THE CIA WILL PAY FOR ITS CRIMES

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CONTENTS
The CIA Will Pay For Its Crimes
By Roberto Rex
-- The beginning of the cold war and the rise of the Central
Intelligence Agency.
The CIA is roundly defeated in Cuba.
- Cubelas, an agent of the CIA, intends to assassinate Fidel
Castro.
-- The sed triumph of the CIA in Guatemala.
-- Santo Domingo and the scandalous Yankee invasion.
Frustration of the Camelot Plan and application of the
Congenial Project.
-- Lombardo Toledano denounces a Camelot Plan for Mexico.
-- The armed forces of the United States and their action through
the Camelot Project.
-- The Colony Plan is applied in Peru.
-- Besides the CIA and the Pentagon the FBI is also spying in
Spanish America.
-- The Peace Corps, apparently innocuous are advanced by North
American imperialist espionage.
- Yennedy was confused by the many activities of the CIA.
-- Pathetic activities of CIA interference.
-- CIA action in Indonesia.
Allen Dulles and the spirit of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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THE CIA WILL PAY FOR ITS CRIMES
rFollowing is a translation of an article by
Roberto Rex entitled, "The CIA Will Pay For Its
Crimes," from the Spanish "La CIA Pagara Sus
Crimenes," Mexico, pp. 1 - 37._7
The Beginning of the Cold War and the Rise of
the-7entral Intelligenc7Tgency.
The Second World War had reached its end. The bestial
forces of Nazi-Fascism had been defeated and its leaders, the
monstrous genocides Hitler and Mussolini, had been extermina-
ted in just punishment. And this prolonged struggle left be-
hind it an infinite wa-ke of human pain, of calcined rubbish,
of land blackened by conflagration, and the unerasable stain
of copious amounts of blood shed in barbarous massive sacri-
fice provoked by the fanatic adventurism that proclaimed ra-
cial superiority and the domination of the world.
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The allied armies, especially that of the Sovietvi-the
large and cruel struggle was liquidated in Berlin with the
unconditional surrender of the Hitlerian dogs.
From here onward appeared a deep hope of peace that
shone across the world like the most desired dawn, like a
triumphant hymn inviting all peoples to reconsider analyti-
cally the terrible torment they had just gone through, deri-
ving from it, its horrors and its raptures of total conquest
a cardinal lesson: the undeferable necessity to coexist peace-
fully, even though inspired by banners of different or contrary
ideologies.
Then, in the first postwar period, the fertile lands
wanted to be turned over, the seed fell on its moist bosom,
and soon the parturition of myriads of golden grain could be
expected. And in other areas the men directed the keels of
their vessels toward the deep seas to cast their nets for the
capture of multicolored fish. And the young girls here and
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there looked with sparkling eyes at the youths with darkened
skin who, returning from the trenches, were candidly surprised
about the scintillating beauty of life.
Yes, the first postwar days went by. The experiences
of the recent past had been terrible. For that reason new
bases hPd to be constructed, a distinct international policy,
congruent with the total elimination of another warlike spec-
ter that could take possession of the face of the earth, a
maxim that was conscious of the fact that atomic arms already
existed.
However, it should be recalled that, when such were the
thoughts, a man with a solid, plump figure, deceitfully gentle,
4inston Churchill, crossed the large expanse of the Atlantic
Ocean and before an incredulous audience at Fulton University
expounded the urgency of the West to exterminate the Soviet
Union before it Was able to heal the deep wounds inflicted by
the Nazi hordes.
There at Fulton, the ineffable statesman of the deca-
dent British empire, with his thoughts placed on the military
power of the United States and its atomic bomb that had been
criminally and unnecessarily dropped by Yankee planes on Hiro-
shima and Nagasaki, augured the prompt annihilation of the -
Soviet people, constructing a macabre:philosophy which, when..
it took shape in the mentality of the leading North American -;
circles, adopted new forms especially adequate for their im-
perialist ambitions.
And this fact established itself as the beginning of
the cold war, whose characteristics changed with the years,
but whose ominous and odious results had to be invariably
born by the human kind for more than two decades.
The cold war gave birth to the Yankee bungling with
the 'brink of war' policy and also with the 'limited war'
policy and, in order not to emphasize many other facts, let
us say that with it, and .because of it, a diabolical body of
multiple action arose that extended its tentacles all over
the world until it occasioned the gravest threat to peace:
the Central Intelligence Agency.
The redoutable CIA was established in 1947. And in
the course of time it has shaped its history, dramatic,
aggressive, infamous, but reckless. A North American stu-
dent, Fred J. Cook, speaks eloquently about it in his book.
"The History of the CIA."
This work begins like that: "The only time people
obey us," - said Allen Dulles on one occasion when he spoke
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of the CIA - "is when we control them." And to confirm this
statement, it is only necessary to recall the aggression
against Cuba, in the Bay of Pigs, carried out by this organi-
zation. Moreover, the fact that the CIA went from defeat to
defeat or to victories highly disputable did not subtract from
its danger on the world panorama. That is why Cook, in ana-
lyzing the impudent intervention of the CIA in Cuba, stated
the following: "No event of our time was closer to a decision
between war and peace on which human survival depends. For
,= our correct understanding of the facts, our recognition
or negation of complicated and sometimes even transparent
truths would originate the formulation of our policy and the
most regrettable of our decisions. Cuba is only the most re-
cent and the most astonishing example. When the CIA initiated
the abortive invasion with the rosy-colored illusion that the
Cubans were anxious to rebel against the dictatorship of Fidel
Castro, the United States obtained only the disgrace and the
ignominy of a British-style Suez, only on a more ineffective
scale: the invasion not only failed ignominously, but it also
aided in strengthening Castro's regime.
The CIA Is Roundly Defeated in Cuba.
Among the peculiarities of the CIA, which are not li-
mited, is a furiously anti-Communist activity which, to be
truthful, possesses two central aspects that can be confounded
if they are not carefully observed. One of them, in fact, is
its tenacious struggle directed against any progressive action
of peoples or specific organizations, and the other is the con-
cealment of its neo-colonial policy, which the Latin American
peoples have seen dramatically put into effect on numerous
occasions.
Profiting from the work by li'red J. Cook, let us recall
the historic moment of the Cuban revolution and, prior to
that, the sufferings of Guatemala at the time of Jacobo Abenz.
"In December 1960, thesenator-elect of the United
States, Claiborne Pell, paid a quiet visit to the Cuba of Fidel
Castro. A former employee of the Foreign Service during the
Second World War, Senator Pell was not a novice in feeling the
pulse, and when he went among the Cuban people he was surprised
of his discoveries. He afterwards inserted his observations
in articles printed by the New York Herald Tribune.
