511. Memorandum of Discussion at the 442d Meeting of the National Security Council, Washington, April 28, 19601
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Mr. Dulles anticipated that May Day in Cuba would bring forth mass demonstrations in support of Castro. The Cuban Government may nationalize sugar mills and refineries and may make an attack on the Panama Canal policy of the U.S. A meeting of “democratic political personalities” planned for Havana will include a great many Left-Wingers, including Carlton Beals and assorted draft dodgers from the U.S., all of whom will be going to Havana at Cuban expense. Some of the high-ranking Cuban Communists will spend May Day in Peiping. Soviet tankers and cargo ships will soon arrive in Cuban ports. In fact one Soviet tanker has already unloaded fuel oil in Cuba. Some of the leading U.S. petroleum companies doing business in Cuba expect they will shortly be faced with a demand that they process Soviet crude oil. The Readers Digest, which produces its Latin American edition in Cuba, is about to write a story on Guevara and anticipates that as a result its copy will be seized. The Digest is moving its operations out of Cuba.2
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