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[47]CALIFANO PAPERS
[49]Document Information
[51]ICCCA
[52]CHMN, SUBCMMT ON CUBAN SUBVERSION
[53]MEMBER OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE
[55]REPORT FOR JULY-AUGUST ON ACTIONS TAKEN TO COMBAT CASTRO-COMMUNIST
[56]SUBVERSION
[58]09/30/1963
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[61]ENHANCEMENT OF INTELLIGENCE ON CUBAN
[62]SUBVERSION
[64]STRENGTHENING OF COUNTER-INSURGENCY
[65]CAPABILITIES
[67]CONTROL OF TRAVEL TO AND FROM CUBA
[69]CONTROL OF TRANSFER OF FUNDS
[71]SURVEILLANCE OF CUBAN DIPLOMATIC, COMMERCIAL
[72]AND CULTURAL MISSIONS
[74]CONTROL OF CLANDESTINE MOVEMENT OF GUERILLAS
[75]AND ARMS
[77]CONTROL OF MOVEMENT OF CUBAN PROPAGANDA
[79]PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
[80]Secret
[82]1B; 4
[84]Redact
[86]04/08/1998
[88]Califano Papers, Box 2, Folder 26. Memo from Chairman, Subcommittee on Cuban Subversion to the _
[89]members of the Committee re: Report for July-August on Actions Taken to Combat Castro-Communist
[90]Subversion.
[92]TERK LereJ
[94]partment of the Army EO 13526
[95]ideclassiy [3 Exclude — Exempt
[97]Authorlty,
[99]© Refer To , a
[100]Review Date ae 3075 py (es :
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[110]Alt
[112]SECRET
[113]September 36, 1963
[114]TO; Members of Subcommittee on Castro-Communist .
[115]Subversion,
[116]FROM: Chairman, Subcommittee on Cuban Subversion
[118]SUBJECT: Report for July - August on Actions Taken to
[119]Combat Castro-Commumnist Subversion,
[121]Attached is a draft of the Subeommittee's veport for
[122]July and August on actions taken to counteract Castro-
[123]communist subversion in the hemisphere. ‘The draft has been
[124]prepared on the basie of the material which you furnished
[125]with certain modification, The CIA menbers will note that I
[126]have extracted from his submiasion the iteus of action taken
[127]and pleced these in the body of the report. The intelligence
[128]information contained in the subuission I. have made inte an
[129]amnex. I think it is very useful to have the intelligence
[130]data form part of the report, and request that in the future
[131]the CIA member prepare his submisiion in two parts.
[133]May I have your comments on the draft by close of
[134]business October 1, 1963.
[136]€oples to: CIA - Mr. Wheeler (2)
[137]DOD - Gol, Haig (2)-—“7eG AF 0
[138]USIA - Mr. Wagley (1)
[139]RAR ~ Mr. Hart (1)
[141]Justice - Mr. Geogheghan (1) 2 OP 63 —
[142]Luffe Calli
[143]tech Gililed tatty o- Aigpl of
[145]V-3B -Car Slip tee
[149]RA t Exclud cA
[150]9/30/63 d ed from atttomatig
[151]and ;
[153]5 Owngradin ng
[156]SECRET
[159]aCe of awd coples
[160]GROUP J _
[162]Excluded fr My . *
[163]Om au atte"
[164]downgrading and tomart
[168]a. Developed highly useful information on frequency
[170]of Cuban “chertered™ flighte to Brasil, names and nationalities
[171]of passengers and crew, and lax measures ef eantrel followed
[172]by Brazilian authorities. Tranemitted this infermation te
[173]gation chiefs in the Letin American countries of the Rnon=
[174]Erasilians travelling on these flighte.
[176]-b. Maintained close watch over travel to and from
[177]Guba. See Annex B for table of known txavel of Latin Americans
[179]éuviag July and Auguet.
[181]¢. AS & result of information furnished by him by the
[182]CLA Station im Buenos Aires and with the Station's urging, the
[183]Argentine Minister of Interior indicated that he would make
[184]every effort to prevent Argentine delegates from attending the
[185]fnternational Uniew of Architects Congrese ia Hevena.
[187]d. At the urging of the CIA Stacien amd the Eubasey
[188]the Bolivien Minieter of Interior isaued in mid-Jely on order
[189]prohibiting the granting of travel permits to Cube om other
[191]blee coumtries to Bolivien nationale.
