VIEWS OF RAUL ROA KOURI, CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO BRAZIL, ON THE REVOLUTION IN BRAZIL

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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: February 17, 2022
• Case Number: F-2020-02125
• Publication Date: April 16, 1964

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VIEWS OF RAUL ROA KOURI, CUBAN AMBASSADOR
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RAUL ROA KOURI, CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO
BRAZIL ON 5 APRIL 1964,SAID THAT IN LATE MARCH HE
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HAD TALKED WITH THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR TO BRAZIL, WHO HAD STRONGLY CRIT..
ICIZED LEONEL BRIZOLA FOR CONSPIRING AND TRY!NG TO START A
REVOLUTION IN BRAZIL. THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR SAID THAT BRIZOLA WAS
PLAYING A VERY DANGEROUS GAME AND STATED, "IF A REVOLUTION SHOULD
SUCCEED IN BRAZIL, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? THE USSR JUST CAN NOT
FINANCE SUCH AN ENTERPRISE AND WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO HELP BRAZIL".
ROA SAID HE HAD REPLIED TO THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR THAT A REVOLUTION
IN BRAZIL WOULD BE VERY SIGNIFICANT AND THAT THE SOVIETS COULD CUT
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AID TO CUBA IN ORDER TO GIVE AID TO BRAZIL. THE 40VIET
AMBASSADOR REPLIED "NO, IT WOULD BE TOO ADVENTUROUS.", ROA SAID HE
.HAD TOLD THIS STORY TO FIDEL CASTRO AND CASTRO COULD NOT BELIEVE
.IT. CASTRO TOLD ROA TO WRITE DOWN THE FULL CONVERSATION WITH ALL
DETAILSIAND GIVE IT TO HIM.
2 ROA SAID HE HAD ASKED ALL THE AMBASSADORS FROM THE SOCIALIST
,COUNTRIES AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY LEADERS IF THEY WERE IN FAVOR OF
'A REVOLUTION IN BRAZIL, THEY ALL TOLD HIM IT WAS "TOO ADVENTUROUS".
;FURTHERMORE, ,THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR TOLD ROA IN A CONVERSATION
'SUBSEQUENT TO THAT MENTIONED ABOVE THAT BRIZOLA WAS TRYING TO
UNDERMINE THE UNITY OF THE REVOLUTION BECAUSE BRIZOLA DID NOT
jRUST. GOULART AND BELIEVED THAT A REVOLUTION WAS NEEDED QUICKLY.
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'ROA STATED THAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BRAZILIAN CRISIS THE SOVIET
'AMBASSADOR HAD TELEPHONED HIM AND STATED, "LISTEN, COMRADE ROA,
I HAVE SOME GOOD NEWS; BRIZOLA IS THE ONLY ONE WHO IS RESISTING".
"THIS", SAID ROA,
WAS LOST ALREADY."
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"WHILE I WAS BARRICADED IN THE EMBASSY AND ALL (b)(1)
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ASKED THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR FOR ASSISTANCE, APPARENTLY
'MEANING FOR THE BRAZILIAN REVOLUTION, AND THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR
HAD REPLIED THAT THE USSR NEEDED ALL ITS DOLLARS FOR THE PURCHASE
OF WHEAT FROM THE PNITED_STATES.
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4. COMMENT: ROA SAID HE BELIEVED THAT CARLOS LACERDA, m(1)
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GOVERNOR OF GUANABARA, WOULD BE PRESIDENT IN 1965. ROA ADDED THAT
LACERDA AND BRIZOLA ARE THE ONLY TWO MEN IN BRAZIL WITH POPULAR SUPPORT.
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