NSC BRIEFING CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A001200030020-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: March 9, 1960
• Content Type: BRIEF

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NSC BRIEFING 9 March 1960
State Department review
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1. US Embassy in Havana sees no hope that US will ever be able to
establish a satisfactory relationship with any Cuban government
dominated by Fidel Castro and his associates.
A. Embassy believes that government charge of US responsibility
for ship explosion in Havana harbor, coupled with other
hostile acts and mounting anti-US frenzy in government con-
trolled mass media, indicate deliberate attempt to precipitate
a crisis and to force US to take drastic measures.
IT. Anti-American feeling being whipped up by constant government propa-
ganda, having some effect among Cubans previously cool to Castro
diatribes.
III. An incident could cause an outbreak of violence against
American personnel and interests in this highly tense situation.
A. Embassy has invoked preparatory, limited warning phases
of evacuation plan.
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V. Abusive personal attacks on Pres Eisenhower and Secretary Herter by
government controlled radio and press are continuing.
A. Radio Mambi, the most vicious of the radio stations called
President Eisenhower "slavery's spokesman, the champion of the
threatening atom bomb., .who had the effrontery to talk of
democracy to exploited people and is now stained with the
blood /f Uruguayan students7..." Claimed the president's
trip was to form a political cordon in LA to isolate Cuba.
B. Chilean President Alessandri was recently called a US puppet
and Argentine President Frondizi "an unhappy comedian... ready
to sell his soul to the US devil."
C. Radio Mambi also said newsmen had to be beaten by police in the
countries the President visited to keep them from showing
photographs of how the people repudiated Eisenhower.
D. Government mouthpiece, the daily Revolucion,editorially
charged after the 4 March explosion that a favorite tactic
of the US is to manufacture incidents in order to mobilize
public opinion for an attack on another country. "This was
the technique of the Alamo, the Maine, the Lusitania, and
Pearl Harbor."
VI. Castro and Guevara continue to condemn foreign and private invest-
ment. They will dominate the newly formed Central Planning Board,
which will supervise and control every phase of Cuba's economy,
particularly industry.
A. Decision by US companies like Moa Bay Nickel and Bethlehem Steel
to close operations this month will probably be followed rapidly
by government intervention. Castro regime will increasingly
dominate basic industries as well as agriculture and turn to
USSR and European countries for technical advice and supplies.
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