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104-10103-10187 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (4/13/1966)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch10060 and id is 1 raw text is: 13 April 1966 NAME Rolando CUBELA Secades DPOB 19 January 1933, Cuba MARITAL STATUS Twice married. Was divorced by his first. wife by whom he had one child. Has one child by second wife. BIOGRAPHIC DATA Rolando CUBELA Secades was one of the activist student leaders who assisted in the overthrow ..of Batista and later turned against the Castro regime.because of disaffection with communism. As early as March 1952, CUBELA was working against Batista. With student friends, including the four Humboldt Street martyrs made famous in the Marcos Rodriguez trial, CUBELA re-instituted the University Student Federation or Directorate FEU or DR, as it is called. In 1956, CUBELA participated in the assassination of Lt. Col. Antonio BLANO Rico of Batista's Military Intelligence (SIM). Fleeing to the USA, he became involved in military planning and purchasing arms until 1iFebruary 1958, when he and 16 other students returned clandestinely and into the Escambray to fight. He led a famous column, became the overall DR military leader. -Although the DR joined military forces with Castro's 26 July Movement, they refused Ernesto Che Guevarra's military leadership, fighting only under CUBELA'S orders, They occupied the Presidential Palace when Batista fled on 1 January 1959 and initially declined to turn it over to Guevara and Castro. In October 1959, CUBELA became president of the government- -sponsored-PE-- afiez :edical-- studies at Havana University. In 1961, after his term ended, he terminated his connection Wirn re C111 serious disagreements- with Castro and Guevara. OTERATIONAL SUMMARY: r. In March 1961,-CUBELA.went to the Latin Americar eace Confax-ence in M - HE was cETcted by a personal friend, ACrlos Tenpdino (AMWHIP/1) who knew (in true name) from Havana ndnintrouced them. The KUBARK objective of the meeting was to determine whether CUBELA was anti-Castro and, if so, to bring his views to the attention of the authorities in the United States. SECRET .

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