NSC MEETING (411TH), 16 JULY 1959 WITH ATTACHED DOCUMENT TITLED "NSC BRIEFING -

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I. Diaz Lanz case has aroused Castro, as veil as most other Cuban

officials, against US for giving asylum and public attention to this "traitor,"

case dramatizes Communist danger for Cuban public,has called Diaz*cruel blow" to the

becoming irritable and Jumpy, but remainsuse any means, including force, to put over his program.

arms purchasing missions are in Europeargorifles from Belgium arrived in Havana last few da;

Urrutia's public attackuly) on Communismantl-CoamuDist statement by any Cuban officialthough it was coupled with attacks on US re Diaz Lanz.

accused Communists of trying to make Cuba an instrument

of the Soviet cold war against the US and said Communists are traitors to Cuban revolution.

anti-Communist comments were deleted by Castroreply to Diaz Lanz' letter of resignation.

Six Chinese Communist "newsmen" now in Cuba, some of them preparing to set up new Chinese-language newspaper to serve Cuba's Chinese community, the largest in Latin America.

"Che" Guevara, now in India, contacted Communists there on foreign policy of non-alignment, according to CIA source.

A. Guevara told Indlao Communists that Cuba's bands arc sor tied by presence in Cuba of US naval base at Guantanaao, but Cuba will eventually be rid of it, ac Nasser acted re Suez Canal, and then Cuba can show true foreign policy colors.

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