TERRORISTIC

ACTIVITY

The Cuban Connection in Puerto Rico;
Castro's Hand in Puerto Rican and
U.S. Terrorism

SUBCOMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE

ADMINISTRATION OF THE INTERNAL SECURITY
ACT AND OTHER INTERNAL SECURITY LAWS.

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COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

JAMES O. EASTLAND, Mississippi, Chairman

JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas
PHILIP A. HART, Michigan

EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts
BIRCH BAYH, Indiana

QUENTIN N. BURDICK, North Dakota

ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia
JOHN V. TUNNEY, California

JAMES ABOUREZK, South Dakota

ROMAN L. HRUSKA, Nebraska
HIRAM L. FONG, Hawaii
HUGH SCOTT, Pennsylvania

STROM THURMOND, South Carolina
CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland
WILLIAM L. SCOTT, Virginia

SUBCOMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE INTERNAL SECURITY ACT AND OTHER INTERNAL SECURITY LAWS

Resolved by the Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, that the testimony of Francisco Martinez, taken in executive session, and the testimony of Alfonso L. Tarabochia, taken in executive session, on July 30, 1975, be released from the injunction of secrecy, be printed and make public.

Approved: November 6, 1975.

JAMES O. EASTLAND, Chairman.

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SUBCOMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE
ADMINISTRATION OF THE INTERNAL SECURITY ACT

And Other INTERNAL SECURITY LAWS
OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY,
Washington, D.C.

The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 12:30 p.m., in room 5110, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Senator Strom Thurmond presiding.

Also present: J. G. Sourwine, chief counsel, Alfonso Tarabochia, chief investigator; David Martin, senior analyst; Robert J. Short, senior investigator; and Mary E. Dooley, director of research.

Senator THURMOND. Terrorist bombings by Puerto Rican revolutionaries, in this country and in Puerto Rico, have attracted much attention because bombings are spectacular. But information gathered by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee over the past several years points to the conclusion that the bombings may have concealed a much more important aspect of the Puerto Rican situation. If the word of the Communists means anything, what this evidence suggests is that international communism has been using Puerto Rico as a bridgehead to infiltrate, disrupt and ultimately bring about revolution in the United States.

The leading role played by Cuba in these efforts is self-proclaimed and well publicized, because Cuba has been the fountainhead of revolution in Puerto Rico since Castro took power in 1959.

Next month, on September 5-7, Havana will be the meeting place of a Conference of Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence, sponsored by the Moscow-dominated World Peace Council.

Fermin Arraiza, leader of the delegation of the Socialist Party of Puerto Rico at the Nonalined Nations Conference in Havana made this statement on March 17, 1975:

Puerto Rico's independence is, perhaps, one of the strategic objectives of the world liberation forces and the world's anti-imperialistic forces, because the proclamation of our independence could be the spark that will start the victorious struggle for the second and true independence of the exploited and discriminated against people of the United States of America.

Arraiza left no doubts as to who was responsible for the revolutionary efforts. In the next paragraph he stated:

Cuba has been a vanguard in the international struggle of solidarity for independence of Puerto Rico.

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