THE PENTAGON'S BLACK GUARD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100060025-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: October 17, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW TIMES OCT 17, 1962 , v~
Approved For Release 200010"
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THE PENTAGON'S
BLACK GUARD
The anti-Cuban hysteria in the United States has been brought-to lever
pitch. It is no longer a matter of inflammatory speeches in the Senate,
or of appeals for a sea and air blockade - the Pentagon is organizing
Washington propaganda is trying to justify these preparations for
aggression by claiming that Cuba is a menace to United States' security.
That is pure fiction, but the danger of U.S. aggression against, Cuba is
very real.
It is spelled out in this series, which traces the preparations ?6r. anmad
attack from the overthrow of the Batista dictatorship to the prese+itt:Uma
and describes the part played by Cuban counter-revolutionery-Htmiptts.
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0 N THE NIGHT of August 24,
the people of Havana were
awakened by the boom of can-
non and the rat-tat of machine
guns. Peering into the night,
they could see the outlines of
a high-speced launch off the shore
of the capital directing its fire
on the Miramar district. A few
days later the vessel was iden-
tified off the Florida coast. The
pirate attack had been organ-
ized by the Revolutionary Stu-
dent Directorate, one of the
many coon Len-revolutionary or-
gan;zaztions of Cuban emigres,
whn have found protection and
assistance in the United States.
The raiders went, unpunish-
ed -- the State Department
merely .reproached them for
having so noisily ` manifested
their "patriotic sentiments."
Encouragtfl by;;this,,th organiz-
ers held'. a press conference . in
Venezuela at w jch Juan Selvat,,
ll r "military co-ordinator,"
aunqun ced that his group would
continue. ' its piratic attacks:
."Any C4 mlrjunist-flagged, ship,
regardless of nationality, seen in
Cuban territorial waters, will be
r('cridr-)c'd as