(toe-tozar-ioe7 PROCESSING a fir yh “7 en ene uu mi “aif Nike g ape ay fs WOE EPG TCFBAT reenter - . : : . “GMtY Qual feo “wt 7 INTE f ni eQUTEtD aes. . VEALUARTERS PY Sa Car Wrad PROT UAG 7 a ee am a sasiact _ Chief of Station, JMWAVE. a ~— “conti pon IMZTP/KUCAGE/AMEUD /Operationa] | : pAV.OX. Re * @ ACT HPs REQUIRED - RLILAENCLS FYI. See below a P-R=I-O-K-I-T-¥ a , l, Under separate cover we are forwarding PASSAVOY -. reports No, 57 through 70, . 2. No,. 66 which concerns the "Letter to the Editor” ‘was done ot the request of C/CA/HH. Since “# are not able: to obtain on a regular basis copies of the newspaper in question, . it is requested that Hesdquartere cneck the files of the paper beginning with 23 November and inform WAVE if the letter appears, AMEUD~-1 would like to send it subsequently to local papers, _End of Dispaten ATTACHMENTS — , Memo Nos, 57 - 10 (2 Gb, ) Liao) DISTRIBUTION f, 3- Chief, WHD w/stte. secs / ee 2- Files w/o atta, - ( ty Lol eo ge |AFe 25/1 vik & . hes Get OATE DISFATCHED iOrG TREY 39 NOV 61 | NOY 3u 1961 Leors (CH SiMe AND NUMBER - can fs asthinck ig” ~ “7 7 UPGA~2781 DORIS JO VERS FE MUMDER 19-124 25/2 9 THe CEE URL Ureat Mere Gece CGT. Geta ene ne oe Ss ou Ee EERO ss eamestyta wes Wes te va ety Ke
.# | a Stoic Cle chonenf é ied A 278 20 November 1901 MEMORANDUM FOR. THE RECORD ; )lo : (Ab SUBCT: Letter from Dr. MIRO Cardona to Toronto Star Relative Medical Aid to Cuba Comittes 1. Attached horcte ia copy of Ictte Star by Dr. Jose MAO Cardona. Apparently he wrote Same day that } proposed the matter to him as requested ‘appcars. unchanged .uxcept for two or three gmall changes might prefer and which he agréed tO. — r pent 22 Noverber 1951, to the Toronto and mailed the letter the by WAVe, The letter “which I suggested he. - .. 2. Dr; MIRO's cooperation and imucdiate action typify his character and manner of operating. 3. I informed Pr. HIRO that I would advise him if Ster that his letter had been made public. ; , r Bibi] we found 1n copies of the
14-00000 wom ote Miarmt, November Zénd.,, i961 Editer, Teronte Star, 80 King Str.-et, “Weat Toronto, Canada yor . 7 ‘Dear Bir Information bas been received that a committes is clreulating appeale to the Canadian people asking for contributions for drugs = |. ee . to be sent to Cuba, implying that supplies have been cut off and « - /7. that the Cuban people cannot got euch drugs because the United Sta - tes. refuses to purchase sugar. The committee is called the Medi=“ cal Aid to Cuba Committee, Station B, P. O, Box 4, Toronto. 2B, « er Ontarto, © : - As.a member of the Cuban exile communicy and one intimates i “. fy tnformied of the situation in Cuba, I should like to set this. matter a etraight and point out the fallacy of this ‘gupposedly humanitarian « work which may be vietimiging the Canadian people, . | . The hypocrisy of this appeal io avident to anyone who has atudied ' the economic policies of the Cuban government, which prefers to put ite available foreign exchange ints the purchase of gune and tanks rather than into food and drugs for its people, The alleged argument that the cutting off of sugar purchases = by the United Stites has prevented the purchase of drugs ia fallacious 6ince the Cuban Government boasta of its considerable sale of sugar to the Soviet Union which prides: iteolf on ite aclentific progresa. = _ With thio foreign exchange available for Cuba, ie the Soviet Union ~ unable, or is it unwilling to send drugs to Caba? — - 4 # E s Frrthermore, Fresident ‘Kennedy has ¢peci{icaily stated that - there would be no total embargo pluced on Cuba aa he Intended that -‘feod and medicines be sent to Cuba since he had no quarrel with the Cuban people but only with their Communist dominated government. There ie ample exchange available te Cuba, for example from tremen dous sales of tobacco to the United Statea. Moreover drugs are being sent to Cuba, r SEER biel BEDE get pic cintly cae Tea cee ges OER Msi VOA Chea iter Be
14-00000 7 Palme ae _ Let our friends the Canadiane not be victimized by thie propa- ganda-type campaign but éxamine calmly and carefully the motives. « behind the appeals boing made by the Siedieal Aid fo Cuba Committee, Sinee rely yours, me : . - Mri co Bejan Jose Miro Cardona - President of Cuban Revolutionary Council JMCima