| Cuban Communist DGI Official Julian Rizo’s Speech | to the Weather Underground Terrorists Horbert Romerstein, former investigator for the House Committ ‘American Activities: “What is significant today are the neo-communists - many of them are what we call red iaper babies and they came out of communist families. But they were disappointed in the Soviot Union back in the 1960's and 1970's and they were disappointed that the ‘American Communist Party was so weak, So, they said they were communists and they were better communists than the American Communist Party. | think a better term {or people like Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohm are neo-communisis. They were not party members, but they were fighting on behaif of the countries that the Soviet Union controlled or created, “A group of the weathermen went down to Cuba in the so-called Venceremos Brigade, ‘and some of them received training in terrorist activities. One of their instructors was ‘named Julian Torres-Rizo... Rizo was an officer of the Cuban DG, the inteligence: service. He was assigned to work with the young Americans who were coming down ostensibly to cut sugar cane. They were really coming down for training, And we have ‘one of Rizo's speeches in which he says, "You come from a society that must be destroyed. I's your job to destroy your society.’ Well, Bernardine Dohn and her cronies published Rizo’s speach and I have the copy that they published so we know ‘what he did and what they said. And Rizo later became the Cuban Ambassador to Grenada at the time of Maurice Bishop and he was sill the Cuban Ambassador when Bishop was murdered by his own comrades and finally had to leave and go back to Cuba where he became a member of the central committee of the Cuban Communist Party “He's a very significant communist apparatchik and he was a tremendous influence on, the Weather Underground. By the way, when he was in the United States before he ‘was given the job in Grenada, he was at the U.N. mission in New York and he handles the contacts with the American communists and radical groups and neo-communist groups and provided some funding for them. So he's a significant figure in our own, history because he helped the terrorists that were fighting against us at that time." (Forth completo text of Romerstln’s remarks, as woes vdoos, please go fo wwnusesunival.or) Provided as a public service by America’s Survival, Inc. wowusasurvival.org Cliff Kincaid, PresiYENCEREMOS BRIGADE PREPARATION COURSE New York Regional Committee 1, Interview of Fidel by Frank Mankiewicz- 1974 2. Final Talk to the Contingent by Julian Rizo 3, The Enemy Within - Some Notes on Past BrigadesFINAL TALK 70 THE FOURTH contmiceNr Julian Rizo Tr became somevhat nec ary to have a omall talk with you before fintehing Your stay in our country. Although the majority of you know of all of our cri~ teria and all of our ideae, wa thought it vas nec wry to hold this fina} con Yersation before leaving this part of the territory of our country which ie the Jose A, Echevarria Motor Ve Firot of all we vould 1ike to ask you for the greatest cooperation and the greatest understanding, the greatest help in regards to che boat Landing operation that must take place tonorrov. We hope to carry out this landing operation with your cooperation with no type of problens. We can not under any e{reunstances open the door to any type of incidents that would give Fhe Canadian authorities or the eneny the possibility of using that incident nat the Brigade. Meaning ve have to be extremely careful, We aust ful #411 all the rules in a vary strict way 90 as not to give thes the least op portunity for then to create a type of Incident that aight be used ageinet the Brigade. We are convinced that your behavior in all aspects of your stay here in Cuba will be exactly the same type of behavior you will have tomorow Ancehe whole Landing, ion, What is the opinion we have in regards te your stay in Cuba? We believe that in terms of your attitude tovards work, in terme of dtecipline, in terms of hunan relations and 4n terms of your attitude in Fegarde to learning about the Cuban experience, # pretty large majority of you has naintained a coreect atticud We cannot say cha 1 have maintained the sane attitude, but ue can 7 that @ very Large majority have maintained thie attitude and that fn our opinion, 4 very Large majority of you comrades have taken good advantage of your oppora tunkey of the stay in Guba. And this, simply, makes us fool satisfied. Te rakes us feel satisfied becouse St sakes us see chings thet ve had already convinced ourselves sbout, which 14 that the efforts that are put forth by alt our people to develop al the Vencerenos Brigades are ones that Dring re suits, wich means HSE, mat the efforts do not mateer, as Long as these ef forts are bound with those of comrades vbo will learn from this revolutionary xpertence and who are nov going back to thets country learning oF having dearned a Little bie more in relation ko what you wane, @ Little BLE wore con winced of the fect of why you are struggling and a Ltetle bie more decided to carry the struggle forvatd although we might have to pay with the price of blood. js long 4 this is so, the Vencerenos Brigade should be maintained. Nonetheless, there are certain cases, there are people who have trted to find in our countey the sane probless that you have {n your country. And people who trted to find tn the solutions we give t9 our problese soluctons chat could be applted to the probless of your country, Every revolution, every couatrys carries out Lts social changes whthio a concrete eftuation in vbich tt has developed, With an economic base and a cultural super structure that extets according to the varied history of each of these countries. And vhat this poans 48, simply, that although ve, Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries, follow this revolutionary theory for our socialist construction, Marxism-Leninism is not a method to follow exactly, but rather every country, every people, and every revolution must find concrete solutions, specific solutions to their om problens, And we would simply stop being revolutionaries if we would basin guide © revolution ‘gag ourselves on dogna; if we wanted co take the solu- tions from a manual, from a, book; identical solutions for each place and cach fighe, Me, those who aspire to becone revolutionaries, must learn te {n- terpret the right way this revolutionary theory. And to be a revoluctonary does not at all wean to read a book. If we must Find sonething in the books,tt 40 precisely the fact of how we cen take those ideas that ve éfnd in the Hooks to the revolutionry practice we are developing. And thie 4s soaething that to nec ary for all of us to learn, There have been occasions here People have tried to interpret our cultural and ideological reality within ‘the framevork of a decadent society, Because the first thing that a U.Sv rev~ olutionary must Se convinced of 1s precéeely the fact that he does cose from a decadent