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[89]6 December 1963
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[114]CUBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT :
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[118]DAILY SUMMARY
[120]6 December 1963
[122]This summary of significant information has not been coordinated
[123]outside the Office of Current Intelligence. It does not representa
[124]complete coverage of all current reports received, nor does time
[125]permit the complete evaluation of all reports which are included,
[127]CONTENTS
[129]MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS:
[131]An intercepted Cuban military message of 5 December indi-
[132]cated that the Cuban armed forces are giving courses in
[133]chemical warfare defense. (Page 1)
[135]‘INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:
[137]Moscow press reports the’ OAS meeting on Cuban arms ship-
[138]ments. (Page 1)
[140]_|CUBAN INTERNAL SITUATION:
[142]Apparitions of Santa Barbara have been reported from Oriente
[144]Province. (Page 1) ¢
[145]OM:
[147]The@ortuguese ambassador) in Havana reports his impressions
[149]of the reactions to President Kennedy's assassination. (Page 2)
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[152]Two government soldiers were killed in southern Oriente >
[153]Province when a dice game, involving military and civilian
[154]personnel, was uncovered and fired upon by troops from Unit 2Y
[155]1948.) (Page 3)
[157]Dolores Ibarruri,.secretary general of the Spanish Communist
[158]Party, arrived in Havana from Moscow on 5 December, accord-
[159]ing to press reports. (Page 3)
[161]Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, minister of INRA, has expressed
[162]serious dissatisfaction with Cuba's current agricultural
[163]situation and revealed that he disagrees with Castro's
[164]emphasis on "ultimate aims" in place of current "tactics."
[165]‘Rodriguez: also informed the British ambassador that he had
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[176]opposed the Second Agrarian Reform Law and is willing to
[177]use "doctrinally unwelcome" measures to increase production.
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[180]Cuba is taking further steps to improve its fishing industry,
[181]including several. construction projects in the Chuyima ship-
[182]yards in the Almendares River, the launching of 18 fishing
[183]boats, and the sending of an(official mission) to @pain)in
[184]connection with the fishing dustry .2.4 (Page 4) “al
[186]INSURGENCY AND CIVIL UNREST:
[188]Counterrevolutionary elements apparently attacked an obser-
[189]vation post on Cayo de Cristo) on a recent undetermined date.
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[192]A suspected counterrevolutionary was arrested on 3 December
[193]in (Guantanano.) (Page 5)
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[196]| CUBAN FOREIGN SERVICE:
[198]The Cuban ambassador to the USSR is in Havana for a short
[199]"vacation." (Page 5)
[201]| CUBAN AIR FLIGHT CONNECTIONS:
[202]The Soviet-made AN-12 transport plane being ferried to Cuba
[203]: reached Recife, Brazil, on 5 December, and left there for
[204]its last stop before it is scheduled to arrive in Cuba on
[205]7 December. (Page 5)
[207]| SHIPPING SUPPORT FOR CUBA:
[209]The US Embassy in Beirut believes that Lebanon may act to
[210]‘curtail the use of its ships in the Cuban trade. This
[211]would result in a significant decline in Cuban shipping
[212]in free world bottoms. (Page 5)
[214]CUBAN ~- CHINESE COMMUNIST RELATIONS:
[216]Wang Yu-ping has been named the new Chinese Communist am-
[217]bassador to Cuba. He is a senior diplomat, but not as high
[218]ranking an individual as the recently appointed Chinese
[219]Communist ambassadors to Algeria and the UAR. (Page 5)
[221]BLOC ECONOMIC RELATIONS:
[223]A Bulgarian arms negotiator has returned. from Havana to Sofia.
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[235]‘BLOC RELATIONS:
[237]A four-man Soviet delegation to revise social science cur-
[238]riculum at Havana University. has arrived in Havana.
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[241]NON-BLOC COMMERCIAL RELATIONS:
[243]The US consul in Antwerp has been informed by the Varmi
[244]Company of Brussels that it will not sell construction
[245]equipment to Cuba; there have been reports that such a
[246]sale, perhaps totaling $1 million, was being negotiated.
[247]Meanwhile, a Cuban group, which had probably planned to
[248]complete negotiations on the sale, was delayed because
[249]of lack of visas. (Page 6)
[251]The US Embassy in Tokyo sees little hope of inducing the
[253]Japanese Government to interfere with the implementation
[255]of a contract under which Japanese private firms have re-
[256]portedly agreed to purchase 325,000 tons of Cuban sugar.
