GOP LEADER WARNS OF RED SUBVERSION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100150051-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: March 3, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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EP d'ARENDS' CITES THREAT IN LATIN,, 'MERICA0,=
monist subversion In Central 1?Atin Americans in Cuba in ""`uwa uaa~suy us iuuuary
Sul ver,ior i
r
oses
and Sth Ai i th "bi
oumercaseg-
at this time.
However, at the some time,
U.S. Rep. Leslie C. Arends of
Illinois, who is ranking GOP
member of the House Arnied
Services Committee, said a con-
stant eye must be kept on the
military buildup in Cuba.
Arends' comments came in a
ptess intci.le ? it he Port-r)
Call inn on Tierra Srrdr,
she is spending the w'eeken.i be-
fore making a major talk to-
morrow night at a fund-raising
..;dinner of the . Pinellas Re-
x publican Executr.Xe Committee.
Other -Views
In other views, Arends corn-
iplained that the Democratic ad-
- ministration is holding back in.
formation on, the Cuban situa.
tion, past and present. that
should be made public.
Arends said. "Even top Tie-publican leaders.are not being
told in advance of plans fur
- t fighting . the a Co>;rimunist threat
in 'Cuba`: and other?w outh and
central Amori n eouhtrie$
"I seriolusl uegton,that ice
are getting ll.= th truth about
the Cuban. sltuAtion4s it'..xlsts
today," Arends?told newsmen.
"In other, words." he con-
tinued, from , day ., to - day,
various testlinont. that conies
before this eon1mtttee ?atnd that
-both 16' the, Sett ate hind" the
house-we arc -learning, addi-
tional things ,1y to ?what` has
transpired and:-what is pres-
ently taking place;
"We may be-getting the truth
. but were not ". a Ling ' all the
G'uth," ire said.
Agrees With Criticism
A, an examhle, .Arends
a.rted with U.S Jtep.H."R.
(;toss. R-Iowa in his?criticism
Friday of tire admiristration
' riot leveling a ith us" Ott the
si,re,,d of snb.croum.
r 'narns of Red Su-versio
1'ide
p
a S e t o u a *eve ever had.
!treat, "in other words, this was a
Arendti and LS. wRep. as Wit-'ieterminatlon of the Joint Chiefs
tenda nrr Cramer. at fan tninwho,viwasrw in 'len at- f Staff that we be. prepared
nd
" kingency In Cuba at that time."'
ave been trained in subversion _ wait untilh 1964--a' prealdehtta
Should the Communists get a he should have been forced toj in
ror~',hirld in these -countries, n the other things that were, government before
cut bill is adopted. e pr' I'cte'
r ntt, said. "We're in for real nee c-say} Mends said. the foreign aid and app prix
-' -e ?his must have duo , know what. if any, kind''roughen?'. going ever" this yo
r.o -hat is necessary to stamp
th,ti out II
'1ranrvhiie, Arends said the
military buildup in Cuba may
not seem as importantnow butj:
it xa-i 're-al impdrfant.' not so
lun ago.
)rends said he's, not In favor
U- U.S. invading Cuba but,
r, added
14ttat bothers me is when
re had the advantage in Cttba
ills p?rrticular time-when
hrushche' end Kenhedy `*ere
n contact with. one .another
ve didn't go ahead at that time
nil . 01 low pp on the site ;in
pectlon." i,
Ale said there was 'testimony
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In other areast
said he didn't think' Y