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Revelat i -ons of a former Cuban

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Groups of Cuban coun i fe r revo lu t ionar ies whoset e - r ror i s t act; i . .vit ies .are f inanced by the Chi lemi l i t a ry j un t a are work;i..ng to e ~ n d t h e i r

~ c t i v i t i e s i n to open war f a r e agains t the La t inAmerican coun t r i e s whic h fa vor the r a i s i n g ofthe blockade aga ins t Cuba.

In an in terv iew with Ra d io Havana Cuba Car losRivero Col lado former Cuban coun te r revo lu t ionaryl e a de r dec la red tha t among the persons t hese

fa sc i s t groups p lan to assass ina te a re Se c re t a ryof St a t e Henny Kiss in ge r and Foreign Minis t e r

Gonza1o Facio of Costa Rica .

Car l o s Rivero Col l ado a former top l eader of the Cuban coun te r

r e v o l u t ~ o n r evea led t ha t t h e c ounte r revolu t iona ry groups a rep lann ing open warfare agains t t he La t i n American na t ions which

are in favor of r a i s i ng the blocka de aga ins t Cuba.

In an i n t e rv i e.w granted on November 3 t.o Radio Havana Cuba

Rivero Col lado a lso exposed the connect ions between the Chilean

mil i t a ry j un ta and t l ie Cuoan coun te r revo lu t ion whose t e r r o r i s t

a c t i v i t i e s it suppor t s and f inances .



Riverp , the son of Andres Rivero Aguero , a Cuban po l i t i c i an

who was e lec ted p res ident shor t ly before the over throw of the

Bat i s t a d i c t ~ t o r s h i p , a lso gave ne 'tv de ta i l s on the Watergate

case, par t icu l a r l y on the involvement of h ~ former c iv i l i an

chief of the Bay of Pigs invasion , l':'Ianue-1 Artime Buesa .. ··, ... . , . . . ·:\ . . .. . . ·: .

He a lso spoke of the · plan to a s s a : s s i ~ a : t t e ~ i d E ? J ; i ~ ? ~ 1 - : v ~ O : c ; > ; r : - .. ,.' ' • • ... ' p ,• • • 1 •0 ' · · I t , .. ,. , • ' • · .,. J .. . . , , ,,

Allende and Prime l" ' inls ter Fide l Cast-ro:·dut ing ~ e T ~ , ; f e r . - . .· . . . . .,. . . ., , . . . .. ..:.... ... .. . .

v i s i t t o Ch ile in 1971. Rivero also revea led the .de ta i l s of

e . n o t h e r p i l . a b ~ ~ r a w i l . 'lip ·:two years ag'o i s ~ a s s ~ n a t t h ~ ~ e ~ d. .. ..... .. ...

of t he Pana.D:lanian · Gbverfun:ent 9 · General .Oma±: _Tprrijos o ~ e . . sS e c r e t a ~ y

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Henry Kfssinge·r ·;· 9-nd Fq;reigJ,ll ' i i i : t i $ t e ~

·_, : ;: • • .. •G o n z ~ l o Facio of Costa Rica are a lso on the lisi of p e r s ~ n so be assass ina ted , · he saido .. ; . . 1:· • .. i ;;.__ . _.;._

se of. the import·ance of t h e s ~ r ; v j l ~ ~ 6 r i . P R E N S A ~ ' J I N Al i sh ing the complete te·x t_of t ~ i : n t e r v ~ ~ ~ - g ; t > a n t e d by

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couri terr 'evolut ionary '·le a'der wh6 'for the .pas t ·few

a r s h , ~ s . : l : e ~ n c-arry..irrg ·out : t - ~ v ~ : ( t i t i o n a c y ~ ~ t t ~ : f e s abroad.

a . l t i ' s ~ .c?·f. f i ' - t ~ s . ~ { f ~ f .. ~ i g ~ ~ ~ a _ : i . ~ ~ i : L : r t ~ e s h ~ _ b_,came a• • : . ~ • f I . .. · " , • • . • • < ~ o , ' r • , • , ; • :c o u . r i ; ~ ~ r - r e . : N - C ) l : U : ' > : i : o n a ~ & .on- tlie ._yecy · ciay t : b : ~ R e v o l u t o ; n t r iumphed.

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He began ·-to work' with d f ~ ~ F e : q ~ grdups and:: ·b ike - •ac t ive pa r t in

counterrevolu t ionary ac t i v i t i e s , inc lud i ng the ·invas ion of P l a ~ aG i r o n In most of these a c t i v i t i e s he played important r q ' J . ~ s ·

However9his personal experiences l ed h i m g r ? - d u a ~ l y ~ 9 ~ e e t h e . .

- ; h n ~ ~ ~ ? ~ ~ c a m q t a b t y and :· ?epugrlance ·o:t t h ~ e P . e ~ ·_o:f t ~ ~ vt i o ~ .. J ; : ~ / i ~ h e · e c . o . n r p o s t i o : n and: ev i l s : of · the ~ ~ p i ~ ~ i i ~ t ·. Y t e m • .

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a t safeguarding : the ·· O u b a : p . n a t i : o n s highes t va l-:1-es a n p . t ~ e b e s ~i n t e r e s t ~ ~ : f .. ~ s : p e ~ p J ~ . J t . r o ~ b . ~ A on; ·. a.n:d·, ··r·or . ·s-EM at-'a::r · y e a r s , .-: ·

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We now give the f loor to the newsmen o Comrade P r a d o ·

-NEWSMAN: Rivero Collado, when and in what c i r c ~ ~ s t a n c s s did

you . leave Cu'ba.?

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RIVERO: I l e f t Cuba on January 1 1959 a t 5 in the morning.

I l e f tf r ~ m

the a i rpo r t of what was then Camp Columbia andlanded in Flor ida .

MODERATOR Comrade Caste l lanos • • •

N ~ / S M A N : Rivero , was t he re any spec ia l r eason which made you

l eaJe Cuba t ha t way on the very day of the t r iumph of the

Revolu t ion?

