Cops·cover for Omega 7 killers By Stu Singer Stein said, "the FBI feels [Armando SEPT. 17-A week after Felix Garcia Santana) is the key Omega 7 operative Rodriguez, a member of the Cuban in this area." delegation to the United Nations, was assll8sinated on a busy New York City The September 23 Newsweek quoted street, police have made no arrests. ,. Alfredo Chumaceiro, a right-wing ter· Right-wing terrorists who tOok credit rorist, as insisting "'there is no con· for the murder threatened to kill other nection' between the [Cuban National­ Cubans. They specifically targeted the ist) movement and Garcia's assll8­ head of Cuba's UN delegation, Dr. sination." Chumaceiro just might be RaUl Roa Kouri. lying. He and Santana spent two years At least three .45 caliber shots were in jail after New York police caught fired at Garcia, killing him Thursday them setting a bomb at a theater evening, September 11, as he was showing a Cuban film festival in 1976. driving on Queens Boulevard. The March 27, 1979 Times reported A caller told United Press Interna­ that the FBI said "its investigations tional severai minutes after the shoot· indicated that Omega 7 was 'a pseudo­ ing: "Omega 7 commandos are respon· nym used by members of the Cuban sible for the execution of a Cuban Nationalist Movement.' " delegate to the UN.... We intend to The media have reported that the continue to eliminate all these traitors CNM has a public office at 4207 New from the face of the earth and .we are York Ave., Union City, New Jersey. going to continue on executing all Three members of the CNM are in these people who are responsible for jail for the assassination of Chilean conditions in Cuba." exile leader Orlando Letelier and In the past five years, "Omega 1" American Ronnie Moffitt. Letelier's car has taken credit for other murders. was blown up in Washington Sep· They killed Carlos Muniz Varela in tember 21, 1976. The trial of the terror· San Juan Puerto Rico, April 28, 1979 ists revealed the murder was ordered and Eulalio Jose Negrin in Union City, by the Chilean secret police, Dina, and New Jersey last November 25. Muniz that there was some degree of CIA and Negrin were both opponents of the involvement. U.S. blockade against Cuba. No one Ironically the three CNM members has been charged in their murders. jailed for the Letelier and Moffitt Omega 7 has taken credit for twenty­ murders won a federal appeals court two bombings in the New York City ruling September 15 that overturned area in the last five years. There have their convictions. They are supposed to been no arrests. (See page 18 for the be tried again. history of police protection for Omega 7.) Hypocrites ana- liars On Friday afternoon, the day after When Carter admitted the shah of the murder of Garcia, 500 people dem­ Iran to this ·country, Iranian students onstrated outside the United States seized the U.S. Embassy. U.S. officials Mission to the UN. The demonstrators branded this the most heinous viola· demanded the arrest of the Omega 7 tion of international diplomatic norms terrorists and protested the U.S. block­ in history. ade against Cuba. The United States is host country to The afternoon edition the United Nations. Since 1975 Omega . ~ rf!. Post ~1l8 . alre Cl;dY . ~~'t;IifN ,t.;,;'V;,1:;!li .•_ 7 terrorists have claimed responsibility ti'ftOnt page dedared t' for bombing the UN missions of Vene­ police said today they feared a bloody Top, 500 In New York protested killing of Cuban diplomat. car blown up by zuela (twice), Cuba (five times), the war here between pro- and anti-Castro terrorlats In 1976 killing of Chilean leader Lateller. Killers will now get new trial. Soviet Union, and Angola. Now a groups· following the assassina­ Cuban diplomat has been gunned tion. . .. 'There could be a lot of down. No action has ever been taken blood in the streets,' a top law enforce­ by U.S. authorities against the terror· ment source told the Post." cast in much of the news media.. They slow." ists for these attacks on "international wanted to turn the victim into the But the slow progress has nothing to diplomacy." Condolences and spy storIes criminal and relieve ·the pressure on do with lack of information. The In the last few years some bombings In reacting to the murder, U.S. offi· the. g.overnment to move against the names and pictures of key leaders of were supposedly committed by Puerto cials· expressed "sincere regret" (UN terrorists. the terrorists and the address of their Rican independence supporters. U.S. ambassador Donald McHenry), "enor· The charge is repeated in the News· public headquarters in Union City, police not only arrested and convicted mous distress" (New York MaYOr Ed week issue dated September 22, but the New Jersey have been published re­ people allegedly responsible, but at· Koch) and regret over the "reprehensi­ spy stories have since disappeared peatedly. tempted to terrorize all supporters of ble murder" (Secretary of State Ed­ from the local press. New York Police The Times .reported September 14 Puerto Rican independence in the pro· mund Muskie). and FBI officials have been quoted as . that police have been "unable to find cess. People were jailed for "conspi· But instead of arresting the terror­ saying "We don't have any informa­ any members of Omega 7." The news racy"; or jailed for contempt because ists, the government floated stories tion that he was in intelligence." media seems to have luId ·better luck. they chanted independence slogans in that Garcia, the Yictim, "served some (Times, September 13). The Daily News of September 14 court. intelligence furictions" (September 12 Raul Roa said of the charges, "[Gar­ carried an interview with Pedro Her· It is an outright lie that U.S. officials New York Times). The September 13 cia) was a protocol officer at the mis­ nandez, a right-wing newspaper pub­ do not know or cannot get a conviction Daily News headlined their article sion-that is all. The media is trying to lisher. Hernandez said he supported against the anti·Cuban terrorists. "Believe envoy killed for spy activity" invent all these fabrications to justify the murder of Garcia because "justice arid quoted unnamed "federal authori­ what has happened, and that is that is being done." Carter's policy ties" that "Omega 7 decided to execute Felix Garcia has been murdered in Whatever ·the facts eventually show Garcia after unmasking.him as a high plain daylight." In the March 10, 1980 Village Voice, about the direct links between the U.S. level spy sent here by Fidel Castro to writer Jeff Stein identified Hernandez government and Garcia's killers, the wipe them out." The article claims, U.S. protects terrorists as, "a close ally of [Armando] Santa­ Omega 7 terror campaign fits right in ."Garcia was thought to be keeping The September 16 New York Times na's Cuban Nationalist Movement with the policy of the Carter adminis· surveillance on a Cuban drug ring quotes FBI spokesman Quentin Ertel: and, according