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[196]@, Partly as a result of tha efforts of the CIA
[197]etation in Santiago, the Government of Chile prohibited the
[198]entry inte Chile ef orgraizers of the Cuban sponsored Second
[199]latin American Youth Congress, which had been scheduled to teke
[200]pleee in Santiago im August. This wie ome ef the fectere which
[201]led to peatponement ef theCongres
[203]£. After considerable predding by the CIA Station
[204]and the Embessy the Minister of Public Seeuricy of Costa Mica
[205]i presented legislative proposals to the Gosta Rican Assenbly
[206]which will require ali persons intending to travel te Communiet
[208]-eounteLes te have theirs trevel approved by a newly created
[209]| Costa Risea seeurlty agency.
[210]a. CA Station in Mexice City developed information
[212]eonceraing the clandestine arrival of piigcengers in Vera Crus
[213]on Gaban merchant hips. Efforts are being made to obtain more
[214]fafermation and te encourage stricter contzola by the Mexican
[216]authorities,
[218]@, FInetructed Embassy Conskry to mry to persuade
[219]Guinean authorities to deny use of aixport facilities by flights
[221]about . These efferte achieved a temporary
[222]withholding of permicsion for future regulaz flighte, at least
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[229]«ntti such time as tho Soviets develop theiy oom refueling facilities
[231]at Conekey.
[232]b
[234]lL. authorities to expres
[236]o€ Cuban non-scheduled elights te Broad] and request thely
[238]eooperation in curbing then, Also instructed our Eubass’,
[240]in several latin American countries to work with GIA atation
[241]chiefs in furnishing the nameo of nacionale of those conmerios
[242]travelling on these flights to lecal
[243]tthe 2) to inotitute tighter coutrole on theiy own citizens
[244]seavelane to Cuba, end (2) to express thety evarer
[245]vy Ge ve Rum ENT
[246]s& BraciiSver Cuban use of Braud] ae a way station
[248]a to the
[250]e, Ag a reeult of representations made to the British
[251]cvercncit ehout Cuban flights to the Cayaan Islands carrying
[252]gun subversives, the Brieish develeped sn adwinierrative |
[253]echeme whieh whit etinotively oni bLe the use of Britich
[255]The Brdcish intend to. requir
[256]through theix arens, and to reject applications for auch visas
[258] teamelt wlase of paadengers peseing
[260]except in certain special cases, Persons not posseseing visas
[262]would be prevented fcom leaving theie abrereft, or would be
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[266]between the B.G, Ministry of €
[268]veturned to their point of origin,
[270]a, Instructed Bubassy Mexieo ity on August ap to:
[271]iaformm the Mexiean airline CMA that the Ualted Btates is
[272]opposed te @ proposal that (@& operate chaxter flights to carry
[273]vefugees fron Havana to Central Aneries, as, ag & reeult,
[275]stated thet chey had ne iacention of proceading further with
[276]” this project,
[278]e, Inetzwsted 8.8. Missions in Curaca
[280]te invedtigete e report thet ELM was planning te venew sb.
[281]echeduled Curacso-Habane flights and to reiterate US epposition
[282]te xesumption of afr services to cubs + KEM acgured our Embassy
[283]that thera 16 no plan te initlete service, schadvled or nen-
[284]scheduled, to Habaua,
[286]£, Inetructed Eubassy Ottawa to ozpress our strong
[287]ebjections te a proposal that a Gubagse charter light pick up
[288]& seeond group ef 0.8. students im Mentreel to fly them to Cuba.
[289]The (light wis not authorized.
[291]@. Tnstructed Consulate Georgetown to lavesticate
[292]2 Approaches to sceure flight facilities. Miesien reported
[294]en Auguct 1 thet the Governor hed no knowledge of any talks.
[295]communications and the Cuban Govern-
[296]ment regarding landing eights for Cubans planes. The Governor
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[301]| Barbedos on several occasions te approach
[303]adyiced,
[305]ner the Cubea nor the Brivich
[307]mmments of Hexles, Canada, Jonaies
[308]“ge to apsiet the Cuban, government
[309]ashore route for return gfthe So American
[310]etedents whe sttepiaty travelled to Cube, Also informed Pan
[311]ixenys that we ware opposad te a Cuban request for
[312]@ PAA charter flight te fly the students from Hebons te Hew York,
[313]4. Instructed ony edseieas et Port of Spain and |
[315]ehesa govermments to
[316]arn of the 0.3. at indteations of Gui
[318]ban dacerese
[320]im the wee of theis aviation fackiietes.
