FINAL WARNING: The Communist Agenda
communist,” a “Robin Hood,” and a “defender of the people.” Earlier,
in a February 25, 1957 article, Matthews reported: “There is no
communism to speak of in Fidel Castro’s movement.”On CBS-TV, Edward R. Murrow portrayed him as a national hero.
President Kennedy in a speech compared him to South American
patriot Simon Bolivar. Ed Sullivan interviewed Castro for a film clip,
which was seen by about 30 million people, in which he said: “The
people of the United States have great admiration for you and your
men because you are in the real American spirit of George
Washington.” He retracted the statement 18 months later, but it was
too late.In 1958, in an interview with Jules DuBois, Castro said: “I have never
been nor am I a Communist...” The American Ambassador to Cuba
declared that Batista was no longer supported by the American
government, and that he should leave. Roy Rubottom, the Assistant
Secretary for Latin American Affairs, said in December, 1958: “There
was no evidence of any organized Communist elements within the
Castro movement or that Senor Castro himself was under Communist
influence.” In April, 1959, Castro visited the U.S., and the State
Department welcomed him as a “distinguished leader.”A member of the Intelligence section of the Cuban army hand-carried
Castro’s dossier to Washington in 1957, delivering it to Allen Dulles,
head of the CIA, which revealed that Castro was a Communist. Dulles
‘buried’ the file. In July, 1959, Major Pedro Diaz Lanz, of the Cuban Air
Force, toured the United States, and revealed that he had first-hand
knowledge that Castro was a Communist. This fact, for the most part,
was kept out of the media. The truth of the matter, was that the State
Department was purposely covering up Castro’s communist
connections, the fact that his supporters were trained by Russia, and
that he was carrying out a communist revolution.Arthur Gardner, the American Ambassador to Cuba, referred to Castro
as a communist terrorist, and he was replaced by Earl E. T. Smith,
who, instead of being briefed by Gardner, was briefed by Herbert
Matthews. A Senate Committee investigation of William A. Wieland,
who in 1957 became the State Department’s Caribbean representative,
said that he “regularly disregarded, sidetracked or denounced FBI,