UNDERGROUND PLANS OF THE PSP

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005800400006-2
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 22, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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6 The PSP expects a series of mass desertions with-In the Party if government
Persecution of the PSF be?ri.nsa in a~acicipaticn of this, the Party has
started a careful s creertinj- of its- r e'mbf::rs a] r 'i y r?ricired upon
P 11 " be .,elrct,0 o
The '.P hierarch ay has agrc d i n lc on which e .tiers gill leave Cuba, w hac'.h will
remain to fight for the Comsrurdst cause under- 'routd, and which will be
sacrificed to the local authoritle;. Those loaders who are old militants
and are so well known that they will be of more value outside Cuba if the
Party is outlawed include Bias Roca, Fabio Grobart, Joaquin Grdoquui,, Anibal
Esealante, Vicente i'artinez, and Cesar Ma.r.
The following have been selected, to direct the activities of the clandestine
organization:
a, Dr., i1rnaldo -1:scalona Alm.ejda, who was re- orted to be head of the "secret
police" of the PSP and a marnber of the teaching staff of the Carlos
Balino academy, the Communist training school.
b. Dr? Jose P:"iguel Perez Larry, who was listed as a deputy of the Coleglo
de Abogados of the Habana ?.Tunicipal Committee of the F SP. In. November
191,9, he was listed as a delegate to the 1-:11F r'uni.cia al. Assembly from
the San Lazard District, Habana. He was also Secretary of Correspondence
for the Ccasnsunista-front or,ganizat^ion, La Defensa do los Derechos
Democraticos and also figured e,rominently =.n the defense of the
Ducoudray brothers and Pericles Franco, Dominican Communists who recently
wont to Cuba.
C. Dr., Julio Girona Ferriandezr father-in-31.aw of Jose Luis Perez and one of
the founders of the artido Cosurista de Cuba, along wit., Carlos Balino,
Joaquin ~'rdoqui, and Cesar Vilar, Fe was most active during the clan-
destine period of the Party and stated that he profers the clandestine
struggle to the open and more "political" legal battles of the Party,
which bore him. Although :nighly respected in FSSP circles, he has not
occupied any ,-ositions of importance. He believes that the 1 IMP is con
'rerting tsei f? into a caricature of ,ghat a Cer rnuni st Farty should be.,
,le has never departed from the Conrcurnist line desn:ito the many changes
the ;1 i' has experienced du.-ing the past twenty-five years.
d Carlos Font Pupo, a doctor, who rrrr, on the PSI ticket for representative
An the 194 elections, He was listed in iLugust 1948 as Director of the
Juventud Sce allsta, and in ovcniber 191+9 w,as a delegate from the F`edena
District, aba.na, to the "`yuricipa] Committee of the , He was also
head of the} `section of LWIcine and Connected ^trunie ipa:_ elections. Perez, a young, active, Intel-
ligent, and courageous Communist, is a graduate of the Carlos Balino
Academy- and a former leader of the old Juventud Corru., vista (now the
Juventud Eocciai i sta) .
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