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Truman Capote — Part 2

66 pages · May 12, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Truman Capote · 65 pages OCR'd
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MM 105-8342 journalist with a prison record, one-time menber of the staff of the Columbia Breadcasting System, visitor in the Sierra Maestra, who was the founder of the “Fair Play fer Communist Cuba", he is back in the United States after having spent some time in Communist Cuba, with a uniform and machine gun, im the service ef CASTRO.. The “Communist Cuban apparatus" in the United States is very extensive, influential and diversified. It has always had plenty of financial support, furnished through CASTRO's delegation to the UNO, and also sent via Canada and Mexico, two countries which are used by Communist Cuba =~ to smuggle prepaganda and to transfer funds, “Fair Play” operated in accordance with the "apparatus" in question, . which has not disappeared; quite te the contrary, it is . even more to be feared now thas it ever was, according to Mr, J. EDGAR HOOVER, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). On Wednesday, April 6, 1960, "The New York Times" published a full-page ad on page 33, Section @, which otified the general public of the formation of the "Fair lay for Cuba Committee", with WALDG, and cameron 4 (BEALS as co-presidents, and with a long list of sponsors,’ /.. more or less kaown fer their leftist tendencies, among ae them, BOBERT (RED) TABER, TRUMAN CAPOTE, Negro writer_— . J, BAIDWIN, and the violent Negro racist, ROBERTF GG. ILLIAMS, later a fugitive to Communist Cuba when the United — Waly States law was after him for common crimes. Friday, April 21, :y, 1964, the “Fair Play" published another full-page ad in yy ‘The New York Times" with propaganda in favor ef the Communist government ef Cuba. Accerding to statements made under oath to the investigators ef the United States Senate, those ads were paid for at the regular rate ef the New York daily, more than four thousand dollara a page. As for one of them, it p: Y, has been proved that this was paid for with a check seat by —_—— faasua/kinennn, 2 of CASTRO to the dacnased professer, MANUEL Ci// LBERNI, at that time Cuban Ambassador to the UNO. The check for $3,500 was endorsed by the professor in favor ef RAUL ROA KOURI, now Ambassador frem Communist Cuba to Brazil, . and at that time attached toe the Cuban delegation to oe’ d was then endorsed again in faver ef Dr. CARJOS A<ASANTOS BUCH, im such a way that the amount couid be obfained im cask. ().7 In all that, the aforementioned Cubans worked hand in hand ~~ with ROBERT (RED) TABER, who had been sentenced to prison — several times fer armed robbery, kidmapping, carrying weapons, ¢tc.
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