KISSINGER'S CREDIBILITY CAP - NO RED NAVAL BASE IN CUBA

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96TC buildings; the incantations of
SDS and the Black Panthers to violence;
ad nauseam. Certainly, however, such ac-
tions are simply not representative of
America's youth. Rather, they are the
actions of a small, misguided faction who
are encouraged in the belief tearing down
is more progressive than building up.
Craig L. Staples of Derry, N.H., is evi-
dence of the constructive attitude of the
great majority of our future leaders.
Craig is the New Hampshire State win-
ner of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
"Voice of Democracy Contest." Speaking
on the theme "Freedom-Our Heritage,"
he asks that heated rhetoric be replaced
by cooperation in the search for solutions
to the problems confronting us. His is a
commonsense approach that I believe
merits a few moments reflection by all
readers of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
FREEDOM-OUR HERITAGE
(By Craig L. Staples)
So many words have been written about
our heritage. So many phrases have been
echoed about our freedoms. It is difficult to
pay original tribute to a theme that has so
often been honored in the past.
What then is the best way for one con-
cerned about his country to pay it tribute?
Does he best honor it by adding to the oft-
repeated rhetoric of the past? No, today that
is not enough. Our institutions are under
attack. Often those institutions do not work
as effectively as they should. Violence has
become a part of life for many. Our country
is on many fronts torn by hate and distrust
and fear. Rhetoric alone will not solve these
problems.
The best way to honor our American her-
itage is to tackle our problems, to face up
to our fears. That a nation might recognize
for itself where it is lacking and where it is
not is perhaps the highest tribute that can
.be paid to those who fostered such a na-
tion. Rather than speak of our forefathers'
high minded Idealism, we must employ that
same Idealism to meet the problems facing
us today. Rather than defend our system
blindly, we must analyze it coolly to recog-
nize its faults so we can correct them.
It is not necessary that we always agree,
for Democracy does not require consensus.
On the contrary, Democracy demands dis-
sent. But our dissent must be of the kind
that builds rather than crumbles. We must
not let our disagreements collapse into dis-
unity.
We can best serve America by listening to
every voice, harsh or subtle. For only when
every opinion is aired can the best course
be plotted.
It is just to criticize a man's idea if one
feels that idea is wrong. But we must not
attack each other because that is disunity
not discourse. In the end, name calling hurts
all of us. For one American to criticize an-
other American's motives simply for per-
sonal or political gain is an affront to the
basic concept of our Democracy. Jefferson and
Hamilton attacked each other's politics vehe-
mently. But their purpose was to serve
America and not themselves. Our purpose
must be the same.
Of course, it is only just for us to despise
those who may desecrate our flag but we can
best serve freedom by realizing that it is
their flag too.
It is only human for us to be angered at
demonstrations. They upset our sense of or-
der and make us uncomfortable. But rather
than hear just the demonstrator's shouts,
we should honestly appraise their grievances.
If we can do that, then perhaps the need for
demonstrations will be lessened.
We can best honor our heritage and those
men who conceived our Democracy by taking
the same approach as they did close to 200
years ago.
Just as they did, we must develop a posi-
tive national attitude resolving to put aside
our personal animosities in order to attack
those problems that plague America today.
If we can do that, then this Nation, where
the outspoken are not hushed and the soft
spoken are still heard will continue to stand
for generations to come. We owe our heritage
KISSINGER'S CREDIBILITY CAP-
NO RED NAVAL BASE IN CUBA
HON. JOHN R. RARICK
OF LOUISIANA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, February 17,19'71
Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, U.S. Naval
Intelligence reports that the R assians
now have a naval base at Cienfuegos,
Cuba, capable of servicing a missile-fir-
ing nuclear submarine. The evidence re-
veals that the base is now operational
and is being used to service Soviet sub-
marines operating in the Caribbein and
in the Atlantic Ocean.
This information was known prior to
a nationwide TV appearance of the
President. In his TV discussion of Cuba
and Soviet naval activities in that area,
the Commander'in Chief affirmed that
the Russians had no naval base irk Cuba.
The President assured the four network
correspondents and the Nation that air
surveillance provided certain proof that
no Russian naval base exists in Cuba.
The President added that the Russians
had promised President Kennedy in 1962
that they would not place offensive mis-
siles in Cuba and promised on October
11, 1970, that they would not establish
a military naval base in Cuba. Moreover,
the President expressed his belief that
the Russians would keep their promise.
In view of the fact that the Russians
have broken almost every treaty they
have ever made and that one Soviet
leader stated that, "Promises are like pie
crusts-made to be broken," one wonders
why the President is so trustful of the
word of the Russians-especially cver the
reports of his own naval experts.
The reason that the Commander in
Chief and the U.S. Naval Intelligence
hold opposite assessments concerning a
Russian naval base in Cuba is a matter
for speculation.
That concrete evidence gathered by
Naval Intelligence is in error seems un-
likely. The late Congressman L. Mendel
Rivers clearly stated on the floor of the
House of Representatives on October 8,
1970-see CONGRESSIONAL RECORD pages
H9834-H9840 of October 8, 1971)-that
the Soviets at that time were building
a nuclear submarine base in Cuba at
Cienfuegos. Mr. Rivers challenged any
official of the executive branch to issue
an outright denial. There was only si-
lence from the executive branch. Also,
many Cubans in this country with first-
hand personal information testi:'y that
the Russians have been building it naval
base at Cienfuegos.
Could the variance of opinion between
the Commander in Chief and U.S. Naval
Intelligence as to their estimate of the
situation in Cuba be due to the fact that
a public acknowledgement by the Pres-
ident of the existence of a Russian naval
base in Cuba might stir up public indig-
nation to demand action to oust the Rus-
sians from Cuba?
This seems plausible since the Kissin-
ger foreign policy calls for the United
States to avoid any direct confronta-
tion with the Soviets; for if we ever had
it out with our enemy, the Soviet Union,
we might lose the phoney "peace" be-
tween the two superpowers but win the
confrontation with a victory. The Rus-
sians have always backed down when
their bluff was called.
Those Americans interested in pre-
serving this great Nation, if informed of
the threat, will demand that their Con-
gressmen and Senators reveal the full
truth of Soviet activities in Cuba and
that we help the Cuban exiles give back
power to the people of Cuba. Restoration
of Cuba once again to the status of a
free nation is in the best interest of our
national security.
I insert following my remarks a very
informative Review of the News article
entitled "The Coming Cuban Crisis" by
the noted columnist Paul Scott, a news
clipping, and a resolution by the New
Orleans Chamber of Commerce:
[From the Review of the News, Jan. 27, 19711
THE COMING CUBAN CRISIS
(By Paul Scott)
There is a difference as great as night and
day between that highly reassuring public
statement of President Nixon on Soviet naval
activities in and around Cuba and the in-
formation gathered by U.S. Naval Intelli-
gence.
While the President sees no Russian naval
base in Cuba, our Navy is privately warning
that for all intent and purpose the Soviets
now have a base at Cienfuegos, Cuba, capa-
ble of handling missile-firing, nuclear sub-
marines. The U.S. Navy also gathered hard
evidence that the Cienfuegos base is partly
operational and was used recently to service
Russian submarines operating in the Carib-
bean.
This is the ominous conclusion of the
latest Naval Intelligence estimate of Soviet
naval capabilities and intentions in Cuba
waters now being circulated at the highest
levels of the Nixon Administration.
