| Student Revolutionary Directorate | |
|---|---|
| Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil | |
| Foundation | 1960 |
| Dissolved | 1966 |
| Country |  Cuba |
| Allegiance |  CIA |
| Allies | CIA Second National Front of Escambray |
| Opponents | Cuban Government |
| Battles and wars | Escambray rebellion |
The Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (abbreviation: DRE; English: Student Revolutionary Directorate) was a Cuban student activist group launched in opposition to Fidel Castro in 1960, based at the United States, where it soon developed links with the Central Intelligence Agency. In August 1962 it carried out an attack on a beachfront Havana hotel. As of 1963, it was the largest anti-Castro student group in Miami; it also had a chapter in New Orleans, where it had contact with Lee Harvey Oswald in mid-1963. Immediately after the November 22, 1963, assassination of John F. Kennedy, it launched a campaign asserting that Lee Harvey Oswald had been acting on behalf of the Cuban government. The group lost its CIA support in December 1966.