Stone Scores Anti-Cuba Plot

U.S. policies toward Cuba are designed to "make it impossible for Castro to escape dependency on Moscow," I. F. Stone charged last night before the HRLU.

The eventual goal of this policy, Stone continued, is to provide the U.S. with an excuse for military intervention in Cuba.

Stone decried the bellicose attitude of Senator Kennedy and vice-president Nixon which have "whipped up a lynch mob spirit" against Cuba. The "brutal, inhuman stereotypes" of Castro are wholly untrue and serve to poison not only international affairs but the existence of free government in the U.S., he asserted.

After a ten day visit to Cuba in August, Stone said he had found that Castro is not a "Communist."