MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRATICO CRISTIANO (CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT).
Originator: CIA
To: MEMO FOR THE RECORD
Document date: 02/01/1977
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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February 1977

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: Movimiento Democratico Cristiano

(Christian Democratic Movement)

Job #

File #

Volumes:

64-664/89

19-120-13

4

Dates included: Mar 60 - Dec 63

1. Description:

A Cuban revolutionary group.

2. Findings:

U.S. Embassy, Havana, Cuba, foreign service Despatch

#1614 dated 9 May 1960:

1698

The Revolutionary Government has skillfully maneuvered

Rolando CUBELA, the President of the FEU, and his pro-Communist

cohorts into a position of power. First, on May 7, it was CUBELA

who was given the task of inciting the mob and bruiting the fact

I that the powers-that-be disapproved of Aurelaino SANCHEZ Arango.

Communist "goon-squad" tactics had become so vicious that even many

students who had heretofore been circumspectly apolitical are afraid

to attend classes.

The Vice Secretary of the School of Agronomy asked

how it was that if the CUBELA leadership so deplored violence that it

had remained impassive in the face of the physical violence perpetrated

against his person by members of the Communist Youth from the Instituto

Attachment:

03

Researcher: (Barbara Boyle)

LAD/JFK Task Force

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