COMMUNIST STRATEGY IN LATIN AMERICA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400390014-4
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: January 1, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

""'M-M-UNIST STRATEGY
IN A. I AMERICA
B JOSEF KALVODA
HE success of Communism in Cuba has been a power-
ful stimulus to all Communists in this h : isphere, and
even a casual reader of newspapers is aware of the in-
crease in their activities throughout Latin America.
::heir ability to deceive the Catholic Church in Cuba, the gov-
_:nment of the United States, and the majority of this country's
mass media during the process of their capture of power in Cuba
.estifies to the efficiency of their propaganda and the gullibility
of their audience, and success has only strengthened their belie:
in the invincibility of their movement and the inevitability of
its victory.
The announced aim of Latin American Communists is first
the encirclement of the United States and Shen the takeover
of the whole hemisphere. To accomplish this aim they have
adopted the : trategy and tactics of revolution originally devised
by Lenin and refined by his successors. Lenin's plan of attacking
imperialism through its "weakest link," as presented to the
Second Congress of the Communist International in 1920, has
been the theon. -,. ral foundation of Communist-led revolutions in
Latin America, it has been in Asia and Africa. According to
this plan, since ri.e. possibility of revolution in advanced indus-
trial countries is very slight, the Communists will have to
concen.rate on gaining ground and spreading their power in the
dependent and underdeveloped areas on this globe, the "weake:,?:
links" in'the imperial system. And since Latin America, accord-
ing to t.e Communists, is the weakest link in the United States'
system, it is obviously the first target in Hemisphere.
The technique Lenin outlined for subverting the weakest
links is knowr. as "boring from within," that is, capturing control
of already existing organizations. Wherever in colonial, former
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