THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND PEACE PROSPECTS

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. --Jack Anderson..
The Washington Herry-Go?Iloand_
Peace Prospeete
We reported on Oct, 2.1 that
President Nixon, contrary to
what the newspapers were
.saying, preferred to hold off a
Vietnam cease-fire until nfier
the election. "Politically
speaking," we wrote, "the
President believes it is better!
to keep the settlement term>
vague until alter the ere'-tion."+
He, tr,erefare, deliberately.
sought to extend the secret ne?
gotiations past election day to
prevent Hanoi from exploiting
an election-eve cease-fire and
to avoid charges that he
rushed into an unsafe settle-
ment for political purposes.
The President, however, is
now optimistic that he can get
a cease-fire on terms which
will leave South Vietnam rea-
sonably safe from a Commu-
nist takeover. His optimism is
based on intelligence reports
which depict Hanoi as being
under intense diplomatic and
military pressure.
Both Moscow and Peking'
are reported to be pressing!
the North Vietnamese to end
the war. This has been accom-
panied, according to the intel-
ligence reports, by a slight but
'significant slowdown in mili-
tary support. At the same
time, Hanoi is beginning to
feel the pinch from the U.S.
blockade of North Vietnamese
ports and bombing of the sup-
ply lines.
Perhaps even more signifi-
cant, the intelligence reports
claim that North Vietnam's
military leaders have been
jolted by the failure of their
spring offensive to reach Its
objectives. The South Viet-
namese army was not the
pushover that Hanoi expected.
The leaders also miscalculated
the ferocity of the U.S. air and
naval assault which has been
more punishing than the fire.
power President Lyndon John.
son turned against them.
In the past, the intelligence
reports misled Johnson to pre-
diet privately that the war
would be over in 1967. But the
military reporting and intelli-
gence techniques have im-
proved. President Nixon haa'
faith that this time the re
ports are right.
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The Washington Merry-Go-Round
tolumnists fore Gifts to Greeks
By Jack Anderson
The Greek dictatorship has
sponsored a luxury tour for
some of America's best-read
conservative columnists. In
some cases, their wives also
made the trip.
Not surprisingly, the red-
carpet trip produced a gush of
pro-junta columns in the na-
tion's press. Readers, however,
didn't know that the tour was
financed, at $2,000 a head, by
t h e government-controlled
Hellenic Industrial' Develop-
ment Bank, whose urbane gov-
ernor, P a u 1 Totomis, once
rounded up thousands of inno-
cent Greeks in concentration
camps.
Totomis was' the Junta's
Minister of Public Order for
six months after the 1967
coup. This charming Athenian
man-about-town put up the
columnists at the plush King
George Hotel, arranged for
their first class travel and
picked up their bills for fine
wines and Greek foods.
'Pile suave Totomis and his
bosses would have gotten their
money's worth out of the jun-
ket if the only man on it had
been Ralph de Toledano, who
distributes his conservative
views to 100 papers. "For the
first time in its 150 years -of in-
dependence," wrote d e
Toledano, "Greece is prosper-
ing and the people satisfied."
But de Toledano had another
gift for the Greeks. When To-
tomis' bank sponsored a pavil.
-lion at the Greek-American
AHEPA conference in Atlanta,
deToledano wrote Vice Presi-
dent Spiro Agnew on Totomis'
behalf. The Vice President did
not know Totomis, but took
de Toledano's word for the
Greek's good works.
In a personal letter, Agnew
- without ever seeing ' the
bank's pavillion - lauded To-
tomis' contribution to Greek-
American amity. The letter
has been proudly publicized
by Totomis.
The dictatorship reaped fur-
ther benefits from columnist
James J. Kilpatrick, who
praised the way things are
going under the military re-
gime. The capable, sometimes
caustic Kilpatrick trailed to tell
his millions of readers that
the bank had picked up his
tab when he singled out the
bank for praise.
"The more the present gov-
ernment succeeds in promot-
ing industrial growth around
the country, the more secure
that government becomes.
Through . . , such energetic
outfits as the Hellenic In-
dustrial Development Bank,
the government is doing just
that," wrote Kilpatrick.
