AT IT AGAIN EXTENSION OF REMARKS BY HON. STEVEN B. DEROUNIAN

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• Publication Date: October 3, 1961
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with Rodriguez, along with new evidence that
the conference with Che was anything but a
chance get-together is causing the Senators
to take another look at Goodwin's activities.
At It Again One Senator's Inquiry at the White House
brought back word from President Kennedy
'-' that Assistant Secretary Robert Woodward
EXTENSION OF REMARKS is the responsible officer on Latin American ,/
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HON. STEVEN B. DEROUNIAN Meanwhile, at the State Department an
aid to Woodward reports that "the situation
OF NEW YORK is intolerable. Something is going to have
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to give pretty soon." He reports that Good-
win continues to take on problems of Latins
Wednesday, September 27, 1961 who bypass the State Department and come
directly to him.
Mr. DEROUNIANv. Mr. Speaker, some Note: Rodriguez, a Havana University pro-
weeks ago I pointed out how Richard fessor, is the senior official of the Integrated
Goodwin, presidential Whitt House as- Revolutionary Organization (the nucleus of
sistant, was runnir-g a one-mail -State Cuba's new, single party) in addition to
Department on Latin America and ai rut being editor of Hoy.
his "chance meeting" lasting almost 3
hours-with Guevera, Castro's Commu-
nist economic minister. It seems that
Mr. Goodwin has not learned his lesson
as yet and is now holding diplomatic
hands with one Rodriguez, another out-
standing Communist member of Castro's
revolution.
The American people have a right to
demand that the President put his house
in order and one way to do that it to
squelch these puerile undertakings by
Mr. Goodwin and let Secretary of State
Rusk be in fact the Secretary of State.
The article by Robert S. Allen and Paul
Scott in the September 25 issue of the
Long Island Daily Press elaborates on
the subject:
GOODWIN AGAIN ON THE PAN
(By Robert S. Allen and Paul Scott)
WASHINGTON.-Richard Goodwin, 29-year-
old White House expert on Latin America,
is still operating like a one-man State De-
partment.
He is carrying on his own secret negotia-
tions with Communist leaders in Cuba de-
spite howls of protest from the State De-
partment.
Goodwin, who held a chance meeting with
Ernesto (Che) Guevara, Castro's Communist
economic czar, in Argentina last month, had
an unannounced rendezvous with Carlos Ra-
fael Rodriquez, editor of the Communist
newspaper Hoy.
Neither Goodwin nor Rodriguez are talk-
ing about their mysterious meeting although
it has already produced some very explosive
results.
For instance, Rodriguez, on returning to
Havana, narrowly escaped assassination by a
group of assailants that shot up his car
while he was traveling along the Via Blanca.
The Castro government blames the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency for the attempt on
Rodriguez's life. However, reliable U.S. in-
telligence sources claim that the assailants
were anti-Castro underground fighters.
Word of the Goodwin-Rodriguez meeting
has caused a group of responsible Senators
to consider the recall of Goodwin for a sec-
ond round on his one-man foreign polio.
operations.
A Senate Foreign Relations siibcommitten
headed by Senator WAYNE MoRSE, Democrat
of Oregon, already has questioned Goodwir
about his meeting last month with Ernesto
(Che) Guevara, Castro's Communist eco-
nomic czar, at the recent Inter-Americar
Economic Conference at Punta del Este
Uruguay.
During the private Morse inquiry, Good-
win passed off his conference with Guevarr
as a chance meeti'g when both men mel
at a diplomatic rec--otion.
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