MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD FROM L. K. WHITE

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• Publication Date: July 16, 1969
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
Morning Meeting of 16 July 1969
DD/I noted tha response to a 14 July request from Dr.
Kissinger, Ihas prepared a memorandum commenting
on Gromyko's speech before the Supreme Soviet. DD/I provided the
Director with a copy, and the ADD/P requested same.
D/ONE asked to get on the Director's calendar this afternoon for
the purpose of a pre-USIB briefing. The Director indicated his availa-
bility provided D/ONE can get a clear fix on Admiral Lowrance's
problems with the agenda.
Maury touched lightly on the confusion created by the visit to
Taipei of Walter Pincus and Roland Paul of the staff of the Symington
Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Bross reported that he will be having lunch with Robert Froehlke
on Friday to discuss his proposals of 11 July establishing responsibility
at the Assistant Secretary level/DOD for review of the total DOD intel-
ligence program.
DD/S&T pointed to his meeting with Gardiner Tucker yesterday
on SS-9 targeting and reported that he signed a statement to the effect
that the Agency does not disagree with DDR&E's one-year study of this
matter. He added that the study will probably be provided to Dr.
Kis singer.
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1969 on "Change in Maryland State Income Tax Law. " He pointed to
his difficulty in understanding its content and asked the DD/S to do what
he can to clarify the content of future Employee Bulletins.
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'Havana to Moscow:
By a staff correspondent of According to Mr. Castro Hidalgo, this line. I
The Christian Science Monitor growing Soviet influence in Cuba was the
r1969 The Christian Science Publishing Society
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Betrayal seen
Washington In his own way, Mr. Castro Hidalgo sees
A Cuban intelligence officer, who defected to the this increasing Soviet influence, brought on
United States earlier this year, says that Premier Fidel by Premier Castro, as a betrayal of the
Castro signed an accord with the Soviet Union in 1968 Cuban revolution and the goals for which
which commits him to a pro-Moscow line. he personally fought, both in the Sierra
The assertion. it is felt, would explain the noticeable 1 Maestra and afterward.
pro-Moscow line being followed by Cuba-a trend which Mr. Castro Hidalgo, in his; testimony, says
that his immediate superior in the Paris
!?~ began at the time of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslo- Embassy, Armando Lopez Orta, returned
vakia last August. from Havana last January with word of the
According to the defector. Orlando Castro Hidalgo, I Cuban-Soviet treaty and this pronounce-
Cuban-Soviet agreement requires the Cuban leader meat:
the
i to mute his criticism of the Soviet Union and of Mos. "Somos mss soviet.icos" '(We are more
cow-oriented Communist parties in Latin America. Sovietized).
{ In return, the Soviet Union agreed not to diminish
its economic support of Premier Castro's government, According to Mr. Castro Hidalgo's version
and also to provide some 5.000 technicians to work in a of the accord, which has remained secret
variety of fields to support Cuba's lagging economy. until now, the Soviet Union for its part
These disclosures are part of the testimony being agreed to keep up the level of economic
given by Mr. Castro Hidalgo, who is no relation to the assistance which has been flowing to Cuba
Cuban Premier. It was learned from informed sources in the past several years. That aid is com-
that he left his post as protocol officer of the Cuban pitted in official circles here at something in
Embassy in Paris late in March of this year and the neighborhood of $350 million .yearly.
sought asylum for himself and his family at the United Tecbnieiane provided
States Embassy in Luxembourg.
Since then, Mr. Castro Hidalgo has been undergoing The Soviet Union, it is understood, also
extensive questioning together with explaining an at- agreed to increase badly needed petroleum
tache case full of documents he carried with him when shipments to Cuba, to purchase more of
he arrived in Luxembourg. Cuba's production of nickel ore, and to send
Mr. Castro Hidalgo now is in the United States under some 5,000 Soviet technicians to advise the
protective custody. Castro government in the fields of science
The Christian Science Monitor learned of Mr. Castro and technology.
Hidalgo's presence in the United States, and as far as These technicians, Mr. Castro Hidalgo
is known this is the first mention of his defection and
says, are to be used in providing support in
his disclosures to United States officials. agriculture, mining, atomic energy, fishing, ,
It is understood that the Cuban Government has and military fields. '
asked the French Government for assistance in return- However, some Soviet assistance in the
ing both Mr. Castro Hidalgo and the documents he : DGI is part of the agreement.
brought 'with him when he defected. But Cuban sources To informed sources here, this aspect of
would make no comment on this subject nor admit that the secret agreement is particularly aspect signifl.
Mr. Castro Hidalgo had defected when asked for com-
? cant in that the DGI is understood to have
meat. taken on many of the diplomatic activities
Informed sources here say that Mr. Castro Hidalgo formerly handled by foreign service officers.
has been a veritable gold mine of information on de- ` In light of the general reduction of Soviet
velnpments in Cuba. Although he was not a
i major official in the Cuban Government, he intelligence operations in France and else-
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part of the Cuban intelligence service in telligence system is regarded by informed
Europe. sources here as important.