Other kind words were writ-
ten by junketeering column-
ists Anthony Harrigan, who
doubles as executive vice pres-
ident of the Southern States
Industrial Council; former Na-
tional Press Club President
Allan Cromley; Daily Oklaho-
man bureau chief in Washing-
ton; Robert Baskin, Dallas
,
Morning News political writer, I said there had been no com-
and Oscar Naumann, Journal
of Commerce economic writer.
While most of the copy writ-
ten by the subsidized tourists
is favorable to the junta,
Cromley and Naumann did
plaints from the detainees. In
any case, he said he was
merely carrying out orders
from higher up. "I have lived
my entire life in honor," he
said.
take a few honest bites at the Footnote: Among other jun-
dictatorship. Cromley wrote ! keteers were travel writer
'
candidly: "The
fact is that the
present government is a form
of dictatorship which exer-
cises sporadic censorship of
periodic consent of the gov- ;, turned down the junket be-
ernment." Naumann criticized! cause free trips are against
the Greek steel industry. i AP policy.
When we questioned the col- !
umnists about their week of 1 Intelligence Reports
junketing, the reaction was; Anti-CIA Campaign - The
Paul, Totomis. I think he's
doing a helluva job there."
The facile de Toledano said he
had even helped out Totomis
with a little unpaid public re-
lations work.
Kilpatrick called it a "rou-
Theo McCormick and U.S.
Steel public relations man
Tom Geoghegan. One of those
invited by Totomis. AP eco-
lvunched a world-wid? cam-
paign to discredit the Central
Intelligence Agency. Particu-
larly in Asia, Soviet propa-
ganda blames the CIA for
everything from conspiring
against President Ferdinand
Marcos in the Philippines to
tine industrial tour," and said stirring up ill will between
he had been led to believe the ~ India and Bangladesh.
Greek government had not) Mao's Successor - Intelli-
picked up the tab. Basking Bence reports say Chiyia's
Cromley and Naumann also' Chairman Mao Tse-tung and
spoke frankly with us. Premier Chou En-lai have dis-
Only Harrigan, who finds! cussed how to prepare the
even President Nixon's poll-! Chinese public for the inevita-
tics too far left for him from ble demise of the revered
time to time, refused to dis- Mao. The attempt to build up
cuss the junket. Lin Palo as a successor led
We reached Totomis by to an abortive coup when he
overseas telephone at his bank got in too big a hurry to take
in Athens. For 45 minutes he over. Mao is said to recognize,
vigorously defended himself. however, that he cannot.live
There was nothing wrong with much longer and that a suc-
the tour, he said, As for his cessor must be groomed who
roundup of Greeks in 1967
he can hold China together;
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By Jack Anderson and Les Whitten!
aclc in the sixties, a civil-rights mu]e train-symbol of
E ih
ow w far the plodding poor are from the Mercedes rich-
arrived at a chic evening fundraiser in Washington. The
hostess, dressed in her Pucci garden-party clothes, delicately
led the mules by a bridle up her long circular driveway for
the benefit of the Tv cameras.
As the cameras ground, the TV men called at her to say
something to the young mule driver who had helped bring
.the wagon train all the way up from some southern farm and
had been deputized to clean up her driveway after the mules.
The ]ady turned her most radiant smile upon the mule
skinner and said in Radcliffe accents: "Aren't these mules
just wonderful, so patient and wise?"
The young man looked back at the roadway where the
mules had laid out his work for the evening. "Well lady,"
he drawled, "that depends on which end of the mule you
have to deal with."
So it is with Members of Congress.
When Senator John Stennis rams through a bill aiding
children who lost their special schooling because their serv-
icemen fathers died in Vietnam, then Stennis is courtly, sage,
and effective. When he uses the same legislative skills to
defeat a civjl-rights bill, then lie is a wool-hatted red neck.
When the late Senator Tom Dodd was racked by the
Senate for pocketing his campaign funds, then he was a
rogue. A few months later, we watched him presiding over
tedious hearings on gun controls and drug abuse. Deserted
by other committee members who didn't want to be seen on
TV with him, the lonesome Dodd plugged on. There was a
sort of splendor, about him then.
