CASTRO'S HATRED FOR THE U.S. BEGAN SEVERAL YEARS AGO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100780014-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: May 4, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ki4 1951
,a7tro's Hatred for the U.
Began Several Years Ago
The events in Cuba, as bad as, they may be. are
just a repetition of what went on there before the
ill-conceived invasion of the United States-supported
'Cuban patriots. ,
Secretary of 8cAte Deah Rusk has repeated that
the U.S. has no'? slor armed intervention of the
Carribbean isIad h? ag fallen almost irretriev-
? ably into the. 4tf-4 e Sino-Soviet Communist
world.
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A a bearifig committee of.11-tt'S1
e ate be Secretary reiterated thi.
t ,t 'tin American Affairs Su)
country's stand.,befOre the invasion.
Simultaneously, the U$. warned U.S. citizens i?
Cuba to leave the island Jest they be harassed by tbk
Castro 'government. Last September the State De4)
partment urged American businessmen to send theirl:
families home and .two months before seriously ad-
vised against tourist movement to Cuba from the '
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It sounds like- stale newt to us, regardless of the ,
dramatic setback suffered *the U.S. two weeks ago.
In fact, when haven't. A?an .citizens been. bar-
. r'assed by Castro; even be 'his revolt met success
on New Year's r_2,7- in 195
When the Cuban ribel.Wa?S-holed up in the Sierra
Maestra of Otiente provinco he did more than scorn
Americans. He Wok' direct action against us then
more so than he does now.. ,
In 1958, slici.months before the Castro regime
took over Cuba,,, Raul Castro led rebel forces on a
series of kidnaping raids. Between June 26 and July
1, 45 United State and three Canadian nationals were
kidnaped. Five -41,;?fhose kidnaped, including four
Americans and '00 -Canadian, were released un-
harmed to U.S. N.0:7y authorities on July 2.
In the first of-these raids on June 26, 200 Castro-
ite rebels swooped down on the town of Moa in east-
ern Cuba, routed a 13-man Cuban Army garrison and
kidnaped 12 engineer employes of the Freeport
Sulphur Co. of NQ?'v York, -which was engaged in
nickel and. cobalt V.oduction.
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Two days late- 29 U.S. .servicemen, mostly
Marines, were.captured en mase as they returned by
bus to the Guantanamo Navy Base. One other serv-
iceman was captured while on a stroll.
On June 30, two officers 'of the Nicaro nickel
plant in northern Oriente were abducted by eight .
rebels, as were two sugar mill employes. The same ;
day. four other U.S. sugar mill employes were kid-
naped in thevillage of Guaro.
All were released later, which is beside the
point. Castro's excuse at that time was that the kid-
napings were in retatist,i_on for military aid given
by the U.S. to formerPOSilent Batista.
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It i. too late now for us, to dp anything in Cuba
except treat it like any Communist-bloc nation. We
would no more think of invading Cuba now than we
would intend an invasion of Ilungary, Czechoslo-
vakia or Poland. Since our intentions are known to
the world, i.e., the absolute denouncement of the
Castro Communist government, any war-like mena-
cings on our part would come as an afterthought.
It would do no good. In the meantime, we can
pick up the pieces of our serious defeat, and that
would mean, first of all, a revamping of the CIA,
which led us into the blunder of thinking that Castro
WAS little harm in the first place, and, more seriouslyf
111414,,10 to lead us out.
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Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/17: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100780014-8