The highly classified document was pre-
pared before President Nixon made his
astonishing statement over nationwide TV
while being interviewed by four network
correspondents. In discussing Cuba and So-
viet naval activities in the area, the Presi-
dent stated:
"Well, I can tell '%ou everything our In-
telligence tells us, and we think it's very
good in that area because as you know, we
have surveillance from air, which in this case
is foolproof, we believe.
"First, let's look at what the understand-
ing is. President Kennedy worked out an un-
derstanding in 1962 that the Russians would
not put any offensive missiles into Cuba.
That understanding was expanded on Octo-
ber 11, this year, by the Russians when they
said that it would include a military base
in Cuba and a military Naval base. They, in
effect, said that they would not put a mili-
tary Naval base into Cuba on October the
11th.
"Now in the event that nuclear subma-
rines were serviced either in Cuba or from
Cuba, that would be a violation of the under-
standing. That has not happened yet. We are
watching the situation closely. The Soviet
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Jseien is aw.wre of the that that we are watch-
li,,= closely, We expect them to abide by the
iziderstanding. I believe their will.
"I don't believe that they want a crisis
i,. the Caribbean and I don't believe that
-=e is r-5oinp' x) occur, particularly since the
inderstanding has been clearly laid out and
s been so clearly relied on by us, as I
.. c;Led here ioday."
ii sharp 'cntrast to this Presidential "fig
csf," the highly classified Naval Tntelligence
f irument reveals that late in December a
,3,7viet submarine tender opera,tins' from
icinfuciros, Cuba, carried out "servicing ex-
x?rcises" with three Russian submarines. The
>>neratfonai rendezvous of the Soviet surface
nip with the submarines, including one nu-
::]Car powered sub, was the first of its kind
the Russians in Cuba waters. The bold
'rvicing exercises," photographed by U.S.
;econnaissance aircraft, took approximately
~.,vu hours and included the loading of sup-
>lir.s from i he Soviet tender to one of the
e l+gee submarines,
-it least a dozen members of the submarine
=-Tew were exchanged during the operation.
sc leaving the submarine were taken to
iii'nfuegos for "rest and. recreation" or flown
r 'n. Cuba back to the Soviet Union. Sev-
=rai high-ranking Soviet naval officers who
.:ru been flown to Cuba from the Soviet
f' ion Took uaxt in the exercise.
Naval submarine analysts who studied the
t:telligence estimate say the "servicing exer-
definf tely show that the Soviets can
:.ride are planning to use Cienfuegos as a
.u'ramarine operating base.
Although :,he actual rendezvous took place
ntside of Cienfuegos Harbor, all supplies
e aaisferred i.o the submarine from the Rus-
ian tender were first picked up at the Cuban
:'. lei t. Tnis clearly indicates that the Aremain
.:fans to use tuba as a mator supply base in
he Western Hemisphere, Soviet naval crows
..,used in barracks at Cienfuegos Harbor were
-~d to load the supplies on the Soviet sub-
,arine tender. Several members of the
So- land-based. crew went aboard the tender
.~LUi took part in the "servicing exercises."
iii additioea to the carefully planned, sup-
;tiy operation, the submarine tender and the
uhmarlnes 'vu're in direct radio contact with
newly ouih; naval communication center at
eienfuegos. Cuban refugees report that the
"enter is ccr-spletely manned by Hessians.
-'h=o high-powered radio at Cienfuegos is al-
,aa,v being used to transmit weather and
oiled messaf s to Soviet missile-firing sxib-
iAr-ides now uelieved to be stationed off the
?'`:ditl? Coast as well as in the Caribbean and
-If of Max co.
_'he original copy of this Naval Intelli-
,ence estimate was forwarded to the White
:Dose during the recent holidays where Dr.
, gory Kissinger, the President's National
:,ceurity Advisor, indicated that it would be
.-areluil.v used in the formation of any Cuban
-c!-ton deemed necessary. Yet. while the In-
finding leaves no doubt that the
:.,urslans are using the Port of Cienfuegos as
u'umarfne rase, there has been no official
c.ctermiiiaticn of this at the White House
3..licy-makir,rc level. All Naval officials in-
:olved in the drafting of the estimate have
r:een sole to learn is that the estimate is
,row in the hands of Kissinge:r's foreign pol-
"1 stair in see White House for "lurther
,i.: ivzation :and study." No National Security
e h:iuancai. meerine has been called to discuss
au tti.eauns implications.
-.resi.lent Nixon's unexpected TV state-
writ on Cuba not only surprised and
=ekcil Naval Intelligence officials, but they
'lei no inklin that the President would dis-
;int tLie 8011 Let naval activities in the Ceiba
a, nor coiled they fathom his reasons for
-wig ~a. `1'W President's statement high-
00hts the often frightening gap that exists
times between those who have respon-
i,ility for giithering the facts and those
0,50 interpret them for use In policy-making.
The position the President is taking has
been interpreted by these Naval officials as an
'.ndication that President Nixon and his
policy-makers haven't been able to agree on
what to do about the new Soviet threat. If
they accept the hard facts of the Naval In-
telligence estimate, it is pointed out, the
President and his advisors must conclude
that the Russians have double-crossed them
and violated the "understanding" not to use
Cuban ports or bases for their submarines.
That finding m:,ght trigger a new U.S.-Soviet
"confrontation" over the use of Cuba as a
base for offensive weapons--a "confronta-
tion" that the Nixon Administration appar-
e'ntly is not willing or ready to face at this
time, or which it wants delayed for reasons
that are only known at the White House
level.
Significantly, Mr. Kissinger recently asked
Secretary of State Rogers again to sound
out the Soviets on whether the submarine
tender now operating In Cuba's waters will
permanently use Cuban ports. Naval inteili-
ience officials say the answer is clear by the
fact that the submarine tender has been
operating out of Cuban ports for the past
three months and another is en route to re-
leiace it.
Two other parts of President Nixon's state-
iiient on Cuba also bother officials at Naval
r ntel.ligence. One was his pronouncement that
he believed the Russians would keep the
`understanding" not to put a naval military
ease in Cuba. In effect, the President by
saying this publicly was accepting the private
assurances of Soviet Foreign Minister
(iromyko and Ambassador Dobrynin over
the hard facts gathered by the Navy. Yet,
tiromyko and Dobrynin are both known to
havelied to the late President Kennedy dur-
eg the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. At the
Time the Russians were sneaking LR.B.Ms
and medium-range bombers into Cuba,
(irornyko and Dobrynin were assuring Ken-
,,edy that the Soviets had no intention of
cutting offensive weapons on the island.
To most military Intelligence experts it; is
a little frightening that President Nixon
would even consider discussing Cuba with
the two Soviet diplomats after their earlier
u,ece)tions. And. to accept their word now,
as the President says he has, is considered
silly of the most dangerous kind. Especially
-L light of the Intelligence that the Presi-
uent has access to on Soviet activities in
tuba.
The other d?,sturbing statement by the
t'resident was his contention that U.S. sur-
veillance of Cuba from the air is foolproof.
None of the Intelligence services have
claimed that. For months, Defense Intelli-
e.ence officials have been urging that more use
be made of Cuban refugees so that the gov-
ernment wouldn't be caught "off guard" as
n; was before the 1962 Cuban crisis. Despite
the ]sigh degree of accuracy of new U.S. re-
connaissance cameras and devices, they still
can't determine what Is hidden under cam-
cufia.ge facilities and in storage areas. it is
pointed out that daily reconnaissance flights
would be needed over Cuban ports to deter-
mine if any Soviet submarines were using
diem. Now, if there are two reconnaissance
rights a week this is considered high. And
sill unknown to U.S. officials Is what the
acussians have succeeded in hiding In the
ii undreds of caves being used as military stor-
age areas on the island.
