CIA DATA CITED AGAINST CASTRO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200580013-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 13
• Content Type: NSPR

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CIA Data Cited AgaiAst. Castro
PYRGHT
By Drew Pearson
W i t h the Pan American
foreign ministers meeting in
Chile to pacify the turbulent
Caribbean, thisolumn has ob-
v1,
of a Central Y
Intelligence
Agency report
showing Fidel
Castro's links
with contmu-
{ nism..
The docu-
ment IIats
sonic of Cas-
tro's top ad-
visers as Com-
munists and cites nine trips
by these advisers to Moscow
since the revolution on Jan. 1.
Their aim, according to the
CIA report, is to make the sit-
uation In Cuba so chaotic that
the United States will be
forced to intervene. Then the
United States would be
charged with an "American
Hungary."
It is such intervention that
the United States is trying to
avoid by getting the advice
and support of other Pan
American governments at the
Foreign Ministers Conference.
Salient portions. -of The, re;,
vealing CIA report follow:
CPYRGHT
"It has become increasingly were happy, that Castro ad'
"Once on top of the moon-
oaths that Fidel Castro, if now tie would shun the Com monists and listen to them,
agrarian reform bill, one
'.'Instead Castro proved con-
certainly dominated by them. ielusively that he is operating inet had seen before then, and
For a few weeks, during and according to a well conceived, required them all to sign it.
immediately after his trip to!well directed plan of opera- This is the agrarian reform
tion. On return to Cuba, he
the United States, there was'innored the men who coachedibill which has now gone into
hope that at last he would him through his visit to theI force. It was writtenprimadly,
settle down, pay more atten-United States, From the time by Ernesto 'Chc' Guevara,
tion to his more conservative of his return to date, he has Vilma Espin, wife of Paul
advisers and stop flirting with refused repeatedly and even Castro, Raul Castro, Antonio
after written demands he hasINunez Jimenez, and Pinu
the left wing. - denied an audience to Felipe - a
"This hope was expressed by 1 I'azos. the president of The
Felipe Pazos, president of the \ational Banks. He had simply
National Bank of Cuba. by'used these men as fronts
Regino Botl, Minister of Eco-,wiuic in the United States.
nomics, by several of the min-i
isters and people of impor?, Who Wrote Bill?
tance who accompanied Fidel! 1t the same time, lie had
Castro to the United States.
They felt this mainly becausesome of his more conservative
they had been chosen to make ministers drawing up'a bill for
the trip, rather than the other
people. Before the trip, these
people although they occupy,
agrarian reform. Particularly
devoted to this was Sort Mario,
high positions in the govern- Minister of Agriculture. Sort
meet, had barely even spoken M a r I n completed his bill,
with Castro. showed it to all the members
"Then, with this trip, he
suddenly became attentive to
them and with their help was
coached through his visit to
the United States.: -
"On -arrival, back in Cuba, Ibill; which tit thought would
these men gave out that they be his, the one he wrote.
of the cabinet and went to the
Sierra Maestra with Castro
and all the other members to
Santos.
"Of Ernesto Guevara, a U: S
intelligence agency states, ' I f
he is not a Communist, he
will do for one until another
comes along.' Viima Espin is
'the sister of a noted French
Communist and apparently a
Communist herself; Antonio
Nunez Jimenez, who has been
named to head the Agrarian
Reform Institute, has had his
way paid by the Communist
Party of Cuba to a youth fes-
tival in Prague In 1954. Pinos
Santos; the financial reporter
for 'Revolution,' the 26 de
Julio newspaper, is really
Carlos Santo Vega, a regular
member of the Communist
Party.
(Copyright. IM, "I 8yndkAte. fool
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