EXILE CONFIDENT HIS GROUP CAN OUST CASTRO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000401590006-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2013
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 9, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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'Exile. Confident
FI,.;s Croup Can
Oust Castro
By VIRGINIA PREWETT
Can a 'middle-aged Cuban
businessman overturn Fidel.
Castro?
Dr. Jose M. Bosch, called
familiarly 'Pepin'?the Spanish
for Joey?believes he can.
? He has spent two years and
around $100,000 creating an
. exile organization called the
Representation of Cuban Ex-
iles (RECE).
? No RECE is helping create
a militant anti-Castro force
? built around the Brigade 2506
Bay of Pigs veterans.
?
? "We've taken a census of
Cuban exiles Of military age
the world over," hays Dr. Ra-
fael Labrada, a Brigade 2506
.spokesman in New York City.
"We have lists of 30,000 men
? in the U. S., Latin America,
Europe, even the Philippines
and the Congo?young men who
:want to overturn ,Castro. We
have a list of 1800 right here in
, New York City." ? .
Many are in training. ?
? "Of course we .can't
:military training on account of
?your neutrality he said.
:"But many are .taking physical
:fitness ? courses on farms of
friends not far outside New
York City." .
?.Other sources say cadres
'started leaving, for Latin Amer-
ican military'camps this month.
; Over 200 former officers of
.Brigade 2506 are .ready to help
.train a new anti-Castro army,
,said Dr. Labrada. Most have
,Ii.? S. Army training since they
were freed ?from Castro jails.
' "When we hit. Cuba, the sec-
,ond time," he said, "we'll have
'ships, anti-aircraft, tanks, guns.
We won't make the same mis-
take twice. At the Bay of Pigs,
we had supplies for six hours
9f fighting. ,Next time well
?have enough for 10 days." .
The former Brigade officer '
speaks confidently, (ho he does
not know the RECE timetable.
? "All I know is, we have
'everything in our hand to over-
turn Castro."
WELL FINANCED -
.- The factor lending .weight to,,
the new 'mobilization' by the .
? Brigade veterans is that Pepin
Bosch has the one thing no
other anti-Castro leader could
lay his hands on?many' mil-
lions of Cuban-controlled dol-
lars.. ?
Dr. Bosch ? is head of the
family-owned Baca rdi in- ,
terests, which include pros-
perous rum factories in Puerto.?
Rico, Mexico and Brazil. The:
Bacardi group, it is estimated,
may clear $15 million a year on
rum.
"If Pepin Bosch will put. up':
$1 million, he can get from $50
million to' $100 more,".
says an internationally re- '
spected Cuban personality. "So
far, we haven't seen the mil-
. . ,
Brigade 2500 veterans believe
there is money sbehind them.
Experts say it takes $1200 to
put each 'soldier in battle. If.;
the RECE-Brigade backers can
raise even $50 million, presum-
ably they can finance an army'
of over 40,000 men. ? ?
This is not enough to over?
whelm Castro. But it is enough ,
to hit the Wand and bring the'
whole Cuban situation': to a. i?
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