FOR RELEASE THURSDAY A.M., AUGUST 20, 1970 CUBA AND THE 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 Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Affairs For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS THOMAS E. MORGAN, Pennsylvania, Chairman CLEMENT J. ZABLOCKI, Wisconsin L. H. FOUNTAIN, North Carolina E. ROSS ADAIR, Indiana WILLIAM S. MAILLIARD, California J. IRVING WHALLEY, Pennsylvania E. Y. BERRY, South Dakota BOYD CRAWFORD, Staff Administrator DORA B. MCCRACKEN, Staff Assistant NANCY PEDEN, Staff Assistant SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS JOHN S. MONAGAN, Connecticut WILLIAM S. MAILLIARD, California F. BRADFORD MORSE, Massachusetts MARIAN A. CZARNECKI, Staff Consultant (II) Hurwitch, Robert A., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter- Palmatier, Howard H., Director, Cuban Refugee Program, Depart- Holmes, Adm. E. P., U.S. Navy, Commander in Chief, Atlantic___ Lang, William E., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Inter- Biographical sketches of Robert A. Hurwitch and Robert L. Funseth, Department of State, and Howard H. Palmatier, Department of Health, Memorandum of Understanding between the Embassy of Switzerland, at Cuban refugee program: Three basic periods in flow of refugees; tabula- Cuban refugee airlift arrivals: Percent distribution by occupation and year Cuban refugee airlift arrivals: Percent distribution by age and year of Joint resolution expressing the determination of the United States with respect to the situation in Cuba, text of Public Law 87-733, approved 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, Letter dated July 7, 1970, from Representative Claude Pepper to Repre- Status of lists and airlift (of Cuban refugees) as of July 5, 1970, tabulation__ Prepared statement by USCINCSO (Gen. George R. Mather) for the Biographical sketch of Maj. Gen. Walter P. Leber, U.S. Army, Governor Military Assistance Officer P.ogram positions_ Biographical sketch of Hon. G. Warren Nutter, Assistant Secretary of Page ོཙ Department of Defense Comment on U.S. military personnel carried on host country military rolls___ Letter dated March 7, 1969, from Hon. William B. Macomber, Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, to Hon. Dante B. Fascell, relative to Cuban refugees _ . Assistance to refugees in the United States-number of Cuban refugees registered, number resettled, and total program costs, fiscal year 1961 through fiscal year 1970, tabulation__ Biographical sketch of Manolo Reyes, Latin news editor, televison station "Open letter to the Exile and Public opinion," letter smuggled out of Cuban prison and received by Manolo Reyes in Miami.. Exhibits provided by Manolo Reyes relative to Soviet military and naval "Battle of the Levels-A Succession of Bugbears," additional statement of Hon. Daniel J. Flood, August 3, 1970_. Statement of Hon. Durward G. Hall, a Representative in Congress from CUBA AND THE CARIBBEAN WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1970 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 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 |