PLOT AGAINST CASTRO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100720007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 7, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

YORK TIMES
Sanitized Approved or {*asre 19MA-RDP75-0014
CPYRGHT,
Plot Against Castro
Revolutions of the Cuban type are as Intense, .;
.dangerous and highly charged as a nuclear weapon.
The leader is always in danger of assassination and
always an object of plots.
The plan to assassinate Fidel Castro, which Havana, i
says has just been foiled, appears to have represented
the most serious internal crisis in years. Yet, since it
evidently failed, It will doubtless have the classic effect
of strengthening the object of the plot-in this case '
Premier Castro.
IF As the Frenchman, Vergniaud, said in the first of
these modern social revolutions, they "devour theirp
children." Fidel Castro has been fortunate in that none
of his "first born"-those who originally went up into
,'!the Sierra Maestra in December 1956-have turned?i;
';;against him. Che Guevara's disappearance is still a
+imystery. It looks more and more as if its solution Is
to be found in some sanatorium in Russia, China or
':.,Mexico, but there is no evidence that Guevara de-
;:fccted or Is dead.
The main figure in the present plot, Major Rolando
i Cubela, played a minor role as a guerrilla but an
important one in administration in the early years of.':
the revolution. That he, along with another major and.1
:''five civilians, should have been involved in a plot to"
'"kill Fidel Castro-presuming the official statement in'l
`Havana is correct-shows a possibly deep and cer-_
i-tainly dangerous-focus of Infection. It explains one'
puzzling fact about Cuba in the last three months-,
i, the refusal to grant visas for United States journalists t;.
to go to Havana.
Premier Castro- blames the United States Central"
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