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![handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch42239 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-1017410037
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L February 1960 Do T p eO
SUBJ'CTs Eecting with!eney P. Lope&at t e Statler-hilton Hotel on
1 February .190 fror 1000 hours to 1530 hours,
1. Those present were ..rs. Vidal FP/?A, (.illiams)
PPAAD, Charleo Penney (Twiss) .1/P, and omrpson) HA/PP.
2. i:r. (pez)ave a re-ort of hiso ontacts in Cuba afteroreceiving
h 2 notes which wre brcurht up b, kr_ 1u]nd given to M'r.Lopez)by
r1 Krx.ope said that he hzd gi-ven biographical sketches of
£clarma-zrzasco, Laureano 6atista, Nartines draga, '.uben do Leon and
Sanchez Arrngo to the btation roresentative. ie had also turned over a
report of Hartinos Fraga on the aims o! the 2.ever:cion do la KrevoL:cion.
3. Hr. Lopeas) revort was taped and a transcript will be forwardjed
to f7! by P'/PA.
I. Specific recomm-endations made t ; hr. 6oez)ncluded having
Herbert !:atthewe :o H havana sand try to Lnluence Castro, ;1attheus
has a good reputation throu.-hout the 26th of J Ely Novement arid could
help in an approach to Castro. A visit b! &I -urrw to do a broadcast
on Cuba was also recommended. MA (opes)feel3 that Castro will be in
pcwer for a long time Lo co.-e and that we should tr: -o influence him.
lie is seriouly affected by any dafectiors a'd these xi-ht be encc1'r-ced,
s Castro cai b-e hit by defecticns of overworked and counternanded officials.
Two men who were mentioned as ripe for defection are Rultfo in Hacienda
rnd Capero in Comoro. .o i o. pez)also recev::ended contact with ?adre
Alberto de Castro in Caracas. This padre was farrery 'idel's instructor.
When Fidel was in Caracas he was scolded by Fre Castro whom idel
treated with great respect according to Zosco, The Paare and Fidel scent
about one and one half hours alone together at this time. This priest
should be checked as a possible influence on Fidel. The possibility of
a split between Fidel arid Raul should be exploited. Raul is cold ar.d
mean an4 tbo fact that he is F`idol's brother d':es not carl;* too mch
weight.
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