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104-10265-10118 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (10/20/1959)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch78439 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10265-10118 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 SECRET 20 0ctARer 1959 FOAAflLU 2)R TkHE WRJRD StUBJh.1s Ho hlir;hta of Tape-ilooorded Conveviation in 1itaoi Jetwoen Nr. W1i131 D. Prley And an Uhiocntifid Cuban Ouring Porlod 17-16 October 1. On 20 OCtobnr the underrAgnod and of w/3 liatcnd to the pley-baok of a toy;, brought to Whlnyton from MeAd Sand gtven to Colotel ring by 4r. Pawley on 19 October, Whlch wee a recirding of Kr. Pnwley'a convertatione with two Cubans during the pertod 17-10 Oci.obor. The first converastion was with an utrdetntified Cuban, believed to bo a macnber cf a group of wi-,lthy anti,A99TJ1 Cubana, sc+:b.ea of which hve talked to Mr. Pawley recently about their plan. for asbotugo of tho coming aurar harvoat as reportad in UI)A-32 dated 2 October. Thm second Cuban waa AJTA(-1, a Cuban journalist of oprottonal intorest to Station Habana,. and a soparsto nrxormadum in subnitted on that conversation. 2. . The unidantifiod Cuban, who had soMwhat of an accent and spoke indietinctlv, was difficult to understand. 'e menticncd a meeting with vomo of our paople who came up from Cuba to discuse plans. He said hie group had been contactod by a representative of ,Oneral Jose Elautorio P1DRA7.A, leader of Cuban revolutionary groups in the Dominican Ropublic, who wanted to know what action their' group had takon and taes told that they had a plan to start uabotage. The Cuban said the FEDWDA2A representative said their group (the PDRAZA. group) had four provinces organised in Cuba, mentioning Conaguey and Santa Clara, and that they had two provinces yet to be organi sed - Habana and Ma'tonszas. 3. The .Cuban said his group needed two things -- moral backing and monay; he pointed out that Cubans in Cuba are afraid to start an underground movement, and there .was no way to raise funds, etc. Mr. Fawley gave him no encouragement on the money angle, saying that even if there were Akerlcans willing to run the risk of. becomia involved in Cuban revolutionary sotivities by furniahing money for a&.ch a movement, which he doubted, he felt that at the present time it would be like putting money down a rat-hole for the following reasons, (1) there is no unity among .the anti-CAMD groups, and there are a0 least 10 that he knowe of who are working absolutely indepoendently of one another; and (2) CASTI) Ls, in control of the country and has the support of a larro. nuner of Cubann, especially the under-privileged. Xr. Pawley said he felt the Cuban econooic situation was woreening fast and that if it gvte bad enough, a large nuber of Cubana will turn on CASTMI; but until that time coes it would be dangerous to try to organise a revolutionary uovetmant. SECRET

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