ARE WE LOSING LATINS TO REDS?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100380027-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: January 6, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST AT%M JAN 6 1963
i 1 MLiA I For Release 2000/06/13: CIA-RDP75-00001 RO
re We Losing`'
Latins to Reds?
Mr. Barber, former Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for Inter-American
Affairs, it on the faculty of the IInl-
verslty of Marslaad's Department of
Government and Politics.
RED MACHETE: Communist
Infiltration in the Americas.
1v tea:.: Donovan. Bobbs-
Merrill. 288 pp. $3.95.
THE UNITED STATES,
CUBA, AND CASTRO. By
Wes.-~Williarr-s. Monthly
country-
by-country survey of Latin
America by John Donovan
quotes all manner of people
in their sometimes vulgar
vernacular. Some of his im-
pressions were obtained at
bar-side interviews. In some
cases he relies heavily on the
vit;ws and facts already 11re-
sented ii,earlier publications,
some of ? vh%4I be, cites at
great length. The net is
loosely organized material, as
neither a topical nor a chron-
ological order is maintained,
despite the ostensible alloca-
tion of most of the 17 chap-
ters to individual countries.
In Argentina, Brazil and
Chile the author reports both
Russian and Chinese Commu-
nist efforts ranging from sub-
sidized paperbacks to cultural
of the Cuban Embassy's cash
payments to journalists,
trade dnionists, studentsI law-
yers, teachers and political
figures of all parties. Clearly
Communistic is the Viota.
community in Colombia, a
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is chief target, no less than
0 times in a single chapter.
To the extent that this slim
olume is not merely an at.
serious historian's essay,
ackground seems largely
no bibliography or index.
The author insists that the
nited States is, rev onsible
on which was not a betrayal
it a dynamic '' l`f1ITii ent of
y, and that Cuba should
stence" with economic aid
m both Russian and Unit-
States sources.
e hemisphere; Williams
its himself to Cuba and
ws the future with con-
lled alarm; Williams de-
ibes the past with uncon-
s intended to finish their
ssile crisis: one in a fore-
d, the other in a post-
ipt, evaluated that event.
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