to New York police tration. operating in Miami." "I think in terms of developing wit· files, 'a suspect in recent Cuban bomb­ That policy is to block the revolution· Similar reports were initially broad- nesses and hard evidence, progress is ings.'" ary upsurge in Central America, and to isolate Cuba. The Omega 7 killings are inseparable from this policy, which could drag the American people into a Felix Garcia Rodriguez: a fighter since youth new Vietnam in Central America. The following biographical was arrested twice by Batista's for building new workers' housing. The violence is also aimed at intimi· sketch of the slain Felix Garcia police during student demonstra· dating the ·growing number of people Rodriguez is based on information tions. He served as an official of MIN­ in the Cuban community in this coun· REX and then worked as a journal· issued by the Cuban Mission to the He graduated from the schools of try who want a friendly policy toward United Nations. diplomatic law and journali&m at ist on the daily Victoria, published Cuba. Born in 1939 of humble origins, the university. on the Isle of Youth, and on Juuen· To the extent the murderers get the Havana daily. He Garcia worked from his earliest A member of a combat unit.of the Iud Rebelde, away with their crimes, they are en· was then appointed a diplomatic years to help support his family. people's militia, he participated in couraged to step up their attacks. attache to the Cuban UN Mission. As a student at the University of numerous mobilizations in defense Washington's message to Omega 7 He was, since 1977, a protocol offi· Havana, he was active in the move­ of the revolution. He was also thus far is: you have a license to kill. cial. ment against the Batista dictator­ active in voluntary sugar·harvest­ A different message has to be sent ship, cooperating with the Revolu­ ing mobilizations. As a member of He is survived by a brother, back to Washington: the American tionary Directorate, a student the Ministry of Exterior Relations Domingo Garcia Rodriguez, cur· people are sick of government-trained organization, and the July 26 (MINREX) he participated in pro­ rently the Cuban ambassador to killers freely walking the streets of this Movement, led by Fidel Castro. He jects sponsored by the department Egypt. country, whether they are.counterrevo­ lutionary Cubans or Ku Klux Klan scum.

THE MILITANT/SEPTEMBER 26, 1980 3 ••• ~ill~115» Continued from front page revolutionaries to the KKK-Nazi gang Shipyard workers tell Pulley: that shot and killed five antiracist demonstrators in North Carolina last November. We're with your principles' "When right-wing terrorists can strike with impunity, it hits us right NEWPORT NEWS, Va.-At noon here at home. It hits those trying to on Septemoer 12, Andrew Pulley organize unions. It hits those demand­ stood at the main gate of Newport ing Black equality. It hits those fight­ News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock ing to stop the draft. It hits anyone Company, shaking hands with who wants to change society." workers pouring out of the yard on Despite Washington's efforts to whip their lunch break. up hatred of Cuba, he went on, the It was not a first visit for the great majority of Americans oppose Socialist Workers presidential candi­ the right-wingers' bombings and as­ date. sassinations. In fact, many working people here Last year Pulley was part of a are beginning to hear about the gains delegation of steelworkers from the of the Cuban revolution and are inter­ Chicago-Gary area who journeyed to ested in finding out more. A central Newport News to demonstrate sup­ aim of Omega 7's violence is to intimi­ port for the shipyard workers' long date those who are spreading the truth strike for union recognition. about Cuba to American workers. This past summer, some 1,800 Welcoming the example set by the shipyard workers-at least 10 per­ emergency picket lines the day before, cent of the production and mainte­ Pulley said more and larger actions are nance work force in the yard­ needed, drawing on the power of the signed petitions to help get Pulley on Soclall.t Woril.el'l pre.ldentlal candidate Andrew Pulley, left, talk. with unions, groups organizing solidarity the Virginia ballot. port News woril.el'l oullide main shipyard gate during lunch break. with Latin America, Black and Latino So it was no surprise that the with Pulley, pressed a small enve­ yet members of your splendid organ­ groups, antidraft youth, and all who response was friendly as Pulley lope into his hand, and hurried on. ization, but with your principles, and have a stake in opposing the terrorists. talked with workers while a half­ Inside was a forty-dollar contribu­ reality of what you and the country dozen campaign supporters distrib­ tion to the socialist campaign. were built upon. We wish that the 'Cops know where they are' uted literature and sold the Militant. A note explained that the donation working class will prevail and this is Pulley scoffed at police claims to One Black worker chatted briefly came from "a few of us who are not America." have "few leads" in the assassination. "They know who these people are. They know where they are," he said. "The reason the cops don't find them cia fits into a pattern of attacks by "Five million people, half the island's "They lose when 7,000 demonstra and jail them is because the cops are in Washington against the revolutionary population, came into the streets May tors come into the streets to protes complicity with them. movement in the.Caribbean and Cen­ 17 to demonstrate support to the revo­ Klan murder in North Carolina. "The CIA never admits to killing tral America, including U.S. hostility lution. It dwarfed those who left. "They lose when the Black commun to the revolutionary governments in "How many people could Carter mo­ anybody," he pointed out. "They al­ ity doesn't take the exoneration .0 bilize?" ways have somebody else take credit. Nicaragua and Grenada and stepped­ killer-cops lying down, but comes ou They like to kill through a third party. up U.S. aid to the military dictatorship The fact is, Pulley said, that Wash­ into the streets and lights up the skies Only years later does it come out that in EI Salvador. ington has failed to win support the CIA did it." "And above all, attacks against among the American people for its "They lose when workers fight bad Pulley took up the statements by Cuba," he said. Just in the past year, attempts to crush revolutionary strug­ against demands for sacrifice. Wher Donald McHenry, U.S. ambassador to Pulley noted, Washington has tried to gles around the world. He cited mass the fire fighters in Chicago link u~ the UN, justifying police conduct. launch a witch-hunt against Cuba opposition to the draft among young with the Black community. When ship· builders right here strike and win thE McHenry had asserted that even around the "Soviet troops" issue, re­ people, "who see that the