WEEKLY MEETING OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE PARTIDO SOCIALISTA POPULAR (PSP)

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• Publication Date: October 29, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECURITY I RMATION
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form It prohibited.
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Weekly Meeting of the National Executive DATE DISTR.
Committee of the Partido Socialists
Popular (PSP) NO. OF PAGES
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
29 October 1953
1. The National Executive Committee of the Partido Socialista Popular (PSP, Cuban
Communist Party) met on the morning of 19 September 1953?
POLITICAL SITUATION
2. In discussing the current political situation the members of the National Execu-
tive Committee referred to the current efforts being made by Colonel Carlos
MENDIETA to seek a peaceable solution to the present national dilemma in Cuba.
It was agreed that the PSP must not make public acceptance of MENDIETAts nego-
tiations, but rather it must declare that his suggestions are contrary-to the
true solution demanded by the current state of affairs. It is the Partyts hope
that MEN'DIETAts negotiations will point out to the BATISTA government that the
opportunity. being presented for an electoral solution is favorable for the govern-
ment., since it desires to legalize the usurpation of executive powers on 10 March
1952. The Committee also believes that the PSP will benefit from the results of
these mediations. Meanwhile the Party should be guided in its future political
activities by the turn of events and continue its endeavors to reach a compromise
with other opposition parties for joint efforts toward an electoral success.
Favorable comment was made upon Dr. Juan MA,RIn1ELLOts letter to Ramon VASCONCELOS,
director of Alerta, which served as a means of publicizing the PSPts innocence
in the Santiago de Cuba uprising and its current views. Copies of MARINELLO'S
letter and VASC QVCELOS* favorable reply are to be sent to all Party committees.
PSP DEFENSE PLAN
Detailed study was devoted to the PSP defense plan, which calls for vigilance of
..all Party leaders and militant fnembers, as well as discussing the activities of
each Party committee. The plan also includes Party defense measures to be taken
in the event that the present government policy of persecution of the PSP con-
tinues after the restoration of constitutional guarantees. If necessary, the
Party will resort to violence, as advocated by Ladislao GONZALEZ Carlvajal, who
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states that the PSP should respond to government violence with Communist
violence. The Party will resort to sabotage, mass action, agitation, and
street meeting, thus obliging the government to take restraining measures
and thereby adding to its unpopularity with the Cuban people.
SMALL PLANTERS
In accordance with the decision reached at the 11 September meeting, Romarico
CORDERO delivered a report concerning the plan of agitation in support of the
small sugar planters and stated that the Asociacion Campesina de Cuba under his
direction will initiate and support a vigorous battle defending the small
planters' demands on the large plantation owners for 55% of the crops.
However,.C6RDERO said'that no action will be possible until the restoration
of constitutional guarantees, as no meetings may be organized at present and
because the Rural Guard has been alerted to combat any mass concentrations.
The Comision Nacional de''Asuhtos Campesinos of the PSP has studied and approved
a plan outlined by the Asociacion Campesina de Cuba for this battle, which
includes organization by the various Small Plantersr Fight Commissions of each
province and locality, preparation of petitions for.interviews with various
authorities and associations of planters and plantation owners of Cuba, and
publicity for such interviews by means of the press, radio, and television.
While awaiting the restoration of constitutional guarantees, preparatory steps
will be taken by the Asociacion Campesina to organize action, to go into effect
as soon as a normal state exists in Cuba.
FRONT GROUPS
6. The National Executive Committee held a discussion about a proposed plan of
agitation to be carried on by PSP front groups for the re-establishment of
commercial and diplomatic relations between Cuba and the USSR, Red China, and
the popular democracies. The front groups are to present to the Cuban Govern-
ment demands for resumption of such relations, as has been done in Argentina,
Chile, Brazil, and other Latin American countries. In propaganda designed for
this purpose quotations from PER.ON, IBANEZ, and heads of other Latin American
governments will be included to stress the advisability of commercial treaties
with C anmunist countries. It is the belief of the PSP that re-establishment
of relations with Communist countries will clear the air for the Party and its
activities in Cuba.
STATUS OF IMPRISONED LEADERS
The situation of the imprisoned leaders and those whose arrest warrants have
been outstanding since the Santiago de Cuba uprising in July was discussed.
Party instructions were reiterated to the effect that those still at liberty
should not present themselves to the courts until restoration of constitutional
guarantees. 'Meanwhile the Party has charged its ablest counsellors with pre-
paring the case for their defense, which will include citing the leaders'
continuous statements against conspiracies and the fact that the Party has
remained aloof from all such activities.
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