RADIO FREE RUSSIA FOR IVAN- -IN CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100430003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 27, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 2000/05/24: CIA-
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And Back Honte, Too
a io Free Russia For 1van-1n
Herald tdttortaI Writer
CONSIDER a 21-year-old
Russian soldier on occupation
duty in Cuba. How does he
feel about it.?
H e 's 5,000
m l i e s from
home, among
strangers who
are largely
hostile. Cu-
bans don't
speak his
language. He
lacks civilian
friends
in-
,
Mlss eluding girls.
Bellamy The news he
gets from home is Russian
radio propaganda beamed to
the "masses," not to him
personally.
His number may range
from 17,000 to 40;000, mostly
sent to Cuba because of their
technical skills or know-how
in operating sophisticated
machines of war -- not
because they are hardcore
Kremlin stooges.
* * *
CAN THESE Russia n
youths in Cuba be turned
Into allies of freedom? Con-
stantin W. Boldyreff and his
colleagues think so, They're
trying. Their Radio Free
Russia talks to "The Russian
boy in Cuba" for 15 minutes
every night.
"Our hroadc.a.sts," Boldy-
reff explains, "are aimed at
Moving the decent. Russian
officers and men to take the
honorable course of action.
To turn their arms -- -. when
the time comes -- against
their oppressors. To fight
for the freedom of the Rus-
sian people by helping the
Cubans to. throw off the
hated yoke.
"Their behavior at the
time of crisis will he of
crucial Importance for the
cause of freedom. The down-
fall of communism in Cuba
will deal a severe blow to
inn Coin in uIt ist rulers of
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... suppleni.enting regular broadcasts
his co-workers in Radio Free that garrison food for
Russia are the only Russians thought:
outside the Iron C U r t a i n "t'omr;a tn, think --- by
talking to the Ruwian,s in are 'tiff hr.--rF'" asks a Rus-
Cuba in their own tongue as sian in fltssian. "Why, in a
fellow patriots. 'liberated, brotherly' nation,
* * are you confuted to carefully
guarded camps in isolation
BOLDYREFF directs and from the population which,
edits the programs from an allegedly, you are supposed
office outside Washington, to he helping?
D.C., where the recorditg is "Did it ever occur to you
done. A radio station in the that F hrushchev and Castro
Dominican Republic beams keep you in Cuba because
the messages to Cuba. they hope to crush a revolt
Although Boldyreff's group by the Cuban people with
is 33 years old, its Cuban the use of your bayonets?"
t
ven
ure did not begin until
last Nov. 3, at the time of
the Cuban nti.s*le crisis, The
hands reddened with,,, tt-e
blood of Innocent people,"
He recalls that the Soviet
garrison in Hungary refused
to shoot freedom fighters
there in 1956, and many of
the troops joined the rebels.
"Twenty-three Russian
soldiers are known to have
joined the anti-Castro guer-;
rillas in the mountains of
Cuba," Boldyreff reports.
RFR's work in Cuba and
inside the Soviet Union is
sponsored by Narodno Tru-
duvoi Soyuz, known In Eng-
lish as the National Alliance
of Russian Solidarists. NTS
claims "thousands" of mem-
bers in 30 free world coun-
tries, plus an undisclosed
number of underground
members in the USSR.
BROADCASTS to Ftussla
go out from a radio station
near Munich, West Germany.
So do leaflets, booklets and
other literature -delivered by
balloons and by other means.
RFR often waits for a
long-winded Soviet speaker
to pause for breath, then
exclaims, on the some wave
length: "Don't believe a
word he says, the bum."
"This gives courage to thl
resistance through knowledge
that we are able tb get
through," Boldyreff' explains.
An NTS stunt denounced
by Red Star was a duplicate
of Komsomolskaya Pravda,
mouthpiece of the Commu-
nist Youth League. The
replica used the journal's
masthead, the same head-
lines, even the same first
sentence of each article. All
the rest was "dynamite,"
according to Boldyreff.
Agents dropped copies on
stacks of Komsomolskaya
Pravda at newsstands, to be
bought. by customers.
Instructions for anti-Com-
munist action are sealed in
plastic and floated. into So-
viet rivers and coastal v.,-
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