CUBA BECOMING SOVIET BEACHHEAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100070015-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: October 8, 1979
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/09: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100070015-8
ARTICLE APPEARED
ON PAGE C -37
Jack Anderson
THE WASHINGTON POST
8 October 1979
Cith. Becoming Sov.et Beachhead
study: "Castro ~ supported Latin present policy.
American insurgents almost indis- 'This- does not mean, however,
criminately in the 1960s, despite the that Castro and Soviet leaders will
strains it created in his relations give up the option to support `na-
with Moscow. But he apparently . tional liberation movements' in
now 'accepts the Soviet view that Latin America when they feel condi-
Latin America is not yet ripe. for tions for revolution are propitious.
armed revolution. Cuba's constitution recognizes 'wars
"Castro reportedly also agreed In of national liberation' as legitimate
mid-1975 that any. future support for and describes Cuban aid to them as
Recounts a defense 'Intelligence tries. appear satisfied with their surance
p
even accepted last month as the host state-to-state relations and on en sponsor of
for a gathering of, nonaligned na- couraging the development of broad and told h/i
tinnc ? anti-imn riiiist' frnntQ Rnth nnnn_ nt,il~l ~.n ro
rounding governments. Cuba was : - tae present time is on expanding bicoff (D-C
ual that, though it hasn't gone unno- suggests a secret intelligence anal Child Health
Hemisphere. ing about for so
telephone conversations...,?.. n_. r,._
Soviet beachhead in the Western .., ..r.... ,,.. - Y A& LUOL411CU !u So the astute L
Cuba to intercept U . S . icrowava-
may help explain what is happening
in Cuba today: The Caribbean coun-
try has come under the Soviet
thumb; the secret dispatches are ex-
plicit about that. Indeed, the Rug?
ci7na
Scarcely a decade ago, Cuban Pre-
mier Fidel Castro was portrayed in
intelligence reports as an undisci-
plined, flamboyant firebrand who
sought to stir up revolutions
throughout Latin America.
Now he is described as a subdued
old fox who has completely sold out
to the Soviets. He still has flashes of
what one report calls a "tropical
temper." But he submits to the
Kremlin with "a careful mixture of
adulation, confidence and ostensible
. t.<
humility.".'
This dramatic, change in Castro
armed insurgency would be Chan- its `right and international ohliga-
neled through the local pro-Soviet tion."' .
Another analysis, classified "Top Lo
Secret Umbra," declares flatly: as
"Castro has demonstrated that the is- servi
sues that had strained Cuban-Soviet cial i
relations so severely [12 years ago] health
are no longer even minor irritants. childre
Cuban submission has been coat- .. neuver
STAT
g (D-La.) routinely uses his pow r
nate Finance chairman in e
e of the wealthy and the pe.-
erests. Now he is holdin the
hostage, in a cynicAl ma- .
esigned to help hi reelec-
plete. -tion chart
es next year.
Surveillance reports claim that the . Here's w
: Long is
reconnaissance missions trom secret , plan- in coin etition wi
Cuban-- airfields. An "independent ward M. Ken y's mo
fighter. unit" has also been conduc- plan. Longs bi is not
?
"
ting
mock combat sorties" out of ,..-congressional Ii liberals
Cuba. Soviet submarines have been it would bene 't
spotted refueling in Cuban ports, 'middle class and
and sophisticated Soviet monitoring poor.
insurance
Sen. Ed-
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popular ivith
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to get liberal
hed onto the
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he wanted t
n.
planned candidly, ' need
ething for-the Poo HP
d that if his national h alth
Oce bill gets bogged dow ,;he
en support a separate a ild
ill.
hiders tell us that Long's unpr -
F led manipulation of the child ca
will cause needless delay _an
y end up killing the bill.
oin the
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