This lack of vital intelligence about So-
viet activities In Cuba is privately admitted
by rank and file American Intelligence of-
ricers. They claim it is the result of policy
restrictions placed on the methods they can
use Zia gather information on Cuba. An ex-
ample of these restrictions is the White House
bar against financing Cuban refugee opera-
tions.to gather firsthand data on Soviet so-
tivit:.es on the island. White House aides take
the position that this type of Intelligence
gathering is prohibited by the 1962 "under-
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standing" on Cuba reached by U.S. anti-So-
viet officials.
The only sure way that the U.S. can learn
the full Soviet capability in Cuba. these In-
telligence officials say, is to use anti-Castro
refugees to do the spying. "As long as the
policy-makers have the preconceived idea
that Russia has no plans to use Cuba as 3,
military base," stated one military Intelli-
gence officer, "it Is impossible to convince
them that it round-the-clock surveillance of
Cuba is needed."
There are increasing sins that the Presi-
dent's handling of Cuba is closely tied to his
strategy for the Strategic Arms Limitatidns
Talks (S.A.L.T.) with the Russians, Drafted
by Presidential Aide Kissinger, the S.A.L.T.
strategy cells for the U.S. to avoid any di-
rect confrontation with the Soviets until it
can be determined if the Russians are serious
about curbing defensive ::ud offensive weap-
ons delivery systems. Kissinger privately
takes the position that a U.S. admission that
the Russians now have an operational naval
base in Cuba could trigger demands in Con-
gress that immediate action be taken to force
the Soviets out of Cuba.
Such a U.S.-Soviet confrontation in turn
would force a, complete breakdown cif the
S.A.L.T. negotiations, which have been given
the Administration's highest foreign policy
priority. President Nixon is counting on
reaching a missile agreement with the So-
viets before the 1972 Presidential campaign,
During the recent Helsinki round of the
S.A.L.T. negotiations {November 2 to De-
cember 19), the Soviet delegation showed
its diplomatic interest in Cuba.. The Soviet
negotiators noted that Russia. had every right
to put a military base in Cuba if she so de-
sired. They contrasted a Soviet base in Cuba
to U.S. bases in Europe or the Mediterranean.
The Inference was that the Russians would
be willing to forego any Cuban base if the
U.S. pulled its aircraft carriers out of the
Mediterranean or gave up its air and naval
bases in Spain. The Soviet negotiators' argu-
ment is in line with the main Russian
S.A.L.T. demand. It states that the U.S. inust
include its aircraft bases in Eiaroue and air-
craft carriers in the Mediterranean in any
over-all agreement covering both offensive
and defensive weapons
This use of Cuba as a S.A.L.T. bargaining
weapon clearly highlights the importance
that the Kremlin attaches to its navel ac-
tivities on that strategic Caribbean island.
In light of this use of Cuba. Intelligence
officials would like to see President Nixon
adopt a more realistic view of what the
Russians are 'up to in the Caribbean. Unless
the Preident acts quickly, they see the Krem-
lin using Cuba to blackmail this country into
either pulling its Naval forces out of the
Mediterranean area or forcing the US, to
make other concessions..
The American Intelligence community
sees the Soviet naval base in Cuba as part of
,it network of naval bases the Russians are
now establishing around the world. These
include Mersa Matruh, and Alexandria, in
Eygpt; the Socotra Islands at the mouth of
the Red Sea; and, a former French base in
Algeria. The expanding Soviet navy also has
acquired the right to use the Port of Modisio
in Somaliland, Trincomalee in Ceylon, the
Mauritius Islands in the Indian Ocean, and
one or more ports in Nigeria.
The establishment of this network of bases
by the Soviets is being cited by Intelligence
officials as evidence that the Kremlin has
adopted a forward military strategy designed
to control the strategic waterways of the
world. This forward strategy also will permit;
the Soviet's missile-firing nuclear sub-
marines to remain on stations constantly
within the defenses of the U.S. and other
N.A.T.O. nations. Its potential for black-
mail, alone, is enormous!
If viewed in this light, the construction of
the Cienfuegos base in Cuba is an even more
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ominous development than the attempted The practice in the past has been to dis-
deployment of Soviet 'nuclear missiles on cuss Soviet submarines when they are seen
Cuban bases in 1962. on the surface, but not when they are de-
The Cienfuegos base would be needed if tected when traveling submerged.
were to be continuously on the coast of the RESOLUTION ON NATIONAL DEFENSE PASSED
United States. That is the true threat of the BY THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE
base. Which suggests, in turn, that the So- NEW ORLEANS AREA ON DECEMBER 22, 1970
viets are now planning continuous deploy- Whereas, the United States is today con-
ment of very large numbers of "Yankee" fronted with an extremely serious foreign
class and other nuclear submarines in the crisis as a result of the aggressively e:cpan-
Caribbean and along the American coast. sionist policies-and acts of the Soviet Union
The Cienfuegos operation reveals an un- in several regional areas of the world, i.e.,
doubted Soviet intention to gain a solid
"capability" to knock out the Panama Canal
and the entire land-based bomber compo-
nent of the U.S. deterrent, plus the controls
of the "Safeguard" A.B.M. system.
The most horrifying single aspect of the
story of the Cienfuegos base is still the re-
spone with which the bad news was met at
the White House and in Congress. Consider
a simple comparison. In 1962, the Congress
was in flames over reports of Soviet missiles
in Cuba, even before the presence of those
missiles was confirmed by U-2 reconnais-
sance photographs. Contrast this with the
near Congressional silence that has engulfed
the news from Cienfuegos ever since it first
came out that the Russians were building
a base there.
And then think of the Nixon Administra-
tion's response to this news, that is even
more alarming! Consider President Nixon's
reassuring statement that the Russians have
no plans of doing what our Intelligence peo-
ple say they are doing.
The obvious intent was, and is, to prevent
the American public from growing alarmed,
when we should be deeply alarmed. The
question each of us should personally ask the
White House and our Representatives in
Congress is: Why is the full story of Soviet
activities in Cuba being withheld from the
public?
If enough of us raise our voices, we can
force the Nixon Administration to take the
necessary measures to dismantle the Soviet
nuclear submarine base in Cuba before it is
used as a serious blackmail threat!!
One wonders what the outcome of the first
Cuban missile crisis would have been if the
late president Kennedy had delayed the
Naval blockade of Cuba and warning to the
Russians until after the Soviets had their
missiles operational. How serious would Sov-
iet blackmail have become? Intelligence
leaks, some of them by the same sources that
provided information for this article, forced
Kennedy to act sooner than he originally had
planned. Many involved in the first Cuban
missile crisis believed that had Mr. Kennedy
delayed his blockade decision a week or ten
days the outcome would have been different.
What does Mr. Nixon's procrastination
mean? Certainly no answer comforting to
those concerned about' American security is
possible! .