draft is not to union of their choice. though the FBI knew the members of sumed illegal spy flights over the is­ defend them, but to defend the inter­ Omega 7, arrests could be made only land, held threatenirt'g ' military :ma­ ests of giant corporations." "They lose when they can't rally tlu on "hard evidence," since "this is not a neuvers in the area, and tried to exploit American workers, he said, "have no American people behind Carter and police state." the Cuban emigres to smear the Castro interest in Carter's anti-Cuba policy. Reagan. "It's true, this is not a police state," government.. Our interests lie with the workers and "They lose when union after union Pulley responded. "This is a capitalist peasants of Central America and the starts talking about the need to build a democracy. And what we see here is Why they hate Cuba Caribbean. They are fighting against · labor. party." that in a capitalist democracy, right­ The socialist candidate posed the the same corporations that rip us off at From Poland to Iran, from South wing terrorists stand above the law, question: "Why is Washington-the home. Africa to El Salvador, Pulley declared, murdering people with impunity. We strongest military power on earth, "Our interests lie with the Cuban the strength of the working class is see the real face of capitalist democ­ based on the wealthiest economy, a big people, who are setting an example of making history. He quoted from Fidel racy, the face the oppressed masses of country of 240 million people-so hos­ how working people can run society to Castro's July 26 speech, with its confi­ the world see every day." tile to Cuba, a small country of 10 provide jobs, education, health care, dent defiance of U.S. threats and its Pulley said the assassination of Gar- million that is relatively poor? freedom from racism, and a better reminder that capitalist society "al­ "Cuba does pose a threat," he ans­ future for humanity. ready belongs to the past." wered. "A threat not to American "We should join with them in de­ "In the last analysis," Pulley con­ workers, Blacks, women, or any of the manding an end to the economic block­ tinued, "all the assassins they can oppressed, but a threat to the billion­ ade of Cuba. We should join them in muster will not be sufficient to halt the WASHINGTON, D.C.-----, aires of this country. demanding that Washington halt its march of history. "The threat Cuba poses is that the spy flights and withdraw its troops "If little Vietnam can do it against Hear Pulley rest of the people of Latin America will from Guantanamo." the U.S. military, if little Cuba can learn from its example that the way to withstand the blockade for twenty on Grenada end unemployment, the way to end 'They are losing' years, if little Grenada can move for­ illiteracy, the way to end hunger and Finally, Pulley stressed that the ward, if Iran can overthrow the shah Andrew Pulley speaks out disease, the way to raise the living terrorist actions "are not only the and move forward-just imagine what on the reyolutlon stanaard of the masses of people, is to .actions of cowards, but the actions of will happen when working people in In Grenada take over your own country! And to people who are desperate, who have this country say it is time to call a halt. Sunday, September 21 take over your own country, you've got tried and failed. When workers here say what the Pol­ 2-5 p,m_ to take over some of the American "We have no reason to feel pessim­ ish workers said, that it's time for ~lS to billionaires' property, and you've got to ism because of this assassination. The become the masters of our factories, WHUR-FM-96.3 bring down the dictators who serve on U.S. rulers are losing, not just in the masters of all society. Interviewed by John Blake behalf of the American billionaires." Caribbean but right here at home. "I'll tell you what will happen. All on 'The Caribbean Experience' Pulley pointed to the response of the "They lose when one million young the assassins, like all the cops, will run Cuban people to Washington's threats. workers say, hell no, we won't go. for cover." ...... Special offer (J" i Subscribe today ~ ','.'''""' '',.;.

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4 Raul Roa addresses UN 'The -assassins operate with full impunity' Following is the text of the in the Hispanic press of New York City diplomats and of our Mission would be aggressions and terrorist actions statement made by Raul Roa and convene public meetings in Man­ adopted, and that all efforts would be against diplomatic personnel and Mis· Kouri, Permanent Representative hattan, shamelessly boasting about made to aprehend the assassins of our sions in New York City. of Cuba to the United Nations, at their criminal intentions against the comrade, Felix Garcia. From the bottom of our hearts, we the September 12 session of the diplomatic representatives of the Cu­ But, unfortunately, Felix Garcia has pay homage to our comrade, who fell UN General Assembly. The Eng­ ban Revolution. They are the same died because his cowardly assassins in the fulfillment of his duties. No lish text was released by the Cu­ who, in the course of the past two were not punished for their previous member of the Cuban diplomatic ser· ban Mission to the UN. years, have bombed the premises of the crimes. It is, therefore, an elementary vice can be intimidated. My Govern­ Permanent Mission of Cuba on five duty to denounce his murder before ment demands that the authorities of Mr. President: occasions, causing serious damage to this august body and reiterate the the Host Country adopt the necessary Distinguished delegates: our office building and endangering imperative need to put an end to the measures to capture and try the assas­ Yesterday evening, a member of the the lives and security not only of impunity enjoyed by these terrorists sins of Cuban diplomat Felix Garcia, Permanent Mission of Cuba to the Cuban diplomats and officials but of and assassins; that the Host Country, and expects the Member States of this United Nations, Diplomatic Attache, innocent passers-by and New York in accordance with its obligations from Organization to demand the strict police agents on duty at the Mission as the Agreement between the United observance of the norms and conven­ well. In short, they are the same ele­ Nations and the Government of the tions regulating the activities of our ments who six months ago placed a United States, fully guarantees the Missions and their personnel, inas­ highly potent plastic bomb under the physical security of diplomatic person­ much as they are diplomatic agents car of the Permanent Representative of nel accredited to this Organization, of accredited to the United Nations and Cuba to this Organization. their Missions and properties. The reside, for that reason, in the territory They have now vilely murdered dip­ international community cannot re­ of the Host Country. lomat Felix Garcia on a Queens road­ main idle in the face of the repeated Thank you. way, inside his own car, in plain day light, at a scarce 15 minutes drive from the United Nations Headquarters. They have acted with full impunity. · They have acted, likewise, with the Message to Cuban youth treachery, expertise and security of Following the assassination The government of the United-­ those· who were trained to commit all of Felix Garcia Rodriguez, the States is afraid of the example of kinds of criminal activities against the national executive committee the Cuban revolution for young Cuban Revolution, its leaders and rep­ of the Young Socialist Alliance people in this country. Imperialist resentatives abroad. Above all, they sent messages of solidarity to propaganda against Cuba, Nicara­ acted with the cowardice typical of three youth organizations in gua, and Grenada has been aimed these despicable petty gangsters. Cuba. They were the Union de at turning young Americans Encouraged by the impunity which Jovenes Comunistas, Federa­ against these revolutions. But Comrade Felix Garcia Rodriguez, was they have enjoyed and still enjoy, cion de Estudiantes Universita­ American youth have no interest in 'cowardly' assassinated in New York despite our reiterated denunciation of rios, and Organizacion ' Conti­ fighting our brothers and sisters in City. their acts to the Secretary-General of nental Latino-Americana des the Caribbean, Central America, or His assassins, counterrevolutionar· the United Nations and to the Com­ Estudiantes (Union of Young elsewhere. This was shown by the ies of Cuban origin living in the Uni· mon Relations with the Host Country, Communists, Federation of refusal of hundreds of thousands of ted States, cynically informed the New they resolved to slay Comrade Felix University Students and Con­ young American workers and stu­ York press that that was an act by one Garcia once they ascertained he was tinental Organization of Latin dents to register for Carter's draft. of the gangs made up of a small group alone and defenseless. Such is the American Students). We pledge to mobilize our of terrorists without a fatherland nature of Cuba's enemies; such are The following is the text of members and supporters to protest which operate in this country. They their criminal methods; such is. the the message. this latest attack on the Cuban forecast that this would be the first in indemnity with which they carry out revolution. We demand immediate their repugnant villainies. a series of aggressions. The Young Socialist Alliance of prosecution of the anti-Cuban ter­ These groups of professional assas­ M:ister President: the United States 'expresses our rorists. We demand protection for sins who not only act ' against the The Permanent Mission of Cuba has profound outrage and sorrow over representatives of the Cuban gov­ representatives of Revolutionary Cuba, received the condolences of the Govern­ the murder of comrade Felix Garcta ernment. but who impose their terror on all ment of the Host Country for this Rodriguez. We hold the U.S. gov­ those who defend Cuba's rights, have outrageous assassination. The Per­ ernment responsible for this crime No draft! No war! several public offices in the country manent Representative of the United because of its twenty-year cam­ End the blockade! which ' hosts our international organi­ States has assured us that all neces­ paign to undermine and slander End U.S. attacks on the Cuban zation. The members and leaders of sary measures to guarantee the secur­ the Cuban revolution. revolution! these groups publish their statements ity and physical integrity of Cuban Protests echo inside and outside UN By Harry Ring joined in "strongly condemning" the UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.-Within murder. eighteen hours of the slaying of Cuban Representing several of the Asian UN attache Felix Garcia Rodriguez, governments, the representative of there were substantial protests here, Bangladesh declared it "a matter of both outside and inside the United serious concern for all of us." He called Nations. upon the United States to fulfill its While the UN General Assembly met obligation as host country to the UN in a plenary session on the issue, by assuring that effective measures be protesters against the assassination taken "to afford full protection to all marched ' outside. With literally only diplomatic personnel" at the UN. hours notice, more than 500 people A statement by some of the Arab showed up for a two-hour demonstra­ countries expressed "great concern at tion. this odious crime." Chanting in Spanish and English, "The host country," it declared, the picketers demanded: "must respect the principles of interna­ "USA, CIA, Hands off Cuba!" tional law and ensure adequate protec­ "Cuba si, bloqueo no! Omega 7 has got tion for all members of the diplomatic to go!" "Arrest the terrorists! Break community." the blockade!" It declared it supported the Cuban Inside the UN, Dr. Raul Roa Kouri, demand that the United'States "take first secretary of the Cuban delegation, the necessary measures to apprehend told the plenary that the assassins the criminals...." were encouraged in their deadly work Protest at UN Donald McHenry, the chief U.S. "by the impunity they have enjoyed del ega te, voiced "sincere and profound and still enjoy" in the United States. sorrow." He asserted that "all approp­ Noting Washington's expressions of riate federal agencies" would cooperate regret, Roa commented that "Unfortu­ It noted that ever since the triumph Among them were Casa de las Ameri­ with the New York police and that the nately Felix Garcia has died because of the Cuban revolution twenty-one cas, Casa Nicaragua, Antonio Maceo government would "use every constitu­ his cowardly assassins were not pun­ years ago, anti-Cuba terrorist net­ Brigade, Puerto Rican Socialist Party, tional means to seek out and prose­ ished for their previous crimes." works have functioned "virtually un­ Socialist Workers Party, Young Social­ . cute" the terrorists. This point was emphasized by the checked" in this country and in Puerto ist Alliance, Communist Party, Ven­ Fine words. But a week after they demonstrators outside the UN. A state­ Rico. It declared that the absence of ceremos Brigade, Workers World were spoken the combined forces of the ment distributed to passers-by from the vigorous prosecution of the terrorist Party, and others. federal government and New York sponsoring group, the Committee to groups by the government "can only At the UN plenary, representatives police were still saying they didn't End the U.S. Blockade Against Cuba, be interpreted as complicity." spoke on the assassination. have a single lead in the killing and demanded a halt to "all terrorist vio­ Numerous groupings opposed to U.S. Speaking on behalf of the UN, Gen­ that prospects were dim for developing lence" against Cuba. aggression against Cuba participated. eral Secretary Kurt Waldheim said he any.

