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The CIA's Directorate of Intelligence issued this Weekly Summary, No. 0369/70, on 8 May 1970. It covers events through noon on 7 May. The Far East section deals with the allied operations into Cambodia, Hanoi's cautious response and the government in exile Sihanouk formed in Peking. Other items cover Soviet military aid, the Sino-Soviet talks, Jordan, Dahomey, Guatemala and Brazil, and a special report looks at Cuban support for subversion in Latin America. Many pages are withheld, and the summary contains no UFO material.
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b)(1 b) (3) Approved for Release: 2023/03/28 C03154550 TEOREJL be the situation in Chile, he derided the decision by leftist political parties to attempt to achieve power through democratic elections and said that “Chilean revolutionaries must be prepared for a struggle in which violence will be the decisive element, even in the case of their obtaining power by the nonviolent electoral road.” More recently, the Cuban press agency Prensa Latina reported that, in conversations with newsmen at the United Nations in New York in March, Rodriguez said that “Cuba supports the liberation movements in Latin America...this is not only our right but our duty.” Finally, on 22 April, on the 100th anniver- sary of the birth of Lenin, Castro himself staunchly reaffirmed in definitive terms his com- mitment to support the subversion of other gov- ernments by violence: “Cuba has never nor will it ever deny support to the revolutionary move- ment. This is not to be confused with support of any fake just because he is using the name of revolutionary....That type of pseudorevolutionary can expect no aid from Cuba, of course. But revolutionaries like Che, willing to struggle to the final consequences, _,.willing to fight, willing to die—they will always be able to count on Cuba’s help....But one -must not worry about our posi- tion toward the revolutionary movement. So long as there is imperialism, so long as there are people struggling, willing to fight for their people’s lib- eration from that imperialism, the Cuban revolu- tion will support them.” UNSUCCESSFUL REBELS LOSE SUPPORT It is the Cuban subversive effort in Latin American countries that has been the most affected by Castro’s policy reassessment, One re- sult was the reduction or complete withdrawal of support from groups—such as those in Venezuela and Colombia—that have demonstrated. incom- petence and leadership weaknesses culminating in f *\ Venezuelan guerrilla chieftain Douglas Bravo lost Castro's support. C ,1 Special Report - 4 - 8 May 1970 Approved for Release: 2023/03/28 C03154550
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 78 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.