New York Times
April 17, 1961.

Cuban Exile Gets Provisional Role

Council Here Names Hevia to Direct Foreign Policy

By McCandlish Phillips

        The Cuban Revolutionary Council yesterday designated Carlos Hevia to direct the foreign affairs of a provisional government of cuba as soon as one is established on Cuban soil.
        The 61-year-old engineer, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, is a member of the seven-man Revolutionary Council. He has had much experience in former Cuban revolutionary movements and was President of Cuba for forty-eight troubled hours in January, 1934.
        Senor Hevia's appointment came in the midst of a long closed session of the council. The session began at 1:30 P.M. in a suite at the exile group's temporary headquarters in the Hotel Lexington, Lexington Avenue at Forty-eighth Street. After about two hours the members left the hotel, avoiding the lobby exits, and continued their meeting at a secret site.
Security is Increased
        At the same time, security and secrecy were sharply increased at the headquarters. On Saturday there was reasonably free access to the suite of Dr. Jose Miro Cardona, president of the council. No policemen were posted near his door. Yesterday five policemen in plain clothes stood within ten feet of his door. Dr. Miro Cardona refused to see reporters.
        The police explained the sudden increase in protection by saying that all the news of debates and accusation sin the United Nations Political Committee and of fist fights Saturday between opponents and supporters of Premier Fidel Castro outside the United Nations had made it requisite.
        A council spokesman said the group was discussing mainly the administration of Cuba under the provisional government envisaged by the exile leaders. He indicated that a sort of cabinet-in-exile was being formed.
Others Already Named
        Another member of the council, Dr. Manuel Antonio de Varona, was previously designated defense director of the projected government. Dr. de Varona is coordinator of the Democratic Revolutionary Front. Manuel Ray, also a council member, was chosen to head interior affairs. Senor Ray is head of the People's Revolutionary Movement, a major underground and sabotage organization in Cuba.
        Dr. Miro Cardona already has been agreed on as president of a provisional anti-Castro government. Thus three members of his cabinet have now been designated. Other cabinet posts will be filled this week.
        The council has declared that the provisional government will seek foreign recognition as soon as it can gain a military foothold in Cuba. One of Senor Hevia's first tasks as foreign affairs director would be to obtain that recognition.
        Meanwhile, it was understood that the council was preparing to convey whatever evidence it had of the Cuban origin of Saturday's air raids in Cuba to the United States delegation to the United nations.
        Cuba has charged that the flights originated outside of Cuba. A record of the engine number of the B-26 bomber that landed at Miami is said to show that it was sold by the United States to the Cuban Government of Fulgencio Batista and had been in Cuba until Saturday.