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[260]The director of a Spanish optical firm has gone to Havana
[261]to negotiate the sale of movie projectors; he is being
[262]sponsored by CILASA, (Page 7) ,
[264]NON-BLOC RELATIONS:
[266]A Cuban good-will mission was received by the Moroccan
[267]acting foreign minister; the US Embassy believes this
[268]may presage the official re-establishment of diplomatic
[269]relations. (Page 7)
[271]The Swiss ambassador believes that Frank Emmick's trial
[272]-will be held shortly after the completion of the current
[273]OAS investigation of Venezuelan charges against Cuba;
[274]Emmick's preliminary hearing has been completed and the
[275]ambassador is trying to find a Cuban lawyer to defend him.
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[278]| The government of Trinidad gave a "chilly reception" toa
[279]visiting Cuban official and turned down a suggestion for
[280]trade talks, at least for the present. “(Page 8)
[282]CUBAN SUPPORT OF EXTERNAL SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES;
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[285]The (Chilean * dabassy) in Havana has received information from
[286]es in Cuba it “considers reliable which supports
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[303]Venezuelan charges that Cuba has been shipping arms to
[305]South America. (Page 8)
[307]Havana Radio announced yesterday that pro-Castro guerrillas
[309]in the Dominican Republic have established. "six operational
[310]zones"; Cuban exiles in Miami feel that the failure of pro-
[312]‘Castro terrorists in Venezuela may force him to turn to
[314]terrorism in the Dominican Republic. (Page 9)
[316]Cuba is reportedly making preparations to recognize a Vene-
[317]zuelan government-in-exile, according to information re-
[318]ceived by an official (West Gorman yservice from a fairly
[319]reliable source with c ntacts)in avana. (Page 9)
[321]The OAS Investigating Committee which is looking into the
[322]Cuban arms cache discovered in Venezuela does not intend
[324]to limit its investigation to the cache, but has expressed
[325]interest in looking into other evidence of Cuban activities
[326]directed against Venezuela. The Venezuelan Government has
[327]agreed to. furnish all possible evidence on its complaint.
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[330]On 5 December an American woman told a minister in New York
[331]that her boy friend had left that day for an unknown desti-
[333]nation in Central America from which he planned to fly in
[334]a pro-Castro Venezuelan coup on Saturday. (Page 10).
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[344](MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS:
[346]An intercepted Cuban military message, of 5 December
[347]lindicated that the Cuban armed forces are 2 kiving instruction
[349]‘in defense against chemical warfare. An:(unidentified)mili-
[351]tary unit in fla Villas) Province reported the selection of
[352]two officers ‘and four sergeants to atterid a "chemical defense
[353]course, "  (USN-856, 2X/SLAC T407-63, 6 December, SECRET SABRE)
[355]INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: wy 94
[357]Moscow has given rather standard treatment to the OAS
[358]‘meeting which heard the Venezuelan Government charge Castro
[359]‘with illegal arms shipments. On 4 December, TASS correspond-
[360]ent. Leonid Shokin reported that "the weavers of plots against
[361]revolutionary Cuba are still at it...accusing it of delivery
[362]iof arms to Venezuela for ‘subversive purposes'." Shokin found
[363]“certain US circles are the most interestec’in this, as is
[364]‘evident from the fact that representatives of the US State
[365]‘Department declared at the meeting that the United States
[366]‘would 'firmly support' additional economic and diplomatic
[367];Sanctions by the OAS against Cuba."" He thought it unexcep-
[368]itional that "these provocative attempts were not supported by
[369]'the largest Latin American countries" and warned that "such
[370]‘attempts to interfere in Cuban internal affairs are fraught.
[371]'with extremely harmful consequences for the cause of peace.”
[372]_(CIA/¥BIS, Moscow, 4 December, UNCLASSIFIED)
[374]‘CUBAN INTERNAL SITUATION:
[376]Several weeks ago there were CAS reports that the storm-
[377]tossed peasants of Oriente looked on Hurricane Flora as the
[378]_vengeance of God--a God, who in the tradition of the Old
[379]'Testament's stern and sometimes vengeful Jehovah, had loosed
[380]his fury on a people first seduced and now ‘impressed by an
[381]alien regime. Now a report from the US Naval Base at Guan-
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[390]lof the Cuban populace. While the incidents pictured in this
[391]/report do not necessarily reflect anything other than a com-
[392]ibinationof religious fervor and superstition, they are signifi-
[393]‘cant to the extent that they reflect the unrest--and, perhaps
[394]ia growing feeling of hopelessness and despair--current among
[396], the Cubans.
[398]In any case, there are prevalent lecally tales of St.
