AS FORCES GROW, CUBAN REFUGEES FIND NEW HOPE AIR ATTACK ON HOMELAND IS SYMBOLIC; A LOOK AT SOME PRIME TARGETS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100360029-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 1999
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: August 19, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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ban underground. One of them is Cuba'
u
MIAMI. entral Highway, a concrete ribbon tti
of the islafi
Puerto Cabezas 1s a remote wisLs and turns the length
[Mut caragua. It is hot, often wet, and far rom Pinar del Rio eastward to Senile
m even the most primitive diversions. de Cuba. This road links Havana to
no matter. The dozens of earnest backwoods provinces. Every time
l;k -way is chopped, the link is broke
ung Cubans at Puerto Cabezas want
thing to divert them from their work and until the break Is sealed entire prd
learning to kill and destroy, in order t;' inces can be isolated. Often gue
ree their homeland from Red Castro. strength can be quickly concentrated
Apparently nothing has. Early
the Revo- l)ri tfhis but effective happened not long gago at agu y'
day, two small planes flown b by
~, ....unt tmk Off r:, -~nrir Anil exile sources claim the U "
lutionary nee ___ __.
from a base "somewhere to Central j ;g was not put down Lions Committee, told a national w+??? ~---
" One of them strafed and ,;io ed in heavy Russian equipment audience that the United states must
America.
with Cuba." The exiles fear
town Most of Jaguey Grand 's
280 miles
th
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ve
shelled
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ill at Moron
bombeda sugar m,. The other made a pass 10.000 residents were arrested. implies a new relationship.
new exile action is a nee d ire new
east of Havana. at the old Esso refinery at Havana be This The
eng ine forced it to turn Latin spirits in i- United states did not !flap
tonic for drooping faith with the kidnaping of the " 19. T
fore a a coughing
back to the unidentified base-obvious! amt. Even the shortage of boasts it lahe 19.r_
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earl ned
Puerto uau-no. . exile leaders
-- overhead uuru,6 The damage was minor. But fires : gees. "Everything is going well," a splashed across Miami newspapers, >id
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exile reac
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hope rippled thr the
weary exile: Colony,and even the Cba of Cuba on his return to Miami fr Secretary of State Dean R ,$ i _
the interest of disere o
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ot for us
Cub
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Nicaragua. tion that it, is n
of
monist kidnaping';or 19 flee
refugees on a Sitigh-owned key did no I can say no more." British territory in a situation like
soothe
spirits in Miami. v,,,,,ever guarded. the exiles took h did little to soothe their worries, }
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for rank opt
. -- - -- If all 6[115 uw r+...?o?~ Cubans for another major attempt to r the endless speculation that abound i sunniest Latin re n
in MiBm! A
position o
capture their"home island 90 miles off t Miami. Almost every greeting here b dis there . i, rlllters were reported
st
ci - gins with a question: "Have you h ar
Florida coast riead The raplderel ation of d
ries:T
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, hin-
be , UUZY In ;nNa New, " allyg + - ? -- l aaau
cago, and in New Jersey. One new r - bolas, the Spanish slang for rumors, proliferation an of exile activist organisatioiga
uickly in the Florida sun. Fl 1 r p'
I was told they wo ti
and Central America.
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abounded in bolas last week. e i
abounded
2000 exiles were settled!n
eive ;175 a month during his Street
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More t
e
, Exile sources claim that trained Co - of them: new homes outside south F+a last
ince a have been slipping into Cu a / Castro will soon make an ela a e
since early June. Landing in small p e month, and the pace seems surf:to q ,
call for the first elections since he t,n Most of them have been resettled`
ties, these commandos quickly esderl h to power, arrange a gaudy campaign, a d New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, .
liaison with "Phantom Cells" of leaderle manage to win a glowing victory. 1s Texas. And if Illinois, to
resistance 1co-ordinate sabotage. assure a renewal of diplomatic e la-
r. an be obtained for more than -
Explained the
smashes a a light Miami bulb in exile: a "If one governnlm r1 will lions with the United States. Cubans who now hold U.S. visa waive
t neterring to the wishes of the U it 'd permission to enter the United State __ __ mnn1A be dr8
11 IU,UUU eases. s - - -
that makes a lot Of trouble for Fidel.' depen"free" eiecL,vm
Exiles in Miami resist resettlement to
dable Marxist will rife to ~' r,
More than sympathetic further entrenching communism on the s- a number of reasons: The climate,
nd , and the
Nicaragua's fiercely anti st land but giving it a new facie of re or m. proximity family and friends. homeland , a the
president, Rene Schick, has been been m re Diplomatic for iveness would thus s_ to gin sstay for with to the more sophisticated Others
than sympathetic, and so have leaders in sured.
several other Central American nazi 1S / James B. Donovan, the New York sons. "Once the exile colony is gone
sill, exile leaders warn against expect nb lawyer who negotiated the trade f e Miami and scattered across the Uni
a new invasion, Bay of Pigs prisoners for $53,000,000 6vc h states," an exile leader predicted. "
Said Manuel Artime, leader of the v- ?t American food and medicines. W 1 - Cuban Issue is dead. That's what ha
olution4ry R very. 14overpcnt, "Our m- t e t. U.S. spokesman In simile d al- pened with the Hungarian mediate goal iv7
meth am lIZflfA Eu~igA 4TeC n 0gittiF@1&868? QPAi Q ~ ~ 11Qia_cJfo a chance
!,round. The exiles must first o niz in I7cmovln'` instillation as t, e r
..,..,..? ct_no.n 1! .)r in `r" go home.' a
-.4"kiwi %V C,4
ould be with a greato uca. va ??,,? ,w.
-
ere
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Their tears
by Sen. Kenneth Keating, the New Y or
who is at frequent CrIt c Pi
Republican
'President Kennedy's Cuba ,P----- dhd A ';
special hero in Miami. Strongly a
any attempt to renew diplomatic relaft,
such a
with Cuba, Senator Keating said renewal would proclaim "the Impotence of
our policy." The exiles shuddered When
Sen. J. William Fulbright, Arkansas DDem-