Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...except for "about 15%" that is not productive. Later, another organization came to the CIA's attention: the People's Revolutionary Movement (M.R.P.), led and founded by Manuel ("Manolo") Ray,* 36, a soft-spoken engineer whose talent for organization had made him leader of the highly effective underground movement against Batista in Havana. Ray became Castro's Minister of Public Works, and stood it until November 1959, shortly after Castro jailed one of his comrades-in-arms in the Sierra Maestra, Huber Matos, for objecting to Communist infiltration of the revolutionary army. Ray angrily resigned his Cabinet...
...midst of the Frente buildup, the underground sabotage operations of the M.R.P. inside Cuba came almost to a halt for lack of matériel. In November, Manolo Ray sneaked out of Cuba to the U.S., hoping to win some support. Anxious to collect all anti-Castro organizations under one umbrella, the CIA offered to help M.R.P. on condition that it join Varona's Frente. The M.R.P. refused. The M.R.P. asked that arms be dropped to guerrillas in Escambray. The CIA, say the exiles, finally agreed, but on condition that the weapons be stamped with the Frente...
...president nor his council had much to say about the military campaign that was gathering force. All now say that the timing was wrong, that an invasion should not have been mounted until after a revolutionary mood had been established inside Cuba by a growing wave of sabotage and underground organization. Nevertheless, they went along. The day they elected Miró, Frente members asked him: "Do you think we are going to know the plan?" Miró assured them, "Yes, we will know the plan." One of the Frente members asked Miró, "Do you think the U.S. will back...
...rest of the 500,000-man army still seemed loyal to De Gaulle-as far as anyone could tell. All communications with the outside world were broken off, except for cryptic messages over Radio Algiers ("The palm tree is in the oasis") apparently meant for the right-wing underground in France. But the mutineers found small sympathy among mainland Frenchmen, who are heartily sick of the Algerian bloodshed and gave Charles de Gaulle an overwhelming mandate last January to negotiate a settlement on the basis of Algerian self-determination...
...Archives. All that seems certain is his arrival in Palestine in 1938. Posing as a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, he was eagerly welcomed into the ranks of Haganah, the Jewish underground army. Beer served in the 1948 war against the Arab states, but was kicked out of the Israeli army in 1950 by Chief of Staff Yigael Yadin, who recalls today that Beer "could do a brilliant job of military planning, but you always had to suspect his motives." Despite a sneering, officious manner, Beer rose swiftly in government circles. In 1954, he dropped out of the Marxist...