QUADROS JOINS CASTRO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790029-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2013
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: May 13, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29: CIA-RDI3666318R000100790029-1
CHICAGO,
AMERICAN .
EVENING 443,586
SUNDAY 557,767
MAY -1 3 L A
uadros Joins Castro
THERE IS A LITTLE good news from Latin. America, but
more that is bad. The defection of two of Fidel Castro's
diplomats in Mexico Ci y ir?nrcItTttartg's'6Oli-CISTalrn to
suppress the koman Catholic church will alienate many Cubans
who have hoped heretofore. that ?he might presently end his
movenThnt deeper and deeper into communism.
?Second Secretary Antonio Montane of the Cuban embassy
in Mexico City and his Wife, Cuban aopsul Hilda Portela, said
, it was the Castro war on religion that finally decided them to
quit and 'ask for political asylum in Mexico. Analltexaarned
Latin 'America, tbat. tbe lykiaccliact.11?,.P, ,T111?.as.?Y has been
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ruin' Vrnto a base for communist spies.
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in which he takes his place in' Ca n corner. The note says
Brazil will oppose nny kine of in, ention by the United
States in Cuba. And it says Quadrosnot regard Cuba as
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a member of the .communist bldc; ',1
, o Castro says that's
,
What it is. ? . ,
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VER SINCE HIS ELECTION, Quadros has been talking ,
JD like a pro-Communist. Now he ii'tallting like a Commu-
nist. The United States is preparing ..t.end him millions of i
American tax dollars to be spent in prqenting a communist 1
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'revolution in northeast Brazil.
: But how can the United States government lcio1v now that 1
Quadros won't use the money to promote a commnnist revolu-
tion rather than to prevent one? The aid money should be
held up until the question is looked into. Meanwhile, Amen- i
1
ca's chances to unite Latin America against the communist
takeover in Cuba to have vanished. '
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Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29: CIA-RDP67-00318R0001nn7fann2cL1