GUERRILLA BATTLE UNIT READY TO INVADE CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600420020-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: April 30, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGHT-
si e the Castro Story
By ROBERT S. ALLEN
and PAUL SCOTT
ilia Jullyr
Revolucionaria Cubana (JUR
is set to open an active guerrill
underground in the Conununis
ruled island in May-on the a
surnee than the U. S. Navy an
Coast Guard will not interior
wi'lh the "infiltration" of me
and supplies.
TILtT PR0311SE was give
Manuel Ray, leader of
last week. He and menvbors
his "Leadership Committee" co
ferred with top Johnson admini
tration officials, including th
Central 'Intellgence Agency.
Still pending are 'two other ina
'or JURE requests:
0 Several million dollars
unds, light arms and communi
cations equipment.
0 Intelligence information, par
ticularly from U-2 reconnaissan
fights.
Ray told administration au-
thorities that JUKE; is confi.
dent a guerrilla beachhead can
be firmly established and pub?
licly announced around May 20,
Cuban Indopendcnce Day. .
He claims to have a traine
ueriul'a force of between 5
nd 500, and plans call for "in
:filtrating" the mountainous re
ion where CaSt.ro, operated b
ore coming 2nto power in 1059.
hese JURE 'troops are being
aired and :equipped in Venezu-
ela, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
Ray, now a 510;400-a-year em-
loye of the Puerto Rican gov-
rnment, was once minister of
ublic works in the Castro rc-
ime and is among the most
ontroversial of the Cuban exile
aders. At the time of the Bay
f Pigs invasion, crucial details
E the ill-fated operation were
withheld from him.
ONE NAVAL Intelligence re-
ort credits Ray with aiming at
pplanting Castro with a coaiii-
on government that would in- .r-
ude Communists-"a Castro-type Attorney Gcueral ltobart licit
giYrre without Castro." ~. ncdy, a member of the little
known Counter-Insurgency Conn.
The Junta P.evolucionaria Cu- niittce, and Deputy Defense
ana has been getting some I Secretary Cyrus. Vance, favor
S. financial aid. This has supporting the. JUTE project.
con provided Indirectly by the Src.retary_ Rusk and- the State
ntral Intelligence Agency In Department's Policy Planning
aymicnts to a "cut-out" or. Council are opposed.
anir-rtion; that is, a group They contend that even cover
candling the legal and other af- backing of a move to overthrow.
airs of JU;IE. Castro would lead to Russian in
President Johnson is taking a tcrvcntion.
ry wait-and-see attitude toward, Strong misgivings about the
-t e JV.RE undertaking. ;administration's policy on Cuba
lIE IS DOING this on the a.i'are one of the reasons Sen. Bar-
v cc of Assistant Secretary 01 ry ' Goldwater shied away from
S to Thomas Mann, his princi; the Presi+dent's offer to brief Re-
p expect on Latin America; publican presidential candidates
"
J on foreign affairs.
ant reportedly has reservation.
r bar'ding both Ray and the con, TILE ARI7ONA,~i is telling col-
t rpl'a fed guerrilla undergro unc leagues he "expects the adni n-
p istratiOn to rihake some kind of
Cher. top administration offi; prove on Cuba before elecllorr,
are split down, thre. middly and J I don't propose 'to be boundl
on this issue ;by it."
CPYRGHT;
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