CUBAN INVASION PLANNED

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000401590005-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2013
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 10, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Date: 1 NOV 10 1964
Cuban Invasion Planned
Bay of Pigs Veterans Won't Repeat Goofs.
By VIRGINIA PREWETE tion. It will be led by one of
NANA Staff Writer
New York
CAN ANTI-CASTRO veterans
of the Bay of Pigs, backed by a
Cuban rum millionaire, over-
turn Castro?
Over 200 former officers who
were in the Bay of Pigs disas-
ter are staking their lives that
they can.
The rum manufacturer, Dr.
Jose M. Bosch, has spent two
years and $100,000 creating a ci-
vilian organization called RECE
(Representation of Cuban Ex-
iles). RECE is now financing
preparations by survivors of the
invasion Brigade 2506 for a new
invasion strike at Castro with
up to 20,000 men.
Such a strike, they are con-
vinced, would topple Castro.
They cite repeated statements
of Juanita Castro, Fidel's sis-
ter, that 90 per cent of Cubans
are ripe for revolt. .
The Brigade 2506 veterans
have enrolled able-bodied Cu-
bans throughout the world. The
latter are now being sent to
Central America for military
training.
Claim Thousands
"We have lists of 30,000 Cu-
bans ready to fight Castro," said
Dr. Rafael Labrada at Brigade
2506 headquarters in New York
City. "They have enrolled in our
'military censu s' taken
throughout the United States, in
Latin America, in Europe, even
in the Philippines and the Con-
go. We have a list of 1,800 right
there in New York City."
U.S. neutrality' laws prevent
their military training on U.S.
soil.
"But we've been giving hun-
dreds of volunteers basic physi-
cal training to harden them up
on the farms of friends not far
outside the city," Dr. Labrada
said.
Already 217 former invasion
brigade officers are at work ere-
the three top officers of Brigade
2506, Maj. Erneida Oliva, now
in Central America. Most of the;
officers had received advanced;
training in the U.S. Army af-
ter they were ransomed from )
Castro's prisons. '
"We won't repeat mistakes,"
said Dr. Labrada. "We'll have
ships, guns, tanks, anti-aircraft,
everything we need, when we
hit Cuba again. In the Bay of
Pigs, we had supplies for only
six hours. Next time we'll be
prepared to fight ten days."
Since it takes around $1,200
per soldier to put a task force
into battle, the cost of a new-
born brigade officer and other
Cubans are confident that Dr.
Bosch can raise that amount.
Dr. Bosch is 'head of family?
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owned Bacardi factories in Pu- ?
erto Rico, Mexico and Brazil
that yield an estimated $15 mil-
lion profit annually. And "Pe-
pin" Bosch enjoys the confi-,
dence of Cuban and U.S. mil-
lionaires and of Latin Ameri-
cans ,in government.
"If he'll put up $1,000,000 of
his own money, he can raise
9100 million," said a former Cu-
ban ambassador to the United
States. "But we haven't seen the
million."
Pepin Bosch has already
spent nearly half a million pre-
paring the way for the new mili-
tary, strike against Castro. He
spent 6100,000 to query 100,000
Cuban exiles the world over
and obtain the approval of 40,-
000 for RECE.
He also put up over $250,000
to help launch the U.S. Commit-
tee for a Free Cuba, to keep the
anti-Castro cause 'alive.
The Brigade 2506 veterans are
convinced Bosch can come
through with the necessary
money to build their second in-
vasion force without U.S..back- ?
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