Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the recent crisis the DRE was again in the news. Its newsletter issued early last week purported to pinpoint the size and location of Russian missile bases under construction in Cuba. Yesterday its leaders expressed disappointment that the United States had reached an accord with the Soviet Union before removing Premier Castro by force of arms...
...long, often bloody history of revolt against oppression in Cuba...
...year after Castro's rise to power, many DRE leaders began charging that Fidel had betrayed the ideals of the revolution. Castro reciprocated by jailing, shooting, or exiling most of the right-wing element in the Directorate. In late 1960 the disaffection became so widespread the DRE leadership left Cuba and set up exile headquarters in Miami...
...Directorate's principal current activities are travelling around the world generating support for anti-Castro movements and publishing intelligence reports from its agents inside Cuba...
...Acting Secretary- General U Thant contributed to the lessening of tension with an announcement, yesterday, that he would go to Cuba at Prime Minister Fidel Castro's invitation to discuss the Cuban crisis. A U.N. spokesman said that Thant expects to leave for Cuba tomorrow...