FINAL WARNING: The Communist Agenda
communist bloc countries by over 80% from the previous year, and
this ‘aid’ was then redirected by railroad, to North Vietnam, who used it
to manufacture military equipment.
A peace treaty was signed on January 23, 1973, by the U.S., North and
South Vietnam, and the Vietcong (National Liberation Front, later
referred to as the Provisional Revolutionary Government). The treaty
specified that the Vietcong was to have equal recognition with the
South Vietnamese capital of Saigon. Thieu agreed to sign after Nixon
and Kissinger promised that the U.S. would “respond vigorously” to
any Communist violations of the agreement.
The cease-fire didn’t hold, and after the American pullout, which left
over $5 billion worth of military equipment, the communists were given
a free hand in Southeast Asia. On April 30, 1975, the government of
South Vietnam fell to the communist regime, and on July 2, 1976, the
country of Vietnam was officially unified as a Communist state.
It is estimated that 57,000 Americans died during the Vietnam conflict.
THE CUBAN COVER-UP
Fulgencio Batista, in 1934, had overthrown the government of Cuba,
which hampered the social reform that had been begun by four
separate Presidents. In 1952, he established a dictatorship. Fidel
Castro, who had become a communist in 1947, during his second year
in law school; and Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto Guevara, rebuilt
the guerrilla forces that Castro had used in an unsuccessful revolt in
1953 (in which Castro had been captured and arrested, but later
paroled).
With financial backing from Russia, Castro bribed many military
leaders. He got a substantial amount of support from the intellectual
and working class, who knew nothing of his communist intentions.
In April, 1957, Herbert L. Matthews, a correspondent for the New York
Times and CFR member, interviewed Castro at his mountain retreat,
for three successive front page articles. He compared Castro to
Lincoln, and presented him as a “peasant patriot,” “a strong anti-