DISAVOWS "ALVAHUETE" STATEMENT
_ A November 26 dispatch from Mexico City, carried on the wires ofthe -United Press International in connection with the assassination of Kennedy, seems to have been planted in order to damage the Fourth International and the world Trotskyist movement. The full dispatch is as follows:
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she - “MA - secretary and aide of the late Leon Trotsky said today that there was 'a revealing similarity of circumstances! in the slaying of Trotsky and that of President Kennedy. ,
_'Felipe Alvahuete said that the tliquidation!t of Oswald by 'the gunman Jack Ruby! was a 'classic measure! of Communism.” © Bo __ "Mr, Alvahuete, identified as a leader of the Fourth Internationale, told the newspaper El Universal that 'the tactics of the Communist party were the same the world over; they still have not renounced terrorism or | personal attacks,'"
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Pierre Frank, a member of the United Secretariat, highest body of the Fourth International, said in Paris November 30 that ‘Felipe Alvahuete" is unknown to him and that his declarations appear to have been designed for no other purpose but to do injury to the world Trotskyist. movement, .
Joseph Hansen, who was a member of Trotsky!s staff in Mexico at the time of the assassination of the founder of the Fourth International, declared that no one by the name of "Felipe Alvahuecte" was either a "secretary" or "aide" of Trotsky and that the statements which UPI reports "Mr. Alvahuete" to have made do not correspond to the opinions of any ‘ leaders of the Fourth International.
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Efforts are being made to ascertain the source of the UPI's dubious dispatch,
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