"The people I saw in Cuba and with whom I spoke during
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three or four days of quiet observation are not troubled or
unhappy or dissatisfied. I am sure that they are enjoying
the satisfaction over the Agrarian Reform of Castro, his
natior,ra14:Ition of United States companies and other much
talked about reforms undertaken by Castro. The dispossessed
or angry ones are in prison or exile."
"Senator Pell returned to Washington and told the high
officials of the Kennedy administration explicitly that the
time had not yet come to start action against L=astro.
During the same month of December, two other visitors
to Cuba saw the same signals, arrived at the same conclusions
and wrote en article about it. These observers were General
Hugh B. Hester ... and Jesse Gordon, a public relations coun-
selor. In an article published by News World Review, General
Hester and Gordon write:
"It should be pointed out a Princeton ballot taken
(in Cuba) last year revealed that 86 percent of the people
are for Castro... Most observers agree that if elections
would take place tomorrow, Castro would stay in power by a
sweeping victory.... 'he morale of the Cuban workers and of
the militia is very high ... There is no doubt about, the
spirit of the people or their valor, their tenacity. The
military high command of the United States is making plans
for an invasion of Cuba. If the Kennedy administration de-
cides to continue the reckless road of the former admini-
stration, we fear that the result will be disaster."
"No prophesy was better justified by the facts ...
At the end of March, Gordon personally dispatched copies
of the article by mail to the White House, to the State De-
partment and to the members of Congress. But on 1:30 A.M.
on Monday 17 April, about 1,500 exiled Cubans, trained,
financed and directed by the CIA, were rushed to the Bay of
Pigs on the Cuban coast. The CIA, the agency which is sup-
posed to know everything, insisted that Cuba was ready to .
support the invasion.
There never was a calculation by an intelligence ser-
vice that was as disastrously erroneous. In a few hours it
was evident that the Cuban invaders did not have the least
chance. They were annihilated, dead, captured. The blow
planned by the CIA, plotted for about one year, had such tra-
gic results that it presented a triumph to Castro about which
he could boast. Instead of demolishing the power of his re-
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gime, it was Consolidated more all over Cuba, thanks to the
CIA.
"Commenting on the consequences about one month after-
wards, Richard H. Rovere wrote:
"The time has not reduced the magnitude of the folly
committed in Cuba. The more it is examined, the worse the
pffpir appears. The immediate consequences are bad enough:
the tightened grasp of Castro in Cuba, the growing distrust
of North American leadership, the revelation of the opera-
tional procedures of the Central Intelligence Agency and the
incompetence of the mammoth that directs it. What is most
1)-,inful, however, is the knowledge that intelligence ( as
quality of the spirit and not as data) and the best team
ever possessed by a President of the twentieth century, has
offered so little protection against an enormous error..."
"It is not necessary to state that this is not the
result hoped for from an annual investment of one billion
dollars for intelligence service; especially in an island
where we have an enormous naval base, and where there are
many former North American residents, and where we, presu-
mably, should have very solid contacts. This was not Laos,
thousands and thousands of miles away, in another remote
area of the world, but Cuba, at our threshold."
Later, with the aid of data of extraordinary im-
portance, Fred Cook gives a detailed description of all
preparations by the CIA for the invasion, on hand of which
he clearly illustrates the terrible situation created by
this agency which, although it resulted in complete defeat
with respect to the design to destroy the Cuban Revolution,
had the grave characteristics of having placed humanity clo-
ser than ever before to a new war, whose consequences would
have been catastrophic.
Cubelas, an Agent of the CIA, Intends to
Assassinate Fidel Castro.
In Yarch 1966, world expectation was revived when it
was discovered that former Commander Rolando Cubelas intended
to assassinate Fidel Castro Ruz.
Cubelas was not alone in this plot i around him was an
entire group of conspirators who had fallen into the net of
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the CIA and who, obviously, acted under its orders.
At the trial that took place in Havana against these
counterrevolutionaries, according to cabled information,
Cubelas confessed his criminal intentions. Among the state-
ments he made he asserted that the CIA had recruited him in
Spain with the help of that worm Itianuel Artime and that, after
succeeding in his criminal designs, he was to e6c&pe from
Cuba so that Artime with his mercenaries followed by the
Inter Amersi. Peace Corps of the OAS, "would come to our
shores to convince our people."
In another aspect of this trial, Cubelas related his
contacts with agents of the CIA in Madrid in Eebruary 1965
when he took part in a student congress ; and at his return
to Cuba, taking advantage of his diplomatic passport, intro-
duced a large amount of dollars handed over by Artime, for
which he had committed himself to assassinate Fidel Castro
and binding himself strongly to that group of plotters that
included hamon Guin Diaz, Jose GonzalesGallareta and Alberto
Blanco Romani.
Cubelas, then frightened and timid before the court,
admits his guilt in the followingterms: "The motives, of this
situation, which I analyzed painstakingly during these days
'in prison ... were more or less those I outlined when the
public prosecutor questioned me.. I consider fundamentally
that the contradictions that can present themselves to a human
being ... do not at all justify to arrive at a frankly counter-
revolutionary position, for there is no justification; this
counterrevolutionary action has not been proved irrefutably
in my case, for I was never fully convinced of this matter...".
Finally, the Cuban Court of Justice ,pronounced the death
penalty for Cubelas, but Fidel Castro, in a humanitarian act,
because, after all, he WPS at his side during the stormy period
at the-Sierra Maestro, asked and obtained from the court the
commutation of the sentence to life imprisonment.
And the CIA again had failed, exhibiting once more its
scrupulous methods which it has taken over from the imperialism
it represents, while the peoples .of the entire world are writing
on walls end shout with hatred in their voice: "Yankee, go
home!"
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The Sad Triumph of the CIA in Guatemala.
By way of simple illustration, Fred J. Cook also spoke
to us of the CIA ag?Lression in Guatemala. And it seemed that
he dealt with this case, that was so painful for the people
enamored with peace, nonintervention and the right of self-
determination, only to give an idea of the multiple, intricate
and active action of the Central Intelligence Agency all over
the world and at all times.
He says: "In 1954, Jacob? Arbenz Guzman won the popular
elections in Guatemala to assume power. This democtatic electo-
ral verdict in Guatemala did not suit the United States. The
North American officials described the Arbenz regime as Commu-
nistic. This was argued, but Arbenz was undoubtedly suffi-
ciently leftist in his orientation to be a threat to the large
landholders of the wealthy Guatemalan class and the imperialist
interests of the United Fruit Company and other large North
American corporations. The disenchantment of the United States
with Arbenz only needed a spark to cause an explosion and the
spark was provided by Allen J-Julles of the CIA. Secret agents
abroad discovered a Polish cargo vessel loaded with Czech arms
and ammunition; the CIA agents pursued through the entire world
the course of the cargo vessel which, after several mysterious
changes of its destination, finally arrived in port and began
to discharge the arms destined for Arbenz. Then the CIA, with
the approval of the Security Council, went into action. Two
Globemasters, loaded with arms and ammunition, left for Hon-
duras and Nicaragua. There the arms were placed in the hands
of a Guatemalan exiled official, Carlos Castillo Arma's. He
invaded Guatemala and the Arbenz regime fell like a house of
cards. It is significant that the seal the CIA impressed on
Guatemala was identical with the one it imprinted in April
this year on Cuba in its effort to overthrow Castro. Only
Castro is not Arbenz. In any case, Guatemala, like Iran, is
one of the most recognized triumphs of the CIA by the public.
