ot lastro's -Sisterter Aided N44, CIA for Four Years

By Jerry T. Baulch Fidel 's sister Juanita voluntarily s upp 1 ied the United States Central Intel- ligence Agency with valuable information for four years before she fled to f Tom Cub a, authoritative sources said yesterday. T he se authorities specu- lated that Castro and his brother Raul, a trusted aide, let her seek asylum in Mex- ico because they were fed up with her opposition and fig- she also had helped at least ured it was the simplest way 200 persons flee Cuba before of dealing with a family she herself defected. squabble. There was no indication Juanita Castro Ruz 1 e f t here of any split between Cuba openly June 20 on a Fidel and Raul, the Deputy scheduled airline flight to Prime Minister and chief of Mexico City and denounced the Cuban armed forces, over Castro's Communist regime their sister going to Mexico as a puppet of "Russian im- City. Knowledgeable authori- has no desire to settle in the perialism." It was generally ties speculated that Fidel United States. She had told known in Havana that she approved her going and the friends in Mexico City that opposed the regime and was arrangements were sup e r- critical of her brother. vised by Raul. she would prefer to live Thus, it seemed she had to somewhere in Latin America. have either the help or con- Blames U.S. Embassy However, this did not rule sent of either Fidel or Raul The suspicion is that they out a possible visit to Wash- Castro or both to leave Cuba felt she could be dealt with ington. There has been spec- freely. more openly outside Cuba ulation that Miss C a s t r o might come to a meeting of Religion May Be Factor and the United States could be blamed for their troubles. foreign ministers scheduled United States sources said told reporters in here July 21. the CIA made contact with Havana on Wednesday that Miss Castro shortly after her the United States Embassy in b r o ther took power four Mexico had written the years ago. She was described statement his sister made In as cooperating voluntarily Mexico City attacking his with CIA contacts because of regime. her strong opposition to her This, Fidel said, was a "low brother's policies. and repugnant procedure that Another factor in her break transcends universally rec- with her brothers may have ognized limits." The Embassy been that Miss Castro is denied his statements. known to be a religious per- Miss Castro indicated she k o n, according to persons here familiar with her. During her long coopera- tion with the CIA, the sources said, Miss Castro provided data that helped considerably in piecing together more com- plete information about activi- ties of the Castra regime and conditions in Cuba. The New York Herald Tribune said in a story about Miss Castro's activities that