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Organisation of American States re Cuban Intervention in Venezuela

Reel Number: 220775-11

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1963

Country: Italy,Venezuela

Location: Caracas,Falcon,Macama,South America

TC Begins: 11:20:48

TC Ends: 11:27:50

Duration: 00:07:02

Organisation of American States re Cuban Intervention in Venezuela Exterior building - delegates entering for extraordinary meeting called by Venezuela to make new charges of intervention in Venezuelan internal affairs by Cuba. Venezuelan ambassador presenting evidence. Shots of huge arms cache found by Venezuelan authorities. Arms including recoiless cannon - mortars - automatic rifles - ammunition etc laid out for inspection. Serial numbers and emblems which had been partially erased on guns. Still photographs of captured arms. Ambassador continues with evidence saying Cuba had denied guns were from them but test had revealed the Cuban manufacturers mark. Calls for sanctions. 11:24:16 Soldier and man on beach at Macama, Falcon where arms were found. Man who found buried guns points out exact spot in sand. Soldiers with impounded weapons. 11:25:02 Caracas - apartment buildings where man called Sanchez Madero ? leader of Armed Forces of National Liberation lived. Shots pov walking up concrete stairway and opening of door into flat. Contents of apartment included false identity card with photo of Madero ? and other things linking him to Cuba. Also in room map of Caracas and plan of attack. Shots of Caracas from apartment window - buildings including hospital school and church where it had been planned to place bombs. 11:26:47 Still photos of terrorist activities carried out by FALN 11:26:56 Independence monument aka Los Proceres in Caracas. Statue Bolivar. Top shot Caracas. South America; Cold War; 1960s; 1963; Anti-Communism; Anti-Communist; Propaganda; OAS

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