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unity of martyron, of sacrifice, of combat. We want the greatest success for our sister revolutionary organizations, which will never be objects of attack on our part because our only enemy is communism.Q. - You personally and the M.R.R. in general have always been cited as "favorites" of certain North American groups or go-verimental agencies. Is that correct?A. - I would like to have those who speak of this favoritism answer me this question:Do they call the Bay of Pigs episode favoritism?Do they call the two years I spent in jail waiting to put my back to the wall and be shot favoritism?Do they call the state of abandonment in which the clandestine M.R.R. was left in Cuba after the battle of Giron Beach favoritism?Do they call favoritism the fact that on my leaving jail I had to break with the Revolutionary Committee because it had been converted into an instrument for not carrying the war to Cuba?Do they call favoritism the fact that we have had to leave American territory to be able to continue the struggle against Castre?Do they call favoritism the fact that we have to fight a long war because we get no help from those who could make it short?But these campaigns of "favoritism" do not surprise me.
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I know that International Con unisa cennot edit publicly that it is being defeated by the people of little Cuba who are only getting help from their brothers in Latin America, from God and from their indonitable desire to be Free.Q. - Today you talk of bringing about uprisings in the forces of the Castro regime, and you seen to trust in this as the best way to liberate the island from Soviet and Comunist domination. Why didn't you take that position three years ago, since it was just as valid then as now?A. - Three years ago we took the same position as today. Just remember that the M.R.R. was the first revolutionary organiza-tion to rise up against the tyrant Castro to try to overthrow him by internal action at a time when many were convinced that Fidel was a Communist but said "that it was not yet time to say so to the people".Remember that the first weapons for internal rebellion were carried to Cuba by the M.R.R.Remember that Francisco, the M.R.R. Coordinator in Cuba was not only the cheerful organizer of the resistance but also eventually the national coordinator of the whole clandestine movement.Remember that the Bay of Pigs invasion was designed to be only the gold buckle to fasten up the stage of active re-sistance and guerrilla activities.Remember the long list of over 150 martyrs of the clan-destine war of the M.R.R. which shown clearly the priority wo
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assigned at that time to rebellion in the loca forces. Remember that before the rigade camps were set up there were infiltration camps provided especially to assist this internal rebellion.Q. - Some international circles claim that Russia is abandoning Castro, that it has agreed on this abandonment secretly with North America, and that this is visibly evident in the gradual withdrawal of Soviet troops from the island. They add that confidence in this agreement has caused North America to "tolerate" this fresh outbreak of armed activities in the Caribbean. Do you share this view?A. - Frankly I do not believe in international pacts that are not clear to me, and I believe much less in the willingness of Russia to carry out its agrements: Poland, Chechoslovakia and Hungary are historical witnesses of Russian treachery.As for "tolerating our activities", I cannot speak, because we have not asked for "tolerance" for them. It never cocurred to me to "ask permission" to die for my country.Q. - Would you subordinate the possibilities of liberation of your country to any advantage of an international nature for the United States?A. - My country's interests are greater than those of any other nation. Any Cuban who does not believe that does not deserve to be called a Cuban.I do not believe the United States expects such a shooking attitude from the Cubans. They may have many faults but
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they respect the dignity of man.This is not the first time we say publicly that this war of liberation of our enslaved Cuba must be carried on "no matter whom it pleases, no matter whom it displeases", since it is true that powerful nations have international obligations to carry out and it is also true that we Cubans h.ve our inescapable duties to our enslaved country.Q. - If arned action within Cuba -- guerrilla war in the mountains and war of terror in the cities -- should, as ex- pested produce a wave of popular uprisings both among students and workers and in the military units of the dictatorship, do you think that the democratic nations of the hemisphere would come to our help? Aren't you afraid of a repetition of what happened in Budapest?A.- Although I am convinced that at some definite moment they would come to our help, we cannot base our war on col- lective assistance. We must plan our strategy as a purely Cuban struggle from beginning to end.Many Latin American nations have already helped us -in accordance with their ability and thanks to them we can do what we are doing.As for the rear of a repetition of what happened in Budapest taking place in Cuba, we cannot forget that Cuba has no frontier with Russia.Q. - Some foreign analysts and some governments have studied
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the situation on the island and treat with Castro as if they believed that all hope of liberation had expired. Can you tell us something about the internal struggle against communisa?A. - To think that all hope of liberation has expired in Cuba is to show a complete lack of knowledge of the condition and character of the Cuban people. The history of Cuba is a history of repeated martyrdon in search of real liberty.I can say very little about the internal struggle that does not affect its security. But let it be sufficient to say that today there are guerrillas in five of the six provinces of Cuba; that the tyrant knows about them and that he has not been able to wipe them out because of the peasants' support for them; that in the cities the sentiment of the workers has begun to be mobilized toward passive resistance, and that within the very ranks of the militia Cuban patriots are forming independent cells.Q. - From the days of the Bay of Pigs you seemed to trust blindly in North American material backing for your struggle. But lately we see you shifting your interest toward Latin American countries. Why?A. - Actually my first glance was toward Latin America. I took residence in Mexico where I published my book *Traición* (Treachery) and I traveled around Latin America carrying the shout of alarm against communism. Afterward I went to North America in constant search of resources for the war, and although I have
