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:yap SECRET The SIM report is nothing more than a summary of allegatio~s and accusations made against Fidel Castro during the period 1948-1950. This summary has apparently been slanted in an effort to make Castro a "Rojo," but the result is a rather poor one. 2/ The Department of State reporter refuted, on a paragraph by paragraph basis, all of the allegations which indicated that Castro had been tied in with Communists, or Communist sympathizers, ever since his university days; and in forwarding the report to -. Chief, Western Hemisphere Division, the COS Havana indicated that he w~s furnishing the information be- cause of renewed interest by the State Department in Fidel Castro. 3/ The tenor of State reporting continued in a similar vein well into 1957. Charges that Cas~ro , . was a Communist could not be substantiated, but State did note that in his student days, he'was invo~ved in gangster-type activities." 4/ Havana Embassy reporting also reflected another of the problems of continuing concern to the US Intelligence Community would Castro have sufficient force to oust Batista, and were ~is basic feelings toward the US friendly. ~/ - 3--