[From the Washington Star, Feb. 5, 19711
SOVIET NAVY SUB TENDER NEARS CUBA
cal and military presence in the Mediter-
ranean Sea, the Middle East and the Indian
Ocean; (2) Soviet submarines and warships,
equipped with missiles, operate off the ;oasts
of the United States, as well as in the
Caribbean; and
Whereas, the dimensions of the 3oviet
challenge are scarcely realized by the Amer-
ican people and the ordinary citizen is un-
aware that the U.S. has lost world l4.-ader-
ship in nuclear weapons and strategic arms
since the Soviet Union in the space of five
years-from 1965 to 1970-has virtually
quadrupled the total megatonnage in its
strategic offensive force while in that same
period the United States has reduc-d its
megatonnage by more than 40%; and
Whereas, the United States is a maritime
nation in a world heavily dependent on the
oceans from an economic standpoint and
from the end of World War II until recent
times, the capability of American seepower
to control the seas was unchallenged; and
Whereas, Russian seapower, which includes
the largest submarine force the world has
ever known, now challenges our cap ability
to control the seas, and Russian military
power in general and Russian seapower in
particular, continue to grow at a rapid rate
and their expenditures on defense-related
Research and Development, which will de-
termine the weaponry of the future, exceed
ours by 20 percent; and
Whereas, the Nixon Doctrine increases our
dependence on American seapower to satisfy
those treaty commitments vital to our na-
tional interests, and every plan for the de-
fense of the Free World depends on control
of the seas; and
Whereas, the U.S. Navy during the past
two years has deactivated some 300 ships
while our replacement program, based on
the premise of providing fewer but more
effective ships, is proceeding slowly, and the
FY 71 budget provides less than $3 billion
for shipbuilding, while it is estimated that
$5 billion annually for five years is required;
and
Whereas, the U.S. ballistic missile subma-
rine force will very soon be inferior to the
Russian force in numbers and capability,
and Russian submarine construction capa-
bility already exceeds ours by 300%; and
Whereas, the President's ABM program
will, at best, give us a limited capability by
about 1974, while an ABM system is in place
and operational now around Moscow and it is
ted that their anti-aircraft r ystem
ti
i
,
pa
c
A Soviet submarine tender is headed for an
Cuba, the Pentagon said today. which protects the rest of the country, will
The tender, accompanied by a guided- soon have an anti-missile capability; e;nd
missile cruiser and a tanker, is not the one Whereas, the Honorable L. Mendel Rivers,
that left Cuban waters late last year after Chairman of the House Armed Services Com-
provoking fears that the Russians intended mittee, has stated: ". . . the future of this na-
to begin operating their new Yankee class tion hangs by a thread. We are in a far more
submarines from a base at Cienfuegos, Cuba. serious situation than many would have you
The Yankee class submarine is similar to believe. Our way of life is not only beir.g chal-
the U.S. Polaris nuclear powered submarine. lenged from within, it is being very definitely
Both parry 16 long range nuclear missiles. threatened from without ... The issue, there-
Pentagon press spokesman Jerry W. Fried- fore is very simply how much money nl.ust we
helm declined to characterize the movement spend to insure our survival-since i'f we fail
of the tender. The three vessels were south of to demonstrate to the Soviet Union our de-
Bermuda today, he said. termination to survive-the amount .. of
He was somewhat evasive when asked money we spend for domestic programs will
whether the small task force was accom- become merely an academic exercise."
panied by any submarines. Now, therefore, be it resolved, that the
"I don't have any submarine reports we Chamber of Commerce of the New Orleans
can discuss here this morning." -he said. Area strongly urges that, the 92nd Congress
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immediately undertake to provide the De-
fense Department with whatever monies, au-
thority .and guidance is deemed necessary to
obtain the naval and military power re-
quired to guarantee our survival as a Free
Nation in a Free World, and
Be it further resolved, that copies of this
resolution be distributed to: the President
of the United States, the Vice President, the
Secretary of Defense, all Members of the
United States Senate and the House of Rep-
resentatives, the news media, and the Cham-
ber of Commerce of the United States.
HON. J. W. FULBRIGHT
OF ARKANSAS
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
Thursday, February 18, 1971
Mr. FULBRIGHT. Mr. President, re-
cently the distinguished observer Clay-
ton Fritchey wrote an article entitled
"The `Trend' in Greece." The article is
worthy of the special attention of the
Senate and the country. I ask unanimous
consent that it be printed in the Exten-
sions of Remarks.
There being no objection, the article
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
THE "TREND" IN GREECE
(By Clayton Fritchey)
WASHINGTON.-When if the tenuous truce
in the Middle East breaks down-as it could
in the near future the Administration in-
evitably will have to review the security of
the American position in the Mediterranean.
Presumably, the southern anchor of NATO
is Greece, and if that is so, the United
States is relying on a weak and unreliable
reed. Why, it may be asked, should the Greek
people support a nation (the U.S.A.) that
is arming its oppressors; the Greek military
junta?
Anyone who has been in Greece recently
knows that the universal question is why
America, supposedly fighting in Indochina to
preserve democracy and the right of self-
determination, is at the same time backing
a military dictatorship in Athens.
The Truman Doctrine (to save Greece for
democracy) is about to have its 24th birth-
day-and what a discouraging one it is. For
over two decades the United States has
poured billions of dollars into Greece for
military and economic aid so that the people
supposedly could enjoy the right to choose
their own government. Yet the end result
of all this effort is now one of the harshest
dictatorships in the world.
Back in 1947, the great idea was to save
Greece from the fate of countries like Yugo-
slavia and Romania, which had been taken
over by Communist governments allied with
Russia. Today, however, most Greeks would
be only too happy to have as much freedom
and security as the Romanians and the Yugo-
slavs presently enjoy.
No American President would presently
dream of visiting Greece, but it is a notice-
able fact that Nixon has gone out of his way
to visit both Belgrade and Bucharest. Ac-
tually, these are among the few capitals in
which Nixon has felt secure enough to ride
in an open car.
Nevertheless, month by month the Admin-
istration steps up its backing of the Greek
generals, regardless of their ever harsher sup-
pression. of democracy. It is all done, of
course, in the name of NATO and saving
Europe from the real or fancied threat of
totalitarian aggression.
It is significant, though, that our partners
in NATO-the free countries of Western Eu-
rope-do not seem to think the Greek mili-
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r ;ential t;: their security. The
or 1!:m:,;ope, con' r,atny all the demo-
:i.i?ie _ounfries of that continent, has not
tatted to denounce the junti for tortur-
its political prisoners. Rather than face
-uisicrl from the comicii, the junta with-
:t'l,er, the t; cited Stn ies resumed full sh.ip-
~A oi_ ernes io Greece some months sea. a
Le Iiepario rent spokesman tried to tus'Afy
"y s~ei:ug what nobody else could see-a
?:_: "trend toward constitutional Povern-
~at. ale slickesman predicted implernenta-
ion of the Greek constitution "bv the end
1' r.his calendar year" meaning 1970.
' Ie=,d, tic ,iunta wound up the veer with
-run c,f fi,-nh arrest. It turned its back
an aereement which was to give the Inter-
onal Red Cross access to its political
:raoners. It a.iso was olasted by an Inter-
i]oIIEI Labor Organiy,ation corirniss on for
a]esssng r';iio trade unions without cause.
s ions the United Sbates--,the world's great-
power-ieaily need to kowtow to these
tar's :s? uropean opinion. on this snore
been we ummed an by The Guardian
fiigian i. duet distia guislled paper called
1-i->. AIrericas resumption of arms "a heavy
:>i)ack to a return to a democratic form of
?-ernrnent." And it added :
it si rengl firms the venerals in their illu-
_un about just how vital they are to Europe
to : sAFCO,t'hey overrate their Importance
Tize vim point is that Greece needs
, i'O far more than NATO needs Greece."
r_ ;; oulci hardly be better said.
"IS SOVIET DESTRUCTION OF A
NA LION'S HERITAGE
HON. EARL F. LANIDGREBE
OF nv..r ANS
He it l:E OF Er:PRESEN'1'ATIVES
c c,,u, February 18, 1971
gut the treatment: of the Jewish people
i:he >cvl ' Union, These protests are
I ll to remember that Soviet Jewry is
the onl,, culture marked for extinc-
i. nv the Soviet slavemasters.