And, as in Iran, the consequences left serious doubts as to
wha?t really was gained. For the promises of the CIA to the
forces of Castillo Armas with respect to social or democratic
reforms did not materialize. Half of the workable land in
a nation of four million people is still in the hands of 1,100.
The economy of the country is dominated by three large North
American corporations, headed by United Fruit. The workers
of United Fruit started a strike in 1955 to increase their
salary from 1.80 dollars a day to three. They lost. And
Guatemala continues to be a miserable country, so profoundly
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miserable that the Kennedy administration feels that it should
receive more North American aid."
With this short and substantial paragraph, which does
not paint the horrors of the armed aggression against the
Guatemalan people, nor the persecution, extermination or exile
of the Arbenz revolutionaries, neatly ends an interpretation
of the furious anti-Communism of the CIA.
Jacobo Arbenz, a man of liberal mind, did not carry for-
ward any profound social, economic and political reforms, but
temporized between the great established interests in Guate-
mala and the dramatic misery of the uuatemalan people. However,
as these facts to a certain degree affected the interests of the
large North American companies -- of the Yankee imperialism --
and those of the local landholding bourgeoisie, there had to be
a drastic,categorical example and, wielding the phantom of
Communism, the CIA not only intervened against and overthrew
a government constitutionally established but, availing itself
of mercenaries, opened the murderous fire against the working
masses of this little Central American country.
This is the CIA, a powerful organization that sows terror
wherever it believes it to be necessary; which overthrows go-
vernments of the people in the country where the great Yankee
consortiums iniquitously exploit the raw materials, which plots
the blackest and most pitiless intrigues at any point of the
earth where there is a possibility, as small as it may be, that
a people gives itself a government related to its interests of
freedom and progress.
The Central Intelligence Agency -- whose intelligence
is a magnificent deception -- is not only dedicated to es-
pionage and intrigue, but it plots at the same time to be the
direct executor of its barbarous and sinister-antidemocratic
conspiracies.
Santo Domingo and the Scandalous Yankee Invasion.
This small country of the tropical seas of the Carri-
bean, which obtained its independence in 1821, was invaded in
1916 by the United States and occupied until 1924. From then
onward it was governed by the ominous iiafael Leonidas Trujillo,
whose iron dictatorship lasted three long and bitter decades.
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The recent Dominican history is the saddest and most
cruel that any Latin American country ever had to bear. Let
us recall that in free elections, Juan Bosch took over the
authority in a Council of State. Thus Bosch ascended to
power in January 1963 and was overthrown in September of the
same year by the action of a coup dqtat headed by General
Elias Wessin y Wessin.
What has been stated in chronological order, acquires
frightful dimensions when seen from another angle, for again
we are confronted with the execution of plans by the CIA, then
plotted with the maximum secrecy. But as the concrete facts
are reviewed, one meets again the usual stereotype of the
CIA.
The writer Juan Miguel de Mora, in a book entitled,
"Press Mission in Santo Domingo," relates some actions of
Yankee military interventionism in the Dominican Republic,
as well as the subsequent mission for which it was"recommended"
by the OAS.
J. M. de Mora relates: "On 26 April (1964) began the
landing of the Marines of the United States, officially for
e "humanitarian mission" -- these are words pronounced by
President Johnson -- which is to save the North American re-
sidents, evacuate them and protect their interests. the first
were landed from the Cruiser Boxer, but very soon the warships
surrounded the Republic completely, including aircraft carriers
and other vessels.
The legal Congress of the Dominican epublic met on
4 Nay, and in accordance with its faculties it designated
Colonel Francisco Caamarlo Deno as President. The United States
supported the military junta that was still headed by Wessin
y Wessin, who was hated by all the people, especially because
of the machine-gunning of the population carried out by air-
planes.
"On 30 April a truce was agreed upon but was violated;
on 5 Maythe agreement was ratified with the signing of the
Act of Santo Domingo that divided the city into two parts
by the Yankee forces, who, moreover, created the so-called
"security zone..."
"When the marines disembarked, Wessin and his scanty
forces were practically reduced to the base of San Isidro.
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The Constitutionists dominated the entire city and prevented
with a heroism of four hundred casualties -- the military
from crossing the Duarte bridge.
"The Marines of the United States disembarked as they
do during a war: sheltered by tanks that mutually protected
the advance, firing against the Dominicans who had come to
win their struggle for the Constitution of 1963..."
Pages ahead, Juan Miguel de kora continues his narra-
tive as follows: "While the diplomats Laought a solution
that would not include Imbert or Wessin, profoundly hated by
the people, the soldiers of the United States continued to
support Imbert in an absolute manner by means of the displacement
of security zones and the corridor they controlled, by means
of the observation area with direct artillery support ..."
And, continuing in the same tenor, he relates not only the
arbitrary intervention of the Yankee armed forces) but also
their bloody operations in support of Imbert and Wessin, who
are nothing but simple lackeys of the political directions
dictated by the CIA for the destinies of the Dominican Re-
public.
This history is too recent to forget it. For that
reason it will be perfectly recalled that North America con-
tinued to keep on Dominican territory a reel army as far as
the number of armed men and the quantity and quality of the
implements of war is concerned.
It is also elementary to remember the sad role played by the
OAS when, violating its most precious principles and against
the opinion of countries like Mexico, Chile and Uruguay, it
formed an army, disembarked itIsheltered under the false
denomination of an Inter-American Peace Forceland intervened
in the Dominican Republic with the intention to mask and
justify the Yankee military intervention.
At present, some time after the landing of the marines,
the Dominican panorama remains explosive. If the reports of
Western news agencies are studied, let:ius say during any 30
days taken at random, one gets a vision as irritating as terri-
fying of the everyday life born by the Dominican people.
January 22, 1966. -- "Colonel Francisco Caamano, the
greatest military figure of the April revolution, left the
country today for London, where he will assume the functions
as military attache of the Dominican Republic in Great Britain."
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The patriot Caamano, before boarding the plane, stated
that he was leaving the country temporarily for reasons bound
up with the political circumstances. "ky departure and that
of my companions must be justly understood by all Dominicans...