[399]‘Barbara’ S appearing several times to prophesy a change in the
[400]‘regime or admonish errant youths to mend their ways. /Barbara,
[401]ivirgin daughter of the heathen Diosorus, was beheaded by her
[402]|father near Heliopolis in 235 A.D. for embracing Christianity.
[403].A fearful thunderclap is alleged to have greeted her execution.
[404]| Symbolized by a windmill-like tower with three windows, the
[405]l type 6f fortress in which her father was wont to confine her
[406]while he was absent from home, Barbara is the patroness of
[407]‘artillerymen and miners.
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[423]/In the Church's calendar, her feast is marked on 4 Decem-
[424]ber.” Apart from her significance in the Christian ritual,
[425]Barbara figures prominently in a neo-pagan cult known as
[426]the Santeria. Devotees of Santeria regard themselves as
[427]Catholics and believe that the names of the Catholic saints
[428]are translations into Spanish of the Nigerian names of African
[429]gods. Catholicism is viewed as the Spanish tribal version of
[430]Santeria. The association between Catholicism and Santeria
[431]is based on a largely superficial similarity between Catholic
[433]“saints and the pantheon of African spirit gods. Saint Barbara
[435]is thought to be Shango, the God of War./7
[436]According to one of these tales, a woman dressed in
[438]-martyr's red stopped a bus outside Guantanamo City on 25 No-
[440]vember, stepped inside and berated the Castro regime, The
[442]. woman is alleged to have said that the Cuban people could
[444]not live forever in such misery and to have predicted that
[445]Castro would be taken from them sometime between 4 and 7 De-
[446]cember. A inilitiaman passenger told her that she would be
[447]arrested when the bus arrived in the city. When it had, she'd
[448]disappeared. Continuing on to Caimanera, the bus s topped in
[449]the town square with the same woman sitting on one of the
[450]seats inside the vehicle, The militia again was summoned
[451]and again the woman was nowhere to be seen.
[453]On 26 November the same woman allegedly appeared outside
[454]a school in Caimanera and admonished several children not to
[455]thrown stones at'a nearby shack. The children fled into the
[456]school and the woman followed. Challenged by a teacher, the
[457]woman said she was Santa Barbara and vanished. The next day
[458]neither the teacher nor the children would return to the
[459]school, though it subsequently has been reopened. (COMNAVBASE
[460]GTMO, 01731/T1/JFK/3, 4 December, CONFIDENTIAL)
[462]Fidel Castro was "frightened, if not terrified," by the
[464]. possi consequences of President. Kennedy ' s murder, overament )2 2Yy
[466]to thé"\Portugues’ ambassado in (Havana)? Cabling (his government
[467]on 27 November, the (Portugtese diplomat) escribed what he called
[468]"a large movement of troops" late on the Afternoon of the Presi-
[469]dent's death--"“they were sent to take up positions around
[471]Havana and the northern coast of the island."" He found it sur-
[472]prising that Castro "jumped into the arena to denounce insinu-
[473]ations. which were merely from news and nongovernmental agencies,
[474]but added that "it is the general opinion in. diplomatic Cireles) 2Y
[475]that the assassination will be the spring whith will unleash
[476]passions and violent and blind hysteria of the American people
[477]against Cuba and Russia and provide the excuse which up to now
[478]was lacking.... There its talk again about the coincidence of
[479]rumors concerning a crisis at the end of the year...." Finally,
[480]the €nbassado noted that “the assassination did not cause a
[481]great deal: 6f consternati in counterrevolutionary circles in
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[493]Two government soldiers were kille oe southern Oriente
[494]Province on 3 December when members f Onit 1948) at an uniden-
[495]tified location within +H irst Army) area, uncovered and fired
[496].on a dice game, which apparently included personnel from their
[497]_ own unit. A 3 December message from military (unit 1948 to South 24
[498]Sierra Maestra Sector Hoadquarterey stated that “when the players
[499]attempted to flee, the soldiers c enced firing without orders,
[500]causing the death of one unnamed ayer and the chief of organ-
[501]ization and personnel of (Unit 1948-4 the message added that the
[502]bodies and the "civilian and military prisoners" were being sent
[503]to sector headquarters. (USN 835, 2/LR1 (CUMYR196-63, °5 December,
[504]SECRET KIMBO) 99 ald
[506]Dolores Ibarruri, "La Pasionaria" of Spanish Civil War fame
[507]and secretary general of the Spanish Communist Party, arrived in
[508]. Havana from Moscow on 5 December, according to press reports.
