Cryptonym: AMTHEO-2
104-10234-10127: AMTHEO-2 MESSAGE: 4. ALTHOUGH CONTACTS HAVE BEEN MADE WITH
03/23/66: CIA document from Leo to Cuba Desk: "AMTHEO-2: MGE # (Unnumbered - possibly #32 in sequence): Dated: 8 March 1966. Received Cuba Desk: 23 March 1966: 4. Although contacts have been made with Camageyanos no one knows about mass arrests in the Camaguey Province recently. One contact 'SI' RPT 'SI' told me that he understood there had been arrests in Holguin (Oriente). I will continue investigating. 5. Although the rumors circulate increasingly since the arrest of Cubela I have been able to confirm with more or less certainty the following: The Raul-Fidel conflict has intensified to such an extent since the Cuban-Chinese conflict that direct control by Fidel of the armed forces (FAR) is considered certain..."
03/24/66: Transmittal of TDCS Information Report: Orig: Virginia B. Flynn, WH/C/RR/RE: "BASED ON: LX-3028. NP (AMTHEO-2). Liaison." - - - Pages 2-3: Intelligence Information Cable: "SOURCE AND APPRAISAL: A Cuban engineer, specializing in agronomy, who is now retired but previously was in the sugar-refining business. Source reliably conveys information reported to him. With the exception of the arrest mentioned in paragraph 2, which was witnessed by a friend, source did not identify his informants. 1. Rumors of intensified conflict between premier Fidel Castro Ruz and his brother Raul, who is minister of the revolutionary armed forces (FAR), have circulated increasingly since the arrest of Rolando Cubela Secades. It is said that since the Cuban-Chinese conflict differences between the two have reached such a point that direct control of the FAR by Fidel is considered certain. Raul is said to have requested minister of the interior Ramiro Valdes Menendez to resign but the latter replied that only Fidel could remove him. 2. In daylight hours in the Mariano section of Havana on 3 March 1966 an automobile of the G-2 ordered two motorcycle policemen to overtake another automobile carrying five FAR officers. The latter were disarmed by members of the G-2 and were then carried off under arrest in two cars..."