*;ihile foreign and invading troops occupy the Dominican Re-
public, I do not consider my country free and I hope that they
are leaving soon..."
By leaving his fatherland, Caamario fulfilled an agree-
ment of the legal government that military counterrevolu-
tionaries like Francisco Rivera Caminero should not take action
because it would provoke a violent reaction of the people.
January 26, 1966.--"While the former President, Juan
Bosch, stated that the national disgust about the rebel con-
duct of the military leaders was increasing and might provoke
events of unforeseen scope, Colonel Francisco Caamao declared
in London that the situation was still serious because of the
,refusal of the head of the armed forces, l'rancisco hivera
Caminero, and of the Ministers of the Army and Air Force to '
lgave the country."
After this atmosphere of restlessness had been caused
by the refusal of the military counterrevolutionaries, the
first acts of violence were reported on 9 kebruary by a cabled
communication: "At least three students were killed and 32
persons were wounded when the Dominican police discharged its
automatic arms against an anti-government demonstration, inte-
grated mostly by students, that took place in front of the
National Palace with the intention to ask the provisional pre-
sident Hector Garcia Godoy to pay the salaries of the professors
and employees at oanto DoEino University... After the demon-
strators had requested a subsidy from the University, they
changed the gathering into an anti-North American and anti-
militaristic demonstration. At a certain point of that de-
monstration, the students observed a minute of silence in me-
mory of the guerrillas killed in Vietnam by the North American
forces ... According to some versions, a soldier struck a
student with the but of his automatic rifle, thus causing the
first flash of the skirmish. About 40 police opened fire
with automatic arms, pistols and tear-gas. The incident
occurred when the student leaders were sitting on the stoop
of the National Palace, waiting for an interview with Garcia
Godoy...When the intense skirmish stopped, one of the youths
was lying dead in the street with his face contracted in pain
and partly covered with a pamphlet of protest. Another lad,
hit by a charge in the stomach, died in the arms of his com-
rades..."
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On this new occasion, the youthful blood was spilled .
by the barbarous outrage of Dominican gorillian action. But
let us not detain the facts: On 10 February, the cablegrams
sent indicated that "Five persons today lost their lives,
including one woman and two police, besides at least 18 woun-
ded on this second day of disturbances. Trade union organi-
zations and students have launched a strike call as a protest
against yesterday's bloody happenings that is paralyzing the
Dominican capital... Sporadic skirmishes and explosions can
be heard all through the day in various sectors of the capital.
The spokesman of the constitutionalist movement, Hector Aristy,
declared that the strike would continue until those responsible
for the bloody incidents would be punished? ? ? "
The protest strike movement has continued in all its
strength, but the shedding of blood has also kept on, as was
learned from the corresponding information of 12 February,
which states: "Eighty percent of the activities in the Domi-
nican capital are paralyzed due to the general strike, and
there are indications that this movement may spread to the
interior of the country... During tonight's skirmishes, which
were called the most serious ones in quite some time, three
persons died, struck by bullets in the open street. Since
last Wednesday there were 15 dead and 47 wounded." The report
adds that the students requested President Garcia Godoy to
punish those guilty of the crimes and to demand the withdrawal
of the inter-American military forces.
On the 13th of the same month, the information stated
among other things that the strike continues and that the Inter-
American Peace Forces (FIP) had broken arbitrarily into houses
and particular buildings in search of arms. This action was
undertaken to intimidate the Dominican people.
While President Garcia Godoy asked for the cessation of
the strike movement, the following events took place on 14
February: A home-made bomb wounded six Paraguayan soldiers
of the Inter-American Peace Force when it exploded within a
military post near the center of the Dominican capital." And
in the midst of the excitement of that day the following events
took place: " Unknown persons stopped with a 50 caliber auto-
matic weapon a North American patrol walking in the streets
A trade union leader Was killed by a bullet under circumstances
that were not clear when he walked in the turbulent northern
zone ... President Garcia Godoy asked for the immediate cession
of the general strike that paralyzed the economic activity of
the Dominican Republic."
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On 15 February, the cabled information stated that
"the strength of the general strike unchained last Wednesday
by the worker organizations has increased tonight." At the
same time, the Eew York Times wrote that "The spectre that
is arising today over the Dominican liepublic is not that of
Fidel Castro but of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo" and accuses
President Garcia Godoy of "inaction that facilitates the game
of the military reactionaries and followers of Trujillo, who
act as if they were surelthat they soon would be the masters
of the Dominican Republic."
In such a brief period the painful drama of the Domini-
can people was staged. The formation of the Inter-American
Peace Force, which acted perfectly in the Dominican Republic,
is a clear symbol of one of the ends pursued by Yankee impe-
rialism: Using the CAS by means of this armed force, it aspires
to submit the Latin American governments to its economic and ?
political interests.
Let us say that, having well observed the situation in
which the Dominican itepublic finds itself, one can clearly ? ,
discern in it the methods the CIA applied in uuatemala to over-
throw Jacobo Arbenz. And if by chance some discrepencies appear,
they must be attributed to the fact that from one event to the
other time has elapsed and there are, therefore, variants in
style but not in the ends pursued: the subjection of the Domi-
nican people by a lackey government of Washington and by the *
parallel establishment in this territory of a solid base for
direct and indirect action against Cuba and its socialist re-
volution.
As far as the Inter-American Peace Force is concerned,
in whose creation Yankee diplomacy persisted, it has aroused
many protests all over the world, but there is an eloquent and
very interesting reasoning expressed by the President of Mexico,
GustavoDiaz Ordaz, during his tour in Central A merica.
In this respect, cabled information reported on 21
January 1966 the following: "At a press conference, President
Diaz Crdaz stated that the creation of an inter-American peace
force had among other pernicious effects invaded the right of
the peoples to decide their own destiny, and if we would have
contributed to its creation, it would be a very hateful under-
taking, a Frankenstein. President Diaz Grdaz said tha't Mexico
is opposed to the creation of this armed farce and pointed out
that if a force as this one, integrated by foreign armies, would
attempt to settle an internal problem of Mexico, the Mexicans ?
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would forget their internal conflicts end would fight the
invader together."
Frustration of the Camelot Plan and Application of the
Congenial Project.
On 27 January 1966, the international information
agencies transmitted a cable from abroad, stating: A spokes-
man of "the Office of Investigation for Special Operations
at the American University had declared that the so-called
Congenial Project undertaken in Colombia under its super-
vision was not related with the suspended Camelot Operation
that promoted the same business in Chile.
This statement was made after the Colombian deputies
had asked the Executive of their country for complete informa-
tion on the plan, which was stated to be similar to the Camelot
Project of investigation of insurgency and counterinsurgency
in the underdeveloped world and which was annuled when a pro-
test arose in Chile against the study, which was stigmatized
as hidden espionage."
