29 June 1964

ANOROLO'S MEETING IN NEW ORLEANS, 24 June 1964

SUBJECT: ANOROLO-1's Image and Philosophy

1. ANOROLO-1's preoccupation with his political image shows through when he inquired whether we suspected him of dictatorial leanings. He replied, in effect, that we entertained such suspicions and inclined toward taking his protestations of liberalism and fairness faire with a heavy dose of salt. Once in power, he would treat the 1940 era as a series of errors and run the country along authoritarian lines. Flattered by his implied inclusion in the line of succession, he only voiced mild dissent.

2. Comment: Considering the ambiguities of anonymity which ANOROLO-1 must opportunely, let alone leverage in shaping ANOROLO-1's political philosophy, we have conveyed to him in a manner of ways that we do not particularly care one way or the other; that we are not fancy him as a chosen instrument outside the category of ANOROLO-1 and that by extension he may have no intention of projecting any political aspirations he may harbor. There is also little doubt in his mind that we view his political stance in the ANOROLO driver's seat rather than any philosophical or professional stance as a position of political responsibility.

3. We pointed out to ANOROLO-1 that Liberation Day would find a penniless, bankrupt, and exhausted people, weary to death of politics and propaganda, craving to be left alone for a while to concentrate on subsistence. There will be no political infrastructure and merely refer to build and presumably called until elections would merely serve to debate the accuracy of parliamentary democracy as a means of viable at home, a means of just survival. We would restore Cuba's equilibrium and permit her to rebuild the infrastructure without which a democracy cannot properly function.

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