Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro turned his guns from the sea and ended the mythical "Yankee invasion" scare. Calling for "a quest of peace" with the new Kennedy Administration, he turned his attention inland last week, and for good reason. There is a very real foe to fight at home. It is the underground rebellion, operating in Cuba's hills and cities, infiltrating the army and government agencies, doing more damage to the new dictatorship in six months than Castro had managed against the old in a year...
...underground Big Two are wide apart on politics and on who gets what funds. The Frente apparently gets virtually all the U.S. financial aid to Cuba's underground (estimated to range from $135,000 monthly to as high as $500,000 on occasions), and Mr. "B," the CIA agent in charge, reportedly has suggested the M.R.P. get help from the Frente...
...makes it harder to shunt agents back and forth. Castro's decree of the death penalty for all counter-revolutionary activities-including mere possession of a bottle of gasoline (in Castro's lexicon, that equals one Molotov cocktail)-"is having a great effect," says a Frente leader. "Underground work is much harder now. People are no longer willing to hide revolutionaries because it means death...
Worst of all, the rebels fear that time is on Castro's side, that they must move faster. Warns an underground chief who was once a high official in Castro's government : "If Castro gets through the first six to nine months of this year, he will have a more or less stable garrison state-operating on a minimal level, but operating. Most of the people will give in. They cannot live forever on tension...
Unless we resign ourselves to crawling underground and re-emerging into a world of ruin, we must work to avert an attack. Threats of retailiation are not sufficient, because fear does not prevent mistakes and accidents, and may, in fact, make them more likely. Fear builds more weapons, and weapons more fear. The fools are those who assume we can go on as we are. Fast-moving technology, from which we can not escape, calls for radical politics, and presents Kennedy's greatest challenge...