society, that he cones from a society that must be destroyed, chat youtre coming from a society that cannot impose Lave of conduct on the people of the Tatrd World that are struggling for liberation. Because when we act 4a a con ‘trary manner, when we are trying to impose those lave of conduct, those soras of attitude, what we're doing 48 that we are acting in the ane uanner in whieh the establishment acts according to/in regards to its colonies. Because the underdeveloped peoples of the world don't only have to get rid of the econonie yoke, they mist also got rld of the cultural yoke, of ideological ties, that at times not even looking at tt directly, are attenpted to be Imposed on thos Peoples . And maybe, maybe, sone of you in an unconscdous ay may become tra veling agents of that cultual tnperialien that our country 1s fighting against. ‘And we wanted to say this, we vanted to tell you this, you comrades who, a You yourselves state, aspire to become revolutipnaries, those who aspire to educate yourselves with a constetent anti~daperialist attitude, those who ‘aspize to understand the struggles of the different peoples of the world a part of the sane struggle. T would cay, without saying that this te the only revolutionary task of the Rovesent in the United States, I vould say that {¢ 4¢ one of the most important tacks that now faces you: that of educationg yourselves, io that of educating Your communities, t9 that of educating with the idea of the nest consistent. anti-{operialisn, And therefore, ap one of the eain things that you have to carry out, the f1ret thing to do id to eliminate from your minds anything re~te garding cultural inperialion, If we vant to be consistent anti-inpertalista, Af we want to understand the struggles of the peoples of the Thitd World, LE vo want to support these struggles--not just morally, because there are many people in the vorld today uho give moral support, and it 1¢ not enough to give merely moral support, because the people demand sonething more than oral, sup port--tt 4s necessary to understand the realities of these peoples. It 1s nec~ essaty to rolate to the ideologies of thowe peoples. And precisely because wwe want to continue educating the U.S. youth within chs frasework of ide we will continue bringing to our country future Vencorenos Brigades. There WALL be more Vencereno# Brigaded! ‘There will be wany wore Vencerenos Brigades, until imperialisa prevents ue from bringing more Brigades. And vhen the eneay finds a vay to eliminate the Vencerenos Brigade, we will continue trying to find another way to continue educating the U.S. youth within the anti-taperialter framework of see And you as a group, will have a new responsibility 4a regards to tthe creation of a nev Vencerenos Brigade. But who are the people we want to participate in this act? ho are the people we want to be responsible for finding the nev youth that are going on the next Brigade? Precisely those people that perfectly understand al these ideas about anti-taperielism, ‘Those comrades that do not understand these sdeas, those that subordinate theaselves to other types of reasons or supposed soctel reasons, we them not to participate in another Vencerenos Brigade, Because we hope that che nent Brigade will be better than this one, just ae ve know that the revo- lutions that will cone after the Cuban Revolution will be better than the cca ban Revolution, because they can take things from the experience of the Cuban Revolution, And that 4s what you should do in your work. There's not much for us left to say co you. We have talked on other oc~ cantons in regards to cortain concepts, as those of unity, as those of a prolonged struggle. We have talked about all those concepts, we do not think ‘hat by our insisting on all these aspects that you al will be thoroughly convinced in regards to the difforont questions you have about them, It WALL only be through revolutionary practice, through revolutionacy daily Life that you will learn vaich is the right path. But ve continue in our beliet that 4 will be @ Jong and protracted struggle. We prepare our people for this, We ere preparing our people to be ready for our cities to be totally destroyed and be built again. We are preparing our people and ‘our youth for this type of incident. And £f we were asked how should we educate those who aspire to become revolutionaries in the U.S., we will telt then to educate themselves within the idea of ¢ long, very long struggle. A.struggle thet maybe many of you ull not ace its end. Just as eany of the people of the Vietnamese people who started the struggle centuries ago hhave not seen the total victory. In chy sume way chat those who started to struggle in our country a hundred years ago have not been able to s¢e the final Victory. Io the same sanner that those who started the struggle in Latio ‘America have not been able to see with cheir own eyen this final victory. Tn the sano manner thst Lumumba and those who struggled ty Africa for the true Liberation have not as of yet beon able to see the final Iberation. if wo were asked how should we edueate the generations of revolutionaries we vould fay that they should be educated within this spirit. We are educating our people within this spirte of struggle and ehrough that struggle and through that spirit, Little by Lette, we have been able to grow sore confident of each other, and for every one of us to feel an increasing sense of untty. Te is difficult to struggle or to relate to the ides of a struggle when one does not percetve the conclusion of the objective against watch we are struggling. Sometimes the in dividualion with whfch the society chat educated us does not allow us to see all these aspects clearly. But we have to br k away from this individualisa. Wehave to think that in spite of the fact that 4e will be a long struggle dn vhich ve might die in the development of the struggle, it is a Just struggle, It ts a strogete that 4s worth while, because what would our Lives be vorth 1f we vere to always Live under taperialien? Why should we Live then in a tine when inpertalion imposes ali of its wille? Why breath in a soctety or ina mp stage such 25 this one? Tt ia better to struggle in spite of the fact that tt will be a long struggle. And weesay farevell to you with this eixture of aad ness and happiness, after having been close to you from the husan point of view, from the sentinental point of view, from the personal point of view, with wany of you conrades. In a certain way, we feel sad because you're leaving, but at the sane tine, we feel satisfied in other ways because we know that many of you vill restart your struggle and that ve will find ourselves within the same trenches, although separated by distances. But we want you to know that all those people that steuggle are elweys within our cane trenches. That our country, that four people docs not say good-bye, ve do not say farevell with tears in our eyes. Me aay farewell by telling you: RASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE!