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tonight. My desk here in Washington, D C. Fine citizen. A neighbor, right? Democratic farmer. Labor, Congress Interested. Form of perspective, little science. ST. Olaf College. How do you do, ladies and gentlemen like, Well, the situation in Cuba has fallen to its various lowest levels since Fidel Castro seized power.

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God, the Communists are obviously in complete control. One in 1. 45. 53. How do you do, ladies and gentlemen? Well, the situation in Cuba has now fallen to its very lowest level since Fidel Castro seized power. The Communist turned complete control in every facet of Cuban life.

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All the apologists who talked so goodly about Fidel Castro being on a grand reformer and who only wanted to help his people have been proven now completely wrong. Facts of hard facts of Cuban life make that unmistakably clear. Have recently been reports that the data is sick and that Raul Castro may take over the government of Cuba if he's not already done so in fact, the Dow the older brother once said that you think I'm a radical.

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You should see my little brother. So you obviously you're going to see a lot of him in the near future for a long time now, even at the risk of sounding like sort of a stuck phonograph record. I've called for a more realistic, more affirmative policy by our State Department toward the Communist government in Cuba, and I'm now happy to see the State Department, even though it's very belated, adopting a few of some of the suggestions which I've made, I think there's one more that needs to be made, which and I believe could be vitally important but a change in the situation in Cuba.

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I think the time has come for our United States government agencies, specifically the Border Patrol and the immigration authorities, not the individuals themselves, but the men who control those agencies to, in effect, stop interfering with the activities are those Cuban Democrats of anti Castro Cubans who are trying to organize and they're trying to regain their country for themselves, obviously, and Florida under protest.

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They were thrown out of their own country there in Mexico. There in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In our area, particularly, we find that they're organizing and trying to communicate through underground means with those people still remaining in Cuba, who would like to throw off this communist dictatorship every time they get together, and every time they seem to want to organize, why there's one some federal agency, some representative of the federal agency and our own government harassing them and interfering with them and breaking up their activity.

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I think we should allow them to get along with their work and organizing the opposition to Castro's dictatorial government, And I think we should not harass them and let them go about their business. After all, their business is to get rid of communism in this hemisphere.

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When I visited in Florida recently, I saw all over South Florida particularly, and I heard of other thousands of patriotic Cubans who want to rescue their country and put it back in the Democratic column where it belongs. Instead of giving these Patriots a chance to save their country, we are in effect by what we're doing, erecting a world of protection for Fidel Castro and his communist government, and we are doing it at American taxpayer expense.

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And when Fidel Castro was waging his guerilla warfare against the Batista, no such wall existed in the waters between Florida and Cuba were actually open highways, and the aid that finally succeeded in overthrowing Batista can primarily out of the state of Florida. But since Castro has gone in, we have seen moved into Florida about 180 or more men, the Border Patrol and immigration at enormous cost to the people of the United States to try to break up any movement on the part of those who are anti Castro in their efforts to get back into Cuba.

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I don't think that it makes a great deal of sense for the United States government to be taking our money and bringing on these additional people for the sole purpose and effect it appears of helping Castro and his government remained in power. Certainly the time has come when we realized what is, and certainly we should permit those people who want to get rid of him to get rid of him without border or harassment from us.

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My time is up. Thank you for looking