Czarnikow-Rionda Company.
Records of Vice President
Michael J. P. Malone, 1953-1965 (bulk 1955-1964)
8.1 linear ft. (20
boxes)
Arranged alphabetically
by subject.
Series 63 contains
the administrative files of Michael Joseph Patrick Malone. Malone
was listed as an assistant vice president in a 1953 stockholders' report
and as a vice president in 1955. Before the revolution, Malone dealt
primarily with matters related to the company's Cuban affiliates and subsidiaries.
He was deeply involved in the company's diversification and product development
programs, including the company's Cuban cattle ranches, and was president
of the Kenaf Corporation. (Files related to the latter form Series
51 in Record Group IV.)
Malone followed the
political events of the late 1950s and early 1960s closely. As the
vice president most closely linked to the Cuban operations, his files reveal
the company's responses to the tremendous changes occurring there.
The expropriation of the company's Cuban assets, the adjustment of hundreds
of former Cuban employees to life in exile, and the first years of sugar
development in the area south of Lake Okeechobee, Florida are well documented.
Malone, himself, was involved in a joint venture with the New Tuinucu Sugar
Company and Czarnikow-Rionda to buy and operate cattle ranches in the Belle
Glade area. The New Tuinucu files end in 1965 when the ranch was
sold to the Osceola Operating Corporation and King Ranch, Inc. All
other files end in 1964 or earlier.
Malone was also involved
in the early anti-Castro movement. Included are files on the Asociación
para la Reconstrucción de la Economía Cubana and the Asociación
Nacional de Hacendados de Cuba en Exilio, as well as several political
activists in the Cuban exile community.