There is a temptation, nonetheless, to deal with Congress-
men by categories. The gin-rummy geniuses of the Senate
Press Gallery tend to divide Congress into neat opposing
armies of Southern Democrats-Conservative Republicans vs.
Northern Democrats-Moderate Republicans. But where does
this put former Senator John Williams, a down-on-the-farm
conservative who investigated federal farm giveaways?
Economists seee Congress as blocs supporting Big Business,
Big Labor, Big Agriculture, Big Oil, and the like. But how
do you classify such economic mavericks as Representative
H. R. Gross or Senator Phil Hart?
Consumer advocates categorize Congress as pro- or anti-
consumer. But what about such. Jekyll-I-Iydes as .SesiatOr
Vance Hartkc, who sponsors legislation to goldplaterail-
roads even as he smashes Detroit's wraparound .fetlders?
The Americans for Democratic Action and the A nei?icans
for Constitutional Action use specific votes to evalI to the
worth of Congressmen, often coming up with opposite con-
clusions on the same men.
The classifiers of Congressmen are legion. For our part,
we have come to suspect that our mule-headed, mule-ended,
ever-fascinating Congress defies categorization. But when the
Washingtonian asked us to classify Congressmen for their
anniversary issue, we hesitated only a moment.
We have consulted our files (published and unpublished),
reviewed our personal experiences, and relied heavily upon
our gut reactions. We have sought the opinions, too, of a
wide range of Capitol I fill observers.
We are aware, of course, that our national legislators often
achieve prominence by speechnialcing and publicity. On
Capitol I-Jill, there is little correlation between power and
publicity. Congressional authority, as Woodrow Wilson put
it half-a-century ago, "is perplexingly subdivided and dis-
tributed, and responsibility has to be hunted down in out-of-
the-way corners."
For instance, Senator James Eastland, a bourbon-and-
branch-water Southerner opposed to social change and vir-
tually every other manifestation of the twentieth century
except federal subsidies to cotton farmers, is almost un-
known outside of Washington and Mississippi. But few nien
in Washington wield as much weight.
We have sought, in our own irreverent way, to classify the
backroom boys as well as the frontroorn performers. We dis-
covered that some Congressmen are anonymous even to us.
We set up a special category for the more outstanding
nonenities, but many we simply ignored.
A word, too, about degree. Obviously, some senior Sen-
ators fortunate enough to be listed as "Dirty Old Men" are
not at the peak of their pursuit. One such glorious has-been
has slowed to an occasional posterior pat. The same distinc-
tions of degree apply to many of our other categories.
For those Congressmen who feel we haven't treated them
with the proper dignity, we offer no apologies. We have
always regarded it a function of journalism to prick the
pompous, to deflate the windbags, and to humble the powerful.
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Most Effective of All
Warren Magnuson
Wilbur Mills
Ilugh Scott
Home Run Hitters-White Sox
Effective Good Men and Ms.
John Blatnik
Phil Burton
Frank Church
John Dingell
Bob Eckhardt
Don Fraser
Bill Green
Phil Hart
Fritz Hollings
Mike Mansfield
Abner Mikva
John Moss
Wright Patman
William Proxmire
Henry Reuss
Benjamin Rosenthal
Lconor Sullivan
Morris Udall
Jerome Waldie
Strikeout Kings-White Sox
Ineffective Good Men and Ms.
John Brademas
Quentin Burdick
Clifford Case
Shirley Chisholm
James Gorman
Martha Grifliths
Torbert Macdonald
Claiborne Pell
I)on Riegle
William Steiger
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Sidney Yates
Home Run Hitters-Black Sox
Effective Bad Men
Gordon Allott
Wayne Aspinall
Frank Bow
William Brock
Joel Broyhill
William Colmer
John Erlcnborn
Robert Griffin
F. Edward Hebert
Chet Ilolificld
John McClellan
John McMillan
John Rooncy
Fletcher Thompson
Joe Waggonner
Jamie Whitten
Bob Wilson
Strikeout Kings-Black Sox
Ineffective Bad Men and Ms.
Harry Byrd, Jr.
