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180-10142-10409 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/14/1978)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch82649 and id is 1 raw text is: 180-10142-10409  2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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Betsy Palmer                       DO Not Reproduce
MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRATA CRISTIANO (MDC)
After 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 infil-
trated by Communists. This political atmosphere gave rise
to the creation of underground organizations such as the
Christian Democratic Movement of Cuba (MDC).l  Proclaiming
the doctrine of Christianity as its foundation, the MDC
published a manifesto in March, 19602 denouncing Communism
and strongly advocating the free enterprise system.3 One
of the founders of the MDC, 35-year-old law professor,
Dr. Jose Ignacio Rasco, was elected head of the organization4
and immediately criticized the violence prevalant in the
Castro regime.5 This public criticism produced pressure on
him to leave Cuba and he arrived in Miami on April 22, 1960.6
By June, Rasco had allied himself and the MDC with the Frente
Revolucionario Democratico (FRD) and thus became one of the
five original exile Cuban leaders brought together by the
State Department and the CIA to form the nucleus of a Cuban
government-in-exile. 8
After the Bay of Pigs invasion, the MDC split into factions.9
Rasco remained head of the largest faction and organized
delegations in Miami, New York, Chicago, Venezuela and Cuba.10
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