The `evict Union, as we all know, is
a .;.ngi' nation, but a grouping of
'i out nationalities, only one of which
l sus;an. liven today, in the "eridght
tc d" post-i_-alin era, these nationalities
=:d l-heir ciiit.ures are being brutalized in
;, name of the almighty Soviet.
he io i. people in the Soviet Union
::,r a double burden of a. Communist
art = .y, a religious heritage. Organized
tor, is e;.:nsidered to be an outmoded
e ionaiity,
i hen we protest Soviet inhumanity to
;ise of the Jewish faith living behind
Ir?o?i Curtain, let, cis expand our cries
i include -'otests for the Catholic,
jiberan, and Orthodox faiths. toeether
J ]d the eviscerated nations of Latvia,
;:,)nip. Lithuania. Ukraine, Georgia,
iorussia, and Armenia.
,:r. Speaer, an excellent article on
i- suiiiect was recently brought to my
ention. It was written by Peter
Worth- and e.upeared in the Toronto Tele-
.!n. I insert the article at this point
i;ne It, coiio:
HI7ica ('AEE `.1"IIRNS SPOTi.ffiAT ON MANY
SOVIET INIIISTIOIs
IBy Peter Wurtbington)
The case of the Leningrad Jews hats stirred
he indignation of the world.
Individuals and governments ranging from
ope Paul to Prime Minister Trudeau pro-
~steti against the death sentence given two
v it Jews accused of plotting to hijack a
,':ana o Israel.
AlJiougli the Soviets commuted the death
.ut,inces to 16 years imprisonment, protests
.w:eund the world against Soviet anti-Semi-
,;m and anti-Israel policies) have in-
ea.,-ed.
But the Soviets appear unimpressed and
-calcitrant.
Whatever the merits of the world-reaction
.:?u behalf of Soviet Jewry, it is only part of
ne overall internal situation in the USSR.
".'Id not necessarily the most significant part
There are other groups and individuals in-
,le the Soviet Union who have suffered-
nd are enduring-far greater indignities and
:justices than are Jews in Leningrad, or
-;cwhere.
Without deny..ng the -right, or moral duty,
Jtws around the world to protest on be-
tif of their brethren, there has been an
ncanny silence over the years by the rest:
+ha world on the plight of other victims
Sovietism. And this excludes, for a mo-
-nt, the fate of the "lost peoples"--the
hechen-Ingush, the Crimean Tartars, and
"'its who were deported and annihilated. in
a pail,,
A deep and resounding silence greets the
es, say, of Yuri Shukhevych, a Ukrainian
u:ho was arrested in 1948 at age 15, because
leis father, General Roman Shukhevych. was
mrosnder-in-chief of the UltraInter Insur-
ait Army until he was killed in 1960.
Yuri Shukhevych has been imprisoned
Cr since in Siberia, paying for the "crimes"
his father. His original 10-year sentence
being renewed every decade because, ac-
cording to the Soviets, lie "refuses to be re-
nested." This means t ^. refuses to acknowl-
edge his guilt or to renounce his background.
Yuri Shukbevych is doomed,' it seems, to
wend the rest of his life in custody. The
lit-year-old boy Is now a 37-year.old adult:
ia,.ore than half .tics life has been one of im-
p.:iso:arnent, just for being his father's son.
?u1 no world leader appeals for justice-
compassion-for him. Only his fellow pris-
oners, occasionally, write petitions on his
behalf--and promptly wind up in solitary
confinement for their efforts.
6ti:1, Shukhevych's plight is not as cruel as
,t of Volodyniyr Horbovy's, an old man
clay whose first visit to Soviet soil occurred
teen he was imprisoned for "betraying the
*rmeland."
Horbovy used to be a ludge in Czechos;la-
vakia. He was imprisoned by the Nazis during
,;i.e war. In 1947 he was extradited to Poland
a.;.d put on trial for alleged war crimes. But
Warsaw court found ,ifm not guilty. Then
c Polish secret police delivered him to the
?s Inns who sentenced him to 25 years on
an administrative decree That was 23 years
He has been in the camps all this time,
and Still no suggestion of a formal trial.
Ellabovy is now 73 and in frail health. Yet
cording to Gerald Brooke. the British.
-ocher who was in Soviet custody and
ex- for Soviet spars Peter and Helen
K'uge-r-,amt who Is the last known Westerner
to have seen Horbovy-the old man, is pcs-
isessect or Such dignity, integrity and courage
..iirct even his captors respect and fear him.
r.>rbovy lus; become a living symbol to other
Asone-a, and a legend throughout the Soviet
"op network.
Horbovy's greatest (and only) sin against
-.he USSR was that as a young lawyer he
defended the Ukrainian nationalist le-Eder,
Stepan Bandera, at his trial in 1935, Bandera
was subsequently assassinated in Germany
by the KGB.
Again no one, except fellow prisoners and
Ukrainians abroad, has ever protested the
Soviet state's crimes against Volod.yaiyr
Ilc'rbovy.
Then there Is a man s'as'sed Andreyev, who
could qualify as the most unjustly impris-
oned man on earth today. Andreyev was a,
witness at an international commission that.
Investigated the mass graves oi? Polish officers
found at Katyn Forest in 1943.
The Germans cIai ned the Soviets had
murdered alma 15,000 Polish officers, and
4,000 of these were in the graves at Ha'yn
near Smolensk, The Soviets, when they re-
captured the area, held their own investiga-
tion and counter-claimed that, the Germans
did the deed, and that 15,000 Poles were
buried there.
RUSSIANS aE'ssONsmLE
Today with the exception of Soviet propa-
ganda, the World accepts the fact thai; the
NKVD executed the Poles.
Andreyev, who was a prisoner of the Cser-
mans and a witness to events at Katyn, was
sentenced to a lifetime at solitary, confine-
ment in Vladimir prison when. the Russians
got him back. Vladimir prison is infamous in
that few of its inhabitants are ever seen
again. It is almost inconceivable that An-
dreyev Is still sane. But lie's still alive, and
still in solitary. That much is known.
The 'M ainia.n writer Vyacheslav (Thor-
novil, who himself was imprisoned for
chronicling the fate of others, has wondered
wryly why such a harsh sentence was given
for "false testimony."
"Is false testimony under duress really
such P. terrible, 'war' crime to justify 25 years
In a stone grave?" he asks.
Again there has never been international
or U.N. protest on Andrevev's behalf.
There is also M. Soroka who was arrested
in 1949 on a trumped cop iharce. On his re-
lease in 1946 he was rearrested for the ori?-
inal "crime," and sent into exile. In 1962 he
was given 25 years for allegedly organizing
Ukrainian nationalist groups in the camps.
In 1957. after the 20th Congress "exposed"
some of Sta'in's crimes, Soroka. was rehtihilf-
tated with respect to the original frame-up
in 1940-yet he was kept in custody. if he
survives to the completion of his present sen-
tence, he will have served 38 years impri.son-
ment-all for committing no offense,
No international voice has ever been r.iised
on his behalf.
A couple of years ago a large number of
hitherto unpublished documents from
Ukraine reached The Toronto Telegram and
were duly published. They constituted ex-
traordinary and irrefutable testimony to the
policies of Russfflcation and the repression
of dissent under way in the USSR.
Now another of these documents has come
to the West-this time a 15-page "chronicle
of resistaaice" by Valentyn Moroz, a 34-year-
old history teacher who was sentenced to five
years of hard labor in 1966 for alleged anti-
Soviet propaganda.