Bob Dole
William Jennings Bryan Dorn
Ed Gurney
Clifford Hansen
Louise Hicks
Roman Hruska
Richard Ichord
John Jarman
B. Everett Jordan
John Kluczynski
James McClure
Alvin O'Konski
William Randall,
John Schmitz
John Tower
Strom Thurmond
Hone Run Hitters-Grey Sox
Effective for Good and Bad
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J. Glenn Beall
Alphonzo Bell
I-larry Byrd, Jr.
James' Byrne
Carl Curtis
Paul Fannin
Joseph Gaydos
Barry Goldwater, Sr.
Barry Goldwater, Jr.
Edward Gurney
Roman Hruska
James Kee
Hastings Keith
Delbert Latta
Robert Mathias
Joseph Montoya
Harrison Williams
Larry Winn
High Wattage
The Higb 1Qs
John Brademas
Jack Brooks
Phil Crane
J. William Fulbright
Jacob Davits
Pete McCloskey
Walter Mondale
William Proxmire
Ogden Reid
Paul Sarbanes
Tom Steed
Adlai Stevenson, III
Herman Talmadge
Fletcher Thompson
Frank Thompson
Hale Boggs
Robert Byrd
Emanuel Celler
Edith Green
Dan Inouye
Henry Jackson
George Mahon
John Sparkman
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The Confederacy Lives On
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James Eastland
W. R. Poage
Herman Talmadge
Jamic Whitten
The New South
Dixie's Liberals
Bill Alexander
Patrick Caflcry
Lawton Chiles
Bob Eckhardt
Fritz flollings
Claude Pepper
Richardson Preyer
David Pryor
Kamikazes
They'd Rather Go Down in Flames
Than Compromise and l'Vin '
Bella Abzug
John Ashbrook
Shirley Chisholm
Ron Dellums
Robert Drinan
Mike Gravel
William Proxmire
John Rarick
Bill Ryan
William Scherle
John Schmitz
Strom Thurmond
Angry Men and Ms.
Hot Tempers, Hot Tongues
Dandies and Dudes
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Ken Gray
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James Symington
Smart Symington
Worst Dressed
The Baggy Pants Brigade
John Culver
James Eastland
Fred Ilarris
Ken IHeckler
Ilarold Hughes
Jim O'Hara
Best Staff
They Make Mediocre Bosses Look Good
and Good Bosses Look Better
Les Aspin
Jack Brooks
Emanuel Celler
John Dingell
Sam Ervin
Don Fraser
J. William Fulbright
Phil Hart
Fritz Hollings
Jacob Davits
Ted Kennedy
Abner Mikva
Hugh Scott
John'Funney
Morris Udall
Charles Vanik
Lester Wolff
Nodding Heads
Catnappcrs, Dozers, and Snorers
George Aiken
Clint Anderson
George Miller
John Sparkman
Grand Old Men
Best of the Senior Citizens
George Aiken
Sam Ervin
Wright Patnran
Phil Crane
John Culver
Don Edwards
H. R. Gross
Julia Butler Hansen
Michael Harrington
Wayne Hays
Craig Hosmer
Lee Metcalf
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Unknown Soldiers
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The other Boggs
Harold Donohue
David Gambrell
Tom Gcttys
G. Elliott Hagan
Clifford Hansen
Albert Johnson
B. Everett Jordan
Arthur Link
Ray Madden
William Mailliard
Joseph Vigorito
No Shows
Someplace Else at Vote Time
Richard Bolling
Shirley. Chisholm
Edward Garmatz
John Jarman
Fabulous Phonies
Capitol Hill l4Tizards of Oz
Marlow Cook
Everott Dirksen (R.I.P.)
