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"The Armed Forces of National Liberation base their theory and practice on Marxism-Leninism, the scientific guide of their action. The Peruvian FALN considers that the objective conditions for the Peruvian revolution are present and the subjective conditions are in the full process of development. The position of the FALN on the armed insurrection started by the MIR is one of entire devotion to the battle for giving the land to the peasants. Our basic objectives are to defeat the fundamental enemy of the peoples of Latin America, the big landed estate system, the exploiting bourgeoisie, and imperialism. Our line is to fight until power is taken over and given to the worker-peasant alliance."

Uruguay

Leopoldo Bruera, is a longtime member of the Communist Party of Uruguay (PCU) and currently serves on its executive committee. He is or has been a member of the Montevideo Departmental Board (alderman); he was probably reelected in November 1966, but this cannot be confirmed at this time. Bruera is a representative of the Uruguayan Leftist Liberation Front (FIDEL-dominated by the PCU) to the organizing committee of the First Conference of the Latin American Solidarity Organization (LASO) He is in Cuba at this time and has visited that country at least twice before, in 1965 and in 1959. He was born in 1923.

Oscar Cabrera. In mid-May 1967 Oscar Cabrera, was in North Korea. Jos Jorge Martinez has been in Cuba for at least two months. He also visited that country in 1964 for celebrations of the fifth anniversary of the Cuban revolution. At that time he was a member of the executive committee of the Uruguayan Leftist Liberation Front (FIDEL). He was said to be a newspaperman.

Venezuela

Silvia Moreno, member of MIR (Leftist Revolutionary Movement). She was present at meetings of the Afro-Asian-Latin American Peoples Solidarity Organization (AALAPSO) in July 1966 and May 1967, in Havana, Cuba. She is known to have addressed Cuban military personnel of Fidel Castro's special "guard" in the spring of 1966.

Atencio Manrique. In the Cuban publication Granma on November 23, 1965, Antencio Manrique was listed as a member of the Venezuelan National Liberation Front (FLN) and of heading a group of workers at the Santo Domingo farm in the Santa Clara region of Cuba.

Cuba is also represented in the Organizing Committee by Haydee Santamaria who holds the offices of secretary general of LAŠO, chairman of the Organizing Committee, and president of the Cuban National Committee.

On March 17, 1967, after a meeting at the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, the Politiburo appointed the members of the Cuban National Committee to the Congress of the Latin American Solidarity Organization.

Immediately it became evident that the selection of these members had been made for the express purpose of imparting to the Latin American delegates the intricacies of the craft of subversion.

Most of the Cuban committee members are Communists, skilled cadres of the Party who, in the early days of the Cuban revolution, worked in the shadows and in the end delivered the revolution to international communism.

Singly, the members of the Cuban National Committee hold some of the most important posts in the government or the Party. Together they control every field of endeavor and every facet of activity of the Cuban people. In the eyes of all Latin America they are the regime, the utmost expression of totalitarianism.

By sheer weight of authority, they are sure to dominate the Congress and exact a tribute of obedience from the carefully selected, docile Latin American delegates. They also have the training necessary to

prepare the most important element of Communist revolution: the cadre.

Undoubtedly this is the ultimate goal of the Congress: behind the smokescreen of denunciations of United States imperialist penetration, to prepare the ground for a Communist domination of the continent with Fidel Castro as the "maximum leader."

As president of the committee, the Politburo named Haydee Santamaria Cuadrado de Hart. She is one of the four most powerful women of Cuba. As director of the Casa de las Americas, she has had a direct hand in fomenting subversion in the hemisphere through a so-called cultural exchange. Students, artists and intellectuals were either invited to Cuba or financed by this institute.

As coordinator of the Ministry of Education, when her husband Armando Hart Davalos was Minister of Education, she accelerated the process of Marxist indoctrination in the schools of Cuba. She has traveled widely and has spent considerable time in the United States as a fund-raiser for the revolution. She is a member of the national council of the Federation of Cuban Women (a branch of the Communist Party) in addition to being a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, a distinction only four other women share. It was she who, in April of 1957, accompanied Robert Taber to Fidel Castro's hideout in the mountains.

Vilma Espin Guilloys de Castro is the wife of Raul Castro, No. 2 man of the regime. Born in 1931 into a family of French descent, she studied chemical engineering in Havana, graduated at Boston in 1953. She speaks French fluently and has traveled widely in Europe and Asia. She is the president of the Federation of Cuban Women and as such has played a leading role in many Communist-sponsored conclaves involving women around the world and particularly in Latin America. She is, undoubtedly, the most powerful woman in Cuba although her influence with Fidel Castro is not as great as that of Haydee Santamaria. She is a member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party.

With the nom de guerre of Debora, Vilma Espin played one of the most important roles for the Party during the early days of the revolution: recruiter of cadres and liaison with the Party.

First Captain Antonio (Tony) Perez Herrero, a member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, is the Chief Political Commissar of the Cuban Armed Forces. Of limited intelligence, he has been a Party faithful since his early youth. He owes his position to close friendship with Vilma Espin and her husband, Raul Castro. He was instrumental, as a member of the Party, in the final takeover of the revolution by the Communist Party of Cuba while still in the mountains. He served under Raul Castro in the second front of Sierra del Cristal and is reported to have promoted actively, on orders of the Party, the relations between Vilma Espin and Raul Castro which ended in marriage after the triumph of the revolution. As a well-trained former cadre of the Party, he is experienced in the subtle craft of infiltration of revolutionary groups. His experience will be extremely valuable in the forthcoming Congress.

