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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700530021-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: February 13, 1963
• Content Type: TRANS

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FEBRU&RY 13, 19b3
MBG Radio Network
7:00P.M.
Fulton Lewis, Jr.
Washington,'D.C.
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FJLTON LFXIS, JR.t "In the meantime the Independent Cuban Information
Service, headed by Carlos Todd, the very able former editor of the Bavana Times,
now in exile in Miami, published important intelligence information about
conditions and circumstances inside Cuba in relation to the cat forces
there, as provided to him by the Cuban student directorate in exile in Miami,
which seems worthwhile reporting to you, in view of the defensive attitude and
statements of the administration in regard to the Cuban buildup picture. I
have reported to you myself on previous occasions on intelligence from this
Cuban Student Directorate in exile, known as the DRE, and those reports have
been proven to be highly accurate, end weeks--if not months--ahead of the infor-
mation that the CENTRAL IN`IiiLLIGRNC A Cr Ahere is providing to the government.
"You might be interested, however, in knowing what Carlos Todd has to say
about them in this issue of his Cuban Information Service. Re say's, quote, "The
Cuban Student Directorate in exile, DBE, is a political organization composed of
young men and women from five Cuban universities, in the main, the University of
Havana and Villanova University, who at dire peril to their lives in 1960 rebelled
agaira.kt the thought that Fidel Castro should seize their centers of learning, and
their country be forcefully communized by the Kremlin puppets. They are young
people. They are dedicated people, and they serve the cause of Cuba with rare
ulaelfisbneee. Quite aside from their fledgling political activities, they also
are noted for their extremely accurate intelligence reports on Russian moves in the
Soviet C~xr1bbee.n Colony. Their veil-organized underground informants in tuba
send vital irifor cation on a massive Soviet buildup of large numbers of troops and
missiles at a time when this mortal threat to peace and security of the hemisphere
was euphemistically and officially described as a limited number of technicians
and harmless defensive toys.'
"I might interject here that the reason Carlos Todd is publishing this infor..
matioA from the DRE in his own publication is that the DRS unhappily has had to
susip erc9. pubblio~atiori of its own weekly Cuban report for lack of funds, and thus is
unable to get the information to the public itself. Mr. Todd calls attention to
the fact that inhis issue of last week he published detailed information from the
DRH about the presence of over 18,700 troops in Cuba, and described their disposi-
tion in detail. The DRE was not able to obtain exact data on the number of Soviet
personnel manning Russian submarine bases on the island, or data on the submarines
themselves. But it's enough. to say that they are there in appreciable,end'dan-
gerous numbers and the construction of Soviet submarine bases continues apace.
"One interesting instance that the DRS reports shows, is the degree of control
which the Russians exercise over Cuba today.:On December 26, 1962 the town of
Remedios in norther Lou'Villas (t) Province delebrated it* liberation by Castro's
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