ASSORTED REBELS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700310020-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 2007
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: December 3, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

~ ~ . F.or Release 2007/011120:
Ass% 'ed`:Rebela
[From tht'$t.! Loafs Post-D spatch)
Luis Somoze 5ex?Piesident and sun bow in
Nicaragua, openly r says, he ud riths Cuban
Liberation Committee are mounting: * pew cam.
paign of harassment and attack :against Castro.:
Cuba. We can think of noantl-Castro' lleadership
aess likely to succeed.
Mr. Somoza has been a virtual dictator.
Leaders in the Cuban Liberation Committee are
Manuel Artime, whom the CIA chose to lead
.the abortive inva=ion of Cuba. former President
Carlos Prio Socarras. and Carlos Marquez Ster-
ling, a 1958 Cuban presidential candidate toler-
ated by ex-Dictator Batista. Mr. Somoza is un-
palatable to democratically-minded Latin Ameri.
cans, and the Liberation Committee members
are unpalatable to other refugee Cuba leaders.
If their ideology is to return Cuba to pre-Castro
days, It will take more than their efforts to dis-
turb the Castro regime.
Approved For Release 2007/01/22 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000700310020-2