RIVERO: Yes , I had a very impor tan t reason. I was 19 years old

a t the t i m ~ a n d my f a the r , Andres Rivero · Aguero had been

e lec ted pres ident in the e l ec t i ons of November 1958.

MODERATOR : Comrade Mart ioe o

NEWSMAN Why did you become a coun te r revo lu ti onar Y?

RIVERO: Well as ide from the i n f luence of my family , which

l og ica l ly I f e l t s t rong ly the re w·as a lso the inf luence of my

envi ronment t ha t is the world I lived in and of which I was

r e a l l y a product . Al l t h i s made me t u rn aga ins t the Revolu t ion

on the very day of its t r iumph . In order to answer your quest ion

concre te ly , I would say t h a t it was because of the in f luences of

my fami ly , y soc i a l o r i g i n , my environment the psychology {

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the world I belonged to and the enormous propaganda t h a t ex i s t ed

aga ins t t he Revolut ion and aga ins t s oc i a l i s t ideas G The fundamental

th ing was t ~ t I be l i eved t h a t a l l t h a t was the t ru th so I became ·an enemy of the Revolu t ion on January 1 1959. I would a l s o l i ke

t o add i nc iden ta l ly , because I have had to ment ion my f a t h e r s

name every ~ i m e in orde r to exp lai n the essen t i a l r eason why I

l e f t Cuba on the very day of the r e v o l u ~ i o n r y t r iumph t h a t

while I have been f u l l y i ~ e n t i f i e d w ith the Revolut ion fo r the

p a s t few year s , my f a t h e r as y ou know has been, i s and I

am ce r t a in , w il l cont inue t ~ be an enemy of t he Revolut ion .

In othe r words we a re di ame t r i ca l l y opposed i n p o l i t i c s , in

sp i t e of t ha t , I still have the same a f fec t i on fo r him the

same re spec t and deep love t h a t I have had fo r him a l l my/



l i f e . I would a lso l ike to add t hat my fe el ings t owards my

fa ther stem not only from a pur e ly family t i e ~ but because

I know tha t my fa ther has always been an 2ones t man, perhaps

a rare exception in Cuban pol i t i c s of the pas t .

MODERATOR C om.rade Prado . . •

NhVSMAN Can you t e l l us something of your l i f e in the United

States and of how your ideas began to change?

RIVERO : On January l , 1959 I decided to f igh t the R e v o l u t i ~ nI par t ic ipa ted n a number of aggressions against the Revolution

from i nside the United States and in other countr ies , during

1959 1960 and 1961 r igh t up to the Pla7a Giron invasion, in

which I also par t ic ipa ted . I was one of the founders of a

small counterrevolutionary group, the f i r s t to be organized in

U.S. t e r r i t o ry to f igh t the Cuban Revolution. t was ca l le d

The \ lhi te Rose. I also took par t in othe r events a t the t ime,

but I don t th ink it necessary to enumerate th em here . In the

Bay of Pigs invasion I fought on the beaches ca l led Playa Largaand Playa Giron. I was captured and held prisoner , with the

re s t o the invaders, for a l i t t l e more than 20 months unt i l

Deceaber 1962 when as you wil l reca l l , the prisoners were

exchanged and r ~ t u r n e d to the United Sta tes . Speaking of

po l i t i c a l pos i t ions , I would l ike to say tha t when I was

re l eased I was what you would ca l l a l ibe ra l democrat, tha t

was what my pol i t i c s we r e from 1959 to 1962. However, around

the time I was exchanged, I began to understand tha t l ibe ra l

representa t ive de•ocracy was not exact ly the bes t system with

which to combat communi sm because I had seen so much dis loya l ty

cynicism and pervers ion under cap i ta l i sm. Therefore , a t the

beginning of 1963 I turned to na t iona l is t ideas . However, I

soon rea l ized t ha t th i s ne w po l i t ica l posi t ion, which was a

react ion against my earlie r pol i t i ca l be l i e f s was in rea l i ty

a contradic t ion, a f a l s e h o o d t became mere and more evident

tha t eounterrevolutionary nat ional i sm would lead me s t r a igh t

to fascism, and we haTe a great many cases of t ha t happening

in the counterrevolut ion. ~ h r e o r e to avoid going through

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what had happened to o ther coun te r revo lu t ionar i es who went from

s imple reac t iona ry n a t i onalism to fasc i sm, which in essence a re

the sam e . th ing , I simply de c ided to s t i c k t o r e a l nat ional i sm a.

type of na t iona l i sm whic n in many ways co inc i d e s ·v i tj the pos i t i on s

adop tee today ·by a number of Lat in American coun t r i e s who a re in

favor of c lose r r e l a t i ons and a po l i c y of re spec t and cons ide ra t ion

for the Cuban revo lu t ionary process , Tha t i s , when I adopted t h i s

pos i t i on I rea l ized t h a t I r e a l l y had only two choices befo re me:

to advance towards fasc ism, as I sa id befo re , or to d o ~ p o s i t i o nof an t i - imper i a l i s t na t iona l i sm. I a l s o r ea l i zed t ha t the

d f f e r e ~ c e between ant i - impe r i a l i s t nat ional i sm, or r ea l na t iona l i sm,

t ~ t form of na t iona l i sm preached y M6rt i the Apostle ~ n d p r o c l ~ i m e din i s works where he c a l l e d the United Sta t e s by i t s r e a l name,

o.nd caLled U S . ·p o l i t i c s by l t s r ea l name, t ha t i s , as imperia l i sm,

l r ea l i zed t ha t t he re was a p ra c t i c a l l y . impercep t ib le d i s t ance , a

ve ry smal l s tep , oetween a genuine ly n a t i o n a l i s t i c P?Si t ion and a

r evo lu t ionary pos i t i on v

MODERATOR: Comrade Caste l lanos • .•

NEWSH AN : Rivero , you were speaking of the sc-ce . l led cou n t e r revo}u

t i ona ry na t iona l i s t s who became f a s c i s t s . We understand t h a t t hese

fasc i s t groups were responsib le fo r the t e r r o r i s t a t tacks agains":

some of Cuba's diplomat ic miss ions abroad . I s t h a t r i gh t ?

