ALLEN-SCOTT REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300180008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 9, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Inside Washington
By ROBERT S. ALLEN and PAUL !COTT
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Johnson is preparing o issue
a policy statement on ommu-'the
nist-ruled Cuba. 1H
On the basis of the ntative' ! ca
pronouncement pending before ca
the. President, its appa nt pur- the
pose is to denounce' astro's :wri
Red dictatorship but of the nou
distinction is drawn etwecn
them. of s
The. statement also ti liden
ii pro-
claim firm Intention to ontinue In
been in effect since tie 196 er
But there will be no cl eer for
Cuban' exiles who hay long
urged removal of th ban
against armed attacks f min the
U.S. mainland, and the estab-
lishment of a government-in-ex.
lie.
Both tl ese much- sought ob.
jective's will be cold-show dered.
In enunciating these views,
he President will be bllcly
spousing those advoca d by
Richard Goodwin, princi al nu-
i or of the forthcoming policy
eclaration.
MET SECRETLY
Since the early days if the
4r, ? Cennegy administration, e 32-
ear-old Harvard gradual and
? w clerk of the late istice
elix Franfurter, has f pored
once land of "accommod tion"
ith the Castro regime. the
ununer of 1961 South Am rican
ewsmen, disclosed that ;ood-
in had met secretly in onte-
ideo, Uruguay, with E nesto
' Che" Guevera, top Castr lieu-
t pant and his economic car.
Subsequently Goodwin was
~+ ? ifted from Kennedy's s if as
tr "Latin American adviser" to a
guely defined: job as ass
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President's main speech
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d a regular member of the
estimates that since the missile
crisis, more than 5,000 Soviet
bloc vessels, carrying a wide
range of freight and passengers,
have docked in Cuba.
0 A steadily mounting vol-
ume of trade with. Western
countries Is now largely respon-
sible for keeping Cuba economi-
cally afloat. But for the heavy
flow of food, cattle, poultry, oil,
ecial assistant to the Presl- machinery, spare parts, motor,
this role he functions chief-
speech writer and "advis erinarlan supplies from NATO
Latin America." allies, most of them heavy
benefiiai of bil
-creslions in.U.S. aid,
the Castro regime. would be in
'direct political and economic;
straits.
PAPER BARRIER
inner administration coun-,
oodwin is credited as con-
no, that the U.S. "can live
the Cuban revolution" and
d seek through discreet
to woo it from Russia sub-
favorite argument Is that
.S. should make available
viability" In exchange
ss dependence on the So-
dwln's stand is vigorously:
ged by administration
ongresional critics on the
d that if it Is U;S, policy,
+peatedly asserted by. the
f the people of South Viet
thousands of miles away,
people of Cuba _- only
es from U.S. shores.
SHAM EMBARGO
also brand the so-called
mtC embargo" ? as a
In effect, a paper bar-
evidence they 'cite these
rove drj ,VM a
Under the economic embargo
U.S. trade with Cuba has been
wiped out. Though the U.S. was
once its principal supplier, now
only contraband gets through.
But the rest of the world, not-
: ably Western .nations, are trad-
ing eagerly with the Red d'c-
tatorship in Cuba.
Starkly illustrative of that are
the following unpublished Com-,
merce Department figures (lat. mobs resources which were Hit-
est available): ler's, humanity would already
Major Free World* Traders be deeply entrenched In World
With Cuba, January to Juno War III. Fidel's hatred is aimed
1964: Exports are listed, first;,' not only against the United
States, but against all his fellow
men." . . ? More mass weddings
are being staged In. Cuba this
$13,626,000; Netherlands, $9,171,- month. At similar functions last
009 (to Apr.),, '$3,864,000 (ro . month, more than 4,500 mar-
Apr.); France, $8,511,000, $1,- , riages were performed ... As
301,000; Japan. $6,334,000 (to might be expected, Red Cuba
May), . $10,658,000 (to May); has a big exhibit at the Leipzig
Spain. $,5,553,000 (to Mar.), $7, Fair in East Grmany. Principal
198,000 .,(to Mar.); West Gee displays are tobacco, ruin and,
many, $2,878,000 (to Mar.), ' of all things, phonograph rec-
$126,000; Sweden, 42,589,000 (to ords.
Apr.), $5,448,000' (to Apr.);
1'N!
r t i ! g
and other. transportation equip-
followed by imports.
Canada, $30,083,000, $101,000
(to Feb.); Britain, $10,759,000,
nark, $I,-
652,000, $30,000; Finland, $773,-
000 (to Mar.), $3,000 (to Apr.);
Yugoslavia, $690,000 (to Apr.),
$170,000 (to Apr.); Belgium-Lux-
embourg, $529,000, $27,000 (to
Feb.); Switzerland, $496,000, $6,-
481,000; Brazil, $485,000 (Jan.);
No Imports; Norway, $485,000
(to Apr.), $97,000 (to Apr.); Ire-
land, $180,000 (to Feb.), $56,000
(to Apr.).
OTHERS BUSY
A number of other big U.S.
itative figures are not available.
They Include Egypt, Chile,
Venezuela, Mexico and, Uru-
guay.
Last year Congress, over
strenuous administration opposi-
tion,- wrote a provision into *the
Ic and military assistance to
countries trading with Cuba.
The total effect of this restric-
tion was nil.
Tak!ng advantage of a loop-
hole, wl-'ch permitted waiving
the ban when deemed "in the
national. interest," President
Johnson invoked it for what
amounted to wholesale exclu.
sions. No maior beneficiary of
U.S. aid was hit. Only five were
penalized, and they already
were getting little or no aid -
Britain, France, Yugoslavia,
Morocco, Span.
CUBAN FLASHES
Miss Juanita Castro, sister of
the Cuban dictator, in a speech
before the Los Angeles World
Affairs Council, characterized.
her brother as "another Hitler."
Declared Miss Castro, "If Fidel
had at his d'sposal the enor-
did xlot appeem in the
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