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CUBA AND THE
AND THE CARIBBEAN

Cuba - Caribbean/

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

JULY 8, 9, 10, 13, 20, 27, 31, AND AUGUST 3, 1970

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COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

THOMAS E. MORGAN, Pennsylvania, Chairman

CLEMENT J. ZABLOCKI, Wisconsin
WAYNE L. HAYS, Ohio

L. H. FOUNTAIN, North Carolina
DANTE B. FASCELL, Florida
LEONARD FARBSTEIN, New York
CHARLES C. DIGGS, JR., Michigan
WILLIAM T. MURPHY, Illinois
CORNELIUS E. GALLAGHER, New Jersey
ROBERT N. C. NIX, Pennsylvania
JOHN S. MONAGAN, Connecticut
DONALD M. FRASER, Minnesota
BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL, New York
EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California
JOHN C. CULVER, Iowa
LEE H. HAMILTON, Indiana
JOHN V. TUNNEY, California
ABRAHAM KAZEN, JR., Texas
LESTER L. WOLFF, New York
JONATHAN B. BINGHAM, New York
GUS YATRON, Pennsylvania

E. ROSS ADAIR, Indiana

WILLIAM S. MAILLIARD, California
PETER H. B. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey
WILLIAM S. BROOMFIELD, Michigan

J. IRVING WHALLEY, Pennsylvania
H. R. GROSS, Iowa

E. Y. BERRY, South Dakota
EDWARD J. DERWINSKI, Illinois
F. BRADFORD MORSE, Massachusetts
VERNON W. THOMSON, Wisconsin
JAMES G. FULTON, Pennsylvania
PAUL FINDLEY, Illinois
JOHN BUCHANAN, Alabama
ROBERT TAFT, JR., Ohio
SHERMAN P. LLOYD, Utah
J. HERBERT BURKE, Florida
WILLIAM V. ROTH, JR., Delaware

BOYD CRAWFORD, Staff Administrator
ROY J. BULLOCK, Senior Staff Consultant
ALBERT C. F. WESTPHAL, Staff Consultant
FRANKLIN J. SCHUPP, Staff Consultant
HARRY C. CROMER, Staff Consultant
PHILIP B. BILLINGS, Staff Consultant
MARIAN A. CZARNECKI, Staff Consultant
MELVIN O. BENSON, Staff Consultant
EVERETT E. BIERMAN, Staff Consultant
JOHN J. BRADY, Jr., Staff Consultant
JOHN H. SULLIVAN, Staff Consultant
JUNE NIGH, Senior Staff Assistant
HELEN C. MATTAS, Staff Assistant
HELEN L. HASHAGEN, Staff Assistant
LOUISE O'BRIEN, Staff Assistant

DORA B. MCCRACKEN, Staff Assistant
JEAN E. SMITH, Staff Assistant

NANCY PEDEN, Staff Assistant
PAULA L. PEAK, Staff Assistant
DIANE GALLAGHER, Staff Assistant

SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS
DANTE B. FASCELL, Florida, Chairman

JOHN S. MONAGAN, Connecticut
EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California
LEE H. HAMILTON, Indiana
ABRAHAM KAZEN, JR., Texas
BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL, New York
JOHN C. CULVER, Iowa

WILLIAM S. MAILLIARD, California
J. IRVING WHALLEY, Pennsylvania
H. R. GROSS, Iowa

F. BRADFORD MORSE, Massachusetts
JAMES G. FULTON, Pennsylvania

MARIAN A. CZARNECKI, Staff Consultant
HELEN L. HASHAGEN, Staff Assistant

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Hurwitch, Robert A., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-

American Affair

Palmatier, Howard H., Director, Cuban Refugee Program, Depart-
ment of Health, Education, and Welfare__

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Biographical sketches of Robert A. Hurwitch and Robert L. Funseth,

Department of State, and Howard H. Palmatier, Department of Health,

Education, and Welfare__

Memorandum of Understanding between the Embassy of Switzerland, at
Havana, representing the Government of the United States, and the
Government of Cuba, concerning the movement of Cubans to the
United States___

Cuban refugee program: Three basic periods in flow of refugees; tabula-
tion____

Cuban refugee airlift arrivals: Percent distribution by occupation and year
of arrival; tabulation___

Cuban refugee airlift arrivals: Percent distribution by age and year of
arrival; tabulation__.

Joint resolution expressing the determination of the United States with

respect to the situation in Cuba, text of Public Law 87-733, approved

October 3, 1962__.

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House resolution to express the sense of the House of Representatives

declaring the policy of the United States relative to the intervention of

the international communistic movement in the Western Hemisphere,
text of H. Res. 560, agreed to September 20, 1965-
Soviet Relations with Latin America, summary chart_

Letter dated July 7, 1970, from Representative Claude Pepper to Repre-
sentative Dante B. Fascell__.

Status of lists and airlift (of Cuban refugees) as of July 5, 1970, tabulation__
Airlift arrivals (of Cuban refugees) as of July 5, 1970, tabulation__
Biographical sketch of Gen. George R. Mather, U.S.Army, Commander
in Chief, U.S. Southern Command_

Prepared statement by USCINCSO (Gen. George R. Mather) for the
House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs_ _ _ _

Biographical sketch of Maj. Gen. Walter P. Leber, U.S. Army, Governor

of the Canal Zone_

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CUBA AND THE CARIBBEAN

WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1970

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS,

SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS,

Washington, D.C. The Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs met at 10 a.m. in room 2200, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Dante B. Fascell (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding.

Mr. FASCELL. The subcommittee will please come to order.

We meet this morning to begin a series of hearings on Cuba and the Caribbean. The subcommittee has invited high officials of the Department of State, our key military and naval commanders responsible for our security posture in the Caribbean region, and officials of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, to discuss these subjects with us.

This morning, we are pleased to welcome Hon. Robert A. Hurwitch, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs; Mr. Robert L. Funseth, Coordinator of Cuban Affairs in the Department of State; Mr. Howard H. Palmatier, Director of Cuban Refugee Program in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; and Mr. Glynn W. Baker, Finance Management Officer, Cuban Refugee Program, HEW.

Today's and tomorrow's hearings will be held in open session. Beginning Friday morning, however, the subcommittee will go into executive session to receive the testimony of Gen. George R. Mather, Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command; Maj. Gen. Walter P. Leber, Governor, Panama Canal Zone; Adm. Ephraim P. Holmes, Commander in Chief, Atlantic; and Hon. G. Warren Nutter, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.

The subcommittee wants to cover all aspects of the U.S. policy toward Cuba; issues affecting our security posture in the Caribbean; as well as the broader question of Cuba's present and foreseeable status in the inter-American community.

We have many subjects to cover in these next 4 days. If necessary we will extend the hearings.

Nearly 8 years have passed since the crisis of 1962, when the basic issues of our national security and the prospect of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union hung in the balance as the late President John F. Kennedy moved to deal with the threat of offensive Soviet missiles being implanted on Cuban soil.

The whole civilized world was involved in that crisis. One misstep, one miscalculation, could have led to a disaster of global proportions. Today, 8 years later, that grim possibility is still with us. But in the

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