THE MILITANT/SEPTEMBER 26, 1980 5 'Anger and renewed combativity~ Cuban leader delivers memorial speech Following is the memorial part in the struggle against Batista's seek to intimidate Latin America, and speech for Felix Garcia Rodriguez tyranny. He spent time in jail, and he who proclaim a return to the days of delivered in Havana September 14 knew dangers. The victory of the revo­ servitude. Let them all recall what by Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, lution allowed him to serve with dedi­ Fidel said about the tears of the people member of the Political Bureau of cation and passion the people from on another sad day like this one. the Cuban Communist Party and whom he came. Vice-president of the Council of Whenever the homeland called on From now on, Felix Garcia's name is State. The translation is by 'Inter­ him, Felix Garcia was there. He shared inscribed on the long list of those who continental Press.' . the trenches of day-to-day labor. He have fallen for our homeland. He joins worked long and hard at voluntary Adriana Corcho, Efren Monteagudo, The anger of our people is mixed tasks in agriculture and construction. and Sergio Perez as another example with sadness today. It is growing in Everything about him called for life. of those who represent the revolution face of the cowardice of those who Nothing gave him more satisfaction on foreign soil and who, knowing the vilely murdered our beloved comrade than to help his comrades. He did so enemy was lying in wait, never Felix Garcia. with such enthusiasm that, while car­ stepped back from their duty. This crime comes from the despera· rying out his continual and tireless The people and the party will carry tion of defeat. It is vengeance, brutal work, he seemed instead to be at an the name of this incorruptible fighter but useless, by those who know they unending fiesta_ He radiated under­ into history. have been uprooted once and for all standing and optimism; perhaps for from this land that they betrayed. that reason it was not difficult for the Those who shamefully fled the face­ criminals to do their infamous deed. to-face battle now attack recklessly, knowing they are safe from harm. Carlo. Rafael Rodriguez 'Impunity of crime' These gangster outfits know all too His death hurts all the more because Castro on well that nothing will tum the Cuban of the impunity with which the crime people aside_ They know that their took place. Faced with the ongoing terrorism hope that this revolution might be the same hatred toward those young threats to our officials in New York, people who were dragged away from broken by foreign threat or internal Cuba's official denunciations and Fidel Castro spoke to a mass decay has long since vanished. this island as children and have now warnings have not been lacking. Being rally in the Plaza of the Revolution They know, too, that no fighter of had their consciences awakened. the host country of the United Nations in Havana October 15, 1976. It was the revolution slackens when his These youth, who see the prestige imposes obligations [on the United a week after seventy-three people and respect the revolution has brought brothers are murdered. More than once States). It demands that representa­ were killed when'terrorists blew up they have heard the victory cry-''The the homeland in which they were born, tives of the countries that make up this a Cuban Airlines plane in the air now feel it to be their own. They are people united will never be defeated!" organ of the international community near Barbados. But they were trained to kill. They rising up to proclaim their pride and to enjoy safeguards that cannot be vio­ In that speech he said: publicize the reality ofrenovated Cuba. are not ready to give up the job of lated by unscrupulous gangsters. "Imperialism, capitalism, fas­ Thus the gangsters murdered Carlos assassin. They are looking once again The death of Felix Garcia has been cism, neocolonialism, racism, Muniz Varela with equal cowardice. As for someone to hire them_ publicly condemned by the United man's brutal exploitation of man in a member of the Antonio Maceo Bri­ When they see retrograde forces ap­ States. They have also sent condolen­ all its forms and manifestations, is gade, Carlos contributed to improving pearing on the U.S_ political scene, ces to Cuba, in a message from Presi­ approaching its end in humanity's the understanding of socialist Cuba. who base their aspirations for power dent Carter. If Felix's death serves to history, and their maddened lack­ They killed him just as they killed on a call for a return to violence and a put an end to the cowardly acts of eys know it; that is why their heavy hand in Latin America, these Felix Garcia, the Cuban diplomat at those who uselessly seek to silence the reactions are ever more desperate, gangs lose no time in demonstrating the United Nations who happened to revolution, intimidate its representa­ more hysterical, more cynical, more their skill in carrying out such a pol­ be the easiest target. tives, and strike blows against its impotent. Only that can explain icy, whose prototype was that of Pi­ defenders, this would be Felix's final such repugnant and absurd crimes nochet in Chile. service to the homeland and to social­ as the one in Barbados. ... 'A firm fighter' ism, which he loved so much. "We cannot say that the sorrow ----rein'£" tolerate truth' In Felix Garcia Rodriguez, Cuba We will await the test of events. is shared. The sorrow is multiplied. If they are to keep on doing their loses a firm fighter. The Ministry of Meanwhile, our people's anger and Millions of Cubans shed their tears dirty work, these gangsters cannot Foreign Relations loses a loyal and renewed combativity, as we gather today together with the dear ones tolerate the American people hearing dedicated functionary. He came from around the body of Felix Garcia and of the victims of the abominable the true voice of Cuba or understand­ among the people, and educated him­ accompany it in an impressive proces­ crime. And when an energetic and ing the significance of our revolution self through his own efforts. For him, sion, is the response to the miserable forceful people cry, injustice trem­ and its policies. They hate our incor­ the revolution was both a joy and a elements that carried out this crime. It bles! ruptible diplomats who represent Cuba duty. From the days of the Directorate answers as well those who call for "Patria 0 Muerte! Venceremos!" in the United States. But they show and the July 26 Movement, he took aggressive policies against Cuba, who

