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[13]| ’ ‘TITLE : Draft Briefing Notes: Funding
[14]| DATE : 2/18/1963 ;
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[23]COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 59: Cuba Subjects, Cuban Subversion,
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[30]DRAFT BRIEFING NOTES © 18 February 1963
[31]‘FUNDING
[33]I. Cuban financing of subversive operations in Latin
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[43]Our evidence shows that it is generally effected |
[45]by couriers carrying cash.
[47]A Venezuelan politician, Fabricio Ojeda, re-
[48]turned from Cuba in March of 1962, and was seen
[50]by several witnesses to have large quantities
[52]. of US currency stuffed ina false-bottomed com- .
[54]partment of his suitcase: There is no law
[55]against bringing currency into Venezuela,. so
[57]that authorities could not even determine how
[59]‘.much he had brought in. Ojeda later was cap-
[61]tured, _ tried, and sentenced for guerrilla’ ac-
[63]. tivity.
[65]A ‘Nicaraguan exile, Julio Cesar Mayorga Porto
[67]carrera, was ‘flying from Mexico to Honduras in
[69]September, 1961, when weather forced the plane
[71]to overfly Honduras and land in Nicaragua. He
[73]was found to be carrying $3 ,600 in cash from |
[74]Cuba for Nicaraguan rebels in Honduras.
[76]Last March Ecuadorean troops raided a guerrilla
[78]training camp in the nouritains west of Quito and
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[86]“arrested some 48 members of the URJE- (Union of
[87]Revolutionary Ecuadorean Youth): The ‘leaders ‘of
[89]the group admitted having received guerrilla
[91]training in Cuba, but there was’ no other evidence.
[93]at the time of any Cuban involvement, The URJE;
[95]however, was a Communist-front group whose leaders
[97]had thrown off the discipline of the regular Com-
[99]munist party, and. this January the Communists ‘man-
[101]-aged to have a URJE convention, run by Young Con-
[103]munis ts, expel the leaders. They were accused,
[105], (a regional Communist . leader in contact. with the.
[107]- Cuban chargé in Chile, “and a _nonber of “the. PCE
[109]"according to published accounts, of having wasted
[110]$44, 000 supplied by | Cuba for guerrilla activities.
[112]" One of our reliable sources in the Communist Party
[114]“inquiry conmission)) has informed us that the
[116]; next-to-last Cuban chargé in Quito blamed the
[118]fiasco on the fact that his successor had passed —
[120]‘the money ‘to the URJE without coordinating with
[122]_ the vegulay® ‘Communist party.
[124]A highly placed Guatemalan Communist who defected
[126]- last November has given us a specific account of
[128]procedures by which Cuba sent cash to Mexico to
[129]buy weapons which were then smuggled into Guate-
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[139]“Be We 2 also have considerable evidence ‘of ‘involved: -
[140]bank ‘transfers by: which Cuban money eventually -
[141]reaches Latin American ‘front groups to. pay for
[143]“political and propaganda activity. In some
[144]countries where ‘the Cubans still have diplomatic
[145]‘missioxs, we have. obtained: photostats showing.
[146]“that Cuban diplomats paid for printing of. front-
[147]group. Propaganda»
[149]OF, Just last. month, one of the first Brazilians ‘to.
[150]' receive guerrilla warfare training ‘in 1961. was
[151]"... pieked up-with a suitcase full of ammunition. he
[152]was carrying: to some of those same guerrilla
[154]“taining camps exposed when the Varig ‘plane
[155]crashed in Peru,’ Interestingly enough, ‘the
[156]"Brazilians believe ‘that ‘the money Cuba had been
[157]. | providing. for ‘the camps actually came from Com-
[158]“munist China, — ‘Since the — exposure of the varig,
[159]- documents~-and probably since the guerrillas
[160]first reached the Cuban embassy in Rio with
[161]their complaints about mismanagement, confusion,
[163]"and corruption--the Cubans have apparently
[165]_ Stopped financing this. operation; but the evidence
[166]“shows: it is ‘still: limping along. The man with’
[168]"the suitcase full ‘of ammunition said that a woman
[170]attorney. in Rio had given him the money’ to" ‘buy ‘a
[171]large hacienda as a new guerrilla camp. We know
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[182]that this woman isa cut-out in the commanica~
[184]tions between. the pro-Conimunist Peasant Leagues,
[186]which have run the camps, and the Cuban embassy.
[188].The principle that guerrillas must be self- sus tain-
[190]ing has obviously been applied to finances. as well.
[191]"Communists have staged waves of bank robberies in
[193]- Venezuela, Peru, and Argentina.
[195]‘The most spectacular hold- -up was that of a bank
[197]ina ‘Lima Suburb last year which net ted almost
[199]"$100,000. . Some of the participants have peen .
[200]caught ‘and are being tried in the mass trials .
[201]of. more than 200 Communists just starting in
[202]Peru, We know that the hold-up was carried out '
[203]by a combination of guerrillas’ and ordinary
[204]. criminals, who divided the loot fifty-fifty. _
[205]| Some of ‘the share of the common criminals has
[207]-been recovered, but the Corimunist half ‘is. be-"
[209]lieved to have reached the sizeable guerrilla
[211]forces of Hugo, Blanco in the ‘Cuzco valley.
[213]Just last week a bank in an outlying Venezuelan
[215]doin was robbed of $25, 000 by’ men wearing FALN
[217]armbands.
[219]- Argentine police last July. raided a Buenos Aires
[221]warehouse and: found evidence that. it had been
[223]the headquarters for. a gang of ‘terrorists--ap-
[225]; parently working: with both the Peronists and the
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[234]Communis ts--responsible for a wave of ‘hold-ups,
[235]burglaries, and attacks on police posts designed
[237]to obtain funds, weapons, and explosives.
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