[509]Ibarruri, who resides in Moscow, was invited to Cuba by Castro
[510]during his visit to the Soviet Union. (The New York Times,
[511]6 December, UNCLASSIFIED)
[513]CUBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT :
[515]Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, minister of INRA, has expressed
[516]serious dissatisfaction with Cuba's current agricultural situa-
[517]tion and revealed that he disagrees with Castro's emphasis on
[518]"ultimate aims" in place of current "tactics." In a long talk
[519]with the British ambassador in early November, Rodriguez agreed
[520]"with surprising enthusiasm" that the two main problems facing
[521]Cuban agriculture were the lack of competent personnel to run
[522]the appropriated farms, and the lack of consumer goods which
[523]are necessary to stimulate production, especially by the remain--
[524]ing private farmers. Rodriguez had advised Castro that there
[525]were not sufficient agricultural experts to run the state farms
[526]which had been previously organized, and he had counseled against
[527]taking over medium-size farms (as the Second Agrarian Reform Law
[528]did) until sufficiently trained and experienced personnel were
[529]available; he commented on Soviet complaints about the low edu-
[530]cational level of Cubans sent to the USSR for agricultural
[531]training. Rodriguez said that despite his advice, Castro had
[532]gone ahead with the Second Agrarian Reform Law for two "polit-
[533]ical” reasons: to push ahead with the progress of Cuba's
[534]Socialist economy, and to destroy the support for counterrevo-
[536]} lutionaries which Castro believed existed among the "rural
[537]' bourgeois." Rodriguez thought it ironical that US pressure ‘on
[538]Cuba (presumably he meant aid to counterrevolutionaries) had
[539]forced Cuba to seize lands faster than it would otherwise have
[540]done. He also stated his belief that the seizure of mediun-
[541]size farms would lead to a drop for several years in many
[542]branches of Cuban agriculture, particularly in market gardening
[543]and dairy farming.
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[555]Rodriguez also agreed with the British ambassador that the
[556]second problem facing Cuban agriculture was the lack of consumer
[557]goods which were necessary to stimulate production. However,
[558]Rodriguez said that Cuba was in a vicious circle: farmers did
[559]not have incentive to produce because there were few consumer
[560]goods available, yet such goods could not be obtained until
[561]farm production had been raised. Rodriguez' main concern
[562]seemed to be the scarcity of many consumer goods; in fact, he
[563]admitted that he was willing to undertake temporary expediencies
[564]which might help raise production, even though they might be
[565]"doctrinally unwelcome." . Rodriguez referred the ambassador to
[566]Lenin's New Economic Policy, and made noiattempt to disguise his
[567]disagreement with Castro's insistence on "ultimate aims" instead
[568]of current "tactics." (British Embassy Havana, 13 November,
[569]CONFIDENTIAL NO FOREIGN. DISSEM)
[571]Cuba is taking further steps to improve its fishing industry.
[572]A Havana radiobroadcast reported the completion of several con-
[573]struction projects in the Chuyima shipyards in the Almendares
[574]River in Havana, including a pier 307 meters in length, a concrete
[575]esplanade measuring 17,000 square meters with a capacity of 24
[576]ships, two launching ramps, and the dredging of the Almendares
[577]River in front of the pier, pending partial completion, as well
[578]as several minor jobs. It also reported that the shipyard has
[579]launched 18 Lambda-75-class ships; 14 more are expected to be
[580]launched by January. According to a 29 November intercepted
[581]message, an Official mission) in con ection with the fishing
[582]industry was expected to arrive in (Madri n early December.