RIVERO: Tha t s abs ·o l u t e l y r i gh t . The· coun te r revo lu t ionary fa sc i s t s

are the au thors , the c re a to r s and the perpe t ra t o r s of t he t e r r o r i s t

campaign which began some t ·en years ago under the name of n::he

w r l ~ n g the roads of the w o r l d and which s spreading even

now as I can see fr6m t h ~ pre s s r e por t s I have read r e c e n t l y ?

I can say t ha t the c h ie f s of t hose t e r r o r i s t groups are pe r

cent f a s c i s t , tha t i s , publ i c and admi t ted admirers of Muss 0 l in i ,

H i t l e r , Primo de Rivera and of the newes t inca rna t ion of fascisffi ,

the t y ran t of Ch i l e , Augusto Pinoche t . Each of those t e r r o r i s t

bands which opera te in the .Uni t ed St a t e s and in othe r coun t r i e s ,

sucb as Mexico .1• Venezuela and Spain , are d e f i n i t e l y f a s c i s t .

They have adopted t e r r or i sm as t h e i r s t r ategy because to a c e r t a i n

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degree they r ea l i ze t ha t what they ca l l the cause of ant icom-

munism, t ha t i s the s t ruggle of the counte r r e vo lu t ion ha s

fa i i e .d and they belie:ve tha t t e r ro r i sm i s the only way l e f t

open to them. I can confident ly say t ha t t e r ror i sm i s the

d i rec t r e s u l t of the f a i l u re of th e coun te r revo lu t ion as a

p o l i t i c a l cause . I would say t ha t t e r ro r i sm i s a t yv i ca l

symptom of de fe a t .

MODBHATOR Comrade Prado . .

NEWSMAN From what you say I gather t ha t you have ce r t a i n

s ec re t informat ion as to the a c t i v i t i e s of those f a s c i s t groups .

m I cor rec t?

RIVERO: Yes, I have. During the course of my revo lu t ionary work

in the Uni ted Sta t e s I h d close r e l a t i ons with most of those

f a sc i s t groups , the crea to r9 of the t e r r o r i s t bands w h ~ h have

been func t ion ing s ince 1964.

MODERATOR Comrade Caste l lanos •••

NEWSMAN You have sa id t ha t the f a s c i s t d i r e c t t he a t t a c ks

agains t our diplomat ic miss ions . Could you expand ~ t h i s?

RIVERO: Of course . As I sa i d the t e r r o r i s t campaign s t a r t ed i n

1964, as a c re a t ion of the Cuban N a t iona l i s t Movement which i s

I repea t of Nazi a f f i l i a t i o n:, , a fac t which i s ve ry well known

among coun te r revo lu t ionary c i r c l e s . The campaign s t a r t e d with

an a t t a c k aga ins t the United Nat ions bui ld ing . F a s c i s t elements

hur led a bazooka p ro j e c t i l e agains t theUN

bu i ld ing . Fortunate ly ;the p ro j e c t i l e d id not make impact and f e l l i n t o t he Eas t River .

As I s a id t h i s was the opening r o ~ of the War along the roads

of the w o r l d which in sp i t e o f these cr imina l ac t i ons spread

and made moderate progress u n t i l 1967 and 1968 when, under the

inf luence of t h i s t e r r o r i s t c ur r e n t new bands were c rea ted

such as Cuban Power, the Secre t Anticommunist Army and othe rs .

Tbese groups un i t ed and in 1968 s t a r t e d a t e r r o r i s t campaign

which reached somewhat l a rge propor t ions because in a littl l e s s

than a year they exploded more than 70 bombs in the Uni ted St a t e s

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tha t i s they car r ied ou t a t l s as t 70 t er r oris t at tacks. As

many of y o u ~ will remember , these at t a eks were fundamentally

aimed agains t the dip l oma t ic miss i ons of the countries which

mainti n ~ d

re la t ion a wi t h Cuba , that i s th os e European countr iesand Mexic o wh ich had f i ?mly r ~ f u s e d to t ake par t .in the criminal

U. S. i mposed pol icy of b lo ckading Cuba. That t e r ro r i s t campaign

of 1968 .was also aimed against a n1. 1Dlber of other counterrevolu-

t ionar ies who··were engaged in what we might ca l l cap i t a l i s t

::J.ctiv i t i e s tha t i s the Cubans who ran businesses, etc . In

ethe l. words, a campaign agai ns t the c om1.terevolutionary cap i t a l i s t s

who refused to contr i bute economically to the upkeep of the t e r ro r i s t

·0ands, because, obvi ously, tha t campaign demaged the in te res t·s of

the Cuban busine s smen. However , in October 1968, precise ly when

the p ol i t .i cal l i f e of the United S t a t ~ s was centered on the coming

p r es ident ia l elect ions , the U ~ S ~ repressive forces, especial ly the

Federal Bureau of Inves t i gation; decided to eliminate those groups,

c h i ~ f l y because U S. public opinion and the press were exer t ing

grea t pressure on the FBI to make sure that the elect ions would

be held in a climate of peace. Therefore, Cuban Power, National i s t ·

Movement , ESA and other smaller groups were neutral ized some three

or fo ur weeks before the 1968 e le c t ions o

· .MODERATOR: Comrade Ma r t i ••

NElJSMAN: Rivero, 've understand, however tha t · those t e r ro r i s t

ac t iv i t i es continuede I s tha t r igh t ?