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never had blind confidence in anything human, because everything that is done blindly is done badly, it is true that I had confidence in North American material help. Reason: because we were seeing it. (I do not think it was a secret to anyone where the weapons we used in the invasion came from.) I had no scruples in accepting American weapons to offset those from Russia which Fidel Castro was receiving in gigantic shipments.After leaving prison I lost coniidence in that assistance because since then not only have I seen none, but also I have not seen the possibility even of getting any.Not only has my interest switched toward Latin America, but also my gratitude toward these people who have opened their arms to offer us help when all doors were being closed against us. Thanks to them we can continue the struggle.Q. - What opinion do you think the conduct of nations like England and France deserve, who, turning their backs on principles they claim to hold and on moral and humane considerations, take part in propping up Castro's bloody regime by supplying him with credits and all kinds of financial backing?A. - First I do not want to confuse countries with governments. Most peoples are innocent of the atrocities and treacheries of their governments.That kind of behavior never surprised me in the case of the English government, as they did something even worse in Korea where their soldiers were dyingunder attacks from waves
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of Chinese from red Manchuria while the government was selling steel to Fekin.In the case of the French government I was sorrowful because of the figure of Gen. DeGaulle. As a young Cuban I used to hold in my heart the image of DeGaulle, hero of the Second World War, leader of his country's resistance in the fight against the foreign invader.It was hard for me to realize that this same man would turn his back on the principles which made him beloved by the free world. It is unfortunate that such a brilliant career should have been darkened at its ending.In any case, some day Cuba will be free and those governments can be sure that, if they do not alter their conduct, they will then receive their payment in the same historical currency that they have passed out to our martyred people.Q.- You and your party have been accused of being fascists, of being a bee-hive for the Central Intelligence Agency and a "cover" for the worst political and economic interests of our country. What do you have to say about that?A.- Nothing. Let my actions and my history answer the question. Those who are going to go on saying this are the Communists and the foolis tools of communism.I believe it would be well to recall that the M.R.R. was the only organization at this stage of the Cuban struggle that, before apending its first funds for weapons, spont them
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for publishing a statement of its ideology precisely because we wanted everyone to know where we intended to go, how we were going and why we were going there. This background statement circulated throughout the underground and the exiles. It contains our complete ideology, and the same thing is contained in the political testament that I wrote before leaving for the Bay of Pigs, as it also appears in my book *Marchas de Guerra y Cantos de Presidio* (War Marches and Prison Songs), written while I awaited death, as is clearly explained in the recent pamphlet about my full statement to the members of the A.R.E.C.If wishing to carry to Cuba a state of independence, liberty, justice, respect for the dignity of human beings; if wishing to have the constitution of 1940 effective as long as it is not revoked by the same people who approved it; if opposing all demagogic extremes and all totalitarian impositions; if all this is being a fascist; then I am a fascist.But since fascism is totalitarianism established by an oligarchy in the name of supposed racial purity, I cannot be a fascist.As for the other accusations of obeying or being a cover for unsavory interests, I challenge anyone to give me the name of a single individual among our revolutionary directors who has a blemish in this respect; I challenge anyone to analyze the statistics of our martyrs; I challenge anyone to analyze our history.Q. - Can you sum up in a few words the ideological base of M.R.R.?
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A. - Yes. We dream of independence with liberty, liberty with culture, culture with bread, bread for honest work, honest work with respect for the dignity of the human being; and all this in a democratic regime of Latin American character and Christian morality.Q. - Would your group favor keeping some laws of the Revolution if it is proved that they correspond to some need, or do you think that the Fidel epoch should be swept out completely and a fresh start made?A. - When Fidel's regime is overthrown, Cuban needs are going to be quite different from those of our country with the tyrant in power. I believe the laws he made which could answer real Cuban needs were badly conceived and directed even worse.I believe that without fundamentally changing the 1940 constitution, which means for Cuba a return to the rule of law, it will be possible to make laws which will meet Cuban needs.Q. - Are you opposed to the negroes?A. - No; nor am I opposed to the whites, which means the same thing to me. What interests us is not the color of the skin but the color of the soul and of the ideals.Perhaps that is why our movement is the one that has more black brothers in its ranks, including the highest civil and military positions.Q. Do you favor, as has been stated, establishment in Cuba of a semi-confessional state with open predominance of the most conservative elements of the Catholic Church?
