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3. Rico Galan said that he received the impression upon his arrival at the Mexico City airport, that passengers returning from Cuba were being treated with some scrutiny. Rico Galan said that he was on the same flight as Joaquin Eustacio Armas, the Cuban Ambassador to Mexico. He said that the Immigration room at the airport was crowded to overflowing, and that he was met by Joaquin Bernal, Assistant Chief of Protocol of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Relations and received certain other considerations which are uncommon for an arriving ambassador.

4. Rico Galan said that while in Cuba he saw Dr. Enrique Cabrera Costa, prominent leftist Mexican cardiologist. Rico Galan said that Cabrera was happy in Cuba, that he enjoyed prestige and the esteem of the Cubans, and that he was doing his best with the means available to him.

5. Rico Galan said he planned to write a series of four or five articles. His articles will deal with subjects of "theoretical interest" and of the problems the Cuban Government is having carrying out the purposes of its revolution.

Field Comments:

1. It was reported previously that Rico Galan had agreed to go to Cuba to interview Castro concerning his trip to the Soviet Union. He left Mexico on 28 May. (Ref. 1964-7326).

2. It was also reported previously that Cabrera went to Cuba in October 1962 as a guest of the Cuban Government. Cabrera was dismissed from the Mexican National Cardiological Institute in July 1962 because of his leftist activities. (Ref. 1964-6902).