[583]The (delegation),yas composed. of (Jose Lavia)and (Juan de la Feo
[584]Flores) (CIA FBIS 03, 6 Deéember96 OFFICIAL USE ONLY; NSA
[585]2x/0, PgR 2S-63, 5 December, SECRET SABRE)
[587]INSURGENCY AND CIVIL UNREST: 0
[588]ounterrevolutionary,ejements apparently attacked the (Selva
[590]Marina) observation post at Cayo de Cristo}on a recent undetermined
[592]date.” A partially garbled message from (Central Army Headquarters) 24
[593]in(Santa Clara informed Gavana) that personnel in the observation
[594]post 0 located on a cay2o f Asabela de Sagua) "repelled the aggres-
[595]sion and caused the flight of the attackers. /°. Ina probe of the
[596]place by air, land, and sea, nothing more than some footprints
[598]were observed." Because of the garbles at the beginning of the
[600]} message it is impossible to determine the time and nature of the
[602]; attack. (USN 856, 2/SLACUM/R297-63, 6 December, SECRET KIMBO)
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[616]An unidentified military! unit informed First Army Sector
[617]E Headquarters t.Mayari Arriba) that a suspe¢ted counterrevolu-
[618]tionary had beén arrested in(Guantanamo),q The suspect, militia-
[619]man Esteban Mendez Almaquel,was arrestéd in the home. of Genaro
[620]Moya on 3 December. Moya was identified as being implicated
[622]in the counterrevolution and as an informer, (USN 835, 2X/
[623]LRL(CUM/T675-63, 5 December, SECRET SABRE)
[625]CUBAN FOREIGN SERVICE:
[627]Carlos Olivares, Cuba's ambassador to the USSR, arrived
[628]by plane yesterday . in Havana for what Prensa Latina "described
[629]as a "short vacation." (CIA/FBIS, Havana, 5 December, UN-
[630]CLASSIFIED)
[632]CUBAN AIR FLIGHT. CONNECTIONS:
[634]Intercepted(_ civil aviation) communications indicate that
[635]the Soviet-made AN-12 transport aircraft being ferried to Cuba
[636]from the Soviet Union is adhering to its schedule. It arrived.
[637]at the Brazilian airport of Recife from Conakry on 5 December
[638]and left there the next day for Belem, Brazil. It is scheduled
[639]to leave Belem on 7 December for Havana. The intercepts also
[640]indicated that Jamaica has granted permission for the plane
[641]to use Kingston as. a reserve landing point in the event of
[642]necessity. (USA-51, 2/J8/RUT/R894-63, 6 December, SECRET
[643]KIMBO) 3
[645]SHIPPING SUPPORT FOR: CUBA:
[647]The. US Embassy in Beirut believes that Lebanon may act
[648]to curtail the use of its ships in the Cuban trade. This would
[650]result in a significant decline in Cuban shipping in free world
[651]‘bottoms because Lebanese companies provided ten of the thirty-
[653]two free world ships which called at Cuba in October. The
[654]Lebanese foreign minister planned to ask the cabinet for a pro-
[655]visional measure whereby he. would be able to demand that all
[656]ships carrying Lebanese flag must call at Lebanon periodically
[657]and report their destinations. He believed this would cut
[659]the Cuban traffic quickly by 60 percent. Because US aid to
[660]Lébanon is almost nonexistent, the US Embassy believes that
[662]‘this Lebanese action would be ’ prompted by motives of princi-
[664]ple rather. than fear of losing US aid, an action which is being
[665]discussed by the US Congress. (Am Emb Beirut 520, 5 December,
[667]CONFIDENT IAL)
[669]’ CUBAN - CHINESE COMMUNIST RELATIONS:
[671]A Havana Prensa Latina broadcast of 6 December announced
[673]_ that President Dorticos has assented to the appointment of Wang
[675]Yu-ping as Chinese Communist ambassador to Cuba. This is the
[676]first information indicating that Ambassador Shen Chien, who
[677]has served in Cuba since December 1960, is about to. be replaced.
[678]The new Chinese Communist ambassador is a 53-year-old senior:
[679]diplomat; since 1950 he has served three- to four-year terms as
[680]Communist ambassador in Rumania, Norway, and Cambodia. He is
[681]married and has two children.
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[692]While he is, of course, a member of the Chinese Communist
[693]party, he is not a ranking party member. He appears to be
[694]a lower ranking person than newly assigned Chinese Communist
[695]ambassadors to such countries as the UAR and Algeria. The
[696]earliest biographic references to him have him as a member of
[697]the Chinese Communist Army in 1931. He subsequently became
[698]an. army political commissar and rose to the rank of general.
[699]It is not unusual, however, for Chinese Communist diplomats
[700]to be generals. He speaks Russian, but there is no informa-
[701]tion that he speaks Spanish. For the last year and a half,
[702]however, he has been stationed in Peiping and he could have
[703]learned’ the language then. He accompanied Chinese Communist
[704]chief of state: Liu Shoa-chi on the latter's visit to Cambodia
[705]last spring. (CIA FBIS Havana, 6 December, OFFICIAL USE ONLY;
[706]BACKGROUND DATA: SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM)’
[708]BLOC ECONOMIC RELATIONS:
[710]L.P. Kyuchukov, chief of the Engineering Directorate of
[711]the Bulgarian Ministry. of Foreign Trade, was to arrive in-
[712]Prague from Havana yesterday and fly on "to Sofia today.
