DODD WARNS OF UPRISINGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200320018-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: August 26, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGHT
DODD WARES
OF UPRISINGS
Tells Legion 'Overthrow Of
Castro Is Vital
Portland, pre., Aug. 25 M-Sen-'
CPYRGHT
of waiting and doing nothing until
the flames of a Vietnamese or
Dominican-type insurrection erupt
at a dozen different points in the
troubled countries of'Latin Amer-
lea? ?
"The time has come to accept
the simple unescapable fact that
Castro must go-that we mList em-.
bark on a crash program to help
the Cuban people liberate them-
cplyne from fhgta r~ nnnyy pr fire
alien despot."
ator Dodd (D., Conn.) warned to- specch y A miral
day, that the Communists are pre Earlier today, Adm. David L.
paring widespread guerrilla up-;McDonald told the legionnaires
risings across Latin America' that American fighting men in
A solution, he told the national Nienam are keenly sensitive to
public apathy to their struggle.
convention of the American ,
Legion, is the overthrow of Pre Servicemen in Southeast Asia:
mier Fidel Castro. deserve the support and confi?I
The United States must not let clence of their fellow Americans;
The
war' in Vietnam divert its at-Mulch d said.. ?.
tention from Latin America, Dodd The legion took its. first steps,
said, where "Communists are; meanwhile, to permit veterans of l
even today organizing for the oh-it.he cold war to become' legion-I
jective of a hemispheric Viet-;naires. Only veterans 'of World.
oam." ! War 11 and Korea 'are eligible
e
Trouble Spots Listed now,
' The legion directed n special:
" have throwe of government s'inhBolivia,!committee to work out the details;!
including requi}?ed dates of 'sere'
i'Ecuador and the Dominican Re'ice, and present them to the 1966.
public. c" 4 e tiou in Washin ton for ' a
"Riots and terrorism threaten g p~
;ments of Panama, Guatemala;;_ ~.? ic~unnwus wc4'e
Colombia, Venezuela and Peru. ^dop't.cd, InclLlding 25 on Anired
"And in every case, Castro-.canism, many of which deplored
trained plotters are identified: lawlessness and mob rule.
tomorrow:
The these disturbances and in-,n(tc r conven consideratatioon. of ends further res-,
surrections. ,
ohitions, election of officers,.and
-_ "We. _ cannot afford fire iuxuryi?a speech by George Meany, pros-
[ident of.the AFL-CIO'
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