IS CASTRO BEHIND GUERRILLA WAR IN U.S. CITIES?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300320004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 14, 1967
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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VOLUME LXIII-NO. 7 WASHINGTON, D.C.
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Fidel Castro has openly embraced Negro vio-
lence as part of his over-all strategy.
Castro's aim, made clear to Communist revo-
? ' ; )utionaries meeting in Havana, is to weaken the
. S. by confronting it with guerrilla wars at
ome and abroad-including more "black pow-
er" onslaughts in' American cities. 25X1 A9a;:'?'
Americans to date have given little heed to Fidel Cas-
tro s boasts that guerrilla war would be waged in the U. S.
Now this is changing.
With more than 100 U. S. cities rocked by Negro riots,
large areas going up in smoke, bands of snipers using guer-
rilla tactics in city after city. Castro's claims are taking on
new dimensions. ?
On August 1, in the Cuban capital, Carmichael said that
Negro guerrillas are being organized in the U. S. to "bring
the collapse of capitalism and imperialism."
Carmichael urged American Negroes to "take arms and
fight from New York to California, from Canada to Mexico"
and to "seek vengeance" against President Johnson, Secretary
of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Robert S. Mc-
Namara.
"Black power" was defined by Carmichael at the Havana
meeting as a "union of the Negro population which is strug-
the whole country.
A U. S. Negro, Stokely Carmichael, was a key figure when
Communists of 27 nations met in Havana at Castro's call
early in August to plot guerrilla strategy for the Hemisphere.
"Black power" firebrands are threatening to burn down
gling to destroy the capitalist structure which is exploiting
us" in the U. S. He added:
The method of struggle for American Negroes is guer-
rilla warfare. The struggle is in the streets of the U. S."
establishes the JdgqQqall linik ketweea- the a vio-
Alarm In Congress. Urgent warnings of a Communist
scheme to exploit "black power" fanaticism and confront
the U. S. with civil war were sounded in Congress and in
the press.
Representative Armistead I. Selden, Jr. (Dem.), of. Ala-..--;
bama, told Congress on July 31:
'The presence of Stokely Carmichael in. Havana clearly
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"BURNING QUESTION"
Castro s plans to subvert and overthrow existing Latin Amer-
ican governments...:'
Mr. Selden said that Carmichael's presence In Havana
raised "the possibility that the degree of guerrilla proficien-
cy attributed to many of the rioters of the past weeks can
be traced to Castro-Cuban-operated training cadres."
Senator Peter H. Dominick (Rep.), of Colorado, noting
Carmichael's call from Cuba for Vietnam-type wars by Ne-
groes in the U. S., said that "it is time to sound the alarm
bells to awaken our leaders and our people to the menace ?
of expanding aggression in this Hemisphere."
Strategy: "to overwhelm." Castro-Communist strategy
against the U. S. was described in a dispatch from Havana
to "The New York Times" by James Reston, an associate
editor of that newspaper. Mr. Reston wrote:
"It (the strategy] is to overwhelm the American Covern-
ment with as many problems as possible in as many places as
possible while the Vietnam was is going on. And if racial
riots in Detroit and Newark add to the confusion, so much
the better."