MANUEL ARTIME- RENE SHICK ANTI - CUBA DEAL SEEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100140013-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 1998
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: June 22, 1966
• Content Type: TRANS

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22 June 1966
/MANUEL ARTIME-RENE SCHICK ANTI-CUBA DEAL SEEN
Havana in Spanish to the Americas 0130 GMT 22 June 1966--E
(Feature: "Cuba Replies to Aggression")
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CPYRGHT
(Excerpts) Cuban counterrevolutionary leader Manuel Artime recently made a quic
trip to Managua. AFP reports that Artime's visit to the Nicaraguan capital was
connected with the statement by President Rene Schick at the United Nations that
Nicaragua would be ready to furnish a base for another. invasion of Cuba. Artime
spent only a few hours in Managua and then returned to Miami.
Artime has made of his betrayal of Cuba a profitable business. The U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency pays for his trips and his soft life. Like a vulture when it
smells carrion, Artime arrived in Managua to give practical effect to the shameless
offer by Rene Schick. A deal between these two wretches does not appear difficult.
Rene Schick lays the bases for an aggression, Artime takes charge of hiring mercenaries
among the shifting worms, and Yankee imperialism pays for the services of the two,
furnishing funds, weapons, and war equipment.
Newspapers report that there is now a military training camp in Nicaragua capable
of housing 10,000 Cuban worms. Recently the transfer of arms from the United States
to this little Central American nation has increased. As yet there is no report of
the transfer of whiskey and other contraband items, which seems to indicate that the
counterrevolutionaries have not yet begun to arrive.
Rene Schick, after his shameless declaration in New York, on his. return to Managua
tried to explain his offer. He said that this would not be a unilateral action,
on the part of Nicaragua nor the granting of bases for counterrevolutionary bands.
He confirmed his offer, but for what he described as multilateral action against
Cuba.
Unilateral or multilateral, an attack on Cuba has only one name: aggression.
Whatever the disguise, an action of this type violates the U.N. Charter and the norms
of international law. If the aggression occurs, our people will not waste,time
ascertaining whether it is unilateral or multilateral. The disguise does not matter.
The aggressor, whatever his clothing, will find his grave here, and the victorious
Cuban resistance will make the continent tremble.
CUBA OPPOSES U.S, AT LAND REFORM CONGRESS
Havana in Spanish to the Americas 1100 GMT 21 June 1966--E
(Text) At the opening of an international conference on land reform
sponsore,4 by the United Nations (in Rome--ed.), the Cuban delegation: opposed the
selection of a U.S. representative for one of the three vice presidencies of the
meeting. Moreover, Dr. Antonio Nunez Jimenez, head of the Cuban delegation, protested
the fact that the CPR, the GDR the DPRK, and the DRV were not invited to attend
a conference classified as a world meeting. Similarly the representative of the
Albanian People's Republic repudiated the presence at the meeting of the representative
of the Chiang Kai-shek regime.