[322] *Babsasey Fert of Spain discussed with the Foveiga §
[323]idad variouy legel moves available that would eaable
[324]mente of alveraft within their territory,
[326]emmples of auch controle inetituted by Mextec, Cansda
[327]@ad Irelend, We indieaved teeeptivenass te the prepeeal that
[328]the list of suggestions be made avatlable to the avia:
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[333]wged the government of Chile to refuse visas te Cuban delegerée
[334]$0 @ preparatory meoting planaime for the TI latin American.
[335]Youth Congress echeduled fer August ia the Chilean capital,
[337]iosbiiity of Cuban delegates to obtain Chiifan vieae for this
[339]meeting io one of the contributing factors te the Cuban eponsore
[341]necunoing duriag August that the
[342]&, Sent general instructions to eur missiens in countries
[344]which partieipate in the Intereatienal tinten |
[346]preventing or dlocouraging the attendance of theie citizens to
[347]the VIE UIA Congress fa Babana, September 29-Oeteber 4, 1963.
[348]Follewed this up with instructions to individual peste to try
[350]where feasible to dissuade architects from
[352]mecting had been postponed.
[354]af Architects acking
[356]then to urge the «
[358]free world countries
[359]mg om the juxy fer the selection of a Bay of Pige
[361]that world beve required the establisimant of scheduled weskly
[363]charter £lighte by Canadian planes.
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[368]2»
[370]Responding to the urging ef the CEA Station police
[372]of the Stete of Guanabara selaed ierge quaatities of prepa~
[373]ganda brought inte Brasil by passengere on the special Cubane_
[374]flights. For exemple, some 50 pounde of printed propaganda
[375]wae taken from the various passengera whe arrived on the 16
[376]dugust Cubana flight. |
[378]3.
[380]a Continued surveillance of the area surrounding Cuba
[381]during the month of July at the seme vare and with the eone
[382]euphasies as prier te L July 1963.
[384]bs Continued te maintein 0.5. Forces, primarily from
[386]within the Atlantic Command, available to asciec other Caribbean
[388]govermients in the inteveaption ef suspieious craft in
[389]territorial waters, 4s might be requested. No euch requests were
[390]vecsived from any other govermmant during the period covered by
[391]this report. However, U.S. Forces did heep track of the
[392]Lecation of the Seviet merchant Freighter METCHURINGE, which
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[397]was suspected of carryiag sulwersives and arms fram Cube to
[398]Britieh Goiene in mid-July. MITCHURINSE was under U.S.
[399]surveillance from its departure from Heavens wtti Gaited
[400]Ringdom forces assumed the task of keeping thie chip under
[401]surveillance upon its appreach to Georgetown, British Cotena.
[402]Subsequently, British poldee ssexch of NITCHURTNSE in British
[404]Guiane waters revealed nothing of a suspicious nature.
[406]AC the repeated urging of the CIA Beation in Line
[408]the Peruvian Government
[411]terrerists law providing a penalty of as less than five years
[412]inpriscment for perseas who partieiate in suersilla setivities
[414]ox in the illegal manufacture of weapene or explosives.
[416]Lidgence Service is working
[417]on a load ferntiched by the CIA Station ta Eames concerning e@
[418]200 ton vessel ceportedly tnvelved in ames traffic.
[420]ingtructed our Consulate General in Georpetewa to
[421]investigate eports that coumércial cargoes (whieh could conceal
[422]illleit amas traffic out of Cube) had developed betwean British
[423]Gulene end Cuba. Investigations to date have been negative.
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[428]fa. Continuad the inetelletion of military commonieas
[429]tions faeili¢ies im Latin America. Gperational dates for the
[430]multi-channel tadio stations te be ingtalied fe Menagua,
[432]| Niesragua and Tegucigetpa, Hondures have been delayed to 15
[433]Seteber 1963 and 15 Desexher 1963, vespectively because of new
[434]engineering and contractual, requirenente. Regetiations are
[436]continuing with Colosbta and He:
[438]aader for inetallation af U.S.
