Congress SUBCOMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE INTERNAL SECURITY ACT AND OTHER INTERNAL SECURITY LAWS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY 62-345 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1966 PURCHASED THROA Resolved, by the Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, That the staff study, "The Tricontinental Conference of African, Asian, and Latin American Peoples," be printed as a subcommittee document. Approved June 7, 1966. 7. The basic goal-More Vietnams on a tricontinental scale.. 8. The case of Puerto Rico.. 9. Why Havana?__ 10. The Soviet Union and the Havana Conference_ 11. The Chinese Communists and the Havana Conference.. VI. Speech by Sharaf P. Rashidov (head of Soviet delegation). VIII. Excerpts from other speeches.. IX. Chronology of political struggle in Latin America.. Page 1 3 9 13 15 19 21 27 31 33 37 39 43 45 47 49 71 73 75 81 89 99 103 115 123 127 141 145 147 149 153 X. "Communist Strategy in Latin America" (by Joseph Kalvoda). XI. Speech by Norman Pietri (chief of Puerto Rican delegation)__ XIII. Latin American press reaction_. XVI. Conference repudiated by Peruvian workers XVII. Agricultural situation and food supply in Cuba in 1965 THE TRICONTINENTAL CONFERENCE OF AFRICAN, ASIAN, AND LATIN AMERICAN PEOPLES (A Staff Report) 1. INTRODUCTION An event of outstanding importance to the Free World took place in Havana on January 3 of this year. The Cuban capital was the site of what was probably the most powerful gathering of proCommunist, anti-American forces in the history of the Western Hemisphere. The first Tricontinental Conference of African, Asian, and Latin American Peoples, as it was called, was convened in the Hall of the Ambassadors at the once-swank Habana Libre Hotel (formerly the Havana Hilton Hotel) in Havana, Cuba. In all, there were 83 groups. from countries on three continents-reportedly represented by approximately 513 delegates, 64 observers and 77 invited guests. These groups included 27 Latin American delegations. The Soviet delegation was the largest at the Conference, consisting of 40 delegates. Asian countries were represented by 197 delegates, while African countries had 150, and the 27 Latin American groups comprised 165 delegates. Also participating in the conference were 129 foreign journalists from 35 countries, including several from the United States, and more than 100 Cuban journalists. Salient aspects of the Conference are evidenced as follows: The public posture of international communism since the fictitious burial of the Communist International has been that it does not engage in subversion or violence. At the Havana Conference, all pretense of nonintervention in the affairs of other nations was dropped, and the delegates, under Moscow leadership, openly committed themselves to the overthrow by violence of all those governments which do not meet with their approval. The Conference established a Communist-dominated general headquarters to support, direct, intensify, and coordinate guerrilla operations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Gave communism a subversive leverage surpassing anything it has heretofore possessed. Bringing into the Conference fold militant leftist and nationalist movements from many countries (which, while themselves not Communist, share the antipathy of the Communists towards the West and towards the United States, and support the Communist-backed "wars of national liberation"). |