And it was. Some time later, Operation Camelot was
being promoted in Santiago de Chile, but because of a large-
scale protest movement by students and intellectuals, this
maneuver of grotesque interference and vulgar espionage was
frustrated. It showed once more the unremitting intention,
now of the Pentagon, to nose about everywhere, directly or in-
directly.
how North American interference turned to Colombia.
On 28 Janua ry 1966, international information, reported that
"the parliamentarians of the liberal revolutionary movement,
Ramiro Andrade and Gregorio Becerra, calling this Plan a
violation of the Constitution and of' national sovereignty,
stated that they had in their possession questionaries pre-
pared by the managers of the Congenial Plan., in which the
personnel of the army is asked whether it is satisfied with
the present hierarchical leaders, how the defense organization
is working in certain regions, who lives there, what is their
opinion about Communism, and whether they are willing to aid
the United States Peace Corps."
On 5 February, 1966, cabled reports said in this con-
nection: "Fourteen Colombian sociologists and psychologists,
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who refused to lend their services to the firm entrusted to
carry out in Bogota the so-called Congenial Plan, sent a
message to the Chairman of the Foreign Ixelations Committee
of the North American Senate, J. W. Fulbright to acquaint him
with some of its details. At the same time they published a
plablic statement in which they revealed that they were threat-
ened with being labelled Communists if they did not change
their attitude and decided to work with the National Research
of Colombia, the organ that is charged with the collection of
the suitable data.
"The sociologists and psychologists say among other things
in this statement:*In our opinion, and given the relationship
that exists between Operation Camelot -- whose text we have
before us -- and Project Congenial, it can be clearly deduced
that the data collected will be used for political purposes
and military purposes, and as we are partisans of a democratic
solution, we cannot accept this nor hand over to a foreign
power -- whatever it may be -- confidential data concerning the
situation of our people."
However, the object of Project Congenial was not only
espionage related to the Colombian military potential, the
revolutionary capacity of the people, etc., but also pried, by
means of a series of apparently innocent questions, into the
most intimate and delicate problems of the people, by which ,
they foolishly wanted to conceal the substance of the business.
In Colombia the Project Congenial continues to be pro-
moted because there is no government of nationalist essence
and because protests against' it were easily silenced by the
official machinery.
Lombardo Toledano Denounces a Camelot Plan for Mexico.
Pexico obviously is not an island in Latin America that
cannot be reached by multiple action -- from the most brutal
economic pressures to the most sinister intrigues of Yankee
imperialism.
A clear demonstration of this, of the many that can be
given, is contained in the denunciation made by the Federal
Deputy of the Popular Socialist Party, Lombardo Toledano, on
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23 September 1965. On that occasion he pointed out that the
JUnited States espionage organs acting in Mexico are the same
that have tried to promote Operation Camelot in several South
American countries. Vicente Lombardo Toledano indicated that
his Party WS not affected by the espionage) "but it is ex-
trerrely crave that foreigners are inquiring into the private
lives of the Secretaries of State and many other officials;
they themselves have said so; it is the importance of the
question that counts, not whether information can be obtained."
Later VLT added that the North American agents tried
to ascertain the reaction "if the Government of the United
States would start various measures to realize its objectives.
An inquiry prior to political, economic or armed aggression:
that is the concrete objective. It is evident that the CIA
at times makes mistakes, as in Cuba, when the Washington Go-
vernment was seriously informed that on the day the island
would be invaded, the people would rise in arms to support the
invasion. This is proved by the activity assumed by the
House of Representatives in Washington on the next day. We
believe that never in the history of international relations
a similar resolution has been made in any country The
aggression took place, without a review of right or wrong to
justify it; but not even in the United States do the public
authorities or the legislative power have the right to under-
take actions in violation of international law, nor are there
any conventions to attack a sovereign country by no matter what
law, or to carry out an imperialist policy as a system of inter-
national relations. It is really an unheard-of deed that
raised, as was only logical, the protest of all Latin American
countries."
Finally, to support his statements more firmly, VLT
reported some facts that revealed how Mexican agents paid by
the CIA had tried during the Korean war to bribe members of the
PPS, not only in order to obtain data on the position of this
Party with regard to the war, but to start an entire network
favorable to imperialist interests and, therefore, anti-Mexican.
The Armed Forces of the United States and their Action
Through the Camelot Project.
We have already spoken repeatedly about the Camelot
Project and its sinister designs; however, presented as it was
?here, it possibly only implies an abstraction) and it is therefore
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necessary to know the full text that is creating this project
in order to get a clear idea of what it is and at the same time
obtain concrete conclusions of the imperialist actions against
the Latin American peoples.
It states as follows:
"Office of Operations of Special Investigation. --
Official communication of the Director. -- 4 December 1964.
Project Camelot.
"Project Camelot is an investigation whose object is
to determine the possibility for the development of a general
pattern of social systems that makes it possible to predict
and influence in a politically significant manner the social
cha-nges in the developing nations of the world.
"More specifically, these objectives are:
"First. -- Establish procedures to measure the internal
war potential within the national societies.
"Secondly. -- Identify with intensified degrees of
confidence which acts a government can undertake to remedy the
conditions that are likely to increase the internal war potential;
and
"Finally, to appreciate the possibility to dispense with
the characteristics of a system in order to obtain and use the
essential information to obtain the two things mentioned above.
"The project was conceived as an endeavor of three or
four years and will need between one and one and a half million
dollars annually. It has the support of the army and of the
Defense Department and will be carried out with the cooperation
of other Government branches. It is planned to gather large
quantities of firsthand data in the territory of action, as
well as the extensive utilization of the data already available
in the social, economic and political material. At the time
when this is written it seems probable that the geographical
orientation of the investigation will be directed to the Spanish-
American countries. The present plan demands the installation
of an office in that region.
"Antecedents:
"The Project Camelot was derived from the play of many
factors and forces. ismong them is the recent assignment, de-
veloped to give greater importance to the r6le of the US army
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in the general North American policy to encourage the continued
growth and exchange with the underdeveloped countries of the
world. The many programs of the US Government directed toward
this object were grouped under the label, sometimes ambiguous,
of counterinsurgency (another term would be convenient here,
namely prophylaxis against insurgency). It puts special empha-
sis on positive actions thg-t help to reduce the motives of dis-
contentment,that are the origin of the most important and vio-
lent activities of a destructive character. The US army has
an important mission in the positive and constructive aspects
of the building of a country, as cell as the responsibility of
siding the friendly governments when they are confronted with
the problem of active insurgency.
