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104-10174-10037 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (02/01/1960)

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 SUBJ'T:   i:ecting withcenry P. Lopezl>t t e Statler-iilton Hotel on
           1 February 190  from 1000 hours to 1530 hours.


      1.  Those present were ..rs. Vidal FP/?A,                 :illiams)
 PP/NAD, Chtrle3 Penney (Twiss) './P, and  hi.lip oomne    ompson) ,,/A/PP.

      2.  Er. Lopez)iavc a reort  of hisO ontacts in Cuba afteroreceiving
 hi  motes which - ere brought up b; r. (jroelnd given to iir.(Lopez)by
 .  Soomey)   I': '&pebsaim  t    he hzd give:n biog;raphical sketches of
 Echevarria, Pasco, Laumano  6atista, ;artinaz rnga, Ruben do Leon and
 Sanches Arongo to the Station ncoresentative. ha had also turned over a
 rport  of Martinoz iragn on the .:ims o, the ?nc.; erc:cion de la ievol.cion.

      3.  Nr.C opez3) revort was taped and a transcript will be forwarde
 to 'H tr   /PA.

      It. Specific recowerdations z:ade tl. hr. (opez)ncluded having
 Herbert hatthwa  ;;o to havana anid try to in'luence Castro. ;;atthews
 has a good mputation  throuwhotut the 25th of J,) r Xovement arid could
 help in an apnro.ach to Castro. A visit br I.i .urrw to do a broadcast
 on Cuba was also recomended.  Mx. (Lope)feels that Castro will be in
 pcaer for a long time Lo co.-e and that we should tr: to influence him.
 he is serioslsyr sffcted by;. ayl defections a-,d these 'iht be erccrc-ed,
 so Castro can be hit by defections of overworked and countennanded officials.
 Two ren who were mentioned as ripe for defection are itufo in Hacienda
 and Cpero in Comarcio.  i.  Opez)lso   rectlnended contact with ?adre
 Alberto de Castro in Caracas. This padre was fcrrerly  idel's instructor.
 When Fidel was in Caracas he was scolded br 'ire Castro whom idel
 treated with great respect according to 2osco. The Paare and Fidel scent
 about one and one half hours alone together at ths time. This priest
 should be checked as a possible influence on Fidel. The possibility of
 a split between Fidel arid Faul should be exploited. Raul is cold ar.d
 rmean an tho fact that he is .idol's brother d-:es not carr too raich
weight.






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