RIVERO : Yes, they continued because the neu t ra l iza t ion process

was rea l ly ineffect ive and only t emporary . That i s the neut r a l iza-

t .on of thos e groups was an act i on fundamentally car r i ed out sot hat the ·e l ec t ions ·could be held in a climate of peace . o w v ran anal ys i s qf the c ounterrevolut ionary events of the pas t 10

years shows u\ tha t a l tt le more than t hre e years af t er t le

FBI thought t had neutral ized the ·t e r ro r i s t s tll:eY resumed

aGt ivi t ies with an act ion tha t was r ea l ly criminal , The Cuban

t rade off ice in Mont.real was a t tacked. i .n ear ly Apxil 1972 o The

off ice wns destroyed and a ·Cuban r evolu t i onary was ki l l ed . This



a t t a ck was ca r r i e d 0 11.t by a t e r ro r i s t band ca l l ed Young Cuba in

coord ina t ion with o th e r f a s c i a ~ elements which r e s ide d and as

f a r as I know st ll re s ide in Montreal and o ther Cana d ian c i t i e s .

They had been col labora t ing wi t h the campaign of th e Cuban Nat ion-

a l i s t ov ement s in c e 1 9 6 ~ I should a l so mention tha t the Cuban

embassy i n Otta\va was at t a cked i n 1966 and 1967 These a .c t iv i t i e s

\' ere ca r r i ed out by the Young Cuba b and which i s made up of a

number of young f a s c i s t s , some of whom had belonged to· t he group

of f ormer pre s ide n t Carlos Pr io Socarras and o the r s to the group

l ed by Ramiro de l a F e an invader of P laya Giron a counter revolu

t i ona ry who was sentenced to three and a h a l f years in pr i s on in

the Un i t ed Sta t e s fo r i l l e g a l ac t i v i t i e s . I be l ieve t h a t the

act ion was f inanced by a donat ion of 2500 do l l a r s which former

pres iden t C ar l os Pr io So carras gave to the Young Cuba b a ~ d In

the opera t ion aga ins t the Cuban t rade . miss i on i n Montrea l the

coun te r revo lu t ionar i es Eduardo Paz and Rafae l Perez Torpedo had

d i rec t p a r t i c i p a t i o n in c oord in a t i on wi t h a person whose l a s t

name was Soto a r e s ide n t of Montreal . These young men who had

been members o f Young Cuba , l a t e r c rea ted a f a s c i s t group a l s o

dedicated to t e r r o r i s t act ions . ca l led the Cuban Neorevolut ionary

Act ion Group. In the middle of 1973 they planned a persona l a t · ackagains t the Cuoan ambassador in ex ic o s Lopez Muifio o Lat e r a f t e r

the b l o o ~ y coup in Chile on September 11 , 1973, these peop le

re jo ined t he group l e d by Ramiro de l a Fe . Towards the end of

1973, the pe rson who coordinated the work of the Chi lean counte r

rev o lu t i onary ex i l e s in Miami . a newsman ca l l ed Pedro Ernes to

Di az i n t im a te ly l i nked to t he cr iminal Chi lean group c a l l e d

Father land and Freedom , and to the m l tary who made the .coup

in Chi le , e s t ab l i shed close contact wi t h the t e r r o r i s t band

which .had ac ted in Montreal and which a t the t ime was l e d by

Ramiro de l a Fe . In t h i s way , Cuban and Chilean counter revolu

t onar i e s c rea ted the so-ca l led P r o ~ C h i l e Committee fundamental ly

to make propaganda favorable to the f a s c i s t mi l i a ry · junta because

the i n t e rna t i ona l s i t u a t i o n of . the j un t a f r om - t he moment they

c ommitted the crime of assass ina t ing Pres iden t l l e n d ~ and of

a s s a s s ina t ing the hopes fo r l i be r t y of the Chi lean peop le was

s o ne ga t ive t h a t. the jun ta cons1.dered t necess ary to e n l i s t the

a id b ~ c e r t a i n elem e n t s ch i e f l y w1 t h i n the Uni ted Sta t e s . Moreover

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a f ew days af te r the heroic fa l l of President Allende, Colonel

Eduardo Sepulveda, an intima·te fr iend of the tyrant of Chi;J-e

Augusto Pinochet , vis i ted Miami and personal ly met with Ramiro

de l a Fe and his group of young t e r ro r i s t s . As fa r as I know,

a pact was s igned between the Chilean fasc is t colonel and other

ELements who accompanied him an.d the group. of Cuban counterrevolu

t ionar ies under the leader13hip of Ramiro de la Fe. According

to t he terms of the pac t i f the counterrevolutionaries in Miami

and in New York c.ar r ied out a publ ic i ty campaign favorable to the

junta and i f th is publ ic i ty campaign yielded re su l t s then the

colonel , Eduardo Sepulveda, promised to so l i c i t the aid of the

tyrant of Chile and persuade the .mil i tary junta to give the

Cuban co ..lnte rrevolut ionaries arms, equipment and money. As I~ i d before, th is aid from the Chilean mil i tary junta has two

object ive.s : in the f i r s t plac.e to finance the campaigns of ·

the Pro-Chile Committee_ which i s s i ~ p l y a propaganda organiza

t ion ·and in the second p_ace to f ina-nce di rec t ly the t e r r o r i s t

ac t iv i t i es of the groups in U S. t e r r i ory .and. in the t e r r i ory

of several countries in Latin America and Europe.

MODERATOR Comrade Prado o••

NEWSMAN In other ·words, we can say tha t these counterrevolutionary

actions are f i nanced by the Chilean fasc is t junta?

