Speech #880061804

Mr. Speaker. two congressional committees. the Organization of American States. numerous Members of Congress. and private individuals have warned of the explosive situation resulting from Communist subversive activity throughout Latin America now being directed from Soviet Cuba. We may .be facing the possibility that Moscowtrained agents are entering the United States under the guise of Cuban "refugees." as described in the following AllenScott column in the June 26 St. Paul Pioneer Press: Ru) SPIES VIA CusA WAsHINmOoN.-Hundreds of Mo s.cowtrained agenLs are entering the United States as Cuban refugees. These Spanishspeaking Communists. some of them veterans of the Spanish Civil War. have come in with the thousands of Cuban refugees who have been admitted to the United States since last falls missile crisis. According to sworn testimony before the Senate internal security subcommittee by reliable. antiCastro refugees. the Red agents are concentrating on infiltrating the splintered refugee groups and are a principal reason for the seething dissension among them. A highly regarded attorney in Miami. representing a number of these Cuban organizations. has turned over to the Senators detailed evidence that Dictator Castro and his Russian henchmen personally selected about half of the passenger list of one Red Cross ship that recently brought approximately 1.000 refugees to the United States. This startling information is supported by intelligence reports that the Kremlin is using the Cuban refugee traffic as a means of infiltrating Moscowtrained agents into the United States and Latin American countries. The Miami attorney. who requested that his identification be kept secret because of the classified nature of his activities. bluntly blamed this extraordinary situation on the lax screening of refugees by immigration authorities. He flatly charged that policies of the Kennedy administration. as formulated by the State and Justice Departments. are permitA1101 ting hundreds of Red agents easy access to the Unlted States while barring antiCastro raids on Cuba. The Senate committee. headed by Senator JAMES EASTLAND.