CUBAN EXILES RECRUITING DRIVE IS REPORTED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100160018-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: May 21, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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CUDAN EX1LE&
RECR~IiIf~GO~IVE
CIA Said to Havel
Role in Training at
Secret Camps
By RICHARD DUDMAN
A Washington Correspondent of
the. Post-Dispatch
WASHINGTON, May 21
in this cduntry in preparation fo
possible new action against th
.Castro regime, the Post Dispatc
was told today.
Agents are instructing the e
.ales to go to' secret trainin
camps in Nicaragua and Cost
Rica, ? a usually well informe
source said. The camps are sal
to be under the command o
-Manuel ?Artime, who was hand
picked by the Central Intel!'
gence Agency 'to lead the Ba
of Pigs invasion in 1961.'
Other sources here spolce. cryp
ticall.y of a high - level "
ordination" of Artime's raid .o
the sugar port of Pilon in Orient
,province last Wednesday and th
'.reported raids and infiltratia
F landings on the north and sou
'coasts this week.
Competing Groups
There was a widespread bell
among exile leaders and othe
observers that me CIA or po
.slbly the newer Defense Intel
'gence Agency was taking part i
the planning, and timing of th
.various raids.
Reports that the different exit
efforts were being co-ordinate
,,seemed intended to' offset othe
i'reports that, the 'various group;,
;'were competing for leadershi
rtshould Premier Fidel Castro b,,!
overthrown.
Some of' he other leaders col
tmued tb accuseArtime of bein
a -reactionary and of being
wjJir~:to.tcce CIArec~i n,
CPYRGHT
FOIAb3b
r'" He said that the schedule'oEl
blow to the Communists who
stole our revolution." infiltration and raiding was
Another statement, from Ro- :about 60 per cent complete and
gello Cisneros, Ray's chief assist-,the chances of ultimate success
ant, also issued by Bethel, said.-were about 60 per cent.
final victory. depended on the ! At the same time, Bethel re-
efforts ?of all Cubans-"those who ported that a a "referendum"
live 'abroad to"exile and those a7r,i>)g-Cuban=exiles was near) }
fighting and dying inside Cuba tasked completed. Exiles are being
today ,19 asked to vote by mail on a pro-
"The Castro regime is demor- posed committee of five leaders
alized," the Cisneros statement who will then be able to speak
said. "The resistance of the Cu- for the exiles as a group, He said
ban people, wI er added to the!that it is being made clear that
industrial decay of the Commu-'the committee would not be a
nist regime, makee??.at possible to 'oBetheldescribed his commit-
carry. the war td~lCuba and to. tee as -a nonpartisan, nonprofit
pursue it to final victory on Cu-toi'ganiration of American citi-
a
It t d t
.es In a moo C.
Bethel saidthat the statementIzens.. oper
suite of offices in downtown
was intended as a warning not Washington. In past months,
victory. He said that the time-
'ta,ble of the raids and 'harass--
for its overthrow in December, " - " .IE,...
or possibly early next year, Bethel was a foreign service
Supplies Stockpiled officer-. in the Department of
Describing preparations for the State and the United States In
raids, Bethel said that food, sup. formatio/ Agency for 12 years
nlieS and water wart first chuck- !:until he resigned In November
actually Cuban territory. Some? r 'car in the united States Embassy
times Cuban beasants, or 'even n Havana in the last months' of
of th
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astro regime Int
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