CUBA BIDDING TO RECAPTURE THE SPOTLIGHT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100270002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 8, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

STAT DAILY NEWS
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By VIRGINIA PREWETT Moscow, It would help the Latin
Fidel Castro's Cuban regime,
far from accepting its latter-day
absenee-from the center of the
world stage, is . bidding to
reoapture world importance.
Castro expects to accomplish
this thru the Havana meeting of
far-leftist parties to be held
from next Jan. 3-10. '
U. S. official observers expeer
the following: ?
, First, they foresee that the
,Cubans will try to pack the
'meeting with those Latin-
American far-leftist parties that
'follow Moscow's line ? a line .
that Havana ostensibly follows.
' Second, they believe that Cuba
: may push a move at the ?
?
;meeting to in include Latin
American leftist parties in the
world organization called the
;Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity
Organization, the AAPSO.
'Once the AAPSO-is
to become an Afro-Asian-Latin-
'American Peoples' Solidarity
Organization..-!-- perhaps to be -
called the AALAF'SO ? the
,Havana-Moscow axis would be
in -11 position to try to take it
Over.
'? At present, the AAPSO's pro-
:Peking tinge is demonstrated by
I the organization's decision to
?
'!hold it& next world meeting in
;Red China. But if Cuba can get'
the AAPSO reorganized as the
!AALAPSO, this can be used as
; an excuse to reopen the question
of where the next meeting
, should be held.
An Important by-product of
; the meeting thus could be the
inclusion of only Moscow-
blessed Latin American leftist
? parties in the big international
family of far-left organizations.
And if Havana could thus
divorce from the important ;
world .organization all of Latin
? American leftist parties except
:those', .that:, owe allegiance,. I.
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American Moscow-liners.
Such achievements would
obviously send Cuba's stock
high with Moscow.
So far, representatives of both
Moscow and Peking Communist
Parties are expected to attend
the Havana meeting.
Havana has already set a
pattern in inviting the five Latin
American parties that have
joined Cuba on the organizing
committee. They are:
Venezuela's Frente Armada
de Liberacion Nacional (FALN),
Chile's Frente de Acc ion
Popular (FRAP , Mexico's
Movimiento de Lib era cion
Nacional, (MLN), all considered
both pro-Castro and pro--
Moscow, along with the pro.
Castro Frente Izquierdista de
Liberaoion (FIDEL) and the
Frente Armado Rebelde of
Guatemala, the militarir winder'
that country's ? pFe7Meagoer
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