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[14]In Reply. Please Refer to RE: CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY CouncIL APril 16, 1963
[15]File No, INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA :
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[19], The April 9, 1963, issue of the "Miami News"
[20]carried an article entitled, "Exiles Say Miro.To Quit",
[21]This article stated that informed exile sources claim
[22]that Dr. JOSE MIRO CARDONA would rezizn his post as head
[23]of the Cuban Revolutionary Council. Tne article said
[24]exile sources gave two possioillities for his resignation.
[25]One faction believed that MIRO's recent trip to Washington
[26]from which he returned Sunday (April..7) was to pin down the
[27]United States Government to a Statement of positive policy
[28]regarding Cuba. Another school of thought was that the
[29]Council head was retiring from his poet in protest of -
[30]Governnent curbing of hit-and-run raids. on the Comaunist
[31]island of Cuba.
[33]The article went on to state that pr. MIRO's
[34]leadership in the Council, aimed at uniting all Cuban
[35]exiles, nas been burdened by problems since his appointment
[37]in March 1961,
[39]On April 10, 1963, MM T-1, a former Cuban
[40]business executive, who is employed by the Cuban Revolutionary
[41]Council and who is a close personal friend of Dr. MIRO CARDONA,
[42]who has furnished some reliable information in the past,
[43]advised that an all-night sesaion of the Council was held
[44]beginning April 9, and ending at about 6:00 A.M., on
[45]April 10, during which time MIRO CARDONA presented his
[46]resignation but the Council refused to accept his resignation
[47]and MIRO CARDONA was persuaded to remain as President of the
[49]Council.
[51]MM T-1 said that MIRO's resignation consisted of
[52]a 25-page statement which was in effect an indictment against
[53]the administration of President JOH; FP, KENNEDY of the United
[54]States. In rejecting his resignation, the Council backed up
[56]CS copy
[58]/G- a aay
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[63]CUSAN REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL
[65]“STERNAL SECURITY - CUBA
[67]MIRO but in the interest of both the United States and the
[68]Cuban exiles, decided upon a public statement which reads
[70]as follows;
[72]"CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL . .
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[75]"The Cuban Revolutionary Council, having studied
[76]the report of its President, Dr. Jose Miro Cardona, concerning
[77]present relations with the United States Government, agrees:
[79]"1. Not to accept the resignation of Dr. Jose Miro Cardona,
[80]and declare its full Support for the basic plans contained
[81]in his resignation,
[83]"2, To affirm that there ig a serious crisis, brought about
[84]by the present policy of the government of this country,
[86]"3. To express the Council's hope of overcoming the present
[87]crisis and calling upon all of America, including the United
[88]States, for moral and material support in their fight to
[89]regain their sovereignty and independence, and the strict .
[90]fulfilment of American treaties and agreements, as well
[92]as the joint resolution of the U. S. Congress, calling for
[93]effective action against Soviet intervention in America..
[95]"4, To affirm that the Council has always insisted, and
[96]still insists, upon the necessity of Cuban participation
[98]in the process of liberating Cuba. The only procedure
[99]which the Council would accept would be coordination of
[100]forces, on a plans of complete respect for national dignity,
[101]Cuba will never renounce her legitimate right to be in the
[102]firat line of combat.
[104]"5. To reaffirm their unshakeable decision to continue the
[105]fight againet the Soviet-Castro regime, under any circumstances
[107]whatsoever,
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[115]INTEMMAL SECURITY - CUBA.
[117]"6. In these difficult times, the Cuban Revolutionary
[118]Council urges all Cubans to close ranks to achieve the
[119]national unity needed to hasten our march towards
[120]Freedom, :
[122]"Miami, April 10,-.1963¢=:%:
[125](Christian Democratic Movement)
[126]JOSE FERNANDEZ BADUE
[128]"Movimiento de Recuperacion Revolucionaria
[129](Movement for Revolutionary Recovery)
[130]CESAR BARO
[132]c hate” : 2g
[135](Montecrist1 Group)
[136]FRANCISCO CARRILLO
[138]"Unidad Revolucionaria .
[139](Revolutionary Union)
[140]FERNANDO FERNANDEZ CABADA
[142]“Rescate Democratico Revoluctonario
[143](Revolutionary Democratic Recovery)
[144]RAUL MENDEZ PIREZ
[146]“Movimiento Revolucionary 30 de Noviembre
[147](30th of November Revolutionary Movement) :
[148]ORLANDO RODRIGUEZ
[150]“Accion Revolucionaria Democratica
[151](Democratic Revolutionary Action)
[152]GERARDO QUESADA
[154]"Frente Obrero Revoluctonario de Cuba (FORDC)
[155](Revolutionary Labor Front of Cuba
[157]"Military Section
[158]JOSE E, MONTEAGUDO
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[163]CUDRAN REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL
[164]INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA
[166]"Sector Profesional
[167](Prefessional Section)
[168]ENRIQUE HUERTAS
[171](Economie Branch
[172]Dr. TULIO DIAZ RIVERA
[174]MANUEL ANTONIO DE VARONA™
[176]SERGIO CARBO
[177]RICARDO LORIE
[178]ANTONIO MACEO
[179]ANTONIO SILIO, Secretary
[181]MM T-1 explained that when Dr, MIRO CARDONA returned
[182]to Miami from a trip to Washington, D. C., on Sunday, where he
[183]contacted high government officials, he came away with the
[185]feeling that:
[187]we or Communism, . :
[189]1) The United States has no plan to free Cuba
[191]2) If the United States ever does formulate any
[192]plans, it will do 30 without consideration
[193]for the Cuban exiles in the United States,
[195]3) ~The United Statea policy is now one of
[196]peaceful co-existence with Communist Cuba,
[198]MM T-1 said that in his opinion, the Cuban exiles
[199]are frustrated, confused, losing faith in the United States
[200]and there is a growing feeling of abandonment of them by the
[202]United States.
