FIREWORKS IN HAVANA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000400690001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 10, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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I,. Whatever else the Organization for Latin-American-.
iSolidarity (OLAS) achieved in the conference that has .4
just ended in Havana, it was not solidarity. The already :4
???? fractured Communist movement has been given an-
other gaping wound.
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This one. came in a vote to condemn the Soviet
, Union's ecOnomic policies in the Western Hemisphere -3
;Premier Castro had already spoken angrily in speeches
.about Moscow's efforts to make trade accords with 24.
Latin-American governments which are enemies .of '
Cuba. Moreover, the Castroite policy of encouraging .3
guerrilla warfare and violent revolutions in the hemi-
spheric countries clashes with Russian directions to.
the various traditional Communist parties to seek (.1
.; power through popular fronts.
Thus the meeting of OLAS, which was packed with
all sorts of extraneous drama, ended with a bang.-.. ;
There was Stokely Carmichael equating Negro riots ! ? ? .?
) in he United States with guerrilla warfare in Latin
America. There were two displays of Cuban exile
saboteurs allegedly sent in by the C.I.A. There was ?
? the hijacking of a Colombian Aerocondor plane with
(,..71 passengers who were forced to land in Havana
i instead of San Andres and then sent on their way.
with cigars and free drinks. And on a very different,
? but still discordant note from Moscow's viewpoint, .
?;:there was the important show of avant-garde art
brought over from the Paris Salon. de Mai. ? ?
Making sense out of all this sound and fury is .
?! going to take time. Obviously, Premier Castro imposed ? .
fr? his heterodox ideas on a majority of the delegations.
'- from 27 LatiO-American countries. His quarrel with ' ?
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0, Moscow is not new, but it. was emphasized in a way.
!I; vihich will surely prove irritating to the leaders in '
the Kremlin. However, some adroit expressions of
t friendship for the Soviet Union were interspersed with ;
:14 the criticism. ?
? The evident calculation in Havana is that a Com-
? munist Cuba is worth enough to Moscow to induce the
:!:;, Russians to keep on with their indispensable support
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of the revolution.
? Fidel Castro has long been a source of mingled pride,- ?
, and despair to the Soviet Union which has found him.
Uncontrollable and unpredictable but always valuable
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because of his-anti-Yankee stance and his .professions ;
of Marxism-Leninism. The OLAS meeting proved again :
p, his domination of leftist extremism in Latin America. ?
What the conference did not and could not prove ."
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was that Cubans can succeed in making any
dons . in Latin America In the foreseeable future. ft
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