cerain v assinger undoubted y encour Whether there was a centre or a mechcan't sav. I would assume it was probablv Are American interests the same in relation to Spain, where 16 CIA agents have been named recentiy?
and Cuba American interests in Spain would be essentially to assist in a liberalisation of the regime there. The American Government, the CIA would always certainly prefer the more moderate forms of parliamentary democracy to the sort of regime that would be trying to promote the fortunthe right wing, in order to create political seeking to discredit the party and create again probably through the mechanism You've already mentioned the What form does this take in Britain?
Hern Europe * Our main goal in Ecuador in the early, 1960s, which was where I was working, was to bring about a break in diplomatic and commercial relations between Ecuador aganda effort in the country to create an atmosphere of hysteria, fear towards the growth of communism within the country, its support from Cuba, the threat to traditional values and all that sort of campaign.
At one critical point we had a number of bomb squads going around and placing bombs in the most revered churches in the different cities and leaving behind prop aganda attributing these bomoings to a lett-wing organisation tionary Union of Ecuadorian Youth. didn't hurt people. But they caused a lot of noise, and they were the peg on which the propaganda campaign and agitation and mass demonstrations were made, because after each bombing there would be a huge civic demonstration against the left wing which was trying to destroy the churches.
At one point one of these bomb squads - which incidentally were part of the Social Christian Movement, which was an important political party and is the christian democratie movement in Ecuador the Cardinal's house. The Cardinal was about 89 years old, and because of the influence of the Church was probably as powerful, if not more powerful, than the President himself. He was conveniently down town at the Basilica when the bomb went off at his house, but it made a lot of noise and immediately after the bombing thousands of letters and telegrams of support for the Cardinal began to pour in from all over the country.
A mass demonstration was organised in support of the Cardinal a week after the bombing, and it was the largest demonstration in the history of the city. Thousands upon thousands of people walked through the streets converging on the main plaza down town, with a whole series of hysterical anti-communist speeches given by the speakers. The Cardinal was the last speaker, and he said that following the teachings of Christ he would forgive these communist terrorists that had tried to assassinate him. A week later the Government broke diplomatic relations with Cuba.
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We formed all sorts of front organisations, we engaged in a massive prop - usually the Revolu The bombs didn't do much damage and they at one point they placed a bomb at