CUBAN RED ON 'HOT SPOT'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100160123-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2000
• Sequence Number: 123
• Publication Date: July 1, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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the guerrilla warfare expert
failed to pull off Communist
take-overs in the Dominican Re-
over in Guatemala or' face the served in President Jacoho. Ar-
same fate as that of ousted Al- her.z' pro-Communist regime in
gerian Premier Ben Bella, who 1953 until C;unten,alan Colonel
intelligence now believes lost Carlns Castillo Armas launched
his job for fouling up the Krem- a successful counter-revolution.
lin's attempt to depose Congo's Although Guevara, dashed
Premier Tshombc. around Guatemala City trying to
Guevara's "final chance" was organize a resistance force, Ar-
decreed by Soviet leaders when Benz capitulated without a fight.
Cuban Red On- Hof Spot
WAISHINGTCiN - ? Ernrst slructed (;uevara to give lip his the most ominous for the West
"Che" Guevara, top Communist t post aS Cuba's industry minister --and himself.
lieutenant of Cuban dictator' and devote full time to -his new RUSSIAN MISSILES
Fidel Castro, is at another turn- a signn,enl. New evidence indicates that
ing point in his revnlntinnary oi,n STAMPING GROUNDS ' Russia may he building bases
career. He must either produce Caiaten,ala l2 nCvt bat for ground-to-ground missiles in
:a successful Communist take- tleground for Guevara. He North Viet Nam as well as for
anti-aircraft rockets.
Photographs by high-speed re-
connaissance planes show that.
at Irast one hasp near Hanoi is
_being constructed very similar
'Io the 1nedinm range ballistic
missile bases discovered in
Cuba, which touched off the 1962
missile crisis.
Guevara then fled to the Argen- j While. none of these 9lift to
tine embassy, vowing -to rciurn 1.2f111-mile range missiles have
some day. been spotted by U. S. recon-
public And Brazil. I Since Guevara was One of At naissance planes, several large
1c cording to latest intelligence men who accompanied Castro nit cite carriers capable of haul-:
es iat~+s, "Ctievnr-t it back in no his 195113 invasion of Cuba, ing these 90.fnot rockets have
lfavana'fter a covert trip to the U. S. intelligence wmildn't he
~. teen lot4ted in parking areas
mountain region of Guatemala, surprised if the Argentine-horn t `i,ear Haiphong, North Viet
where he met with local C'om- Communist has set up a penman-
Nam'- major seaport.
monist guerrilla leaders to snap ent headquarters inside Guate A, +1? has _orthe
f Hanoi
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tacks.
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At present, he is directing large cement foimdat.ions of the
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RS , The one-time Argentine physi- guerrilla fighters from Cuba to . laimchers have been poured And
areas cleared for the
clan and
Castro was given the Guatemal- he did to the Dominican Repub-
an mission by Serge! Mikoyan, lie.
son of Anastas 1, Mikovan, So- NEW CRISIS
vial chief of state, who brought unless swift pireventive action
the orders from Mosrnw when is taken jointly by the U. C. and
he visited Havana earlier this Guatemala., intelligence authnr-
month. hies warn the U S will have to
missiles. .
Neither the cement founda-
tions or the storage facilities
Are needed for the Russian-made
SAM ground-to-air missiles,
which both Moscow and -Wash-
in ;ton admit the Soviets are In-
Mihnyan met with Guevara, send in Marinpc to hlnrk a (?nm-
lion of the Italian Communist ,. ,. oil.,. new development, President
trnl
which now has a major Since C'astt o look over rmt JhnsOn has ordered no reunter-
Party
,
n - taken
role in subverting Latin Amer- in Cuba in 1959. C'hr has measures except additional re-
The s principal economic. me
The Italian group was led by I k h closer surveillance of activities
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Mario Alirate, member of his, wi
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party's secretariat and national to t
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directorate, and editor-in-chief range
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Of the Ttalian Communist Party ing the MRBM base construction
and directed Cuba's revolution-
nrgen L'Unita of Rome. are being tightly restricted. Less
information obtained by U. S. any activities in Latin America. than a dozen officials within
Intelligence in Rome indicated ' Because of Guatemala's sera- the administration have seen
'
that Mikoyan Warned Guevara Logic location and the Kremlin
s em .
ALLEN-SCOTT' REPORT
Inside Washington
By ROBERT S. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT
INTELLIGENCE FLASHES
CIA Director William Raborn
is looking for a new "press of-
ficer,". He launched the hunt
after a national TV network
presented a very critical show
of the super-secret intelligence
agency. His former press advis-
er had arranged to have several
CIA officials cooperate 'with the
network ... Films produced in
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Po-
land, the Soviet Union And Com-
munist China, almost all of R
propaganda nature, are being
supplied film dealers in Latin
America without charge, accord-
ing to A report on Communist
subversion prepared by the Or-
caniration of rreriran Stater,,
NOTE: The boxed portions
of this article did n t
appear in the 1 July
issue of the NORTHERN
VIRGINIA SUN.
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