INFORMATION REPORT VIEWS OF CARLOS PRIO SOCARRAS ON THE STATUS OF HIS MILITARY PLANS TO LIBERATE CUBA.
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VIEWS OF CARLOS PRIO SOCARRAS ON

DATE DISTR, 7 OCTOBER 1903

THE STATUS OF HIS MILITARY PLANS

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TO LIBERATE CUBA

PRECEDENCE ROUTINE

DATE OF

30 SEPTEMBER 1963.

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REFERENCES TDCSDB-3/656, 00G

PLACI &

UNITED STATES, MIAMI

TDCSDB-3/656, 676

DATA ACO.

(4 OCTOBER 1983)

TDCSDB-3/656,858

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FIELD REPORI NO.

THIS IS UNEYALUATED INPORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE.

APPRAISAL OF CONTENT AS TEMEANINE.

SOURCE

A CUBAN EXILE WIIO WAS PROMINENT

IN POLITICS AT THE PROVINCIAL

LEVEL IN CUBA, SOURCE IS WELL KNOWN BY THE CUBAN EXILES AND HAS

REPORTED OBJECTIVELY ON THEIR POLITICAL MANEUVERS.

THES IN-

FORMATION WAS OBTAINED FROM FRANCISCO L. FESSER.

• 1. ON 30 SEPTEMBER 1963 FRANCISCO L. FESSER SAID THAT

HE HAD SEVERAL DISCUSSIONS WITH FORMER CUBAN PRESIDENT CARLOS

PRIO SOCARRIS DURING THE PAST 10 DAYS AT PRIO'S MINI BEACH

HOME. (HEADQUARTERS COSIVENT: FESSER IS A CUBAN EXILE WHO HAS

HAD PREVIOUS CONTACTS WITH PRIO.) ACCORDING TO FESSER, PRIO

OFFERED HIS THE JOB OF SETTING UP A TYPE OF GENERAL STATE WHICH

HOULD BE COMPOSED OF PROFESSIONAL CUBAN ARMY OFFICERS WHO ARE

NOW LIVING IN EXILE, THESE MEN ARE TO BE OFFICERS WHO HAVE :

NOT BEEN CHARGED AS WAR CRIMINALS DURING THE BATISTA REGIMÉ ANP

MHO WOULD DIRECT THE MILITARY OPERATIONS AGAINST CUBA FROM

CLASSIFICATION → DIREMINATION CONTROLS

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2. PESSER SAID HE HAD &ZVERAL TALKS WITH FORMER COLONEL

EDUARDO ERNESTO MARTIN Y ELENA, FORMER COLONEL PEDRO A. VALDIVIA

ROMERO AND LLEUTENANT SAENZ (PNU); SAENZ, WHO IB KNOWN FOR HIB

PERSONAL VALOR, NAS CHOSEN TO COMPLEMENT MARTIN ELENA WHO IS

KNOWN MORE. FOR HIS CAPABILITY THAN POR HIS VALOR, FEBNER BAID

THE AIM IS TO DIVIDE CUBA MILITARILY INTO THREE SECTORS: EASTERN,

CENTRAL, AND MESTERN.

3.

ACCORDING TO PESIER, THE GROUP HAS ADEQUATE ARMS FOR

THE OPERATIONS WHICH IT WANTE TO BEGIN IN NOVEMHER OR DECZUBER

1983. THE GROUP ALSO HAS BOATS AND PLANES. MUZH THY ACTION

STARTS THERE, WILL BE SIMULTANEOUS ATTACKS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OP

THE ISLAND, NOT LESS THAN POUR A DAY. TIREE ATTACKS MILL. HERYT

TO SOFTEN THE ISLAND IN PREPARATION FOR A LANDING. FAZAIR

KINTIONED THAT JOSE ANTONIO LUCO, A FRIEND OF PRIO, HAS PURCHASED

ARMS AND AIRPLANES DURING THE PAST HONTH IN ENGLAND, FRANCH, AND

ITALY.

1. ACCORDING TO TESSER, ORLANDO PUENTE PEREZ, 5410°9

SECRETARY, TRAVELED TO SAPAN DUZING THE PAST MONTH IN ORDER TO

BUY SPEED BOATS AND MOTHER SHIPS.. FESSER SAID THAT FALO HAS

ASSURED HIY THAT HE HAS 10 MILLION COLLARS WITH MICH TO START

OPERATIONS, AND THAT HE HAS MILITARY BASES IN HAITI, VENEZLELA,

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COLONBIA, COSTA RICA, NICARAGUA, EL SALVADOR, HONDURAS, AND

GUATEMALA. FESSER ADDED THAT PRIO, FEELS CERTAIN HE CAN CARRY

OUT HIS PLANS AND DESTROY CASTRO.

5.. FESSER SAID THAT DURING HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH PRIO

THE LATTER SPOKE DISPARAGINGLY OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.

PRIO SAID THAT IT WAS NECESSARY TO BEGIN THE STRUGGLE OUTSIDE

THE RESTRICTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT SINCE -ANY

OTHER COURSE OF ACTION HOULD ALLOW CASTRO AND THE SOVIET UNION (SIC)

TO FALL UNDER AMERICAN DOMINATION, WHICH WOULD BE DISASTROUS

FOR THE CUBANS, PRIQ ÜNID HE HOULD ACCEPT A SITUATION OF BEING

AN ALLY OF THE UNITED STATES BUT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES MOULD

HE PASSIVELY ALLOW A PUPPET GOVERNMENT TO BE SET UP IN CUBA..

6.. FESSER SAID THAT PRIO IS TRYING TO CONVINCE THE

WEALTIY CUBANS IN EXILE THAT, IF THEY HANT TO RECOUP THEIR

RICHES IN CUBA IN THE SUTURE, THEY NUST CONTRIBUTE SOME OF

THEIR WEALTH. IF THEY DO NOT, THEY WILL ALLOW THE UNITED STATES

TO UTILIZE A FEW CUBANS TO TOPPLE CASTRO AND ESTABLISH A GOVERN-

MENT OF THEIR CHOOSING, AS WAS DONE IN JAPAN AFTER THE SECOND

WORLD WAR. THIS GOVERNMENT WOULD THEN PROCEED TO MAKE ECONOMIC

AND SOCIAL CHANGES WHICH WOULD COST THEM THEIR WEALTH.

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