FOR CUBAN MASSES, PORTABLE TERROR: TRAVELING JUDGE, JURY, EXECUTIONER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000102540020-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2014
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: March 31, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/10: CIA-RDP73-00475R000102540020-4
NEW YORK
HERALD TRIBUNH
MAR 31 1964
For Cuban Nasses, Portable Terror:
Traveling Judge, Airy, ixecutioner
By Tile Associated Press \
WASHINGTON.
A new device known as
"death on wheels" is being
. used in Cuba to bring terror
? and firing squad justice to
those who oppose the Fidel
?
Castro Communist regime.
"Death on wheels" is a
? military vehicle which trans-
ports a, traveling court, jury
and executioners to the scene
of uprisings, according to a
. report made last night by an
anti-Castro group of United
States citizens known as the
Citizens Committee for. ,a
free Cala.
It mades public a study, en-
titled "Terror and Resistance'
In Communist Cuba" sketch-
Ing eximples of what it said
viere hundreds of cases where.
'Cubans tried to show their
revulsion at Communist op-
pression.
- It added that the ."increas' .
ingly repressive measures ?
? employed by the Cuban.
regime is a measure of the. ?
., degree and intensity of dis-
? enchantment of Cubans with
Castro and communism."
\The report sketches 'many ?
'instances of action by the .
Cuban peoille?sometimes? at?
the cost of their lives?to,
fight the Castro government ,
. in any ,way they can. .
? Informed sources here ? .?
among exiles and others say
that sabotage now .is not So'
mulch a problem to' the
Castro regime as it once was
because the. dictatorship. in
'llavana' has . adopted ?'.ever,
sterner and more terrible
methods to suppress it.
One method,, said a mem-
ber, of the committee, is to
go into an area where cane
fields have, beep burned de-
liberately and line up a half
dozen peasants, guilty or ?
not, and shoot them. The
effect is to terrorize the en-
tire community, drive It from
any anti-government action,
and to put other peasants on
guard against even acci-
dental firings of cane fields,,.
such as from lightning. .
. Paul Bethel, 41, who was
press attache at the U. S. ,
Embassy in Havana from
1958 . to the break.- in rela-
-.tiens 'in: 1961, is ;executive
Secretary of;,. the -Citizens
COmMittee. ' ? " ?
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/10: CIA-RDP73-00475R000102540020-4