CITES HIGH CUBA PROPAGANDA BILL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100080004-2
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 29, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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Cites High Cuba
Propaganda Bill',
lA Director Claims'
el Sp s as Much
as U.S. to Woo Latins
and newspapers, he said.
\t'ASIIINGTON (AP) - Cuba's
propaganda rrn~impress;
other Latin-American, nations has,
been costing it close to $15 mil-j
lion a year, George V. Allen, U.S.
says,
lie told a Holuse Foreign Af-
fairs subconunittee in testimony
made public Frida that that is
as much as the IA spend-11
ing on its Latin? can pro-
grain, and it is absurd if the
U.S. and Cuban budgets are
compared.
Total Soviet bloc propaganda
expenditures in Latin America, he~
said, amount to an estimated $1001
million a year.
In, closed-door testimony last]
June 24, Allen also said the,,
United States has refused to get,
into a radio war with Cuba, ands
jam Cuban broadcasts.
But more and more Cubans';
who really want to find out what!
is going on in the world are going1
to their short-wave sets because'
of the very fact that Castro has,
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