[439]military radie fecilicies. Coupleation ef a new cormercial traiee
[440]istheien cable in the Panene
[442]Canal Zone within the eaming u
[444]4s expected to inprove wilitery communications whthia the
[446]Wer-in-Ghies ». 8.5. Southern Command
[448]b. Continued the surveillance of Cuba by U.S. Forcas,
[450]taporting ae before tO GBs RAT dere organdenté ous end agencies.
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[455]“Loe=
[457]Reports of survelilenee have been disseminated te ali who have
[458]a TeqGiretest to imow. , |
[460]e. Established « 24 hour pex day, 7 deys per week duty
[461]wateh et the 0.8. Military Groupe im the Carthbean coustries ta
[462]conjunction with implementation of the eliitary alerting system.
[463]Continued afferte to staf the 0.8. Southern Cow
[465]mond Intelligence
[466]Center with properly cleared, trained pévsonnel (thie center te
[467]the militery focal point for relaying imforzation concerning
[469]the movenent of subwersives). Filled, par
[471]ially, the authorizad
[473]biliets ts the 0.6. Soutiewn C6 pret vs intelligence Center and
[475]took under consideration the problem of an inérease in the biliet
[476]etrueture ia the Cente oineChied, U.S. Seutharn
[477]Command tegether with hie intelligence officer visited Houduras
[479]crmined thag ae ¢ignificant problems existed
[480]whieh would Interfore with effective operations in these
[482]a. Aetion previsusly initiated by the Ceumander, U.8.-
[484]eval Forees, Sovthera Commend (COuUSt,
[486]AVSO) to establish a Small
[487]reft inseeetion and Training Team, (sciarr) #8 @ contribution te
[488]the Cavibbean Surveillance System
[490]he progressing satiefertori ly.
[492]a
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[497]and pergomel to SCLATT
[498]in. the Canal fone has been eporoved and the .3. east Guard
[500]has taken appropriete feplemanting actions.
[502]wring the pariod of this repert, the SCIATY con-
[503]custed an on-the-job training course at Pontorenss, Costa
[504]Ries. Tradmiog wos given to 13 me
[506]era of the Guardia Civil
[507]of Gosta Rilea whe were aither sewly assigned te the 40 foot
[509]wd willicy beate (COUBs) or were toe be assigned aa
[511]replacement erew monbers.
[513]& A quavterly inspection and evaluation of the eGlEs
[514]previded othar Central Anerican countries was eendueted during
[515]the peried 17 te 31 August by « mobile traiming team (FFT)
[516]made up of SCLATT porscimell, .
[518]g» Continued efforts te improve the interns] security
[519]of Latin snextenn aruies through the prevision of Tntelligenca
[520]Agvleors <. Presently there aca guch advisers assigned to 14
[522]' Leeda éountries, enpheniging counterintelligence and counter-
[523]eubvereion. |
[525]h. During the reporting period MI%s conducted training
[526]in counterinsucgency Cor the armed feress of Colesbia, Bolivia,
[527]Venesuele, Yeru and 81 Sabvader.
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[532]oi?
[533]i. Civie Action MITs were gent te Guatemala, Bolivia,
[535]great majacity of countries te fursieh to the local internal
[537]security or gare
[539]nehlens with when they are in idaieson taforme-
[541]tion concoming travelers to end from Cuba, ae well as such
[543]information as eae te CIA's attention concerning the moveuent
[544]ot fuads, aews and propagenda material. In tony instances, the
[545]furnishing of informatio:
[547]ernal security service by
[548]the CIA Station was garalleled by the furnishing of etmiler
[549]information te the foreign offiee by the Aubaseader or his
[550]veptésentetive. The respente te this inferention has varled
[552]éounteies, im gemereal, began te
[554]pay attention to the information and take action on it. At the
[555]. a curing the reperting seried
[557]to follow up on the informacion,
[559]& RBeiterated to the Foreign Minister of Peru oar
[560]interest in having the facts of the Pusete Maldooade ineddent
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[565]brought te the attentlim of the GAS, and ereed that thie ae¢ion
[567]be teben e¢ soon ae posetbie.
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[572]ingtructed Embasay La Pas to follow up clegely on
[573]charges of Lovolvement of Cuben mlasion is internal politics.
