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Weekly Summary

Central Intelligence Agency · 1970-05-08 · 78 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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in several Latin American countries who favor the
Cuban position on armed struggle.
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as Camilo Torres, the Colombian priest who
joined the ELN and served under arms with the
guerrillas until killed in combat in 1966. Another
Colombian and former priest, German Guzman
Campos, who maintains that “revolution is the
only way,” so impressed the Cubans that he was
invited to the Havana Cultural Congress held in
January 1968. In January 1970, Radio Havana
characterized as “one of the most significant
phenomena in Latin America in recent times” the
“growing participation of some of the progressive
Catholic clergy in the struggle of the peoples.” A
month later, the Cubans, apparently searching for
another Camilo Torres, gave considerable press
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Camilo Torres is Castro's
example of the ideal
rebel priest.
The Cubans are also favorably impressed by
the growing tide of sentiment within the Catholic
Church for revolutionary social and economic
changes. Havana’s propaganda contains heavy
doses of material on members of the clergy such
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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.