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Karl Marx's Camel
6th June 2006, 17:33
In the early 1960's, the DL also was responsible for supporting liberation movements in Africa, including those who overthrew the government of Zanzibar in 1963. However Soviet economic pressure on Cuba in 1967-68 forced Castro to develope a more selective revolutionary strategy, and subordinate the DGI to the KGB.

Link (http://www.fas.org/irp/world/cuba/dgi/index.html)

Also, does anyone know the exact purpose of the support divisions in the DGI?

Janus
7th June 2006, 02:01
The DGI would've been very friendly with the KGB, but I doubt that they were actually subordiate to them. I doubt that the Cubans would've taken to that very well, if they were simply the lap dogs of the USSR. Maybe the Americans believed this so as they thought that all leftist groups were simply small spawns of Moscow.