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This is the house completely isolated, and you will see that it is surrounded by fence, and this is the road that goes to the house.

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This is for identification purposes, according to the information we got.

In the meantime it was showing the place and the location. They gave a lot of details about that.

This is the park near the place where the house is. Apparently this is not going to be the house that Castro will take when he goes to Chile. It seems he is going to be there November 4. This is the latest assumption; we don't know for sure. These are the surroundings.

This is the house and this is the station wagon that stopped at the door. It was not allowed by civilian police to enter.

The cameraman had a lot of problems to take this film. This is the way it was taken. This is the only thing the cameraman could take from the outside.

This is the terrain surrounding the house. Whether Castro will be here or not, nobody knows.

Actually there was a heavy guard situation inside the house when this film was taken, I would say about April or May of this year, and nobody was allowed to get in.

This is the position and the jumps of the film because apparently the cameraman was taking the film from the car, and we are assuming he was trying to get as much as possible. I repeat this was shown on the Argentinian television as all the information we had. This was put onto the air. After it was shown, later on the Castro trip was announced that it was going to be postponed and reannounced for November 4.

Mr. PEPPER. Thank you very much, Dr. Reyes, for letting us see that film.

Mr. REYES. My pleasure.

Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Schultz, do you have any questions you would like to ask Dr. Reyes?

Mr. SCHULTZ. Yes, Mr. Chairman.

Just as a matter of order, may we have the newspaper clippings marked Exhibits 1, 2, 3, and 4 for inclusion in the record. These are the clippings previously referred in Dr. Reyes' testimony.

Mr. PEPPER. Without objection, they will be entered into the record. (Documents marked Committee Exhibits Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively. Exhibits 1, 2, and 3 retained in committee files. For Exhibit 4 see appendix, page 5509.)

Mr. SCHULTZ. Dr. Reyes, I hand you what has been marked Exhibit No. 5. Would you identify that for us, please?

Mr. REYES. Yes, sir. This is like a brochure put out. Well, it is entitled, Cuba: 100 Years of Struggle, which is shown to have been compiled by the Cuba Resource Center, 12th floor, Church Center for the United Nations, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York City.

Mr. SCHULTZ. Would you describe for us, if you know, basically the contents of the brochure?

Mr. REYES. There is no doubt in my mind that this is a Castro propaganda. On the front page you see Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos and below them are great generals of the great war of independence, Maximo Gomez and Antonio Maceo.

When these two individuals are put upon or above our two great generals of the war of independence, we realize this is Castro's propaganda just by looking at it.

Mr. SCHULTZ. Are you familiar with any of the pamphlets inside the packet?

Mr. REYES. Yes. Some months ago I knew about this, and it is stated that this Cuban Resource Packet could be obtained for $2 by mail from the United States Catholic Conference in Washington, D.C.

I can say that here I see, "History: 100 Years of Struggle, 'Cuba and U.S. Imperialism,'" written by Edward Boorstein. This man was 3 years in Cuba and was an economical adviser of Fidel Castro.

Also here there is a speech by Guevara, and also written by Castro. Also here it says, I have to point it out, this encourages study about Cuba, "Make contact with persons who have been to Cuba * invite them to speak ***." Then there is more to it.

Other Cuban publications, Cuban daily newspaper available in weekly English edition that could be obtained from the New Yorker Book Shop, Inc., from Taylor's House of Paperback Books on Broadway, et cetera.

Also this is a pamphlet inviting the people to Cuba. "It is possible to arrange to visit Cuba. Such a trip can give you a chance to see firsthand the achievements and difficulties of the Revolution." And it says, "(Travel without State Department 'permission' may, however, subsequently** *)" and so forth, and so forth.

You might go on the Venceremos Brigade, so they are pushing for the brigade.

They also ask here for the media. They provide films about Cuba by Cubans, and they have the names of different people that they invite them to know and they have a certain code that it says, "VB," which

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means members of the Venceremos Brigade, and they gave the list and names of the addresses.

Also, "CRV-persons who visited Cuba with members of the Committee of Returned Volunteers," and also individuals in Cuba. This is more or less the contents of this package.

Mr. SCHULTZ. Thank you.

I would ask that that be accepted in the record, Mr. Chairman. Mr. PEPPER. Without objection, it will be made part of the record. (Documents marked Committee Exhibit No. 5. See appendix, pages 5510-5670.)

Mr. SCHULTZ. One final question, Mr. Chairman.

Dr. Reyes, would you tell us briefly, maybe share some of your personal views and reasons for leaving Cuba?

Mr. REYES. Let me go back a little further.

In 1947 I was in the University of Havana being a student of law, and in that time I remember that the President of Cuba, Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin, warned that he was going to increase the public bus toll from 5 cents to 10 cents. One day I was coming out of the University of Havana. For those who have seen the university, for those who have not seen the university, let me tell you that the front of the university resembles like a Roman forum, big columns, big staircase, about 200 stairs, and in the middle the alma mater. Sometimes you can go in the back, sometimes you can go in the front.

That day I went to make a little bit of exercise and I was coming down the stairway with my books. All of a sudden I heard about 80 or a hundred youngsters screaming, coming out from behind the alma mater, coming down screaming. They almost knocked me down, and at the bottom of the staircase there is a plaza in which the buses travel back and forth, and the cars.

