U.S. AGENTS INFILTRATE CUBA, REPORTS INDICATE
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Apprtpd.Eoa Lease 1999/09/17 : CI,Q-;,[ M 149R
US
Agents Infiltrate
Cuba, Reports Indi..
By DAVID KRASLOW
Of Our W.ahta,ton sums
WASHINGTON- Fidel as-:
tro may be right.
The Cuban premier com-'
plairned in a televised speech
a few days ago,
that U.S. "im-
perialists a r e
shipping arms,
saboteurs and
agents into Cu-
ba..."
T w o dA}?s
later, Ted Sor-
ensen, a top
side to Presi-
dent Kennedy,
"under the closest possible sur-
veillance, much closer than be
fore the (October missile) cri
sis, and that was very close."
t.ottrell's ehirf Aide Is Ttnh- Agents, of course. gather
,it Hur+kttrh, Another, rarer, intelligence, but they presum.
fficer and a *perialiat on ably are prepared for other
i n,A. duties.
,icn 13, t"rifnmttis, a high. American officials re:Artil",
ankln-, Stott' Department of-
irial as dirertor of Caribbean--- h Cuban situation as far
nd Mexican Affairs. will head,
new nprration in Miami. more complex and fluid thani
Cottrell Washington andat u'as before the October mis-L
Timmins 'Miami are sup-'sale crisis.
rsed I oi dinate All t;OV'- Various developments are
r:,ment -tivitiest involving, considered more possible today
nha Thcir jurisdiction re r
p-,rt^d:!' 'n' Ittder even the Cen- than they .t ere six months ago.
tral intelL cote Agency. One might guess that C n t-1
Coordinate what! One fed- trell's job is to make certain,
Pral agency, for.exatpple, ad- the united States can
mini%terf a relief program for,m~diate advantage
t'uban refugees.' the Coast i
ard end Border P a t r o l e, r,mising situation.
Gu
watch the Florida coaatllnei E.:
the military services re1iruit
refugees.
whether he was referring onl But there appears to be
to a e r I a 1. reconnaissance, o more to this than improv-
whether the United States als
has the benefit of "on-Rite in ed houfekeepi
litical standpo[nt
Fro ,t
rtion" in Cuba after all. row a po
?pe - Cuba remains the most son- ~}
Officials would not be ex itive foreign policy issue forj'
per led to discuss a pnsgihI the President. For this and:
buildup of American agents 1 other reasons, It is regarded'.
Cuba. And ' they e a u t i n , as unlikely that the President '
against reading too much ir.t ! is content to let the Cuban f~t
rerent developments in Wash 'ration rock along indefinitely. ti
ingtnn. One extreme a U.S. In-a:
asion of Cuba-has been tut-
Rut would the U e t t. P Pd out, unless Castro Is foolishi
States resort to a finely-hone enough to shoot down Amer'-
instrument just to slice but ; can planes, attack our nave1
ter? base at Guantanamo, or ,yet
The Castro regime I. some
what tougher than butter an
rough with a neighbor. I
1dent would be "reorgantzing11 renoncil atton with Castro - +t
The statements by t; C a s t r policy of economic and diplo-1,
and Sorensen followed by ahn' matte pressure on the Castro'
a week At shakeup in the Sta i , Fo~'rrnmenl.
'Department creating a speri But experts concede that this;
Status for Cuba and crntrali
'in>; control And direct inn of t'' in itself probably is not enoughl'.`._
ban policy and operations. J'tn cause C a s t r o' a collapse,
es cially if the Soviet Union'
Pe
There 14 now a man I
charge of CCuha-Sterling Cot
troll, a career foreign sen?Ic
officer Who happens to hay
been the man in shade ^f ^
ganizing the Amer'?nn pro
gram to Combat CnniiouitI'
ArpprdlledL1Fk,r tR4 Pera'sen'1
continues to supply him.
Indications are that the
President is not satisfied to let
it go at that.
It seems reasonable to As-'
Fume that American a gent s
.continue to infiltrate Cuba.
ship
0A
9
?1iroUti7E~e6
nianv disappointments as suc-
of any
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