Posted on 12/06/2001 8:04:10 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez
Salvador Diaz-Verson was born in 1905 on November 3rd in Matanzas, Cuba, and became a journalist early in life immediately following the untimely death of his father in July of 1918. He began his newspaper career as a cub reporter working for El Imparcial later going on to write for the Heraldo de Cuba in 1921 and El Pais in 1930.
Diaz-Verson dedicated himself to the study of communism and communist activities in the Americas. Shortly after the creation of the Communist Party (Popular Socialist Party - PSP), he founded the Anti-Communist League of Cuba which was inaugurated at the University of Havana on May 14, 1925. In 1934, he became Chief of the Cuban National Police.
Throughout World War II, Diaz-Verson served as secretary of the Committee for the Defense of Democracy formally created in 1940. Described as an underground organization that worked with Allied governments in tracing and closing off Nazi submarine refueling stations in the Caribbean, the Committee also identified and destroyed Nazi informational broadcasting facilities; by 1947, Diaz-Verson had become the Committee's president. From 1948 until March 10, 1952, he served as Cuba's Chief of Military Intelligence during the government of Dr. Carlos Prio Socarras (deposed by Batista in 1952). Beginning in May 1954, he participated in the First through Fourth Congress Against Soviet Intervention in Latin America and was present at the creation of the Inter-American Organization of Anti-Communist Newspapermen on April 10, 1957. Prior to Castro's takeover, while working for the newspaper Excelsior, Diaz-Verson also served as the organization's first president.
Diaz-Verson published works on Cuban culture, art, and literature. He authored numerous books including: Nazism in Cuba (1944), Communism and Cowardice (1947), The Tzarist's Movement Dressed in Red (1958), History of an Archive (1961), The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (1963), and One Man, One Battle (1980). While living in exile in Miami, Diaz-Verson, was a frequent contributor to Diario de las Americas (Miami), La Nacion (Miami), The 20th of May (Los Angeles), La Tribuna (New Jersey), Hola (Spain), and La Cronica (Puerto Rico). Salvador Diaz-Verson died in exile in Miami on February 15, 1982.
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What I found interesting, and I didn't know this, was Fidel's involvement with communism as early as the early 1940's!
The liberals tell us that Castro became a communist as a reaction to US foreign policies. This article (the writer was a very respected newsman in Cuba, prior to Castro), debunks all the claims made by Castros' apologists.
Castro has always been a communist, and an enemy to the US.
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