SLOW TERROR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000300040040-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 1998
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: April 2, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Form duLAC, WIS.
COMMONWEALTH
REPORTER
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Front Ed Other
Page P.. Page
DateAPR 2 1964
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According to Allen Dulles, the non- i
Communist nations have no policy to
meet the challenge of Red subversion
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This is a disturbing admission by the
former chief of the central intelli-
gency agency. Communism has been a
daily threat to Western society for
close to 50 years. Yet it is tragically
true, as Dulles asserted in a recent.`
speech that the Free World, the CIA':
included, has found no effective--s[rit
dote to Red terrorism and subversion.'
,Latin America is the latest case in
point. President Johnson, in his effort,
-tai chart a new course for the Western
Hemisphere, is trying to revitalize the
Alliance for Progress. Yet the alliance,
it: is clear, will remain a dead letter as ;
long as Latin America is in the grip of.,
Fidel Castro's terror.
:Specialists on communism, in fact,
have noted the emergence of a new and, tral America.
subtler Red strategy in most countries A regular route in contraband arms
below the Rio Grande since Castro's re- is also known to run from Brazil
cent visit to Russia. ! through Bolivia and into Peru.
Premier Khrushchev seems to have Latest Red strategy in Latin Amer-
shelved, for the present at least Cas- lea, in the view of specialists on com-
tro's plan to subvert' established gov- munism, is a victory for Premier
ernments and promote Red regimes, Khrushchev's go-slow policy over Red
jatterned on Cuba's dictatorship. In- China's , revolutionary brinkmanship.
America in a permanent state of po-
litical and economic chaos.
This is especially evident in Brazil,
Chile, Colombia, Panama and Venezu-
stead of frontal attacks, Moscow's new Its immediate aim is to make shambles
policy concentrates on limited acts of ! . of President Johnson's efforts to stim-
tirrorism designed to keep Latin ulate economic development and social
CPYRGHT
About-10;000 young men and women,
from various parts of the Western
training at Minas del Frio. Courses in-
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weapons, the manufacture of home
. weapons and how to commit acts of
'terrorism and sabotage singly or in
small groups.
Some of the recruits for the acad-
emy of terror reach Cuba by air from
Mexico City. But the majority are be-
lleved to be transported in Russian and
Cuban ships or in small boats from
rwarby Central America.
Graduates . of the academy, before
they return to their native countries,
are supplied with money, propaganda.
material and small arms. They also re-
ceive quantities.. of arms shipped
through commercial airlines, in the
baggage of Cuban diplomats or in small
boats which cross from Cuba at night
to the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico
and then down the shoreline of Cen-
progress in Latin America.
It costs the.: Russians $1 million a
day to keep Fidel Castro in power.
Plagued by their own economic and po-
i litical troubles they are obviously not
;interested at present in encouragrni
-` According to. reports at the United
fom Russia, has launched a new drive' dize their trade with the~West and,
to recruit young Latin Americans far bring them into open conflict with the
its school of terrorism. Dubbed the United States.
Academy of Terror" by' the recruits, . Premier Khrushchev aims to achieve`
the school is located at Minas del Frio, through a? permanent terror which,
a; village in the Sierra Maestra' morin breeds fear, economic instability and,
t' 'ns. It is from these mountains tl~t chaos what Mao Tse-tung seeks to gain
t'uba's dictator launched his .own. sac- through "direct revolutionary action."
aessful. a eydlution. _ ^
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