GUIDELINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200140047-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: June 13, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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tFe' ~~tc~,ti: ~d~?osi>4ion has really learned the le~5ona of . t
political, not' military. It .the situatEon in the island beCOm~s~'
ynbrrlising fore t+pvoludon against Castro, then outsiders Can.giVC:?.
miUtary asstatanice just as Cuban exiles, with 'tacit American.':
approval, onee.'gave such assistance to Castro. '.:But .until ;thc
A second conclusion is that only Gubans can plan and carry
out a successful political oCfensfvr .against Castro. This cannot be
done by ~iacelesa men [n the Central IntelligenCC~:AgenCy. Only
lesson of past goclal revolutions to other countries and encourage
the faction that Ss most radical and revolutionary.. No. one is
The .only, ideal that can arouse hope: ana action is one-:mat
combines the social gains of the Cuban revolution with pFrsonai
freedom. Castro has betrayed hi$' own revolution. The .iCutiats
exiles who lyant ? "the revolution tvf thout Castro" are .the-,only
group who: Can`e~pture for our.side the fervor and ~fdealisttt''of
file leevolutiOn:>Netther Cuban rcactfonaries who~.are?the egttlva~
lent oiJoftn`8irich Society members nor middle class mdddle~gl?the?.;~
at[on.
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Prtafdettt:ICeglpedy has nat yoL la[d. down a
;;under hts control^and~.rxcluded-its
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wut they' last Presidential cai>Lnpa`l~n,
~ipr Sill araftow~ed. ;i