Protests condemn murder, demand action By Vivian Sahner ing u.s. military intervention into the The Chicago Cuba Committee spon­ Outraged by the murder of Felix . ~ civil war in EI Salvador. This latest sored a picket line on September 12. Garcia Rodriguez, people from across assassination, if left unpunished, will Thrity-five members of United Steel­ the country organized protest activities encourage a climate of violence workers Local 15271 in Chicago sent a demanding that the U.S_ government against U.S. citizens who disagree petition to the U.S. Attorney General, apprehend and prosecute the killers. with the government's belligerent for­ which noted, "Credit for this murder The Cuban Coordinating Council of eign policy. W-CARD demands that has been claimed by Omega 7, a Cu­ San Francisco sponsored a September the FBI immediately apprehend the ban exile terrorist group that was 12 picket at the federal building there_ Omega 7 killers responsible_" originally trained and organized by More than fifty people, including "Omega 7 pulled the trigger, the CIA the CIA." They demanded immediate members of Casa Nicaragua, Casa EI held the gun," was the chant at the arrest and prosecution of these murder­ Salvador, Antonio Maceo Brigade, and . September 14 picket at the Santa Clara ers. reporters from Black Scholar, partici­ County Building in San Jose. The Kevin Lynch, editor of the Distribu· pated in the picket, which called for protest was called by the San Jose tive Worker, the Distributive Workers full protection for the Cuban Mission Nicaragua Solidarity Committee, the of America's newspaper, told the Mili­ and an end to Omega 7-type attacks. Solidarity Committee for a Free EI tant, "We shllre with the public feeling Outside the Justice Department in Salvador, and the Socialist Workers of outrage that this cold-blooded Washington, D.C., on September 12, Party. murder could take place on the streets protesters chanted, "Justice Depart­ Reporters from KTAR radio, KPHO­ of New York. We strongly feel every ment start today, stop Omega 7 in the TV, and the Scottsdale Progress in effort should be made to put an end to USA." Phoenix interviewed Josefina Otero, such terrorist organizations." The Washington Coalition Against Socialist Workers candidate for U.S. Casa Nicaragua, one of the organiz­ Registration and the Draft (W-CARD), Senate in Arizona. Otero, a member of ers of a September 12 picket at the UN, sent the following declaration to Car­ United Steelworkers Local 3937, asked declared that the assassination "is yet ter, "The Washington Coalition that telegrams be sent to the White another provocation against the social­ Against Registration and the Draft House condemning Rodriguez's mur­ ist island of Cuba, and we express our thoroughly condemns the brutal assas­ der. The press noted that Otero's solidarity with the Cuban people for sination of Cuban UN attache Felix opponents for the Senate seat have the death of companero Felix Garcia Garcia Rodriguez, by the terrorist exile been silent about this assassination. Rodriguez. We are against this terror­ group Omega 7. This cowardly act was In Philadelphia, the Puerto Rican ism, which is one more part of impe­ an attack on everyone who speaks out Socialist Party, Venceremos Brigade rialism's provocations." against U.S. goverment policies in the and SWP organized a picket line at the Referring to the U.S. authorities, Caribbean and Central America. federal building on September 12. They Casa Nicaragua added that "they try "W-CARD stands in opposition to demanded the arrest of the Omega 7 to say that they are working on the your administration's attempts to rein­ killers and called on the U.S. govern­ investigation of the assassination, but stitute the draft and against the grow­ Anlblll YMo,/PerspeCliva Mund,., ment to end the blockade of Cuba. Conllnued on page 17

6 Why Cuba's UN mission is assassins' target By Fred Feldman two years! Much of the daily work of coordi­ Cuban mission is hated by the On August 20 the United Nations They will meet strenuous opposi­ nating the Non-aligned occurs at the Omega 7 hit men-and by the cops Special Decolonization Committee tion-again with Cuba's delegation United Nations, where almost all the and federal agents who cover for submitted a resolution demanding in the forefront_ member nations are represented_ them. that the U.S_ government "adopt all Such stands are among the rea­ And Cuba's United Nations delega­ But the murder of Felix Garcia necessary measures to make a full sons why Cuba's U.N. mission has tion naturally plays a central role in Rodriguez does not touch the Cu­ transfer of powers to the Puerto become a prime target for right-wing this. bans alone. The Cubans are among Rican people." terrorists. The U.S. rulers know Cuban influ­ the most consistent opponents of This resolution, like other United Cuba carries increased weight at ence will be used to aid the struggles imperialism at the United Nations, Nations statements in favor of the United Nations these days, and of the oppresaed and to oppose U.S. but theirs is far from the only dele­ Puerto Rican independence that the Carter administration isn't con­ imperialism_ Not just in the cases of gation to find itself at loggerheads have angered the Carter administra­ cealing its unhappiness about this. Puerto Rico and Kampuchea, but in with Washington over key issues. tion, was guided to passage by Cuba now heads the group of Non­ Southern Africa, the Middle East, This is especially true of delega­ members of Cuba's mission to the aligned countries. Castro spoke to Central America-in short, around tions from Asia, Africa, Latin Amer­ United Nations_ the United Nations as leader of the the world. ica, and the Soviet bloc. In recent days U_S. diplomats Non-aligned last October, and re­ Cuba:s United Nations mission The murder of Garcia and the have prowled the halls of the United ceived a standing ovation for a has long represented a breach in refusal of the police to arrest the Nations, drumming up support for powerful attack on the imperialist Washington's blockade of the is­ killers puts all these delegations on recognition of the Pol Pot regime .as plunder of Asia, Africa, and Latin land-a means by which the Cuban notice that they could become the only "legitimate" government of America. government can get out the truth targets if they don't toe Washing­ Kampuchea (Cambodia)-even Cuba just missed being elected to a about their country and its views to ton's line. That's why outrage though Pol Pot's mass murderers . seat on the United Nations Security the American people. against the slaying is running deep have been out of power for almost Council last January. So it's not surprising that the at the United Nations.

