The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1959-07-17
Some Cuban Leaders

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lator when his English failed
him.
Mai. Disz said the three of
them had fled Cuba with a
fourth man in a sailboaf char
tered by Mr.. Disz BruIl. The
majors whereabouts in this
country were kept secret prior
to the hearing. However, i'm
formanfs let it be known that
that the Internal Security Sub
committee had heard him at
least onee-and possibly often
Erin secret session before
scheduling the public hearing.
The witness said he had
been a copilot with a Cuban
commercial airline for five
Years before joining the Cas-
trb movement. During the
revolution his principal as
Sgnment was to fly guns and
ammunition to the Castro
forces.
He said he first began TO
suspect that Castro and those
close TO him are communists
early in January, when the
Cuban Premier refused in
fadlo and television broadcasts
10 attack communists" Sub
sequent words and actions by
Premier Castro confirmed his
suspicious, he declared.
He stated that he had heard
Castro say in private that he
plans TO establish in Cuba an
ever more thoroughly com
munistie system than that Of
the Soviet Union.
He said Castro once told
him, regarding his projected
aqrarian reform, that he would
first seize the land OF support
ers Of ousted dictator Fudgen-
clio Bastisla. and then I'm
going to take the land Of
everybody" On another occas-
ion, he said, Castro stated that
"someday the banks will dis
appear
Mai. Diaz asserted that com
munlst members of the depos-
ed Batista regime had been
installed in his government
by Premier Castro. He gave a
long list of names of alleged
communists who have been
given important posts in The
government and the armed
forces by the Premier and his
brother Raul.
Leading c m m lists in
Cuba, he said, include Augusta
Martinez, Minister of Defense,
Armando Hart, Minister of
Education, David Salvador, a
prominent labor leader, and
Raul casfro's wife.
\ Describing himself as a
spracticing Catholic. Mai. Diaz
branded the Castro regime as
anti-religious. He said the
word God" had been remov-
ed from the new Cuban con-
Stitution because communism
does not agree with the
Thurch-with religion Maj.
'Diaz said Premier Castro had
publicly avoide d answering
questions on this point.
: The major said political i'm
doctrinstion schools for the
armed forces established by
the Castro government had
been infiitrated by COM
munisfs. He said that at one
of these schools the recent
film The Defiant Ones"
whose theme is racial dis
elimination, was exhibited TO
attending. Afterwards,
he said, the teacher in charge
of the class gave a lecture in
which he said the movie gave
a typical picture of race rela-
in the United States.
. Maj. Diaz charged that anti
us. propaganda is being dis
freely in Cuba by the
government. Premier Castro
refers in public adj
dresses to "imperialist Yam
and warns That the ma
ton may someday have TO de
lend itself against invading
L. S Marines, he said.
The witness stated that
numerous Soviet agents have
arrived in Cuba since the Cas-
tro regime took power. He
said he believes the govern
ment is getting some sort of
scientific help" from the So
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