CUBAN EXILES RECRUITING DRIVE IS REPORTED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100820001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 21, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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RECRULTING
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'S REPORTED;
CIA Said to Have
Role in Training at j
Secret Camps ? .. f leadership of an underground
! movement in Cuba. The 36-
year-old former minister of pub-
By RICHARD DUDMAN lic works under Castro is re-
A Washington Correspondent of) ported to have set out for Cuha
the Post-Dispatch in- fulfillment of a public prom-
WASHINGTON, May 21 a year ago to retuei, to kad
Cuban exiles are being recruited ' he fight against the Premier,
in this country in preparation for Gutierrez Menoyo, who was a
possible new action against the uerrilla commander with Cas-
Castro regime, the Post-Dispatch ro, heads a. group called the
was told today. econd? Front of the Escambray.
Agents are instructing the ex- is men fought the Fulgencio
.files to go to secret training Batista dictatorship in the moun-
camps in Nicaragua and Costa ains of central Cuba while Cas-
Rica, a usually well informed ro operated in the Sierra Macs-
source said. The camps are said ra in the east.
.to be under the command of Paul Bethel, an American cit-
Manuel Artime, who was hand= zen who is executive secretary
picked by' the ? C e n t r a I Intelli- Ff an organization here called
he Citiyens Committee for a
CPYRGHT
absUCIELLU 5, -011 ,
anded-small infiltration partic
smo without Fidel," orr; setkiup
o keep Cuban socialism aftei!
Ray's Junta Revoluciovaria_a
b"' ".' `" ' ree Cuba, said that he spoke expect 019 ianarn-gs or quick much of its work has been to re-
of Pigs invasion in 1961. G ' M 1 t k v tort'. He said that the time-
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f
h
Other sources here spoke, cryp-
tically of a high- level "co-
ordination" of Artime's raid on
the sugar port of Pilon in Oriente
province last Wednesday and the
!reported raids and infiltration
landings on the north and south
f coasts this week.
Competing Groups
There was a widespread belief
among exile leaders and other
lobservers that the CIA or pos-
sibly. the newer Defense Inteili-
gence Agency was taking part in
the planning and timing of the:
various raids.
Reports that the different exile'
yefforts were being co-ordinated,
seemed intended to'offset other,
,reports that. the various groups,
,,were competing for leadership;
should Premier Fidel Castro be,
overthrown.
Some of'the other leaders con
tinued to accuse.Artime of being'
a reactionary and of being too'
w4lin~ _to accept CIA,,directdan.
t
utterrez enoyo as wee pct t activates e u an un-
o
tt
t a base in the Caribbean. Beth- t le of the raids and harass- derground and difficulties of the
1 would identify the base only r nt of the Castro regime called Castro regime.
of Hope"-and said that its: to-L.
cation must remain secret.
'Stole Our Revolution'
Bethel issued a statement; by
Gutierrez Menoyo expressing
onfidence that the Cuban people
6uld rise against Castro 'and
asserting that "very, very soon
W Q_ are_prepared, fo: dcala st&ong
FOIAb3b
'CPYRGHT
f
bl to the Communists who He said that the schedule,'.'
at le our revolution." infiltration and raiding as
nother statement, from Ro- about 60 per cent complete and
g io Cisneros, Ray's chief ass-isst-11 the chances 6 per l i mt a success
a , also issued by Bethel, said were about ft al victory depended on the At the same time, Bethel re-
ef orts.of all Cubans-"those who ported that a a "referendum"
Ii a abroad _in exile and those ""~""'g-Cuban exiles was nearly
fi hting and dying inside Cuba 1completed. Exiles are being
day.,, tasked to vote by mail on a pro-
"The Castro regime is demor- posed committee of five leaders
red," the Cisneros statement who will then be able to speak
s id. "The resistance of the Cu- for the exiles as a group: He said
(that it is being made clear that
b in people, water added to the; the committee would not be a
i ustrial decay of the Commu-i+government in exile.
nit regime, makee??dt possible to 1 Bethel described his commit-
c rry..the war td vCuba and to; fee as a nonpartisan, nonprofit
p ,,sue it to final victory on Cu-,organization of American citi. j
b n soil."
Izens. It operates in a modest
Bethel
intended aid that the statement suite of offices in downtown
s ntas a warning not Washington. In past months,
of possibly early next year, """ct waa a iv,c+su ac"v~w
iled officer. in the Department of
c,
lies Stock
po
p
escribing preparations for the ?`'"'`c anu Utt vu,wu Jla,,ca au-
r ids, Bethel said that food, su formatio/ Agency for 12 years
p, until he resigned in November
p es and water'were first stock-- r 961. He was public affairs affl-
p ed on small islands, some F. r in the United States Embassy
a tually Cuban territory. Some- H 41. 1
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t
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e ast mon
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ti es Cuban peasants or even n avana m
a vern ent officil'were it a Batista regime and the first
it out for an hour- or two. for onths of the Castro regime' In
1t1~9.
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