CIA DATA CITED AGAINST CASTRO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00965R000200060055-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 11, 2002
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: August 13, 1959
• Content Type: NSPR

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CIA Data Cited Against Castro
:By Drew Pearson
4~i t h the Pan American
~forein ministers- meeting in
Chile? to pacify the turbulent
Caribbean, this column lias ob-
tained , a -copy ~
I n t e 11 igence
Agency' report
showing -Fidel
Castro's '-links
with , cemznu-
nism.
The . docu-
ment I i s t s
some of Gas-
munS~ "and ,cites nine trips
by?these a~Ivisers to Moscow
since the revolution on Jan. 1.
Their aim; according to the
CIA repbxt; is" to make the sit-
uation Cuba so chaotic that
the United States will be
forced to int_eryene. Then the
United States would be
charged with an "American
Hungary"
It is such. ,intervention that
the iT.r~ited States, is trying to
avoid? ' by .getting ,the advice
and support . of -other Pan
Amerls~n governments at the
Foreign 1Vfinisters Conference.
Salient portions of the re-
vealing CIA report follow:
"It has become increasingly
apparent in the past several
months that Fidel Castro, if
not a Communist himself, is
certainly dominated by them.
For a few weeks, during and
immediately after his trip to
the United States, there was
hope that at last he would
settle down, pay more atten-`I
tion to his more conservative
advisers and stop flirting with '.
the left wing.
"This hope was expressed by
Felipe Pazos~ president of "the
National Bank.. of .Cuba, by
Regino Boti, Minister of. Eco-
nomics, by seydr~l" of the min-
isters and -people'' of impor-
tance who accq:Itlpanied Fidel
Castro to the United States.
They felt this mainly because
.they had been chosen to make
the trip, rather than the other
people. Before the trip, these
people, although they occupy
high positions in the govern-
ment, had barely even spoken
with Castro,
"Then, with this xrip, he
suddenly became attentive- t4
them and with their help was
coached through his visit ta.
the United States.
"On arrival back in Cuba;
these .men gave out that they
were .happy, that Castro had
listened. to tlieir advice, that
now he would shun the Com-
munists and listen to them.
"Instead, Castro proved con-
clusively that he is operating
according to a well conceived,
well directed plan of opera-
tion. On return to Cuba, he
ignored the men who coached
him through his visit to the
United States. From the time
of his return to date, he has
refused repeatedly and even
after written demands he has
denied an audience to Felipe
Pazos, the president of .The'
~, National Banks. He had simply
used Chew men as fronts
while in the United State's.
Who Wrote Bill?
"At the same-time, he had
some of his more conservative
ministers drawing up a bill .for
agrarian; reform. Particularly
devoted. to this was Sori Marin,
Minister of Agriculture. Sori
Marin completed his bill,
showed it to all the members
of the cabinet and went to th.e
Sierra. Maestra -with .Castro
and all the other members. to
praclaim the agrarian reform
'bill, whicTi he thought would
be'his, the one he wrote.
"Once on top of thy, ruu-
tain, Castro took out r'~%s own
agrarian reform f~bh, one
which no member of -the cab-
inet had seen before then, and
required them all to sign it.
This is the agrarian reforltl
bill which has now gong "into
force. It was written primarily
by Ernesto `Che' Guevara,
Vilma Espin, wife of Raul
Castro, Raul Castro, Antonio
Nunez Jimenez, and " Pino
Santos.
"Of Ernesto Guevara; a U. S.
intelligence agency states, `If
he is not a Communist, he
will do for olie until another.
comes along.' Vilma Espiq is
the sister of a noted French,
Communist and apparently a
Communist herself; Ant(~no
Nunez Jirninez, vVhq.las keen
named to head the Agrar'?an'
Reform Institute, has had is
way paid by the Communist
Party of Cuba to a youth fes-
tival in Prague in 1954. Pinbs"
Santos, the financial xe~o'ter
for 'Revolution,' the 26 de
Julio newspaper, :its ,~~eally
Carlos Sa>vlto Vega; a regulfar
(member , of the Communist
Party.
(Copyright. 1939. Bell 9yn~icate, Inc.)
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