Another important factor is the recognition on the part
of the high officials of the defense organization, of which
relatively little is known with a degree of certainty, con-
cerning the social processes that must be well interpreted to
confront the problem of insurgency effectively. Within the
army exists a specially enthusiastic acceptance of the need to
understand better the process of social exchange, if it is
desired that the army discharges its responsibility in the
general program of the US Government against insurgency. Great
imortance is given in this respect to a series of recent
reports on the problems of national security and the possible
contribution that may be nia^de by the social sciences for the
solution of these problems. Cne of these reports was published
by a committee of the investigating group of the Smithsonian
Institute under the title "Investigations of Social Science and
National Security," and edited by the Ithiel de Sola group. The
other is a book of the records of proceedings of a meeting:
"The Limited Vier Mission of the US Army and the Investigations
of Social Science." These official proceedings were published
in 1962 by the American University's Special Investigation
Office of Operations.
"The Project Camelot will be a multi-discipline endeavor.
It will be established within the SORO organization and in
intimate collaboration with universities and other US and overseas
investigation institutions. he first months of work will be
devoted to the establishment of an invebtigation plan, and to
the clarification of questions of methodology of the investiga-
tion and its contents. Thi -i will contribute to the important
articulation of all component investigations of the project,
with a view to the objectives proposed.' The first to partici-
pate in this Project will also have the unusual opportunity
to formulate the program of the investigation, and also to par-
ticipate in a seminar that is intended to be held in the spring
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of 1965. The seminar, which will be held by the principal men
of the behaviorist sciences of the country, will be devoted
to the revision of plans for the immediate future and analyze
the aims and the long-term pie ns of the Project.
After being informed of the contents of Project Camelot
and having in turn meditated about the implicit and explicit
intentions of the.Project, one is overcome by incredulity for,
after all, what has become of the so-much-cacled-about North
American good neighbor policy toward its neighbors of the South?
But no. It is infantile to be deceived in this case,
especially where it refers to the relations of the Yankee im-
perialism with Latin America, and besides, one always pays too
much.
It should be repeated as many times as it is necessary,
and even unto weariness, that the essence of North American
policy is the Monroe Doctrine and the policy of the big stick,
is$ finally, the policy of the most violent and pitiless
colonization ever experienced in the annals of history of the
human race.
Peru Applies the Colonization Plan.
On 18 February 1966, the international information agen-
cies of the West transmitted a communication that stated the
following:
"Since lest October and in secret, the Colony Plan has
been completed here, which is similar to the Project Camelot
of Chile and the Congenial Plan that has been carried out in
Colombia after several month of work, said the Cultural
.Attach 4 of the North American Embassy, Joseph Thomas.
"He said that it is "an investigation to determine the
scope of the civic action of the army and of other army in-
stitutions of Peru," and that some members of the "voluntary
peace corps are collaborating in it.
The North American diplomat pointed out, however, that
the plan was undertaken together with the Peruvian army, for
which the North American embassy could not provide any major'
data.
On his part, the head of the Public Relations Depart-
ment of the army, Colonel Richter, offered to give information
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on details by next week.
"On the other hand, the Peruvian Chancellor, Jorge
Vazquez Salas, who had been asked the previous day about
the details when he left the Council of Ministers meeting,
denied positively the existence of this plan in Peru.
" He was questioned in this respect because it had
been announced in the Colombian Parliament a few days ago
that Peru also was carrying out the Congenial Plant under
the name of Colony."
"Certainly, as it is popularly said, it is a question
here "of the same dog, but he is a little more trampled upon."
And notwithstanding the apparent or real contradictions of
this information, it has had the logical consequence that
Peru has become another victim of Yankee espionage and inter-
ference under the pretext of carrying out "an investigation
to determine the scope of civic action of the army and other
armed institutions" in Peru, which, speaking in pure terms,
should be called simply a classic colonialist activity of
Yankee imperialism on Peruvian soil, an activity, that gravely
affects the national sovereignty of this Latin American coun-
try.
Besides the CIA and the Pentagon, the FBI Is Also
Spying =Spanish America
Suddenly he said unexpectedly that if the international
policy of the United States in Spanish America is watched
closely it can be seen that the famous FBI (Federal Bureau
of Investigation): is also dedicated to espionage on Latin
Americnn soil.
According to a Washington cable, the report states:
"Two high North American officials admitted that agents of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation are in various capitals of the ?
world to exchange information with the local police forces.
"The Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Press
Secretary of the White House, Billi Moyers, gave new details
about the activities of this international police organization
in order to contradict a report by the New York Herald Tribune.
"The report of the Herald Tribune pointed out that Pre-
sident Johnson had ordered in increase of the espionage activi-
ties in Latin America through the FBI.
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":oover admitted that the FBI has interlocking offices
in Lexie() City,.Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, London, Bonn,
Paris, Tokyo and other important capitals.
"He stated, however, that his agents are at the various
embassies as "juridical attaches."
"Edgar Hoover said that the President has not given any
new order to increase the activities of this group in Latin
America.
"On his part, Moyers, in qualifying the commentary of the
New York daily as "false and irresponsible," added that 20
agents of the FBI were detached in April to the Dominican Re-
public to render confidential information, among other things,
.on the personal antecedents of the possible members of the
provisional government."
This is, objectively speaking, a great Yankee conspiracy
against the stability and national security of the Latin Ameri-
can people and of the world. The CIA, the Pentagon, and the
FBI I All these are lavishing their force, their economic,
technical and human might to undermine the institutions of
each Latin American country, to impose the designs and interests
of Yankee imperialism wherever it is propicious to change the
constitutional order by exploiting the human and natural riches
of this American continental zone.
Peace Organs, Apparently Innocuous, Are Advanced Ili
North American Imperialist Espionage.
When one speaks of plans like the Alliance for Progress
one may ingenuously believe in the establishment of a North
American program of economic aid to the development of the Latin
American countries and in the maxim that the philosophy behind
this program has a philantropic character.
But if the manner in which ALPRO has operated is practically
analyzed, one comes to the conclusion that it obeys dimensions
nd purposes that are quite different. The gr('nting of North
American credits through ALPRO, besides being no benefaction
as these are loans given at high interest, is one of the practical
forms of imperialist penetration and on a par with the mainte-
nance of dictatorial governments and of gradual undermining --
sonetimes to the very overthrow -- of democratic regimes installed
in the wide Indo-American area.
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On 18 February 1966, the international Wormation
agencies transmitted the following communication: "Jack
Hood Vaughn, who expects to be confirmed as Director of the
"Peace Corps," obtained through prolonged insistence that
"volunteers of this organization will be sent to Nicaragua
and Paraguay.
"The "Peace Corps," an organization whose final purpose
of espionage has been repeatedly denounced, now has more
than 4,300 volunteers in 18 Latin American regions.
"Paraguay solicited the sending of "volunteers" last
year,. and Nicaragua did so only a month ago, although sources.
of the Nicaraguan embassy stated that Vaughn insisted that
Nicaragua should ask for "volunteers."
