CASTRO'S SHIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200190116-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2014
• Sequence Number: 116
• Publication Date: April 8, 1960
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved
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APR 8 fig
:-Castro's Shield
liA highly plated official in .1
1 the federal government's cen-
eral intelligence agency has
warned a United States Sen-
:
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I ale_ iLikomi_ j2i........ttee tl....4Linter-
inational Communism is IL,
I
using Fidel,Castro's revolu- i
, [
tion as a shield behind which f .?,
Communists ,are plotting ., to 1 ,
take over highly. vulnerable]
Latin 'America. ? ,'410.13;2;,'. 4,0, '
. General C. P. Cabelrdepul',
ty..?WeTcTroZi?ihe CIA;-.4said
lighted.lkith Castro's go..:\iii-, ,
ment,1 that it is tailor 'Made;
;
for infiltration.,;? ' :
Few 'could doubt the ivis- i
' dorri of.Cabell's'obseivatien.;1
r. Thoagh,it may not be by!
.o
design,' Castro is lending his'
1 ggoovveerniiziitit ent atdoopCts aomm mores
' t
infltientei". And Unless that
,
1
rigid and independent policy
in this /regard- the tail well
11111) could wag the dogone day:"
Communiit drive in
, Latin America, said Cabell,
is more intenseinniner
in the Middle East or in
North Africa and the Reds'
effort in those two pocketS1
of. the world is tremendous.
Cabell said Moscow nkney
is being used wholesaler to
support co/Aimist efforts,
in Latin American countries;,
that Russia and Red China k,
are beaming 85 hoursihf
propaganda a week in the
Spanish and Portugues'.6 lari-
guages to those nations and
Communist :sympathizers
number in the hundreds' Of
thousands. r r,
The 'establishment ? of a
Communist beachhead in'the
very back yard of the United
StateS--is a frightenin
prospect.
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Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/19: CIA-RDP68-00046R000200190116-0