[713]“ Kyuchukov, who is thought to have negotiated Bulgarian arms
[714]shipments to Cuba, was noted traveling between Havana and
[715]Santiago de Cuba. on 21 and 23 November--the third time he has
[716]been in Cuba since November 1962. (DIRNSA, 2X/0/QOC)T2810-
[717]63, 5 December, SECRET SABRE) GH
[719]BLOC RELATIONS:
[721]A 4-man Soviet delegation, headed by USSR Deputy Min-
[722]ister of Education Serafim Nikichev, arrived in Cuba on 5
[723]December to spend a month "working on. the curriculum of
[724]Havana University's School of Social Sciences." Nikichev
[725]was accompanied by. "academicians" Aleksandr Smirnov, Vassiliy
[726]Rayike, and Maria Filipova, The group was. ‘welcomed’ at Jose
[727]Marti airport by the Rector and Deputy Rector of the univer-
[728]sity, Juan Mier Febles and Mariano Rodriguez Solveira, and.
[729]the school's protocol specialist, Professor Pedro Canas, The
[730]delegation's trip to Cuba is the first tangible result of
[731]the Soviet-Cuban educational exchange agreement signed in Mos-
[732]cow two months ago.’ That agreement provides for the loan
[733]oe of Soviet academicians and educational administrators to
[734]} Cuban schools, the exchange of students and instructors be-
[735]tween the two "countries, and the use of Soviet texts in Cuba.
[736](CIA/FBIS, Havana, 5 December , UNCLASSIFIED)
[738]NON-BLOC COMMERCIAL RELATIONS:
[740]The US consul in Antwerp has been informed by the Varmi
[741]Company of Brussels that it will not sell construction equipment
[742]to Cuba; there have been reports that such a sale, perhaps total-
[743]ling $1 "million, was being negotiated. (See Daily Summary of
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[757]; The director of Varmi confirmed to US officials that he
[758]had been negotiating with a Spanish firm (probably CILASA)
[759]for the sale of US-origin construction equipment; after being
[760]informed that the material was destined for Cuba and having
[761]been warned of the consequences of such a sale, the director
[762]agreed on 2 December to stop negotiations, The US consul
[763]comments that it is not sure whether the knowledge of the
[764]eventual sale to Cuba or the fact of US.) intervention in the
[765]matter caused Varmi to stop the arrangements.
[767]Meanwhile, a source with access to CILASA's files re-
[768]ported on 28 November that a Cuban comission headed by Rene
[769]Narbona of the Cuban tractor importing agency would be unable
[770]to arrive in Brussels on 30 November because of inability to
[771]obtain visas, This group had probably been scheduled to com-
[772]plete negotiations for the :purchase of the Varmi construction
[773]equipment. (Am ConGen Antwerp, 29, 3 December, CONFIDENTIAL;
[774]aan TDCS-3/566 , 653, 5 December , SECRET NO FOREIGN DIS-
[775]SEM
[777]The US Embassy in Tokyo, in receipt of a report that
[778]private Japanese companies have contracted for 325,000 tons
[779]of Cuban sugar for delivery between July 1964 and June 1965,
[780]sees little prospect of inducing the Japanese Government to
[781]interfere with the transaction, The Japanese Government would
[782]have difficulty intervening because of the general world sugar
[783]shortage, the unavailability of sugar from other sources at
[784]comparable prices, and the political problem which rising
[785]sugar prices is causing the Ikeda administration, (Am Emb
[786]Tokyo 1688, 5 December, CONFIDENTIAL)
[788]The director of the Spanish firm Empresa Nacional de
[789]Optica, Vicente M, Cabanillas Gonzalez, left Madrid for Havana
[790]ona 29 November:: IBERIA Airlines flight. As reported earlier
[791](see Daily Summary, 11 October), Cabanillas is negotiating
[792]throug ILASA for the sale of a large quantity of movie pro-
[793]jectors to the General Administrator of University Inspection
[794]in Havana, According to a CILASA employee with access to
[795]company files, Cabanillas' travel expenses are being paid by
[796]CILASA, Cabanillas had hoped to get a Cuban visa which would
[797]not appear in his. passport,as he hoped to visit the US later.
[798]He was unable to arrange this, however, and finally had to ac-
[799]cept-the Cuban visa in his passport, (CIA, Madrid, IN 74453,
[801]5 December, SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM)
[803]NON-BLOC RELATIONS:
[805]A Cuban good-will mission was received by the Moroccan acting
[806]foreign minister on 2 December, according to information received by
[807]the US Embassy in Rabat. The mission was probably composed of Antonic
[808]Carrillo Carreras, Enrique Vian Audivert of the Ministry of Foreign
[809]Trade, and Dr. Enrique Rodriguez Leoches, Cuban ambassador to Moroc-
[810]co. (See Daily Summary of 29 November for recent Cuban-Moroccan
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[829]Despite the Moroccan announcement of its break in diplo-
[830]matic relations with Cuba, the Cuban ambassador is still in
[831]Rabat and attends functions he normally attended. The
[832]chancery offices are open and the Cuban flag is flying.
