The following is a partial list of acts of aggression perpetrated against Cuba by counter-revolutionaries aided by the Central Intelligence Agency. This list is tak- en from an article which appeared in the Cuban news- paper Granma. The list covers U.S. aggression against Cuba from 1959 through 1971. 1959 JANUARY 1 — Representatives of the Batista regime and other war criminals arrive in the U.S. where they are granted political asylum. The U.S. government re- peatedly rejects the demand for extradition made by the _ Revolutionary Government of Cuba. FEBRUARY 2 — Allen Robert Mayer, a U.S. citizen, is arrested on board a light plane in which he landed illegal- 7 ly in Cuba with the intent of assassinating Major Fidel en ye Castro. MARCH 31 — Austin F. Young, a U.S. pilot, arrested for flying former officers of Batista’s army out of Cuba to Miami, is sentenced to 30 years in prison. _ OCTOBER 21 — A plane flown by Diaz Lanz from the U.S. drops bombs on Havana, killing and wounding many civ- ilians. In Camaguey Province, a light plane bombs the Violeta Sugar Mill. A light plane bombs the Punta Alegre Sugar Mill. OCTOBER 25 =z A light plane bombs a passenger train between Yaguajay and Caibarien. 1960 JANUARY 28 — A plane drops incendiary bombs on the canefields of five sugar mills in Camaguey Province and three sugar mills in Oriente Province. FEBRUARY 18 — A plane which attacked the Espana Sugar Mill is destroyed by the explosion of one of its own _ bombs. The pilot, Robert Ellis Forst, a U.S. citizen, i killed. ) MARCH 4 — The French ship La Coubre, loaded with a _ cargo of arms for.Cuba, blew up in the port of Havana as a result of sabotage by the CIA. The action resulted in _ the death of almost 100 people. More than 200 were wounded. JUNE 28 — US. oil refineries in Cuba refuse to refine oil acquired by Cuba. The refineries are taken over by the Revolutionary Government. - _ NOVEMBER 18 — U.S. mercenaries, part of a counter- revolutionary expedition which landed in Uriente Prov- ince, are brought to trial. e - 1961 | JANUARY 7 — The Rebel Army captures a large quan- tity of U.S.-made arms dropped.in the Escambray Moun- tains by U.S. planes for use in reinforcing the counter- } revolutionary operations in that zone. MARCH 2 — President Kennedy orders the trade em- bargo against Cuba. At the end of March, the total sus- pension of the Cuban sugar quota to the U.S. market is put into effect. 3 APRIL 3 — U.S. State Department publishes its first “White Book’’ on Cuba, a document whose purpose is to increase the hysteria against Cuba as a prelude to the landing of the mercenaries. APRIL 15 — U.S.-made planes, proceeding from Guate- mala, bomb the airport of Cuidad Libertad, in Havana, and San Antonio de los Banos and Santiago de Cuba, tak- ing a toll of several dead and wounded. The planes re- turn to U.S. territory. 1962 JANUARY 3 — U.S. State Department publishes its sec- * ond ‘‘White Book’’ on Cuba. JANUARY 7 — Counter-revolutionaries, led by CIA agents, introduce Dupont explosives into Cuba. A ship- ment of arms, made in the USA, and dropped by para- chute from planes in the zones of Pinar del Rio and Las Villas, are seized. JUNE 17 — Fisherman Rodolfo Rosell Salas is murdered | at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo. SEPTEMBER 24 — U.S. Defense Department announ- ces the organization of units of Cuban gusanos in U.S. Navy and Army. The counter-revolutionaries are given training in Spanish in addition to military training. ‘SEPTEMBER 27 — A CIA band is captured. OCTOBER 23 — President Kennedy orders the block- on Cuba ade of Cuba and demands the dismantling of defense bases on Cuba. NOVEMBER 5 — U.S. pilot Major Rudolf Anderson is killed when his U2 plane is shot down. NOVEMBER 13 — Chief of CIA in Cuba is arrested. He confesses plans for infiltratian and sabotage sponsored _ by the CIA in Cuba. ; DECEMBER 31 — U.S. spy planes violate Cuban air space a total of 58 times between November 22 and De- cember 31. fe 1963 MARCH 19 — Two of the organizations created by the CIA, Alpha 66 and