CIA PLOTTERS SENTENCED IN CUBA;CASTRO BID SAVES THEIR LIVES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100720009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 15, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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. A ; 'IA PLOT for the as-
ussinala~cw11 of Premier Fidel
Cazitro came to all end in La
Cabana fortress in Havana
].;-st Wednesday with the
sentencing of the. plotttrs.
This was the third plot un-
covered against Castro's life.
The two previous. attempts oc
curred ill 1961.
The. present plotters were ar-
ec.;ted Feb. 26.
Two of them were sentenced to
':.'?i years in 1>!'i. i. they were
'U:?. Rolando Cubcla Sceades, a
? t4'Vsic?ian 0,0(1 Roman Cuin Diaz.
Cubela anti Giro formerly held
L: -.C: rank of major, the highest
in the C'ld)iiti army.
(.1uin, Minlilte(,,~~ court that
he Iurd peen a,ClA.A gernt since,
1'wo plotters were se:;.tcaccd to
20 years. They were Jose Gun-
?zralles GUllarretta and Alberto
Ll,u,co Itom Ariz.
Juan Alsina Navarro was
.sentenced to 10 years.
All five sentenced had con-
fesscd Vhcir .guilt.
e::~ v l' ~.v uli
complicity in procuring ?a get- larretta received . $100,000 from
away launch and other periph- Janes A. Noel of the U.S. Em-
eral activities but denied knowl- ?? bassy in Madrid to finance the
edge of the plot. ? ) assassination plot.
The government charged that
the plot called for Cubela to
shoot Castro With a Vigil=powered
ri fl e.
U.S. forces and mercenaries
from Latin American countries
hours after Castro's death.
Following the overthrew of the
Cuban government. the top posts
in the government would be
distributed anlor;; the partici-
par,is in the plot, including
Manuel Artime, exiled counter-
revolutionary '
Dr. Cubela visited Europe in
196.1 to attend a student con-
feiencc, the trial disclosed. In
Paris he met Luis Enrique
Tracnco ands Carlos Tepedino,,
who worked Ifor the FE
Orlon Aiv-arez do la Canlpa,
Gallarrotta, Alberto Dianco
Ronhariz, and Jorge Robreno ar-
ranged the meetings in Madrid
'between' Cubela and Artime in
Fcbnuary, 1965, at whioh the
plot was completed. ? '
Originally the prosecutor,
Major Jor;.c Scgueira, had asked
death fur tour of the accused and
SC111enees of 32 years for the I
three others.
An summing tip, however, the
:l.lrosccutor changed his denlanfl,
following
receipt of a letter
from Castro risking that the death
penalty not be impo:.ed.
The letter said, "In this case,
despite its extreme gravity, it is
not necessary to ask for the most
severe sanctions."
"We must be (lard without
vacillation when needed, but
never unneces.arily
The re
l
.
vo
t-
in Madrid, who turned traitor in denary sanction is an art of do-
March, 1965, and . Jose 'Luis tense. The revolution is strong."
Gonzalez Gallareta, second sec- . It added that there were in-
rctary in the embassy
,~nade con- deed a
rav
ti
,
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a
ng circumstances
Guillermo C?unill Alvarez and . tact with 'two i-"CIA,Jagents- in but that the aim of the revol'u-
Angel Herrero Veliz were re- ?. Madrid, Hcrnan?^-?Enrques. ~ and tion, .Was note to eliminate men
leased; Agustin Alvarez Miaohado, but to, eliminate .the .dices that
They had been accused of. Alvarez de in Gamma nnA ..t-- -__- --
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