That service. according to Mr. Castro Claim confirmed
Hidalgo's testimony, is put at the disposal
of the Soviet Union under terms of the 1968 Mr. Castro Hidalgo claims to have been
i agreement. Known as General Directorate part of that. system and the documents he
i of Intelligence (or DGI after its Spanish brought out confirm this claim.
initials), the service has been extending .` ! But the documents are of even greater im-
i_its operations. In_,Europe_recentlv._ portance - although they do not contain the
text of the Soviet-Cuban agreement.
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I Moreover taken together wili'!?his testi- his schooling has been som t sparse.
mony and known facts about situations in lie 1Mt In the middle of secondary school
Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere, the and since then has been largely self-taught.
United States has learned a great deal about 1 Ile talks slowly, measuring his words eare-
of self?confldence and
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Cuba and its activities through Mr. Castro fully, an
histication
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Hidalgo's defection. sop
The defector was a DGI operative in i Srlreted for training
Paris. He states that he helped organize
and operate a clandestine apparatus in the Selected for intelligence training by the
French capital aimed at providing Latin- Castro government in 1965, Mr. Castro
American revolutionaires and guerrilla Hidalgo got a grounding In both intelligence
leaders with money, false passports, and theory and tactics and guerrilla warfare
hideouts during their travels to and from practice. Ike also ? was given training in
language prior to being sent to France In
Cuba.
According to Mr. Castro Hidalgo, the March, 1967.
Paris center for the DGI conducts operations His wife, Norma, had originally been on
into South America, while the Cuban Em- a list of those Cubans desirous of emigrating
bassy in Mexico City coordinates operations to the United States tinder the provisions of
in Central America and the Caribbean. a Cuban-United States accord-but took her
As far as guerrilla activities in Latin ? name off the list when she married.
America are concerned, Mr. Castro Hidalgo It is understood that' the fact that her
says that the secret Cuba-Soviet accord name had been on the list was discovered
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makes no specific mention of their role -
presumably leaving Premier Castro free to
operate much as before in the question of
armed insurrection throughout Latin Amer.
ica.
Conflicts apparent
There are apparent conflicts between thei
Soviet Union and Premier Castro over this
question, but Mr. Castro Hidalgo says that
Havana's support for the "export of revolu-?
tion" to Latin America is not diminished
by the accord.
However, the DGI is reported to have told!
its people that there must be a more meticu-
lous screening of Latin Americans before
they are put into the pipeline for guerrilla'
training in Cuba. It is also understood, ac
ment.
Implicit in the Castro Hidalgo testimony is!
awareness on the part of Cuban officials
that the guerrilla effort led by Ernesto Che;
Guevara made a number of errors.
It is understood that Mr. Castro Hidalgo's
disclosures of Cuban plans and the names;
of agents and others working for Havana
throughout the world has been an important:
development in United States intelligence
activities.
The presence of Mr. Castro Hidalgo and
his family-a wife and two small boys-
was confirmed by the Department of State,
tary leaders to aid Latin-American revolu-
tionary groups until these groups have,
reached a significantly high state of develop?~
cording to Mr. Castro Hidalgo's testimony,j
that Cuba has decided not to send out mili-
although it would give no further details.
Mr. Castro Hidalgo is a 31-year-old Cuban.'
born in Puerto Padre, in Oriente Province
in the eastern part of the island. His mother
and five younger brothers and a sister still
avana an
by Cuban intelligence people in
that an investigation of tho situation was
under way at. the time the family defected
to the United States Embassy in Luxem-
bourg. Sources here say that she played
Hidalgo had his own reasons for detecting.
Other disclosures
Among other disclosures made by Mr.
Castro Hidalgo arethese:
? Col. Francisco Canmario Den$, the
leader of the 1965 Dominion revolution, is
now in Cuba and that he arrived there short-
ly after Mr. Guevara's death at the hands
of the Bolivian Army In October, 1067. At
first Cuban officials thought they would use
the Dominican officer as a replacement for
Mr. Guevara, but since that time there has
been no evidence that they have done so.
? Guyanan Prof. Dr. Walter Rodney,
whose presence In Jamaica last year caused
a furore, was helped by Cuban Intelligence
forces in Paris to travel, to Cuba by way of
both Paris and Prague.
? Prensa Latina, the Cuban news service
now regarded as being run by DGI ele-
ments, was involved In a plan to infiltrate
pro-Cuban agents into the ruling military
junta of Gen. Juan Velasco Alvarado in
Peru.
? The names of Cuban Intelligence agents
in Chile-together with the concern on the
part of Premier Castro and his associates
that Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chile's re-
formist president, was usurping Premier
Castro's place and influence in Latin
America.
live on the island.
He_joined Premier Castro's 26th of July
" Movement in March, 1957, fighting mainly
thins and against the Invaders at the Bay
in the Sierra Maestro. After Premier Castro
came to power, Mr. Castro Hidalgo stayed
with the Army and served In campaigns
against guerrillas In the Escamhray Moun-
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