On his release for good behavior he wrote
an impassioned Story about the historic
Ukrainian village of Kosmach, and the fate
of that community's religious artifacts.
Apparently a Soviet film team "borrowed"
about 100 icons from Dovbtash church. for
the movie Shadows of ]Forgotten Ance.tols.
At the conclusion of filmiilg the Icons were
not returned-were, in fact, confiscated by
the state. Petitions, pleas, requests and de-
mands by the village for their return were
unanswered.
Mores wrote an account of the events, re-
plete with pithy observations about why the
icons were "stolen," He noted that in to-
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14. Submarine Off Cuba
Q. How concerrXed, are you, about
the presence of a "Soviet nuclear sub-
marine in Cuban waters?
A. On Dec. 10 [the' president was referring to his statement..of San. 4] you
may recall I said that.ifa nuclear sub
marine were serviced from Cuba or in
`Cuba; that this would be a violation of
our `understanding, with regard to the
Soviet Union's activities in putting of-
fensive weapons or a base in Cuba.
As.. far as this submarine is con-
cerned, the question is .a rather tech-
nical one, whether it is there for a port
call or whether it is there for servicing.
We are watching it very closely. The
Soviet Union...is. aware .of the fact that
we. consider that. there is ail under-
standing and we will,. of course, bring
the matter to their attention if we find
that the understanding is violated.
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Soviet Attack Sub
Reported Of I Cuba
By George C. Wilson
Washington Post Staf: Writer
A Soviet nuclear-powered I Jerry W. Friedheim, a Pen-
attack submarine has been, tagon spokesman, identified
spotted in the waters off the submarine as one in the N
Cuba,, the Pentagon confirmed' Class but did not name it. The
yesterday in discussing Rus- N-Class subs are designed to
sia's fouth naval cruise into ferret out and destroy other
the Caribbean and Gulf of submarines, not to launch Po-
Mexico. laris-type nuclear missiles.
The Navy has launched a T e Nixon administration
study, due in April, on how to apparently regards such nucle-
keep track of Soviet submar- ar-powered attack submarines
ines that ply the waters in
America's back yard, where as acceptable in the Caribbean
f Mexico under the
lf
o
and Gu
the SOASUS listening system unwritten "understanding" I ing Soviet naval movements in
along the Atlantic Coast can- with Moscow on how Cuba can the Caribbean and Gulf of
not hear them. d f Soviet forces. Mexico.
r
Asked yesterday "how con-
cerned" he was about the pres-
ence of the Soviet submarine,
President Nixon said at an
impromptu news conference
at the White House that "we
are watching it very closely."
lie referred to his statement
of Jan. 4. declaring: "You
may recall I said that if a nu-
clear submarine were serviced
from Cuba or in Cuba that
this would be a violation of
our understanding with regard
to the Soviet Union's activities
in putting offensive weapons
or a base in Cuba.
"As far as this submarine
is concerned," Mr. Nixon con-
tinued, "the question is a
rather technical one-whether
it is there for a port call or
whether it is there for serv-
icing. We are watching it very
closely."
The United States watches
Cuba continually, relying most
heavily on the photographic
eyes of the high flying U-2
aircraft. So the deployment of
surface ships can be observed.
Submerged submarines must
be monitored by other meth-
ods, with Cuban waters an es-
pecially difficult problem be-
cause existing underwater de-
tection systems do not reach
behind the island.
be use o
Friedheim used the term The Soviet press on Nov. 5
"harbor hopping" in discuss- announced to the world that
t t k f e of Rus-
or
t
h
l
.ng the presence of the Soviet
sub, a Kresta-class guided-mis-
~aile cruiser, a tanker and a
submarine tender in "Cuban
waters." He declined to spec-
ify what was covered by the
term Cuban waters.
The cruiser, Friedheim said,
left "Cuban waters"-prbsum-
ably from Havana-Tuesday
night and headed into the
Gulf of Mexico. He put its lo-
cation as "400 miles northwest
of Havana." The Pentagon's
newly adopted information
policy on such movements is
to disclose when Soviet ships
enter and leave Cuban waters
rather than describing their
activities in between.
"We will not be detailing
harbor hopping daily," Frie-
dheim said. This differs from
the Nixon administration's
previous emphasis on describ-
e
es as
a
e
t
sian ships includes a submar-
ine. But yesterday was the
first official U.S. confirmation
of this.
Administration officials in
the past have expressed con-
cern that Soviet sub tenders
at the Cuban port of Cienfue-
gos might service nuclear sub-
marines in the `Carlbbean of
Gulf.
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U.S. Ships in Caribbean
By DREW MIDDLETON
Special to The New York Times
UNITED STATES NAVAL are strong indications that a
BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY,
Cuba. Feb. 19-Soviet ships re-
portedly have begun electronic
surveillance of United States
Naval vessels in the Caribbean.
According to authoritative
sources, a Soviet information-
gathering ship equipped with
radar and sonar devices is op-
erating in a 14,000-square-mile
area of international waters
south of Cuba.
The ship's task is to report
on the United States warships
from the Second and Sixth
Fleets training in the area.
About 150 ships a year train in
these waters.
Also, two Soviet hydrographic
survey vessels are known to be
in the area off Trinidad. There
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Havan'u
'Ci?nFus~ z ~, `HAI71
wants 6
Po-'t,OW
JAMAICA lrrnc?
C'aribbeas2
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The New York Times Feb. 21,1971
Soviet ships are tracking
U.S. vessels training in
Caribbean area (shaded).
Soviet guided-missile cruiser re-
cently entered the Gulf of
Mexico.
These ships are in addition
to the Soviet naval force that
recently arrived at Cienfuegos
on the southern coast of Cuba
about 500 miles west of this
United States base. The force
comprises a Russian nuclear-
propelled submarine armed with
conventional 21-inch antisub-
marine torpedoes, a guided-mis-
sile light cruiser, a tanker and
a submarine tender.
The Soviet ships, it is under-
stood, will be under surveil-
lance by United States air and
sea craft when they leave Cien-
fuegos for visits to Cuban ports.
Naval sources consider the
pattern of Soviet naval activity
in the Caribbean as similar to
that of the Soviet fleet in the
eastern Mediterranean in the
early nineteen-sixties. There,
too, Soviet ships appeared in
increasing numbers and fre-
quency in what appeared to be
a test of the tolerance of the
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Sixth Fleet, then the dominant
naval force in the area.
When bases lad been estab-
lished at Alexa:.idria and Port,
Said in the United Arab Repub-
laic and at Latakia in Syria, the
Soviet squadron was reinforced
to its present strength of about
40 vessels and initiated con-
stant surveilian se of the Sixth
Fleet ships, particularly the air-
craft carriers.
Civilian and military officials
fear that the expanded Soviet
Navy may be planning a similar
build-up in the Caribbean, one
that might include the deploy-
ment of submarines carrying
nuclear missiles.
First Entry In 1969
The first Soviet entry intc
the Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean
area occurred in July 1969
when seven Soviet surface ships
and one nuclear-powered sub,
marine sailed into the Gulf of
Mexico to about 300 miles
south of the mouth of the Mis.
sissippi.
A second ;Soviet expedition
into the gulf occurred in May
and June of 1770, when several
surface ships and another nu-
clear-powered submarine en-
tered the gulf.
Soviet deployments of this
ire can be carried out without
detection from United States
underwater-detection devices
because these are located large-
ly along the Atlantic coast
raCaer than the . gulf coast.
Once Russian ships are in Cu-
ban waters, their movement
north Into the Gulf of Mexico
can be detected only by air or,
sea surveillance.
