Resource Type: Archive

Columbia University Library. Oral History Collection. New York, NY:

The oral history collection of the Columbia University Library is well known and histories by and about Cuba/Cubans are well represented. Histories that contain material on moderate politics in Cuba include those of: Roy Rubottom, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs under Eisenhower; Harry Rasky, TV producer in Cuba in 1959; Lee Lockwood who donated 22 hours of interview tapes with Fidel Castro that are edited, signed & dated by Castro, including comments on the counterrevolutionaries and on political prisoners; Dwight D. Eisenhower discussing Cuba; Thomas Mann, an official of the Eisenhower administration giving impressions of politics and confiscations of property; Joseph Jova, OAS Ambassador and Spruille Braden former U.S. Ambassador to Cuba.

Dartmouth, College. Robert C. Hill Collection, Rauner Special Collection, Dartmouth College Archives. : 1957-1961.

Robert C. Hill was a career diplomat who served as an ambassador in Latin America, as a high level functionary in Washington during the 1950's and as a member of the New Hampshire Legislature. The Cuba materials consist mostly of newspaper clippings and unpublished papers upon which Amb. was asked to comment. There seems to be nothing rare or unusual in the collection related to Cuba.

Earlham College, Lilly Library Special Collection. Friends United Meeting Papers. Richmond, Indiana: Various.

Earlham College, Lilly Library Special Collection, Friends United Meeting Papers, Richmond, Indiana. Within this collections there is correspondence regarding missionary work in Cuba and one file entitled 'Political Situation 1957-1962.'

Florida International University, Green Library, Special Collections,. Cuban Pamphlet Collection. Miami, FL: Various.

The Cuban Pamphlet Collection of Florida International University is a rich and expanding source for ephemeral documents related to Cuba in general and moderate political groups in particular. The Collection is not yet indexed or described. It has no finding device or register. At the start of 2003, a portion of the collection (28 boxes) is labeled with temporary local control numbers assigned to each document. These documents can be found in the FIU Library Online Catalog (LUIS), http://www.fiu.edu/%7Elibrary/ , by searching for a known document title, publisher or local control number. The researcher must know what he/she is seeking in order to explore the holdings online. Alternatively, one can request a copy of the local control numbers from the Special Collections Department in order to browse the titles and authors. Even with this aid, a document's box number is not contained in the local control number making it necessary to forage among the temporary boxes for each document.

Another 60 boxes of Cuban ephemera have not yet been assigned control numbers or entered in the online catalog (LUIS) in any form. The Special Collections Department reviews and catalogues the materials as time and staffing allow.

The author reviewed each document in the 28 boxes that are currently available to researchers. The foundational documents for major democratic resistance groups are well represented as are publications written by key individuals. For example The Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE) has 32 primary documents, from the founding "Ideario" that contains the purpose and structure of the organization, to a series of papers and pamphlets issued by various chapters of the DRE in countries such as Venezuela, Mexico, the United States, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica. The researcher can see the evolution of the groups as documents cover the entire decade of the 1960s. Other organizations represented through "idearios" and papers include:Movimiento de Recuperacion Revolucionario; Montecristi; Movimiento Democratica Cristiano. Individual authors include but are not limited to personalities such as Tony Varona, Felipe Pazos, Manuel Artime, Jose Ignacio Rasco.

The FIU collection has also received the private papers of several well known Cuban cultural and political figures such as the historian Levi Marrero; the photographs of Rogelio Caparros; and a collection of 77 oral histories (The Cuban Living History Project) by the late teacher/film maker Miguel Gonzalez-Pando containing interviews with many moderate political leaders. A list of the interviewees can be found by searching the FIU online catalog under author using the search term "FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY CUBAN LIVING HISTORY PROJECT." These collections are in various stages of organization.

Mississippi State University. Turner Catledge Papers, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University. Mississippi State, MS: 1951 - 1966.

Mississippi State University, Special Collections Department. Turner Catledge Papers. Mississippi State, Mississippi. The Cuban materials in this collection consist primarily of communications between New York Times editors and their correspondants in Cuba including Ruby Hart Phillips, Herbert Matthews, Tad Szulc and others. The materials on the 1951-1966 period include accounts of the jailing of Ruby Hart Phillips, the confiscation of her home and the increasing difficulty of covering Cuba during the post-1959 period.

Princeton University Library. Princeton University, Rare Books and Special Collections. : Various.

The Alan Dulles Oral History Collection. Within the Collection are six oral histories with content on Cuba including interviews with John Bissell, Rafael de la Colina, Robert C. Hill, Roy Rubottom and Nathan F. Twining. The interviews were collected between 1964-1966.

The State University of New Jersey Rutgers. Rare Books and Special Collections, Frances Grant Papers and Robert J. Alexander Papers. New Brunswick, NJ: 1952-1965.

