CASTRO'S TWISTED VIEWS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770063-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2013
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: April 25, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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SHEBOYGAN, WISC.
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Apg 25 1951
Castro's Twisted Views
If we are to believe the propaganda emanating from
? Cuba, everything the United States has done concerning
Cuba has been villainous. On the other hand, any aid
given Premier Fidel Castro by the Soviets is perfectly all
right.
? For example, there is no question that Castro's men
i? fought the rebels with Russian-madg MIG planes, Stalin
tanks and other equipment ma?nufactured behind the
Iron Curtain. Simildrly there is no doubt but that Soviet
military experts aided Castro and that at least 100 Castro
pilots were trained to handle jet fighter planes in Red
Czechoslovakia.
But for the United States to be sympathetic to the
rebels or give them. aid in any, way ? that is unspeak-
able!
In a 4-hour-and-33-minute telethon Sunday, Castro
made just about the wildest speech of his career. He said
any U. S. attack on Cuba would mean the death knell
of the United States. He sneered at U. S. leaders, calling
Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., a "moron," and saying
that President Kennedy reminded him of Adolf Hitler.
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"We are not afraid cif the Marines. We will give
them a grand reception. If theyldestroy us, it will mean
the destruction of the Yankee empire. The day they
invade us will be the day that the Yankee empire dis-
appears frOm the face of the earth."
That's pretty strong language coming from a man
of Castro's stature.
At the same time the reports were that Castro was
expected to unleash the biggest firing--squad bloodbath
in Cuba's history. Despite pleas for clemency from the
presidents of Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico
and Venezuela, Castro indicated that he would deal merci-
lessly with 700 prisoners he said were taken in last week's
fighting.
He also confirmed indirectly that there has been a
mass roundup of Cubans, affecting perhaps as many as
50,000 persons. He said it was necessary to arrest "all
suspicious persons," but added that those proved innocent
would be released. Judging from past performances by
Castro, things don't look very optimistic for anyone out-
side his own inner circle.
Castro's threats against the United States make one
suspicious as to whether we are dealing with a madman
drunk with power over promised aid from Russia. At any
event, there is no call for the United States to apologize 1
for any aid given the rebels.
If Russia aided Castro, what was wrong with the
United States giving aid and sympathy to. .the rebels?
Two can play at the same game.
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