KREMLIN TO PAY FOR REVOLUTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000200280001-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2000
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• Publication Date: April 14, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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14 APR 1972
JACK ANDERSON
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The Kremlin has asked Cuban dictator Fidel
,Castro "to try to regain control over. Latin
American revolutionary movements" and has
promised "to pay all the costs involved."
This is the secret finding of the Central In-
telligence Agency (CIA), which has put
together the jigsaw pieces from its agents in
Europe and South America.
In an earlier column, we reported that Cas-
tro had moved his Latin American liberation
center from his embassy in Paris to his em-
bassy in Santiago, Chile. His ambition, ac-
cording to the CIA, is to stir up "revolution
everywhere in Latin America."
. This clandestine operation, says the CIA,
will be financed by the Soviets.
CITING INFORMATION that came indi-
rectly from Cuban intelligence officer Enrique
Benavides Santos in Paris, the CIA reports:
? -"Benavides said that through Cuba, the So-
viets will support armed revolution or political
struggle, whichever was deemed appropriate in
given countries throughout Latin America.
"According to Benavides, the Soviets have
told Cuba they will 'pay for everything' in
helping all revolutionary groups, even Catholic
radical groups.
"Benavides strongly emphasized that Cuba
has not changed its line but still favors armed
revolution everywhere in Latin America."
. THE NEW liberation center In Santiago,
says the CIA, "will receive Soviet funds via
Cuba and play a large role in the new Soviet-
Cuban strategy for Latin America.
"Representatives of Latin American
revolutionary groups now. in Chile," the CIA
adds, "are currently preparing a campaign of
increased revolutionary activity with the sup-
port of Cuba."
At least one revolutionary group, according
to another CIA report, is receiving funds
directly from the Soviet Union. A source inside
the Guatemalan Communist movement told the
CIA that "the Soviets were giving $100,000 per
year to the Guatemalan Communist Party
(PGT)."
From a member of the Cuban delegation at
the United Nations, meanwhile, the CIA learn-
ed that at least some Cuban leaders "are doing
some rethinking on basic revolutionary tactics.
"There is some theoretical opposition to the
'Che Guevara' theory, which favors supporting
native insurrectionists and anarchists in poor
countries," reports the CIA.
"Instead i. support is growing for the Chilean
formula, which maintains that traditional
democratic procedures are the best means of
socialist power in weak; backward countries.
"It is in countries like Brazil," the CIA
quoted the Cuban delegate as saying, "that
stronger active measures should be taken."
WHEN A self-styled consumers group in
New York City tried to keep Sen. Frank Moss,
D-Utah, from talking about "no-fault"
insurance at their inaugural meeting, Moss
angrily cancelled the speech.
The "consumers group". is made up of wives
of members of the American Trial Lawyers
Association. The Association is busily lobbying
against "no-fault" because it will reduce
lawyers' fees by an estimated $1 billion (b).
But the wives have agreed to back product
safety bills which don't cut into their fur coats
and their husbands' Cadillacs. So they wanted
Moss to speak.
Footnote: "No-fault" is scheduled for secret
hearings in a few days before the Senate Com-
merce Committee.
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