Jacob Javits
Charles Percy
Margaret Chase Smith
Bob Wilson
Lazy Bones
Not Trying Hard Enough
Bill Clay
Norris Cotton
John Dent
Torbert Macdonald
Ralph Metcalfe
Joseph Montoya
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Marlow Cook
Gerald Ford
Edith Green
Wayne flays
Melvin Laird (Emeritus)
John Terry
The Russians Are Coming,
The Russians Are Corning
They See the Whole World
Through Red-Colored Glasses
James Allen
John Ashbrook
James Buckley
Phil Crane
Paul Fannin
Richard Ichord
John Schmitz
If. Allen Smith
Louis Wyman
Clem Zablocki
Oddballs
The Eccentrics
Most of the Louisiana Delegation
Likable Oddballs
The Friendly. Eccentrics
Norris Cotton
Sam Ervin
Dan Flood
H. R. Gross
Torn Rees
I John Rousselot
My Door Is Always Open
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Russell Long
John McClellan
John McMillan
George Miller
William Natcher
\V. R. Poage
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Burt Talcott
Charles Tcaguc
Harrison Williams
Bob Wilson
.Masters of the Mimeograph
The Self-Publicity Mills
Les As pin
Clifford Case
Alan Cranston
Mike Gravel
William Proxmire
I-lenry Reuss
People Not to Go to the Well With
Unless You Want to Carry All the Water
Birch Bayh
Gerald Ford
Vance Iiartke
Thomas McIntyre
Wilbur Mills
James Pearson
Charles Percy
Margaret Chase Smith
Robert Taft, Jr.
Al Ullman
Dirty Old Men
O ?OOOQ3Ollants
Carl Albert
F. Edward Hebert
Lyndon Johnson (Emeritus)
John Sparkman
Roving Eyes
With a Glean for the Ladies
Tom Ashley
Birch Bayh
Ray Blanton
Bob Dole
Andrew Jacobs
Hastings Keith
Ted Kennedy
Robert Packwood
Bill Stuckey
John Tower
John Tunney
Guy Vander Jagt
Joe Waggonner
Spitoon Platoon
Last Patrons of the Congressional Cuspidors
William Saxbe
Herman Talmadge
Superegos
Ambitious Even by Congressional Standards
Richard Bolling
Mike Gravel
Jacob Davits
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John Anderson
William Anderson
Richard Bolling
Jack Brooks
Phil Burton
Henry Gonzales
Edith Green
Ken Ilechler
Charles McC. Mathias
Pete McCloskey
Walter Mondale
William Moorhead
John Nloss
David Pryor
Softies
Noodles in the Clutch
John Sherman Cooper
Peter Frelinghuysen
B. Everett Jordan
Jack Miller
MCI Price
Roman Pucinslci
Jennings Randolph
J. Irving Whalley
The Unprintable Expletives
Salty Talkers
Bella Abzug
Jack Brooks
Phil Burton
Julia Butler Hansen
Pete McCloskey
Frank Thompson
Golden Throats
The Orators
Frank Church
Everett Dirksen (R.LP.)
Dan Flood
Harold Hughes
Hubert Humphrey
Russell Long
Gale McGee
Trumpet Throats
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Bob Dole
Mike Gravel
Wayne Hays
John Pastore
Mean Customers
Mcan, Mcon. Customers
Joel Broyhill
Carl Curtis
Paul Fannin
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John Ranch
John Rooney
William Scherle
William Scott
Slippery Fingers and Bulging Pockets
Caught Redhanded in Unsavory Deals
Emanuel Celler
James Collins
Bill Dickinson
John Dowdy
Gerald Ford
Vance I-Iartlce
Roman I-Iruska
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George Aiken
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Mike Mansfield
Gunn McKay
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''the Washington Merry-Go-Round
Peking and Moscow Si Flavana No
By Jack Anderson
President Nixon has re-
=jected suggestions that he foI-
low UP his trips to.Peking and
Moscow with all overture tc,
I1ava.na.
He has no intention of seek-
iirg better relations with.laidel
Castro as long as Cuba ex-
ports revolution to other Lat-
in-American countries and
Russia ? is permitted to use
Cuban territory for military
purposes.
i There have been conflicting
signals from Havana. whether
Castro is really interested in
improving relations' with the
United -States. Secret nie's-
sages have been received in
Washington suggesting he is
eager to restore normal rela-
Lions. These have been fol-
lowed,- almost invariably, by
public attacks ? upon the
United States.
Last fall, for example, Cas-
tro got word that the United
States might soften its atti-
tude toward Cuba. He hastily,
if' cautiously, flashed back the
si
l th
h
gna
at
e not only was re-
ceptive but that he might even
be, willing to use "traditional
democratic procedures" to
spread "socialist power" in
Latin America.