RIVERO: Obviously, the ent i re t e r ro r i s t c a m p a i ~ which has a

his tory of t enyea rs now, has not been financed by the Chilean

junta. Nor would I say tha t a l l the t e r ro r i s t actions going

o;n a t th i s moment, l e t us say a f t e r Sep.tember 11, 1973, are

financed by the Chilean junta . But . I can confidently saytha t the t e r ro r i s t campaigns being carr ied out by the _group

of Cuban counterrevolutionaries .led by Ramiro de la Fe, made

up ~ former invaders of Playa Giron, the members of the Secret

Anticommunist Army which operated in 1968 and was l a t e r temporari ly

neutra l ized and the group of young fa sc i s t s w ~ o committed the

crime of Montreal ·, · can truthf: U.lly say tha t the act:i:_vit i e s o

these peop.le are directly- £inan6ed by the mon81 of the Chilean

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fa s c is t mil itary j u n t ~ I would like . tb add something which

i s not known publ i c l y , but . \>Thich i s we l l ·known to t he coun te r -

l'evo lu t ionary e l emen t s of the fa s c1.st cur ren t now op e r a t i n g in

U. S . t e r r i t o ry , a ~ d h a ~ i s the fol lowing: When the prime

minis t e r of Cuba, Fide l Cast ro . v i s i t e d Chi le in October 1971,

a group of f a s c i s t c oun te r revo lu t ionary e l ements , .sponsored by

the CIA , planned to k i l l the l e a d ~ r of the Cuban Revolu t ion and

P res ide n t Al l ende . The person in charge of t h i s opera t ion was

Jesus Dominguez Beni t ez , n icknamed El I s leno , a n · i nd iv idua l

who had be en i n t im a te ly l inked to Cuban Pow·e r , a t e r r o r i s t group

whic h as I sa id befo re was a c ~ i v e in 1968. · He had a l so p a r t i c i p a t e ci

in the a t tempt to i n f i l t r a t e a group of coun te r revo lu t ionar i es in .tG

Cuba in e a r ly January 1 9 7 0 a group · l ed by Vicente Mendes. J esus

Dominguez Ben i tez has been a r r e s t e d twice by the FBI. He has

been sentenced tw} ce by t ~ o d i f fe ren t cour t s for i l l e g a l a c t i v i t i e s .

However, a f t e r j u s t a .few days in pr i son he was r e l e a s e d and g iv en

abso l u t e freedom of movement, inc luding the freedom to col l e c t

weapons and organize an assass in a t i o n p l o t aga ins t two government

cbie fs of La t in America. The work of t h i s group, d i r e c·t e d by

Dominguez Beni t ez , had the coopera t ion of severa l Cuban o u n r -re vo lu t iona r i e s l i v i n g in C a r a c a s Venezuela , who gave Beni t ezf.al se papers acc redi t ing him as a Venezuelan newsman. He used

these papers to t r a v e l to Sant iago de Cuba to cover the v i s i t

of Fide l Cas t ro in Chi le . La te r I found out · t h a t Beni tez also

h a d the coopera t ion o f a number of Chi lean mi l i t a ry men who had

be en p lo t t i ng aga ins t P res iden t Allende s ince t he day the Popula r

Uni ty Government won the e lec t ions in September 1970 : Domingu ez

Beni tez re tu rned to Venezuela and from t he re h e went to the Un i l;1.cl

S t a t e s . I ask myself the ques t ion of how i s it poss ib le tna t

U. S. a u t h o r i t i e s were no t ab l e t o con t ro l the comings and goings

of a person who had · been sentenced twice by the cour t s in Miami

~ d I ask mysel f ano ther . quest ion: Are the U au tho r i t i e s

i ncapable of keeping t he i r borders from being used fo r these

cr iminal p lans o r did they de l i be ra t e l y close ·t h e i r eyes to t ha t

s i t ua t ion?

MODERATOR Comrade s t e l l n o s

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NEWS N : Gun you l l u s s omething about the pre sent plans of

the t e r r o r ~ s t group s whi ch are operat ing in several countries?

R I V E R OI can

~ a yt hat the te r ro r i s t campaigns wh ich these

people hav e carr i ed out i n t he pas t 10 years against the

diploma t i c m i s s ~ o n s of several countries are aimed a t s ta r t ing

open war f a re between the most aggressive fact ion of the counter-

revolu t i on and the nat ions of Latin America tha t are in favor

of ra i s ing tpe b lo ckade g a ~ s t Cuba n the forthcoming 14th

Consult a t ive l1ee t ing of the Foreign Ministers of Latin America··

to open OL No vember 8 th in Quito. This warfare consists princ ipa l -

ly of t e r ror i s t a t tacks against the diplomatic missions of the

nat ions which vo t e in favor of ra i s ing the blockade, or more

prec is e ly , ~ h e dip lomat i c missions of those countr ies n the

United State s and i n other countries where these l 'aseist bands

operate , Me xico ? Spain , Venezuela and other countr ies . The plan

i s to assas s inate t he diplomats, ambassadors and foreign ministers

of thos e n a t i o n s

N ~ S M A N They actually p l an to assassinate Lat in ·American

diploma t s?

RIVERO: h t s r ight That s t ra tegy was . draw.p up in the middle

of 1973 when che mos t aggressive elements of the counterrevolution

began t o note pos i i v·e changes on the par t of the Latin American

countr ies in .regard t o the Cuban Revolution. The fundamental plan

of th e s e e lement s i s t o assassinate two specif ic f igures: Secretary

of Sta t e Henxy Kis s inge r and Foreign Ministe r Gonzalo Facio of

Costa Rica , who as we know has been the main drive behind the Quito

meetin g . Recen tly , I discovered a piece of information in a UoS.newsp ap er w b l ~ h exp ands and corroborates what I have known pr ivate ly

s i ~ c e 1972., s ine€ t he plan to assassinate the U oB .;· secre tary of

s t a t e began to t ake cer ta in form a t the end of 1973. ~ s plan

has now be en a ctua l l zed . This fact which, I repeat , I ve known

pr iva te ly , has been corroborated by the UoS. journa l i s t , Jack

Ander son , wo.o I bel ieve i s the most widely read columnist in the

United S cates .

MODERATOR: m r a d J os e Prado o••

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NEWSMAN In addi t ion to the t e r ro r i s t groups you ve re fe r red to

we understand tha t s imilar groups or bands have been created

recent ly . What can you t e l l us about them?

