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CASTRO'S NETWORK IN THE UNITED STATES 339 Senator Dopp. When were these published, by the way? Mr. Sruarr. They were published in September, October, and De- cember 1961. Mr. Sounwine. May they be received for the record, Mr. Chairman ? Senator Dopp. Yes. (The articles referred to follow :) {From the Independent, September 1961} THE FAR PLay FoR Cuna_ COMMITTEE (By Lyle Stuart) (For many months, the editor of the Independent has been asked about his participation in the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. (What follows is a candid report, albeit a personal one. Noth- ing is ever slanted in the Independent to “please” anyone. This article is not intended either to please or offend either the Fair Play for Cuba Committee or its critics.) On April 6, 1960, a full page advertisement appeared in the New York Times. It was headlined: “What Is Happening in Cuba?” and the word “really” was inserted so that it read : “What Is Really Happening in Cuba?” The substory said: . “From Havana come charges of sabotage, ecopomic aggression, counter- revolutionary intrigue, air raids on Cuban cane fields, sugar mills, homes. Against this background, the great news ngencies and & powerful section of tha U.S. press raise a barrage of equally grave accusations What can we be- _ lievg in the welter of conflicting reports? A number of prominjént names appeared in the ad. These included James Baldwin: Simone de, Beauvoir ; Truman Capote: Rev. Donald Harrington; Nor- marNMailer; Julian/Mayfield: Jean Pant Sartee, and -Rennerh Tynan. Ther also included Robert Taber and Richard aps of whom were subsequently to lose their johs as newsmen fo e Columbia Broadcasting System because of their work for fhe Committee. They also included Robert re wie. at the moment of this writing, is flecing with his family froni a se of “1°21” killers in Monroe, N.C. He is being sought because he led aggressive action oD behalf of equal rights for Negroes. (“There are only two kinds of Negroes; the bad ones are niggers and the good ones are darkies,” says prominent Catholic layman Leander “Perez of Louisiana, according to a report in Time. Perez, a multimillionaire politician, is the kind of man southern Americans honor: he was given a testimonial dinner in New Orleans by the most important political figures in the State.) The ad gave me my first knowledgeof the existence of the Fair Play for Cuba Committce. With the exception of t ‘Ainerican Civil Liberties Union, I do not belong to any organizations. lam n n organization mab or a joiner. The material was headlined: “ ‘We only report the facts,’ U.S. newsmen are accustomed to say. Is this trne? Compare the following facts.” I read the ad and was interested in what it had to say. It quoted and cor- rected blatant misstatements that had appeared in the (N.Y.) J ournal-American ; U.S. News & World Report, and Newsweek. A few days before, my wife and I had visited Puerto Rico. We had stayed at an overcrowded hotel in the tourist section of San Juan. By the second day sve had to keep reminding ourselves that we weren't at Miami Beach, for these were the same people, doing the same things, dressing the same way. With a rented car we toured part of the island. The poverty was depressing. The people lacked spirit; they were proud but defeated. Roach and bedbug- infested shacks in which a chair or table were the only furniture often provided ghelter for a family of six. Teenagers were toothless for lack of proper nutri- tion. Clothes were sometimes raggedy shreds. so This was a part of Puerto Rico that tourist s-didn’t visit. , We had reutrned from Puerto Rico noyyore than a week when the Fair Play for Cuba ad appeared in the Times. —_ . Stimulated by the ad I wrote to Fidel Castro to ask for an interview. The Cubans were claiming that the U.S. press wasn’t reporting the Cuban revolution 06-465—63—pt. 6——-2 apn ener ere