CUBA RED 'COLONY,' DEFECTOR ASSERTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300160003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 13, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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13 SEP 1966
. l~uwvil :, >u~rilUll 171 .,a
Geneve, Switzerland, turned up in New York yesterda
and charged that Fidel Castro was converting Cuba into
"another colony of imperial Russia." The U.S. granted I
him asylum. 11
Agustin Sanchez Gonzalez, 32,
who disappeared from his Geneva
apartment in mid-August with
his wife, and two small daugh-
ters, reappeared in a ? midtown
:hotel suite and said Cuba is now j
j toeing the Moscow line in re-
turn for an increase- in Soviet
economic aid.-
"Lost All Rope"
"I have lost ? all' hope that
Cuba Can be effectively extracted
from the 'domination of Soviet)
.influence," he added.
In a prepared statement fol
lowed by questipns and ' answers,
Sanchez described the "anjuulsh'
and ;desolation" he had found on
his last stay at home, from May
to Julys '
"An incredible state of chaos
and misery reigns in Cuba today,"
he said.
He said there is unhappiness
.in the Cuban foreign. service
over a virtual requirement that
all Cuban diplomats "collabor-
ate" in intelligence operations.he
"This is a situation that t
diplomatic corps rejects in gen-
eral," he said. Sanchez disclosed
that he had accepted some as-
signments of an. intelligence'.
nature, including one to contact'
Latin Americans in Geneva and
evaluate them as prospective In
telligence agents.
Gr.nnhr'i drfretlon was the
the Cuban mission in Geneva
which deals with the numerou
UN specialized agencies i
Europe. Previously the No. 2 man
he was filling in for the Cuba
Ambassador, who had returned-
to Havana on vacation.
Sanchez said he was ponderin
his future but had made no deci
lion about a job or a place t
live. But he said that he his wife ??
Carmen,, and their daughter
Ileana, ,7, and' Ivonne, 5, woul
not stay in New York.
Describes Cuba
Describing conditions in Cuba.,
Sanchez said: "There is no de,
ocracy. There is no freedom...
m .
The jails are full bf prisoners,.,-,
There is hunger, lack of food
clothing, medicines.... Work i
done under the pressure o
without any incentive. ,
line. And there is a general moo :;.
of chaos in the country."
Asked why he waited this Ion
to defect, Sanchez replied: "Th ,
teriorating progressively. an +,, .
young men like myself, who wer
practically born with the revolu t
tion and had great faith in Fid t
Castro and loved their countr
kit,C[/"Itl li Vl[l S O ? a..l.. v. M.iT..,,e
corps reported this year. Orlando ,
Castro Hidalgo, an intelligence'
'Paris, switched allegiences last {
March and is now in the United,,"
States.
Castro Hidalgo told of a re- ,
puted Havana-Moscow pact con-.
mitting Castro to take a more'
pro-Soviet line in return for fl-
nancial backing. Sanchez said:'he
knew nothing of any such p:lct.
but said Cttba'a urgent need for;
more Soviet aid was met only;;
after the premier endorsed the
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