Violations of State Department Travel Regulations and Pro-Castro Propaganda Activities in the United States, Vol. 3

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Violations of State Department Travel Regulations and Pro-Castro Propaganda Activities in the United States, Vol. 3: Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-Eighth Congress, First Session The committee's hearings 011 violations of State Department regula tions banning travel to Cuba without Specially validated passports were continued in Washington, D.C., 011 September 12 and 13, 1963. On these dates the subcommittee heard 6 of the 58 us. Student-s and youths who spent nearly 2 months in Cuba during the summer of 1963 despite specific and repeated State Department warnings that their unauthorized trip could result in fines and imprisonment. The first witness was Barry Hoffman, a 26-year-old realtor of Brook line, Mass. Hoffman testified he had made the trip as an Observer of the student group only after informing both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency of the purpose of his participation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.