European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 06, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Post 4 the stars and stripes saturday april 6, 1963 Baid fat Bol Alpha m patrol Seta Al car no i photo somewhere in cab droops travel Well ups fwd omit la avoid becoming target or ctn planes. In right picture the raiders demonstrate How they us off us land. The Anu Caltro rebels Are Flage nets to catch huh. Lul nit unon Nana photo. Hit run rebels say they strike Castro where it hurts rom Hwd from Page ii Only 185x100 for equipment and we re Itell using Molt of it we be tested the defend of Cuba. We know we already have leadership sufficiently expert ended in both planning and execution to overthrow communism. Our two group operating in aide Cuba an broken Down into very Small Nulta that move round constantly through the province of Lai Cornea in from the North other centers in the Scambray Mountain in the South of the province. With Many tiny Ralda to Sabo Tage Rood stores at collective terms Burn Railroad Bridges Cut Telephone wires destroy Arm and other machinery we every feature of the country. We be carefully created and tested wide support among to banners and townspeople. Las Villas province is in the Center of Cuba. We have definite foothold there and we can rapidly enlarge our Leader ship cadres with the sane approach and training that has succeeded so Well till now. In the villages farms the beaches thousands of men Are waiting All we need from the outside is arms. Cuba s liberation cannot wait it you wait another five years there la be nothing left but cadavers and cubans and Octal saute at of raiders talks to me be on attack. Nana rated in communism beyond redemption. Our Fligh Long Force is made upon Young cubans who fought dictator Fulgenzo Batista. Most of us have known Fidel Castro since University Days. We know he dreams of Continental Power. If he needs to hell break the cuban people s resist Ance like the russians broke the kulaks in the 1930s by starving them. The United states state department has tried to dismiss our raids As pinprick which May even help Castro. We Are Poltl. Cal refugees Here and we respect the stale department. We have been extremely care Ful to keep our operation strictly off a soil and we cannot com ment on us. Policy. But we do. Have a duty toward Cuba and we know that our men and our sympathizers inside Cuba beg us to keep on. Our raids have been important because they prove that neither Fidel nor the russians Are in vulnerable. We be shown the cuban people that they re no abandoned and this keeps the spirit of Liberty alive. Cable news out of Cuba confirms a wave of sabotage after Ever raid. This is hurting Idel badly. So far we have attacked rus Sian or russian chartered Supply ships and a russian Camp. We Haven t attached to kill cuban a Llella though we would do so i they put themselves in our Way. We be been faster and More operative than the enemy every time we be struck. On our lint raid on sept 10, 1962, we shot up a British owned Supply ship the new Lane and two storage ships in the port of we withdrew two communist helicopters came after were coast guard machines used to bunt Down the Small boat sin which cubans try to escape. But when they saw that our launches had 50-csl machine guns ready for them they did t close in. Our second raid on oct 8, was directed against a russian Camp near the docks at the important sugar port of Isabela de Saguas we penetrated the Camp at about11.00 in. And were inside it for 40 minutes. We blew up their guardhouse and Railroad station and got russian flags and rus Sian and czech arms to bring out with us. We Tore Down a picture of Len in that waa on an office Wall. The russians acted like Chick ens with a Hawk in the barnyard. The russians Are soft their occupation troops Haven t been fighting they be been leaving that to the satellite troops. We re raiding them to show them they not in Cuba to take sunbathe. On our third raid at Juan Francisco Beach on dec. 4. We took a Village of about 100 House Sand held it for a planned period of time one hour. We came out of the dark and drove the mall la away from their guard pos the villagers hid in their houses when they heard the gun fire but we knocked on their doors and told them we were Freedom raiders. A crowd of Fann ers and fishermen gathered around us. They told us the russians get drunk and push people around. They said the people have Little food and no shoes. There was an epidemic of Eye infection and diarrhoea among the children. We gave them what Little Medicine and food that to had in our March 18, this year we hit the same russian Camp at Isa Bels de Saguas to show that we ran so Back even though they redoubled their defences. This time lookouts on a rus Sian ship in the Harbor spotted our commandos As they moved Back from the pier. They threw a big Searchlight on us and be Gan firing. But the second As Sault boat in our party remained unseen returned fire on the merchantman with its 20mm canno nand .30-Cal and fio cat machine guns. You should know that Al the russian merchantmen that we be seen in cuban Waters Are armed. We Are sure we killed four russians and wounded a dozen. Ours is the Only underground operation in Cuba that has never been betrayed to the secret police. It we know some of our supporters among the country people have been imprisoned and tortured. Our whole organizations planned to run the least pos sible Chance of betrayal we Don t work with the Cia Central intelligence Agency Orang other is. Agency. We Are financed by hundreds of donations mostly by cubans. We Don t want adventurers be cause they break Down under Tough conditions. We be had thousands of applications to join us. Every Man accepted is carefully checked his friends his past record in Cuba his political ideas his physical conditions his psychological stability even his hobbles. Our Active Force represent Many groups that fought against Bull in. For i Nanni a our Fiel commander Eloy quit erred men oyo. Led a Large guerrilla Force in the a Scambray mountains while Fidel was in the Sierra Maestro. One of us Cecillo Vaz Quez was a founder of the 26thof july movement and a Captain in the rebel army. The other an Tonio be Littna commanded the revolutionary movement of the people formerly headed by Man Uel Ray and organized the at a to kill Castro on oct. 5, 1961. We Are Middle class people accountants clerks Small businessmen and professional people. While we arc fighting our wives work in factories to support our children. The raining at our Caribbean base a rigorous. Our training manual the Uncertain Trum pet is by Gen Maxwell Taylor chairman of the is. Join chiefs of staff. We believe absolutely in his theory that on peasant s loyalty is Worth a dozen intelligence officers. For Cuba s future we want free elections. We want a system of private property and individual rights. We want the reforms we fought Batista for and Justice under a Rule of Law. To Nolde Cuba today people Are asking Why no guns and ammunition Are being made is growing Over this even in the hearts of those who hate Fidel and communism most give us the arms and we Lepuil Castro s House Down before it is too late. In ionian Iii Ion col Ltd Olav 9. Smira Musait cot Witiak w. Coi Wum a an Oil Susanin. C., Ikimis d. Thank Musil. A kill 11 claw Tolm em-.w�wtdll.�lim���i-. My Gismant optic a or met ,11. Ino tand sch Mill Ortu Kunti no Ono Iusi Runci tall Minim r. ,b,i, cd blixl7, 1=1,., 5400, is Wain Mem Walton in. i mount ""0" T Mon of full i Bill lip Al. 1jm Kcf 7jm� us uios.2047ici i1� 1c s714021c �21 Ici h0047. I s4223 4uu Moracco j i
