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97-1809 On April 6, 19650, the "New York Times" a daily New York City newspaper, carried a full page advertisement captioned “What Is Really Happening In Cuba" which was sponsored by the "hairy Play For Cuba Committee, Box T2h9 Times, New York", This article reads as follows: “WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING IN CUBA?" "Rrom Havana come cnarges of sabotage, economic aggression, counter-revolutionary intrigue, air raids on Cuban cane fields, sugar mills, homes. Against this packground, the great news agencies and a powerful section of the U.S. press raise a barrage of equally grave accusations. What can we believe in the welter of conflicting reports? — We ONLY REPCRI THE FACTS" U.S. NEVSMEN ARE ACCUSTOMED TO SAY. IS GHIS TRUE? COlPaAns THE FOLLOWING’ FACTS. ' “COMMUNISM: 'A pro-Communist state has been established in Cuba with the clear objective of bargining with Soviet Russia for the munitions of war... '-SOXOLSKY in the New York Journal-America’ True or false? "Ralse, Not a shred of evidence has been produced to sup- port such allegations as the one above, charges consistently used to create a smoke screen behind which the social opjece- tives of the Cuban revolution can be attacked and sabotaged. Cuba's recent trade pact with the Soviet Union represents an effort to find new markets for Cuban sugar, and to obtain, not arms, but agricultural 4mplements and industrial machinery for which credit has been denied in the United States, Many other American republics trade with the Soviets--as does the United States itself, Cuba's Com- munist Party is a tiny minority, with about 16,000 members. In the 1959 labor elections, Communist candidates won in only eight of the 243 locals of the 500,000-member Sugar Workers Federation, and none was elected to the executive . 4e