VIET GUERRILLAS IN CUBA TRAINING LATIN INVADERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000302630001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 30, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release-2014/04/03 : CIA-RDP73-00475R000302630001-3
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JUL 3 0 1964
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By VIRGINIA PREWETT -
Special to,The N. Y. Journal-American ?
WASHINGTON, July 30.?Cuba.'s Fidel Castro is'
forging ,open links .with the Communist Viet. ,Cong of
Southea;st Asia. He is making Cuba a training ground
where battle-toughened :"Vietnamese teach i guerrilla
skills ,to Latin Americans.. '1:-. The ?75 U.S. students .now
'. In the past six months 'morer'isiting Cuba under PLM spon-
'than 18: delegations of experi-..sorship on June 26 Triet with
enced guerrilla ? leaders from:.: what Havana's "Radio 'Pro.-
Southeast Asia have, arrived in[gresso" calls the "permanent
Havana. . . tion front of South Viet Nam."
The U.S. Citizens Committee' . WATCH FILMS ??
,for a Free Cuba, a hi-partisan!
Cas tro's proo ag a nd a., Iwo -
organization sponsored by na-,
cast, on June ?29 reported that
,tionally-known American?s,.say :
's the. U.S. Students "conversed
the Viet-Cong delegations arc'
extensively" with '? the Viet-
arriving via Red China. ?
? namese Communists and saw
LINK TO. RIOTS. ""documentary movies of the
'Cuba is also providing a link- fighting of South .Vietnarpese
guerrillas."
According ? to another radio
report, the scenes showed
.sponsible for the recent New U. S.? Army helicopters knocked'
;1!",ork .race riots. . ' ? ? ,? rout of the air by the,Viet Cong.
.
The Progressive Labor Move-1 ? Castor's goVernment is styes.-
!snent whose chairman William sing a link bety?een the Viet
'F,pion was arrested in connee- Cong ' and: the Communist-
tion with 'the trouble. was;baclsed guerrillas now troubling
'found in possession of films Of Venezuela:. Both organizations
Viet Cong activity. 'The PLM have. the tame. $a-
also helped. organize .both" i,het tional? Liberation .
- ?
1963 and 1963 "student". .?
.between the Vietnamese guer-
.:rillas and the .U.S. CommuniSt
,group ? identified as partly re-'
jun.liets to
? : , The .Inairi:thertie '-of. CastrO's(to Cerar. Aica,--IiiiTiliti
.
?! July 26 ? cela.bration niarkingicalled the ' Viet Cong. type of:?
his n.oven..fint?s birthday "ap-lwarfare? Guatemala's.. ?"only,
peared on parade standardsIpath to liberation.; ? s! ' :. '',,I:.:
that said: . '... ? .. ,,,,
? ' .? 'HERO' ARRIVES: y
' "InipPria.list% hands off . . . . .. I
,
"-- -. '-f;'---- .? 4';.--. The latest con tingeo t to ar-
it?
South Viet, 'Nam" iii
. .. 41'6.?" rive in 'Cuba :from Southeast:.
Live the Heroic Fight of the Asia. is headed by a 'man the'.'
Havana propaganda: machine',
calls . "the legendary 'hero of',
the Mountains of Viet. Nain;;
Comratie Ngo of ? the popular,!
army of. the Democratic Re-:
Public of Viet. Nam,' . . '' ' .,'?
"Comrade .Ngo" is beine. lion-
tied as a ' national guest ' atl
mass in e e tints throughoutl
Cuba. ? .. ? . ; ' ? .
? )nee. they have ..done ?their
. ,
/
propaganda turn, the Viet COPgl,
guerrillas are added to the per,.
manent staffs of foreign mil1-1
.
tary instructors in ten Cuban
camps* now ? ?preparing young
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Latin Americana for subversive:
warfoxe.:?': ? ? 1 ? ? ' . ' i
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' ;:pila ivo........dtis..a..i.a.. ...... , . ........."
Venezuelan: People." ,' ?
. ,
On July 10, Havana' broad-;
cast ;s1.'*!jo1nt :declaration". by
the Vietnamese: and 'Venezu-.
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:S, moyerhents1
In the two countries -but that,
neVertheless the.. patriots con-
tinue advancing militarily .antli
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. A ? Guatemalan :Communist.:
'broad4.4
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