Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intelligence estimates that more than 200 Venezuelans went to Cuba for training last year, and as one U.S. official says, "We do not consider it sheer coincidence that the Venezuelan democratic government is being subjected most heavily to the terrorist and guerrilla activities of Castro Communists...
...Jose last week, Castro's subversion threat was a first order of business...
...Castro once had several pipelines of subversion around the hemisphere. Pan American flew daily flights between Miami and Havana; Delta flew from Haiti and the Dominican Republic; K.L.M. went in from Curasao, a Dutch self-governing territory off the coast of Venezuela. But now the flights have ended, leaving only the twice-weekly Cubana flight to Mexico-and Castro makes the most of it. The 96-seat Britannia is usually half full, an estimated 5,000 people flew back and forth last year. Of those, says CIA Director John A. McCone, about 1,500 have received indoctrination and guerrilla warfare...
...political agitators fly into Mexico, fan out across the hemisphere carrying propaganda, blueprints for revolt, and their share of the estimated $120 million annually that goes for Latin American subversion. When a Vang Airlines 707 jet crashed near Lima last November, ten Cubans were on the plane, and Castro rushed a 27-man delegation to pick up the pieces. But the Peruvians collected the evidence first, including documents reportedly detailing guerrilla activities in Brazil. Last week a Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano DC-6B crashed in the Andes on a flight from Arica. Chile, to La Paz, Bolivia...
...Russians weren't having enough trouble playing nursemaid to Fidel Castro, last week one of their freighters was laced with 20-mm. cannon shells as two boatloads of anti-Castro exiles staged a hit-and-run raid on the north coast Cu ban port of Isabela de Sagua. Havana radio reported that wounded Russian sailors were taken to a hospital, and Moscow's Izvestia railed that "the strings of the whole open plot against the heroic people of Cuba lead either to the CIA or the Pentagon." In Miami, two exile organizations-Alpha 66. an action-minded band...