CARMICHAEL LAUDS CUBAN COMMUNISM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100660016-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: August 2, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2000
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AUG 2 1967
Carmichael
;Lauds Cuban
Communism
By John M. Goshko
washlnatan Post Foreign 'service
HAVANA, 'Aug. l--Stokely
Carmichael, the American
Negro militant most. closely
identified with the J31ack
Power movement, today show-
ered abuse . on the United
States and praised conlinu-
nism as it' Is practiced here in
Fidel Castro's Cuba.`' `
Carmichael avoided respond-
ing directly to questions as to
whether he considers himself
a Communist. Asked whether
Black Power can be equated
to communism, he answered: j
"Communism can be many
things-n.usslan, Czech, Yugo,
Slav, Cuban. Th.e system we
like best Is the Cuban,"
Of the U.S. Communist
Party, he said: "There are no
proletarians in the .U.S. Com-
munist Party. It is the party of
the rich."
His comments at a mara-
thon four-hour press confer.
ence were the principal side two fronts: "The fight against
racism and the fight against
attraction at today's session of capitalism. Racism is a result
the Latin American Solidarity' o f capitalism."
Organization meeting. Jn ? [Carmichael envisaged the
terms of delegate and press ii!- possible assassination of Presi-
terest, they almost overshad-.1dent Johnson and British
Prime Minister Wilsoq as acts
owed the conference's work- i of vengeance for the murder
ing sessions themselves. of Negro leaders, Communist
Carmichael is here as a sources said, according to Reu-
guest of the Cuban govern-iters.
ment, and conference mem- [Carmichael also included
bers yesterday elected him an:,Secretary of State Dean Rusk
honorary delegate by acclama- and Defense Secretary Robert
tion. S. McNamara as possible tar.
At Carmichael's insistence, 'igets of assassins at his press
all representatives of US~conference..,
ne edl b d f (The Communist ...-sources
were a
.
no m a
rr
rom44 ti .. i?, " '.._ 4 .,'
his press conference today..
However, what he said was!
learned later from tape record-'
ings and notes by Latin. andj
European newsmen who
attended the conference.
In his, comments, the its'
year-old former head of "Student Nonviolent Coordinaw
:.w
I consider an intellectual '.is j
someone like Fidel Castro. To '-'II
him there is no art and there
On Integration. "There tan
be no Integration until - peos
pie are the same.? :Therefore
integration does "not exist 'in
!tbe: United 'States
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Ing Committee expressed his whether said Carmichael, asked'
whether he himself might. be:
satisfaction, at the wave of.assassinated, replied that the: /
rioting and . racial unrest U.S. Central Intelligence/
A
gency had an International
sweeping U,S, cities. Among
his random remarks were license to kill.]
these: Carmichael said his three:
"Forty per cent of the greatest heroes were assassi-.
troops in Vietnam are Negro, nated black nationalist leader.
and some good may come of It Malcolm X, guerrilla warfare
because when they come back expert Ernesto (Che) Guevarazi
they will be trained to kill In and Chinese Communist
e
the streets. leader Mao Tse-tung. He
charged that Malcolm X was
Green Berets, now In, killed by CIA-paid Cuban refu-
Latin America protecting mill-; gees and said he" believes Che
tary governments, may have to; Guevara's slogan, "You must
go back to the U.S. to protect' teach them to hate so you can
their mothers, fathers and turn. them .into an effective
families. fighting machine."
' [He was quoted by Havana Other random Carmichael
radio as saying American, comments included these:
Negroes "will have enough, On reports that the State :
arms of all kinds to continue:Department might lift his
the fight for their liberation,": passport for traveling to Cuba
,the Associated Press reported. without U.S. Government per-
A later broadcast quoted him,, mission: "Since I was 10 years
"We have to fight in the lJnlt?'old I've not asked anyone's
ad States in order to change permission to go anywhere at
i
i
st _
v
tal
society."]
. guerrilla warfare is any time for any reason.. Sa the best training for fighting I say to hell with the State
l
ectuals:
whites) will not dare bomb On ,iv e g r o Intel
" 11"There are none as far as I
their own cities
.
The American. Negro's bat- am concerned because 'they`