ON RISE AT EVERY LEVEL: "ENORMOUS" OPTIMISH AMONG GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

WHO NOW FEEL SECURE: DOLLAR RESERVES MORE IN EVIDENCE, FOR EXAMPLE,

DO! MADE CAUTIOUS INQUIRE'S REGARDING POSSIBILITY OBTAIN ONE HUNDRED

THOUSAND DOLLARS THIS• YEAR OF APPROX HALF MILLION OWED HIS COMPANY

BY GOC.

VAS TOLD GOC COULD PRORABLY PAY ENTIRE HALF MILLION SINCE

DOLLARS NO LONGER A PROBLES.. SINCE USSR SUSAP DEAL GOC FEELS CAN

NOV MAXE LOMB RANGE ECONOMIC PLANS.. RECENT COMPERCIAL ACCORDS WITH

OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES HAVE BROKEN PACK OF US ECONOMIC PLOCKADE

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AND THERE COUTRIES HOW INTERESTE: AITAL! STATUS DUS IN, ORDER

GET PAID TOR THEIR GOODS. PRONGKIY TOLD EOL US CUT ITS OU THROAT

BY, MIEAT DEAL USTH USS? WHICH PADUPTED DIUER COUNTRISS TRADE

VITH CUSA.

A. FODD PLENTIFUL IN RESTAURANTS ALTHOUSH PRICES STILL VERY HIGH:

GOOD STEAKS, "I1S, ETC:, AVAILABLE TO ANYONE VILLING PAY THE

PRICE• LARGE CASKS SPANISH WINE IN EVIDENCE EVERYWHERE INCLUDING

SHALL RURAL STORES, GOC PLANS BRADUALLY ELIMINATE FOOD PEATIONING,

BEGINNING WITH TUBERS.

So PEOPLE OF CUSA HAVE LOST FAITH IN US, DEPLORE US POLICY OF

WAXNESS, DO NOT SELIEVE US WILL SUCCEED IN TOPPLINA CASTRO.

AS RESULT ARE ADAPTIIS TO SITUATIÓN. FRENCH AND ITALIA! FIL"S

REPLACILS DULL SOVBLOC MOVIES. UNUSUALLY. GAY PREPARATIONS UNDER

MAY FOR CARNAVAL CELEBRATION.

GO ANTI-REGIME SASOTAGE PRACTICALLY NON-EXISTENT. SMALL

GUERRILLA BANDS PINAR DEL RIO EFFECTIVELY ISOLATED, LIVING LIKE

ANIMALS: YOUNG ANTI-GUERRILLA TROOPS ARE TOUGH, GOOD FIGHTERS,

HAVE HIGH MORALE, SPOUT COMMUNIST JARSI: LIKE PARROTS. GOC RELAXING

RESTRAINTS ON POPULACE A BIT OWING TO GENERAL FEELING OF SECURITY.

VORE TOLERANT WITH ANTI-REGIME EXPRESSIONS. CASTRO EXCLUDES

ALL POSSIBILITY US INVASION BUT SUEVARA NOT SO SURE.

• ABOVE INFO FROK PERSONAL OBSERVATION AND USUAL SOURCES ZORRILLA.

AND OLTUSKI. ¿OPRILLA' SAID CASTRO VISIT USSR YAS GREAT VICTORY FOR

CASTRO, EXPLAINED SOVS VENT ALL OUT HELP CASTRO AS RESULT GUILTY

FEELINGS HAVIN LET CUBA DOWN OCTOBER 1962

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EXPLA: ICE HE REORITEC HAVING TAXE CUCH PESSIMISTIC REPORT

BUT FACTS SPELT FOR SELVES AND DUTY ORRECTIVE REPORTER 1S, SPELL OUT

FACTS. D-I REMARKED: "IF I VERE PRESIDENT OF THE US I WOULD DESTROY

CASTRO REBIME WITHOUT VAITING ONE MORE DAY, TOMORROW PAY BE TOO

LALL." NO INDEX.

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