VIET GUERRILLAS IN CUBA TRAINING LATIN INVADERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000102540014-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2014
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: July 30, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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JUL 3 0 1964
By VIRGINIA PREWETT
? Special to ,The N. Y. Journal-American
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WASHINGTON, July 30.?Cuba's Fidel Castro is'
-forging open links .with the Communist Viet ,Cong of
Southeast Asia. He is making Cuba a training ground,
where battle-toughened Vietnamese teach . guerrilla
skills to Latin Americans.. The .75 U.S. students now
In the past six months mOrerisiting Cuba under PLM spon-
than 18 -delegations of 'experi..sorship on June 26 /net with
enced guerrilla ? leaders from ,?? what Havana's "Radio ?Pro.-
Southeast Asia 4ave arrived in!. gesso' ? calls the "permanent.
Havana. . ?i tion front of South Viet Nam."
. The 'U.S. Citizens Committee WATCH FILMS
for a Free Cuba, a bi-partisan!
, .
organization sponsored by na- broad-
, cast Castro's propaganda on June ? 29 reported that
tionally-known Americans, says'
the U.S. Students "convcr;ed
the Viet-Cong delegations arc,
extensively" with the Viet-
arriving via Red China. ? ? Damen Communists and saw
LINK TO RIOTS- "documentary movies ' of the
'Cuba is also providing a lint:" fighting of South Vietnarnese
guerrillas."
According to another radio
report, the scenes showed
U. S. Army helicopters knocked
:York race riots. . out of the air by the,Viet Cong.
The Progressive Labor Move- ? Castor 'S government is stres-
?ment whose 'chairman William sing a ?link bet#een the Viet
Epton was arrested in connec- ?Cong and the? Communist-
.
lion with he trouble. was:backed guerrillas now troubling
found in. possession of films of, Venezuela. Both orgailizations
v I ct Cong activity. 'The PLM have, the tame. nam?the
fla-
also helped. organize . both- thet tional 14beration
1963 and 1963 U.S. "student.' ?
junkets to ,Ca:sstr21.a.n.,c3...!..2.....?.:
,?'? The .Maln: theme 'of Cast.rd'stocentifir A
-July 26 eclebration 'marking called the Viet Cong. type of
?? his rr, oveni.ent's birthday ? FLP- warfare ? ate rrip la's "onlY,
? peared on parade stiodards!path to liberation." .
that said: .4.
liEncy ARRIVES.
h a n ds og..1
he
, T latedc.ontingent to ar-'.
South ,Viet Nam"and Long
rlvp In Cuba from
between the the Vietnamese guer-
rillas and the US. Communist
group: identified as partly re-'
sponsible for the? recent New
Live the Heroic Fight of the Asia' is headed by a min the
Venezuelan People." .? ?
On July 10, Havana broad-
cast 'a '!joint declaration", by
the Vietnamese and 'Venczu-,
elan guerrillas.- ,
."Conclusions ? were reached,"'
said. Havana, ? "that ? North:
American imperialism in .the
past, several months. 'has con-
centrated all its force to crush:
the revolutionary.:, movements'
in the. two countries but that,,I
nevertheless the. patriots con-
tinue advancing militarily and
politically." ? ?
A Guatemalan . Communist.
Man..1...GaliO,'-int "a 'broadcast
Havana propaganda. machine:.
calls "the legendary hero of;
tno mountains of . Viet. Nam,.
Comratie Ngo of the 'populai!
army of the Democratic Re-
public of Viet Nam.
"Comrade Ngo" Is being, lion-.
ize.d as a national guest atl
mass meetings. throughout 1
Cuba,. ? t ?
?
Once they have .done their
propaganda, turn, the Viet Cong
guerrillas are added to the per,..,
manent staffs of foreign m1111:
tary instructors in ten, Cuban:
camps ? now' -preparing young'',
Latin Americans for subversive:
warfare..*.: ,
/WM ? Asserk.as TI.ewrpipsi
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