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176-10036-10027 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F_ KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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TITLE Fidel Castro's Coming Visit to Moscow and Algiers
DATE 4/23/1963
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DATE OF LAST REVIEW 9/10/2000
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COMMENTS National Security Files, Box 38: Cuba 4/21/63-4/30/63. Box 1.
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Fidel Castro's Coming Visit to Moscow and Algiers
1 The initial report on ` Fidel Castro's forth-
coming . visit to. Moscow came from a
usually reliable
source withb excellent contacts in Cuban government circles
who obtained the information from a Cuban, government of-
ficial wbo bas been an intimate acquaintance for many
years.and wbo has excellent high-level contacts' thfough -
out the Cuban leadership. The usually reliable source
obtained the information on 25 March The report was
disseminated to the- Intelligence community
on 27 March
and , reported in, the Current Intelligence Bulletin dated
29: March.
2 ; The substance of the report_ was tbat, despite
bis strong criticism 0f tbe Soviet Union; particularly
concerning Its actlons during the missile crisis; 'Fidel:
Castro: is not blinded to tbe need "for ` Cuba to maintain
good diplomatic relations with the entire ""socialist
camp Castro was planning, according to the report,
to go to loscow for tbe' May. Day celebrations He:" was
planning however to remain in Moscow only_ three 'days _
It was' his;
inteetion;
according to the' report to teli
Khrushchev, In' effect_ that wthe USSR must assist Cuba
but_ must at the. same time understand tbat Castro does not
intend to be a "docile satellite_
3_ Information from the sane source and sub-source
was dissenitated to the intelligence comunity
on 30
March indicating that Castro was intending to visit,Algeria
on tbe same trip tbat took him to Moscow_ This was; re
ported in;the Current Itelligence:Buljetin on 1 ApriL:
4 The ,substance of tbe second report was that
Castro" "plans to vislt Algeria in conpection Withi" the
visit to Moscow and that Algeria' and,the USSR are: the . only
two countrles. he was planning_ to visit 'on that Tbe
Algerian visit was planned in view of the: "special: rela=
tionship'_that is said to" exist between Castro and Bei
Bella and also between Castro and Algerian Defense Minister
Boumedienne:
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