FPCC ON CUBA-U. S. POLICY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800010012-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: January 4, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

DENVER (Colo.)'
POST Approved For
Cart:.: e. 256,513
S. 338,263
T lir-: DENVER POST edito-
r:..l of Dee. 6 on. the Fair
P,.,v for Cuba Committee is,a
pace of misrepreaen-
f -,n. The ninta of the Fair
I for Cuba Committee are
t? rnd the ban - imposed by
:tic United States governrobnt
on travel to Cuba, to present
th+,ce aepeets of events in
ri ?,a w hich'thr- press In this
ignorer, and to work
tr>~ .,rct the reestablishment of
d:;,lt,murtic relations and trade
between the United StateA
and Cuba.
1?,-+?. The Denver Past, a
ne.i'paper interested In civil
liberties. feel that we should.
nn, be allowed to go tg Cuba?
Surely- if things there are as
bad nr most of the press
that infot?mation will
get around and very few
p,?ople rill want to go. But we
in madntaln that the
public is being deceived, that
the ituation in Cuba Is far,
far better than one would
gather from the popular
pr,'sx, and that the people of
thtr Liirited States would not
n ?+ Up with our government's
toward Cuba . if they
kn'w the conditions nos pfe-
vt i;ing there.
Dries The Denver PoFt. ob-
ject to efforts of-the F.P.C.C.
to publish reprints of articles
by people who have been ro
Caba \kfU!n these people r'is
ap;-ce with the attitude of a
major part of the press? Can
Thy Denver Post object to the
1-;jblic:ation of Dr. Caatt'n's
;ec,-he% in the U.S. and at
the same time not object to
the publication of the prc'(i-
d, ht's inteiwiew with the T;.us-
rlfan pres.;?
CPYRGHT
lyoii. Denver P~X
ipa?r in the ephtiatfi that it,% is
,; .0 se to sever diploivmtis
i.nd trade relations with Cuba?
Such writers es K. T. y
Mathews.. Sidney Lens. Mot` f,
ris Rubin, and Dap Dellinger
maintain that it was the cut-
ting off of such relations glong
with other punitive measures
that drove Cuba toward the
Soviet bloc.- 'Castro's having
become a Marxist-Leninist is
not less then fair play to any-
body, it is the result of U.S.
policy toward Cuba. The man'
did not consider himself to be
a Communist and was not a
Communist party !!umber in
late 1959. according to the
testimony of General Cabell,
de1)uty director of the C.I.A.
.friendship of Latin America.
we must begin to learn that
socialism Is not synonympus
with totalitarianism and that .
undc?rdeveloF.ed countries with
different baekgrounds from
ours cann.rt become pants-
mentary democritcies over-
. T believe that the Amertt
actions in Latin America only r
because it does not know what.
what is happening in Cabajisr
iitecting all of that area. tin-
til the press in the U.S. !,tarts
telling the truth and until the
are again permitted to travel
to Cuba. the Fair Play for
Cuba Committee will still bell
MARY F WALKER.
Denver.
Approved For Release 1999/09/17 : C1A-RDP75-00149R000800010012-3