the Second Front of the Escambray, take credit in Miami for the strafing and shelling of the Soviet ship Lgov in the port of Isabela de Sagua. OCTOBER 11 — In an interview with the Miami Herald, a front organization for the CIA admits that it receives financial and other aid from the U.S. government and is provided with bases in Central America. DECEMBER 27 — CIA saboteurs blow up a Cuban Navy ship with a mine in the Bay of Siguanea. Three Cuban sailors are killed and another 18 wounded. U.S. spy planes carry out 484 missions over Cuban territory in. 1963. Bombings were also carried out. A pirate launch manned by Americans and Cuban gusanos attack two un- armed Cuban fishing boats with the purpose of utilizing them for sending arms into Cuba. Nine U.S. citizens are arrested on the northern coast of Camaguey for engag- ing in espionage activities. : 1964 : FEBRUARY 8 — A U.S. Coast Guard ship seizes four Cuban fishing boats and takes them to U.S. territory. The boats were held for 18 days. AUGUST 10 — CIA provocateurs attack the Cuban freighter Maria Teresa in the port of Montreal, Canada. 1965 oe JANUARY 17 — Bombs dropped on Niagara Sugar mill. JANUARY 25 — Sierra militiamen and troops of the Army capture four armed énemy agents. FEBRUARY 2 — An armed motor launch opens fire with 50 caliber machine guns on fuel tanks along the shoreline of Casilda, Trinidad. APRIL 8 — CIA spy network inside Cuba discovered. 1966 MAY 30 — A pirate launch which carried two CIA agents 1961 On April 19, 1961, the CIA- financed in- vaders at the Bay of Pigs sur- rendered en mass. 1971 The front page of this recent issue of Granma, Cuba’s major newspaper, was devoted to pointed questions about current attempts at infiltration. We demand that Nition and the State Department and their spokesmen say whether it is true or not that José Villa Diaz is a CIA age The 13 years war to Cuba is sunk near the Havana shoreline. SEPTEMBER 29 — A pirate plane drops three bombs on Nuevitas, aimed at the power plant installations. The - following day in a press conference, several counter- revolutionary organizations take credit for the attack. NOVEMBER 13 — A’plane proceeding from the north drops three U.S.-made bombs on the Cepero Bonill plant in Matanzas Bay. : 1967 JANUARY 5 — Several CIA agents are captured as they try to penetrate the province of Las Villas. AUGUST 8 — Six counter-revolutionary agents infil- trate into Cuba. They are captured and shown to 200 del- egates at the conference of the Latin-American Organ- ization of Solidarity. The following day, two more agents are captured in Pinar del Rio Province. ; 1968 : JANUARY 2— A bomb placed in a mailbag from the U.S. explodes wounding several Post Office employees. SEPTEMBER 28 — Prime Minister Fidel Castro in- forms the nation of sabotage including fires in sugar, hide, fertilizer and feed warehouses. The same day a band of CIA agents is captured. . 1969 : MAY 29 — A group of CIA agents infiltrates into Cuba from the Miami River. The group is captured and brought to trial. 1970 DURING MAY — Two Cuban fishing boats sunk and their 11 crewmen kidnapped. In Miami, the leaders of a counter-revolutionary organization admit that they were the perpetrators of the attack. The Cuban fishermen are returned after violent protest by the people of Cuba. SEPTEMBER 14 — Nine mercenaries land east of Boca de Sama. They are captured several days later in Baire. : Three militiamen are killed and two wounded in the bat-. tle: One of the mercenaries is killed. : 1971 MAY 29 — U.S. Coast Guard ships seize four Cuban fish- ing boats in international waters (the Gulf of Mexico). The four boats and eight crewmen are taken to Key West. The fishermen are later taken to Miami where they are held. Bail is set at $10,000. OCTOBER 12 — Ship carries out pirate attack on village of Boca de Sama, Oriente Province. Two people are killed in the attack and four others wounded. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CUBA nt; whether ue or pot PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1972—PAGE 9