Directorio
Revolucionario Estudiantil
Students Revolutionary Directorate
[REF:
Cuban Counter Revolutionary Handbook 10 October 1962 by
the CIA.
FBI HQ file
number 109-584-3387; NARA RIF Number
124-10279-10032]
[NOTE: The copies were very hard to transcribe
because of
poor photo reproduction. At points where the words were
unreadable,
three dots
(...) were inserted to indicate a missing word or words.
Words in
brackets are not contained in the original. FURTHER
NOTE: Please
consider the date,
10 Oct. 1962, when evaluating the organizations.]
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COUNTER
REVOLUTIONARY HANDBOOK
LEADING ORGANIZATION
I. IDENTIFYING DATA
A Common Title or
Abbreviation: D. R. E.
B. Title: Directorio
Revolucionario Estudiantil
Students
Revolutionary Directorate
C. Affiliation with Other
Groups: Left CRC Mar 1962; formerly part of MRR.
D. Political Alignment and Basic
Principles: Apolitical student organization;
anti-communist;
strong Catholic background; dedicated to overthrow of
present
government; for political, cultural, educational freedom and
establishment of a strong national student union.
E. Leading Personalities: In
U. S.
: Luis FERNANDEZ-ROCHA Rodriguez, Sec Gen; Juan Manuel
SALVAT
Roque; Pedro YNTERIAN Garcia; General FATJO Miyares; Luis
GUTIERREZ;
Bernabe PENA; Isidro BORJA; Elio MAS Hernandez; Ernesto
FERNANDEZ
Travieso. In Cuba; Alberto MULLER Quintana, Orig. Sec
Gen, in
prison; Antonio GARCIA-CREWS, in prison; Miguel GARCIA
Armengol, in
prison; Hans HENGLER, in prison; Ricardo MENENDEZ, in
prison; Roberto
QUINTAIROS Santiso, Gen Coord.; Julio Cesar HERNANDEZ Rojo,
executed
Oct. 1962; Antonio CENTURION; Lester GARCIA Rosales, Civil
Natl Coord;
Juan PEREIRA Varela, killed.
II. HISTORY
A. Date and Place of Origin: 12
Sept. 1960. U. S.
B. Principal Activities to
Date:
Sabotage, TV intrusion operations; participated in April
1961 invasion
with numerous arrests and executions; mid 1961 propaganda
campaign
which saved the lives of Alberto MULLER and Miguel GARCIA;
publish
newspaper TRINCHERA; Infiltration operations; raid on Habana
24 August
1962.
III. CURRENT STATUS
A. Estimated Membership: Cuba
2,500 U. S. 500 ELSEWHERE 150
B. Current Activities:
Re-organizing of
DRE in Cuba with better compartmentation; no further MRR
association
due to MRR penetration and numerous DRE arrests mid-1962;
propaganda
campaigns in US and Latin America against Communist Cuba
through media
of radio broadcasts, newspaper insertions, ad hoc
demonstrations and
leaflet and pamphlet distribution; anti-communist political
action in
Latin American Universities and at international youth
conferences;
SALVAT issued statement Sept. 1962 that DRE would "attack
any Soviet
vessels seen in Cuban territorial waters" and warned of
further raids.
C. Support Facilities: Claim
reception
committees in Cub with safe housing and transportation;
communication
via courier and diplomatic pouch; open code, telephone and
telegraph. Financial support from CRC; political and
psych
activities have received clandestine U. S. support, but DRE
sometimes
resists U. S. sponsors and control because of disagreement
with U. S.
policy against activist operations.
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