attack on the week. the United Nations, Malmierca accused the US of bacteriological warfare. fifty-six people, died of the dengue fever epidemic that started in Cuba in May of this year writes JONATHAN SILBERMAN Dengue fever is carried by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito. As long ago as 1959, the US Army revealed that their Bacteriological Warfare Centre had carried out experiments in Florida with the Aedes Aegypti.
The experiment involved releasing swarm of 600,000 mosquitoes and tracking them.
Up to date information on US policy in this area is Jifficult to come by, iourse. 1969 Senate committee howacknowieaged that he American government =i spent £175 million on Socialist Challenge administration Speaking at the General Assembly of One hundred and 99 of them children, have now chemical biological warfare research that year alone. earlier Senate report listed some of the biological weapons in the US arsenal. These included bacteria, viruses, fungi and toxins agents tor causing anthrax, dysentery, cholera, diptheria, typhus, yellow fever, dengue and botulism. Also in the arsenal were animal afflictions such brucellosis, attosa. pUT cine cholera, African swine lever. and insects and bacteria for use in attacking plants.
Coincidentally, In tne last two years, Cuba has 15 October 1981 Page 14 also been the victim of African swine fever, sugar cane rust and tobacco blue mold. Many Cubans believe that these plagues have been introduced by the CIA.
Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, took up the same theme of CIA-inspired atLaKs of this kind speech in the Cuban province or alanzas al ine end of July. Castro made special mention of 'Opera Mongoose, giant undertaking launched by President John F Kennedy at the beginning of 1962 less than a year after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of the island The Cuban leader explained how the United olates — which it has maintained tor twenty years made it very difficult for Cuba to get hold necessary insecticides combat the epidemic.
Our tirst efforts
buy malathion, he said were Mexico the firm Lucaba, owned by Mexican and US interests. When they found out it was for us, tater, feared of the will: refused ingness of the Bayer comDally sell WC entered into negotiations with them to buy twenty tons Bayer had to get asheemedl from Lucaba because the Bayer product lau SUlt comLucaba refused This was in the most dif ficult moment, at the beginning, when we didn' have the chemical pro. ducts we needed to fighi the explosive epidemic facing us.' Finally the Cubans had to bring malathion from Europe, by plane, at a cost of $5,000 per for transportation only, threeand-a-half times what the malathion costs. A message for Labour GLC E HOMELESS
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THE CUBAN foreign minister launched a sharp Reagan