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regardless of declining popular support. There is no significant likelihood that the Castro regime will fall of its own weight. a. The regime is proceeding methodically to solidify its control over all the major institutions of the society and to employ them on the Communist pattern as instruments of repression. The Government now directly controls all radio, television, and the press.” It has placed politically dependable leadership in labor unions, student groups, and professional organizations. It has nationalized nose productive and “pinanctal enterprises and is using a program of so-called land reform to exercise effective control over the peasantry. It has destroyed all political parties except the Communist party. Politically reliable and increasingly effective internal security and military forces are being built up. b. Cuba is in economic difficulties but the Commnist : Bloc will almost certainly take whatever steps are necessary to forestall any decisive intensification of these troubles. Economic dislocations will occur but will not lead to the collapse or the significant weakening of the Castro regime. ec. At the present time the regular Cuban military establishment, especially the Navy and Air Force, are of