PROJECT, NEW INVASION: OF CUBA
A rally.of: Cuban counterrevolutionaries was held: in Manhattan Center in New York City June; P+ . The gathering issued. a call for anew armed invasion of: ‘Cuba. : : SCLetT:
Survivors of the Bay of Pigs invasion announced the formation of a "Central Liberation Front" which will "seek to: coordinate political,. insurrectional and: military strategy” against — the revolutionary government in Havana. a Lb :
Leaders of the new front were supporters of Fulgencio Batista, the dictator overthrown by the Cuban Revolution.. The biggest ovations at the rally went to references to General Batista and to Rolando Masferrer, the notorious chief of a private army of. gunmen who served as killers under Batista. Masferrer sat on the ‘stage at the rally ae a
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Wate Carmona’, ‘tina general secretary of the new organization,
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‘boasted about:.."a- great expeditionary force" that. would be preceded by "a concertedplan of attacks” ‘to soften ‘the. Cuban : : government An. advance of a new invasion. Dok L
~The New York capitalist press. gave.favorable ‘publicity to the meeting. No: mention was made in the reports:as’ to exactly who =; is providing: the financial’ backing for the new front. .The- counter- :. revolutionary organizations involved in the preparations’ for the. «:: Bay of Pigs invasion got a good deal of their money from the CIA.
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