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254 CASTRO'S NETWORK IN THE UNITED STATES . \ . Rober aver can be described as a disgruntled American, a man who might avé gore on to'a distinguished career as a broadcasting official or in public infor- mation, but somewhere along the line he became caught up in the frenzy t, pro- tect the Castro name and image, and so with another man named Waldo; rank, he put together the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. nee aldo Frank, incidentally, as far back as 1932 te an article for New Masses | magazine entitled “How I came to Communism : § ” Soon after the nucleus of a committee had been f ad in the New York Times headlined “What Is Sponsors of the ad were listed in th and include the name of Truma well-known leftwing authors, a shall hear more. . The ad listed Waldo Frank as chairman and Carleton Beals as cochairman of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee du Taber and a promi- nent New York City physician, Dr. Charles antos uch, as to the cost of the ad and the source of the funds used to e bill for $4,725. While Taber either refused to testify against himself or, at best, was exceedingly evasive in his answers, Dr. Santos-Buch, on the oth remarkabl. the Cuban delegation to the U.N. The tale of rede around Munhattan in a eab, trying to cash is almost tragically funny, but the tho Santos-Buch, a graduate of Cornell at New York Dospital-Cornell Medical Center, freely admitted that the money handed over by Roa was used to pay the New York Times for the ad and, of course, the Times was able to Prove that Taber both ordered and paid for the ad. Santos-Buch, incidentally, is registered as a oreign agent, so I was informed the past week by the Justice Department, . Another interesting witness was a Miss Joanne\Grant, at the time a 30-year-old graduate of Syracuse University, a native of per New, York State but with a checkered career that included a long history of hobnobbing with persons of questionable motives, such as Red China’s premier, Chou En-lai, with whom she was photographed. Miss Grant took the privilege granted American citizens to travel abroad, but overdid herself by traveling to places and at a time that were not covered by her visa. Her troubles with American passport officials are almost legendary, but her resorting to the first and fifth amend- ments while belng questioned by the Senate subcommittee scarcely hide the _ pwell-k: Play for Cuba Committee. ts involved in the organizatio: » many of them too small er mentioning, but the final one I shall allude to is one Richard be obsessed with t Play for Cuba Committee. Along with Taber, the national secretary, Gibson seems clearly to be the power behind the throne. Gibson, fn fact, slong with Taber, is no stranger to the Columbia Broadcasting System family. His interesting career began with 1 year at Kenyon College in Ohio, which he flea without paying his bill. That was in 1950. From there he went on to 1 year at the university in Rome, which wag paid for by the John BH. Whitney Scholarship Foundation. Four years later he was at the Sorbonne in Paris, and this leg of his schooling was paid for by the U.S. Government under the GI bill. Tn addition to kicking around, educationwise, for several years, Gibson spent Yeara in France workin pressure upon CBS Ni offered him a fob. Teague of New York, according to Gibson. Two months after beginning his employment, he became acquainted with Taber, who was also on their payroll. Gibson testified that during his employment with CBS News he had occasion to prepare news broadcasts dealing with the Cuban situation.