NEW 3-GROUP CUBAN POLICY BASED ON UNCONFIRMED, PLANTED 'LINE'

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: January 8, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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New 3-Group Cuban Polley based
On Uneoniii'm&L Paiited `Line'
IIv Ittl}tI.RT S. .1Lt..y :.ifd [.I-I. SCOTT
P. _ d .. Vcn .ed, ai,proach of took-
rl? t0r ,t r: "acc'cpt,ibte" Castro replacement
iron: the Cuban goverim ent is based on
,roll mates as strange as the one that mis-
,r?d ;lino believing Russia would never
01icc ,i,nasivo- weapons to Cuba.
i:. ;,e,r r,,t!matcs, originating from a
,ec.. rite Central Intelligence Agency lead-
ri n, t 7tan Kent par-
ly LiNt`ifi'tlership
crply divided into
ire,- .,,.;ups, including one
ayo:,n a Tito-type R e d
one one pro-Soviet, and
the other pro-Red China.
One of the esr:raates being
drly A.,ked by the State
a Sino-
-?t.? l:one ;ile
n=.:. a, ,coups
n _;.,ru'e uc the Cuban
1. :tutri1t.
.t(( tlI)IN . TO reli:;ble officials whose.
?,.i,;tn ai,,:rnut.?,r .._ , I?en stccitraie in the
i S "oFird" intelligence to
;,;, . u:nption.. on e tick the Presi-
dent'.,. policy - hinted in to . Miami speech
Glrttwad. iilesn veterr:- . 4ence experts
,av that the most rel. efo::nation clearly
tott's that a "united" s!x-man n itoltal direc-
t)rate IS now Cu;>r{.
Headed t,v Premier Cas:ro. his directorate
:ckcs its policy guidance from Most' -o%% and
lucie. Raul Castro, Ernesto Kiel Guevara,
:vsidc-nt Lxn?ticos, Dias Roca and Emilio Ara-
Alt of these
?:cted" Couum!!ti:,tr d their loyalty
a Moscow dui-in, ; r :e.::it c'oban crisis. The
urectorate, w'tliow ai single dissenting v in,
endorsed the wititclrawal of the Soviet missiles
and IL-2S bombers from Cuba.
The latter action came after Deputy Premier:
Mikoyan brought word from Premier L'hras't-
rhey that he had definite assurances there would
be no U.S. invasion.
AS EXCLUSIVELY repotted in this column
on Dec. 2,6. me Krein in is exercising increasing
control over t e'? Cuban officials through Sov-
in G;_ . r& C. Siaz:cr,ko. cam ma nder- in-chief, of
an esii ias :i z8.00) to 33,000 Russian troops in
Cuba.
Slarenico issues direct orders to the direr-
iormir. Significantly, these orders usually are
1,;,sed on messages received from the Kremlin
via the new Soviet Communications Center.
Located outside of Havana, this center is
;,+te of the most advanced in the world. It con-
t, ms . ? n of the most modern radio transmis-
sion and intercept equipment in existence.
IT re are other signs o increased Russian
influence in Cuba. The Soviet Army Command
areas are still growing in size despite the de-
parture of "a few hundred Russian technicians"
in recent weeks. Also, ? the estimated 1.200
(Thincse Communist technicians in Caba ;, .
now quartered in one of the Soviet areas
Banes
. TILE ONLY LATIN American support for the
President's new Cuban tack comes from Bra-
/.Ts '.eh-leaning President Gorlart,
,.ace slanted the unconfirmed stories co
rnrec conflating groups in Cntla.
In behalf of the new Kennedy port;.7 G
has told U.S. officials that he affil vita .
concentrated effort to get Castro to follow u
could be called a Yugoslav position, with spi'i'ial
'Im;lhasis on a new brand of ''Latin American
socialism."
No irate lilnir has been set for this Goultu't
move. but e- i,nlie, es there is enough support
ul the Cut ;cnent to influence Castro to
consider hr- , aribbcan Tito - mili-
nliZtn,, - is
Pr--+te support, has
been hying settlement
1u p(-;:nit .r Organiza-
;i-ln of An &--ar. .. c'\:: r,rc the witlt-
drawat of Soviet co.'s, ? .Ind. Cuba
,vas expelled from inn ago after
the nemisphrric fe:. r_ar round its
"Marxist-Leninists" re me r:e'' with
the ideals of democracy.
Under Goulart's plan, Car.:. offer-
ed hemispheric economic aid r.: tg,- for
his pledge not to export his styi< _on:: ;n-
i: nl and not to use Cuba as a base for me-i ;.i
.ange bole, missiles or bombers.
The Goui:u-t concept is carefully bein, studied
by presidential assistant. McGeorge Bundy, who
also se: rc< fns secretary to the National Se-
curity Come:' aighest U.S. policy-making body.
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