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The '''Fair Play for Cuba Committee''' (FPCC) was an [[activism|activist]] group set up in [[New York]] in April 1960.<ref>Richard Gott : ''Cuba a new History'' 177-178</ref> The FPCC's purpose was to provide [[grassroots]] support for the [[Cuban Revolution]] against attacks by the [[United States government]], once [[Fidel Castro]] began openly admitting his commitment to [[Marxism]] and began the [[expropriation]] and [[nationalization]] of Cuban assets belonging to U.S. corporations. The Committee opposed the [[Bay of Pigs invasion]] of 1961, the imposition of the [[United States embargo against Cuba]], and was sympathetic to the Cuban view during the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] of 1962.

Subsidiary Fair Play for Cuba groups were set up throughout the [[United States]] and [[Canada]]. Among its twenty-nine early notable supporters were [[William Appleman Williams]], [[Norman Mailer]], [[Truman Capote]], [[James Baldwin]], [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]], [[Waldo Frank]] and [[Carleton Beals]].<ref>E.Van Gosse, Where the bous Are; ''Cuba and the Cold war, and the making of the new left'',London 1993</ref><ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=w0c0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=smUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5239,6967788&dq=lee-harvey-oswald+dallas&hl=en "Pro-Castro Organization Now Defunct"] ''United Press International''. December 29, 1963.</ref>

The Fair Play for Cuba Committee has been the subject of much speculation. It was accused by some of being a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] front, with little real support outside of a few dedicated American [[Communism|communists]]. However, it seems to have been connected to the [[Trotskyist]] [[Socialist Workers Party (US)|Socialist Workers' Party]].

The FPCC achieved notoriety through the activities of [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] in [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans]]. Oswald would later be accused of the assassination of President [[John F. Kennedy]]. One of Oswald's FPCC leaflets had the address "544 Camp Street" hand-stamped on it, apparently by Oswald himself.<ref name="HCSA-X">{{cite book |title=Appendix to Hearings before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives |url=http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=156001 |volume=X |date=March 1979 |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |location=Washington, D.C. |page=123 |chapter=XIII. 544 Camp Street and Related Events|chapterurl=http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=156127 |ref={{harvid|Appendix to Hearings before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives, Volume X|1979}}}}</ref> This address was in the same building as the office of [[Guy Banister]], an ex-FBI agent who was involved in anti-Castro and intelligence activities.{{sfn|Appendix to Hearings before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives, Volume X|1979|pages 123-124}} There is no evidence Oswald actually rented an property at 544 Camp Street and it has been suggested he only used the address on his leaflets to embarrass Banister, who was well known for his anti-communism.<ref name="HCSA-X">{{cite book |title=Appendix to Hearings before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives |url=http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=1212&relPageId=132 |volume=X |date=March 1979 |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |location=Washington, D.C. |page=123 |chapter=XIII. 544 Camp Street and Related Events|chapterurl=http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=156127 |ref={{harvid|Appendix to Hearings before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives, Volume X|1979}}}}</ref>

Oswald's New Orleans activities were investigated by New Orleans District Attorney [[Jim Garrison]], as part of his [[Trial of Clay Shaw|prosecution of Clay Shaw]] in 1969. The [[House Select Committee on Assassinations]] (HSCA) also investigated the possible relationship of Oswald to Banister's office in the late 1970s.{{sfn|Appendix to Hearings before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives, Volume X|1979|pages 128}}

In his 2002 book, ''The Kennedy Conspiracy'' (2002), [[Anthony Summers]] asserted that documents indicate both the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] and the FBI infiltrated the FPCC. He quoted a CIA officer saying "We did everything we could to make sure it was not successful -- to smear it ... to penetrate it. I think Oswald may have been part of a penetration attempt."

[[Vincent T. Lee]] shut down the national Fair Play for Cuba Committee in December 1963 when its landlord evicted the group from its national office; the notoriety accorded to it, following the [[Kennedy assassination]], made it impossible for the committee to continue its work.{{citation needed|date=March 2013}}

FPCC was organized by Robert Bruce Taber in 1960.<ref name=Cassels>{{cite news|last=Cassels|first=Louis|title=Fair Play for Cuba Committee Activated|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WegzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=g-4HAAAAIBAJ&pg=6044%2C5463187|accessdate=May 29, 2013|newspaper=Lodi News-Sentinel|date=June 17, 1961|agency=UPI|location=Lodi, California|page=11}}</ref><ref name=Edson>{{cite news|last=Edson|first=Peter|title=Edson in Washington; Defectors to Castro|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-8QdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=90UEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6219%2C4139181|accessdate=May 29, 2013|newspaper=The Park City Daily News|date=October 21, 1962|agency=NEA|location=Bowling Green, Kentucky|page=21}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Portal|Cuba}}
*[http://www.spartacus-educational.com/JFKfairplay.htm Article on the Fair Play for Cuba Committee]
*[http://jfkassassination.net/russ/testimony/lee_v1.htm Testimony of Vincent T. Lee in regard to Oswald and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee]
*[http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/jfkinfo3/exhibits/stuck3.htm Transcript of the radio debate between FPCC representative Lee Harvey Oswald, Ed Butler and Carlos Bringuier]
*[http://www.counterpunch.org/simpich07242009.html Fair Play for Cuba and the Cuban Revolution] by Bill Simpich, ''[[CounterPunch]]'', July 24, 2009

=== Archives ===
* [http://digital.lib.washington.edu/findingaids/view?docId=RennarGeorge0636_1656.xml George E. Rennar Papers.] 1933-1972. 37.43 cubic feet. At the [http://lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/laws Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.] Contains materials about the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

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