RIVERO: I have some information here about those groups. In the

f i r s t place the t e r ro r i s t cel ls of the Cuban Nationa l is t Movement

continue to func t i on . as they have been since before 1968. These

elements have the i r major r esu l t s \ Ie could ca l l them, in the

North Zone, which in c ludes the metropoli tan area of New York

City and some par t s of New Jersey. These elements founded the so

ca l l ed Zero r o u p a t e r ro r i s t band which publ ic ly took r e sponsi

b i l i t y for the k i l l i ng of Jose El ias de la Torr iente 70 years

ol d, who the fa sc i s t s accused of having s to len funds from t he

so-cal led Torr ien t e pro jec t which were to be used to f ig h t the

Cuban Revolut ion. A few ~ i e e k s af t e r the k i l l i ng of Torr iente

who was shot in the back, another 70-year old man, Ernesto Ro

driguez, pres ident of the Chris t ian-Democratic Movement in exi le

tha t i s ~ the counterrevolutionary Christian-Democrats, was also

shot to death in i m i Four days af t e r Torriente was ki l l ed

the leader of Cuban Powe r in 1968 and the head of the t e r ro r i s t

bands, Arturo Rodriguez Vives was ki l l ed n New York, and a t the

end of August of th i s year, the leader of the Cuban Na t i ona l i s t

Movement, an 1nvader of Playa Giron, leader of t he Zero gr oup

Hector Diaz Limonta, was strangled in Union Ci ty New Jersey

Of c ourse, these k i l l ings are only a t iny par t of the in te rna l

war within the ranks of the counterrevolution which, as we have

s een, has cost the l ives of several persons. Then we have the

so-cal led Secre t Cuban Government which was founded in 1972

and which car r ied out several spectacular t e r ro r i s t act ionsunt i l 1974 when t jo1ned the so-ca l l ed National Front for Cuban

Liberat ion (FNLC), which i s the most act ive t e r ro r i s t group r ight

w

The Secret Cuban Government i s a t e r ro r i s t band made up of the

former members of Cuban Power from 1968, a group ca l led the RMIRR All iance, and the Marti Insurrect ional Movement. That i s

these movements are the po l i t i c a l facade fo .r t h i s t e r ro r i s t group.

The Secre t Cuban Governement i s most act ive a lso in the North Zone,0

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t h a t i s , the i ndus t r i a l i zed nor theas te rn p a r t of the Uni ted

Sta t e s . In November 1973, the Secre t Cuban Government planned

to assass ina te the Cuban ambassador to the Uni ted Nat ions ,

Ricardo Alarcon Quesada. To ca r ry out th i s p la n , the S e c re t

Cuban Government ren ted an apar tment in the up-town s e c t ion

of Manhattan n New York. The apar tment was used to s t o re

explos ive p l&s t ics mate r ia l known as C-3, C-4 and D-A-9, two

M-3 machine guns, hand grenades and severa l automat ic p i s t o l s

and ammunit ion. e should note t ha t the p l a s t i c bombs found

in the apar tment are i den t i ca l to those which the fo l lowing

month, o r two months l a t e r in January 1974, were found in a

ch il

dren ' s playground loca ted on the grounds of the Cubanembassy in Mexico. But the a c t ion in Mexico was ca r r i ed out

y a t h i rd t e r ~ o r i s t band, Cuban Act ion.

Cuban Act ion i s a t e r r o r i s t group made up of members of the

Insu r rec t i ona l Movement for Revolut ionary Recovery (MIRR) which

should no t be confused with the Chi lean p a t r i o t i c MIR. This

MIRR i s the an t i thes i s of pa t r i o t i sm , Cuban Act ion a l so inc ludes

members of the so -ca l l ed Revolut ionary Direc to ry . On be ha l f

of t h i s group, a young man, 26 or 2 7 ~ t r a ve l e d to Par i s in

August 1973. The extremely powerful bomb he was prepar ing

exploded in h i s hands, k i l l e d him i n s t a n t l y , des t royed h i s body

which s imply disappeared , and des t royed an en t i r e f l oo r of t he

ho te l where he was s t ay ing nea r P a r i s , the Abren V i l l e Hote l .

This man, Juan Fel ipe de l a Cruz, was r e a l l y a vic t im of the

Cuban Act ion h ~ f s who had sen t him to P a r i s . Of course , he

was a t e r r o r i s t ~ he was a lso the v ic t im of the chie f s who

d id no t take any r i sks a t a l l . In add i t ion to the Cuban Action

group, the re i s the Nat iona l F ron t fo r Cuban Libera t ion , t he FNLC,a mixture of terror:i .s t groups which belonged to e a r l i e r t e r r o r i s t

organ iza t ions . The FNLC i s a lso made up of mercenar ies from the

UoS. Army who were t r a i ned in For t Jackson : For t Benning and

F o r t Knox and who now have a ve te rans ' a s s oc i a t i on . The FNLC

a lso inc ludes the fo l lowers of Ramon Orozco Crespo; the group

of p i r a t e s who have ca r r i ed out severa l m a r i t i ~ e a t tacks aga ins t

Cuban f ishermen; a team of pa ra c hu t i s t s c a l l e d The Golden Fale·ons ,

and a d i s s ide n t group trom the Authent ic Par t y of the Miami Area. ·

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I would l ike to add tha t there i s absolute. coordination between

the Secret u b ~ n Government Cuban Action ·a.nd the FNLC. They

are r ea l ly a s ing l e group which i s branched out de l ibera te ly to

give the impression of a bigger membership and ·to mislead public

opinion. The FNLC i s responsible for the mailing of posta l

p ackages containing bombs which they have sent from Mexico to

several Cuban embassies . One of those· packages which arr ived

dt the Cuban embassy in Lima ser iously injured a ·Cuban woman

employee and another one which was sent to the Cuban embassy in

l T.dr id in jured two Spanish employees of . the embassy.

'lODERltTOR: Comrade Castellanos •• .

NEwt:>M.AN: Could you give us the names of the count.errevcHutionaries

who lead these t e r ro r i s t groups?