[574]at Bolivia, and, at the Bubaesy’s dtecretion, ts. point out to
[575]Bolivien ¢ffleleis the opportunity fox 4 possible break in’
[576]relations with Cube. Eabagsy Le Paz wae net able to press
[577]for a break whea the ‘evidence of Cuban intervention did not
[579]prove te be es conclusive as originally ceported.;
[581]Bs
[583]and urging them te duplement the spacifSe end general recom
[584]mendations contained thereia es soon as poagibie.
[586]b. Through Embassy Menagua ieformed the Nicaraguan
[588]vernment of the matters which we wanted to have considered
[589]curing the informal meeting ef the Minieters ef Sacurity end
[591]interler of the Isthmian countries held in Managua
[592]26-28 in preparetion for the second formal meeting of the
[594]Managua Security Genference countries later thie year. :
[596]pin og
[597]& RE ni:
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[602]c. Reateured President Schick of Nicaragua in the
[604]moot emphatic terms that the Nuclear Test Ban fraaty did pot
[605]mean that our ateliades rower:
[607]Castre hes altered in the
[608]lightest, and atvesaed our interest ta seeing steady progresa
[609]by all the Isthelen cour
[611]teles in implementing the recommends
[612]tions of the Managua Security Conference to bieck Cobar
[616]. Explained in detail che netuxe of the Cuban threat
[618]emi the related poliley objecetves of the U.S.5 duming converse<
[619]tion ie London and in Ww
[621]dagton with Me. Adam Watson, xewly
[622]eppolated Gritieh Ambassador to Cubs.
[624]ce during the reporting
[625]period transmitted 1% articles, commentaries, and baskerounders
[626]on its wixeless fle service te USIA posts thraughout Latin
[627]AnaxLes for placexent 2
[631]mwepepers and the Volee of
[633]‘movies Spanish breadessts to Latia America cervled a total of
[635]48 conmontarios end features oa the gubject af Cubaa-based
[637]subversion in addition te the regular reporting of developments
[639]im the hourly newseasts.
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[644]&. iu wesponse to standing Ageusy instructions to ive
[646]special attention to developments colated to Cubarbecad
[647]subversion, USIS pests in Latin America were prompt in teporting
[648]incidents and le providing editerial commeate from the Latic
[649]imeriem prees, all of whieh ws used ia the Agesey's wadle and
[651]PFESs output.
[652]the mpin developments teeeted in the Agency's vedio and
[654]press coverage ingluded Casero's July 26 ap
[657]tions in Latin America, the discovery of terverist waapone
[659]edon Viee Pracddent’s. aveushon
[661]festeries da Guayaquil, the Reval
[662]of Cuben ceaponslbiliey for nerverdon, che stare:
[664]ent by Stata
[665]Department Press Offiver Richerd Phillips thet “potential
[667]80 the Caribbean erea were paseiag
[668]a, Che expuleion of a Solivies youth leader
[670]subversive agente” from Cuba
[672]for recalyiag funds from Cuba, Castro-erained tercoriats in
[673]Houdurag,/Bolivian proteste apatnet meddling by the Cuben Embassy
[675]& Velee of America roving reporter in
[677]Latin Amerlea provided several ceports adztuantes
[678]subversion pleture in countries he vietted,
[680]c. In support ef the Agency's effort on Guban-based
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[685]hede penmehlers during the period based on Castes report, of
[686]ais visit te the Soviet iinten (show!
[688]ring that be contradicted |
[689]hisselg ‘ta some of bie extravagant eletme RE Soviet ‘ptogtots) » :
[691]the losses suffered by Cuber labor 1 under Gasteo, and the fete
[693]of political prieonsrs in ¢ Cube. thon coupieted, theese pamphiets
[695]will be reproduced and étetributed in quantity ehrowghout the |
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[702]GROUP I~ - . ~
[703]Excluded from sutonatua Ore etry | :
[705]downgrading and...
[706]dsclassificatio: Pr spit
[707]ar |
[709]“Chavrered Cebans Airlines <¢ flights between Cuba ond
[710]we become & uajor means of transporting ‘gon-Cuban
[711]hats jeans to and from Cuba. ‘The five sue flights since
[712]lite disly have carvied aeariy 400 #on-Cubsas.
[714]the fivet of the reeent eerles «« on 25 Jily =~ brought
[715]ameriean passengers to Havana for the 26 July celebra~
[716]a, “the other pour & flights ow om ES, 22, 28 om 29 August «-
[717]wane pe a latin dveriecans to "Brash fvom Beveas.. .
