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That is what Carlos Franqui, a Cuban emigre writer living in Italy, contends in Family Portrait, a chronicle of the Castro years to be published in Spain next month. According to Franqui, an old Castro comrade who left Cuba years ago in anger over Moscow's increasing influence, the incident occurred Oct. 27, 1962, at the height of the U.S.Soviet confrontation over the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. On that day, the Cuban President was visiting a Soviet missile base in Pinar del Rio, southwest of Havana. When a U-2 appeared on the base's radar...
...would Castro have fired the missile? Franqui writes that Castro went to the base "with intent" to create an incident that would tell him if "there was going to be a war or not." While the U-2 downing was no secret, there has never been any hint before that Castro fired the missile, nor any corroboration now of the Franqui version. U.S. intelligence officials find Franqui's account "intriguing" but point out that if Castro did push the button, the SA-2 would not have hit the plane unless the Soviets had already been tracking it on radar...
Avance was no great loss. Its staff which last January seized the paper from anti-Castro Editor-Publisher Jorge Zayas, was more distinguished for unswerving Fidelity than for journalistic competence; Cuban Press Boss Carlos Franqui was simply heeding the cold voice of economic reason when he decided last week that Avance's circulation of 5,000 (down from 20,000 under Zayas) no longer justified consumption of scarce newsprint...
Rockets for What? Such U.S. actions only seemed to increase the Cuban hysteria. Touring Russia. Carlos Franqui, editor of Castro's Revolución, begged Khrushchev to repeat his promise of Russian rockets to protect Cuba. Said Khrushchev noncommittally: "I want that declaration to be, in effect, symbolic." Insisted Franqui: "Are the rockets ready?" The real question was: Ready for what...
...Bolshevik Juan Marinello, Cuba's Communist Party, which got back into business the day Batista fell, is today at the peak of its influence. Its 24,000 members form the only active political party on the island. Card carriers or sympathizers in key civilian spots include: Carlos Franqui, former proofreader on the Red daily Hoy and now editor of Castro's paper La Revolution (circ. 80,000); David Salvador, chief of the labor federation; Francisco Alonso, head of the National Fine Arts Commission; Vicentina Antuña, chief of the National Institute of Culture...