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LEFT‐WING BOMBING IS LINKED TO CUBA
October 26, 1975, Page 40Buy Reprints
MIAMI, Oct. 25 (UPI—Americans who joined the Venceremos Brigades to help with Premier Fidel Castro's sugar cane harvest were taught how to make bombs while in Cuba, the head of the Dade Count bomb squad said yesterday.Thomas Brodie testified this week before the Senate Internal Security subcommittee, along with three police bomb experts, Donald L. Hansen of San Francisco and Terrence McTegue of New York City and Arleigh McCrmee of Los Angels.
“The people from California told us that out west the S.L.A. [Symbionese Liberation Army] and other extreme left‐wing groups learned their bombing tricks from members who were on the Venceremos Brigades,” Mr. Brodie said.
The Venceremns Brigades, were groups of Americans and other foreigners who ostensibly have been going to Cuba each year for nearly a decade to donate their labor in the sugar cane harvest.
“They learned how to make bombs in Cuba. There is no doubt about that,” Mr. Brodie said.
Mr. Brodie also said that Puerto Rican extremists who planted bombs in New York City also learned their bomb making from instructors in Cuba.
“The Puerto Ricans travel to Cuba as tourists or on good will missions and learn bombing and come back and you know what happens. Puerto Rican bomb squad men have confirmed this.” Mr. Brodie said.
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