Why was Havana chosen as headquarters for worldwide subversion? Why not Cairo, the site of the Afro-Asian organization, or Peking?

First, Cuba under Castro has a proved record of success in penetrating Latin America, and Latin America is a major target of Communist expansion. And a headquarters for worldwide Communist subversion located in Havana, right on the doorstep of the United States, is a tremendous psychological achievement, with vast potential repercussions throughout Latin America.

Second, iron-clad control of the populace must be assured if there is to be a tranquil political climate for a worldwide base of subversion. There must also be reasonable assurance against external attack, in effect, a "sanctuary."

There is overwhelming evidence that the machinery of the Cuban Government has been progressively organized over the years, to carry out its number one task-the export of Communist subversion. To a large extent, the choice of Havana in January as headquarters for world subversion is but the culmination of years of such organization. In fact, Cuba moved rapidly along the road to the fulfillment of its role in the international Communist conspiracy from the moment Fidel Castro's hatred of the United States became manifest upon his taking power in 1959. The tempo and direction of that movement increased in direct proportion to Soviet Russia's increasing intervention in that country in 1960.

In 1959, Castro launched five invasions of his Central American and Caribbean neighbors, and preparations for these invasions began little more than a month after he took power.

In February 1959, Havana commenced a propaganda campaign of radio broadcasts calling on "all revolutionary sectors and citizens to unite in the of the Government of Haiti." This drum-fire of propaganda culminated on August 13 in an invasion of Haiti from Cuban territory.

On August 26, 1959, Haitian Foreign Minister Louis Mars sent a fully documented report to the Organization of American States (OAS) on Castro's invasion. Several of the landing force were identified as members of Castro's Rebel Army and were on active duty at the time of the invasion.

On April 24, 1959, just a few days following an address by Fidel Castro at the United Nations, Panama was invaded by Cuba. Panama appealed to the OAS, which promptly sent an investigating team and determined that members of the invading force were Cubans, and that the origin of their mission was, indeed, Cuba. On May 1, the remnants of the landing force surrendered to Panamanian troops and overthrow the OAS team.

On May 31, 1959, however, another group of Cuban soldiers landed by plane in the mountainous area of Nicaragua. On June 28, still another group of Havana-trained Nicaraguans was captured trying to cross the border from Honduras into Nicaragua. On July 27, the OAS issued a finding that the group had been trained at La Cabana fortress in Cuba by Major Ernesto Guevara.

Perhaps the bloodiest battle and the greatest defeat for Castro in his 1959 invasions took place on the shores of the Dominican Republic. Castro's invasion force was exterminated, almost to a man. The date was June 14. From that date comes the name of the present Communist group in the Dominican Republic, the June 14th Movement, which was heavily involved in the revolt of April 24, 1965.

While these adventures were being launched abroad, the internal police apparatus was being organized. Castro broke up the constitutional army and replaced it with militia-originally, for propaganda purposes-called the "popular forces."

Castro tried to deal with resistance through oratory, threats, and mass arrests. He sent his militia in repeated sweeps across the mountains to dislodge and eradicate the gallant bands of guerrillas. But he has not to this day succeeded in doing so, even though he has enchained the hardy farmer who has been the most steadfast enemy of communism. As resistance continued, Soviet and Soviet-bloc "technicians" arrived in Cuba, refined its crude apparatus of invasion into smooth machinery of subversion, revamped its government, organized a system of censorship, and remade Cuba after its own image.

It is humilating enough to have the international Communist conspiracy seize control of a country only 60 miles from American shores, and maintain itself in power despite all the pressures we have thus far brought to bear. It becomes a thousand times as humiliating when that country is transformed into a headquarters for international revolutionary subversion while the OAS and the mighty United States of America look on, helpless and apparently incapable of any decisive action.