HOW THE NON-VIOLENT PROMOTE VIOLENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300100008-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 22, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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A revolutionary film dedicated
to the Cot uiuni ;t guerrilla, Che
Guevara, was shovrn at. Hinton
Center and main at Fresno State
College over the weekend of Au-
gust 13 and 11
I attended the shov,'iog of this
film It was a doeco ciit,ly on
Arfr,ii;rzientitled Ih- Iiourofth
C, ~Irulnaccs." Ic said 11.1_.t Cuba von
the firat free country in Latin
Anlericn. and c Iled for unity in the
war against the Unitc:,i Mes.
The Ii.inton Center, which was
mainly built and sulii:,orted St.h
taxpayer's money, showed the
film on August M It was Shown
at }CSC on August 35.
The fiLii was brought to I~'r(Ano
by one of the rnanagers of the
Shan ti Coop Bookstore, which is
located a few block, -0h of l0res-
no City College. ]it: told Iue he
hopes to use the funds received
front the 1oiesiin St: to Collefe
showing to bring the second part
of the same fihn to Fresno. IIc
says the second part is even more
'Controversial" thali the film I
The-Shanti }3oolcsiore sells red-
ical literature on boils violent and
non-violent revolution. The lam-
ager said he b,:heucrl in non-
violence, but that he brought the
film to P'reeno in order .t.o educate
the people about violence. I;ow-
evid, not}iiw was said either before
or after the showing of the Gli;is
about non-violeence,.'1'ile film itself
advocated revolutionary violence
and hot it'd,
Altliou?ii much of the film dealt
with poverty in Latin America, it
was dcacid:'dly anti-American. '1'he
United X51 ,tes w bl:.hn,1. frr:?
crty ili South A1r_ierica and was
repeatedly 1~ib -led i'.s a neo-colonial
force. Even the Peace Corp.-; was
seen i_s part of Meric;an neo-
colonialism.
The film. rho chiccrgcd that all
means of corn:uuiycation Rye
controlled by t.hi Ccnti,l Iutebi-
genc.e Agency (Ct ;) 1 hr C r ..inhu-
Liist Vhet Con; as ,.
reaction against Anicd an Taipar-
irdirin. 'i:he fili'n propor_.cd flint re-
bellion and org.anirgtion for rev-
vlution wc,a the nnswcr to prob-
lonis in, Latin America.
The opening scenes of the movie
shoved demon Ai'ations and vio-
lence and it was made plain tir; t.
the United `eta=te., was via cause
of violence in Latin America. The
film proposed that peolil, v:iih-
out haft cannot triumph and that
a_ long, cruel war is recess pry. 'Site
filr.i ends with a pic:taro of Com-
Iinuiist. Chc: C=iic-ia;n Mot hr loch {
been kilted by the l3olivic:n Army,.'
As the viewer rac;;; Cucvari''s Lacy
lying there, the narrator era,:; for
revolritionarv violence.
The film, "'Etc flour of the
runce is Mributcd by the
Third V-Lunld Cil:cruc. Group of
Berkeley. Other films of Srcd by
them include it terrier s with Y,uer-
rill., R- is Del,: cy r#ar}:i -.i :1-
vador Allende, aid one of tLt /'.rah
terrorist organizations, At Fateh:
After thin film was slto-r:ii, We
movie projector cslc.ed for dime;.-
tions to the second part cif
the film to Frer,no. Met 1:i,opl
,?
in the audience gave Mill seine
money. - _.
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