FREE CUBA
COMMITTEE – RFK DOCS
Suite 617
Albee Building ,
1426 G Street, NW
PORTLAND MAINE
PRESS-HERALD –
New York ’s
Freedom House and other specialists recently disclosed that 25 seasoned U.S.
military, Inter-American agreed that: Washington ’s
withholding of information on Cuba
“hinders the formation of American public opinion rather than obstructing the
enemy.” The meeting demanded publication of “the correspondence between Nikita
Khrushchev and the President during the October confrontation.” … Did Bay
of Pigs prisoner exchange serve as a cover for a Tito-style
reconciliation with Castro?....
Cuba ’s
leading naval base and chief Russian port of entry, Mariel, on the north coast,
is now reportedly fulfilling the role of a center for smuggling arms into a
number of Caribbean
countries. In mid-July, 84 truckloads of arms, spotted in Santa Lucia, were
loaded onto PT boats in Mariel for shipment to various Caribbean
points. Such shipments are frequent, according to Pinar del Rio
fisherman, Angel Fundora, who is now in this country.
Monday, June 10, 1963
June 28, 1963
August 23, 1963
August 23, 1963
Here’s a more in depth report on RFK docs regarding the Free
Cuba Committee released by the JFK Library. At first glance, I didn’t review
the bulk of the Oct. 62 missile crisis docs, that I’m not familiar with, but
instead focused on a few that I thought might be connected to JFK assassination.
The Cuban Counter-revolutionary Handbook looks useful.
Title:6-11: Cuba :
Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba
Date(s) of Materials:1963: 11 April-23 August, undated
Extent:88 digital pages
Series Name:
Series Number:09.
Collection:
Contributor:
Place(s):
Subject(s):
Digital Identifier:RFKAG-219-004
[BK Notes – I put these docs in chronological order.]
RFIAG-219-004-p0010
STATIONARY LETTERHEAD
CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR A FREE CUBA
Washington 5, DC
Phone 783-7505
SECRETARY
Daniel James
Members
Mariada Arensberg, Murray
Baron, Joesph Beirne, Nicholas Duke Biddle, Irving Brown, Adm. Arleigh A. Burke (Ret.), Dickey
Chapelle, Leo Cherne, Ernest Cuneo, Christopher
Emmet, John Fisher, Dr. Russell H. Fitzgibbon, Dr. Harry Gideonse, Francis R.
Grant, Paul Hall, Hal Hendrix, Sal B.
Hoffmann, Dr. Sidney Hook, Brig. Gen. Frank L. Howley (Ret.), Dr. Harry Kantor,
Rev. John LaFarge, S.J., Clare Booth Luce,
Eugene Lyons, Brig. Gen. S.L.A. Marshall (Ret.), Henry Mayers, Arthur G. McDowell,
Benjamin F. McLaurin, Dr. Hans J. Morgenthau, Edgar Ansel Mowrer, John
O’Rourke, Bonaro Overstreet, Bishop James A. Pike, Virginia Prewett, Victor Riesel, Dr. John P. Roche, Dr. Robert
Strausz-Hupe, Dr. Frank Tannenbaum, Edward Teller, William Vanden Heuvel, Vice
Adm. Charles Wellborn, Jr. (Ret.), Dr. Arthur P. Whitaker (incomplete)
[BK Notes: A copy of this same letterhead, with the names
down the left side of the paper, is also in Harry Dean’s manuscript]
RFKAG-219-004-p.0011
THE NEW YORK TIMES – MAY
10, 1963
44 In U.S.
Establish Committee to Fight Communism in Cuba
By Peter Kihss
Group Dedicated To A Free Cuba
Embarks On Long, Difficult Road
By a coincidence, in the very week in which Life magazine
publishes its exciting k25-page account of the April 1961 invasion of Cuba
at the Bay of Pigs , 44 prominent Americans assembled to
form a new group dedicated to overthrow of the Castro regime….
OTHER CLIPS – RFKAG-219-004-p.0012-0013-
RFKAG-219-004-p.0023
p.10 of THE WASHINGTON DAILY-NEWS, FRIDAY JUNE 7
COLUMN BY VIRGINIA PREWETT
Action Now Is Urged To Oust Castro
[BK Notes: Virginia Prewett was one of David A. Phillips’
media assets who acknowledged knowing both Phillips and “Maurice Bishop.”]