They stopped at the bottom of the plaza, the staircase, and the first bus that was coming was stopped. They pulled out guns instead of books. They stopped the bus and told them, "Out," very "courageously." In quotations, "courageously."

People went out and then from another side of the university, 27th Avenue, I believe, came out another hundred kids, youngsters, screaming, sounding like Indians screaming. They went there, roped the bus, still screaming and yelling. This 200, 250, here they go with the bus through the staircase up to the alma mater and right there the ring leader and this nobody told me, I have not read it in anything, I saw it with my own eyes. The ring leader got two big gasoline cans, spread the gasoline on the bus, took out a match, and set off the fire of the bus. The ring leader's name, Fidel Castro.

The same man that was in the university always with a gun in his belt. He was never in class. He was always rabblerousing around the university, haranguing the kids to make strikes and to make demonstrations.

They stampeded through the staircase and sometimes, most of the times when the clash with the police was going to happen, 5, 10 seconds before, Fidel Castro disappeared and the kids that were coming down were the ones who clashed with them.

I heard Fidel Castro in the kind of speeches that he makes in any corner of the university without just making speeches saying that they

demand the same participation on the direction of the university, the students, the same participation that the professors.

Many times when the Cuban police has a clash with the students, I heard on the mouth of Fidel, "police brutality" in Spanish.

This I saw and heard in my country. I saw this there. When we graduated, Fidel Castro was never in court. He was a lawyer by the reason that he has a title, but I was 11 years in courts in Cuba, and I never saw him in courts except 1 day. In February 1952 when he was going to be named candidate of the Orthodox Party, he was going to be named candidate for representative of the Province of Havana, and he went to court trying to get the vote of the Cuban lawyers. That is the only time I saw him there.

I lost track of him, and in 1959 when he came into power I got fresh in my memory all these things. I heard him when he made the speech of Colombia where he talked for 4 hours and when he finished, I realized deep in my heart that we were going to have a lot of trouble.

That was not the current situation of the 99 percent or 95 percent of the Cuban people; all of them were for Castro. As all the people of the hemisphere from Alaska to the Patagonian, they were with Castro at that time. So I tried to convince myself that I was wrong. Too many people was right and the minority was wrong.

Then one day I was in my home, it was about 5 o'clock, 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon. My son Manolo, 5 years of age, was coming from school. He was in kindergarten and, as I have stated before, my father, my brother, myself who went to LaSalle School, my son was in the LaSalle School in kindergarten. When he came out of the bus with his books, he was saying, "Cuba, yes; Yankees no."

My wife, who is right here in this room, she was born in New York; she is an American citizen, born and raised in New York, and she took my son Manolo aside and said, "Manolo, do me a favor. You should play with your toys."

"Mama, what did I do?"

"Let me finish. You play with your toys, play with your things, but do me a favor. Don't ever repeat what you said."

The poor boy didn't know what he said. He just repeated what he heard from the chauffeur, the driver of the bus. It was the beginning of indoctrination.

The mother said, "Your mother was born in New York, and I am sure you love your mother. When you say, Yankees, No, you say Mama, No! So please don't repeat it."

When I saw my wife in this problem with tears in her eyes, and the system mixing up in my family, I said it is no good.

Several weeks after, I was crossing the bridge in downtown Havana, 23d Avenue-well, not downtown, the suburbs. I usually drive with my wife in the front of the car and in the back my children. My daughter Grace, then 8 years of age, was there, and there was a group of militiawomen marching in the streets. And she turned to me with a big smile from ear to ear and said, "Daddy, when am I going to become a militia girl?"

This is indoctrination of these people, how it was slowly penetrating the kids.

Let me say that the first thing they try to break is respect. They don't give respect to anything; they go against tradition, customs, and

the way of dressing. In Cuba after Castro took over, to use a shirt and a tie was almost a sin, and it was a symbol of wealth. Now, you know that any person can have a tie and a shirt.

They break the respect because once they got in, they kicked out the respect, and there is no authority. They took out the uniform of the army. Instead of being khaki uniform, they put the green fatigue uniform. They were destroying the image. The khaki uniform was a symbol of authority. Without respect there is no authority. Without respect and authority there is no spiritual or moral values-just anarchy.

Then they impose themselves through anarchy by terror and coercion.

Mr. SCHULTZ. Thank you, Dr. Reyes.

Mr. Chairman, I have no further questions.

Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Zion.

Mr. ZION. No questions.

Mr. PEPPER. Dr. Reyes, we wish to thank you very warmly for the valuable testimony you have given us today and to commend you for the service you are rendering to our country by keeping alert, as you are, to what the communists are doing in Cuba and in Latin America in relationship to the United States and trying to protect our country from the danger and the threat of communism.

Thank you.

As chairman of the committee I commend you for what you are doing for our country. Thank you very much for being here today. Mr. REYES. Thank you.

Mr. PEPPER. We will recess until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, when this hearing will be resumed.

(Whereupon, at 12:10 p.m., Tuesday, October 5, 1971, the subcommittee recessed, to reconvene at 10 a.m., Wednesday, October 6, 1971.)

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