http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt000030ff No online items Inventory of the Cuban Freedom Committee records Finding aid prepared by Catherine Ashe and Elizabeth Phillips Hoover Institution Library and Archives © 2008 434 Galvez Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6003 [email protected] URL: http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives Inventory of the Cuban Freedom 97004 1 Committee records Title: Cuban Freedom Committee records Date (inclusive): 1947-1993 Collection Number: 97004 Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives Language of Material: In English and Spanish Physical Description: 70 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box(28.4 Linear Feet) Abstract: Correspondence, speeches, reports, radio broadcast transcripts, financial records, press releases, sound recordings, clippings, and other printed matter, relating to communism, political conditions and civil rights in Cuba, Cuban influence elsewhere in Latin America, and Cubans in exile in the United States, and especially to broadcasting activities of Free Cuba Radio from the United States to Cuba. Includes a few later papers of Mariada C. Arensberg (later Bourgin), executive secretary of the Cuban Freedom Committee. Creator: Bourgin, Mariada C. Creator: Cuban Freedom Committee Hoover Institution Library & Archives Access The collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Acquisition Information Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1997. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Cuban Freedom Committee records, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Biographical/Historical Note The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) set up the Cuban Freedom Committee in late 1960 to sponsor anti-Castro radio broadcasts similar to those of Radio Free Europe. The committee appeared as a private activist group that solicited donations for the operation, later identified as a funding conduit for CIA domestic operations. The Cuban Freedom Committee produced Free Radio Cuba, a stridently anti-Castro program that was broadcast before, during, and after the Bay of Pigs invasion on licensed stations in the United States and overseas including WKWF, Key West; WGBS, Miami; and Radio Swan from the Swan Islands off the coast of Honduras. Sources: Historical Dictionary of American Propaganda, Martin J. Manning and Herbert Romerstein, Greenwood Press, Westport Ct., 2004 "Ex-Pittsburger Heads Cuban Freedom Group: Mrs. Arensberg Named Executive Secretary; Financing Broadcasts Aim," Pittsburg Post-Gazzette, April 4, 1961 Scope and Content of Collection The collection is comprised of records from Mariada C. Arensberg (later Mariada Bourgin), the executive secretary of the Cuban Freedom Committee and later the special assistant to the U.S. assistant secretary of state for education and cultural affairs. Materials include correspondence, speeches, reports, radio broadcast recordings and transcripts from Radio Free Cuba, financial records, press releases, clippings, notes, and other printed matter. The records of the Cuban Freedom Committee and Radio Free Cuba document research efforts and the creation of and reaction to radio broadcasts to Cuba. Material includes research files on topics such as Fidel Castro, political conditions and civil rights in Cuba, the Cuban economy, Cuban propaganda, Latin American groups, Cuban society after Castro, Cuban exiles, Cuban inmates, Cuban intellectuals, Cuban schools, Cuban subversive activities in Latin America, and Cuban-Russian relations, as well as material relating to the CIA's involvement in Radio Free Cuba. As a special assistant in the Department of State, Arensberg was in charge of its programs for women and minorities. Particularly, there is information relating to increasing the participation in international cultural exchange programs documented through correspondence, university publications, and print materials. English and Spanish names of events and organizations were used interchangeably throughout the Cuban Freedom Committee records. Subjects and Indexing Terms Civil rights -- Cuba Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1959-1990 Inventory of the Cuban Freedom 97004 2 Committee records Anti-communist movements Cubans -- United States Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United States United States -- Foreign relations -- Cuba Radio broadcasting -- Cuba Cuba -- Foreign relations -- Latin America Latin America -- Foreign relations -- Cuba Free Cuba Radio box 1 Cuba, newspaper clippings 1961-1968 box 1 1961 box 1 1962 (2 folders) box 1 1963 (4 folders) box 2 1964 (2 folders) box 2 1965 box 2 1966 box 2 1967 box 2 1967-1968 box 