[204]The April 10, 1963, issue of the "Miami Herald”
[205]carried a headline article entitled, "Miro Resigns as Exile
[206]Chief; Raps U. S. Policy", This article stated that MIRO
[207]CARDONA resigned because the United States refused to allocate
[208]fifty million dollars to train a Cuban invasion force, according
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[219]to government sources. The article said that exile leaders
[220]close to MIRO said he resigned not only because of disagree-
[221]ment witn United States policy, “but because he feels
[222]Waeninzgton dves not have any concrete plans to deal with
[224]the dictator",
[226]dhe portsedets . casey: .
[228]The April 11, 1963, 1esue of the "Miami Herald"
[229]carsied an article entitled, "Cuban Extle Council Vows to
[230]Continue the Freedom Fight". In this article it was
[231]Btated that the Cuban Revolutionary Council had vowed to
[232]continue ite fight against Castro-Communism whether the
[233]United Itates likes 1t or not. The article said that Dr,
[234]MIRO CARDONA denied reports from U. S. Government sources
[235]that he offered his resignation to the Council because the
[236]United Ztatea refused to allocate fifty million dollars to
[237]train a Cuban invasion force. The article stated thet an
[238]informed source said that MIRO decided to quit "because
[239]of tne change in the U. S. ~ Cuban poltay™.
[241]Tne April 16, 1963, issue of the "Miami Herald”
[242]carried an article entitled "JFK Accepts Demand, Fidel Says".
[243]This article by the UPI bearing a Havana dateline reported
[244]that FIDEL CASTRO told Cubans on Thursday (April 11) that the
[245]KENUEDT Administration has accepted one of his five demands
[246]for an end to tension in the Caribbean. This article stated
[247]that in a one hour and forty minute speech, CASTRO said that
[248]Waehington in forbidding exiles to carry on further armed
[249]attacca on Cuba, has fulfilled one-of "five points for peace"
[250]advancec cy nim and endorsed by the Soviet Union. The article
[251]then went on to state that PIDEL announced that there are
[252]still fcar ecnditions to be fulfilled and that acceptance of
[253]them is the only sensible thing the KENNEDY Administration
[254]can do, One of the five conditions, according to the article,
[255]is U. 3. evacuation of the big Naval base at Guantanamc.
[257]On the morning of April 15, 1963, Miami radio news
[259]broadcasts announced MIRO CARDONA would again offer his
[260]resignation to the Council on that same day.
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[271]On April 15, 1963, MM T-1 advised that he was
[272]positive that MIRO CARDONA did not intend to again tender
[273]his resignation on Monday, April 15, 1962, but was
[274]contemplating taking that action on the following Thursday, |
[275]April 18, 1963. MM T-1 said that the Council was meeting ~... .
[276]on Thursday to take a ‘definite attitude or’ tough line of ome ae
[277]action and that it waa entirely probable that all of the
[278]members of the Council might resigh in protest to the present
[279]policy of the United 2tates with regard to the Cuban situation.
[280]He said that the prezent feeling of the Council towards the
[281]United States is tasically "to hell with it",
[283]MM T-1 expressed the personal feeling that Y. 3,
[284]policy towards Cuba 1s presentlyin a vacuum and consequently
[285]everything is at a standstill. The Cuban exiles in the
[286]Miami area feel that the U. S. is abandoning their cause
[287]and has now adopted a course of peaceful cc-existence with
[289]Communist Cuba.
[291]On April 15, 1963, MM T-2, a Cuban exile who has .
[292]furnished some reliable information in the past and who 1s we
[293]associated with fellow Cubans’ who belong to several different
[294]Organizations, ddvieed that reaction among the Cuban exiles ae
[295]is "very bad against the United States", He explained that the one
[296]Cuban exiles allege that President KENNEDY nae made promises OE,
[297]to help them in their fight against CASTRO but 18 now opposing
[298]them and consequently they feel that the U. 8. 18 now committed
[299]to a policy of peaceful co-existence with Communist Cuba. _
[301]“ The Cuban exiles are fearful as to the future, confused as to.
[302]why the U. S. has chanzed its policy and the exiles feel that
[303]they have been abandoned in their fight.
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