RIVERO: The t e r ro r i s t groups have c o o r d i n a t o r ~ ce l l c h i e ~ s and

cel l members. The coordinators or main leaders are . the following:

Felipe Rivero Diaz and Guillermo Novo Sampol of the Cuban Nat iona l i s t

Movement and the Zero Group . Fel ipe Rivero di rec ts the work inFlorida and Guillermo Novo in the New York area . Hector A Fabian

Francisco Hernandez and Guillermo M guel of the Secret Cuban

Government; Or lando Bosch Avi la , Jt ntonia Calatayud of the Cuban

Action group; Ramon Orozco Crespo Angel J . Ferrer Frank Castro

Humberto Lopez and Alfre do Sayuz of the National ~ r o n t for Cuban

Liberation? which was recent ly joined by G u s t a v ~ Marin Duarte ,

The ce l l chiefs of the above-mentioned t e r ro r i s t bands are Orlando

Atienza Perez I ~ n a c i o Novo Sampol and Felipe Martinez Blanco of

the Nationa l is t Movement and Zero group , which are rea l ly one and

the same th ing. Oscar Luis Acevedo and Edwin Gonzalez invaders

of Playa Giron and former members of the Secret Anticommunist

Army of the Secret Cuban Government. Guido Sanz and Perez de

Vil la invader ofFlaya Giron : · former secre tary-general of the

MIRR, of the movemen t which was led by Orlando Bosch Avila who

i s the coordinator of Cuban Action in San Juan Puerto Rico .

lt e a lso have Conra.do Rodriguez Sanchez Humberto Lopez J r . ; Luis

Cresp o und J·ua.n J ose Pe·r u l l ero of the l :a on nl Front for Cuban

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Liberation. ~ o p e z and Crespo were ser iously injured in March

of th is year when a . medium- size bomb exploded in thei r hands

as they were t ry i ng to place t inside a book to send by mail

to a Cuban embassy. This explosion took place in the home of. the counterrevol u t i onary Al fredo Sayuz who has worked as

coor dinator tha t i.s., h coordinated the work of these three

gr oups. There are othe·r people who., in addit ion to part ic ipat ing

ac t ive ly in te r ror is t ac t iv i t ies carry out work we can- describe

a s miscellaneous : Horacia M ~ n g u i l l o n Rolando Minguillon Arturo

Munoz, Antonio Mendez Jose Perez Linares Pedro Hernandez

Francisco Mol na , Raf ae l Gonzalez Labrada , Gabriel Abay and Jose

Aguila Kaliman . The se peopl e were operating in New York C ty ,, ·

although Aguila Kal man al so l i ves in the Dominican Republ i c .

There are ~ l e o Luis · Tornes director of a counterrevolutionary

newspaper Justo · Alon·ao Jose Llever t Eduardo Paz and Jesus Lazo •.These pe9ple coordinate t e r ro r i s t ac t iv i t i es in Miami. We also

have Aldo Rosado Henry Aguero and Pedro Arnao who work in a

t e r ro r i s t group in Los Angeles California .

N E W S M N ~ You mentioned t hat t hese groups had a plan to assas-

sina t e Lat in American dip l omats . I th ink that th i s i s a veryimport ant pi ece of information . Can you t e l l us which of these

groups i B p lanning to assassinat e the diplomats of Latin America?

RIVERO That plan ~ been -eoord.i.:nated y the following counter-

r evolut ionar ies : Orlando Boseh Avila , Antonio Calatayud Hector

A. Fabian Ramon Orozco Crfspo Feli pe Rivero Diaz Juan Jose

P e r u l l ~ r o Angel J . Ferrer and Gustavo Marin Duarte.

I know tha t they have had meet i ngs i n the past few months. Tbere

i s also s ome thing wh i ch I have n ot mentloned up to now, and that

i s the publ ic ly known fact tha t on Sep t ember 19th of th i s year

the Costa Rican foreign mini s te r , Gonzalo Facio , was threatened

wi th deat h i n t he ci ty of Washington . This threat was public ly

announced by the . ~ b a s s a d o r of Costa Ri ca in • aonington , Bodolfo

Silva . More over the U S . Se c ret Service appoi nte d f i ve of i t s

agent s to protect the · Costa Rican mi nis te r dur i ng his s tay in .-·

Waf:fnington. I t i s known t hat a terroxa sin; ee l l went to Washington

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around Sep tembe r 18th . coincid ing with the meeting of the

Permanent Counci l of the O which took p l a ce in wa s h in l t on in

t he Panamerican Union b u i l ding on September 20th which agreed

t o ca l l the Q.ui t o mee t i n r; in Novembe r . This i s what has been

commented on with in the aggress ive counte r revo lu t ionary c i r ~ l e sin the ir mee t i n g s and now the columnist Jack Anderson has not

on ly c on irmed it bu t has a l so mentioned something I had no

knowledge of the fac t t ha t these t e r r o r i s t bands ~ p l o t t i n g

t o assass ina t e ·the membe r s of the Uni ted .Sta tes Congress who

favor a rev i ew of U S . po l i cy on Cuba

l 10DERATOR: Comrade Prado

NEW SMAN: You ment ioned t ha t the persons who have a t t acked our

f i shermen have been members of these t e r r o r i s t groups . Could

you be more exp l i c i t ?

RIVERO: The coun te r revo lu t ionar i es Juan Jose P e r u l l e r o Antonio

I g l e s i a s and Ramon Orozco Crespo are members of those p i r a t e groups.

e ~ l e r Q and Ig le s1as were t h e tw o l eaders of the a t t acks agains t

t he town of Boca de Sama, where they cowardly k i l l e d two Cuban

revolu t iona r ie s and in jured severa l p ersons among t h e m ~ a

13-year p ld g i r l who had to have her l eg amputated because of

her wounds . Afte r t h a t ac t ion Pe ru l l e ro I g l e s i a s and Crespo

jo ined the FNLC. Before th i s Crespo had ca r r i ed out a number

of a t tacks aga ins t Cuban f i sh ing vesse l s in 1972 and 1973. His

group went so f a r as to assass ina te a humble f i sherman and to

kidnap h i s body. Ramon Orozco Crespo has been the bodyguard of

the Flo r ida m ul t im i l li ona i r e Maurice Fe r r e r fo r s e ve ra l years .