2 Conference of Presidents, Punta del Este April 1967 box 3 Laso Conference 31 July 1967 box 3 Organization of American States (Organización de los Estados Americanos), Tri-Continental Conference: Africa, Asia, Latin America 1966 General note See also box 4, 7-11 box 3 Cuba, clippings 1960 box 3 Cuba, clippings 1962 box 3 Venezuela 1964-1967 box 3 Documentary summary of Sino-Soviet split circa 1960s box 4 Régis Debray 1967 box 4 Confederación de Trabaja, Dores de Venezuela 2 July 1967 box 4 Haiti 1964-1967 box 4 Dominican Republic 1966 box 4 México 1961-1966 box 4 Panamá 1964-1967 box 4 Spain 1966 box 4 Venezuela 1964 box 4 Soviet Union and Block countries 1964-1968 box 4 Uruguay 1966-1967 box 4 Organization of American States (Organización de los Estados Americanos). See also box 3, 7-11 box 4 Tri-Continental Conference: Africa, Asia, Latin America, texts adopted at the conference and general resolutions 3-14 January 1966 box 4 Tri-Continental Conference, minutes of the special meeting 24 January 1966 box 4 Tri-Continental Conference February 1966 box 4 Tri-Continental Conference, Intellectuals November 1966 box 5 Nicolaĭ Podgornyĭ 10 January 1964 box 5 Jose Rebellon 1962- 1963 box 5 Waldina Restano circa 1963 box 5 Marcos Rodríguez Alfonso 1963 box 5 Marcos Rodríguez Alfonso, series por Rene Viera, Diario de las Américas 1964 box 5 Rolando Cubela trial March 1966 Inventory of the Cuban Freedom 97004 3 Committee records box 5 Armando Hart 1962-1966. General note See also box 12 box 5 Algiers 1965 box 5 Glossary of abbreviations used in the Latin American press circa 1960s box 5 Latin America, general 1963-1967 box 5 Brasil 1964-1966 box 5 Augusto Martinez Sanchez 1962-1964 box 5 Lazaro Pena 1962-1965 box 5 Marcos Rodríguez trial, March-April 1964 box 5 Bolivia 1963-1967 box 5 Colombia 1965 box 5 Chile 1965-1967 box 5 China 1966-1967 box 5 Congo 1966-1967 box 6 Juana Castro 1964 box 6 Raúl Castro speeches (2 folders) 1962-1967 box 6 Carlos Rafael Rodríguez speeches (3 folders) 1962-1964 box 6 Raúl Roa speeches 1962-1966 box 6 Jesús Soto speeches 1962-1963 box 6 Miscellaneous (4 folders) 1962-1965 box 6 Blas Roca 1962-1964 box 7 Organization of American States (Organización de los Estados Americanos) 1960-1967. General note See also box 3-4, 8-10 box 7 Treaties (Serie de Tratados) 9-33 (3 folders) 1960-1966 box 7 Councils (Serie de consejo) 1961-1967 box 8 Fidel Castro speeches 1965-1967. General note See also box 9 box 8 May 1965 box 8 June 1965 box 8 July-December 1965 box 8 January-February 1966 box 8 March-April 1966 box 8 July-September 1966 box 8 December 1966 box 8 January-February 1967 box 8 1967 box 8 Juana Castro speeches 1964-1965 box 8 1964 box 8 1965 box 8 Osmany Cienfuegos speeches 1962-1966 box 8 Faure Chomon speeches 1962-1966 box 8 Organization of American States (Organización de los Estados Americanos), Treaties 1-8 1947-1966. General note See also box 3-4, 7, 9-11 box 9 Cuba Laboral, FORDC (3 folders) 1964-1967 box 9 Press information on Cuba 1963-1965 Inventory of the Cuban Freedom 97004 4 Committee records box 9 Organization of American States Inter-american Commission on Human Rights (Organización de los Estados Americanos Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos) 1963-1967. General note See also box 3-4, 7-8, 10-11 box 9 Index to Castro's speeches 1965-1966 box 9 Efigenio Almeijeiras 1966 box 9 Fidel Castro and Richard Eder 5 July 1964 box 9 Faustino Calcines 1962-1963 box 9 Fidel Castro, clippings 1959 box 9 Comité Central 1965 box 9 Fidel Castro speeches 1964-1965. General note See also box 8 box 9 January-May 1964 box 9 June July 1964 box 9 August-September 1964 box 9 October 1964 box 9 November-December 1964 box 9 January-April 1965 box 10 Organization of American States (Organización de los Estados Americanos) 1954-1966. General note See also box 3-4, 7-9, 11 box 10 First Conference of Tri-Continental November 1966 box 10 Inter-American defense board 1966-1967 box 10 First special Inter-American conference 1964 box 10 Conference in Punta del Este, Uruguay April 1967 box 10 The meetings of consultation, their origin, significance and role in Inter-American relations 1960 box 10 Inter-American Peace treaties and conventions 1954 box 10 Convention on diplomatic asylum 1954 box 10 Inter-American Commission on peace, eighth meeting of foreign ministries January 1962 box 10 Second Special Inter-American conference, Río de Janeiro 1965 box 10 First Special Inter-American conference 1965-1966 box 10 Alliance for Progress (Alianza para el Progreso) (3 folders) 1962-1967 box 10 José Llanusa speeches 1962-1963 box 10 Juan Martinello speeches 1962-1963 box 10 Organization of American States Security Council (Organización de los Estados Americanos