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COUNTRY -Cuba D- ORT NO.
5LfiECT Cuiban Re-volutionry Air Farce (FaR) DATE DISTR.
Infr ;:.ion Corcerrin°g
Flquzpnent, and Loyalty of ?r'n1 NO. PAGES
to cove:-nent of Friel 7AT-0 Rjz
S.%E OF July 1959
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REFERENCES RD
CS-3/L08, 636
r': ACE L Cuba, uH.'aaa
D;TFE ACO. (28-20 Jtuly 1Q59) FIELD ;EP-RT NO.
SOURCE FVALUAT:CvS c za:'V A'PRA5SAL CF CONTENT 15TE..TAT!VF
SOURCE: . omrer __ber of the Cuear ar rd :'orces whe i_ sy;:t^t1c Jto ?edro 1-e5
DIAZ La.-., fcrncr FAR ct.Ief a:~ :F.-S a 1 of Cntent: 3.
- 1. There follows inforn-atlo., c~ he Cutasn Revolutionx-y Air :orce (FAR),
its strength, equip_-ent, pe , nCl, arnd trainring coiurses. *
a. Le-le whin, - .a: '`JJA weo replaced Pedro L::_ DIAZ
-Lanz as chief of t. e : A3, is not a pilot `Azself and he knows
nothing about ai r of t cr' abcut the ad ninjstraticr of an air
force. He has din=issed 19 officer c fro= wn :-7R since he
assu-mcd co==.d. in J::nc 199 several of whom vture a-crgr the
beet pil otz . thLe FAR. a( :. a yes-zan to Fidel CAS:h z0:ue,
Prine Minaister of -Cuba.
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b. Per so-nol -There ..re av-srozinately 1I1 pilots in the ?AR at
present., and cr'v :x or e : e of the - ar o-cor-petsnt. ThPe
majority of tie rc` :.- c4 ale fcrncer ?AiSTA p1e:r.ncl, and
most of the replacerns a :a repairs cn t :e aircraft are '
made lzy cannibal'-- 7. At on-' tine onz~ cf the t; officers
of the FAai establis . -c r:~rato.-y sohool in a.aoao,. in I.
Hiabana Provin~ce, for ;.ons xno wante'!-to tat'. the
exa~~tic~ fr 1 - r-in' -=.-A~ca 1959 :t.re were
illiterate: Fide. J tod the cc:!.:-.aing *of ficerthat j
* - there Wr1s no need for :ch *. .:nat~ons, ?. he _'Id not
trant fan~y boys' is. i. A., tut wariLed anstead pilots like
the Japanese suic!Ze :lt :o would ro Adn- they were told'
C. Status of Aircraft - The F.:? has the flF.. . aircraft:
* 1). Five ,rot panr.=, vr f f,:r of rhi:: are In !ly~ .;
CO.-4ition.. CA- RC is trying to .-at sore J+et planes
froa Venezuela. -
. .2).. Wenty Furies, only six of which arw in. flytn condition1
37. 'lour DC-3s. A
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