CIA • 1961

JACOB TIMMERMAN SAYS ARGENTINA WILL SOON BREAK RELATIONS WITH CUBA - 1961/05/15

Approved for Release: 2018/10/01 C06626797 - Air Pouch CONFIDENTIAL Amembassy BUMS 1437 May 15, 1961 Embassy Despatch 919 of January 27, 1961 Jacobo TIMMERMAN Says Argentina Will Soon Break Relations with Cuba Enclosed is a memorandum of conversation with Jacob� Timmerman, a keen observer of Argentine political affairs and a close collaborator on occasion to the Minera Almine group, a powerful business co ,bine operating in the field of banking, construction, mining, housing, and transportation. Timmerman, who is also a confidant of Rogelio FRIGERIO, former Secretary to the President on Economic and Social Affairs, is a well-known newspaper man and radio commentator and has recently been appointed as a consultant to the NBC-affiliated Television Cnannel 9 here. Timmerman, who was formerly a political commentator for the afternoon daily, La Raz6n, was also instrumental in getting the Minera Alumine group inter- ested in purchasing the Editorial Haynes publishing house, publishers of many popular magazines ana the newspaper El MUndo...