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DATE: 12/13/1963 PAGES: 2 SUBJECTS: CUBA

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

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 170 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/NO DISSEM ABROAD/ (When Filled In) CONTROLLED DISSEM/BACKGROUND USE ONLY COUNTRY CUBA REPORT NO. TDCS DB-3/658,469 SUBJECT ALERT STATUS OF CUBAN DIPLOMATIC DATE DISTR. 13 DECEMBER 1963 MISSIONS, AS RESULT OF THE ASSAS- SINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY DATE OF INFO. 9 DECEMBER 1963 REFERENCES IN 79459 PLACE & DATE ACO. 9 DECEMBER 1963 APPRAISAL FIELD REPORT NO. THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. SOURCE A SENIOR CUBAN DIPLOMAT WHO IS AN ASTUTE OBSERVER AND HAS DEMON- STRATED MATURITY, DISCERNMENT, AND RELIABILITY IN HIS PAST REPORTING.

  1. ABOUT 2 DAYS AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT - BUNDY-SMITH JOHN F. KENNEDY, CUBAN DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS ABROAD BEGAN TO - ALEXANDER
  2. BELK RECEIVE A SERIES OF MESSAGES PLACING THEM ON A SPECIAL ALERT - BERECK
  3. CLABE STATUS. THESE MESSAGES WERE OBVIOUSLY DUE TO APPREHENSION - DINGEMAN
  4. CAEL BY THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT THAT THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUND I NG - 1UARESTAL
  5. JOHNSON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY MIGHT LEAD TO HOSTILE - KILDUFF.
  6. KLEIN ACTIVITY DIRECTED AGAINST THE MISSIONS. THE DIPLOMATIC - KOMER
  7. SAUNDERS MISSIONS, AMONG OTHER THINGS, WERE EXHORTED TO EXERCISE - SCHLESINGE
  8. SMITH, WM, Y. EXTREME VIGILANCE, TO MOUNT A NIGHT-AND-DAY WATCH OF MISSION PREMISES, TO BE CERTAIN THAT THERE WERE "NO COMPROMISING CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS GROUP I SECRET Excluded from automatic NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/ downgrading and declassification CONTROLLED DISSEM/BACKGROUND USE ONLY STATE/INR DIA ARMY/ACSI NAVY AIR JCS SECDEF NSA NIC XXXXXXX OCI ONE OCR XXX 00 FBI STATE/DIR REPCINCLANT INS ORR EXO TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAM FORM 10-62 1K OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS. (15-20) NW 50955 DocId:32282901 Page 2

CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS IN 79459 SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/ (When Filled In) CONTROLLED DISSEM/BACKGROUND USE ONLY TDCSDB-3/658,469 PAGE 2 DOCUMENTS ON THE PREMISES," AND TO BE ON GUARD AGAINST HOSTILE PROVOCATIONS. 2. ONE CHIEF OF MISSION, WHO, FOLLOWING HIS USUAL PRACTICE, REQUESTED BY TELEPHONE PERMISSION TO ACCEPT A LONG-STANDING INVITATION TO VISIT A COUNTRY FRIENDLY TO CUBA, WAS TOLD THAT HE MUST FORMALLY SUBMIT HIS REQUEST BY CABLE. HE DID SO ON 29 NOVEMBER, BUT IT WAS NOT UNTIL 6 DECEMBER THAT HE RECEIVED THE AUTHORITY TO QUIT HIS POST. 3. AS OF 9 DECEMBER THERE HAD BEEN NO INDICATION FROM HAVANA THAT THE ALERT ORDER WAS TO BE CONSIDERED REVOKED. 4. FIELD DISSEM: CINCLANT.

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