Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba

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The Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba was an anti-Castro organization in the United States. In its own words, it was set up for the purpose of fostering "a nationwide discussion on the problem of Cuba" and the "threat its Communist regime poses to the Americas, and the measures that must be taken to put an end to it".[1] The group was set up in April 1963 in response to a statement put out by Freedom House calling for the formation of such an organisation.[2] It published a newsletter called the Free Cuba News.[3]

Its membership was constituted by a number of leading public figures in American life who came from a variety of professional backgrounds, such as Clare Boothe Luce, Sidney Hook, Hans Morgenthau and Edward Teller.[1] Among its members were also high-profile trade union officials, such as Jay Lovestone, Paul Hall, Irving Brown, and Joseph A. Beirne,[4] and members of the American political and military class such as Admiral Arleigh Burke, Brigadier General S. L. A. Marshall, and General Frank L. Howley.[5] Paul Bethal, who was the former head of the U.S. Information Agency, served as its executive director.[6][7]

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  1. ^ a b Gjelten, Tom (2008). Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba. Viking Press. p. 270.
  2. ^ Braden, Spruille (1971). Diplomats and Demagogues: The Memoirs of Spruille Braden. Arlington House. p. 401.
  3. ^ White, Christopher M. (2007). Creating a Third World Mexico, Cuba, and the United States During the Castro Era. University of New Mexico Press. p. 106.
  4. ^ Lens, Sidney (1970). The Military-Industrial Complex. Pilgrim Press. p. 120.
  5. ^ Kihss, Peter. "44 in U.S. Establish Committee to Fight Communism in Cuba; NEW GROUP SET UP TO OPPOSE CASTRO". The New York Times.
  6. ^ Welsh, Richard E. (1985). Response to Revolution: the United States and the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1961. University of North Carolina Press. p. 105.
  7. ^ Hicks, Anasa (2022). Hierarchies at Home Domestic Service in Cuba from Abolition to Revolution. Cambridge University Press. p. 156.