FIELD INFORMATION REPORT

COUNTRY: Cuba
SUBJECT: Comments of Victor Rico Galan on the Morale of the Cuban Intellectual
DATE OF REPORT: 1 July 1963
NO. PAGES: 1
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DATE OF INFO: 27 June 1963
PLACE & DATE ACQ.: Mexico, Mexico City (27 June 1963)
SOURCE: Persons (B) in close personal contact with Rico Galan. Appraisal of Content: 2.

On 27 June 1963, Victor Rico Galan, Mexican Marxist journalist and head of the National Press and Propaganda Committee of the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional (MLN - National Liberation Movement) rabidly anti-United States, pro-Cuba, Communist front organization, said that during his recent visit to Cuba he noticed the morale among Cuban intellectuals was very low. Rico Galan said that certain Cuban intellectuals do not understand the problems which exist for them, and others are not well informed. Rico Galan further said that although this problem is not openly discussed, there have been certain newspapers and magazines published in Cuba which pointed out lack of curiosity on the part of the Cuban intellectuals and called for a greater realization of the problems confronting them.

1. Field Comment:
Rico Galan went to Cuba on 25 May 1963 to interview Fidel Castro Ruz, Communist Prime Minister of Cuba, on Castro's trip to the Soviet Union. Rico Galan returned to Mexico on 22 June 1963. (Cf. IRON-7320, IRON-7466)

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