Jose (Pepe) Ramirez Cruz, president of the National Association of Small Farmers, an experienced Party organizer with excellent Marxist formation is credited with infiltrating and later delivering to the Party all the farm labor and small farmer groups sympathetic to the anti-Batista forces. Along with Capt. Perez Heurero, Raul

Castro, Vilma Espin, and other Party members, he converted the second front of the Sierra del Cristal into a testing ground for the eventual Communist takeover. He belongs to the group of Raul Castro's faithful and is a member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party.

His appointment to the national committee is an indication that the Politburo intends to establish control over one of the most explosive elements in Latin America: the peasant and small farmer. Miguel Martin Perez, as secretary general of the Cuban Confederation of Workers, is the functionary controlling labor in Cuba. He is an old Party cadre trained by Blas Roca and Joaquin Ordoqui. His work for the Party has been rewarded with high offices in the "mass" organizations. Only last year, he was secretary general of the Union of Young Communists. He is a member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party. His experience as a militant cadre in the early days of the revolution and his leadership of the Party's most important organizations in recent years are the reasons for his appointment to the committee. It is to be expected that he will exert his influence in a field considered as essential for a socialist revolution: labor.

Luis Gonzalez Marturelos, as national coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, he is an integral member of the Ministry of Interior. This ministry, under the direction of Ramiro Valdes Menendez, is the organization that imposes the regime of terror now rampant in Cuba. The ministry coordinates all activities of state security including espionage and training and infiltration of agents. Specifically, the organization of Gonzalez Marturelos is charged with the recruiting of thousands of neighborhood spies who report every activity or utterance they see or hear. They are Cuba's most effective instrument of oppression.

Jaime Crombet, secretary general of the Union of Young Communists of Cuba is an adept hand at Party politics despite his youth. His allegiance to the Party is evidenced by the fact that his own mother is languishing in a Communist jail and his brother fled thẹ country just ahead of the dreaded G-2 political police. He figured prominently in a political musical chairs game late last year when positions in the "mass" organizations were redistributed among Party hierarchy. He was president of the Federation of University Students. His predecessor in that post, Miguel Martin, is also a member of the national committee, as is his successor in the student federation, Enrique Velasco Lopez.

As president of F.E.U., Crombet was instrumental in organizing the OCLAE (Continental Organization of Latin American Students) which convened in Havana last July and August. Intensive efforts were made during that Congress to recruit cadres among the delegates for training, and eventual infiltration into their countries of origin.

Giraldo Mazola Collaco is director of ICAP, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples, whose main purpose and function is to organize meetings and conferences of various kinds and to facilitate travel to Cuba with a view to giving subversive training to students, workers, and professional people.

Enrique Velasco Lopez is president of F.E.U., Federation of University Students. An experienced young Communist leader, he was the guiding light of the 4th OCLAE Congress. In his keynote address he stated:

We are ready to close the classrooms and to renounce our achievements and glories for the purpose of defending not only our revolution, but every people who fight against imperialism.

On April 18, 1967, Enrique Velasco was in North Vietnam heading a three-man delegation from the OCLAE Secretariat. While visiting Thanh Hoa, the group allegedly was caught by a U.S. bombing raid. Velasco escaped unscathed while a Puerto Rican, Jose Varona (member of pro-Castro M.P.I.), was seriously injured and a Dominican, Danilo Fernandez, suffered light injuries. The incident was exploited to its fullest and the United States was accused of attacking the Latin American youths deliberately.

Eugenio Rodriguez Balari is editorial director of the weekly Communist Youth magazine, "Mella." Rodriguez Balari, who lately has been using his mother's name instead of his own, is an old Party militant experienced in organizing industrial workers. In 1963, he was secretary general of the PURS, the Party Organization, of the Cotorro-San Miguel industrial district of Havana. He has very close contacts with the Puerto Rican agitators based in Havana and was a guest at a reception given by Narciso RABELL Martinez at the Puerto Rican "embassy." He is the secretary of the Cuban National Committee.

Irina Trapote, Mexican-born daughter of Victor Trapote, a Spaniard, who, after taking refuge in Mexico at the end of the Spanish Civil War, became one of Moscow's most important undercover agents.

It was Victor Trapote who engineered the infiltration and final takeover by the Communist Party of Fidel Castro's small band of guerrillas.

In 1957, Victor Trapote, accompanied by Candido Gonzalez Morales and Santiago Diaz Gonzalez, held secret meetings with Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra mountains. Trapote was able to surround himself with such secrecy that both the meeting and his presence in the mountains received no attention except by the Communists already infiltrated in the small group. One of those was Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

Irina Trapote was married to Ramiro Valdes Menendez, Cuba's minister of interior and head of the secret police and espionage apparatus operating both in Cuba and abroad. Valdes had met Irina Trapote in 1956 while training in preparation of the invasion of Cuba by Fidel Castro's group.

Irina Trapote obtained a divorce from Ramiro Valdes on the grounds that he was incapable of fathering a child and later married Julian Lopez Diaz.

Julian Lopez Diaz had been posted to the Cuban embassy of Mexico City, ostensibly as third secretary and cultural attaché. In reality, Lopez' functions were far more sensitive; he was directing the smuggling of arms and money from Mexico to the Communist guerrillas in Guatemala.

As a matter of fact, Irina's husband was expelled from Mexico City after the Mexican authorities arrested him at the residence of Victor Hugh Martinez, a Guatemalan Communist operating in Mexico City. Julian Lopez, at the moment of his arrest, had on his person $6,000 in small bills.

Irina Trapote is also a member of the LASO Organizing Committee and has played an important role in the compilation of the "propaganda questionnaire" referred to earlier.

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