CABLE RE SPECIAL CUBAN ALERT MEASURES RESULTING FROM ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY.
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Document date: 12/12/63
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SUBJECT. SPECIAL CUBAN ALERT MEASURES RESULTING FROM

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY.

DOI. 9 DECEMBER 1963

DÃ.. 9 DECEMBER 1963

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SOURCE. CUBAN OFFICIAL WED REPORTS REGUIARLY AND IS FULLY

TASTED. HE HAS DEMONSTIATED MATURITY, JUDGMENT.

DISCERNMENT AND ACCURACY IN HIS PAST REPORTING.

I, CIRCA 2 DAYS AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT

JOEK E. KENNEDY, CUBAN DIPIONATIC MISSIONS ABROAD BEGAN TO

RECEIVI A SERIES OF MESSAGES PLACING THEM ON A SPECIAL ALERT

STATUS. THESE MESSAGES WERE OBVIOUSLY DUE TO APPREHENSION

BY THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT THAT THE CIRCUNSTANCES SURROUNDING

THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY, MIGHT LEAD TO HOSTILE

ACTIVITY DIRICTED AGAINST THE MISSIONS. THE DIPLOMATIC

MISSIONS. AMONG OTHER THINGS, WERE EXHORTED TO EXERCISE

EXTREME VIGILANCE, TO MOUNT A NIGHT AND DAY MATCH OF MISSION

PREMISES, TO BE CERTAIN THAT THERE WERE "NO COMPROMISING

DOCUMENTS ON THE PREMISES, " AND TO BE ON GUARD AGAINST BOSTILE

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2. ONE CHIEF OF MISSION. WED, FOLLOWING HIS USUAL

PRACTICE, REQUESTED BY TELEPLIONE PERMISSION TO ACCEPT A

LONG STANDING INVITATION TO VISIT A COUNTRY FRIENDLY TO

COSA, WAS TOLD THAT HE MIST FORMALLY SUBMIT HIS REQUEST

BY CABLE. HE DID SO ON 29 NOVEMBER, BUT IT HAS NOT UNTIL.

6 DECEMBER THAT HE RECEIVED THE AUTHORITY TO QUIT HIS FOST.

3. AS OF 9 DECEMBER THERE HAD BEEN NO INDICATION FROM

BAVALA, TEAT THE ALERT. ORDER WAS TO BE CONSIDERED REVOKED.

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