FREE CUBA GROUP PROBES WHAT ISLAND IS REALLY LIKE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000102540019-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2014
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: April 23, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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, . ? . i8 to government investments'
By VERNON LOUVIERE For instance, the myth that lin mid-1900 of less than $10 mil-.
? Of Oar Washington Bureau "today, everyone can get a good jlion. Only 11 construction per-
mits for housing were issued MI
the last quarter of 1961. Yeti
Ciiba has an annual average]
need of 20,000 new. urban and
10.000 rural dwellings. Sfnc el
ubciGro'
---lWork Saturdays and Sundays, f
Ili) this additional firce still was
.iunable to finish,. .. thri harvest on
t
lt, ime.
..! ,
I Another myth is that hous-
1 ing is more abundant for the .
i Cubans today due to - -"social
? progress" under CommUnisiii.
li What are the facts? .
71 ti ff 7 .. Cuba's civilian ccnstructioni
ox. eat, v liA Jridustry dropped from a $611
bes IN hat Is/an
iliion private enterprise MI
education in Cuba."
WASHINGTON ? Fidel Cas- Before Castro, Cuba hatf.eight
tro has been telling the world'
universities. Tuition in s'i a t e
the p(.ople of Cuba never had
universities was a token $5 a
,.;;iod but a careful analysis
? h month. Forty per cenr of. the
press and aired' by gov- 4hen, 90 per cent of Cuba's con-f
students were given scholar
,ernment radio, . together w i t h:ships. These universities h.a clIlcrete and Wood has .gone into
:eyewitness accounts of refugees, some of the finest faculties inimilitary construction.
! 'Hemisphere. tell a different story. this
i And it's not so much the sto-. Now, Cuba has only three
h ' iy of Communist treachery and. universities. Entrance re-
quirements depend solely on
icieceit ? already well docu-
whether the applicant - is .
imented ? but the day-to-d a v
erosion of human 'rights thp member of the Communist ;I
treaches down into the home, the party, The Young Comnim- ?
t...ohool and the job. ? ; nists or Can prove he is not
' Much of the information militantly anti-Castro.
iming? to light is being as- ] Castro frequently lays t h c
,:!inbled by the Citizens Corn- jblame- for the steadily declining
1--iittee for a Free Cuba whose jagricultural production on
network of sources May al- !experienced young administra-]
most be on a. par .with that of
the Central Intelligence Agen-
cy.
HAs an example, the commit,
tee monitors the Cuban radic
tors" or the "brutal economic:
blockade." ? . .r
There have been 19 govern-,
ment decrees to curb 'popular
sabotage" such as the 'burni-ng
around the clock whil ? CIA is of sugar cane. Decree 988 pro-,
hndcrstood to check vides for summary execution!
:broadcasts only a few h 'o u r within .48. hours.
'during the day and night. Also; Castro has had to resort Jo; ,
virtually every refugee clues-, conscripting every Cuban malel
tioned . by th CIA .,rian his ar. between 17 and 45 to fill the la-I
r;val in this country is interro- bor gap. They are paid slave ,
-',,ated by the committee. wages of $7 a month in, a -coun- ?
. This documentation has made try that has always ? b e e
It easy to torpedo some . of the plagued by a surplus .of labor.'
popular myths Castro 'has been'More than 50,000 Workers were,
trying to sell to the outside pulled off other jobs and sent!.
. to the ..cape fiehl Forced to,r,
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/10:
.01A-RDP73-00475R000102540019-6