RUSSIA STEPS UP TRAINING OF LATINS IN RED TACTICS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 6, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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OCT 6 1965,
Russia Ste-rim. UD Training-
Of Latins'in Red Tacti,cs.
By K. C. THALER .
LONDON, Oct. 6 (UPI) ? Africa, is? considered also by
Russia is stepping up the train-Peking most. ripe 'for sweeping
ing in ?Moscow of Latin Ameri- revolution..
cans, including instructions in Rivalry 'With China
guerrilla ? tactics. Behind, the stepped up ef-
This year's student body at fort emerges the mounting ri-
Lumumba 'University in Mos- valry between Russia and Red
cow includes a large propor- China for leadership of the un-
tion of students from Latin aligned. countries, with Moscow
America. ,The rest .come from she,ing signs of crowing res-
Africa, 'Southeast Asia and the liveness over Peking's spread-
;Middle East. But the Latin ing influence.
American contingent is the The desire to?move into Latin
largest. ? America' more forcefully than.
The massive intake. of Latin hitherto and on a more organ-
Americans is motivated by ized basis has prompted the
the '"new dawn" of the libera- Afro-Asia Peoples' Solidarity
tion campaign throughout the Organization to arrange an
continent. Afro-Asian-Latin ? A in e r i can
Their training includes in_ conference in Havana early in
struetion in stirring and lead- the new year.
g
ing revolutions against existing A preliminary meetin look
regimes through propaganda, place in Cairo last month to be. -
subversion and reportedly also gin planning for the projected:
through the use of force. ? Havana conference next Janu-,
The ? Move coincides with arY?
wider efforts now under way A preparatory committee was
for 'communist incursions into set up which includes repro-
Latin America Which, after sentatives from Cuba and from
left wing or communist group-
ings in Chile, Guatemala,
Mexico, Uruguay and Venezue-
la.
The keynote is on "national
liberation" and "anti-imperi-
alism," with Red China claim-
ing the lead because of her
uncompromising p o I icy of
anti-Americanism and of "re-
volutionary .liberation."
Chinese Hopeful
The Chinese are believed to
be hopeful that . the extension
of the Afro7Asian Peoples', Sol-
idarity Organization ? would
them a much coveted
channel into Latin America
;where their influence ? has so
far been comparatively small.? ?
Russia, . worried about the
:unrelenting Communist Chinese
,push into the unaligned world,
is taking precautions to block
iPeking's advance or at least to
:slow it down and keep it with-
in narrow limits. ?
Hence ? the increased refer-
ences 'lately from Moscow to
Russia's. 'support for liberation
movements and stepped -up
,Soviet ? measures to* underpin
.the ideological pronouncements.
?
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