STATE DEPARTMENT AIDED CASTRO, SAYS SMITH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700280011-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: August 25, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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fore a subcommittee headed I
Staff Writer by Rep. Edwin E. Willis of House his s tw testiitmton
ony befthesaid of Castpio'siCommunist revolu- ' e' ily Text of testimony given Louisiana, was in support of a in part:
House Un-American Activi- ' proposed Freedom Academy granting that the Batista:~
Committee members in to train y "One of the major errors of government was losing
tVashington feet emb di s-, s chain young men in the judgment of doctrinaire left- strength from within becauso., and ties ,closes that former U.S. Am-. counter-tactics ctod be war
used hat althi lnhrevolutioinslr takin f of" 1 mention.
bassador to Cuba Earl E. T. 'within Communist countries, place throughout the world I mention Cuba because it
Smith of Palm Beach charged ? The State Department has are either democratic or Pnm_. ;serves as an example of what
1 the state dennrtmontf. T t;.._
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can+ policy makers with ? which only recently was ap. should "++y U.S. America and why a Freedom
1. supportina Fidel Cactrn'. P- support. aid. an
ban revolution. "wuuiieuuea ior.
passage by the House commit..
",ased, further reveals that Smith, ambassador to Cuba.
amith was most critical of from 1957 to 1959, was 'famil
lower ? echelons of the State. iar with corruption in the gov-
Department setting policies.. ernment of Fulgensio Batista
~ Jwhich , higher officials later as well as the Communistic
4 had to live with. learnings of 'revolutionist
4 , Smith's testimony, made, he,
Continued
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