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Claim

Claim 871

Unions of Diario de la Marina's own workers took the newspaper over on May 11, 1960, accusing its publisher of taking direction from the United States embassy, and the publisher took asylum at the Peruvian embassy, according to a later CIA bulletin.

Published 2026-09-26. Last reviewed 2026-09-26. 1 source.

Statement
Unions of Diario de la Marina's own workers took the newspaper over on May 11, 1960, accusing its publisher of taking direction from the United States embassy, and the publisher took asylum at the Peruvian embassy, according to a later CIA bulletin.
Field
status
Value
Workers take over Diario de la Marina, May 1960
About
incident 1959-cuba-castro-criticizes-diario-de-la-marina
Source
CIA Central Intelligence Bulletin, 14 May 1960 (declassified)
Publisher
CIA Central Intelligence Bulletin, 14 May 1960 (declassified)
Method
primary document
Checked
2026-09-26
Confidence
high
Status
current
Source date
1960-05-14

Quotation from the source

Cuba's oldest and largest daily, the anti-Communist Diario de la Marina, was taken over on 11 May by unions of its workers, who accused its publisher of taking orders from the US Embassy. He has taken asylum in the Peruvian Em- bassy.