Subscription drive ...protests Continued 'rom page 6 Linda Mohrbacher, Socialist Workers it is obvious that what they're trying to candidate for U.S. Senate, and Liz off to good start do is confuse public opinion. They Hughes, Citizen's and Consumer's know who the murderers are, no doubt Party candidate for Congress, de­ By Nancy Rosenstock 100 to 120 new readers. about it." nounced the murder. The rally partici­ The drive to win 8,000 new readers to A big part of the fall circulation A spokesperson for the Puerto Rican pants voted to send a telegram to the the Militant and Perspectiua Mundial drive is the fielding of twenty national Socialist Party in New York also com­ White House, part of which reads, "We this fall is off and rolling. subscription/ campaign teams. A team mented to the Militant about the role of hold the U_S. government responsible 'Saturday> September 13 began the of three s~ci~li.sts. in the Newport Ne~s the government: "We demand a com­ for this murder in cold blood, since the big kick-off week for the drive. Teams area of Vlrglma Just wrapped up theIr plete investigation. We want to remind government shields and encourages of socialist campaigners in at least week of. campaign~g ~mong . 8~1- the government that this is not the right-wing groups like Omega 7. forty cities were knocking on doors, workers l~ the heaVIly lOdustnahzed first time, we remember the murder of "We demand that the government talking to people about subscribing to ar~a _ Dunng the co~rs~ of the week Eulalio Negrin in Union City, New provide full protection to the Cuban the campaign newspapers of Andrew thIrty-two new sub?cnpbons.were sold, Jersey_We think the FBI and the CIA Mission and their attaches and also Pulley and Matilde Zimmermann_ as well as 152 slOgle copIes of the are holding back." demand the immediate arrest and While Saturday's results are still MAilitadnt· . On September 13, eighty people at­ prosecution of those responsible for coming in, there are already many n thIS week, a team of cam­ tended a Pittsburgh protest rally where this heinous crime." paigners are out in the mining com­ positive experiences_ munities of southwestern Arizona Kansas City socialists followed up where thousands of miners have been on their recent victory in winning on a long _strike. _ __ ballot status for Pulley and Zimmer- The circulation arive this fall takes mann by talking about the positions of on extra importance as the socialist the campaign with working people in candidates, Pulley and Zimmermann, their city_ They sold 15 subscriptions step up their defense of the Cuban on Saturday alone, bringing their total revolution. The Militant and PM will to 35 subscriptions sold. be highlighting this in upcoming A major discussion has opened up in issues. They will be explaining to the union movement on the need for a working people that their interests lie labor party. This discussion took a big with the workers and peasants of Cuba step forward when the recent conven- and not with Carter's attacks against tion of the International AssociatiQn of Cuba_They will be pointing to the kind Machinists voted to·support the idea of of movement that is needed here to put a pro-labor party. an end to right wing terrorist attacks The labor party coverage has against Cuban officials in this country spurred on the selling of new subscrip- or against any supporter of the Cuban tions. Milwaukee socialists report a revolution. good response to the Militant's cover- The big business press will continue age of the labor party discussion in with its attacks against Cuba and their door-to-door campaigning in against other revolutionary develop­ Black working class neighborhoods. ments in Central America and the This past Saturday, they sold 15 new Caribbean. subscriptions to the Militant and The Militant and Perspectiua Mun­ signed up 18 young people on Young dial will continue telling the truth Socialists for Pulley and Zimmermann about these revolutions. cards_ Since the drive began, supporters in E'ocialists who work in the giant Central Falls, Rhode Island, and Lockheed plant in Atlanta have met Logansport, Indiana, have joined the with a similar friendly response. One growing number of readers that are Pulley/Zimmermann supporter sold 7 c'irculating the Militant and PM. Why new subscriptions to the Militant after not join us in campaigning for the she posted the article reporting on the socialist candidates by circulating lAM convention on the plant bulletin their newspapers. Just write to 14 board. In fact, Atlanta socialists are Charles Lane, New York, New York doing so well in the drive that they are 10014, and we will rush the subscrip­ the first area to raise their goal-from tion sellers kit to you. November 16-30 The Mtillanl and Perspectiva Mun­ lution, and other organizations Also dIal Invite you to travel With us on a we Will VISit schools. hospitals. poly­ two-week tour of Cuba. cliniCS. hOUSing developments. and After spending several days in factories. Havana the tour will fly to Santiago The tour departs from Miami No­ de Cuba. birthplace of the Revolu­ vember t5 and returns there on the tion. The next week will be spent 29th of November. The cost is $850 traveling across the island. The tour This includes hotel. meals. roundtrip will visit the cities'-of Camaguey. las travel from Miami to Cuba. travel In Villas. and Santa Clara. Cuba. visa fees. and bilingual tour During the two weeks we will have guides. time to meet with representatives of the Cuban Workers Confederation. For more information write to Mil­ Federation of Cuban Women. Com­ itanVPM Cuba Tours. PO Box 314. I mittees for the Defense of the Revo- New York. N.Y 10014 MaUlde Zimmermann campaign. at Stewart-Warner plant In Indlanapoll.

THE MILITANT/SEPTEMBER 26, 1980 17 Continuing crimes, no arrests Governmental complicity with Omega 7 By Harry Ring organization and that agents were now On a Sunday afternoon last No· beginning to question them about the vember, Eulalio Negrin, accompanied Garcia murder. So far, he said, pro· by his son, twelve, was entering his car gress was "slight." in Union City, New Jersey. A car All of this is such a patent fraud that pulled up with two men in it. They even cops must blush in telling it. began shooting. The boy escaped. Ne­ Federal and local police agencies grin was killed. have penetrated every conceivable The counterrevolutiol)ary Cuban ter­ kind of organization, from right to left. rorists of Omega 7 took public credit for the assassination. Cops in Klan & Nazis To thls day there has not been a In the current trial of Klan and Nazi single arrest in the case. members who murdered five Commu­ Negrin was a prominent figure in nist Workers Party members in Union City's large Cuban community. Greensboro, North Carolina, it was He was active in Republican Party revealed that an agent of the federal politics and headed a social service bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire­ program for Cuban emigres. arms was operating in the Nazi outfit, But he favored an end to the block­ and a local police operative was in the ade of Cuba and normalization of U.S.