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104-10103-10185 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (4/14/1966)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch38340 and id is 1 raw text is: 10 3-1085 14 April 1966 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD: SUBJECT: The CUBELA Trial Briefly, Rolando Pubela Secades has been in personal contact with staffers .Qf 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 t'AR and a member of the Political Bureau of the CCCP; a third member of this group was Cadte. 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 travelb Liirougiiout 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,

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