CUBAN COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA PUBLICATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R006600030001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 19, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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pally among the rank and file members of the Partido Socialists Popular (PSP--
Cuban Communist Party) whose daily business brings them into constant contact
with the internal political problems of the PSP. In order to -reach the
fellow-traveling and non-communist audiences, PSP leaders seek and encourage
other media.
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COUNTRY Cuba
SUBJECT Cuban Communist Propaganda Public
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The Cuban publications, I:ediodia, Lella, and Vanguardia, circulate print
2. The Federation Democratica de MMMuj eres Cubanas publication, +tuieres Cubanas,
is one of the most recent Communist propaganda channels. This monthly
magazine's first issue ap_>eared in August 1950, listing as Director,
Edith Garcia Duchaca, wife of Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, and as Administrator,
the FDIVIC office head, Hortensia Gomez. Other women, prominent in the maga-
zine's administration, are: Sarah Pascual, wife of Higinio Ordoqui; Francisca
Colas, wife of Anibal Escalante; 1ila Ortega, wife of Tomas Ramirez, Commu-
nist leader in Habana; Felicia Martin, also known as _;elita Martin, a former
Hoy reporter who covered the Ministries of Justice and Health; and. Maria
Arguelles, a Negro woman who is responsible for the Communist women in the
Habana province.
3. Mu.jeres Cubanas has its headquarters above a cafe located at Industries #452,
where Communist meetings, particularly among elements of the textile trade,
are held. In an attempt to avoid detection, this location is disguised as
a night school, and is advertised as such. There actually is a school there
but it occupies only a small space on the second floor is the back of the
premises. The magazine is printed by the print shop at Calle Juan Abreu 514,
Luyano.
~. The PSP has recently purchased the newspaper, La Correspondencia, in Cienfuegos,
Las Villas Province, and is making use of it to disseminate Communist propa-
ganda and slanted Korean war news. The PSP National Executive Committee
reportedly was urged by Carlos Rafael Rodriguez to purchase bankrupt Cuban
newspapers to compensate for the loss of Hoy's services.
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5. The distribution of Iediodia is done in a semi-covert manner by former distri-
butors of Hoy and propaganda secretaries of neighborhood committees. Wediodia
is reported to receive approximately $10,000.00 per month from PSP leaders,
which presumably comes from prepaid Hoy subscriptions. Vanguardia is sold
on Saturday nights, in the public parks, by members of the PSP.
6. Mella, sold principally by members of the Juventud Socialista, is the official
organ of that youth group, and is published every fifteen days. Since H_oy's
suspension, Mella has received increased attention. It was reported that a
group of PSP members, headed by Blas Roca, had taken Mella over with the
intention of extracting it from its former financial difficulties.
7. Sympathetic fellow-travelers in the radio broadcasting field can be considered
as a propaganda medium for the Communist Party. Dr. Evilio Telleria, Union
Radio's labor reporter, is probably the only radio reporter whose program
,commented on the Communist CTC (Confederacion de Trabajadores de Cuba). A
Habana port workers' demonstration on October 17 in honor of the death of
the Communist martyr, Aracelio Iglesias, received the sympathy of Telleria
as well as a large part of his program time. Telleria was also the only
radio reporter who mentioned the Communist Conferencia en Defensa de la
Economia held on September 31.
8. Cuba en Llamas, a program of radio station COCO can also be considered a
medium for the Communists. The director of this program is Rafael Enrique
Marrero, a PSP affiliate, and a former reporter on Mil Diez. The program,
Divulgacion Economia, originating in Holguin, Oriente Province, has recently
been discontinued. Oscar Ortiz, PSP chief in Holguin, and present City
Councilor, is director of the Holguin station.
9. July 1950 that a new "women's" ma azine backed
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title indicates.a much more provincial than hemispheric flavor and unless
the title is changed, it is difficult to believe that the magazine is intended
at this time for a hemispheric audience.
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