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180-10142-10238 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/07/1978)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch82622 and id is 1 raw text is: 180-10142-10238  2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
DRAFT - MDC - 11/7/78 o. -                             Z3
Betsy Palmer
MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRATA CRISTIANO
t   'P  pF'r '  *(MDC)
e'er 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)   .    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          criticized the violence
prevlant in the Castro regime. (CIA/DDO  MDC Volume 3) This,
OpieR critic ismri                         -d-h--exriLtrato m Cuba and he
was g-r i~t d~a eC~ d~ tt~ T~U S.,.arriv1 -  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-e
one of the five original exile Cuban leaders
by the State Department and the E1aiaa CIA    sn 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  t, Jose Ignacio Rasco, Information
Report 00-K-3,233,366, 8/16/62) Rasco remained head of the
u- NOT EPRODUCE
REIURN TO CIA

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