CUBA: A SISTER'S VIEW

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CIA-RDP67B00446R000100130019-7
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RIFPUB
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K
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1
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December 15, 2016
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October 16, 2003
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19
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Publication Date: 
July 13, 1964
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NSPR
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Approved For Release 2003/'x- (~Id9RDP67B00446R00010013~019-7 Aesoclsted frees Juanita: Defector in the family CUBA: A Sister's View t v 'i business;.head btit'feyv boy_#riends,_ uan- vi_ e y e, i ar. ;.: ,, ; A shy, religious ~ girl who had a good' even Abraham Lincoln's family was di= il w h C? ?a a b 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 Approved' For Release 2003/11/04 :CIA-RDP67B00446R0001001$0019-7 . .