CASTRO BLAMES U.S. FOR LATIN TURMOIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000201040033-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2010
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: December 13, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Equipping Hondurans
Cuban Says C.I.A. Is Financing
Anti-Sandinist Groups and
Assails C-4-
. said the the.IC Operations
saaid Cenntraltral Intelligence
CAS RO BLAMES I.5, He
Agency had put millions of dollars into
plans for disrupting Nicaragua's leftist
FOR ~~~ Government and everyone knows the
United States spent a great deal of
money to equip Honduras."
The Managua Government also
charges that the United States is back-
ing rightist Nicaraguan rebels based in
Honduras in an effort to overthrow the
Sandinist regime. The Reagan Admin-
Mr. Castro. said, if other countries
were getting weapons from Cuba, they
were being taken there by individual
HAVANA, Dec. 12 (AP) .-- Fidel Cas- meat. -- ---rr~ ~, ?~~
tro, addressing 100,000 people at a rally I "Never have we* exported arms to an
here, charged that. the'United States, ; armed revolutionary movement," be
not Cuba or the Soviet Union, was die- declared. "It is known that our agree.
rupting Central America. He also ments with the Soviet Union say we can-
denied that Cuba was sending Soviet ! not re-export our arms. We have never
arms to Latin American revolution-.i .had a case of re-exporting Soviet arms
allies or arms made in Cuba to another c oun-
"Whenever they .talk about Latin'J try."
America," Mr.. Castro said of the, ' He again rejected the Reagan Admin-
United States Government, "we are to istration's demand that Havana loosen
blame for everything...1J1 its close ties with Moscow if it wants to
The Cuban leader, speaking at a rally ! improve relations with the United
Saturday commemorating his 19561, States.
lution, said that "one of the greatest lies
of the imperialists is making the Soviet:
Union the culprit for revolutions in Cen-
tral America."
He said this had been'used to justifyy
"imperialist intervention in Central
America."
Mr. Castro said United States policy
toward Nicaragua was "either you
kneel down or we destroy you," .
W "We are willing to live in peace," he
said, "but we will never break our rela-
tionship with the Soviet Union. We are
not like those who break relationships
with friends -to become allies of. ene -
mies."
Most of the crowd in Revolution
Square were uniformed members of the
militia from the Havana area.- They
chanted "Fidel, Fidel, for sure! Fidel,
give the Yankees. hell! " as he mounted
the podium to speak. .
Mr. Castro said the militia now had
nearly 500,000 members, 25 percent of
them women, and the Soviet Union
played a vital part in arming them.
He said arms promised over a five-
year period were nearly all delivered in
about two years, and "if we need more,
we will get more."
Mentioning the presence of Cuban sol-'
diers in Angola and Ethiopia, Mr... Cas-
tro said they had only been sent because
those countries requested them.. He nei-
ther confirmed nor denied a recent re-
port that more Cuban troops had been
sent to. Angola but said if. Cuba prom-`
iced to send more troops, "we'fulfilled.
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