CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
Document Type:
Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP75-00149R000100740004-9
Release Decision:
RIPPUB
Original Classification:
K
Document Page Count:
1
Document Creation Date:
November 16, 2016
Document Release Date:
April 12, 2000
Sequence Number:
4
Case Number:
Publication Date:
January 17, 1963
Content Type:
OPEN
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Thursday, January 17, 1963
Freedom, on October 18, 1962:
OF Bsr.TIMOax WOMAN'S COMMITTEE ^Q&
CUBAN PlacanoM, MoNrln.Y LUNCUSQW
Despite msislve evidence compiled to prove
e' Kit was totb dcten to' ; ik
again and again. The. same people are Irv-
lag to impose the mantle of silence ?tid a+
quieseenoe which imposed communatm t"I
Did you realize, for instance. that them
give Soviet buildup in Cuba-now gettf
so much publicity-actually began mauy
months ago? And for many montlis`3.t v:ris
systematically swathed in silence by the;pco-
pie charged with guiding our struggle for
these shlploada of munitions and troops
was common knowledge in Cuban exile
exile spokesmen who attempted to alert the
American people were threatened by.U,S.
agents? They were told to Iisep silence or
else. And do you realize tlJA~ it was those
same exile spokesmw who. rs'using to bow
Insisting that it had no kknoWltt
elan troops in Cuba-and thati
anti-Castro operations inside Cuga. tat 1
examine this situation more closely.
reality. The end result was that,Washhigton
in practice reversed its sponsorship ofCubsi2
such Items as .46-caliber Thompson sub-
machineguns and .80-caliber ammunition.
On other occasions. CIL,provides the patriots
with .57-millimeter recoilless rifles and .75-
millimeter rounds. One. boat will run to
Oriente Province with C-4 explosives; the
needed detonators will be landed 700 miles
to the west In Pinar del Rio Province.
miles from
that weare are.
' for knowl-
t~r southern
heard form Castro gunrunners laughingly Ilberately separating weapons from arllmunl-
describe no, Choy were sometimes given or- lion and explosives from their fuses serves
cial escorts.- when they wheeled Castro's two purposes: (1) The munition will. he
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