­ Klan. Cuba relations. It was disclosed that both were in­ Union City is a base of operations volved in planning the murderous op­ for Omega 7. Its front organization, eration. the Cuban Nationalist Movement, has Federal and local authorities are a public headquarters there. It has determined to keep hands off Omega 7. powerful friends in city hall. Not simply because they sympathize Earlier, Negrin's storefront social with its anti-Cuba activity. The cops agency had been destroyed by a bomb. are in it up to their necks themselves. Omega 7 took credit for that too­ Jeff Stein, a reporter who has done along with the bombing of a drug substantial digging into Omega 7, had company that shipped medicine to can't find them. But the FBI did name Koch does have one defense for his this to say in the March 10 New York Cuba. them as "prime suspects" in the bomb­ do-nothing policy about Omega 7. He Village Voice: In the previous months, Negrin had ing of Negrin's storefront office. can argue, convincingly, that the fed­ "In the Dade County [Florida] police received some ten threats on his life. And at the scene of the murder of eral government isn't doing anything department, terrorism experts ex· The police refused him protection. An Felix Garcia, a reporter for New York's either. change smiles and look down at their aide to the mayor said the city couldn't Channel 11 TV, openly stated his Four months ago, as the stench of hands when you ask them if the CIA's "afford the luxury" of protecting indi­ belief that the two gunmen could well the coverup grew stronger, the federal involved with exile anti·Castro activi· vidual citizens. be in the area. government announced that the FBI ties. They look to each other to answer The murderers of Eulalio Negrin did In the past five years, Omega 7 has and New York police were establishing first, clear their throats, shift in their not go unapprehended simply because taken credit for twenty-two bombings a special task force to deal with Omega seats. The answer is yes." they have political clout in Union City. in the New York-New Jersey area­ 7. The joint team includes twenty-two including five at the Cuban Mission to people. ' In New York a police official told Muniz killing the UN. Stein: "You get just so far on a case Seven months earlier, in San Juan, There has not been a single arrest. They haven't accomplished much. and suddenly the dust is blown away. Puerto Rico, Carlos Muniz, a young Last March, Raul Roa, Cuban am· Following the Garcia murder, FBI Case closed. You ask the CIA to help, Cuban working for an end to the bassador to the UN, escaped miracu· officials told reporters they still and they say they aren't really inter· m kade .qf his homeland, was also lously when ,the driver of his car spot· weren't certain what the name Omega ested. You get the message." gunned down by the right-wing killers. ted a shoe box underneath the car. 7 meant, or how many members it For good reason. The CIA has re­ Those who committed that murder It contained enough explosives, New might have. They said it might be as cruited and trained Cuban counterrev· have not been apprehended either. York police said, to blow up a city few as seven. That shrewd bit of police olutionaries ever since the revolution. Five members of Omega 7 partici­ block. thinking may have been deduced from The CIA-directed Bay of Pigs invasion pated in the 1976 assassination of Still not one arrest. the organization's name. was simply its most publicized effort. Orlando Letelier, who had been an New York's Mayor Koch says he's September IS, FBI Agent Larry The whole record leads to a single official of the Allende government of "outraged" by the murder of Cuban Whack told reporters he's been "inves­ conclusion. Omega 7 has had a free Chile. attache Garcia. At the time of the last tigating" Omega 7 for the past five hand to bomb and murder because it is Three were convicted but a federal bombing of the Cuban Mission, Koch years. carrying out the work of the United appeals court just ruled they should offered Omega 7 the fatherly advice He said that over this period of time States government-a government have a new trial. Two are still at large. that they were "doing their own cause the FBI had developed a list of people that is determined to defeat the Cuban Federal authorities say they simply a great disservice." it "suspected" were members of the revolution by any means necessary. A grim record of murders and bombings

Since the,Cuban revolution came to Cuban embassy in Lisbon, Portugal. Cuban mission to the United Nations. leader among Cubans abroad who power in 1959, Washington has waged June 6: A bomb explodes in the Omega 7 assumes responsibility. advocate normalization of relations a systematic campaign of violence Cuban mission to the United Nations. October 5: A bomb is exploded out­ and an end to the U.S. blockade against it. Omega 7 assumes responsibility. side of New York City's Madison against Cuba, was gunned down by In the early years of the revolution, July 9: A bomb explodes in the lug· Square Garden to protest the appear· counterrevolutionary thugs in San there was a series of bombings of gage about to be loaded on a Cubana ance of Cuban boxers there. Omega 7 Juan, Puerto Rico. Omega 7 assumes sugar mills and other installations. plane in Kingston, Jamaica. assumes responsibility. responsibility. Other acts of sabotage and arson July 23: Artaignan Diaz Diaz, a December 29: Bombs explode at the October 27: A high-powered bomb were conducted by CIA infiltrators. It technician, is assassinated in Merida, Cuban mission to the UN and at explodes in front of the Cuban UN was publicly acknowledged that the Mexico, when two individuals attempt Lincoln Center, where a Cuban orches­ mission. Omega 7 assumes responsibil­ CIA had plotted a series of assassina­ to kidnap the Cuban consul. tra was giving a concert. Omega 7 ity. tion attempts against Fidel Castro. October 6: Cubana de Aviacion's assumes responsibility. November 25: Eulalio Jose Negrin, In 1960, a French, ship, La Coubre, CUT-1201 is criminally sabotaged, ex· an opponent of the U.S. blockade exploded in the Havana harbor while ploding in mid-flight off the coast of 1979 against Cuba and a participant in the unloading an arms shipment. United Barbados. All seventy· three pas­ March 25: The Office of Cuban Af­ "dialogue" between Cubans abroad States involvement was proven. sengers die. fairs in West New York, New Jersey, is and the Cuban government, is mur­ In 1961 came the notorious CIA bombed. Almacen el Espanol in Union dered by rightist goons in Union City, invasion at the Bay of Pigs. 1977 City, New Jersey, is bombed as well. New Jersey. Omega 7 assumes respon­ In 1969-70 clouds were seeded with January 9: The New York daily Omega 7 assumes responsibility. sibility. chemicals in an attempt to ruin the Newsday says the CIA was involved in April 28: Carlos Muniz Varela, a December 7: The Cuban mission to sugar harvest. A virus that did exten­ introducing a virus into Cuba, which the UN is bombed. Omega 7 assumes sive damage to tobacco crops was in 1971 caused an outbreak of African responsibility. smuggled in. swine fever. The following is a chronology of December 20: Bombs are set off at 1980 crimes against Cuba beginning in two stores named Almacen el Espanol, March 13: The Angolan mission to 1976, when Omega 7 entered the pic­ one in Union City and the other in the UN is firebombed by Omega 7, ture. Elizabeth, New Jersey. Both had been protesting Cuban aid to Angola. sending medical supplies to Cuba. March 25: Enough plastic explosives • • • Omega 7 assumes responsibility. to have blown up a city block is placed under the car of Raul Roa Kouri, 1976 1978 Cuba's ambassador to the UN. Omega April 22: A bomb explodes in the SepUimber 9: A bomb explodes at the MllitanVHarry Ring 7 assumes responsibility.

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Manifestacion castrista ante las Naciones Unidas, septiembre 12, 1980.