"Paul Bell has already been named director of the "Peace
Corps" that will be active in Nicaragua and has been installing
his seat in Managua for the past week.
"On the other hand, Richard Grenson, director ofthe
"Peace Corps" operating in Bolivia, has been in Asuncion for
some time, "studying Paraguayan needs."
? "The North American "Peace Corps" now has agents in
Guatemala, El Salvador, Belice, Honduras, Jamaica, Santo Domingo,
Santa Lucia, Barbados, Panama, Costa Rica, Venezuela , Colombia,
Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay and Brazil.
Apparently, these are only blond United States youths
who want to live together and want to teach and learn in the
most impoverished places of Latin America. But here as in
other affairs there is the ignoble deceit of imperialism, for
these "Peace Corps" are in fact nothing more than one of the
appendixes of the CIA.
Kennedy Was ConfusedJ-2a the Many Activities of the CIA. ?
Not so long ago, the writer and journalist, Hernando
Pacheco, published an articie of great interest that stated
verbatim: "Every reader of periodicals has read hundreds of
times that -- without joking -- the conductor or superintendent
of a Soviet embassy sometimes turn out ,to be some of the most -
important officials of the espionage service.
"About the CIA were told, instead, numerous legends
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about its superabusive intervention. The most conspicuous
examples of their appearance in history are called Guatemala,
landing in Cuba, Vietnam, etc.
"Now, with regard to the activities and special style
of the CIA, we received an exceptional document -- from the
North American historian Schlesinger, special counselor to
President Kennedy -- that is throwing new light on the problem
which, I suppose, will grieve the good burghers who, as is
known, have conveniently and sweetly -- notwithstanding the
Council -- divided the world in "good" and "bad" ones.
"Schlesinger tells of the difficulties Kennedy had
in finding out where the actions of the CIA began and ended,
actions of whom we have "two horrible examples: Cuba and Laos."
"The difficulties begin in the economic sphere, where
the CIA "has a budget that exceeds that of the State Depart-
ment by 50 percent," although it is only less than half of
what the Secretary of Defense spends for "intelligence"
missions.
"In nearly all embassies -- states this document on
page 427 -- are numerous officials, covered by the normal
status of foreign service, who are carrying out CIA missions.
"Often the post of the CIA head is higher than that of the
ambassador, he gets more money and exercises more influence.
The CIA has its own political and military general staffs;
has its own Foreign Service, its own air force and, on occasions,
its own combat units. However, the CIA declines to clarify
its clandestine missions to the State Department in Washington.
as well as to the ambassadors ... who are informed about an
operation only when it has already begin and cannot be turned
back. The success obtained in Guatemala (when President
Arbenz was overthrown), launched the CIA on the perilous road
of adventure..."
"It should be pointed out that it was President Kennedy
who sent a letter to the ambassadors, telling them that they
should know that there would be a CIA in every country..."
"It does not seem that he 'obtained much from the strength
of the services, but the first step, as Arthur Schlesinger
says verbatim, was taken.
"Perhaps it will be possible to correct through these
testimonies the mystifications by which the great agencies
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? entertain and increase with their literature about the "good
? ones" the James pond spirit of our days.
An eloquent commentary. The CIA is a powerful body,
of multiple action, in planning as well as in execution, with
political, economic and military powers that make it nearly .
ell-embracing. The only ones above it are perhaps the fabu-
lous imperialist interests that have their seat in Wall Street,
as we have seen in Guatemala, in Laos, in Korea and everywhere
where grotesq ue interference is going on.
Finally, the somewhat irregular and at random arrangement
of these documents has been made with the aim that in substance
is obvious: to show clearly that the CIA has struck a thousand
times against the profound libertarian spirit of the Latin
? American people, imbuing it with an indomitable desire to fight?
to the end agginst the enslaving forces of Yankee imperialism.
PetLetic Activities of CIA Interference
However, Latin America is not the only terrestial qua-
drant where the CIA is active; and to demonstrate that the
action of this agency is continuous and world-embracing, let
us observe some final cases, the most pathetic of these
times.
? We are referring to the cruel assassination of Ben
Barka, the noted Moroccan patriot.
Cn 26 January, the international news cables stated
the following: The "great surprises" prognosticated for this
week in the kidnapping and assassination of the Moroccan na-
tionalist leader, Ben Barka, have led to the announcement by
? the De Gaulle Government that the Moroccan Minister of the
Interior, Ufkir, plotted the kidnapping of this leader and to
the statement that the Government of that African country is
responsible for the voluntary obstruction of the investigation
into this crime.
On the other hand, the theory of an intervention by the
US Central Intelligence Agency in the problem was made known
by the special correspondent of the London Daily Express, who
emphasized that the lk)rrocan Minister of the Interior "is
closely acquainted with the agents of the CIA, who were kept
minutely informed"and who, although they had good reasons to
desire the elimination of Ben Barka, did not wish to soil
their own hands."
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Earlier this correspondent had stated that Ufkir had
converted himself into "the central personality of a new
phase of the East-West cold war in which the US Intelligence
Service is directly involved," and that the friendship between
Ben Barka and Fidel Castro was a sufficient reason to place
the Uoroccan opposition leader at a top place on the list of
suspected persons put together by Washington."
After having attained a more concrete idea of the
international workings of the CIA, can one have any doubts
about its indirect involvement in this disgraceful crime?
For it was just before this, in the midst of the torrent
of information that was presented during the days following
zarka's assassination on 27 January 1966, that international
communications told us among other things: "It must be emphasized
no that the North American Intelligence Services (CIA) inter-
vened in the kidnapping of El behdi Ben Barka. Then it was
the winner of the Nobel Prize for French literature, Francois
Yauriac, who stated in Le Figaro Litt4raire: "Once more these
services (the CIA) have struck a magnificent blow against the
Third World by disembarrassing themselves of Ben Barka, and by
acting against De Gaulle. If the North American services are
innocent in this affair, it is the devil himself who acted for
them."
The conviction is growing: there can be lit-qe doubt
that the intellectual responsibility for this assassination
lies entirely with the CIA.
Here we have revealed, with data, the unscrupulous
activity of the CIA, which does not stop in the face of any
crime.
Now we shall see a new case that also reveals another
method employed by the CIA.
Unexpectedly the periodicals reported a military coup
d'etat in the Republic of Ghana that resulted in the overthrow
of President Kwame Nkrumah. This event caused world sensation,
for Nkrumah was an efficient ruler who constructed one of the
most democratic and progressive states of the African world
that had recently become largely independent of the European
metropolises.
But on 25 February 1966, a communication unraveled what
at first had appeared as an inscrutable mystery. The cabled
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communications said in part: "The head of the Ghana Secret
Service until 1961, Khow Amihyia, reported in London that
he had prepared the coup d'dtat that overthrew President
Kwame Nkrumah when he was sure that the plot contrived by
the CIA would be successful.