A capsule referendum of the U.S.
non-governmental leadership has urged President Kennedy to publicize the full
facts of the U.S.-Cuba position and to remove both Fidel Castro and the Soviet
presence from Cuba
“without delays.”
ALSO – JERSEY CITY , NJ ,
JERSEY JOURNAL – MAY
29, ’63
THE FREEDOM HOUSE has another committee “Free Cuba” in their
headquarters in the Freedom House, 20 W. 40th
St. New York 18, and among
them are Harry D. Giddeon, Leo Cherne, George B. Ford and others. A list will
show you that the members are Americans, not Cubans….
[BK Notes – From USSR Oswald wrote three letters to Leo
Cherne at the International Rescue Committee, seeking financial help to return
home.]
ALSO – KEY WEST, FLA. CITIZEN – MAY 24, ’63
IN WASHINGTON
– By Ralph De Toledano
Six days before President Kennedy admitted to the American
people that the Soviets had implanted medium and intermediate range missiles in
Cuba, White House aide McGeorge Bundy….told a TV audience that “There is no
present likelihood” that the Castro Communists and the Kremlin would “attempt
to install a major offensive capacity on the island”….
RFKAG-219-004-p.0074
FREE CUBA
NEWS – PUBLISHED BY CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR A FREE CUBA
– Vol. 1, No. 2, May 11, 1963 .
Editor Daniel James (cover)
Also – Vol. 1, No. 10, July 20, 1963 (cover)
p. 7 – ARMS SHIPPED FROM MARIEL TO CARIBBEAN POINTS
RFKAG-219-004-p0007
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
Proceedings and debates of the 88th Congress,
First Session
What Can We Do About Cuba ?
Report of a Freedom House Conference
Speech of Hon. Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut
in the Senate of US
RFKAG-219-004-p.0003.JPG
From: John P. Rocha
Subject: Committee for a Free Cuba
On June 20, 1963 ,
I attended a meeting of the Citizens Committeee for a Free Cuba in New
York . I joined the committee originally because I
supported the statement of goals that it published, because several of my
commnderos? in what might be called the “Betancourt-Bosch” tendency in Latin
American policy were involved…The luncheon speaker, the Venezuelan Ambassador
to the U.S., gave an address which was right down the ADA line…Clare Booth
Luce, Leo Cheren proposed that a special committee be set up to redraft the
proposalk. I was made a member…This leaves the future of the committee
thoroughly obscure. It exists now because Dan James got $40,000 and a promise
of another $40,000 from a Puerto Rican businessman named Bosh (no relation to
the Dominican…) The key question is, What is James up to?...
RFKAG-219-004-p0002
Handwritten note: Call to Ralph Dungan 8/15k to call back
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
BUREAU OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS
COORDINATOR OF CUBAN AFFAIRS
DATE – August 8, 1963klj
TO: Justice – Mr. Nolan
I am enclosing material on the Citizens Committee for a Free
Cuba which we discussed on the phone the other day.
Signed
John Hugh Crimmins
Rm. 6263 klARA
Code 182, x4588 or x4795
RFKG-219-004-P0001K.JPG
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
LOGO
6-11
Handwritten
File Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba
RFKG-219-004-P0001K.JPG
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
LOGO
6-11
Handwritten
File Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba
Last action – call to Sam Baron, wk of 8/19 to say that
Administration was mildly disapproving but not really against this outfit. Suggested
that he contack John Crimmins office and appointment made for him there with
Bill Bowdler – agreed with Walter Sheridan that it might be helpful to have Sam
Shoup.? We should not be in postion of supporting or even strongly encouraging
this, however.
Signed – RFK?
I think it says "helpful to have Sam there".
ReplyDeleteI also think it's signed by "jeh" - our friend Mr. Hoover.
Oswald was run by u.s. intell during the so called "defection". the cia was running a dangle defector operation during this era. he later fell into a cia operated cuaban role out of 544 camp st. his background was shaped into a pro-castro cover. in the clandestine world both sides are covered. any assassin against jfk would be anti-castro, the fact that a pro-castro ite was blamed is a blatent frame job. Kennedy's enemies were cia and mafia backed anti-castro Cubans who used the the free cuba committee as a cover.
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