-DATE- 19620901 -YEAR- 1962 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- MESSAGE -AUTHOR- F. CASTRO -HEADLINE- CASTRO'S REPLY TO LATEST U S CHARGE -PLACE- CUBA -SOURCE- HAVANA IN SPANISH -REPORT_NBR- FBIS -REPORT_DATE- 19620904 -TEXT- CASTRO'S REPLY TO LATEST U.S. CHARGE Havana in Spanish to the Americas 1045 GMT 1 September 1962--E (Excerpt) As a continuation of the campaign of provocations being carried out by the imperialist government of the United States with the deliberate purpose of effecting a new aggression against our fatherland, the Yankee State Department has invented a new lie. To this new statement by North American imperialism (that two launches, believed to be Cuban, had fired on a U.S. reconnaissance plane--Ed.), the premier of the revolutionary government of Cuba has answered with the following communique: "We categorically declare that this report of the North American government is absolutely false. This is another incident which is pure invention--a method in which Yankee policy has had much experience. There is nothing strange that after the shameful and criminal attack on the city of Havana by gunboats which left from Florida and which afterward sought refuge there, the government in Washington now resorts to this cynical and unscrupulous recourse. No Cuban naval or air craft has ever carried out in any manner any act of hostility against airplanes, ships, installations, or North American waters or territory. "On the other hand, military ships and airplanes of the United States have violated our airspace, our territorial waters, and hundreds of times have harassed our ships with low-level flights. Its guard posts on the naval base of Guantanamo--territory usurped from the Cuban nation--fire almost daily against our soil. That is in addition to the innumerable times airplanes from the United States have burned our canefields or dropped arms or explosives over our national territory, and the pirate ships from the country have attacked ships, industrial installations, and urban areas before and after the criminal invasion of Playa Giron, which was an acknowledged and confessed act of the President, the Pentagon, the CIA, and the Yankee State Department. "Cuba at no time has answered provocation with provocation. Invariably, we have responded with a public protest and the accusation before international organizations and world opinion. We have been accusing the United States or preparing an aggression against our fatherland. The cynical, unscrupulous, and shameless invention that Cuban ships fired on a Yankee airplane in international waters, coinciding with the warmongering campaign and the anti-Cuban hysteria unleashed these days, confirms the just warning Cuba has made to the world concerning the dangers that the adventurist and warmongering policy of the government of the United States poses for our country and for world peace. "Following that lie, the government of the United States threatens that in case a similar incident takes place, their armed forces will act. Real incidents provoked by Cuba will never occur, but invented incidents, truculent, criminal, and forged with purposes of aggression against our fatherland, can very possibly occur. The government of the United States lacks scruples. But let it not think that Cuba will be intimidated before its brutal threats. If the armed forces of the United States attack Cuba, they will have come prepared to die in the conflict. Fatherland on death; we will win!" (Signed) Major Fidel Castro, premier of the revolutionary government of Cuba." -END-