CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 19, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 12, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Pending the completion of the exchange of visits
between President Eisenhower and Khrushchev and further
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Cuba; The Castro regime has frustrated an apparently siz-
able conspiracy building up against it. Hundreds have been ar-
rested, chiefly armed forces personnel held over from the
Batista government and large landowners who had actively op-
posed Castro's agrarian reform law. Allegations that Trujillo
ference opening in Chile on 12 August.
agents were involved in the plot, and the threat of landings in
Cuba by a force of Cuban exiles from the Dominican Republic,
probably will be used by Cuba to support its case against the
Dominican Republic at the hemisphere foreign ministers' con-
IV. CONCLUSIONS OF SPECIAL USIB COMMITTEE
ON BERLIN SITUATION
SNIEs relevant to the Berlin situation
The USIB has taken note of the following conclusions reached
by its special committee on the Berlin situation. The committee
pointed out that its conclusions are to be used in context with all
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likely that the USSR will conclude a separate peace
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2, The USSR continues to maintain its hard po-
sition on Berlin as developed at the Geneva foreign
ministers' conference and is unlikely to offer any sig
nificant new proposals on Berlin pending discussions
between President Eisenhower and Khrushchevo
3. While there are no reliable indications-of a
bloc intent to deny Allied or West German access to
West Berlin. or to seal off West Berlin in the imme-
troll to the East Germans. The USSR will from time /
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sure on the West. The actual physical transfer of
controls could be accomplished with little or no warn-
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4. The West Berlin economic and morale situa-
tion continues to be favorable.
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Soviet capabilities to respond to possible Western ac-
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Cuban Officials Still Tense in Wake of Abortive Conspiracy
The Cuban armed forces remain alerted and the government
is still nervous even though the large-scale conspiracy against it
has apparently been suppressed. Further attacks are apparently
expected, probably from the armed group led by former Cuban
General Pedraza that has been training in the Dominican Republic
for some months.
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authorities have long been alerted to possible landings from the
Dominican Republic. Whether or not they take place, the impli-
cation of Trujillo agents in the conspiracy will strengthen Cuba's
case against the Dominican Republic at the hemisphere foreign
ministers' meeting opening in Chile on 12 August.
The planned revolt of a portion of the armed forces under
William Alexander Morgan was compromised at the last moment
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Morgan is an American
citizen who fought against the Batista dictatorship with a guerrilla
group independent of Castro's 26 of July Movement and later fell
out with Castro. He is reported. to have accepted a large sum of
money from Trujillo agents to lead a revolt and to have left Florida
for Cuba on 5 August. His present whereabouts is unknown, but,
press accounts of fighting in Las Villas Province--his stronghold
during the anti-Batista fighting- -indicate that he may have attempted
an armed revolt there. There also were unsuccessful attempts to
assassinate Fidel Castro and his brother Raul on 8 and 9 August.
Hundreds of arrests during the past four days included chiefly
armed forces personnel held over from the Batista regime and
large landowners who had actively opposed Castro's agrarian re-
form law.
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THE PRESIDENT
The Vice President
Executive Offices of the White House
Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
Scientific Adviser to the President
Director of the Budget
Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization
Special Assistant for Security Operations Coordination
Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities
Special Assistant for Foreign Economic Policy
Executive Secretary, National Security Council
The Treasury Department
The Secretary of the Treasury
The Department of State
The Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
The Deputy Under Secretary for Political Affairs
The Deputy Under Secretary for Administration
The Counselor
Director, International Cooperation Administration
The Director of Intelligence and Research
The Department of Defense
The Secretary of Defense
The Deputy Secretary of Defense
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
The Secretary of the Army
The Secretary of the Navy
The Secretary of the Air Force
The Chairman, The Joint Chiefs of Staff
Commandant, United States Marine Corps
The Director, The Joint Staff
Chief of Staff, United States Army
Chief of Naval Operations, United States Navy
Chief of Staff, United States Air Force
Assistant to Secretary of Defense for Special Operations
Director for Intelligence, The Joint Staff
Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of the Army
Director of Naval Intelligence, Department of the Navy
Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Department of the Air Force
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Commander in Chief, Pacific
The Department of the Interior
The Secretary of the Interior
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Director
Atomic Energy Commission
The Chairman
National Security Agency
The Director
National Indications Center
The Director
United States Information Agency
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