EXILES HAIL CASTRO'S SISTER AS 'ANGEL' OF UNDERGROUND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67B00446R000100130023-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: June 30, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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1'l;e defection to Mexico of
~ Fidea Castro's sister,- Juanita,
came as no surprise , to exile
leaders here. They say she has
been working actively' against
her brother for the past four
years. '
Ir. sit emotion-packed Mexi-
can television appearance last
'night, the 31?year-old woman
teat?fully read a six-page de-?
nauncement of the- Cuban .Com-
munist regime headed by her
two brothers whom she accused
of selling out the :island ,to-
Russia.
"I've keen expecting Juani-
ta's defection ' for months,"
~ Expected Iicr Defection
said I~I?. I.nis Conte Agucro.
"She has actively helped hun-
dreds of people escape fhe is-
]anct."
With breaking voice, Juanita
Castxo charged -the people of
Cuba, had been "nailed.. to a
cross of torment by inteination-
al communism."
Although she refused to say
how she reached iYlexico City
it svgs by one of ,Cubans Air-
known to have cai?ricd a diplo-
nt:Itfo passport and. to have
Iuade numerous trips there to
see her sister Emma, married
to a il4exican citizen. -
Conte Aguero said that on
reb. 24, 19G0, Juanita made an
openly anti-Comnnu:ist speech'
,at a hospital inauguration .at.
Cantinuec~
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? Central l~4arcane sugar mill, anti?Castrr a;~d::rgrcanc;," said
Oriente Province. ~
an caIlc 1aac:cc?.
"She was a marlccd woman .,til7e .is kr.o'.~':; to l;avc ac-
from tizcn on. In spite of that, comp~:;iecl penpie to t:;c ah?=
she and Lmma loaned me their
in her ~1Vlexico appearance, she ;' q In lust niia's denunciation of '
had ori;inally actively support- nor brother, :l~ISs Casa?a paid
'ed her brother's revolution t':ero ?tre Si~,00u pniitical errs-
; al;ainst ex-dictator Fulgencio . ~~rs :;t Cuba and said the ,
'Eatista. ~ ~ :land is "an enormous prison
? .:urrrounded by water." .
During Castro's battle for
power in i3~7-58; bliss Castro Jcterirrrs(ini; conditions in
.sneaked across t1~e border f:?arr, ' ti;e Last fear months finally
Mexico to Erownsville, Texas, 'lJ1?ced her fo flee, she said.
and traveled to b7iami by . ~ius lI o w e v c :, Dr. Armando ;
? and plane, asking U. S. haven. Fleites - ~'o. 2 man of the Sec-
She appeared at a local Cuban and Front of the Escambray i .
.theater on Flagler Street, seek- `'~hich grace fought with Castro i
ing to gain arms and funds to -said here she "apparently
help her 'orother, stayed as long as~ she could help
the anti-Castra underground."
':9ftcr she broke with her '' - ' - "-?
~?btrothcrs' ideology, her house in
Havana beca~xie a haven for the ' .
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port, sin^; her name to gat
car to go to C1UIR radio station ' theri s