HE'S THE MAN BEHIND THE 'FREE CUBA NEWS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000102540023-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2014
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: February 24, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/10: CIA-RDP73-00475R000102540023-1
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'Cuban groups in Miami , Ile concedes (he use of much
Ti.V.I.J.:E WINFREY ? and New York provide the , exile material, but. adds, "We
. Of Cur Washington Bureau information, which we eval-: quote for the most part from
WASHINGTON ? "(las-, nate. We receive reports the Cuban government itself,.
tro's 'factories are turning' del 'y from inside ? Cuba. We from the internal communi-,
o?tt a de'l:??- quota of 1,000 size, never go with a story unless cations .network. I 'think:
uniforms' for: i is eel --- ohorated by three our i n f or m a ionn is quite
llitssicot.. the: other sources. Congressmen? hard."
fivst s-i'tenee' h"ve called on lis scores of. *. * * .
' . ' ? . *-ee. times for opinions and prc:g- : LETIIEL spent 12 years
? ''...?1?ii ' is' " w .s. ncisi ?:.iation3." ,, with tlie State Department
"It; 'cantpaign
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C I T. ItiiNS Corn-.
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h a I
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N" ; 2ga-cis
Cuba as hisl
m a o r basel
for World-Wi(le Communist
Z'.etiVi!jes and that he ?ap-
paren16? is moving to protect
that hErte thi-ough till Rus-
sian occupation."
The newspeper's re??lort on,
the uniform Manufacturing,
a It hoir?:b not the couelusion it ,
, drew from that. activity,
' picked up 17:- the servic-
es and slist rihut ed nal ion-.
wile. Once again, the Free
Cuba News Was in the news -
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TWIG% a month, the al-
I ractively-printed, eight -page :
pamphlet tirrives at the desks "
of several congressmen, many P",.:1
reporters and a scattering of
' public officials in Washing-
ton. It paints a berth picture argument on that from some' ?
of life in Castro's Cuba, with .: 'embers o:" the administra-
strong undertone hints that tion. Says -one source ?vho has
the U.S. government is not.: watched the paper since it:
? doing enough to make things began last May:
better. "When the committee was:
The editor or the Free formed, I was impressed.
enha D. Bethel, Frankly, I've been disap;
who gift the Stale Depart- pointed: The new
nen; in disgust in 1031 end, appears to repeat in large,
has lived since then in Miami., part the usual kind of unver?;'
nelhel, 'IA, is a broad-: ified exile reports. It is not:
, shouldered, athletic-looking as factual. and hard as one
mat with a mane of blond would cx:::ect front such a
? heir, heavy, black-rimmed distinguished group.":
? glasc?es, two gold rings on' Stic:?:: slurs annoy Bethel,,
the third finger of his, left ? ?
hand, earl a voice full;of self-
confidence loaded with "in-
formation," he'll tell you
without batting an eye.
naittee for a Free Cuba, Inc.,'
pays Bethel NI out the:
Free Cuba News for them,.
The committee members lean
heavily toward the conserv-
ative (Admiral Arleigl-f?
Burke, Dr. Sideney Hook.
Clare Booth Luce and Dr:
Edward Teller),- but Bethel:
insists: "We are certainly not
ant i-adminiStration."
lie .WOU:CI Dr.:tbilith' get an.
'
?c:it resignation, the
last three in Cuba as ? press
ad ttcaC Wilt the U.S. Em-
bassy in Havana. He re-
signed, : he said, "because I.
couldn't see a coherent. policy'
toward Cuba .and Latin
America at all."
In Dade County his, wife
and teenaged daughter and
son live in Miami Shores.
?Bethel goes back and forth
from his. Washington office
about once a month.
The arrangement is often
awkward, but Bethel intends
to continue it. "I think I'll
maint ai a my Miami res-
idence," he said. "I have a.
hunch someday I may run for'
.Cong..e.s:3 down there.''
neclassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/10 : CIA-RDP73-00475R000102540023-1