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[30]L February 1960
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[35]SUBJLSTs Heeting with Venyy Pe Lopeaat te Statler-hilton Hotel on
[36]1 February 1960 from 1000 hours to 1539 hours.
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[39]1, Those present were ..rs. Vidal FP/PA, @exander tunter)(Ji1Liams)
[40]PP/EAD, Churles Penney (Twiss) »/P¥, and Ehflip Toomey) (Thompson) «H/L/PP.
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[43]2. ir. (pez save a recort of his*@ontucts e Cuba after"Feceiving
[44]nig. notes which yere broucsht up »° mr. Goel, nd given to Nr.{ Lopez
[45]re Coomes hate GopeD saia that he hed given bioyrashical sketches of
[46]Echevarria, Rasco, Laureano tatista, Martinez ¢raga, ituben de Leon and
[47]Sanchez Arengo to the Station reoresentative. ie had alse tured over a
[49]report of Martinez Fragn on the sims of the Recuverscion de la Hevolccion.
[52]3. Urs Goren) rerort was taped end a transerint will be forwaried
[53]to UH by P?/Ph, 5
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[57]h. Specific recow-endations nade ty fir. Gores kneludea having
[58]Kerbert Matthews io to Havana and try to in@Iuence Castro, iatthezs
[59]has a goed reputation throuchout the 25th ef July Movement and could
[60]help in an approach to Castro, A visit br Ei Murrow to do a broadcast
[61]on Cuba was also recoimended. M¥2 (Lopez) feels tiat Castro will be in
[62]rover for a long time to co.e and that we shouli tr: to influence hin.
[63]He is seriously 2ffocted by any dafections and these richt be enccvrsczed,
[64]ew Castro can be hit by defections of overworked and countemnanded officials.
[65]Two men who were mentioned as ripe for defection are mufo in Hacienda
[66]and €epero in Comercio. as cpez also recanenied contact with radre
[67]Alberto de Castro in Caracas. This padre was Scrrerly c‘idel's instructor.
[68]When Fidel was in Caracas he was scolded by Fodre Castro whom Yidel
[69]treated with great respect acuordins to 2esco. The Paare and Fide! spent
[70]about one and one half hours alone together at this time. This priest
[71]should be checked as a possible influence on Fidel, ‘fhe possibility of
[72]a split between Fidel and Ranl should be exploited. Haul is cold ard
[73]mean and tho fact that he is fidel's brother dees not carr: too mich
[75]weight.