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• Publication Date: April 14, 1972
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JACK ANDERSON -
Jukremhnto
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."
ay for,'Reyolufion's,
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,. 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" Js 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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BALTH!OOR NE +a AMERICAN
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HE, NR Y J. TAYLOR
Color-blind Senate Foreign Relations Commit-
tee Chairman J. William Fulbright, with an assist
from. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Is powerfully
sponsoring behind the scenes another giveaway to
the glee of the Reds. This plum involves the great
Panama Canal.
Led by able Rep. Daniel J. Flood, }Pa., more
than 100 congressmen publicly protest any major
concessions to shaky dictator Gen. Omar Torrijo's
Republic of Panama regarding the U.S. Canal
Zone. Fortunately, these protesters have some
force. A new treaty with Torrijo requires approval
only by the Senate, not by the Ilouse. But changes
In the U.S. Canal Zone's sovereignty would require
House approval because the House votes the funds
for the canal's operations.
' ' Behind closed doors, and with our public unin-
formed, Senators Fulbright and Kennedy are urg-
ing that Panama get greater income from our
canal, control of our zone's collateral land and
water areas, and that U.S. businesses in our zone
be replaced byiPanamanian enterprises. Sitting
like presiding Buddhas, both confidently say they
can handle its Senate passage.
OUR TAXPAYEItS have invested more than $5
billion in the Canal Zone and this giveaway
package is bad enough, but it is only a part of
what should be called a Red blackmail and ex-
posed as such.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Elmo R. Zum-
walt Jr. could review the great canal's global
strategic importance with his eyes shut. So could
the general staffs of the world. Moreover, in Latin-
American terms, about SO per cent of Peru's and
Chile's imports and exports pass through it, with
equivalent dependency on the canal among the
entire Pacific side of the continent.
Certainly, the Fulbright-Kennedy pair should
know, for everybody knows, that Panama
(population 1.4 million) is chaotic - and is a
lightning rod for Red assaults. Did they not find
anything instructive in the January, 1.964, riots
when Red wreckers contrived a devastating, full-
scale attack against gur Canal Zone and brutally
killed four U.S. soldiers?
The attack was led by Cuba-trained Panama-
nian Communist Thelma King who precipitated
the iron-fisted demands which these senators are
sponsoring today.
TIiEY',IIUST KNOW ALSO that Panama is still
a faction:ridden political jungle. Its demagogue4
of all stripes (including Torrijo) employ the canal
to pressure-cook the population, realizing full well
that more than half of Panama's true need is for
betterment in agriculture and animal husbandry
and the development of light industry.
It's easier for the Panamanian demagogues to
roar at the United States - the country's only
feeding hand.
These'senators should know, too, that Gua+
temala. El Salvador, the Dominican Republic,.
Haiti. Honduras and Colombia, which' boil!
Panama, are likewise chaotic.
COLOMBIA PRESIDENT Misael Pastrara
Borrero, enforcing martial law, has told our CIA
that there are Castro-backed infiltrators by the
thousand in Colombia's universities, communica-
tions media, transportation facilities and trade
unions. The police actually discovered clandestine,
weapons being manufactured in Colombia's
Ministy of Public Works in Bogota.
Guatemala President Carlos Arana Orio told
the CIA: "We have been in a state of seige for
nearly Me years, with no end in sight."
The Dominican Republic, where only our land-
ing of 14,000 American troops stopped a Red'
takeover a few years ago, nervously remains an
armed camp.
I DINED IN NEW YORK with Nicaragua
President Anastasio Sonoza Debayle. He told me:
"Castro has made 22 armed attempts to invade
Nicaragua."
Except for Nicaragua, Dur 10-mile-t,?ide Canal
Zone is the only zone of stability in the region. All
Communists see this situation with the for-
bearance of a fox in a henhouse..
It is tragically ironic that we should give
abroad $148 billion in economic aid, support NATO
in Europe 3,500 miles away and have fought in
Vietnam 9,000 miles away to contain Communist
expansionism, while we allow ourselves to be
talked out of the secure Canal Zone and Panania
Canal in our own back yard.
The real question is not the surrender of U.S.
sovereignty in the U.S. control of the great canal-
versus Panamanian control. It is U.S. control
which the facts have been withheld will support
versus Communist control.
We can only hope that an alarmed public frotii
Rep. Flood's House group and blow the Fulbright=
Kennedy Senate putsch right out of the water.
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