EL SIGLO DISCUSSES CIA PROPAGANDA TOOLS - - SANTIAGO, HI SIGLO, 16 MAR 65

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100160053-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: March 16, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN

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FOREIGN DOCUMENTS DIVISION
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[The following is a translation of an item entitled "The CIA
Controls 120 CubanCounter-Revolutionary Groups":]
EL SIGLO DISCUSSES CIA PROPAGANDA TOOLS -- Santiago, El Siglo, 16 Mar 65:
CPYRGHT
The CIA of the US renders assistance to some 120 of the 500
Cuban counter-revolutionary organizations that attempt to unite
around themselves a very limited number of partisans. The most
important tool that the CIA has at its disposal is a well-equipped
propaganda apparatus that directs the CIA's efforts against Cuba
and the rest of Latin America.
the CIA, although the emigrant organizations consider themselves i
owners. The transmitter, patterned after Radio Free Europe, has U
political advisers. It also broadcasts propaganda from Puerto Ric
for a fee.
Caribbban area. It is admitted that the transmitter is financed b
A short while ago the Voice of America considerably increased
its broadcasts in Spanish and Portuguese to Latin America. At the
same time, some groups of Cuban counter-revolutionaries whose lead
is Manuel Artime have been operating a radio transmitter installed
in a boat that sails without national flag. The transmitter is
called Radio Free Cuba, and its reception is good throughout the
But the, CIA has invented something else: it created the AIP,
that is, the Inter-American Press Agency. The director of the
agency, whose-central headquarters is'in Miami, is a Cuban counter
revolutionary; its owner'is an American whose name is kept secret.
It is known that this American maintains close relations with the
CIA.