I would l i ke to add, s ince we a re speaking of the people who tookp a r t in these mari t ime aggres s ions t ha t they a re now f r ee ly

walking on the s t r ee t s of Miami and New York and pub l i c ly boas t ing

of t h e i r ac t ions such as the one where they a t t acked a f i s h ing

v i l l age and among othe r th ings made a 13-year old g i r l lose her

l eg . They boas t o f t h i s in pub l i c they rega rd themselves as

heroes and o ther people i n t ha t same aggress ive cur ren t accep t

them as such . These peop l e have publ ic ly dec la red t h a t independ

e n t ly of i n t e rna t i ona l de ten te which i s a l ready e v ide n t they will

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continue to f ight , and I am quo t ing t hem exactly , even i f they

have to f ight the U<S , author i t ies t hemselves ,, I should also

say tha t these aggressions against Cuba have b e e ~ carr ied out

from boats and launches now anchoredn

tbe ffiami River whichruns through the middle of the c i ty Q

However, although the boats are there pl ain to see, the author i t ies

apparently are bl ind. Those people continue to walk the s t re e t s

of Mi ami, they continue to posse s s weapons and equipment which

were used in the at tack against Sama and in other act ions , and

continue to possess the vessels tha t were used in those at tacks .

They also continue to plot g i n s ~ Cuba in s p ~ t e of the fac t tha t

there i s a t rea ty against p i racy signed by Cuba and the United

States on February 15, 1973 . ·

MODERATOR: Comrade Castellanos . •

NEWSMAN: To change the subject a l i t t l e , do you believe tha t the

press has published everything about the involvement of ~ b a ncounter revolut ionar ies i n the Watergate -case ?

RI VERO: I don t be l ieve t hat everything ha s been r evealed , a tl eas t a l l the name s . I can say wi th cer t a int y tha t the group

of f ive counterrevo l ut ionar i es, inc ludi ng J ames Me Cord , who i s

an American but who think s j ust l ike a Cuban counterrevolutionary .

tha t group wh i ch b 'Q5'ke in to the Wa te r gate bui lding or ig ina l ly had

s ix members, but a t the la s t minute i t wa s dec i ded tha t the s ix th

person would not pa r t i c ipate in the act ion . Tha t person was Ange l

J . Ferrer and we ve a l r e ady spoken of hi m. Another name ha sn t

been revealed, tha t of Manuel Ar time Bue sa, c iv i l ia n chief ofthe Playa Giron invasion·, an agent of t he CIA for many years ,

who was also involved dire c t ly i n t he Wa t ergate case. Art ime ,

approximately two years ago , was plo t t i ng to assass i nate the

chief of the Panamanian s ta te , Gener a l Omar Torri jos . ·Artime

had act ive, d ire ct par t i c i pat i on i n the Wa t er gate a f fa i r ,

however his name has never been mentioned. There ar e two more•.

persons involved in tha t scandal - - a l l t h i s i s well known in

counterrevolutionary c i r c le s , _I 1 m no t .inven t i ng th i s , it s

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wide ly ta lked about in thos e c i r c le s - - Mike Suarez Fernandez

and Humberto Lopez , th e coord ina tor of the Front for Cuban

Libera t ion, a te r ro r i s t group wh ic h also had a par t i c ipa t ion

i n the Wa t e rga te case The s e two men are a c t iv is t s of the so

ca l l e d Authen t i c Par ty of the Miami Area , According to comment

ar ies I heard in Miami a nd in New Y o r k the Cuban-origin counter

revolu t ionar ies Bebe Rebozo and Edgardo Butta r i are not e o m p l e t e l ~uut of the Wate rgate scandal 1 I would say they are not even par t i a l

ly out of t ,

O ERATOR: Comrade Mart i •

N a SNAN: You sa i.d before tha t the t e r ro r i s t campaign. i s a r esu l t

of the fa i lu re of the counterrevolution. W h a t ~ n your o p i n i o n ~are the causes of t h i s fa i lu re?

RIVERth Tht t o t a l fa i lu re o f the counterrevolu t ion i s the fac t

that the Cuban Revolut ion i s a hi s to r i c and i r r e ve r s ib le r ea l i t y

The t e r ro r i s t a c t i v i t i e s which have made outlaws out of the counte -

revolu t ionar ies hrnre l ed to a great wave of world prote s t , even on

th e par t of U. S . pub l i c opinion. Moreover , I would say t ha tterror ism i s the epi taph of the c ount errevolut on.

NEW AN: You ve been i n Cuba for a while now. How do you feel and

what are ~ u r impressions of Cuba?

R I V R O ~ I fee l high ly honored and pleased to be able to re turn

t o my country a f t e r s o many years of absence. In the s hort t ime

I ve been here r ive t raveled from one end of the i s l and t o t he

ot her and I can honest ly say tha t I have seen the ext raordin ary

work o.f s-ocial t ransformat ion car ried out by the Cu ban Revo ll.'.t on

which has placed our country on an ast ronimical ly high leve l tU]ong

the nations of the wor ld

MODERATOR: One l a s t quest i on Comrade Marti . ••

NEWSMAN What are your pl ns now?

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RIVERO: Right now I m f inishing a book on the history of the

counterrevolution, which goes f r o ~ the founding of the White

Rose group in January 1959 to the Watergate a f f a i r which

scarcely three months ago l ed to the resignat ion of the

president of the Unites ata tes I believe tha t the book wil l

·• be .Published soon.

MODERATOR ~ would l ike to thank Carlos Rivero Collado for

his appearance on th is program

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