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TO AMEMBASSY MADRID PRIO~I TY ~35? 

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T9 SPANI~H AhBASSADOR 11ERRY DEL VAL CALLED AT HIS REQUEST ON SECRETARY DEC~MBER 21• HE HANDED SECRETARY~ REPORT PREPARED BY rHE D IRECT~_ GENERAL OF THE OF~ICE Of DIPLOM~fIC INF0Rf:1ATION OF THE SPAN l~H MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS1 AOO~FO MARTIN GAMERO ON H!S. RECENT TALKS wIT~ FIDEL CASTRO: 
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2 • MERRY DEL VAL INFO~MED SECR~TARY THAT FOR~IGN MINISTER 
c ASTlELLA HAD DECIDED TO SEND MARTIN GAMERO TU CU~A TO 

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jRANSMIT TO CASTRO THE REMAkK~ MADE BY TH~ SECRETfRY TO 
CA STl ELLA THAT TH(RE WE~E ONLY TWO POINTS WH!LH U•S • 
C0 N S I DE R E D N 0 1-; ~'f GU TI ABL E , I N I T S P 0 S I T l 0 N ·. ·aN Cu BA 1 ( A l CUB AN 

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JNTERVENTION1 SUPPORT iF SUbVEPSION AND GUERRILLA ACTIVITIES lN OTHER LATIN AMERICAN N ~TJONS1 tND (8) SOVIET MILIT~RY PRESENCE
IN CUBA• THE U•S• ON T~E OTH R 8AND HAS NO !1 TENTION QF 
INTERFERING I THE INTERNAL POLITICAL SITWATIUN It · CUBA9 
3o THE AMBASSADOR ADD~D THAT HE HAD SENT A TlLEGRAM TO CASTIELLA EXPLAINING T~AT THE fEPARTMENT oio ,~or WANT A SPECIAL EMISSARY SENT FROM MADRID1 BUT THAT HIS MISS~~E HAD ARRIVED TOO LATE AND THAT, MOR~OVER, CtSTIELLA BELIEV~D THAT THE SPANISH 
~HARGE•S POSITION  VIS-A-VIS  CA$TRO . HAD  ER ODED  AND  THAT  HE  
DID  NOT  COMMA  D CASTRO'S  ATTENTION•  
4o  MERRY  DEL  VAL  STRESSED  FOLLOWING  POINTS  WHICH  HE  READ  FRO M  

MARTI GA MERO'S REPORT: A) M~RTIN GAMERO WA$ RECEIVED VERY tORDIALLYJ HE HAD THREE AND A ~ALF HOUR DINNE R ALONE WITH CASTRO NOVEMBER 27TH1 FOLLOWED BY A SIXQH~UR JEEP RIDE THROUGH ~OUNTRYSI~E NOVEMBER 2~ . MARTiN G~MERO UNDERLINE 0 NEED FOR 
PAGE 3 RUcHC 08198 ! ~ e ~ E T @REATEST SECRECY TO WHICH CASTRO READILY J\GREtD, HE STRESSED THAT SPAI. WA~ ACT! G , 5 INTEKMEDIARY BETWEEN THE UNITED 
~TAfES ANO CUBA WHICH HAS HISToRiCAL LINKS wiTH SP~IN NOT­
wiThSTANDI~G IDtOLOGrc L DIFFERENCES~ Bl MAKTIN GAMERO THEN gEPEATED THE bECRETARY' REMAKKS TO CASTI~LLA• CASTRO AT FIRST REMAI . ED SILE~T, AS IF SURPHISEOa HE THEN ~XPRESSED GRATITUDE OFR SPA!NqS GO OD OFFiCES AND RE~SSU ED 11ARTIN GAMERO THAT HIS ~ISSI01 W0ULD E KEPT SEC~ET. CASTRO PROFESSED ASTONISHMENT AND SAID THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO A ALYLE AND STUDY THIS SURPRIS!! G MESSAGE". HE. ADDED THAT HIS IrdTIAL RE.ACTION WAS TO DOUBT SINCERITY OF AMEKiC~NS• HE EMB~~KED ON A LONG TI R ADE AGA l 1\1 s I u " s • , Bl; T TR E~sED TH A. T H I s I N ! T I AL RE AcT I 0 N WAS PUREL y SP ONT ANEUUS AND cOL.i_'() I OT BE I t~TERr RE TED AS A DEFINITE Af'SWER WHICH COULD CuME ONLY AFT R Al" E..XHAUSTiVE ANALYSIS OF THE MESSAGE. CASTRO LEFT IMPRESSION wiTH MARTIN GAMERO THAT I ITIATIVE WAS NOT AUTOMATICALLY kEJE TED.C) ON OTHER MATTERS DISCUSSED, CASTRO DE~CRI~ED CUBAN RELATIONS wiTH CHINA AS SOMEWHAT DETERIORATED• HE SAID THAT TRADE eETwEEN THE Two COUNTRTES REMAINED IMPORTANT BUT THAT ­POLITICAL UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN CUBA AND CHIN~ WAS SIMPLY 
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NOT FEASIBLE• Dl DESCRIBING R~LATIONS WITH THE UoS•$0R•1 2ASiRO SMILED AND COMME NiED fH·T THE INEVITABLE MOM~NT OF _ oIFFERENCES AkISES EVE\ AMONG THE BE ST OF FRI~NDS• E) CASTRO DECLARED hlS GREAT FRIENDSHIP FOR THE ARA ti c9uNTRIES ~SPECIALLY ~LGERIA1 WH!Ch HE CONSIDERED A COUNTRY WITH A GREAT FUTURE• 
~E ALSO PRAIS~D NASSER WHU SE ~uR0IVAL HE FOUNJ IN~XPLICABLE. F) HE REFUSEU TO TALK ABOU T DIS~PPEA~ANCE OF CHE GUEV~RA, GIVING MAKTIN GAMERO I~PR~SsIUN THAT HE WAS qTI~L EMOTIONALLY uPSET ABOUT GvEVAKA'S DEA TH. 
~. SECRETARY SAID HE =OUND IT DIFFICULT TO u~D~RSTAND w~~ 
CASTRO SHOULD HAVE BEE~ SURPRIS~D SINCE PRESIUENT KENNEDY HAD 
OUTLINED PUBLICLY IDENTICAL U•So POSITION FIV~ YEARS AGO•
HE ASKED THE AMBASSADO~ TU CONVEY HIS APPRECIATIO~ TO THE 
M!NiSTER FOR bENDING T~IS INT~R~STING REPORT wHICH HE WOULD 
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