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A. - Neither of the most conservative nor of the most liberal; that would be "clericalism" and it is expressly condemned in Pepal Encyclicals.I personally am a Catholic and will never deny my faith, because I have no vocation to be an apostate.But of course, the movement is full of men of all ali- gions and creeds.Certainly we shall reaffirm with the 1940 constitution our belief in God and the necessity for Christian norality.We believe that every child has the right to receive preparation in whatever religion he chooses.Q. - What will the M.R.R. do with the Rebel Army and the Mi- litia once Cuba is liberated?A. Those who turn around and fight against the tyrant will be retained in the armed forces with the same rank as before. Those who do not will be discharged and returned to private life if they have committed no crime, but if they have, thay will have to answer to the civil courts in normal fashion, which will again function in Cuba in accordance with the 1940 constitution.The only ones who have anything to fear are foreign Communists and members of repressive agencies.९० ill the death penalty be maintained in Cuba?As - I do not favor the death penalty, but of course since the 1940 constitution will be in force, this penalty is recog- nized only for treason. We must ond the revolutionary tribu-11
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nals and return to the rule of law.Q. - Do you believe Cuban national interests when freed from communism will be better served if the nation is placed in a position of international neutrality?A. - We shall always be an aggressive forefront of the West against comunism. We can never be neutral in a struggle in which the destiny of civilization is at stake.Q. - Engineer Ray and you seem to be performing parallel activities as you approach almost five years of struggle against Castro and are apparently the two most important political figures of our future. Could you tell us what keeps you apart?A. - Starting from the assumption that we are fighting for a democracy, any ideological difference between another group of Cubans and ourselves will be resolved in the future by the Cuban people in free elections. I do not think this is the historic moment to talk about differences. If the regime set up in Cuba after Fidel Castro is defeated is a totalitarianism or a dictatorship of left or right, we shall KEEP ON USING OUR GUNS.Q. - Why don't you take the command of Brigade 2506 and why has it not been possible to consolidate around the brigade all the exile elements since it is the largest group of veterans of our war?A. - A great many of our brothers of Brigade 2506 are already in our ranks. The brigade could not consolidate exiles around it because it was formed to be a military unit without political plane; recently arrived from Communist prisons, it went to North American army camps to continue its training. That is18
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why I left its ranks. I did not want anyone to say that I was trying to orient the brigade politically by trying to unite the exiles around it. Besides I thought that I was more useful to my country in trying to carry the war into Cuba than in receiving a training that I did not know whether I would put in practice some day. Tine has proved I was right.Q. - What would you do, or what are you doing with the followers of Batista? Do you think this way of naming some people who form closed blocs with persons of very dissimilar history and interests, is real and does any good for Cuba?A. - For me there are no *Batistianos* nor *Priistas* nor any other discriminative "ista". I only believe in a moral classification of men, and there are good ones and bad ones in all the governments our country has had. The only salvation for Cuba is to bring together all worthy and honest Cubans of all epochs, of all social classes, of all colors, and of all ages, into a new historical geveration to consolidate our nation after the traitor's regime has been overthrown. Poor Cuba if we continue to harbor sectarian hates and sterile discriminations:Q. - It is said that you are an admirer of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, that you are familiar with his ideology, and that his assistants say in private that you are an Antillean version of him. Is this true?A. - It is a fact that I am familiar with Frimo Rivera's ideology, as I am also familiar with that of Mahatma Ghandi, Rousseau, Roosevelt, Lenin, Hitier and all the men who for mankind's
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good or ill have left a political philosophy to history. A leader has a duty to understand them completely. But the ideologies that are most familiar to ne are moulded in the unforgettable thoughts of Jesus Christ, Marti and Bolívar. This is the first time I hear myself called an "Antillean version" of Primo de Rivera. If anyone says so, it must be in secret because I have never heard it. What I was called once was a "fascist" when I was in prison awaiting the death penalty; it was the traitor Fidel Castro in person. It is possible that he has friends in exile.Q. - What do you consider the weakest of the Castro regime?A. - The people, the people of Cuba, who would rather die on their feet than live on their knees; the people who now realize the total surrender to a foreign power and have seen the complete failure of Communist doctrine. The troops that will overthrow Fidel Castro are already in Cuba, the very people who cheered him when they thought him the hero of our liberty.The presence of Russian occupation troops in Cuba has definitely revitalized the nationalist spirit of our country.Q. What will you do in case you come to govern Cuba, with private schools, with the press and with private initiative of an economic nature?A. In the first place, our fight is not for the purpose of putting me in the government; it is to make our country independent. But if you ask me what is my idea about what a govern-
