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180-10142-10238 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/7/1978)

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                              MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRATA CRISTIANO
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                      hNer  Castro's assumption of power in 1959, it became

               evident to many Cubans that political parties were being

               surpressed and the 26th of July Movement was being infiltrated

               by Communists.  This political atmosphere gave rise to the

               creation of underground organizations such as the Christian

               Democratic Movement of .Cuba (MDC). (CIA/DDO, MDC Volume 3,

               Objectives of MDC)  tsi6  the doctrine of Christianity as its

               foundation, the MDC published a manifesto in March,1960  (Ibid)

               denouncing Communism  and strongly advocating the free enter-

               prise system.  (HSCA #009538, Item 4, p. 2, FBI #105-87909-5,

               1/30/61)  One of the founders of the MDC, 35-year-old law

               professor, Dr. Jose Ignacio Rasco, was elected head of the

               organization  (Ibid) and';e   Jcriticized   the violence

               prevlant  in the Castro regime.  CIA/DDO  MDC Volume 3)  This

               pan  criticism                                    Cuba and he

                         ~ a r riv i4+- in Miami on

               April 22, 1960.  (HSCA #009538, Item 4, p. 2, FIB #105-87909-5,

               1/30/61)     June, Rasco had allied himself and the MDC with

               the Frente Revolucionario Democratico (FRD) (Ibid)  and ser-Ye4

               ed one of the five original exile Cuban leaders

               by  the State Department and the Hamana CIA-sAtion to form the

               nucleus of a Cuban government-in-exile.  (Give Us This Day by

               E.  Howard Hunt, Popular Library Edition, pp. 43-44.

                      After  the Bay of Pigs invasion, the MDC split into

                factions. (CIA/DCD docuF\pt, Jose Ignacio Rasco, Information

                Report 00-K-3,233,366, 8/16/62) Rasco remained head of the

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