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![handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch71967 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10103-10185] 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
14 April 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD:
SUBJECT: The CUBELA Trial
Briefly, Rolando Oubela Secades has been in personal contact with
staffers .of this agency in 1961, .1962, 1963, 1964 and, for the last
time, in February 1965 shortly prior to his return to Cuba.
The Record of Cubela's long conversation with Manuel Artime Buesa
on 30 December 1964 (reported by Artime via Nestor Sanchez in the
attached Memo dated 3 January 1956) clearly indicates the extent
of Cubela's probings and high-level military contacts and his
attempts to form an internal group: which would work together to form
a non-Communist government in Cuba in the event of Fidel Castro's
demise.
During the reported conversation of the trial, there is no indication
whatsoever that Cubela revealed anything. more than his weakness,
playboy attitudeet cetera in plotting with a man like Artime to
assassinate Castro. Under private interrogation to date there is no
known possibility that Cubela has revealed the names of the real
military leaders with whom he really was in contact and with whom
he discussed the overthrow of Castro, because none of these major
individuals, whose names are known to us, have been arrested or
detained. Ameijeiras, of course, does fall in this category. However
he, like Juan Nuiry Sanchez and Victor Bordon Machado who are
reportedly arrested, falls .in the category of known personal friends
of Cubela. The other military leaders whom Cubela contacted who
have not been arrested are apparently not known to be personal or
close friends or acquaintances of Cubela. Among the latter are Vice
Minister of the Armed Forces and Chief of the General Staff Cmdte.
Belarmino Castilla Mas and the former chief, Cmdte. Dr. Sergio del
Valle Jimenez, who is stili a Vice Minister of the .LrAR and a member
- of the Political Bureau of the CCCP; a third member of this group
was Cmdte. Guillermo Garcia Frias, former Chief of the Army of the
West but currently a member of the Political Bureau of the CCCP.
Garcia Frias has been almost constantly with Fidel Castro, even on'
- ravel5 irougiiout the island, and for this reason was replaced am
Commanding Officer of the Army of the West in the past few months.
Several careful readings of the entire proceedings of the trial
appear to indicate that as soon as Cubela learned the extent of the
regime's knowledge of the plot to assassinate the Premier he adopted
an an immediate line of defense his own weakness, emotional in-
stability, deterioration,- liking for gay parties, the 'dolce vita'
life et cetera, as the common denominator to make himself and the
few friends known to be involved through the betrayal by AMHAM-1
as the sole responsibles for the plot.. When asked had he been.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.jfk/jfkarch71967&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)