The collection has several virtual finding devices. Two collections relate to Cuba in the 1952 - 1965 period including the Frances Grant Papers which has a finding device at http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/ceth/projects/ead/eadmain.htm The papers include correspondence with dissident leaders and document early efforts at human rights advocacy through The Inter-American Association for Democracy and Freedom; also included are the Robert J. Alexander Papers in which Dr. Alexander comments on the relationships between different factions after the fall of Fulgencio Batista and the conduct of firing squads in 1959.

University of Miami. Cuban Heritage Collection. Miami, FL: 2002.

The Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) at the Richter Library, University of Miami (UM) has the most extensive collection of materials on Cuba outside of the island. There are at least nine collections related to this bibliography within the 200 collections owned by the CHC . These are: (1)The 81 boxes of materials contained in the Associación por la Paz Continental consisting mainly of reports, original manuscripts of publications, letters and ephemera from the Chapters of this group throughout Latin America. Essentially the group was an anti-communist effort to minimize the extension of totalitarian revolutionary movements in the region. The collection has a finding aid in process. (2) Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil Collection comprised of 26 boxes of materials on the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE) whose members were part of the traditional Directorio Revolucionario (DR) brazo armado of the Federación Estudiantil Universitaria, during the insurrectional phase (1952-1959). The DR was among the largest organizations in the insurrectionary struggle. The DRE became an independent splinter group and revolutionary resistence faction when the FEU was clearly under control of Castro forces after 1959. The collection contains the entire run of the DRE Newsletter, Trinchera, as well as official correspondence, photos, many prison letters, position papers, Idearios, lists of members executed in Cuba, reports from Chapters throughout Latin America, applications for membership from persons in Cuba (several of whom are now prominent scholars or political activists in exile) and other ephemera. The collection is well organized but not yet indexed. (3.) The Cuban Exile Periodical Collection consists of partial or complete runs of serial publications in exile. It is a crucial and extensive source for those who study the moderate opposition. Fortunately an excellent bibliography exists for this collection (see entry for de Varona, Esperanza). However, there are not individual entries for each periodical in the U. M. online catalog and persons searching for a particular title should use the bibliography or email the CHC to inquire about current holdings. This collection continues to grow. (4) The Laureano Batista Falla collection consists of the papers of Batista Falla who was one of the founders of the Partido Demócrata Cristiano. It has its own finding aid. (5) The Truth about Cuba Committee, founded by Luis V. Manrara, had chapters throughout the Americas and in Europe. The organizations papers are organized with a finding aid. (6.) The Luis Conte Agüero collection consists of the papers of Conte Agüero who played a frequently changing role in Cuban politics, first as an Ortodoxo supporter of Fidel Castro during his prison years, then as a TV newsman speaking truth to power in a spontaneous televised attack on Castro, as an asylee and for a time as an employee of the CIA and a media personality in Miami. The collection has a finding aid. (7.) The Cuban Exile Poster Collection has over 1,000 posters encompassing events in Cuba and in the diaspora. See the entry for de Varona, Esperanza for a published list of the posters. (8) The Alberto Müller Collection consists of Müller's papers. Müller was a leader of the DRE and a member of Catholic organizations who was arrested, sentenced to death and eventually saved from the firing squad by a worldwide pressure campaign directed at Fidel Castro. Müller is currently a leader of La Coordinadora Socialista (the Social Democratic Party in exile). No finding aid exists for this collection. (9.) The Andrés Vargas Gómez Collection comprised mainly of letters. Vargas Gómez is the grandson of Máximo Gómez, a hero and General in the wars for Cuban independence from Spain.

University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center, Richard H. Sanger Collection.. Laramie, Wyoming:

The Richard H. Sanger Collection, although listed as containing material on Cuba, is actually focused on Russia, the Middle East and on the concept of counterinsurgency. Any documents related to Cuba are within the context of these other subjects.

Wisconsin State Historical Society, Archives Division. The Dickey Chapelle Papers, 1933-1967. Madison, WI:

This collection consists of materials donated by the family of Georgette Louise 'Dickey' Meyer Chapelle, a war correspondent and photographer who conducted interviews and took photos of Cuba and of anti-Castro forces in the U.S. during the early 1960s. Her experiences in Cuba are also mentioned in her autobiography, What's a Woman Doing Here?A Reporter's Report on Herself. New York: Morrow, 1961.

Three Sections of the Chapelle collection contain materials pertinent to this bibliography. First, Boxes 5,6, and 7 of the Correspondence Section contain letters related to interviews with Castro and opposition leaders. Second, the Articles and Photo Captions Section, Box 10 Folders 1-5 contain information on opposition groups both inside and outside Cuba (Particularly Commandos L). Finally, the Notebooks Section deals with Cuba in Box 10, volumes 47,66-69 and 90. Chapelle was killed by a land mine in Viet Nam in 1965 while moving with U.S. troops