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104-10171-10043 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (8/28/1962)

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             28 Augut16


M U4OUWN   FOR TE  RECORD

SU&JECT   Anti-Castro Cuban Activities at the Eigh   W orld Touth Festival


       1.  This memorandum  ill outline the activities of the anti-Castro
  Cubandelegation  that CIA sent to Helsinki for the Eighth World Youth
  Festival, 29 July - 6.August 1962.

       2.  The delegation vas sponsored overtly by the Directorlo Revolu-
  tionario-Estudiantil (DRE) and consisted of nine mebers.. Its aisqion
  was, to nullify the effect of the Castroite Cuban delegaton to the-
  festival and to seek to persuade. likely defectors.from that delegation,

        . On the opening day of the festival, as delegatione paraded through
  the streets to the stadium, five DRE dAelegates unf-urledsibanner imnfront
  of the Cuban delegation demanding that Castro ree bi  tbousandes - parit-
  ical prisoners. (Reports vary on. the actual text of the banner.) The
  Cuban delegaton broe  reanks from the parade and attacked the DRE members,
  pushing them backward into a crovd of Finnish spectators. The Finna rallied
  to the.aid of-the DRE members-and a..General ielee follouad ,much to the
  later embarrassment of the Cuban delegation and the festival sponsors.

      4.  This incident was unrelated to the Finnish rioting that followed
* for tbree days after the festival opened. But it is likely that the in-
cident  helped to exacerbate the anti-communist tension that caused the
rioting.   Apparently with this view; Finnish police piIed  up two of the
-DRE members and questioned Lbem.  After releasing them, the- police sought
the  tvo-again.. Ukfortunately, the two DRE members happened to beriding
in  a car that collided with a police car on the night of 1 August. The
two  vere.jailed overnight and released the next day with the auggestion
that  they leave Finland as soon as they could. Accordinily,  the whole DRE
delegation  left on 2 August to go to Germany to attend a Christian Demo-
cratic  youth meeting.

      5   CIA Station in          reported that the DRE group's presence-at
 the test & 1 was effective.


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