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ment ought to do in Cuba in respect to these natters, my answer is: Regarding private education: protect it in every possible way, and raise public education to the same level as private.Regarding the press: liberty of the press and assistance for the school for reporters to make Cuban newspaper men more efficient. The Cuban Dress will educate our peoples background so as to definitively wash the wounds which communism has inflicted on the spirit of our children and young people.Regarding private enterprise: protection for it, assistance for small business, and by means of modern tax laws make sure that business performs its social function. The United States, Western Germany and many other countries can give us an exact idea of what we want.Q. - What is your final message to your exiled people in this grave moment of history?A. - That we cannot and must not trust in international solutions nor in easy paths to our country's independence. That we must return to the romantic spirit of our war of independence, to that difficult, self-sacrificing, hard war of a Martí collecting pennies and a Maceo spending them on bullets; to that war of Cubáns within and Cubans without against those who are no longer Cubans.If every Cuban offers what he can; if we obtain, as was done in 1896, the fraternal embrace of our brother peoples; if we put the interests of a country that must be saved before our personal interests, Ouba will be independent. Because this bat-16
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# June 1964MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORDSUBJECT: Telephone Conversation between AMBIDDY-1 and Martin FerrerDATE : 29 May 1964 at 01301. After being informed by night Security that "Mr. Ignacio" had called I returned A-l's call.2. A-1 mentioned he would need four RB-12's and two RB-9's for the next operation. A-l asked if they could be given to him directly to take to Nicaragua. I told him this would have to be checked out with Dick.3. For security reasons A-1 felt it would be best for AMJAVA-4 alone to meet with Carl. A-4 will be staying at the same hotel he stayed the last time they met. Meeting scheduled for 29 May 64. After 1430 Houston time, A-4 will use alias of Rafael Carela.Raul J. HernandezWH/SA/SO/HHFile:ConversationsAMBIDDY-1 - 201LogisticsSECRET
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tle has been won. The tyant who accumulated guns, tanks andplanes is beginning to realize that they only guarantee a gov-ernment when the people who hold those guns and manage thosetenks and planes are convinced that the government representsthe purest interests of the nation and the highest destiniesof the country. And those guns, those tanks and those planesare already being turned against the red beast. The littlewestern David called Cuba has already let fly the stone whichwill knock down the ugly Goliath of communism.5670
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# A CONTROVERSIAL FERSONALITYIt can be said of the Secretary General of the Movement for Revolutionary Recovery, Manuel Artine, that there is much to say, but never that he has lacked spirit to fight for the liberty of Cuba.Combative and polemical, Artine today occupies a singular position in the fight against Castro in which he collects furious insults and almost fanatical proselytiem in equal quantities. Hir early struggle against Batista's dictatorship and his activity in Sierra Maestra in Column One commanded by Fidel Castro, made him an outstanding figure in the Revolution. His break with Castro and his denunciation of the olive green treachery to the great romance of the Cuban people made him the target for all attacks and insults. In the spring of 1960 Artime went into exile. In Mexico he wrote a book denouncing Castro's apostasy. With other eminent democratic leaders he helped icund the Revolutionary Front (later Committee) and exerted intense propaganda and political activity throughout the continent which oulminated in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. This was one of the most critical points in Manuel Artime's civic career. His activity in it -- personally heroic though it was -- helped throw on him the shadow of new attacks and suspicions. But it also converted him into a leader of the first rank which the maturity of a prison term and his conspiratorial and revolutionary activities afterward only enhanced.
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Manuel Anime has become today, by virtue of the attackof his troops on Puerto Pilon, the principal figure of currentCuban activity. His group has been hammered into one of themost disciplined, one of the largest and most efficient in theheroic struggle of the people of Cuba for their liberty. Con-sequently everything he does and says is of passionate interestfor this people in exile, a people which wants to know closely-- and they should -- the thoughts and activities of the menwho will probably lead them in the future.This is why Manuel Artime is brought to these Cubanpages of BOHEMIA, which have been, are now and will continueto be the ideal civic rostrum for the people of Cuba.Artime has the floor. . .A. T.(A. T. is Agustin Tamargo, assistant director of Bohemia)567016
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# BohemiarINTERNACIONAL25c.Junio 7, 1964![photo of a beach]Reportaje Sensacional sobre la Catástrofe en el Stadium Nacional de LimaEL DIA QUE TITO DERROTO A STALIN
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