COMING: NEW EFFORT TO TOPPLE CASTRO?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100160031-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: May 11, 1964
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

Approved For Release 2001/07/26! CIA-RD
U. S. NEWS AND
WORLD REPORT
Comki: NewEff
As Soviet troops pull out of
missile-bristling Cuba-
Exile forces, long checked by
U. S., may be getting a green
light to harass Castro again.
The problem of Red Cuba, it's
hinted, is taking a turn that could
lead to a new crisis.
Exiles to act? Meanwhile, more and
more reports are getting into print
about intensive activity by exile groups
at points outside the U. S. Exiles are
talking openly about resuming military
operations.
The Johnson Administration isn't com-
menting. But on May 1, a Republican
policy group headed by Dr. Milton S.
Eisenhower urged a new U. S. policy
toward Cuba-including the unleashing
of refugee forces.
Some exile leaders-notably Manolo
Ray, head of the anti-Castro Revolution-
ary Junta-have proclaimed that they
will be inside Cuba, fighting, by May
20. That is Cuban Independence Day-
62nd anniversary of the formation of the.
Cuban Republic.
Reports of new military training of
Cuban exiles have been spreading for
'months. Training :camps in Nicaragua
and other Central American countries'
Signs are starting to appear that the
U. S. soon may loosen its leash on anti-
Castro Cuban refugee forces.
For over a year, the U. S. has made
sure that exile groups would cause Cuba's
Communist dictator no trouble. Hit-and-
run raids, even if launched from points
outside American territory, were barred.
Britain, at U. S. urging, blocked refugees
from using British Caribbean islands as
staging points for slashes at Castro.
As a result, the flow of smuggled arms
to anti-Communists inside Cuba was
all but choked off. Sabotage devices were
kept from Castro's enemies.
The fear has been that raids against
Castro would stir Russia into action.
Now, however, the Soviets are pulling
their. remaining troops out of Cuba, leav-
ing 24 bases stocked with antiaircraft
missiles, as well as with other modern
armament.
On April 30, Castro warned that, un-
der his control, the missiles would be
used against American reconnaissance.
planes. The U. S.-which has let it be
known that such action would bring in-
stant retaliation-reiterated that surveil-
lance flights would continue.
have been mentioned with increasing
frequency.
At the same time, leading political
figures among the Cuban exiles have'
continued to seek support from fellow
Latin Americans.
For example, Carlos Prio Socarri s,
former President of Cuba, went to the
Dominican Republic to ask aid. Luis
Somoza, strong man of Nicaragua, flew
to Miami to talk with Cuban exiles.
Manuel Artime, civilian chief of the
brigade that fought at the Bay of Pigs
in 1961, announced that he had set up
headquarters in Central America. Prio
and former Cuban Premier Antonio de
Varona, a , key organizer of exile units
Gutierrez Menoyo, once a major in Cas
tro's rebel army. Menoyo and Ray no
have joined forces in a "loose coalition,
refugee sources say.
Since February, a number of youn
Cubans have disappeared from the refu
gee colony in Miami. It wasn't a mas
exodus, as in the weeks just before th
Bay of Pigs. Those who vanished were
tage or guerrilla tactics. .
During April, "crisis conferences
among exile leaders were stepped up
with hasty trips between Miami an
Puerto Rico and secret destinations i
Central America.
All of this comes at a time when th
Cuban exiles train for new operations against Castro. Indications are
before the Bay of Pigs, talked with Nic-
aragua's President Ren6 Schick.
In recent months, newspapers in Mi-
ami have carried stories about the re-
cruiting offices opened by veterans of
the Bay of Pigs who had returned
from commando training with the U. S.
Army at Fort Benning, Ga., and Fort
Jackson, S. C.
Not long ago, Artime flew to Miami
from his Central American headquarters.
In a fiery speech, he told refugees that
a new war against Castro-"a long, hard
war"-was being prepared.
Alpha 66, an exile organization which
had made frequent forays into' Cuba be-
fore the U. S. intervened, announced
that it would soon resume infiltration.
The combat leader of this group is Eloy
Russians are leaving Cuba, - resentmen
against Castro's police-state terror tac
ties is said to be growing, and Castro'
threats against the U. S. are pitche
higher and higher.
Exile spokesmen say that, with th
Russians gone, they see a chance t
start a civil war in Cuba-a war i
which they believe they could win-sup
port of some key officials, in Castro'
Government and whole units in the R
dictator's military forces.
It's a situation that appears to hav
all the elements of a new crisis over Re
Cuba.
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