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ORIGINATOR: CIA FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: 12/18/1963 PAGES: 2 SUBJECTS: CUBA

DOCUMENT TYPE: REPORT CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 1B CURRENT STATUS: Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 10/02/1998

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 158 This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.

CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS SECRET/NO FOREIGN DISSEM/CONTROLLED DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/ BACKGROUND USE ONLY (When Filled In) COUNTRY CUBA REPORT NO. TDCSDB-3/658, 582 SUBJECT CUBAN GOVERNMENT POLICY TOWARDS PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S ADMINISTRATION DATE DISTR. 18 DECEMBER 1963 PRECEDENCE ROUTINE REFERENCES IN 82930 DATE OF LATE NOVEMBER 1963 INFO. PLACE & 16 DECEMBER 1963 DATE ACO. APPRAISAL FIELD REPORT NO. THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. SOURCE A HIGH-LEVEL CUBAN DIPLOMAT IN WESTERN EUROPE WHO HAS BEEN A FAIRLY RELIABLE REPORTER OF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC INFORMATION. : 1. FIDEL CASTRO WAS VERY UPSET OVER THE CHANGE IN THE UNITED STATES ADMINISTRATION BROUGHT ABOUT BY PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S ASSASSINATION. THE TOP CUBAN LEADERSHIP WAS SURE PRESIDENT KENNEDY WOULD NOT INVADE CUBA AND THEY WERE CONVINCED THAT THE POLICY OF HIS ADMINISTRATION FOR ECONOMIC BLOCKADE AND INTERNAL SUBVERSION AGAINST CUBA WOULD NOT OVERTHROW THE RÉGIME.

2. THE PRESENT POLICY OF THE CUBAN GOVT., ON ORDERS FROM CASTRO, IS NOT TO ATTACK PRESIDENT JOHNSON IN PUBLIC OR DO ANYTHING TO IRRITATE HIM. ACCORDING TO CUBAN GOVT, LEADERS, CASTRO WANTS TO WAIT AND SEE WHAT PRESIDENT JOHNSON SAYS AND DOES ABOUT CUBA, CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS SECRET/NO FOREIGN DISSEM/CONTROLLED DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/ BACKGROUND USE ONLY STATE/INR DIA ARMY/ACS1 NAVY AIR JCS SECDEF NSA NIC XXXXX OCI ONE OCR ORR EXO STATE/DIR REPCINCLANT I&NS TREASURY... GROUP I Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification

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AND GIVE HIM. AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE, IF HE FEELS SO INCLINED, RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.

FIELD DISSEM: CINCLANT.

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