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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 in several Latin American countries who favor the Cuban position on armed struggle. W \ 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 l 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 Special Report l \ if 1 -12- 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.