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eo e MM 105-8342 The investigations carried on by the United States federal authorities could not prove all the aid received from Communist Cuba by the "Fair Play"; but if one bears. in mind that the comrades on “Prensa Latina" received _ hundreds ef thousands of dollars worth, it is to be pre- sumed that its “cut" was quite large, because just leok blicity which “Fair Play" gave threughout the . United States since 1960! As incidental wages, WALDO FRANK ousands of pesos for praising CASTRO, as did > JEAN _PAULSARTRE,— CARLETON BEALS became CASTRO's paid writer, as did TABER alse... And the others? . During the course of 1960-1961, I was a visiting professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville, &e where there was a branch of the "Fair Play" in operation. a It boasted that it had 21 branches in the United States ‘ and 4 in Canada, with a membership ef 6,000, The New _ Orleans branch was not among them at that time, because USS it was not formed until two years later, when LEE. HARVEY -__ OSWALD, the presumed assassin of Pre ent KENNEDY, re d . ; tto the United States after his contacts with the Co ist UB: ‘!Cuban Ambassadors in Moscow, FAURECHOMON and CAR IVARES —— ; Concerning this last-mentioned fact, thea Communist dictator- ' ‘ship of Cuba says nothing, although the Kremlin has turned ;ever to the United States a file with the documents referring j to OSWAID im the Soviet Union. During his speech of Noven- /ber 27, 1963, at the University of Havana, when CASTRO said i “the first time that OSWAID was in Cuba", his tongue was funder the influence of "Peralta" cognac, and he revealed something which is very important.. US, Cur “Fair Play", with the aid ef sun! cose, organized | excursions ef "studeats" and agitators from the United States to visit Communist Cuba, with all expenses paid. It published bulletins and announcements; it distributed _ . propaganda received from Communist Cuba; it deceived the =. | ce uawary; it kept CASTRO informed of those things which © 9 00 %5.. . interested him conc erning the United States; and it ~~ held im Canada and im the United States a large number ef meetings in favor ef the dictatorship in Communist Cuba and against the Cuban emigres, persecuted by the Castristas... It probably did mich more before it had among its collabera- ters IZE HARVEY OSWALD, whose imprudent acts left the trail which was discovered at the time of the assassination ef President KENNEDY, and which led te the main effice ef the “Fair Play fer Communist Cuba", se that its usefulness under that name and with its present directers cane to am end on