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CASTRO'S NETWORK IN THE ‘UNITED STATES 253 This column believes that the Judgments, or at least the affiliations, of such speakers should be fully made known to the public before the university invites the people of Stockton to attend such meetings, or indeed before students are _unwarily exposed to such doctrines. oa er (From the Congressional Record, Mar. 15, 1962, p. 8962] i Far Pay ror Cuna Comiirree STIL Nor PLACED ON Susvenrstve List: ANOTHER SIGS oF WEAKNESS AND IXDECISION IN Ficntine Castro's ComMUNISM (Mr. Cramer (at the request of Mr, Keith) wae granted permission to extend his remarks at this point in the Record and to include extraneous matter.) Mr. Cramer. Mr. Speaker, beginning in April of 1960 and continuing for a period of some 14 months, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee held hear- ings to determine whether the Fair Play for Cuba Committee was a subversive organization and, thus, whether it should properly be placed on the Attorney General's eubversive list. ° . Because large numbers of Cuban citizens have sought refuge in my district and {n other areas of my State which, incidentally, lies less than 90 miles from the Castro prison State of Cuba, I have a more than academic interest in our Govern- ment’s attitude toward the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, and, accordingly, I checked recently with.the Department of Justice in order to ascertain the status of the organization and the Department's present attitude toward it. Imagine my continuing surprise and consternation to learn that the Attorney General has not yet seen fit to list the Fair Play for Cuba Committee as being subversive, in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary produced at the several hearings by the Senate subcommittee. Indeed, I ascertained a certain amount of misguided feeling that this group of rabble rousers had gone underground after Fidel Castro made his open announcement that he bad formally embraced communism, and I seemed to gain the impression that the Department of Justice might feel that there no longer remained any need for being apprehensive about what the Fair Play for Cuba Committee bas recently been up to. Pecause I detect this fecling among those who should be chasing Communists instead of forgetting about them, I should like at this time to bring some vital facts to the attention of the distinguished Members of both branches of the Con- gress, and to sound an unmistakable warning that the Fair Play for Cuba Com- mittee is still organizing new chapters {p order to hasten the fall of our way of life and the spread of Cuba's communism. like briefly to but as in most situations of this type, there of whom probahly came to Tampa since the rise of Castro. But first, I shall briefly review the background of the parent organization, with beadquarters in New York City. It is the same organization that the dis- tinguished chairman of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Senator East- land, and Senator Thomas Dodd, a member of the subcommittee, described as being an obvious Communist operation. The Senate subcommitte became interested in this outfit shortly after the Fair Play for Cuba Committee was born in the spring of 1960, less than 2 years ago. At the opening hearing on April 20 of that year, 8 resident of Connecticut named Caricton Beals testified to having received a letter dated February 9 of that year from one Robert Taber, apparently on the letterhead of CBS News, and request- ing that Beals take an interest in this new committee, who objectives would be the launching of & counterpropaganda campaign. Later, Beals was asked to become cocbairman, but be declined, or so he said. , Speaking of CBS News, later in my remarks I expect to show how this division of the Columbia Broadcasting System and the parent company itself were so ex- pertly duped by this man Taber and by others involved in this nefarious plot to picture Fidel Castro as a regular “salt of the earth.” . There is small reason to believe that Beals remained active, or even very in- terested in this thing for long, but Taber has been the kingpin since its inception, and, so far as is known, is in Cuba right now. ‘