[718]Soma of ‘the airerafe involved semumnad to Ouhe with erealler
[719]munberd of may pet OO Latin American posvengers
[720]aS, bus others hed
[721]and gowe had probably
[722]Paid ‘these aes flights
[723]et wee oar Theie
[724]gh Eveell wee evidently designed to help
[725]hey had been im Guba,
[727]redal: ining theve, Of 1 the passengers ‘5
[728]te Brazil, 75 were natives ef Gart é
[729]— JB: a6 ok eh : ough Be
[731]3. One wae Lox } lacine : Rernandes calenee,
[732]; wom Seown te have bean aace te Cuba for
[733]moe Ale warfare ineteveter, Sie had been fn
[734]nce September 1962. The other Coata Rican passenger wae
[735]los Geillen, formex head of the Costa Rican Society of
[736]Friends er = Cuban Revolution, whe had been im Cuba since
[738]# -
[740]The CIA Beuthon tn Qudte rep
[742]junta, whieh sesuuec ree Saat the mi ldtary
[743]ge Cum x
[745]power tn euador on TL duly, can be expected
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[750]ar The
[751]| éebwer: atves in. *eeusdor, | at lease for the
[753]stly dubibited by the anaes arreste af
[754]ibine end by the outlawing of the Commundeec
[756]: ne ee los.
[758]onduran Commun ee party hes
[759]be acme to tre
[761]at he present ‘tin @,
[762]the ieewensias see ion
[764]coming to an uncenZimeed veport vecetwed in duly,
[765]ation of the Comamiet Party of Custemnle ta
[767]Sees oo] a with | EEanes pes See aad is te ae
[769]| Ge was reliably veported sha ie mid-July 1968, é
[770]smell coat L freighter landed Late ee of Cor
[771]needs . ort the northern enaet. ©: f Henturas, the boues heeds
[773]: & contr: moubere of the Perentet Party; epperently
[774]wader the lgadershie of such figures ag Hector Viliglon and
[775]Soba Williem Seoke, ave appatently ecelving onceurapement aod
[776]wean. ef isege sume of feom Cuba in support of their
[777]efferss to train and oxgenize subversive g@roups in Argentina.
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[786]Villalon has stated thet his plan e@lle for expanding aud
[787]eecellereting subversive sctivities in Argentine eulninating
[788]in & complete take over within two.years, There is no indica-
[789]tion that Peren hinseld has agreed to this plan. It has Been
[790]weported that leadeve of the Communist Party of Argentina have
[791]been greatly danoyed by the tendency of the Cagtirs regime to
[792]Suppert the revolutionary Peronists without having consulted
[793]-¢ha Communities Parry of Argention.
[795]oe? is. weported thet the soecalled Amy of ‘National
[797]me of Aveonting, which ie a relatively suall
[798]epinization directed from Cuba by John William Cooke,
[799]has ts recent weedke been ncegotieting for the purchase of arms
[800]and hes been offered qubuachine guns, basdokaa and other weapone
[801]by two or three private suppliers. it was teported, however,
[802]that the ANL wes haviag éifflewlty getting enough dellers from
[803]Cuba to sake slendficant purchases peceible.
[805]The Bolivian Minletry of Forelga Relations on 23
[806]Auguet protested formally to the Cuben Charg6 @'Afimires in
[807]or Pea a again the Cuban inbagey support to the miners duriag
[809]Subsequently, however, Foreign Minister
[811]the Guba: spe that he aeed mot fear that
[812]‘4 of tolivia would break diplomatic celations with
[813]Cubs, There hag, ia fact, bees ao hard information linking the
[814]Coban Enbasay with the present mining crisie ia epite of some
[815]unconfiemead reports of Cuban Support.
[817]Cuban ambassador to aeankt, Reul Roa Kourl, is reperted
[818]to heave antempted to encourage peasant league leedex *Prancisce
[819]Sulieo te vevitalice the leagues In uorthern Brasil. According
[820]te geome reports efforte are being made te unify the leadership
[821]‘and bring diseident elenente under the general divection of
[822]Jolieo, Other wepertte indicate that, although the Cuben Enbassy
[823]ie providiag guidance and possibly financial support te the
[824]movement, it bad not yet gesolved the internal dissension in
[826]the leagues.
