# 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](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1959-cuba-castro-criticizes-diario-de-la-marina)
- Source: CIA Central Intelligence Bulletin, 14 May 1960 (declassified). https://archive.org/download/cia-readingroom-document-03177894/03177894_djvu.txt
- 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.

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