The Voice, Children to Moscow,

January 27, 1961. P.1

Castro Shipping
Reds New Cargo
Cuban Children
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TATVT 97 iQ^i Fidel Castro is shipping Cuban children to Russia in the
JAN. 27, 1961 same manner ihat he exports sacks of sugar under trade
~ agreements with the Soviet. . u , .
Many of the so-called Russian or Czechoslovak technicians,
teachers and agrarian experts pouring into Cuba today are.
actually natives of Spain who as children were kidnaped during
the civil .war there and brainwashed by the communists
over a period of many years. '
These startling' facts were revealed to The Voice by an
unimpeachable authority who was an eyewitness to both violations
of human rights, first in Spain, later in Russia and, now
many years afterward, in Cuba. .
Testimony of the informant, whose identity cannot be revealed
for security reasons, was corroborated in effect on the
one charge this week by Castro himself.
An Associated Press story from Havana said that Castro
had announced creation of "children's farms" within the
cooperative "people's farms" where "children over the age
of 10 will be eligible to work on the farms." The AP
story then continued:
"Cuba and the Soviet Union will exchange a thousand
youngsters who will work and learn on each other's farms, the
Cuban prime minister said:" .
'Castro's Greatest Crime'
The New York Times, in a dispatch from its Havana correspondent,
quoted Castro as saying that 1,000 youths will come
from the Soviet Union to work on the farms and that 1,000
Cuban youths, will be sent to the agricultural cooperatives of
. Russia to learn methods there.
Branding this "subversion of the innocents"
greatest crime to date, Mr. X told The Voice:
as Castro's
Voice Ph.no
Branding this "subversion of the innocents"
greatest crime to date, Mr. X told The Voice:
as Castro's
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"These children, many in their early 'teens but others
even younger, will not be returned to Cuba in months or even,
in the next few years. They will be sent to Russia and
other communist-controlled countries, and some even may
be assigned to Red China. They will be kept there for a
long period of indoctrination in the communist ideology.
Their religious beliefs and practices will be destroyed and
aside from retaining their native language, all traces of
their Cuban ancestry and their Spanish' heritage will be
wiped out. , '
"Those who show particular skills will be trained, in many
fields other than agriculture; some will be educated in Soviet
institutions of higher learning.
Converted Into Red Robots
"Then, when their communist education is complete and
they have been converted into Red robots, at the' proper time
they will be returned to Cuba and other countries to serve as
elite shock-troops in the conquest of all Latin America which
the Soviet has been planning."
The program follows the exact pattern, used by Russia
during and after the devastating civil war in Spain from 1936
to 1939, according to Mr. X. Beginning in 1937, large numbers
of children, estimated at well more than 4,000, were
withdrawn from' Spain and sent to Russia, he said.
Some were sent willingly by families opposed to Generalissimo
Franco, Mr. X explained, in an effort to spare their
children the horrors of war. But many also, he said, were
seized bodily from orphanages, schools and other institutions.
Returned As Wild Rebels
Then, after 16 years, the International Red Cross was asked
to conduct an investigation in 1953. Many of the former Spanish
children, then grown to young adults, were located, and four
ships were sent to Russia to return them to Spain. Some refused
to come back and of those who did, a large number soon
returned to Russia and other satellite countries, married Russian
wives and worked or attended Soviet schools.
"It was too late. The Soviet had done its work well
and thoroughly," Mr. X recalled. "They were more commuri- -
istic than the communists themselves. They were such wild
rebels that they even, caused trouble for their Red masters.
When first back in Spain and reunited with their families
I heard some of them denounce and villify their mother
and father in the worst language. And, of course, they despised
Spain.
"So, they returned to Russia. That was in 1953. Now, 24
years after they first were taken from Spain in 1937, they
are 35 to 45 years of age and many of them are the experts,
the technicians and scientists arriving in Cuba to carry out the
mission for which they have been so well-traine.d. ,
"And in exchange, Castro is sending a new bumper crop
of juvenile grist for the communist mills."

"It was too late. The Soviet had done its work well
and thoroughly," Mr. X recalled. "They were more commuri- -
istic than the communists themselves. They were such wild
rebels that they even, caused trouble for their Red masters.
When first back in Spain and reunited with their families
I heard some of them denounce and villify their mother
and father in the worst language. And, of course, they despised
Spain.
"So, they returned to Russia. That was in 1953. Now, 24
years after they first were taken from Spain in 1937, they
are 35 to 45 years of age and many of them are the experts,
the technicians and scientists arriving in Cuba to carry out the
mission for which they have been so well-traine.d. ,
"And in exchange, Castro is sending a new bumper crop
of juvenile grist for the communist mills."