PUERTO RICO TARGET OF RED INTRIGUE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000102400001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 4, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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FEB 4 '1964
'Peking' Alicrigter Panama !i
Rico
By VICTOR RIESEL
BROWNSVILLE, Texas
Peking is now quietly at-
tempting to stir up .Lrouble in
. Puerto Rico. The Chinese
Communist f".
apparatus is - ?
intent on pro-
. voicing 1 . ?
.amkth-
cr Panama in .4:*
?
San Juan. ? ? I
Their Latin ?-'
Ame rica n-
Chinese
"friends h i p"
sp p. aratus 1-:?';`? .
.. ? king, organization to Puerto.
t leaders are
cocky over Riese'
their success in Brazil where 4.cpccializing in internationst
.cyca some of the military counte r-intelligence opera-;
? have 'worked with them. They lions on the Latin front. The:
; now believe they can infil- is dated Sept. 2:3; 199:3;.
? trate the Commonwealth of 'and is a joint missive from
Puerto Rico, foment trouble '111e Chinese Communist *.
and force the police and''youth and university stu-.
? THE CHINESE ? federa-
, tary into action against Puer- . 'dents' federations. tions urged the Puerto Rican
? to Rican youths and union- "
make this public as an: students to campaign for a
ists.t , alert to the good people 'of Icomplete?break with the U.S. . Naturally this infiltration
Puerto Rico and the leaders and for the "dismantling of '
must be accomplished by of the island groups to which U.S.military and atomic
ipanish-speaking agents who '
, tne communication was dis- bases in Puerto Rico." The ,
.puld pass unnoticed amongst ? patched. There is no evidence !?Communist communication;
Ile people of the island. of any reply, The docUmenti
I also championed Albizu Cam-
'se infiltrators are being ? went to the "Puerto Rican pos a wild type whose
? ined in Havana in' a joint ?
? ? University Students' Fedeya-.; nationalist followers attempt-
' . ? C ines e-Cuhan school for bin. for Independence," the led to 'kill Harry Truman in
youth' section of the "Puerto '
; sabotage.' ? 1950. Four years later, some
This long distance operation Ricer!: United Patriotic. Ac-
of his men invaded the House ?
tion Party," 'and the "Federa-
of the Peking apparatus is of Representatives and -un-
tion of Puerto Rican 'Youth
being directed by Hu Yu-chiho loosed gunfire from .tho bal.
for Independence." This ef-
f
\ . and. Chou Erh-fu. They are .
ort to snare some of the cony onto congressmen below,
\ ? the vice presidenta of the ?
youth people into replying so From other sources I learn,
'?\ qhina-Latin American - the Chinese propagandists ?
the answer could be exploited
Friendship. Assn., which. has
;in the Communist world ra-
'? its main headquarters in the
. ,di. and ?.press is the first
"heart of Peking:- ? ? ?1.
. But distance means little: .imw: ?
:,The Chinese Communists * ;lc
have units in Mexico City, ?
? SO THAT the s tt dent
Vcrz Cruz, Rio de Janeiro
groups 'there will be able' to
and, of course, ?coordinating
recognize . the language, if
headquarters on the.outskirts
. anyone in their . midst ? uses
O of Havana. .
? ;the jargon or starts agitating
* * * ? . for creation of committees to
go to Peking, I want to quote
J
art of the unusual letter: ?
1.arget Of Red Intri
IN THE Caribbean, the
Chinese Communists plan ic
use the technique .which has.
been so seductively successful',
elsewhere in Latin America ?
? especially Brazil, Chile
and Mexico. They. are prepar-
ing to seek out Puerto Ri-'
cans, particularly youths and'
unionists. Junkets to China:
have become one of' Mao's.'
major weapons against the,?
free nations of Centr.al ? and.,
South America.
A copy of a letter, fully;..
authenticated, from the ' Pc-,
Rican grdups was made
avIii-
able to me here-by a source.
?
"The U.S. imperialists and
all the reactionary forces
allied with them can never
prevent the national libera-
tion movement in Asia, Afri-
ca r.nd Latin America from
surging irresistibly forward,",
the letter states.
41 ? ? We are confident
that with the support of the
people. of the world; the Puer-,
to Rican people, their youth
and student s, who have '?
strengthened their unity, and
Perservered in the Struggle,
will win final victory, The,
U.S. imperialists will be driv-'?
en out of Puerto Rico and
elseWhere in Latin America." ,
The letter, Is filled with'.
attacks on the U.S. as "crim-?;
inal" and charges us with
"enslaving" the Puerto Rican
people.
uei
_,:- - ? : ? - ? - - -- ... ...
ltion of Cuba, the telescope
; with a reflecting dish 13IA I
' 'acres in area, annoys the 1
'international Communist
: A
4 apparatus. :
w
.?
It is a developthent of the,
Cornell University Advanced
Research Projects Agency of,
the Defense Department, the I
' Air Force Cambridge -Re- .1
search Laboratories and the
?
Army Corps of Engineers. CI
-Its uses are scientific but
that will not stop the Como'',
munist agitation.
It is with these wild slo-1
. gans that the Chinese Com-
munists are attempting to;
infiltrate the legitimate:
; Puerto Rican independence;
; movement. Now the appara-;
..tus stands exposed.: ' ' 1
, ? .
?."
,are particularly disturbed by',
e new . U.S. 'radio-radar
'telescope recently completed
in Arecibo in the north-
western portion of the island.
It' is a magnificent instru-
ment for searching out the ?
rbalaxy's sicrets. Perhaps
emuse.it is at a point on the
island in the' general diree.
? ?
, ?
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