CHANNEL BETWEEN MANILA AND DJAKARTA
Activities of the CIA have become a subject of inquiry in: the Philippines, according to Lorenzo J. Cruz, writing in the | April 26 issue of The Asia Magazine. When Justice Secretary José> Yulo disclosed that several government officials were on the pay-. roll of the CIA, it was asked if they should not be charged with treason. Foreign Secretary Narciso Ramos admitted that when normal communications with Djakarta broke down recently, "the Philippine government used the CIA's secret channel to Djakarta to communicate with the Philippine embassy in that city," Aside from indicating the extensiveness of the CIA's web, this scandal raised the question of the CIA's knowledge of "confidential national documents -if not outright secrets." Cruz does not mention it, but the revelation also again raised..the matter of the CIA's role in the mysterious events that set off the blood purge in Indonesia last October.
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NOTE ON THREE COMMUNIQUES
Three communiqués have been translated and published below by World Outlook, all of them dealing with a matter of considerable interest to the revolutionary movement in Latin America and elsewhere inasmuch as it concerns a guerrilla front and a sectarian group which were the subject of extensive remarks by Fidel Castro last January and the occasion for an unjustified attack by him against Trotskyisn.
“The full text of Castro's speech was published in the February 11 issue of World Ou tlook. In subsequent issues extensive documentation was provided on the repercussions touched off by hisattack. These included such items as a reply by the editors of Monthly Review, an "Open Letter" by the United Secretariat of the _ Fourth International, an attempted rebuttal by Blas. Roca, and a reply. to this, by. ‘Joseph Hansen.
“The guerrilla movement cited: by | Castro was the MR-13 of Guatemala headed by Marco Antonio Yon Sosa; the sectarians involved in the Guatemalan situation and alleged to be "Trotskyists" were followers of J. Posadas, who usurped the name of the Fourth International.
Yon Sosa has now broken with this group. The circumstances of the break are indicated in the