United States officials say'
'there is an understanding be-
tween the Soviet Union and the
United States that Russian ves-
sels armed with nuclear mis-
siles will not be serviced in or
from Cuban -ports. In return the
United States will not seek to
oust the Government of Premier
Fidel Castro, according to the
reported understanding.
Some United States naval
sources believe that the Soviet
Government may consider that
political developments in the
Caribbean find Latin America
warrant a naval buildup despite
the understanding with the
United States. From a Commu.
nist standpoint, it was pointed
out, Latin America could be ex-
pected to move toward the sort
of revolutionary situation that
has prevailed in the Arab Mid-
dle East since the withdrawal of
British and French influence
and the alignment of the United
States with Israel.
Warning by U. S.
In December an Administra-
tion spokesman in Washington
declared that breeches of the
understanding by th,: Soviet
Union would create v "very
grave situation."
There is no doubt here that
the Russians have estaklished
a base at 1; ienfuegos an& that
base is capable of accommo-
dating Y-class submarines
armed with nuclear missiles.
Naval sources assert ti?at the
Soviet navy is building toward
a strength that will provide a
fleet large enough to send pow-
erful forces to the Caribbean as
well as to the Mediterranean.
Soviet shipyards are said to
be completing between 10 and
14 nuclear submarines each
year. Eight to 10 of them will
be of the Y Class, comparable
to the United States Polaris
strategic ballistic missile sub-
marines.
The Soviet building program
also reportedly includes three
other types of submarines and
at least two new types of heav-
ily armed guided missile ships.
One type of the latter vessel
carries a full range of modern
missile systems,- ship to air,
ship to ship and ship to sub-
marine.
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Castro Stalker for the CIA.
Worked
By Jack Anderson
The mystery man whom the.
Central Intelligence Agency
recruited to assassinate Cuba's
Fidel Castro has been laid up
in the sick ward of the Los
Angeles County Jail.
He is handsome, hawk-faced
John Roselli, once a dashing
figure around Hollywood and
Las Vegas, now a gray, 66-
year-old inmate with a respira-
tory ailment.
Confidential FBI files iden-
tify him as "a top Mafia fig-
ure" who watched over "the
concealed Interests in Las
Vegas casinos of the Chicago
underworld."
Roselli has admitted to
friends that he was a rum run-
ner during the Roaring Twen-
ties. Operating along the East
Coast, he learned how to evade
Coast Guard cutters and po-
lice patrols.
His name later became
linked with the biggest names
in the Chicago and Los Ange-
les underworlds. He also de-
veloped contacts in the Cuban
underworld before Castro took
over the Havana gambling ca-
sinos.
He had the right back-
ground for a hush-hush mis-
sion that the CIA was plan-
ning in 1961. As part of the
Bay of Pigs Invasion, the CIA
hoped to knock off Ca&tro and
leave Cuba leaderless.
Job by Robert Maheu, a for-
mer FBI agent, who admitted
to us that he had handled un-
dercover assignments for the
CIA. He refused, however, to
discuss the details. This is the
same Maheu, incidentally, who
is now involved in a legal bat-
tle over phantom billionaire
Howard Hughes' Nevada oper-
ations.
Roselli was so flattered over
being asked to perform a se-
cret mission for the U.S. gov-
ernment that he paid all his
expenses out of his own
pocket and risked his neck to
land the assassination teams
on the Cuban coast.
In James Bond fashion, he
held whispered meetings in
Miami Beach hotels with Cu-
bans willing to make an at-
tempt on Castro's life. Once,
he called on Chicago racket
boss Sam Giancana to line up
a contact. The confidential
files report that Glancana had
"gambling interest and an in-
terest in the shrimp business
in Cuba." However, the Chi-
cago gangster took no direct
part in the assassination plot.
Roselli made midnight
dashes to Cuba with his hired
assassins in twin powerboats.
Once a Cuban patrol ship
turned its guns on his dark-
ened boat, tore a hole in the
bottom and sank the boat. Ro-
selli was fished out of the
water by the other boat, which
escaped into the shadows.
Roselli with deadly poison I is still on the CIA payroll.
capsules which he tried Both admitted to us.a friend-
b
f
d
s
ut re
e
ship with Roselli
u
to discuss their CIA, activities.
Harvey said he had a "high re-
gard" for Roselli and called
the Friar's Club case a "bum
rap." Said Harvey: "The
Friar's Club indictment is
phony. Roselli had no more to
do with that than I had."
Roselli's lawyers are now
trying to get clemency for
their client, citing our stories
about his secret CIA service.
Firearms Fiasco
Under pressure from the
firearms lobby, the Treasury
Department has failed to en-
force a vital section of the
1968 federal firearms act.
The law was passed after
the murders of Sen. Robert
Kennedy and Dr. Martin Lu-
ther King. It authorizes the
Treasury Secretary to require
full reports of all firearms and
ammunition sales.
For the two years that the
law has been in force, the
Treasury Department has ig-
nored this key provision. The
gun industry has complained
it would be a bookkeeping
nightmare.
The federal government',
which would have to compile
all the sales. data, has also
been reluctant to spend the
$100 million it would cost for
computers and staff to main-
tain the firearms files.
Risks Neck In earlier columns, we re-
Roselli was recruited for the ported how the CIA furnished
through a relative of Castro's
chef to plant in the dictator's
food. Later, . marksmen armed
with high-powered Belgian ri-
fles. attempted to infiltrate
close enough to gun Castro
down.
All told, six assassination at-
tempts were made, the last in
the spring of '1963. Through-
out this period, Roselli worked
under the direct supervision
of two secret CIA agents, Wil-
liam Harvey and James (Big
Jim) O'Connell.
Roselli's Reward
The FBI which got wind of
the assassi:;iation plot, has
tried to pump Roselli for in-
formation. But he was sworn
to silence by the CIA, and up
to this moment, he hasn't bro-
ken it.
Meanwhile, the Justice De-
partment,' as, part of its crack-
down on organized crime,
tried to nail Roselli. The FBI
discovered that his Chicago
birth records had been forged,
that his name was really Fi-
lippo Sacco and that he had
come to this country from
Italy as a child. He was con-
victed for failing to register as
an alien.
He was also convicted for
conspiracy to rig card games
at Los Angeles' exclusive
Friar's Club.
Of Roselli's two CIA asso-
ciates, Harvey has now retired
to Indianapolis and O'Connell
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Telltale Traces of CIA ("ache Found
By Jack Anderson
My associate Les Whitten
has just returned from a treas-
ure hunt for buried CIA cash
in the Florida Keys where pi-
rates once stashed Spanish
gold.
He found one cache where
thousands in molding $20 bill's
had been buried. But someone
had reached the secret site
ahead of him. All Whitten
found were six weathered,
matted $20 bills htat appar-
ently had been dropped about
200 yards away.
In an earlier column, we re-
ported that the Central Intelli-
gence Agency had delivered
bales of $20 bills to Cuban
exile leaders to finance clan-
destine operations against
Communist Cuba.
led in former pirate lairs in
the Florida keys.
Secret CIA Site
One,who perked up his ears
over the whispers was Bradley
ho was on loan to the CIA in
963-64 to train Cuban assault
teams. One training site had
been located on Upper Key
Largo on land that the Mon-
roe County tax assessor's of-
fice identified as belonging to
the University of Miami.
The CIA also operated out
of a front, called Zenith Tech-
nical Enterprises, on the uni-
versity's south campus. Thus
the respected university, wit-
tingly or otherwise, provided
the site for an extension
course in infiltration and dem-
olition.
