Fair Play for Cuba Committee

The Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) was an activist group set up in New York City by Robert Taber in April 1960.

History
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 FPCC 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. Its members were placed under surveillance by the FBI.

Subsidiary Fair Play for Cuba groups were set up throughout the United States and Canada.

By December 1963, the Fair Play for Cuba Committee was defunct, with FBI investigations concluding in 1964.

Members and sponsors
• James Baldwin

• Jack Barnes

• Carleton Beals

• Simone de Beauvoir

• Truman Capote

• Robert G. Colodny

• Cedric Cox

• Farrell Dobbs

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• Waldo Frank

• Richard Thomas Gibson (13 May 1931—?)

• Allen Ginsberg

• Richard Greeman

• Joseph Hansen

• Donald S. Harrington

• Calvin Hicks

• James Higgins

• Vincent T. Lee

• Norman Mailer

• Alexander Meiklejohn

• C. Wright Mills

• Wendy Nakashima

• Harvey O'Connor

• Lee Harvey Oswald

• Linus Pauling

• Nanette Rainone

• Jake Rosen

• Alan Sagner

• Jean-Paul Sartre

• Pat Schulz

• Ed Shaw

• Marion Stokes

• I. F. Stone

• Paul Sweezy

• Robert Taber

• Kenneth Tynan

• Willard Uphaus

• Bert Wainer

• Howard Wallace

• Robert F. Williams

• William Appleman Williams

• William Worthy

• Thomas Arthur Vallee

• Victor Thomas Vicente (FBI informant)

Archives

 * George E. Rennar Papers. 1933–1972. 37.43 cubic feet. At the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections. Contains materials about the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.