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ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : TO: TITLE: Central Intelligence Agency Information Report DATE: 8/10/1963 PAGES: 3 SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS: National Security Files, Box 48: Cuban Subjects: Exiles information report. Box 1

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CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM (When Filled In) COUNTRY CUBA NICARAGUA REPORT NO. TDCS -3/556,052 : SUBJECT POSSIBLE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CUBAN DATE DISTR. 10 AUGUST 1963 EXILE BASE IN NICARAGUA PRECEDENCE ROUTINE Ss DATE OF INFO. 24 JULY 1963 REFERENCES IN 97132 TDCS-3/555,529 PLACE & DATE ACO. ENGLAND, LONDON (9 AUGUST 1963) APPRAISAL 3 SOURCE FIELD REPORT NO. OEL 35,970 THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. OFFICIAL BRITISH SERVICE FROM A SOURCE DESCRIBED AS "WELL-KNOWN AND EXPERIENCED IN REPORTING, PROBABLY RELIABLE, QUOTING ROMANI." ON 1. IN PRIVATE CONVERSATION/24 JULY 63, SALVADOR ROMANI, REPRESENT-

ATIVE IN VENEZUELA OF CUBAN EXILE ORGANIZATION COMANDO UNIFICADO DE LA LIBERACION EN CUBA (UNITED COMMAND OF CUBAN LIBERATION CULC), CLAIMED THAT A SMALL NUMBER CUBAN EXILES HAD ALREADY MOVED FROM MIAMI TO NICARAGUA. IN EXILE CIRCLES IT IS BELIEVED THIS ACTION REFLECTS A PREVIOUS AGREEMENT BETWEEN PRESIDENT SOMOZA OF NICARAGUA AND MANUEL ARTIME, SECRETARY GENERAL OF EXILE GROUP MOVIMIENTO DE

RECUPERACION REVOLUCIONARIA (MOVEMENT OF REVOLUTIONARY RECOVERY MRR). ROMANI DID NOT KNOW DETAILS OF AGREEMENT. IF IT ENTAILS ESTABLISHMENT OF A LARGE-SCALE EXILE MILITARY BASE IN NICARAGUA, SECRET STATE/INR DIA ARMY/ACSI NAVY AIR STATE/DIR CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS JCS NO FOREIGN DISSEM SECDEF NSA NIC AID USIA OC I ONE OCR ORR FBI TREASURY I&NS COAST GUARD GROUP 1 Excluded from automats downgrading and declassification 00. EXO TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAM FORM 10-62 1K OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS. (15-20)

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OTHER EXILE GROUPS WILL AWAIT REACTION OF UNITED STATES BEFORE DECIDING THEIR OWN COURSE OF ACTION. OF 2. NUCLEUS/SUCH A BASE WOULD BE DRAWN FROM THREE TO FOUR THOUSAND OF EXILES WHO, ACCORDING TO ROMANI, HAVE PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED MILATARY TRAINING FROM MEMBERS/U.S. ARMED FORCES. ROMANI CLAIMED U.S. TO POLICY IS TO FERMENT INTERNAL RESISTANCE IN CUBA AND/STRENGTHEN THE RESISTANCE BY INFILTRATION OF TRAINED COMMANDO GROUPS OF EXILES. FOR THIS REASON THE U.S. CONTINUES/GIVE TACIT SUPPORT FOR TRAINING OF EXILE MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS. .. TO 3. ROMANI MADE FOLLOWING REVIEW OF POLICIES OF PRINCIPAL EXILE PARTIES: OF (A) CULC IS CONCENTRATING ON DISSEMINATION/ANTI-CASTRO PROPAGANDA IN CUBA TO PREPARE GROUND FOR INSURRECTION. IT FAVORS INFILTRATION/SMALL MILITARY GROUPS BUT REJECTS A GENERAL INVASION. OF (B) JURE (JUNTA REVOLUCIONARIA), LED BY MANUEL RAY, CONSIDERS THE PRINCIPLE REQUIREMENT IS TO SECURE SUPPORT OF DISCONTENTED ELEMENTS IN CUBAN MILITIA AND ARMED FORCES. (C) ALLIANCE OF MRP (MOVIMIENTO REVOLUCIONARIO POPULAR), SECOND FRONT OF ESCAMBRAY AND ALPHA 66, SUPPORTS CONTINUATION OF HIT-

AND-RUN RAIDS ON CUBAN MAINLAND IN ORDER/MAINTAIN MORALE OF RESISTANCE FORCES IN CUBA. TO THE. CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM : SS

! ECRET When Filled: In CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS NO FOREIGN DISSEM TDCS-3/556,052 IN 97132 PAGE 3 (D) SEVERAL GROUPS, INCLUDING UMC (UNIDADES MILITARES CUBANAS), CLC (COMANDOS LIBRES DE CUBA) AND A SECTION OF MRR CONSIDER THAT ONLY A GENERAL INVASION WILL OVERTHROW THE CUBAN REGIME. OF (E) FUR (FRENTE UNIDO REVOLUCIONARIO), LED BY AURELIANO SANCHEZ ARANGO, IS WORKING PRIMARILY TO OBTAIN AGREEMENT/LATIN AMERICAN GOVTS FOR COORDINATED POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PRESSURE ON BA FIELD DISSEM: STATE, CINCLANT CINCSO.

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