[834]This situation has been a source of some embarrassment to
[835]the Moroccan Foreign Ministry. However, the US Embassy
[836]believes that the reception of the Cuban delegation by the
[837]Moroccan Government may presage the official re-establish-
[838]ment of diplomatic relations. An officer in the Spanish
[839]Embassy in Rabat believes this is entirely possible; he be-
[840]lieves the Soviets are using their influence to keep the
[841]Cuban Embassy in Rabat. The US Embassy also feels that the
[842]Moroccan King may not feel he received sufficient benefit
[843]to justify continuing the break in diplomatic relations with
[844]Cuba. (Am Emb Rabat 860, 4 December, CONFIDENTIAL)
[846]The Swiss ambassador in Cuba was informed by the dep-
[847]uty foreign minister that the preliminary hearing had been
[848]completed for the US citizen Frank Emmick, who reportedly
[849]will be charged with being a CIA agent. (See Daily Summary
[850]of 5 December.) The ambassador believes that Emmick's trial
[851]will be held shortly after the completion of the OAS inves-~
[852]tigation into charges by Venezuela of Cuban intervention in
[853]Venezuelan affairs. Currently, the ambassador is trying to
[854]find a Cuban lawyer to defend Emmick. He is considering the
[855]lawyer hired by the Canadian Embassy to defend the Cuban
[856]pilots Lippert and Milne, an attorney who handles Swiss Em-
[857]bassy. affairs, or a member of the Havana University Law
[858]School faculty. (Am Emb Bern 363, 5 December, CONFIDENTIAL)
[860]Prime Minister Williams of Trinidad. Tobago. gave a
[861]"very chilly" reception on 4 December to a visiting Cuban
[862]official, Robert Gerardo Sanchez, commer¢tal officer in the
[863]Cuban Consulate in Kingston. A Foreign Ministry official in-
[864]formed the US Embassy that. Williams was annoyed that Sanchez
[865]had presumed on a scant acquaintance with him to visit Port-
[866]of-Spain, despite advice from the government of Trinidad
[867]that such a visit would be inopportune. Reportedly, the
[869]‘prime minister turned down Sanchez' suggestion for trade
[871]talks, on the grounds of Cuba's involvement with Venezuela
[872]and Trinidad, Tobago's delicate and difficult relations
[873]with Caracas. He did not, however, close the door on such
[874]discussions at some appropriate time in the future. The
[875]government of Trinidad expects Sanchez to leave the country
[877]' goon, (Am Emb, Port of Spain.223, 5 December, CONFIDENTIAL)
[878]CUBAN SUPPORT OF EXTERNAL SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES: 2u id
[880]In a message of 3 December, the( Chi lean Embassy) in(Ha-
[881]vena)reported to its Foreign Ministry~ information it had re-
[882]ceived from "reliable sources" in Cuba on Cuban efforts to
[884]ship weapons to Venezuela and other Latin American countries.
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[900]The Gnbasay)stated that "everything leads to the belief
[901]that" the arms recently discovered in, fenezuela had come from
[902]Cuba. According to one of the (Chilean'Embassy's 9 sources, two
[903]ships had left Cuba at an unspecified date en rote to British
[904]Guiana with "packages consigned as machinery consigned to an —
[905]industrialist of known Communist tendencies whose property. 44,
[906]adjacent to the Venezuelan border." Various of the /Chilean
[908]y \sources “accept the rumor" that the arms are of Belgian
[910]from various Cuban ports. The, embassy ‘gport also expressed
[912]the belief that Cuba not only nds arms ‘to various points in
[913]South America, but also Cuban guerrilla leaders. (NSA 3/0/CL /-
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[916]' Havana Radio announced yesterday that pro-Castro guer-
[917]rillas have established "six operational. zones" in the moun-
[918]tains around Santiago and Puerto Plata in the Dominican
[919]Republic. The Havana. radiobroadcast credited the announcement
[920]to "the first communiqué issued by the command." Meanwhile,
[921]press dispatches from Miami report that most Cuban exiles feel
[922]that the Havana announcement is an attempt to cover up the
[923]failure of Castro terrorists to stop Venezuela's presidential
[924]elections last Sunday. Other exile sources predict that the
[925]announcement and the setback in Venezuela mean:. that the.Castro
[926]regime will launch a concerted terrorist campaign against the -
[927]military-installed provisional regime. in Santo Domingo. Batista
[928]Falla, leader of the Cuban exile Christian Democratic Movement
[929](MCD), Said yesterday in Miami that the failure of terrorism
[930]in Venezuela “has put Castro in a difficult position and damages
[931]his chances'in the rest of Latin America.” He added that he
[932]expects Castro to "make desperate attempts to picture terrorism
[933]as successful, despite its miserable failure in Venezuela."