Castro's message was re-
peated in the right places at
the United Nations by his dip,
lomatic-intelligence represent-
ative, Teofilo Acosta Rodri.
guez. The word q u i c k l y
reached the Central Intelli-
gence Agency, which sent a se-
cret report, dated Dec. 8, to
the White I-louse.
Secret Message
"Acosta commented that.
there is some support in Cuba
for the view that Cuba could
benefit from improved cul-
tural ties with the U.S., or
some realistic adjustment of
differences .. .
"Later in the conversation,
Acosta said that Cuban lead-
ers are doing some re-thinking
on basic revolutionary tactics.
There is some theoretical op-
position to the 'Che Guevara'
theory, which favors support-
ing native insurrectionists and
anarchists in poor countries.
"Instead, support is growing
for the Chilean formula,
which maintains that tradi-
tional democratic procedures
are the best means of socialist
power in weak, backward
countries."
As it happened, Castro got
his signals' crossed. He was
wrong about the possibility
that the United States might
soften its line toward Havana.
The blunt truth is that Presi-
dent Nixon isn't the least in-
terested in an accommodation
with Castro.
Those who watch Havana
for the U.S. are convinced that
Castro would jump at a genu.
ine chance to normalize Cu-
ban-American relations. He
would like nothing better,
they say, than to sit down as
an equal with Mr. Nixon.
Castro's slashing attacks
upon the U.S., they believe,
are strictly defensive. He tries
to appear, intractable toward
the United States, they say
,
because he is convinced the
United States is intractable to-
"In the latter part of Nov
ember, 1971," reported the
CIA, "Teofilo Acosta Rodri-
guez ... said that Fidel Cas-
tro, Cuban prime -minister,
had received a report before
his departure for Chile that !
U.S. officials were considering
a reversal of the U.S. hard-line
policy toward Cuba.
"As a result, Havana had re-
quested Cubans at the United'
Nations to check the report.
Meanwhile, Castro had de.'
cided to mellow his tone on
the United States during his
Chilean trip,
ward him. He is particularly training to revolutionary
harsh upon. Mr. Nixon, whose movements throughout Latin
name is spelled in the party! America. There is evidence
newspaper with a swastika inf that Russia supports Cuba in
place of the "x." spreading subversion.
These experts also believe In another secret report to
1Mr. Nixon has been influ.
enced by his Cuban friends,
such as Bebe Ilebozo, to main-
tain a hard line toward Cas-
tro. The anti-Castro Cubans,
who nqw live and vote in this
country, are almost solidly be.
hind Nixon.
Nixon's Cuban Policy
A White House aide as-
sured us, however, that Mr.
Nixon doesn't listen to Rebozo
on Cuban Policy. The bide said
the President based his hard
line on three factors:
I. U.S. Policy toward Cuba
isn't unilateral, but multilat-
eral. The Organization of
American States voted in 1962
to break diplomatic and corn.
mercial ties with Cuba. Until
this is reversed, the U.S. will
be bound by the OAS vote.
2. Russia uses Cuba as a
base to refuel'its submarines
and for other military pur-
poses, The argument has been
made that this violates the
Monroe Doctrine. Moscow also
gives Cuba an estimated $250
million a year in military aid,
not to mention twice that
amount in economic aid.
3. Cuba continues to provide
arms, money and guerrilla j
the White House, for example,
the CIA quoted a confidential;
source as revealing "that they'
Soviets a?+l;ed Fidel Castro to'
try to regain control or Latin
American revolutionary move-
ments and to develop closer
relations with Latin American
communist parties- and their
leaders . . ."
The source quoted a Cuban.
intelligence officer, Enrique
Benavides, as saying "that:So-
viet Premier Aleksei Kosygin
had promised to provide finan-
cial aid to Castro's efforts to
regain control over these
movements....
"Benavides said that; through
Cuba the Soviets will
support armed revolution or'
political struggle, whichever
was deemed appropriate, in
given countries throughout'
Latin America. According to
Benavides, the Soviets have
told Cuba they will `pay for
everything' in helping all revo-
lutionary groups, even Catho,
lie radical group.
"Benavides strongly empha-
'sized that Cuba has not
changed its line but still fa-
vors armed revolution every-
where in Latin America."
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