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104-10103-10187 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (04/13/1966)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch71968 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10103-10187. 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992







                                                       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 BLANCO Rico of Batista's Military
                       Intelligence (SIM).  Fleeing to the USA, he
                       became involved in military planning and purchasing
                       arms until 1February  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-FEU.r af-t -dican-----ei
                       studies at Havana University.  In 1961,, after
                       his term ended, he terminated his _connection
                       witi-   ?Tjre  uc5     f srious  disagreements
                       with Castro and Guevara.

 OPERATIONAL SUMMARY:  1.  In March 1961, CUBELA went to the Latin
              ----         Ameriar  Peace Conference. in Mc    -
                           The was contacted by a personal friend,
                           Carlos Tepedino (AMWHIP/1) who knew
                           Jack Stewart (in true name) from Havana
                           and  iitrod uced 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.

                                  SECE                       ; -     ..

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