CASTRO: NOT ENTIRELY A SOVIET PUPPET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100070013-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: October 12, 1979
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/09: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100070013-0 -STAT
ARTICLE APPEARED
THE WASHINGTON POST
12 October 1979
Jack Anderson
more than a Kremlin.puppet. vates every time the Soviets ring a bit a water. .
President Carter's orchestration of bell, the State Department' analysts. A case in point is the devel pmentr
g r a controversial eight-inch
this old sweet song took the form of an. have-this-view of the Soviet.Cuban re- pro fD
assertion: "In every international die. lationship: "Soviet policy probably de. . naval gun designed for afelatively-
pute, on every international issue, the termines the outer ? boundaries of short ge bombardmen41bs in am-
Cuban regime automatically follows Cuban options, in the sense that Cuba phibiou assaults-? or otlyer close m
The major theme running through brings to his mission an almost messi- ? tions in Congress,. but when a pet pros
the mini crisis over Soviet troops in. anic zeal," the report states. j~ct is involved the regulations sopia.
Cuba was that Fidel Castro is nothing Rejecting the notion that Castro salt es are thrown out like so uch
fa Aup~~
Castm: Notalirely..a Sovieur
many Soviet policies over the years, he global strategic and economic inter- even in push-b
- But a secret report by the State De- ' rectly opposed by the Soviet. Union, - Younger Navy of felt that such
partment',s bureau of intelligence and and any, larg&scale Cuban: military a weapon. vas an anachionism in the
research strikes a discordant note in operations require-- Soviet- logistical age of ion -range missile launchers.:.
the familiar puppet tune. The report, and financial support." The Marin and nostalgic oldtimers-
dated April, 13. 1978, concludes that Noting that. "Cuba is much less con- among the Ivy brash argued that the'
who still conceives of himself as a- . Castro thus has greater freedom to in
leader of the Third World:, ' tervene in other countries' affairs than
The State Department'analysts ade
theKremlin doex :
major military involvements in Angola
oppose the forces of 'capitalist Imperi-
rector of
`t'he extent to which the Soviet-,
The report lists Castro's 'major asps-
gren, V
Cuban activities. in Africa is a moot-
the successful rebel faction.in Angola
case
question,"'the report states One the .. in 1975, as concentrated in southern
' Ki
"Castro probably could not be forced
dominant. He wants the overthrow of :
fi
The report pictures Castro as a sort eventually,-destruction of the white-
of gun-toting missionary. "ln opposing dominated regime in South Africa it-
Soviet policy which.he believed to be-, sin, removal of South African control
d fill/a vital function -
f the program had
Oral Accounting of.:
ru seen found that of-
expenditure. of . ,
decided to scut-
particular app#opria-^ inch wn on Capitol Hill, ;-~,
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/09: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100070013-0