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[831]PLN (See
[833]. Peon Coleubla reperta have bean received of inereasing
[834]Guben eesiatence, pricarily in thea form of training courses by
[835]iusteuctors who have been trained in Guba, to the Vorker«Seudene-
[836]Peasant Movement (MO8C). A enmali guervilia bend encountered
[837]by the Coloubian arwy ia July 1963 was brokea up when five
[838]members o£ the band wave killed and two others captured, A
[839]small quantity of arnb and a considerable amount of books and
[840]panphiets.on revolutionary warfare, photographs of Bidel Castro,
[841]Camilo Clenfuages and Mee Tse-tung, and bulletina of the HOEC
[842]were found et the camp site, Recent reports haye indicated an
[843]iutreace in the terrerist efforte of the MORO and inereased
[844]pronises of atwletance from Che Guevara with regard to the
[845]training of additional NOEC meabers,
[847]ia mid-July on iueressed muanber of guerrilias were
[849]teportediy being trained in Costa Rica by Adolfo Garcia Barberena,
[851]well-knowm Micaraguan gevolutionary leader and member of the
[852]Jational Liberation Front «= 2 Commundst-deminated, Cuban
[853]Supported, anti-Miosragua sevelutienary gvoup). In early
[855]August, Alberto fermato, leader of the FLN im Costa Rica, left
[856]with @ group of Nicawaguans for the Couta Ricen-Nicaraguan
[858]border. The purchase of acme and supplies and the reoruLtnent ‘
[859]of Miecaraguans for @ movement agdinst Slearagaa are also reportedly
[860]underway in Costa Rica,
[862]; Hector Bogantes Zamora, Costa Rican egitator, left Sen Jose
[863]in mid-August for the Miearaguan border co supervise the passage
[864]of Mesraguan guervillas from Costa Rica into Mearagua.
[865]Bogantes, who recently veturned fyom atvenddlng the Mey Bay
[866]celebrations im Cuba, wae as a thd sali
[867]Costa Rican Commualiet
[869]Honduras
[871]_ fhe Honduan dumed forces began te move against a group
[872]ef pro-Cagteo guerrillas operating ageinst the Nicaraguan Govern-
[873]ment enc setive in the vicinity of the Nicaraguan-iond “am border.
[874]the Nicaraguan Wetionel Guard has been conducting operations
[875]om its side of the berder against the ineurgente since July.
[877]The dease jungie and difficult terrain, however, will impede the
[879]efforts of both foress to eliminate the guerri lias.
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[884]; Information on the guerrd ila ferce i6 acanty and
[885]conflicting, It is + rene posed of membere of the Netional
[886]Liberation Front (FLN), a Com st-deminated and Cubon-supported
[887]revolutionary organization active primarily in Honduves and
[888]Ricaregua eince the fail of 1962, The strength ef the force
[889]de net known.
[891]jets A 4 captured guervilia of the FLY (National Liberation
[892]: Commeiet-deminated, Cuban-supported, anti~-Niasraguan
[893]ezo-up) eonfassed thar be wae @ member of @ group of 46 who
[894]autered Siearague from Bendures on 22 July. He sadd that thedy
[895]uiasion wae to establish a bace damp in the Issbella mowttaine,
[896]Department of Jimotega, in order to indoctraimeta the peasants.
[897]and to train chen in guerrilla tactics, He admitted that he
[898]hed euceived of wonths’ guerrilla wefere trataing in Cuba and
[899]that other FLY leaders bad received éinllar tveining. He aleo |
[900]peta that the FL ¢rateing camp tonducds wae near EL Lagarte,
[901]on the Patuea River.
[903]p _Taip eet diary corporation
[904]at deposited
[906]Progressive Party is the maser ate FS
[907]ieagox of Ginper, has indleaced that Cimpex
[908]able. te geeure addieional leano from Cuba in amounts sufflelent
[909]to tide the Jagan givermment over any foreseeable crieis. Te
[911]wae also reported thet Ciupex plane to buy alveraft, epere parte
[912]gad other machinery in the United States for cenhipnent te Cubs.
[914]Banos continua to be received from many places indicating
[915]that the eulccase full of currency fs still one of the moat
[916]common methods used by the Cubans for tranemicting fimds for
[918]7 wpoxting subversive eetivities throughout the héed sphere.
[919]Instances whaze such funds have been confiscated by the police
[920]have ecewered recently in El Gealvader, Panawa and Eeusder,
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