NO TALKS WITH CASTRO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400130084-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 84
• Publication Date: July 16, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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nomic and political pressures the
A11,10 i alks 'With t3SLro United States has brought to bear
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Senator Believes Any Accord Would ym< l
eet; of Weakness
Injure Us in Latin, America
11 show of weakness on our part,
which any accord reached with Cas-
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It was with great con era that I t:'o would be, could only undercut
react yotn' July 8 editorial on Fidel our position in the rest of .Latin
C strc'e recent overtures to the America, lessening respect for the
1 Unii:ems States. You state that Cas- unites States, and making the
t, tl'G?'s desire a rapprochement i5 avowed aims of the Cuban Commu-
for
"cocoa: aging," implying by your. nists easier to attain,
hone that we should be prepared tot Very likely, the Organization of
reech en agreement with his Gov- American States mectina'; which will
er,u;:c;it. convene later this month, would not
I feel that the only encourage- result in any meaningful action on
nicut we can take from Castro's Venezuela's char;es of aggression
statements lies in the fact that they ! against Castro if the foreign minis-
indicate the seriousness of his pros- ters doubted our resolve.
eat predicament and the success of Beyond the immediate and press-
sonic of the policiies followed In ing question of Communist subver-.
our efforts to rid the h -.niisphere Sion in the hemisphere, we cannot
of is form of Communism.'. simply ignore the past crimes perpe-;
it would be inexcusable.----in the I trated under the name of the "Cuban
light of our knowledge that Castro- Revolution." We'cannot give Castro
"inspired terrorists are threatening the illusion of respectability by suci-
democratic governments throughout denly forgiving and forgetting the
i Latin America - to sit down at the 1 mass executions conducted in public,
conference table and bargain for (die the incarceration of over 70,000 po-.
cessation of activities that v'iolltc litieal peisoners, and the oppressive
hemisphe.ric treaties and' intcraa_ internal atmosphere that has driven
Lional law. more than ,50,000 Cubans from
I'urt.her, even if Castro were to their homeland.
halt all subversion before entering I am convinced that we have a
into any proposed talks,' we could moral as well as a legal responsi-
not ignore what experience has bility to pursue a policy, that will
taught us, the complete unreliability lead to Castro's &o.vr,fall, and were
of his promises. Casino would re- eve to begin b, rgaining with him, I
spect the sovereignty of his neigh- feel we would be failing that respon
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until he felt an easing of the eco. Washington, July 8, 1964.
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