[935]All reporting by the Dominican Government indicates that .
[936]its forces are in effective control of the areas of guerrilla
[937]activity. About 40 insurgents of the outlawed pro-Castro 14th
[938]of June Political Group (APCJ) are said to have been captured,
[939]with only isolated bands yet to be apprehended. (UPI, Miami,
[940]A-11,6 December, UNCLASSIFIED and Background Information, SECRET)
[942]Cuba is reportedly making preparations to recognize a
[943]Venezuelan government-in-exile, according to an official West
[944]German service from a fairly reliable source with contacts in
[945]Havana. Reportedly, the Cuban Foreign Ministry is consulting
[946]the USSR and other bloc countries to induce them to recognize
[947]this government-in-exile, The Cubans, according to the source,
[948]do not expect the USSR and other countries to agree to this;
[949]nevertheless, the attempt is being made,
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[960]Although this is the first report on the possibility of
[961]a Cuban-sponsored Venezuelan government-in-exile, the Cuban
[962]radio and press have been emphasizing the slogan that the
[963]Betancourt government does not represent the people and that
[964]the real representatives of the people are to be found in the
[965]ranks of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN). Ac-
[966]cording to Cuban newspapers, Pedro Duno, a former professor
[967]of the Central University of Venezuela, arrived in Havana to
[968]join’. the "mission" of the FALN in Havana, (CIA Munich TDCS-
[969]3/566 ,731, 5 December, SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSE)
[971]The OAS Investigating Committee which is looking into
[972]the Cuban arms cache discovered in Venezuela does not intend
[973]‘to limit its investigation to the cache, The group has no
[974]intention to expand its study to cover domestic political as-
[975]pects of the FALN or Communist Party activities; however, the
[976]members expressed interest in looking into such aspects as
[977]Cuban broadcasts inciting to violence, possible transfer of
[979]‘ funds from Cuba, training of Venezuelans in Cuba in subversive
[980]techniques, and evidence of other clandestine arms shipments.
[981]In addition to examining the arms cache, the committee also
[982]voiced interest in hearing tapes of recent Cuban broadcasts,
[983]examining transcripts of interrogations and documents seized
[984]from captured terrorists, saboteurs, and guerrillas, talking
[985]to Venezuelan authorities responsible for combating terrorism
[986]and insurgency, and possibly interviewing some prisoners. In
[987]a meeting with the Committee, the Venezuelan foreign minister
[988]placed emphasis on vverification of the Cuban origin of the
[989]arms cache, but also indicated his government would furnish
[990]all possible evidence on the Venezuelan complaint that the
[992]Gommittee might want. (To Am Emb Caracas 485, 5 December,
[993]CONFIDENTIAL)
[995]An American woman told a Unitarian minister in New York
[996]on 5 December that her “boy friend," a former RAF flyer and
[997]soldier-of-fortune, has left for an unknown destination in
[998]Central America from which he will fly in a pro-Castro coup —
[999]in Venezuela tomorrow, Dr. Walter Kring, minister at the All
[1000]Souls Unitarian Church, told a USUN official yesterday that
[1001]he had been approached by an American woman who asked him to
[1003]. get her story “into the proper channels," The woman stated
[1005]} that ter friend left New York on 5 December by unknown means
[1007]\ for an unidentified location in Central America, He told her
[1008]that he would fly to Venezuela on 7 December in connection with
[1009]a pro-Castro coup which she would read about in the Sunday
[1010]papers,
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[1022]Dr. Kring said that he was impressed by the woman's utter
[1023]sincerity and normal behavior. He believed she was convinced
[1024]of the truth of her story and of the honesty of her friend,
[1025]The woman had apparently, at some earlier date, contacted the
[1026]FBI in connection with her friend's participation or knowledge
[1027]of a coup in Honduras, She later retracted her story because
[1028]she felt it seemed "too implausible and silly." (USUN, New
[1029]York 2376, 5 December, CONFIDENTIAL BACKGROUND USE ONLY)
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