ALPHA 66 IS CHANTING END OF CASTRO REGIME IN '64

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200820002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 10, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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CP~RG1F1t7aeE AzvArnz
ore -Teacgram Staff
'i'lde young, combat-ready
members of Alpha 66 chant
this slogan:
Cubans
9! O~ e
"Acabamos
con Castro
fished with.
Castro in'64.)
may be leaden, but the mean-
ing for Alpha is golden.
Alpha 65 is one of the
many groups active among
the 200,000 Cuban exiles in
the New York area. It shares
office space with ether anti-
Castro grou
St. in 103 W. 74th
.
Though smaller than most
of the exile organizations, it
'commands the biggest head.
hues-
U,7ring Italds
Ita leaders make good
newscopy, partly with a busy
mimeog"alh machine, 'but
mostly with daring raids on.
Cuha. They claim to have
mad
fi
e
ve dangerousi
ms-
sionsto Cuba.
Alpha 66 is said to be'the
creature of the Central In.
tclUgence Agency. The CIA
'denies it, and zo does Alpha.
Ovidio Flcitcs, a member
who works In a. New York
bank, said most of the
groups' 500 active members
are veteran .revolutionaries.
First, he said, they "fought
with the Videlistax in the
mountains again..^,t the dicta-
tor Fulgencio #atista." Later,
he said, they bceam.a "disci,
lusloned with Castro an
fought 'him LADDra
ground.".-
"Omega
Omega is the final execu-
. ,gram m omD
raids mado on Cuba are, Alpha (iG leaders iluniberto Arguelles,
It is these long years `.+~t .+
fighting, with most of the'j
Alpha-ites starting out as
teen-agers, that give the
group ,its battle-hardened
look..
Started With 63
Alpha is the beginning,
from the. first letter of the
Greek alphabet. Ti: symboli-
fion of- ll. out' mans, . the the many Cuban groups.. end of'Castroisih," said an fighting Castro."
Alpha spokesman, Umberto.i The three who left are.,'
Arguelles. Rafael Fraga, 29, 226 W. 78th
On 'Moral Walk' ' St.; Manuel Garcia, 25,'23 Recently, three Alpha mem- W. 69th St., and Jesus Pineda,
bers. left New. York on a 24, 23 W. 79th St.
''moral walk" to Miami to 'Arguelles said these men
dramatize omega. will make no attempt to slip
"We hope to bring com. out of the country and into
d
a a, an
struggle a;;aiust 'Castro, 'r allies in Cuba
"
Ar
uelle
,
,
g
s
when 66 members got to- said. "And when the thred
gether two years ago. get to Miami, they will try
the Greek alphabet, and,
with a mixture of good pub-
lic relations; considerable
Cuba "to infiltrate, to,com- ,;
mit acts of sabotage."
However, one of the three
said' he intends "to find a
place in the,hills with other
'..Alpha men and wage gueril-
Cont'' nue~
optimism and ' w.bat some,
persons call a strong meas.
ure , of - the self-delusion,
Alpha has Iabele t
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