"Amihyia, who has been living in the British capital
since his dismissal by former President Nkrumah in 1961, said
that from this date on he began to organize with officials
end police as)what he called)Revolutionary Counselor of Ghana
in Exile."
"He also stated that the plans had been drawn up five
years ago, waiting for the opportune moment to promote them,
and that for the beginning of action they had counted on
discontented military and police officials, whose ambitions
for positions were not satisfied by Nkrumah:, and who considered
that he disregarded their right of seniority.
"He stated that some designs to overthrow Nkrumah at
earlier dates failed for lack of coordination of the tactics,
notwithstanding the. fact that they had a prepared personnel
and sufficient arms at their disposal. Immediately Afterwards
he disputed that he personally had attended a course in the
United States, organized by the CIA; that, although he initially
employed these skills for the Secret Service of Nkrumah, he . ?
later understood that his position made it possible for him
to take possession of the situation and to satisfy the require-
ments of a change planned from abroad.
Having .failed in several attempts against Nkrumah's
life, it was hoped that the Ghanean President would leave the
country in December 1965, for his presence in Ghana had frustrated
the attack.
During the preparatory period of the coup, officials
connected with the "Council" within Ghana made efforts to arouse
the population, profiting from the economic situation existing
in the country because of the drop of .cocoa prices on the world
market and the corruption of some officials, a fact that had
been pointed out by President Nkrumah more than once.
"Inl,this manner the occasion presented itself, according
to Amihyia, on Tuesday night when it was announced in Accrq that
the President and a group of 71 of his intimate collaborators
had left the country. It was also indicated that "this final
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coup" had been prepared for August and that for that reason
it had been a surprise for him when a leader of what he called
the "Executive Committee of the Council" transmitted a message
to 421 London with the watchword that announced the beginning
of action.
"Although he confirmed, that many of Nkrumah's opponents
were involved in the coup d'etat, he did not give names, stating
that at the present the army and the police would remain at the
forefront of the movement and that a constitutional government
could be established only in about two years."
This, in synthesis, is the story of President Nkrumah's
overthrow, which bears evidence of the active participation
of the redoubtable CIA.
If we analytically regard the aims pursued with the over-
throw of Nkrumah, we necessarily' arrive at the contention that
the final purpose sought by the CIA in the epublic of Ghana
is similar to the one carried out in Guatemala when it overthrew
President Jacobo Arbenz and gave this Central American country
a dictatorial government, that of Castillo Armas, who turned
back the clock of revolutionary advance and again permitted the
dominion of the Fruit Company and of the native latifundium.
CIA Action in Indonesia.
Now we come to the painful political crisis that took
place in Indonesia and where the CIA was present in all its
aspects. .
A communication of Larch 1966 states:
"All diplomatic, political and subversive forces of the
United States attempted to destroy the Indonesian Federation,
to undermine the anti-imperialist government of President Ahmed
Sukarno and to install a pro-imperialist regime.
"Sukarno himself denounced these aims of the Yankee go-
vernment and accused the i\,orth American Central Intelligence
Agency of having intervened in the events of last October.
"The rightist Indonesian military organs, under the pre-
text that a coup d'etat inspired by the Communist Party had
taken place, established an "anti-Communist terror" in the
entire country that cost the lives of 200,000 persons assassi-
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nated by the military reactionaries and by mobs of Moslem
fanatics incited by them. Only Sukarno was able to dominate
the situation by dismissing General Nasution, the head of
the rightist extremists.
"It is to be expected that the US will not slacken its
interferences in Indonesia.
"Moreover, the members of the army, including the rightist
sector, have become aware that the anti-Communists have been
playing the game of the United States."
Stated in a very schematic manner, three transcendental
phenomena took place after the Second world Nar: the socialist
camp was expanded and consolidated, North American imperialism
was strengthened and Europe remained debilitated, and a new
world of countries was established in Africa, which obtained
its independence from the European metropolises.
The United States then saw the opportunity to occupy
the place formerly occupied by Europe in Africa and to exploit
its human and natural resources. But when countries like
Ghana, which had national governments, resisted this Yankee
economic and political penetration, the Central Intelligence ,
Agency started action, but in some cases the results were not
those expected by the insatiable appetites of imperialism.
? The event in Ghana simply staged another method of the
omnipresent CIA: the overthrow of governments not in tune with
the policy of penetration or surrender to North American im-
perialism.
Allen Dulles and the Spirit of the Central Intelligence
Agency.
The CIA will soon complete twenty years of applying the
tortuous methods -- perhaps surpassed -- inspired by the sickly
Allen Dulles.
Turning to the stupendous investigation of Fred J, Cook,
we find the following in the last chapter: "From his office at
2430 E Street in New York (sic), Ir. Allen Dulles, with a budget
of several billion dollars annually, devoted himself since 1953
to the direction of the North American intelligence network all
over the world. The most reactionary forces in Laos, the Congo
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or Algeria received the amiable and effective support of the
CIA, a true 135 orgnnization of action and intervention in the
internal affairs of other countries. The culmination of Lr.
Dulles' career was the miscarried invasion of Cuba in April
1961. Er. Dulles' error of calculation started an angry wave
of protests in the North American press and from all those
who would have liked to see the audacious operation in the
Caribbean crowned with success. The brother of the extinct
Foster Dulles then had to leave the new and elegant 46 million
dollar edifice of the Central Intelligence Agency and cede
his easy chair as director and commander of 30,000 CIA agents
in the United States and abroad to a younger man provided
with the "cold energy" necessary to hold the reins of one of
the most import-nt organizations of North American foreign
policy.
"The candidates included the generals Telford and
Maxwell Taylor, Messrs. Mc George Bundy, Fowker Hamilton,
and a few others. But the chosen one was the former Chairman
of the Atomic Energy Commission, John Alex McCone, an active
member of the Republican Party ... and a man with long ad-
ministrative expetience. However, Mr. McCone is engineer by
profession and his career as an executive was limited during
many years to the direction of industrial enterprises ...
A pity that the wide experience of the California engineer
culminates in the direction of the most famous center of in-
ternational espionage. yiith all his "energy," his "prudence,"
his "foresight" and his "exceptional qualities," Mr. Alex
McCone cannot arrest the course of history. Perhaps "success"
in some cases, as Dulles had in Guatemala or in Iraq, but his
successes will be transitory, for in the long run the progress
of humanity will assert itself, and the democracy, the liberty,
the independence the social justice and all the ideals that
one day will also be part of the United States. And then, Mr.
McCone, with all his energy, his prudence, his foresight and
his excellent qualities, will end, like Allen Julies, in the
basket of useless things."
History does not forgive. The CIA will pay for its
crimes.
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