41 The Seventh Regular Meeting of the Special Consultative Committee on Security of the OAS was held from Oct. 3-29, 1966. The text of the Report is available only in Spanish (OAS doc. OEA/Ser.L/X/II.15). At this meeting, the Committee approved a study of the conditions that favored the development of communism in the Western Hemisphere (text also available only in Spanish; OAS doc. OEA/Ser.L/X/II.14), which was not signed by the U.S. representative (Daniels), on the grounds that such a study exceeded the mandate of the Committee.

42 Department of State Bulletin, June 13, 1966, pp. 934-935.

Today representatives of the Czechoslovakian Embassy, acting on instructions from the Cuban Government, returned the note to the Department. It can only be assumed that Castro's reaction to the note is further evidence of his need to divert attention from the failures of his regime and increasing popular dissatisfaction in Cuba.

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TEXT OF U.S. NOTE

The Department of State wishes to call to the attention of the Embassy of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, in charge of diplomatic and consular representation for Cuba in the United States, two recent incursions by uniformed, armed Cuban military personnel within the perimeter of the United States Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on the evenings of May 21 and May 23. The Department of State wishes to request that the Embassy transmit to the Government of Cuba the protest of the Government of the United States against these provocative actions which are described below:

(a) At approximately 1910 hours (Guantanamo Naval Base time) on May 21, a Marine sentry stationed along the Eastern fence line of the Naval Base detected an armed, uniformed Cuban soldier within the base boundary and challenged him. The Cuban soldier refused to halt. The Marine sentry fired a warning shot, and, upon the Cuban soldier's continued failure to halt, fired a second shot. The Marine sentry observed that the Cuban soldier appeared to have been wounded by the second shot.

(b) At approximately 2400 hours (Guantanamo Naval Base time) on May 23, a patrol comprised of three Marines sighted at least five armed and uniformed Cuban soldiers approximately 100 meters inside the Base boundary along the Northwestern fence line of the Naval Base. After being challenged, the Cuban soldiers opened fire on the Marine patrol which returned the fire. The Cuban soldiers moved away to the West and returned to the Cuban side of the boundary fence.

The above incursions were but the latest in a series of such incidents which began in March of this year. The Government of the United States assumes that the Government of Cuba

is aware of these happenings and must accept responsibility for them.

The Government of the United States wishes to stress to the Government of Cuba that a deliberate, unauthorized entrance by Cuban military personnel into the Guantanamo Naval Base is a serious matter. Such incursions, if continued, can only result in further grave and regrettable consequences. The Government of the United States therefore calls upon the Government of Cuba to take steps to assure that they are not repeated.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Washington,
May 27, 1966.

Document III-18

Report on the First AfroAsian-Latin American Peoples Solidarity Conference and Its Projections, Submitted to the Council of the OAS by the Special Committee To Study Resolutions II.1 and VIII of the Eighth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, November 28, 1966 (Excerpt) 13

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V. RECOMMENDATIONS

In view of the conclusions derived from the research and study conducted, the Committee suggests to the Council of the Organization of American States that the following

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43 OAS doc. OEA/Ser.G/IV/C-i-769 Rev. The report, dated Oct. 24, 1966, was prepared in compliance with a resolution approved by the Council of the OAS Feb. 2, 1966 (see ante, doc. III-13). By a resolution adopted by the Council on Nov. 28, 1966, the report was transmitted to the member states, and its recommendations were referred to them for consideration. The members were urged "to adopt the measures they deem necessary to counteract the policy of intervention and aggression" that emanated from the Tricontinental Conference (text in The OAS Chronicle (Feb. 1967), p. 19).

recommendations be submitted to the governments of the member states:

1. The governments of the member states should maintain careful vigilance over the development and activities of the Afro-Asian-Latin American Peoples Solidarity Organization (AALAPSO) and of the Latin American Solidarity Organization (LASO)" and their respective implementive committees, and particularly any increase in subversive and insurgent activities in the hemisphere as a result of the Tricontinental Conference. Each member state is responsible for vigilance over the formation, personnel and activities of the "National Committees" of the two organizations located in its territory, in order to counteract their actions.

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2. Taking into account the steps that have been taken in the international field, the member governments should consider possible additional representations they could make, in accordance with the relations they maintain, with respect to those countries that had official or officially sponsored delegations at the Tricontinental Conference, in order to insist that they not persist in violation of Resolution 2131 (XX) of the United Nations General Assembly through their participation in the present or future activities of the Tricontinental Organization, including the Executive Secretariat and the planned "Liberation Committee" of AALAPSO, as well as in the Second Tricontinental Conference announced for January 1968 in Cairo. In view of the aggressive and interventionist objectives of the Tricontinental Organization and its committees, such participation would constitute an open and continuing violation of Resolution 2131 (XX). The governments of the member states of the OAS, in making such representations, should indicate their disagreement not only with the official or semi-official participation in the said organizations but also with the action of any country as the site of those organizations or their meetings, including the announced Second Tricontinental Conference.

3. All the governments of the member states should continue to be vigilant in the application of the measures

"By resolutions adopted at the Tricontinental Conference, both organizations became permanent. For the communiqué of the Conference concerning the latter, see ante, doc. III-11.

45 Text in American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1965, pp. 190-192.

that may be appropriate to the situation of each country.

7. Apart from the regional cooperation suggested in some of the resolutions and recommendations mentioned in paragraphs 3 and 6 above, the governments of the member states that face serious problems of actual or potential communist-inspired insurrection should be encouraged to undertake programs of subregional cooperation with neighboring countries that share their problems, particularly for the exchange of information and experience, taking into account the existing system of cooperation among the Central American countries and Panama.5

8. In the light of the participation in the Tricontinental Conference of a large number of delegates representing subversive and insurgent movements and of the establishments in Havana of the various committees of AALAPSO and LASO, the governments of the member states should be urged particularly to examine their individual and cooperative measures for preventing the movement of persons for subversive purposes between their countries and Cuba and other communist countries, including such movement through third countries. They should also examine their measures for preventing the movement to their respective countries of funds, propaganda and arms coming from Cuba and other communist or cooperating countries. For these purposes it would be advisable to bear in mind the specific measures recommended in the first report of this committee.

9. The governments of the member states should insist that the Soviet Union, Cuba and other communist countries desist from making radio broadcasts that incite the peoples of this hemisphere to subversion and insurrection, including those in the Spanish, Portuguese and Quechua languages-incitations that also constitute flagrant violations of Resolution 2131 (XX) of the United Nations General Assembly.

53 I.e., the periodic meetings of the Ministers of Government, Interior, and Security of Central America, Panama, and the United States, inaugurated in 1963 (see American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1963, pp. 234-242). The sixth meeting, Mar. 28-31, 1966, coincided with that of the Consultative Committee on Security of the OAS, both being chiefly concerned with the First Tricontinental Conference (see ante, doc. III-16).