CUBA: A SISTER'S VIEW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67B00446R000100130019-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: July 13, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Juanita: Defector in the family
CUBA:
A Sister's View
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I munists." As early as 19Ci0, she began
! once told her brothcr. "I don't like Coin-'
ita never shared Fidel's fascination with
the extreme left. "I'm bourgeois," she.
feeding occasional "tidbits" of, informa-
tion to U.S. journalists and diplomats.
Although she appare-itly never in-
dulged in what would have been the
supreme irony-serving as an active CIA.
agent against her brother-Juanita did
~tgvida nngney, faad, and hiding playas
t~ m~rn~et's ?~ Cui~nti ut~dQrgromi~l
groups. After their mother died Last
August, Fidel personally ordered his
sister's house watched.
Flight: Last week, Juanita, now 31, _
suddenly flew to Mexico City. "I have
broken all bonds with Fidel and Raul,"
Juanita told a televised news confer-:
ence. Occasionally dabbing at her eyes,
she accused Fidel o# selling out to the
Russians and directing the Communist
subversion of Latin America. "Cuba is ari
immense prison surrounded bye water,"'
she declared.
At the end of her fifteen-minute ~state-
Three years agb, -when Fidel Castro
finally made the dramatic admission "I ment, Juanita went into hiding. She was,
am aMarxist-Leninist," Juanita Castro her friends said, unhappy, confused, and
one of his four sisters, was watching the apprehensive about-her brothers reae=
tion. That was not long in coming. Juan-
telecast with a friend. "This is the sad- ita's denunciation, scoffed Fidel, "was
lest day.of my life, she said, and spent written in~ the U.S. Embassy.". Person-
the rest of the day in tears. In fact,' ~~
,however, Juanita, who had acted as ally, he admitted, her action was very
a courier for Fidel during his fight bluer for him. But then, with a charac-
.against. Batista, was .already working geiandeurehe reminded newsmeno that,
with her brother's enemies
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