Salvador
Diaz
Verson
1959 Biographical Sketch
Metro Dade County Police File
OCB file 49315-B
Biographical sketch on
SALVADOR DIAZ-VERSON
Cuban Journalist and Author
He was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1905. He went to work
as a cub reporter and rose rapidly to star police
reporter. He developed in Cuba sensationalism in crime
reporting and the police editorial. His newspaper work
gave him a first hand knowledge of the atrocities of
Dictator Gerardo Machado and
the censorship on all publications provoked a conflict
between Diaz Verson and the government. He had to
leave Cuba and found political asylum in Madrid, Spain, in
1933.
Returning to Cuba on the eve of the triumph of the
revolution, he took an active part in the reorganization of
the government. He became Chief of the National Police
while Fulgencio Batista took over as Chief of the
Army.
He was able to see the local Communists in action and
brought an end to mob
rule with the fire hose.
An early break with Batista caused his resignation and
return to journalism. In 1948 he was Chief of the Army
Counter-Spy Bureau and his job was to uncover and bring to
trial the Communists in the island. He was the officer
who provoked the rupture of diplomatic relations between
Cuba and the Soviet Union and who occupied and searched the
Russian Embassy finding evidence of
the Russian abuse of diplomatic immunity.
Batista's coup d'etat in 1952 brought an end to his job in
the Army and
his activities as a revolutionary plotting against Batista
brought to him
once more imprisonment and exile. He lived in Miami,
Florida, from
June of 1954 until June of 1955. He was allowed to
re-enter Cuba under
a general amnisty [amnesty] and he reassumed his job as an
editor in the
daily "Excelsior". While he thereafter continued to
support the Revolution, censorship was so tight, that he did
not come up again in open conflict with the regime.
He travelled [traveled] through Latin America reporting for
Excelsior and became the president of O.I.P.A.C.
(Interamerican Organization of Anti-Communist Journalists),
with headquarters in Lima, Peru. He is the Cuban
delegate in the Inter-American Confederation for the defense
of the Continent, with headquarters in Mexico. He is a
member of the Association of Studies on Communism, and Press
Secretary of the First Anti-Communist World Congress which
will take place in Turkey.
He has published: "Clau", a novel; "Andrea Barrios' Death",
"The Great Problem of the Penal Institutions", "The Ones who
Came Back to Life"; Nazism in Cuba", "Communism and Fear",
"A Crisis in American Culture", also, "America, a Suicidal
Continent", and "Red Tsarism, Russia Avancing
[Advancing] Toward America". He is now preparing
"Biography of a Combat Veteran" and "Life Through a
Newspaper Column".
He recently fled to Miami, on the 20th of March of this
year, this time
from the communistic terrorism against which he had fought
most of his life. The legitimatization of the
Communist Party together with high revolutionary offices
held by reds of various hues, made him and his anticommunist
associates a cancer on the new society that had to be
ended. Two of his associates are now in La Cabana
Fortress awaiting the opportunity to swell the execution
statistics. His own predicament and escape is a story
in itself.
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