Ayers learned enough from
his former trainees to figure
out where some of the CIA
money might be hidden. He
told us he discovered a half-
buried suitcase full of mold-
ing, mutilated $20 bills.
The suitcase was in a re-
mote spot that he was confi-
dent wouldn't be discovered.
He took out a dozen bills to
make sure they weren't coun-
terfeit. Banks redeemed all
but two badly weathered $20
bills.
Then Ayers' house was mys-
teriously broken into and rec-
ords of his find were taken.
Fearing the CIA or Cuban ex-
However, he told us his
story and showed us the bank
records. We also checked out
his veracity ca:' efully. I sent
Les Whitten l:o 'accompany
him back to the keys to re-
cover the CIA money. We noti-
fied the Treasury Department,
in general terms, that all re-
covered CIA cash would be
turned over to the Treasury.
Treasure Hunt
Whitten, Ayers and Ayers'
wife flew to an air strip on
Upper Key Largo. Using it as
a base of operations, they
reconnoitered the dark man-
grove thickets, sluggish can-
als, treacherous swamps of sea
grass and crocodile-infested
creeks where Ayers had once
trained Cuban commandos.
For two days, they chugged
through the creeks in a shal-
low-draft 18-fool skiff, startled
occasionall' by the barks of
crocodiles. When they were
convinced no one was follow-
ing, they plunged through un-
derbrush so ,thick they
couldn't see four feet ahead.
Finally they came upon. the
bramble-cloaked site where
Ayers said he had discovered
the suitcase. The soil at the
hiding place had been turned
up and sifted for 10 yards in
all directions. The underbrush
and sea grass were tram' pled
as if by many feet.
The suitcase full of cur.
rency was gone. Disappointed,
they combed the area. Within
a quarter mile, Whitten spot-
ted a tattered $20 bill. Ayers
discovered a sheaf of three
bills matted together with
mud and grass.
The bills were near scraps
of a road map, which Ayer w
said had been used as a wrap-
per for the suitcase bills.
Treasury records show the
bills were printed between
April, 1966, and August, 1968.
There is no way to prove this
was part of the money which
the CIA continued to provide
anti-Castro exiles. But the sto-
ries that led to the cache came
in part to Ayers from Cubans
he helped train for the CIA.
Assassination teams, sabot
ta.ge squads and commandh
units were sent against Castro
after the abortive Bays of Pig.;
Invasion. These missions ap.
parently ? were halted after
President Kennedy's assassi.
nation. But the CIA continued
to slip infiltration teams into
Cuba to gather intelligence. '
The CIA paid all expenses!,
apparently, in cash. Hug
sums were turned over t
There were whispers thatt
some money had disappeareot
into private bank accounts:,
found two more, then Whitten 0 1971, Bell-McClure Syndicate, inc.
Washington Whirl
Volunteer Army-President
Nixon is leading the opposi.
tion to his own proposal fora
volunteer Army-at least for
the next two years. At a secret
White House legislative con-
ference, he warned GOP con-
gressional leaders: "Some
votes to end the draft may
look popular temporarily. But
in the long view, our recom-
mendations (to extend the
draft for two years) will prove
to be right." White House aide
Peter Flanigan explained to
the leaders that "A shortfall.
of 100,000 men is expected"
next year. He described the
administration's plans to en-
courage volunteers by offering
financial incentives, includiryg
a $6,000 bonus to those wly
will re-enlist for combat dut!.
But he warned this "wo'ul"O
mean cuts in other vital areas
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JFK Death Halted
uban Oil Raid
THE SUPPRESSED STORY
can now be told of how the
Central Intelligence Agency
organized a Cuban exile raid
on Cuba's key oil refinery in
.1963 but aborted it after the
assassination of President
Kennedy.
Insiders say the corporate
oil giants, hoping eventually
to recover their property in
Cuba, brought quiet pressure
to quash any raids upon re-
fineries. Lyndon Johnson,
who canceled the raid after
succeeding Mr. Kennedy in
the White House, was close
to Texas oil interests.
We have learned the dra-
matic details from Bradley
Ayers, a 36-year-old former
Army captain, who was se-
lected by the CIA - to train
Cuban exiles for infiltration
and assault missions includ-
ing the refinery raid in Ma-
tanzas province.
We have checked out
Ayers' story with our own
sources, who confirm he is
correct about names, places
and dates. From a group of
pictures, Ayers also was able
to pick out immediately a
CIA undercover operative
who we knew had been in-
volved in the CIA raids
against Cuba.
The rugged Ayers, a for-
mer Army ranger instructor,
trained the refinery raiders.
The recruiting fo- the mis-
sion had already been com-
Meted before he was as-
signed to the project. CIA of-
!'icials took him by motor
aunch through swampy Ever-
glades canals and across the
)lien sea to secluded Florida
(eys to meet the recruits.
Ayers and the CIA men se-
ected Palo Alto Key, Upper
fey Largo and Card Sound
)n the edge of the Ever-
;lades as training sites.
`Most of the Cubans," said
Ayers, "were bank clerks,
ausboys, waiters, musicians,
.aborers, men who had fled
-o the United States. Many
aad never fired a weapon.
rhey were disorganized and
AYERS ran off simulated
raids near Card S o u n d
against a local Southern Bell
microwave facility with a
high security fence. Other
nights, he shared black beans
and rice, drank and smoked
"pot" with his Cuban cadre.
The rag-tag recruits grad-
ually became a fighting team.
For firsthand experience, he
secretly accompanied two in-
filtration groups on missions
to Cuba.
"We went on a commer.
cially rigged trawler, a
`cover' vessel," he said. "We
ran blackout under a quarter.
moon, towing a V-20 launch, a
high-powered fiberglass boqt.
"We exchanged light sig-
nals with the partisans
ashore in Pinar del Rio and
launched two rubber boats.
The team made contact with
the partisans, and we picked
up a wounded man who'd
been a prisoner of Castro.
But the Cuban partisans
were careless with the lights.
"After we got the wounded
man into a rubber boat, we
were discovered by a Soviet-
type patrol craft with spot-
lights. We covered our with-
drawal with machineguns
from the V-20 boat. Although-
we took casualties, we finally
got back to the trawler. Our
boats were pretty well shot
up.
"On the way home, we saw'
a Cuban fishing craft flying a
distress flag and found it had
a load of refugees. We took
them on board."
A second sortie to cache
supplies for agents already in
Cuba was less eventful. Fi-
nally, in September, 1963,.
Ayers was instructed by the
CIA to make detailed train-
ing plans for the refinery,
raid.
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lie was given specific or-
ders not to land on Cuba`
himse'.f during the raid. But
he was too emotionally in-
volved with the Cubans"
cause to stay out and wrote
himself into the plans. "We
were all on a live-for-today,
tomorrow-we-die philosophy,"
he explained.
But on the day of the final
rehearsal, President Kennedy
was killed, and the CIA or-
dered Ayers to shut down the
operation. "I was in a sort of
trauma," said the swashbuc-
kling instructor. "I made-
trips ,;o Washington to plead
the cause of the freedom,
fighters with the minor offi-
cials I knew. But I just got
disappointed and angry."
Finally in October, 1964,
Ayers resigned from active
duty with a long statement of
principle to his CIA and
Army superiors. "As a sol-
dier, I had been taught I
shouldn't question political
or diplomatic action." he
wrote. "But as a free-think-
ing American citizen, I
couldn't subordinate my
duty. My country was no
longer- playing to win, and
my faith in the goals to which
I dedicated my life was
shaken."