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ORIGINATOR : USA FROM : CIA TO : TITLE : CIA INFORMATION REPORT DATE: 01/04/63 PAGES : 2 SUBJECTS: PFUNTNER, JORDAN J. UNDIMINISHED PRESTIGE OF FIDEL CASTRO IN LATIN AMERICA

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : 1C CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED WITH DELETIONS DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 09/22/97 OPENING CRITERIA : COMPLETION OF REVIEW BY CIA. COMMENTS : COORDINATION WITH CIA HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND DETERMINED TO BE RELEASABLE, PER LTR DTD 23 SEP 97.

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TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAM

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 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.

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COUNTRY CUBA/LATIN AMERICA REPORT NO. TDCS-3/532,860 SUBJECT UNDIMINISHED PRESTIGE OF FIDEL CASTRO DATE DISTR. 4 JANUARY 1963 IN LATIN AMERICA

DATE OF- INFO. DECEMBER 1962 PRECEDENCE ROUTINE PLACE & REFERENCES IN DATE ACO. ENGLAND, LONDON (3 JANUARY 1963) RD-W-2107 44195

APPRAISAL 3 FIELD REPORT NO. OEL-34,413 SOURCE THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. AN OFFICIAL BRITISH SERVICE FROM "A REGULAR SOURCE, QUOTING A YUGOSLAV JOURNALIST WHO RECENTLY TOURED LATIN AMERICA."

  1. FIDEL CASTRO HAS LOST LITTLE PRESTIGE AMONG HIS SUPPORTERS IN LATIN AMERICA AS RESULT RECENT CRISIS. IN EYES OF HIS DISCIPLES, THE UNITED STATES FAILED TO EXPLOIT AN OPPORTUNITY TO UNSEAT HIM, AND CASTRO REMAINED IN POWER.

  2. LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNIST PARTIES HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY DIVIDED BETWEEN VIOLENT AND NON-VIOLENT FACTIONS. THIS CONTROVERSY IS LIKELY TO RESULT IN INDIVIDUAL COMMUNIST PARTIES ADOPTING MORE INDEPENDENT AND FELXIBLE POLICIES. THERE IS A GENERAL TREND AGAINST POLICIES "DICTATED FROM OUTSIDE

PAR OBJECTION TO HOTING DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT. AS SANITIZED,

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STATE/INR DIA ARMY/ACSI NAVY AIR JCS SECDEF NSA NIC USIA OC I ONE OCR ORR O INS STATE/DIR FBI EXO

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  1. BRITISH COMMENTS.

A. THE IMPRESSION DESCRIBED IN PARA 1 DOES NOT AGREE ENTIRELY WITH INFORMATION FROM OTHER SOURCES BUT IT IS AN INTERESTING POINT OF VIEW. ToWHOM?! B

B. SOURCE SAYS THAT CUBAN EXILES IN VENEZUELA ARE "DISILLUSIONED" OVER THE OUTCOME OF THE CUBAN CRISIS BUT THAT THE DIRECTORIO REVOLUCIONARIO ESTUDIANTIL (DRE, REVOLUTIONARY STUDENT DIRECTORATE) AND ALPHA 66 INTEND TO CONTINUE PROMOTING SMALL-SCALE ATTACKS ON CUBA.

4. FIELD DISSEM: STATE, CINCLANT, CINCARIB. END OF MESSAGE

ACTION: ACS, NAVY, AF, JCS, OSD INFO: DCS OP DA IN 4722

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