U.S. OUTLETS ANSWER CUBAN PROPAGANDA COMMITTEE'S PROGRAMS REACH AS FAR SOUTH AS ARGENTINA

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• Publication Date: June 4, 1962
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*COMMITTEE'S PROGRAMS REACH AS FAR SOUTH A$ ARGENTINA
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-without liberty life is worth noth-' really going on in their country," r tittee-is Radio Americas, a 50;..'`!
ing. This 'message, heard daily ovct? Rep. Pucinski says. Refugees are 000-watt station on U.' S.-claimed ?.
WGI3S Miami, WKWF Key West interviewed soon after their arrival Swan island, off the coast of Hon-
and. WWI. blew Orleans, signals the in Miami, Key West or New Orleans, duras. This station, previously knowp
start of Spanish-language programs and replies to Castro propaganda as Radio SWAN, achieved notoriety
that constitute what is prohahly an blasts are 'nut on the air prom tlv due' .11 h (' .k
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unprecedented effort involving U. S. somctinies while the Cuban leader
last year when it was widely re-
hroadcasters to rebut Communist is still in the midst of a, mprathon ported as being a Central Intelli-
propaganda emanating from Cuba. speech. But no effort is made toin- genre` Agency cover operation.
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? ...~.,...., ..c ?tvaca:+t~-uuCU ' cute inc l unan people to MOIL,
with news of Cuba and Latin The three U. S. stations them-
America, commentary, interviews selves are enthusiastic about the pro-
with Cuban refugees and Spanish granuning. They say the mail re-
music--are intended for the very sponse from listeners in this country
considerable Spanish-speaking audi- and Latin America, including Cuba,
k nkws teletype machines. the nutter s broadcasts.' I he fourth- them if the organization opened a
news, prepared from the All and U. S. stations are carrying the com- feel the 1T.1 S. was losing' interest in
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the."Castro curtain" and prosudr the MrS tarl:u:a 1". f+n:en:t)erl;. ext,CU- standard am receivers in any country
Cuban people with the "unadulter_ t'''e of the Cuban Free- outside the U. S. The VOA broad-
feted truth." dons Cor111',ittve helps carry out the casts shortwave programs to hwtin
('on nuttec starters arc assigned h' commuter 's programming policies America. Ito,
each of the stations carryon t1? from Washington. ,
Rep. l ucinski originally asked Ra-
hroadcftsts. Much if their material his hues gi,itifking. -rhe stations dio Free Europe to undertake the
is provided by the conlrnittee', orlice. have es cu hcen piaised for "imagi- mission. `t3tit'RIF? officials said their
in Washington, hut the most impor- n.ttr'e public ~crsice programming." hands were full in Europe: that they
font part of the broadcasts is straight Radio Americas. ? Actually, four feared the Last Europeans would
board, sock the special casts, since ('uha is 'believed to have
-to put them on the air. its very' nature. have a value denied
Rep, Roman Pucinski 11) 111.). - it- government agency, such as the
one of the founders of the corn- ;,y? Voice of America. He also saw an
molter anti a nrernher of its sdk isorv advantage in n ediulll-wave broad-
refugees with broadcast esperierict' of V. S: private citizens would, by
fe-sional staff--composed of ('uhan and still does-that an organisation :
Since then, the station has changed
hands. The owner . of record had
been Gibraltar Steamship Co. It's
now Vanguard Co., of Mianmi, Fla.
But FCC officials, who sa) the sta-
tiolh is not licensed by the eomrnis-
sion, ;ire still reluctant to talk about
it.
The C'uhan Freedom Committee,
and its vest-pocket version of the
Radio Free I uropc operation, is
largely the brainchild of Rep. 1'ucin-
ski, who began speaking of the need
for such a program almost two years
ago. He said then that-Cubans were
being "brainwashed with the most
bitter hate-America campaign ever
staged" ant] that there was an im-
mediate need for a "countcrforce
which will tell our traditional allies
and friends in Cuba the truth about
Castro."
the programs and provide, the pro- People-to-People ^ He felt then---
ence in most, stations service area,.
And the heavy volume of .mail the
stations get from mainland listeners
indicates the programs are pro'tding
a valued service.
But because of the stations' prox-
imity to the Caribbean area and
their power-WWI. operates on su
kw; WCGI3S, 10 kw at night, when
it carries the programs: and WKWF,
500 watts-the broadcasts are heard
throughout. Latin America as far
south as Argentina.
Cuban Freedom Committee. ^ -I his
is what concerns the Cohan l'ree.foni
Committee, a small group of Anmeri-
can citizens who buy the time for
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