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Mrs. PHILLIPS. I think the chances are very slim. In the first place, there will be no revolt in Cuba. If you have a pocketknife and the man on the corner has a machinegun, you are not going to go against him.

The population of Cuba has nothing to fight with because even when they serve in the militia, they do not let them take their weapons home at night.

I gave an interview to a Cuban newspaper in Miami several months ago. I called the Caribbean a "Russian lake" because they operate completely freely in it. I was told the other day Cuba has a hundred fishing boats which are equipped with weapons. Cuba is a military base of the Soviet Union, the first one they ever got in the Western Hemisphere, and I can't see them turning it loose.

As a matter of fact, I think there are only two ways to free Cuba; one is by force, and the other is to make a deal with the Soviet Union. I am sure the United States would get the raw end of the deal because the Soviet Union is intent on keeping their military base in Cuba.

Mr. PEPPER. Do you think the Soviet Union is going to increase its military infiltration into Cuba and into the Caribbean?

Mrs. PHILLIPS. Of course they are. If I were a communist I certainly would. It is right in the center between South and North Americaa very strategic place to be. Why not? The United States hasn't done a thing to prevent it.

Mr. PEPPER. Thank you very much, Mrs. Phillips. We appreciate your contribution. This is the last witness we have today for these hearings. The meeting is adjourned.

(Whereupon, at 12 noon, Thursday, October 14, 1971, the hearing adjourned, subject to call of the Chair.)

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RIO DE JANEIRO (UPI)--THE SLAYING OF CARLOS LAMARCA LAST WEEK LEFT BRAZILA'S GUERRILLAS WITHOUT A NATIONALLY KNOWN LEADER, BUT THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT OF SOUTH AMERICA'S LARGEST NATION DOES NOT EXPECT THE TERRORIST MOVEMENT TO COLLAPSE BECAUSE OF IT.

ON THE CONTRARY, ARMY INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS SAID THEY BELIEVE THE THREAT OF URBAN TERRORISM REMAINS AS STRONG AS EVER. SOME PREDICTED THE NUMBER OF POLITICAL TERRORIST ACTS MAY EVEN INCREASE. LAMARCA, A FORMER ARMY CAPTAIN WHO DESERTED IN 1969 TO JOIN THE GUERRILLA MOVEMENT, EARNED HIS FAME AS A TERRORIST BY RECEIVING THE OFFICIAL BLAME FOR DIRECTING THE KIDNAPING OF THREE AMBASSADORS. THE THREE KIDNAPED DIPLOMATS WERE C. BURKE ELBRICK OF THE UNITED STATES, WHO WAS ABDUCTED IN 1969, AND EHRENFRIED VON BOLLEBEN OF WEST GERMANY AND ENRICO GIOVANNI BUCHER OF SWITZERLAND, BOTH OF WHOM WERE KIDNAPED IN 1970. EACH WAS SUBSEQUENTLY RELEASED AFTER THE GOVERNMENT FREED A GROUP OF POLITICAL PRISONERS AND FLEW THEM INTO EXILE IN ALGERIA AND MEXICO.

DIPLOMATIC SOURCES SAID THE DEATH OF LAMARCA, WHO WAS TRAPPED AND KILLED IN A GUNBATTLE WITH SECURITY POLICE LAST FRIDAY IN BAHIA STATE, WAS ANOTHER BOON TO THE PRESTIGE OF THE HARD-LINE MILITARY OFFICERS WHO TOOK OVER THE GOVERNMENT IN 1968 AND HAVE PRESSED STERN MEASURES NOT ONLY AGAINST POLITICAL TERRORISM BUT ALSO AGAINST ANY OPEN POLITICAL OPPOSITION.

BEFORE LAMARCA, THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT HUNTED DOWN AND KILLED HIS PREDECESSOR AS THE BRAZILIAN TERRORIST LEADER, CARLOS MARIGHELA, TWO YEARS AGO IN SAO PAULO, BRAZIL'S LARGEST CITY. BUT JUST AS LAMARCA EMERGED TO REPLCE MARICHELA, SO COULD ANOTHER GUERRILLA RISE TO THE STATURE OF A NATIONAL FIGUREHEAD OR LEADER TO REPLACE LAMARCA.

THERE ARE NUMEROUS SMALL, INDEPENDENT TERRORIST CELLS IN BRAZIL, AND ARMY INTELLIGENCE SOURCES PREDICTED THESE COULD CREATE FURTHER TROUBLE EVEN WITHOUT ANY SYMBOL OF NATIONAL LEADERSHIP.

THE MAIN SIGNIFICANCE OF LAMARCA'S DEATH, HOWEVER, IS THAT IT LEFT THE TERRORIST MOVEMENT AT LEAST TEMPORARILY WITHOUT LEADERSHIP AND BOOSTED MILITARY AND POLICE MORALE THAT HAD BEEN STUNG BY THE DIPLOMATIC KIDNAPINGS. THE ARMY HELD A SPECIAL GRUDGE AGAINST LAMARCA SINCE HE WAS ONCE A MODEL SOLDIER AND ONE OF THE TOP MARKSMEN IN THE BRAZILIAN ARMED FORCES.

THE PRESTIGIOUS RIO NEWSPAPER, THE JORNAL DO BRASIL, CALLED LAMARCA THE LAST LEADER OF SUBVERSION." AND ANOTHER RIO NEWSPAPER,

O JORNAL, SAID, "THE LAST LEADER OF THE TERROR IS DEAD."

BUT IN SAO PAULO, THE NEWSPAPER O ESTADO DE SAO PAULO SAID THAT THERE ARE EXPECTATIONS OF NE LEADERS TO EMERGE."

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